Mercury and Venus are making a sextile today, with Venus in Mercury's sign. Meanwhile, Mars is moving closer to its square with Uranus as the Sun moves closer to a conjunction with Mars.Here's what to watch for from Mercury/Venus today:* Good relationships between leaders and subordinates* Good news comes in the form of a message* Shaping or crafting public image* Finding the right way to say something or do something* Executive privileges * The vanity of a public proclamation * …
Sun/Mars and Uranus: First Seeds of Division
Mars is approaching a square to Uranus as the Sun approaches its conjunction to Mars.More on this dynamic transit...* The 59th hexagram of the I Ching, sometimes called "dispersion," depicts the breaking apart or dispersing of divisive attitudes, motivations, and intentions within a group of people.* In hexagram 59 the "King," which we might think of as the higher and spiritual faculty of the mind, recognizes the danger of a hectic situation where selfish and divergent ambitions are driving …
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Sun/Mars Applying to Square Uranus
Mars is applying to a square with Uranus, and Venus has just entered Gemini.Here's what to watch for:* Over the course of the next ten days, the Sun will start to conjoin Mars and both Mars and the Sun will move into a square with Uranus.* The Mars/Uranus square symbolizes a time where recklessness and impulsiveness, aggression, warfare, and rebelliousness will be on display in the world as well as within.* Mars/Uranus is the technology we use for the sake of athletics, muscle, sexuality, war, …
Mercury/Pluto: From Gross to Subtle
Mercury and Mars are separating but both are still applying to an opposition with Pluto. Mercury will perfect its opposition to Pluto by this evening, and Mars to Pluto by Sunday.* How does a sincere change of mind take place? When Mercury opposes Pluto the mind may be changed by moving from the gross to the subtle. As Pluto represents the underworld, and Mercury is the planet most regularly diving into and out of the underworld, cloaked invisibly beneath the rays of the Sun, this opposition …
Mercury/Mars Opposite Pluto
Mercury and Mars are conjunct today and both applying to an opposition with Pluto.Here's what to watch for:* Hexagram 55 of the I Ching shows a picture of abundance, of the Sun at high noon, of achievement and maximum fullness* The teaching of Hexagram 55 has to do with reaching a state of fullness without getting puffed up about anything* We don't get puffed up about anything because we know that fullness and emptiness alternate* Hexagram 55 is also a teaching about how to maintain a state of …
Mercury square to Jupiter
Mercury is square to Jupiter today, and also applying to a conjunction with Mars and opposition with Pluto...Here's what to watch for:* * With Mercury hidden beneath the beams of the Sun, in the mute water sign of the Moon, square to Jupiter, which it exalts from Cancer, a number of images come to mind...* The secret request* The hidden motivation* An attempt to acquire something big* The desire to recover some sense of dignity, pride, or power* A positive piece of news, an exciting …
Mars/Pluto
Mars is opposite to Pluto this week.Here's what to watch for...* As Mars approaches Pluto, Mars is also combust and in its fall.* When does it make sense to quit? One answer is that it makes sense to quit when we recognize that we are being dominated by the spirit of our efforts. Whenever we notice that our will is driving us, then we may also notice that our will isn't actually "free."* In other words, freedom isn't only about doing whatever we will, it's also about recognizing exactly what we …
Next Mars/Neptune and Mars/Pluto
Mars is just past its square to Jupiter and is now moving into a trine with Neptune and then an opposition with Pluto over the next week.Here's what to watch for:* Neptune is in the superior position relative to Mars.* Mars is in his fall and growing weaker as he is combust the Sun.* Our will, drive, appetites, forceful or aggressive demands may be experiencing an important time of loss, weakening, decay, and transformation.* We might be noticing that some attempt to make something work, or to …
Mars/Jupiter Perfecting
Mars is finally perfecting its square with Jupiter in the next 24 hours.* The 26th hexagram of the I Ching is called "Recharging Power," and it depicts heaven beneath the mountain.* The 26th hexagram tells us that wisdom, lasting wisdom and truth, is passed down one generation after another for millennia not simply because it is written down but because it is put into practice while the world goes about its daily business. Day after day, the world spins and our desires guide us this way and that …
New Moon in Cancer
Happy New Moon everyone. The New Moon in Cancer is tonight, and meanwhile Mars and Jupiter are almost perfecting their square.Let's talk about family today...* This New Moon may very well bring up changes or challenges within the family or home. We see this because not only is there a strong emphasis on the domicile of the Moon, but also because the New Moon is beholding Jupiter in Libra, just as Mars is slowly being consumed by the Sun.* Here we have an image of the family, the …
Mars/Jupiter’s Wisdom
We've just moved across the Summer Solstice, and the Sun has entered the sign of Cancer. Meanwhile, Mars is moving into a square with Jupiter.* Mars is in the superior position with respect to Jupiter, combust the Sun, and in its fall, but is also in the exaltation of Jupiter.* This means that Mars exerts a kind of forcefulness upon Jupiter but we might also say that Mars pays tribute to, or has respect for, Jupiter.* Mars in its fall, under the beams, is an old mars, and a weakened …
Mars/Jupiter and The Wise Warrior
Mars is closing in on its square to Jupiter. The square will perfect Friday/Saturday of this week.Here's what to watch for:* Anger, militarism, pushing to get our way* Pride, arrogance, conceit, and exaggeration * Success, victory, the big deal, the big win* The attachment to success* Posturing, muscling up, showing off* The attempt to coerce, convince, or manipulate someone's goodness, virtue, success, or resources* The guilty purchase, perhaps made in response to a weakness or failing* …
