Mars is closing in on its square to Jupiter, while Jupiter is just starting to gain speed in direct motion again.* The 11th hexagram of the I Ching is called "Peace," and it says, "The small departs, the great approaches."* Hexagram 11 reminds us that by eliminating our willful appetites and ambitions, we align our will with the natural progression of change, and peace arises.* Hexagram 11 is also an image of all yang pushing up and slowly causing a standstill or period of stagnation to …
Mars/Jupiter Application
Mars is now moving into it square with Jupiter, which will perfect in the next ten days.An I Ching meditation on this upcoming transit:* Hexagram 47 of the I Ching, called "Exhausting," depicts a marsh whose water is being drained into an abyss below it.* Hexagram 47 depicts a draining, depleting, or exhausting situation.* When Mars in its fall, in the watery sign of Cancer, is in a square to Jupiter, we have the potential for a great drain of energy, resources, confidence, happiness, money, and …
Mars/Jupiter and Mars/Pluto
The Sun/Saturn opposition is just separating and the Sun is moving into a sextile with Uranus. Meanwhile, Mars in his fall and combust the Sun is now beginning its application to a square with Jupiter and an opposition with Pluto. 2017. What can you say?!Well, there are two kinds of comments that I often receive from readers regarding "the times" we're living in. One is something along the lines of, "this is a necessary time of contraction and darkness in the midst of humanity laboring to birth …
Sun/Saturn Opposition Perfecting
And so today and tomorrow the Sun finally perfects its opposition to Saturn.* As I've lately been in a deeper study of the I Ching in relationship to the daily transits, I found this morning's reading to be especially stern, but also straight to the point. Often the I Ching, for as riddling and multivalent as it can be, cuts right to the heart of the matter.* Today's reading started with Hexagram 24, called "Return," but I knew right away this wasn't the focus of the reading as the 6th …
Sun/Saturn and Mercury/Jupiter/Neptune
The Sun and Saturn are moving into an opposition with each other, and will perfect Thursday morning. Meanwhile, Mercury is making a trine to Jupiter today and also a simultaneous square to Neptune.Here's what to watch for:Sun/Saturn opposing in Mercury and Jupiter's signs:* The crystallization of a creative effort.* Something creative taking shape or form.* Conflicts, standoffs, and oppositions to authority.* Conflicts of belief, ideology, or approach.* Differences of rank, stature, position, …
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Sun/Saturn and Proper Conduct
The Sun is closing in on its opposition to Saturn, which will perfect by the end of this week. As the Sun makes it's opposition it will then immediately move into a sextile with Uranus.What to watch for, followed by wisdom from the I Ching:* Standoffs related to different beliefs, opinions, perceptions, principles, etc.* Confrontations with authority figures and/or how to handle authority in the face of constraints, challenges, difficulties, obstacles, etc.* The crystallization of a …
Sun/Saturn: Obstacles and Tranquility
As the Sun is closing in on an opposition to Saturn, let's reflect on this transit again today from another point of view.* The 63rd hexagram of the I Ching is called "After Completion," which often strikes readers of the 64 hexagram sequence as odd considering it is the second to last hexagram of the 64, and the final hexagram is called "before completion." So what is the wisdom of this seemingly reverse order of before and after telling us?* After completion depicts a pot of boiling water over …
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Full Moon with Saturn…and Jupiter Direct
Happy Full Moon Everyone!Here's what to watch for:* Today's full Moon includes Jupiter turning direct and an opposition from the Sun to Saturn, plus a Venus/Mars sextile.* When Jupiter turns direct it often signifies a powerful turnabout within a particular area of our lives, and often for the better.* However, given Jupiter's involvement in the Full Moon and the fact that this Full Moon involves an opposition from the Sun to Saturn, we might notice that whatever changes for the better …
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Full Moon, Jupiter Stationing, Sun Opp Saturn
Jupiter is stationing today in Libra, meanwhile the Sun is moving into an opposition with Saturn as the full Moon closes in tonight and tomorrow.What to watch for:* As Jupiter stations we are about to see a significant "turning of the tide" with regard to Jupiter ruled things.* For every season of advance, growth, blessings, and abundance there is an inevitable season of decline and decay. Jupiter's back and forth movements often reflect these ups and downs.* When Jupiter retrogrades its as …
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Sun Opposite Saturn
As the Sun approaches its opposition to Saturn...An I Ching Meditation:* Hexagram 47 is sometimes called "Exhausting," and it depicts two sources of water pouring one on top of the other until the water has run out.* Hexagram 47 is also related to the idea of confinement.* So what do we do when we're deplete, exhausted, out of steam, or reaching an edge? What do we do when someone tries to kill or steal our joy, or when someone's need to be the expert acts as a force of suppression to whatever …
Mercury, Venus, and the Sun
Venus has entered Taurus and Mercury will shortly enter Gemini. Meanwhile, the Sun is entering a long and slow opposition with Saturn.Here's what to watch for:* Mercury entering Gemini means that Mercury will be in its own home sign, and despite moving under the beams of the Sun will be in its own chariot (sign) protecting it from the worst effects of combustion.* Meanwhile, Venus entering Taurus is also now in her own sign, which means the very long back and forth through her exile in Aries is …
Mars in Cancer
Mars has entered Cancer and has a long and powerful road ahead of it this summer.What to watch for:* Mars entering Cancer means that Mars has entered the sign of its fall. It is exalted in the opposite sign of Capricorn, the sign of the winter solstice and place where the light starts slowly returning through the darkness. I like to think of Mars' exaltation in Capricorn like the ideal conditions for Mars' tenacious and willful qualities. The long, hard, battle upward, against the odds...this …
