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* …
Mars/Jupiter and the Will
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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