Happy Solar Eclipse!What to watch for:* Solar eclipses open doors and bring powerful new beginnings. Sometimes these beginnings are felt right away and other times they take a while to appear. Look specifically at the first 10 degrees of Pisces in your birth chart, or to the house that Pisces rules for a more specific sense of where this new energy might be appearing.* This solar eclipse is aligned with Neptune, which brings along with it a powerful imaginative, romantic, and otherworldly thrust …
The Spirit of the Law
Mars is now closing in on a conjunction with Uranus and both are within a week of the next exact opposition to Jupiter. The ride got intense the past few days, but it's not stopping anytime soon. The solar eclipse on Sunday turns the page on a new chapter in this revolutionary season...What to watch for:* Mars and Uranus together are sending a surge of paradigm breaking energy. Look at your life and ask yourself where have you lived by the letter of the law? Where do you tend to play by the …
The Inevitability of this Moment
Mars is separating from Pluto but now applying quickly to a conjunction with Uranus and opposition with Jupiter, just as we're approaching a solar eclipse on Sunday and the Jupiter/Uranus opposition is exact again.Here's a deeper look at some of the powers symbolized by the current planetary configurations and some thoughts on how we might work with what's here:* With Jupiter retrograde in Libra as a powerful planetary player right now, it's possible that we are being called to task for previous …
Mars/Pluto Peaking Today
Mars is square to Pluto today. Here's yet another attempt to identify the powers of these planets in our lives...* Today is the deadline for the Standing Rock protesters to evacuate...a confrontation is at hand that might potentially trigger or provoke a reaction or series of events that is far reaching, cathartic, and explosive.* A new travel ban is supposed to be announced...another display of power and force that will likely create a vigorous response.* All drivers have road rage right now, …
Mars/Pluto Today and Tomorrow
Finally...some thoughts on today's astrology...Mars/Pluto in particular. Not surprisingly, I was leveled today by a number of fast developments. One in particular made me laugh out loud...my wife was sitting at her desk in the yoga studio and the entire building started shaking so loudly and powerfully that she thought there was an earthquake happening. Nope...that's just the demolition TNT being used on all sides of the studio!! Hello there, Mars/Pluto!Here are some things worth mentioning or …
A Huge Astrological Week Ahead!
A big week astrologically...Here's what to what to watch for:* Today the waning Moon is conjoining Saturn in Sagittarius. It's a good day for finishing things, for endings, resolution, purging, or letting go of something. Be careful of rigidity, harshness, or severity. But note that discipline, focus, hard work, and commitment to a plan or goal pays off. It's a good day to get serious and push toward the finish line!* This week Mars in Aries is applying to square Pluto in Capricorn. This is an …
The Sun is in Pisces!
The Sun has entered Pisces!! Hooray for the fishes!!Stereotypes about Pisces, where they come from, why they aren't the full story:Stereotypes--* Pisces is psychic* Pisces is a dreamer* Pisces is a whiner/complainer* Pisces is a victim* Pisces is a saint, or maybe Jesus, or maybe a schizophrenic* Pisces doesn't like being in reality, they prefer dreams, moods, and romance* Pisces is the most likely to off themselves* Pisces is the mystic of the zodiacWhere they come from...* Pisces is a …
Saturn, the Media, and Fake News
What might the planetary configurations tell us about the current state of the media?Let's take a look today at the role of Saturn...* When Saturn entered the sign of Sagittarius, in December 2014, just weeks later the Charlie Hebdo attacks occurred in France and twelve people were murdered. This event in many ways announced the entrance of Saturn into the sign of Sagittarius.* Remember that Sagittarius is the domicile of Jupiter, which is the traditional planetary contrary to Mercury. Whereas …
Mars/Pluto Coming Soon!
The Moon is in Scorpio today, applying to a square with Mercury. Meanwhile, Mars is moving into a square with Pluto.Here's what to watch for:* Mars' application to Pluto is a powerful force to be reckoned with in the next week. Where Mars drives through, slices, divides, penetrates, heats, and intensifies, Pluto dredges the depths, brings to the surface what is hidden, dying, sick, or festering, and transforms or transfigures. When the two come together the potential for revelation and …
You Say You Want a Revolution?
As Jupiter and Uranus close in on each other to perfect their opposition for the 2nd time we are preparing for the next critical turning point in the year-long dance between these two planets.Here's how to read this transit both personally and collectively, plus today's forecast:* Uranus in the sign of the ram wants to push through its revolutionary agenda at all costs. In the sign of Mars, this is a rebel with disregard for due process. This is the media on a crusade. This is one populism vs. …
A Moon/Mars Valentine’s Day
The Moon is moving into an opposition with Mars today. St. Valentine may have some blood on his hands! :-)Here's what to watch for:* Venus in the Ram, Aries, the place where she loves to fight and fights to love. Venus in Aries acts before thinking, thinks before hearing, and divides in order to unify. Venus in Aries is the confrontation as fashion statement, the aggressor and the object of her desire. Venus in Aries is the desire to push and be pushed. To drive through and to be …
Previewing the Weeks Ahead
The Moon is about to enter Libra where it will oppose Venus and Mars. Meanwhile Mars is steadily approaching its engagement with Pluto/Jupiter/Uranus.Let's review:* Uranus in the Ram opposite Jupiter in the balance has been expressing itself in terms of the themes of unchecked power vs. due process and the law, resistance against injustice, populism vs. the status quo, force and bullying vs. truth and rationality, breakthroughs or breakdowns of systems designed to maintain balance, and …
