Adam Elenbaas

​Today Mercury is Cazimi...A meditation on the meaning of cazimi, dedicated to my fallen astrological and herbal colleague Tricia McCauley, who was brutally murdered on Christmas this past weekend.My favorite writer and thinker, James Hillman loved to say that "we are lived by powers we pretend to understand." Hillman, an archetypal psychologist like Jung before him, recognized the life of the soul or psyche as a kind of middle ground between the everyday stuff of human life and the …

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Jupiter and Uranus are exactly opposed this afternoon.* Remember that over the past few months we've seen this opposition building and it has reflected the unexpected changes, rebelliousness, and polarization within the political establishment in the USA.* Our political turmoil is intimately linked to cultural polarizations, between the rich and the poor, the establishment and those who are frequently marginalized, etc. These polarizations will continue to build and will continue to be in the …

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Christmas eve astrological thought...People have spent far too much time pontificating as to whether or not the Star of Bethlehem was an "astrological" event and whether or not the Magi were natal astrologers or just a group of wise dudes who received an other worldly vision. Just step back from all of these arguments and consider the simplest elements of this particular Gospel account (whether we consider it as something literal or mythological):* A great teacher/prophet/messiah was heralded to …

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We think we know Capricorn, but do we really understand the most enigmatic sign of the zodiac?* Capricorn was referred to by ancient Hellenistic astrologers as "the goat horned one," but Robert Schmidt has pointed out that the title included the notion of being enigmatic. The goat horned "??" might be another way of putting it. This should give us reason to pause. The constellation image of Capricorn is a strange looking goat with the tail of a fish. Let's just leave that puzzling image there, …

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The Moon and Jupiter are coming together today in opposition to Uranus in Aries. BAM. That could be the interpretation. But here is what to watch for:* We're closing in on the exact opposition from Jupiter to Uranus and so far we've seen a few decisive expressions of the Jupiter/Uranus opposition: the assassination of a Russian diplomat in Turkey, the terrorist attack in Berlin, the continued political drama and polarization in US politics, and a fireworks factory explosion in Mexico (among …

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Happy Winter Solstice Everyone!Some solstice notes...* Imagine yourself inside of a completely trashed house. You're having one of those moments where you come to grips with the amount of work it will take to get this house back in shape. Before you start in, you sit down on some random piece of the rubble, maybe a box full of old books whose time is up. As you sit, you crack open a beer, or maybe pour yourself a glass of wine, and you toast to the humor of the situation...the despair and …

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The Moon is just separating from Mars and about to enter Virgo where it will begin applying to Mercury, who is stationing next to Pluto in Capricorn.Things to watch for:* This is a moment astrologers have been writing about for a long while now, perhaps lacking objectivity, perhaps not, we'll see! Regardless, when Mercury stations in a close conjunction with Pluto we might expect to see the kinds of revelations, disclosures, delays, setbacks, or breakdowns in communication, technology, …

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Happy Full Moon Everyone!Today the Moon will trine Jupiter and then oppose Saturn and then the Sun. Meanwhile, Mercury is coming closer to a conjunction with Pluto and its retrograde.You might notice:* An increasing sense of paranoia, or that something hidden, secretive, or lurking below the surface is about to emerge, reveal itself, explode, or pull the rug out from under you. Mercury's application toward Pluto as well as the fact that it is slowing down create a kind of ominous, foreboding, …

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The Full Moon is just one day away, and we are now entering what should be some of the most interesting and dynamic astrology of 2016, saving the best for last!Here's what to watch for:* As a number of my astrological colleagues have been pointing out, Trump is approaching a very critical transit in his natal chart. As trump was himself born under a Gemini/Sagittarius full-moon, this full moon is essentially acting like a kind of eclipse on his natal configuration (which was also a lunar eclipse …

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