Jupiter in Scorpio is moving slowly toward a trine with Neptune in Pisces.* In order to fully understand what the Jupiter trine to Neptune means we need to begin with a breakdown of Neptune.* I like to think of Neptune as a planet that shares many of the same qualities as the Moon. The Moon at its worst is related to dense materiality: impermanent, in flux, illusory, hungry but never satiated, with no light of its own, a borrowed or "counterfeit" light. However, the Moon at its best is related …
Venus Square Pluto in the News
Venus is just past its square to Pluto.* Two headlines that mirror the Venus/Pluto square. The first is the report that a federal grand jury has approved charges in the Mueller/FBI investigation.* The second is simple and pertains to the ongoing "take a knee" controversy between NFL football players and the owners. Yesterday the owner of the Houston Texans was found to have compared his players to inmates at a prison. Afterward, the owner issued an apology that was clearly an attempt to …
Venus Square Pluto Today
Venus is moving into a square with Pluto today.Here's what to watch for:* When Venus and Pluto combine it's normal to see turmoil in relationships. Why? Because the planet of harmony, friendship, and diplomacy is moving into a Mars-like relationship (squares are of the nature of Mars, traditionally speaking) and Pluto is the lord of the underworld.* The "underworld" is one of those words we should have to put a quarter into a jar for every time we use it mindlessly in astrology. The word …
More on Jupiter in Scorpio
Jupiter's entrance into Scorpio, along with the Sun brings to mind a variety of interesting themes, thanks in no small part to Jupiter being the dispositor for the finalizing of the Saturn/Neptune square.* As Saturn and Neptune have been square to one another for quite some time now, we've been in the midst of a crisis of truth. What is truth? Is truth a construction? Is it relative? Is it real? Is anything real? On the one hand, we've seen anyone and everyone challenge the nature of truth, but …
The Temple of Scorpio
The Sun has entered Scorpio this week, and ruling planet Mars is in its exile in Libra.* The Sun in Scorpio represents the most solid and stable time of solar descent in the zodiacal year.* Each day takes us deeper and deeper into darkness.* Darkness is materiality, the unconscious, and also the soul, which can only be found when we see beyond material, sunshine appearances and into the depths, into the invisible.* Scorpio is the feminine home of Mars.* Mars and Scorpio are likened to each …
Old Jupiter This Week
As this week unfolds, Jupiter will conjoin the Sun and Venus will move into a square with Pluto.Here's what to watch for:* Jupiter is dying and being reborn this week. It's a very powerful time for Jupiter ruled things, which include: faith, wisdom, virtue, nobility, honor, people of high rank, officials, lawyers, judges, politicians, religious leaders, justice, truth, belief, philosophy, trust, truth, arrogance, boastfulness, exaggeration, grandiosity, blessings, boons, windfalls, growth or …
Mars/Venus and the Radical 3rd
Mars is entering the sign of Libra today, the home sign of Venus.* Although sometimes we refer to any planet in the sign opposite its own as being it its "detriment," it was also classically said to be in its exile. The connotation of the word exile is completely different from the word "detriment," which sounds technical, dry, and negative to most people's ears.* Mars is in its exile in Venus' sign because Mars becomes the outsider, the wanderer, the foreigner, the stranger in a strange land, …
Venus and Mars in the Week Ahead
Over the next week, Venus will move into a square with Pluto and Mars will also enter Venus' home sign of Libra.What to keep your eyes on over the next ten days or so:* Women in power* Women and the underworld* The transformation of the feminine* Death in relationships* Power struggles and diplomacy* Passive aggression* Feminism and the power of the goddess in the collective* Exposure of dishonest deals or agreements* Sexual perversion, manipulation, or sexual abuse as a continued theme in the …
Young Mercury and Old Jupiter
Today an exploration of a young Mercury and an old Jupiter.* Not everyone is aware of the fact that when the Sun is just about to conjoin Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn, those superior planets (superior = slower than the Sun) are considered to be symbolically "old," as they near the end of their cycles. Sometimes they are also thought of as sick, due to being under the beams of the Sun, invisible to us. Once the Sun conjoins Jupiter in the next week the cycle begins again and Jupiter is newly born!* …
New Moon in Libra and Old Jupiter
Happy New Moon in Libra everyone! Today's new Moon falls in an opposition to Uranus.Here's what to watch for given the tone set by this New Moon.* The cycle begins with liberation and revolution, defiance, and breakthrough. Think the beginning of something new meets the choice to take a risk, to defy authority, to go against the set tradition, or to break the rules.* The month ahead may also feature contention and radically opposed views meeting head to head in battle.* It's also important to be …
Mercury and Jupiter Together Today
Venus and Mars are just separating from their contra antiscia, and the Sun is moving into an opposition with Uranus. Meanwhile, Mercury is moving into a conjunction with Jupiter.Here's what to watch for:* The Sun/Uranus opposition creates a kind of hyper-tense alertness, a call to arms, a revolutionary spirit, and a defiant/bold attitude. The opposition potentially creates an aura of indignance, of rebelliousness or inventiveness, and of arrogant positivism. The opposition is brave and brash, …
More on Mars/Venus’ Contra Antiscia
A few days ago I wrote about a concept in astrology called "contra antiscia."Today Mars and Venus are moving into this lesser known aspect (look back a few posts ago on my wall to read about the ins and outs of contra antiscia).As I've looked through my facebook wall today I've seen literally hundreds upon hundreds of posts that read, "me too." I'm glad to see all the women coming together to bring awareness to this issue of sexual abuse. As an astrologer, I can't help but marvel at what …