Venus is moving into a square with Saturn...Another I Ching Reading this morning, this time focusing on the question of how to handle challenges in friendships, partnerships, romance, or among colleagues, community members, in alliances, etc.* Hexagram 9 is sometimes called "gentle restraint."* The hexagram depicts a single yin line in the midst of all yang lines.* The single yin line is "correct," or it's place is right (it's at a yin place in the hexagram), which means that despite the fact …
Mercury Combust the Sun
It's last quarter Moon time...Here's what to watch for:* Mercury is badly combust at this point in its retrograde, which means that Mercury signified things may be weak or even in crisis mode for the next day or so. Look at the house Mercury is currently transiting in your natal chart, as well as the houses ruled by Mercury in your natal chart to see how the combustion might be showing up for you. As it's in my own first house, for example, I got a strange rash on my arm this morning and …
Venus/Saturn and an I Ching Lesson
Venus has turned direct and is now moving back into a square with Saturn.An I Ching Meditation for this Venus/Saturn Square:* The 58th hexagram of the I Ching is sometimes called "Cheerfulness" or "Joy," and it depicts two lakes conjoined with one another. The teachings of the 58th hexagram include the notion of joining together with other like-minded friends or colleagues in order to discuss, converse, and enjoy one another's company. Implicit in the image of joining together with others it the …
The Sun, the Moon, and Resurrection
The Moon is trine to the Sun on this sacred Christian holiday, and Venus has turned direct with a sextile to Mars. Happy Easter if you celebrate!A special meditation on the Sun and the Moon and the importance of the theme of resurrection.The very first night that I drank ayahuasca, about twelve years ago right now, the Christian faith I was brought up with died and in its place was resurrected something that I still can't name or define. In the middle of this profoundly terrifying night of …
Venus Turning Direct
Venus is stationed today and will begin moving direct again tomorrow. Here's what to watch for:* When Venus stations, whether direct or retrograde, it's normal to see breakdowns, delays, or standstills in relationships, negotiations, diplomacy, and love. The difference between a station to retrograde versus a station to turn direct is that usually a station to turn direct will bring an improvement in relations or a turn for the better, especially after a period of delay or after a period of …
Sun/Uranus and Moon/Mars Part Two
The Moon is opposite Mars today. Meanwhile, the Sun is moving into a conjunction with Uranus.Today, like yesterday, the same two major planetary configurations are taking center stage.* The Sun and Uranus combine to bring the hero and the rebel together, or the hero and the iconoclast, the leader and the eccentric. The Sun and Uranus in Aries are bold, boundary-breaking, compelling, impulsive, possibly reckless, but also innovative, daring, pioneering, and wild.* With the Sun and Uranus …
Sun/Uranus and Moon/Mars
The Moon is in Scorpio today, moving slowly into an opposition with Mars. Meanwhile, the Sun is moving into a conjunction with Uranus.Here's what to watch for:With the Sun and Uranus...* Sudden or unexpected acts of bravery, courage, or aggression* The impulse to move, act, plow forward, or make a snap choice or judgment * Breakthroughs, insight and moments of clarity, enthusiasm, the start of a revolutionary event or moment * The illumination of an idea or concept* The erratic, …
Sun Moving Toward Uranus in Aries
The Moon is just past Full in Libra.Here's what to watch for:* Venus and Saturn's square continues and will stay tightly configured for the rest of this month. The themes of maturity, respect, duty, seriousness, commitment, focus, labor, age, time, and gravity in love, beauty, and relationships of all kinds is amplified right now. Along with this are the more challenging themes of death, difficulty, obstruction, decay, separation, hardship, alienation, loneliness, ignorance, and loss in the same …
Full Moon Today!
Happy Full Moon Everyone! Mercury is also turning retrograde today.Here's what to watch for:* The Full Moon is taking place today just after the Moon conjoins with Jupiter and just as Mercury is turning retrograde. The Sun is also square to Pluto, opposite Juptier, and moving into a conjunction with Uranus.* This is an incredibly pivotal time on the global level, so watch as the news cycle this week erupts with more powerful events, especially tonight and tomorrow, and watch for those events to …
Saturn Stationing to Turn Retrograde is Like…
Saturn stationing to turn retrograde is like...* Stopping something before you get in over your head* Biding your time* Strategizing for a later advance* Thinking it over* A breakdown of rules, structures, and forms of conduct* A reconsideration or revisioning of forms, structures, and rules* Releasing an embittered or dogmatic perspective* Shutting down rather than opening up* Melancholia on the rise* Facing the inevitable* The destabilization of foundations or the ruin, decay, or …
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Venus/Saturn Square: Fate and Ignorance
A lot going on in the next week. Let's refresh on the Venus/Saturn square as Saturn is stationing to turn retrograde today.* In ancient Greek philosophy the concept of necessity, Ananke, and the planet Saturn (Kronos) were closely related. Astrological philosopher Robert Schmidt has often suggested that within the Greek conceptualization of fate there were several different "kinds" of fate. With ananke, or necessity, there were two notions in particular. On the one hand you have events that are …
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Reading the Portents of the Sun
The Sun is approaching a square to Pluto...An I Ching lesson on the approach of the Sun into the t-square between Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto.* Hexagram 24 is often called "Return," and it depicts one yang line and five yin above it. Because the lines move from bottom to top, the hexagram is a picture of yang energy returning and climbing upward again.* Hexagram 24 depicts the light returning after a period of darkness.* My favorite translated, Alfred Huang writes of hexagram 24 that "This …
