The Sun approaches a conjunction to Pluto...* You are seeing your worst fears. This doesn't mean your worst fears will come true, but it does mean your worst fears have something to say and you shouldn't push them aside or they will grow louder and perhaps more destructive.* You are realizing the truth of a situation, or the error of your ways, or you are realizing something that has been hidden or covered up.* Your understanding of something is beginning to undergo a complete change.* Your …
2017’s First Turning Point
It's first quarter Moon today and the Sun is approaching a conjunction with Pluto. This morning you might be able to feel something stirring deep within, or you might be noticing that the holiday period is starting to slough off its skin and the new year finally feels like its emerging.Hexagram 24 of the I Ching is called "Return." The image shows a footprint walking away from a town to return to its home, or to return from where it came. The decision talks about both the concepts of return and …
Moon and Mercury Today
Happy Wednesday everyone. Here's your daily planetary weather!* Watch for revising, editing, reworking something this morning as the Moon squares Mercury retrograde.* After finding a leak in the ship, today we implement a plan to repair or fix the leak.* Doing a half-ass job with something leads to delays or set backs (Moon square Saturn moving to square Mercury retrograde).* Thinking too big, we miss an important detail (Moon square Mercury retrograde and both planets in Jupiter's domiciles).* …
Waxing Moon Square to Saturn
Today's horoscope with the Moon in Pisces...* It's normal if things feel heavier, slower, and more depressive today. The Moon is moving into a square with Saturn.* Moon/Saturn while the Moon is waxing we have to be extra careful about picking up toxins, or putting something "into" our system that will essentially slow it down, stop it up, block or prohibit us in some way.* Moon/Saturn while the Moon is waxing may indicate the building or constructing of something, or roadblocks or delays while …
First Daily Horoscope of 2017!
The Moon is in Pisces today, just separating from a very visible and lovely looking conjunction to Venus and now moving today through a web of further planetary connections.As we begin this new year, here are some of the top transits for us to keep our eye on, as well as today's:* It's a good day to start emerging from the holiday hangover and to return to our best habits and practices,but we should expect that the temptation to continue in some not so great habits will still be here today …
Final Kickstarter Numbers Are In!!
Happy 2017 everyone! Our final numbers are in for this year's kickstarter, and we raised $51,023 from 368 backers. We also accomplished two major stretch goals in addition to supporting my daily horoscopes for the year ahead: the building a community/teaching herbal medicine garden, and the relocation of our yoga studio in 2017.We can't say thank you enough for this tremendous showing of support from my readers, from our friends and family, and from the Sky House Yoga community in general. We …
Happy 2017: Now Let’s Feed Fear a Suck It Sandwich!
Ten astrological reasons to be excited for 2017, even if 2016 was challenging (and make sure you listen to the attached sound track!).1. Every planet teaches us how to feed fear a suck it sandwich if we pay attention to them carefully.2. All death is dazzling beauty and faith to the soul eternal. Say yes like Jupiter.3. All death and even murder is made into light for those who see the limits of darkness and ignorance, who see their impermanence. Say yes like Saturn.4. Every ounce of pain is the …
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Mars/Neptune and the Drive to Oblivion
Happy Belated New Moon Everyone!Today Mars is moving closer to a conjunction with Neptune. Here are a few things to watch for:* The drive to oblivion (reckless, indulgent, or driven to dissolve ourselves in our desires).* The passion, drive, and intensity of an other-worldly vision or feeling* The desire to transcend overwhelms, consumes, inspires* The subjects of violence and water, or disaster and water* Competition and fluidity* Martyrs, victims, saviors, and the causes we would die or …
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Mercury Cazimi: An Astrological Tribute to Tricia McCauley
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/Uranus and Cosmic Popcorn
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 …
The Simplest Astrology of Christmas Eve
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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The Temple of Capricorn
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, …
