The Moon is about to conjoin with Venus this morning.A little about Venus' exaltation in Pisces...* Venus is exalted in the sign where Mercury is depressed (Pisces).* Mercury is exalted in the sign where Venus is depressed (Virgo).Why is this the case?An ancient Hellenistic astrologer named Antiochus explains as follows, "We say that it is because Hermes is the master of arguments, while Aphrodite is the overseer of desire and intercourse (here meaning social, not merely sexual intercourse). …
The Season of Eclipsing
The waxing Moon is in Pisces today, making aspects to Pluto, Mercury, and Saturn.Here is what to watch for:* After the turning point of the new Moon we are now heading into eclipse season. As the Moon waxes we may notice that energy and action is mounting both powerfully and rapidly. Because the culmination of this cycle's waxing half is a lunar eclipse, the actions and processes taking place right now are going to have long and enduring effects that carry forward into the rest of 2017, being …
Mercury/Pluto this Weekend
The Moon is in Aquarius today, flowing toward a trine with Jupiter. Meanwhile, Mars has entered Aries and Mercury is moving into a conjunction with Pluto.Here's what to expect:* A New Moon with a flowing trine to Jupiter suggests this Moon cycle may start off with an aura of excitement, anticipation, confidence, faith, hope, and trust in the possibility of growth and positive development.* The trine to Jupiter suggests that whatever is commencing now, under this new Moon, or whatever we are …
New Moon in Aquarius
Happy New Moon Everyone! We're now entering eclipse season with this new cycle.Tonight around 7:00 pm eastern the Moon will conjoin the Sun and start a new cycle.Here's what to watch for:* Venus and Saturn are still square, so watch for all kinds of challenges or limitations or serious/commitment developments related to love and relationships, design and style, aesthetics and sexuality, women and all things feminine. Saturn is acting as a potentially repressive/oppressive force right now and …
Venus Square Saturn
New Moon on its way in, and Venus is inching closer to her square with Saturn...* Repression, oppression, suppression of the feminine* Relationship strains, hardships, limitations* Sobriety or cutting something out that is excessive* Big expectations or visions being trimmed down or back* Expenditures * Deepening commitment in love or relationships of all kinds* Renunciation or rejection* Breakdown in allegiances or alliances* Misunderstandings in friendships* Hard differences of belief in …
Aquarius: The Water Pourer
A Meditation on Aquarius, the water pourer...Imagine that you are entering the gateway to a temple with waves of water carved into the stone arches above you. As you cross into the temple a strong and wet wind powers through and you shield your face and eyes from the blast. It takes all of your stubborn strength to push through even just a few steps, and as soon as you're through you fall onto your knees exhausted.When you open your eyes you find yourself in a dark cave, save one single candle …
Venus Square Saturn
Venus is moving into a square with Saturn over the next few days...Here's what to watch for:* Beauty and structure* Conflicts over aesthetics* Maturity in love* Sobriety in relationships* Commitment deepening* Dissatisfaction in relationships* Divine discontent with the status quo of a relationship* Firming up plans or visions* Cleaning something out, removing impurities* Old age and love* The old wise woman/artist* An exalted woman and her downfall or death* An exalted woman and her wisdom or …
The Moon in Her Fall: The Midwives are Marching
The Moon is in her fall today in Scorpio as hundreds of thousands of women come together all over to say that misogyny and racism and homophobia and xenophobia are not acceptable.Today I think of my daughter and my wife, my grandmother, my mother and my sister, my cousins, my mother-in-law and all of my adopted Aunts and cousins from my wife's side of the family. My life has been woven together and supported and loved so tremendously because of these beautiful, strong, and intelligent women. …
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A Memory of Mars/Saturn: Or the Limits of What We Can Lift
A memory of Mars and Saturn...or the limits of what we can lift.When I was a kid I had two posters on the wall directly behind my bed, which was two mattresses laid on the floor because I didn't like the little-boyishness of my bed frame. On the one side, to the top right behind my head was a graphic of a white and roid-rage looking Jesus, doing a knuckle-fisted push up with the cross on his back, a crown of thorns on his head, and the words "The Lords Gym: Bench Pressing the Weight of the …
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Mars/Saturn and the Bondage of a Last Quarter Moon
Hey Mr. Astrologist, what's the good word today?Well...In just a few hours the Sun will enter Aquarius and the Moon will change signs and enter Scorpio just as it makes its last quarter square with the Sun. Meanwhile, Mars and Saturn are exactly square today.Here's what to watch for:* Fear of the future...as Mars slices forward into the future he meets with the unknown limit, the dark and concrete, Saturn.* The principles of limit, discipline, containment, confinement, isolation, loneliness, …
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Images of the Moon and Mercury
The Moon is in Libra this morning, applying to make a square with Mercury.Let's meditate for today on the images interacting in today's Moon/Mercury square:* Mercury is in the sign of the stranger today, the mysterious goat horned one, the home of Saturn, and the place of what is cast out, lonely, marginalized, mysterious, and on the edges of wise old darkness. For Capricorn stands in opposition to the sign of the Moon, the planet whose silvery light reflects to us the ever-changing rivers of …
Choppy Waters for the Moon Today
The Moon is heading into an opposition with Mars, and then a square with Saturn, before finally making a trine to the Sun today. A complex series of lunar applications, so let's take a look at what to watch for!* Conflicts or opposition surrounding the home, land, property (Moon/Mars opposition)* Unexpected costs or damages related to the home, land, or property (Moon/Mars opposition)* Health problems, accident prone tendencies, nicks, cuts, and scrapes as well as dressing or healing …
