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 …
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 …
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 …
The 3rd House: Goddess
Just finished my latest talk on the yoga of the houses. Today's talk is on the 3rd house, which was traditionally called, "goddess." It's $10 to download from my audio store. Enjoy! …
Mercury Cazimi
Venus has just moved out of the enclosure between Mars and Saturn, and now Mercury is cazimi with the Sun. Meanwhile, Jupiter is just a few days away from entering Scorpio.Here's what to watch for:* A little technical astrology. Yesterday's brief enclosure for Venus may have been challenging, depending on where it fell in your chart. For example, using annual profections I'm in a first house (house of health) year ruled by Venus. Just as Venus entered the enclosure between Mars and Saturn I …
Venus Enclosed by Mars and Saturn
Both the Moon and the Sun are in Venus' sign this weekend as Venus moves into a square with Saturn.Here's what to watch for:* Challenges to women and women's health* Younger women approaching older men* Intergenerational love affairs* Ideological conflicts within relationships* Intergenerational dialogue, debate* The subject of beliefs and how they spark or dampen the flame of love, romance, friendship, etc.* Deepening commitment, fear of commitment, betrayal of commitments* Refining …
Venus and Mars Square Saturn and Sun Square Pluto
Venus and Mars are both moving into a square with Saturn over the next few days and the Sun is moving into a square with Pluto.Here's what to watch for:Venus/Saturn* Refining your taste* Commitment phobias* Deepening our commitment* Boredom in love* Sexual frustration* Sexuality and ideology* Sexuality and confinement* Sex and harshness* Lust and restraint* Desire and the word "no"* Teasing, tempting down the walls or barriers to love, affection, sex, either appropriately or inappropriately* …
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Saturn, Speed, and Time
Saturn has been hanging out at roughly the same degree of Sagittarius since all the way back in July. What does it mean now that Saturn is starting to pick up speed again?* Today Saturn is at 22 degrees Sagittarius and some change. Saturn first entered the 22nd degree of Sagittarius around July 7th, via retrograde. Saturn always turns retrograde or direct when the Sun approaches a trine to it. So, as the Sun entered Leo Saturn started slowing down and finally stationed around August 25th, just …
New Fall Courses Open for Registration!
Dear Readers,I'm please to announce the starting dates of our next online astrology courses, this fall. Beginning on Tuesday nights, starting November 28th, we begin our next one year long natal astrology course, called "Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic," and starting Wednesday, December 6th, we begin our new Horary Astrology course, which meets on alternating Wednesday nights for a full year! To learn more about our new programs, and for registration information, please visit the …
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The Gateway of the Fall Equinox
Happy Fall Equinox Everyone!* The fall equinox happens as the Sun crosses the celestial equator while descending in its daily path in the sky, from summer solstice to winter solstice. The fall equinox is the gateway into the dark half of the solar year, where there is more darkness in a twenty-four hour period than light.* The guardian of this gateway is the sign of the scales, a symbol of balance, judgment, and justice.* As the Sun enters Libra, moving into the underworld, it is said to be in …
Full Moon with Neptune
It's full Moon time!Here's what to watch for:* With the full Moon engaging Neptune the themes of rising waters comes to mind. The rising of the waters is of course not only literal but metaphorical. The rising of the waters represents the feeling of overwhelm, of futility or exhaustion, of limits being eroded or deteriorating, of fullness and excess, of neediness and weeping or leaking, of wounds and healing, of thirst and the unquenchable. The Sun opposite to Neptune is the picture of the …