The Moon is in Sagittarius this morning, squaring Mars in Pisces before turning void of course for the afternoon (entering Capricorn by this evening). Meanwhile, just in time for Valentine’s day Venus and Mars are conjoining in late Pisces.A lot of people don’t know that Mas and Venus (Ares and Aphrodite) were adulterous lovers in Greek mythology. Though all the gods desired her, Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus because Zeus feared that her beauty might create a war among the …
A Grand Fire Trine
The Moon is in Sagittarius this morning and applying to create a grand fire trine today, first by its trine to Uranus in Aries, and then to Jupiter in Leo. Let’s take a closer look.First of all, a grand fire trine is a complex aspect configuration of three or more planets occupying all three signs of the same element (in this case the fire signs: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius) approximately 120 degrees apart from one planet to the next. The overall picture when you connect the planetary dots …
Dying Rebel Cosmic Centaur
The Moon has just entered Sagittarius and is immediately sextiling Mercury and then conjoining Saturn and squaring Neptune. A busy day of aspects. Let’s take a look at each of them through the poetry of the darkening Moon…First, as soon as the Moon enters a new sign (if we practice that subtle art of lunar listening) we will begin to re-cognize the shape of our thoughts and notice the new direction of our moods. Thoughts, moods, emotions, ideas, and even actions and …
Mercury Turns Direct
The Moon is in Scorpio again today, applying to trine Venus and Mars in Pisces before making its last quarter square to the Sun. Meanwhile Mercury goes direct this morning.A few things to watch for:* Last quarter Moons are the harvesting time of the Moon cycle…an accumulation of experience has led us to this moment…under the growing power of darkness we might notice something is being eclipsed. A crumbling building, a rusting playground, and a single observer dreaming of the next …
Water and Scorpions
It’s last quarter Moon time, and the Moon is in Scorpio today, applying to trine Neptune in Pisces before making aspect to Pluto later this evening. It’s a watery day today.But how do we speak to water, its meaning or its presence in our lives without objectifying it? Without describing its character in the terms of solidifying earth, or passionate fire, or conceptual wind? How do we let the water describe itself? It takes a subtle noticing…or noticing that something subtle is …
Troubles with Saturn
Today the Moon is void of course in Libra. Meanwhile Mercury and Saturn continue their strong sextile as both planets are slowing to station and as Saturn squares Neptune. Let’s take a deeper look at the “problems of Saturn,” who was traditionally called the great malefic, and then let’s look at Saturn’s relationship to Neptune.Of all the planets in our astrological pantheon, Saturn may be the planet most appropriately named, “the god of opposites.” As …
The Rebel and the Old Man
The Moon is in Libra today, about to conjoin the north node and oppose Uranus in Aries while simultaneously squaring Pluto in Capricorn. Once again with the Moon in a cardinal sign we have the signature of powerful changes reflecting to us from the sky. More specifically, with the Moon and north node in Venus' sign, and with Venus moving to conjoin Mars (the ruler of Aries) in Pisces, it's possible that we're finding our way toward some very special collaborations with others...the kind where …
Mercury’s answer
The Moon in Virgo is opposing Mars in Pisces but will be void of course again shortly...day two of organizing, relaxing, cleansing, reading, and revitalizing. Here in the mountains of WV where I proposed to my wife a little over a year ago.A quick Merc RX story...My wife's office computer at the studio has a bunch of bugs...yesterday I gave her this big puffed up lecture about keeping her computer clean to avoid viruses (which is like throwing an egg at Mercury's head and thinking he won't …
Reaching the Limits of Our Limits
Void of course Moon today, just past full. Meanwhile, Mercury is beginning to slow down in its retrograde and will be making a long sextile to Saturn in Sagittarius over the next few weeks. Let’s take a deeper look at this transit.First it’s important to look at the aspect itself along with the reception between the two planets. Though the sextile is a harmonious aspect (in the same family as the trine), sextiles still involve a bit more tension or stress than a trine and are …
A Queen’s Authority
The Moon is still void of course this morning in Cancer, though it will enter Leo this afternoon and immediately trine Saturn and oppose Mercury before being Full by tomorrow night.The Moon entering Leo is like an empress or queen holding court in our lives. She might enter through your own moods and desires, or she may enter through someone in your life or even an event or general theme for the day. She is proud and powerful, perhaps haughty or self-centered. She is warm and charming, …
Instagram and the Flow
The Moon is in Cancer today, now void of course until tomorrow. With Venus and Neptune conjoining and in square to Saturn, it's a good day to talk about leaky vessels, flow and flowing, wounds and wounded-healers.There are so many cliches floating around about "flow" these days that the idea has become bland. Rather than bringing to mind the ceaseless variations and fast moving intricacies of a river, flow now means something more like "placid." A too long day spent near the never ending REI …
Triggering Uranus/Pluto
Today the Moon has entered the sign of Cancer and is making trines this morning to Venus and Neptune in Pisces and then by later tonight will be triggering the Pluto/Uranus square and the nodal axis of the Moon.First, whenever the Moon enters a cardinal sign (for the past few years in fact), the Pluto/Uranus square is getting stimulated, which at this moment in time also involves the nodal axis of the Moon. This means that on these days we are usually getting the volume turned up in whatever …
