These monthly horoscopes are also published in blog at the Los Angeles Review of Books. January Horoscopes In January, the Sun travels through Capricorn for much of the month, making the earth element prominent in consciousness through the light emitted by the Sun. Many planets in Pisces for much of the month means psychic fields…
New Moon in Capricorn 2016: Strategy in the Heart of the Trickster
New Moon in Capricorn, December 29 2016, 7 Capricorn 59, 1:53 AM EST Nothing real can be threatened. Beyonce spoke these words on her most recent album Lemonade. That idea is infused into the Capricorn New Moon. The New Moon takes place in the sign of Capricorn, conjunct Mercury retrograde just past the heart of…
Moon in Sagittarius square Nodal Axis: Kaleidoscope Tangent
The Moon is in Sagittarius. It is now co-present (and I mean that term differently than the old-timey astrologers sense), with Saturn in the same sign, looming over there somewhere around 20-21 degrees (talking with all KINDS of other bodies in the sky). Before the Moon reaches Saturn though, it dangles in the balance between…
Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn/Sagittarius 2016-2017. Mercury Retrograde for the Ages.
Mercury Retrograde at 15 degrees 08 minutes Capricorn, December 19, 2016 at 5:55 am EST Mercury Direct at 28 degrees 51 minutes Sagittarius, January 8, 2017 at 4:40 am EST Today Mercury begins the third of its three times yearly retrograde cycle. As it stations, Mercury is conjunct outer planet Pluto. With both bodies in…
Full Moon in Gemini 2016 – The Spoken Word & Principled Acts of Healing
A student asked, “Can Essential Nature be destroyed?” Coyote said, “Yes, it can.” The student asked, “How can Essential Nature be destroyed?” Coyote said, “With an eraser.” —Robert Aitken Full Moon in Gemini, December 13 2016, 7:05 PM EST, 22 degrees Gemini 26 seconds. Gemini is a double bodied sign, and the themes of duality…
Chiron Direct 2016 : Medicine Doctor is in and Tales from the Way Far Out
Chiron Retrograde: 7:10 am EDT June 27, 2016, 25 degrees Pisces 15 minutes Chiron Direct: 4:53 am EST December 1, 2016, 20 degrees Pisces 40 minutes Chiron stationed direct yesterday, after 5 months in retrograde motion. In this moment of Chiron’s station, a potent healing energy is being released. Chiron is powerful on its…
New Moon in Sagittarius 2016 – Of Centaurs and Descrying Horizons
New Moon in Sagittarius, 7 degrees 43 minutes. November 29, 2016, 7:18 AM EST. The New Moon in Sagittarius takes place in one of the brightest and most optimistic signs of the zodiac, near the heaviest and most serious sign of the traditional seven. As the Sun and Moon merged, the Sun was moving toward…
December 2016 Horoscopes
December provides a different quality of high octane energy than November did. The planets are reflecting excitement, nervous tension, and popular impatience with the status quo. Acting urgently on these impulses will be tempting, and easy to do. However, there is a concurrent influence of caution, deliberateness, strategy and far-sightedness available to rope in to any…
Neptune Direct 2016 : Soft Ferocious Flood
Neptune stations direct November 19, 2016 at 9 degrees 14 minutes Pisces, 11:38 PM EST. The astrology of the Fall of 2015 to the Fall of 2016 has had the Saturn Neptune square as the background story to the rest of the planetary movements within that timeframe. In hindsight this has been a story about…
Full Moon in Taurus 2016 – To Strengthen Much
“Just as Darwin discovered the law of development or organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.” ~Frederick Engels’…