Hi all! This is from Gemini season earlier this year but apropos of mutable grand cross forming within hours, relevant. Enjoy! – ichrak
In the Heart of Sol — Mercury Retrograde Midpoint
What’s past is prologue. ~ Antonio, from The Tempest by William Shakespeare On September 30th Mercury and the Sun meet at the midpoint of the Mercury Retrograde cycle. In this cycle for a few days before their exact meeting, and a few days after, the mind can be a bit frazzled and all over the…
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Aries — Harvest Moon September 2015
Tonight’s full moon lunar eclipse is getting a lot of press. Of course, eclipses always do, especially the ones that turn colors, like tonight’s will. Across the ages, whenever there was an eclipse, people looked up at sky and (rightly, I think) freaked the f out. The light that is usually there disappears, and the…
Mars and Jupiter in Virgo 2015
All love eventually becomes help. ~Paul Tillich remix. Mars enters Virgo September 24th at 10:18 PM EDT, conjoining the fixed star Regulus and squaring Saturn immediately upon entry. Mars and Jupiter now occupy the same sign. The sign Virgo now has two planetary bodies in it, doubling the dose of Virgo energy being emitted toward…
Saturn sextile the North Node
Saturn’s sustained re-entry into Sagittarius is emphatically and immediately colored by a concern with relationship, coming at the tail end of a Venus Retrograde and on the same day as Mercury stationing retrograde in the sign of relationship. Saturn’s dispositor, its planetary ruler, is Jupiter in Virgo. Jupiter is taking the energy of Saturn, shaping,…
Mercury Retrograde in Libra 2015
When a planet apparently reverses direction in the sky it also symbolically reverses itself in our lives. When this planet is Mercury, the invitation is to tread more carefully in the realm of thought. The Mercury function turns inward during every Mercury Retrograde, which happens three times per year. This presents an alternative way of…
Jupiter – Neptune Opposition 2015 : A Contemplation on Wholeness
Jupiter in Virgo is opposite Neptune in Pisces on September 17th, 2015. What follows is a brief contemplation on this once-every-twelve-years alignment. The individual will can be very convincing. It convinces us that we are the primary actors operating the curtain, making decisions and directing the flow of our lives. It convinces us that there…
Solar Eclipse in Virgo 2015
Hi everyone and Happy Solar Eclipse in Virgo! We are now in a powerful portal moment for the next two weeks. This Solar Eclipse is an encouragement to use your willpower to create accelerated transformation in your life. It’s a good time to practice manifesting, which, beyond being widely understood as a new-agey kind of…
Distillation and Essence, September 10, 2015
There is an emphasis on the successive signs today, Leo, Virgo, and Libra. The dispositorship chain goes like Mercury Libra —> Venus in Leo, then all the planets in Leo funneling into the Sun in Virgo, which comes back through to Mercury in Libra. With that in mind, here we go. As the Sun is…
A Moon in Many Guises
Hi everyone, The Moon is in Aquarius and will make an opposition to Mars and then Venus Retrograde over the next 12 hours or so. Moon in the air sign Aquarius is good accompaniment for the cerebral Jupiter and Sun in Virgo, and Mercury which has just entered air sign Libra. Aquarius Moon benefits from…