Keep up to date with the astrology in our skies. Sign up for the Atlas Astrology Newsletter. New Moon in Cancer 12 degrees 54 minutes Cancer 7:01 AM EDT, July 4th, 2016. Cancer evokes the contemplation of the intricate webs we are all a part of; all the many and multiple ways we depend on each…
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New Moon in Gemini 2016 – Within the Chambers of the Heart and Mind
The New Moon in Gemini takes place June 4 , 2016 at 14 degrees 53 minutes Gemini at 11 p.m. EDT. This New Moon is part of a complex planetary pattern, with the simplest and most immediate influence being its nearness to Venus. At the time of the New Moon, Venus is only 29 minutes…
Mars Retrogrades back into Scorpio – Death of Philosophy
Mars coming back to Scorpio can represent the piercing gaze of dominance and the calm that comes through the undeniable inner confidence in the possession of strength. This is an outward form of strength and dominance that can come from an inner weakness. Yet this can also be the outer form of more deeply embedded…
Mentorship, Empires, and Jupiter square Saturn
Success is just living with balance, and savoring the most of what is effectively limited time on this planet before we all get snuffed out. ~Guy Spier in conversation with Adrienne Dorison. Guy Spier, in cooperation with two friends, bid $650,000 in a fundraiser to have lunch with Warren Buffett. An event that proved life…
Mercury sextile Chiron: The Mind and Its Discontents
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Mercury will remain in a tight partile sextile to Chiron until Monday May…
A Poem for the Pisces Eclipse
Last Night As I Was Sleeping by Antonio Machado Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous illusion!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? Last night as I was…
Mars trine Chiron : Willful Creation/Healing of Fractured Visionary Reality
We create from what we can imagine. We are living right now inside the imaginings of people whose mental illness makes them believe they are superior to other human beings. This video is part of the resistance, the new imaginings that we use to pull ourselves towards liberation. ~ Adrienne Maree Brown, Beyonce’s Visionary Fiction:…
6 Simple Ways to Navigate Today’s Venus Saturn Conjunction
1. Don’t make yourself wrong You did the best you knew how at the time. 2. Invoke positivity Positivity works better than negativity in every situation. 3. Do not dwell on the past beyond its helpfulness. Look back only for the lesson, integrate it, and move on. It’s a new year, a new day, a…
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…