Exploring Reception and Non-Reception in the current Mercury in Libra square Mars in Capricorn alignment. After Mercury moves on beyond its conjunction to Jupiter it will be applying a square to Mars in Capricorn. This perfects at 11 degrees of both Libra and Capricorn in the evening of October 13th Eastern time. There is an…
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Full Moon in Aquarius 2016 – Purposeful Coherent Chaos
Full Moon 25 degrees 52 minutes Aquarius, August 18, 2016 5:27 am EDT. The alignments of the planets can be understood as reflecting a higher order of movement that is then refracted as if through a quartz crystal into the myriad moments of human life. The heavenly bodies are always moving; to freeze them…
New Moon in Leo 2016 – The Vision and Tempered Theatre
New Moon 10 degrees 58 minutes Leo: August 2, 2016, 4:44 PM EDT This New Moon evokes a question. This week, the beginnings of an answer are apparent. The full answer arrives over the coming week with Saturn’s direct station, and more so in the months to follow as Mars meets Saturn and the latter…
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…
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…
Venus in Pisces 2016 – Love More Than Love
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe, Venus in Pisces native Venus in Pisces 2016: March 12…
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…
Mercury Direct and Venus in Capricorn — Rising From the Underworld Changed and With a Plan
**This is from a note that recently went out to subscribers. If you would like to receive notes like this when I send them out via e-mail, sign up here. Mercury has gone direct as of 4:49 PM Eastern time, today, January 25th. How is this for Cosmic Timing: Mercury goes direct during a day long…
New Moon in Capricorn 2016: A Breastplate Forged in a Smithshop
The moment of this New Moon comes as a still point. Though Capricorn is a sign characterized by restraint, the hours in the leadup to the moment of the New Moon were tousled in a big push of energy. The Moon first joined underworld lord Pluto, then squared Uranus for a bit of…