May 17 – May 18: Mars conjunct Neptune at 24°– 25° Pisces Mars is in mutable Pisces, which can pre-dispose the planet of action to scattering its focus. This can be amplified by passing over the ethereal fog of Neptune, which casts an imaginative, idealistic, or further scattering ray upon this typically determined planet. This…
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The Oceanic and Mythic Sun Neptune Conjunction in Pisces
Image: On the Open Sea, 1921, Rene Quillivic The Sun will conjoin Neptune at 22 degrees Pisces on Saturday March 12. This aspect is building until then. This planetary duo coming together in Pisces is a double serving of imagination and mystery, as both the planets and the sign have threads of this theme in…
Jupiter in Sagittarius 2018-2019: A Monograph
We are each blessed with something good. And there is a good reason why we have been given what we have been given, and we should put that to good use. We cannot carry anything with us when we depart from this world, and hence we should share whatever it is that we have been…
5 Stand-Out Astrological Events in June 2018
The overall astrology of the first three weeks of the month is saturated with the air element, quickening social connection, conversation, and information sharing. With the presence of several planets in the water element, intuition, instinct, and emotion are also amplified. Water, traditionally labeled mute because it is wanting for words (which says nothing about…
Sun Opposite Chiron, Mercury-Mars Opposite Neptune
The Sun beams its rays directly on to Chiron retrograde, creating awareness of the shape of a physical, emotional, or spiritual misalignment. Retrograde planets are thought to be weakened in their expression. The functions they signify may be inhibited or made to move through a circuitous route to arrive at a version of themselves that…
New Moon Solar Eclipse in Pisces: A Queer Visionary
New Moon Solar Eclipse at 8 degrees Pisces 12 at 9:58 AM EST February 26, 2017. I was reading this article about the upcoming eclipse and it felt so strange to me to read facts about the eclipse divorced from its impact on humans. Aside of course from the wonder of witnessing a solar eclipse!…
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…
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…
New Moon in Scorpio 2016 – What the Water Gave Us
But you have no idea how dark we yet may be, nor what that darkness may contain. ~Teju Cole, A True Picture of Black Skin New Moon in Scorpio October 30th, 2016 1:38 pm EDT 7 degrees Scorpio 44 minutes. Transformation. Intensity. Rebirth. Doing this sign justice means honoring that it is about the acknowledgement…