Before October enters our world, let’s take several deep clarifying breaths along with several clarifying looks at September, to wrap up this incredibly intense and eventful month and gain some footing as we look ahead at the rest of the year. Mercury direct and moving forward through Virgo: The dust has settled. Take a look around…
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Mercury Retrograde in Virgo 2016 – Fleetness of Mind
Mercury Retrograde in Virgo- 9:04 AM EDT August 30, 29 Virgo 05 – 1:30 AM Eastern September 22, 14 Virgo 49 Every astrological event happens within the context of other movements in the sky. An event like Mercury retrograde which happens about three times per year is best understood as a part of the broader…
Mars square the Nodal Axis – Threading Ego on a Golden Spool
As soon as the heart moves toward something, there is no distance. ~Geoffrey Cornelius Mars in Sagittarius squares Virgo North Node and Pisces South Node in a conjunction with Neptune retrograde August 29, 2016. The key and hinge of this moment in astrology are the concepts of passion, temper, fieriness, sex, power, courage, and action…
Saturn Stations Direct 2016 – Moment of Outcomes
Saturn stations direct August 13, 2016 at 9 degrees 47 minutes Sagittarius at 5:50 am EDT. The most distant visible planet, Saturn rules over the structures that support life and the boundaries that differentiate between objects. When Saturn turned retrograde in March, it initiated a several month long inner process of gestation. A…
Taking Stock and Looking Ahead – Mid July Planetary Overview
Keep up to date with the astrology – Sign up for the Atlas Astrology newsletter Venus entered Leo on July 12th, where it will stay until August 5th. When a planet changes signs, some subtle mood or overt circumstance changes along with it. The inner planets (Mercury and Venus) change signs more frequently than the…
Neptune Retrograde 2016 – An Impartial Washing
An impartial washing containers for a sea that strong are held only by the beyond pretensions of human holding are just that what surrender means is cultivated is experienced if reality is dissolving you can see through it to the core and the essence gradually shaped by the curved pad of your thumb and it…
Meditation and the Cross : Notes on a Super Mutable Sky
The current moment offers potent astrology. There is so much going on. Friday’s New Moon in Gemini kicked off an activation of the March 9th eclipse in Pisces. Note any themes from that time period that are arising again. With Venus and the Moon flanking the Sun at the time of the New Moon,…
Ambiguity Tolerance – Mutable Grand Cross 2016
A healthy amount of ambiguity tolerance is the life giving quality of this astrological moment. In a space where simultaneously and continuously, so much is happening, arising, firming up and taking form, dissolving, changing, and evolving, in many areas of outer life, and in many spaces within oneself, keeping a certain set of qualities…
Beehives and Benedictions – Mutable Grand Cross 2016
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness – ignorance, credulity – helps your enjoyment of these things. ~Walt Whitman A Mutable Grand Cross now dominates the heavens. The mutable signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces…
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…