July 2, 2019 – Total Solar Eclipse at 10 degrees 38 minutes Cancer at 3:16 pm ET Read Part One of this post here As with any new moon, the moment of this eclipse is a time to best suited for being thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, and receptive — in as far as this is…
Nodal Axis
Summer 2019 Eclipse Season Part One
Eclipse season is now upon us. Astrologer Bernadette Brady defines eclipse season as a time-period of 36 days. This time-period begins when the Sun is 18 degrees away from the node to which it is transiting nearest by conjunction, and ends after the Sun has conjoined that node and moved another 18 degrees beyond it….
5 Stand Out Astrological Events of May 2018
Sun in Taurus opposite Jupiter in Scorpio – May 8, 2018 The Sun stands 180 degrees away from Jupiter in the sky. This is Jupiter’s Full Moon moment in its yearly cycle. Jupiter is fully illuminated. After the Sun goes down, in the heart of the night (midnight), look directly overhead, and Jupiter will be…
Wisdom is a Power of the Soul: Reflections on a New Moon Eclipse conjunct Mercury
“The way of truth is that man’s heart be always wholly with his Creator. When he relies upon his own wisdom in the pursuit of truth and of that which shall be by some means other than God, his heart is wanting, for any form of divination is defective.” ~ Avraham ibn Ezra in commentary…
The Astrology of Logic
Rapper and lyricist Logic, born Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, recently released his latest album Everybody, which climbed to the number 1 spot on the Billboard 200 in the first week of its release. But the broader story of his rise to personal success in light of looking at his birth chart that is especially…
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…
Saturn squaring the Nodal Axis; Pisces Lunar Eclipse – Heavy Accuracy and the Binding Ephemeral
The light of the Moon in Pisces is reflecting the radiance of the Sun in Virgo. Creativity hangs in the balance with precision. Straddling a ravine splitting contradictory worlds produces a duality of experience we are more able to hold in this Piscean moment. But there is the influence of Saturn squaring the…
Full Moon Eclipse in Pisces – The Hunt for a Vision of Bliss
Full Moon Penumbral Lunar Eclipse in Pisces, 24 degrees 20 minutes, September 16, 2016 3:05 pm EDT. With this Full Moon we are on the home stretch of what has been an intense two weeks for many. This Full Moon is the second eclipse in September, and its impact will reverberate for months to…
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…
Coding, De-coding, and Re-coding Mind along the Virgo-Pisces axis
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be ~Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night