This is the opening square, like the Moon’s first quarter square, of Venus’ conjunction with Saturn back in late December, right around Christmas. Venus in Aries squaring Saturn in Capricorn at 8 degrees speaks to the drive to actualize what feels good to the self running right into a wall of any kind. This aspect…
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5 Stand-Out Astrological Events in January 2018
Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner — what is it? if not intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming – Rainer Maria Rilke 1. Uranus Stations Direct — January 2, 2018 — An Impulse…
Romping to Know What Romping Means – Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius
During this Mercury Retrograde the opportunity arises to reflect on the ways the mind wavers and falters and how words can fail and inflect various forms of violence. Mercury is romping backwards to understand what romping means. But the same stellar configuration that reflects this harmful potential also provides its remedy. Mercury is moving in…
Easing Contention & Division Under the Eye of Saturn
As personal planets Mars and Venus in Virgo make a series of squares to Saturn, the potential for fractious contention has been prevalent. Cracks are revealed in any situation that does not have a solid foundation The urge to criticize is more powerfully present. It should be crafted toward being constructive rather than injurious. With…
Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn/Sagittarius 2016-2017. Mercury Retrograde for the Ages.
Mercury Retrograde at 15 degrees 08 minutes Capricorn, December 19, 2016 at 5:55 am EST Mercury Direct at 28 degrees 51 minutes Sagittarius, January 8, 2017 at 4:40 am EST Today Mercury begins the third of its three times yearly retrograde cycle. As it stations, Mercury is conjunct outer planet Pluto. With both bodies in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Full Moon in Capricorn 2016 – Orderly Chaos of Divine Mind
Full Moon in Capricorn 6:57 pm EDT July 19, 2016 The decan, a triple division of 10 degrees of each sign of the zodiac, in which this lunar cycle culminates speaks of exercising foresight to shape material reality to meet a defined intention. This process involves discarding illusion and acknowledging material reality as it…