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…
Mars conjunct Saturn in Sagittarius 2016 – Judiciously Wielding the Sword of Truth
Mars conjunct Saturn at 9 degrees 53 minutes Sagittarius August 24, 2016 at 7:26 am EDT. Mars and Saturn conjoin at 9 degrees 53 minutes Sagittarius on August 24. This astrological event is the culmination of both the Saturn and the Mars retrograde cycles of 2016. This planetary meeting reflects an inner and outer environment…
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…
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…
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…
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…
New Moon in Cancer 2016 – The Wealth of a Country
Keep up to date with the astrology in our skies. Sign up for the Atlas Astrology Newsletter. New Moon in Cancer 12 degrees 54 minutes Cancer 7:01 AM EDT, July 4th, 2016. Cancer evokes the contemplation of the intricate webs we are all a part of; all the many and multiple ways we depend on each…
Venus sextile Jupiter – A Study in Reception
Reception is an astrological concept that occurs between planets that are in aspect to each other, where one of the planets is in the essential dignity of the other planet. As I write this, Venus in Cancer is separating from an exact sextile from Jupiter in Virgo. Venus in Cancer is in the sign of…
Mars Direct in Scorpio 2016. Let’s Get It.
After being retrograde since April 17th, Mars resumes forward motion when it stations direct today, June 29, at 7:38 pm Eastern Daylight Time at 23 degrees Scorpio 03 minutes. On a direct level, Mars’ station direct indicates the externalization of the drives that were directed within and underground for the past several months. Assertion,…