Blessings of the Spring Equinox! The Spring equinox is a time when the Sun moves from the final degree of the zodiac, a water sign, to the very first degree of the zodiac, a fire sign. It is a threshold moment, and unlike other threshold moments – there is no transition space. We go immediately…
Jupiter in Virgo
New Moon Solar Eclipse in Pisces 2016 – The Tide Pulled Back
The New Moon in Pisces is a Total Eclipse of the Sun. It is exact at 18 degrees Pisces 56 minutes, on March 8, 2016 at 8:54 PM EDT Pisces is the sign of two fish eternally swimming in opposite directions. Binary reality is overcome in this sign. Dividing lines are softened here. Black…
Full Moon in Virgo 2016 – Opposition, Concord, Discord, Harmony
The path up and the path down are one in the same. ~Heraclitus The Moon is Full in Virgo on February 22, 2016 at 1:19 PM EST at 3 degrees Pisces-Virgo. At this time there is a clear revelation. Previously obscured information is now visible and ready to be actualized into form to with full…
New Moon in Capricorn 2016: A Breastplate Forged in a Smithshop
The moment of this New Moon comes as a still point. Though Capricorn is a sign characterized by restraint, the hours in the leadup to the moment of the New Moon were tousled in a big push of energy. The Moon first joined underworld lord Pluto, then squared Uranus for a bit of…
Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn January 2016: Deep into the Core of the Earth
Mercury stations retrograde at 1 degrees Aquarius on January 5 at 8:06 AM Eastern time and will remain retrograde through January 25th. This first Mercury retrograde of the year takes us deep into the depths of the underworld of our own minds. We will see what is inside us reflected in our immediate environments over…
New Moon in Scorpio 2015
Sign up for the Newsletter — Book a Reading The New Moon in Scorpio happens on November 11, 2015 at 19 degrees 01 minutes at 12:47 PM EST. This is a soulful and sweet lunation that comes with a hefty dollop of awareness and a sturdy indication of the location of deep transformation. Leading up…
Mars conjunct Jupiter trine Pluto
Sign up for the Newsletter — Book a Reading Mars and Jupiter will meet at an exact conjunction on October 17 at 6:40 PM EDT. Mars joins Jupiter in the second decan of Virgo, at 14 degrees 11 minutes. Both bodies apply a trine to Pluto before Mars meets and surpasses Jupiter. Mars Jupiter aspects…
Mars and Jupiter in Virgo 2015
All love eventually becomes help. ~Paul Tillich remix. Mars enters Virgo September 24th at 10:18 PM EDT, conjoining the fixed star Regulus and squaring Saturn immediately upon entry. Mars and Jupiter now occupy the same sign. The sign Virgo now has two planetary bodies in it, doubling the dose of Virgo energy being emitted toward…
Saturn sextile the North Node
Saturn’s sustained re-entry into Sagittarius is emphatically and immediately colored by a concern with relationship, coming at the tail end of a Venus Retrograde and on the same day as Mercury stationing retrograde in the sign of relationship. Saturn’s dispositor, its planetary ruler, is Jupiter in Virgo. Jupiter is taking the energy of Saturn, shaping,…
Jupiter – Neptune Opposition 2015 : A Contemplation on Wholeness
Jupiter in Virgo is opposite Neptune in Pisces on September 17th, 2015. What follows is a brief contemplation on this once-every-twelve-years alignment. The individual will can be very convincing. It convinces us that we are the primary actors operating the curtain, making decisions and directing the flow of our lives. It convinces us that there…