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…
Jupiter
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…
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…
When Venus in Taurus meets Jupiter, Mercury, and Pluto
While Venus is in Taurus she broadcasts through her rays her dominion over the senses. Associated with life’s pleasures, in Taurus it’s the ornamented surroundings and the soft fabrics on the skin and earthy sensuality where Venus finds her expression. In fixed sign Taurus this placement indicates preservation in the mode of Venus, and it is here we find…
Jupiter stations Direct in Virgo: The Self-Evidence of Truth
Spiritual truth transcends mere words. Whatever is put into words immediately becomes profane, a commodity capable of manipulation and distortion. Truth is not the evident form, but the hidden fire. We cannot find truth in outer forms any more than we can see fire in wood that has not been enkindled. ~David Frawley, Pandit Vamadeva…
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…
Jupiter Stations Direct April 8, 2015
Jupiter is currently stationing direct, resuming forward motion on April 8, 2015 at 12:57 PM EDT. When a planet stations, its energy is more pronounced than when it is humming along at full steam ahead. In the days preceding and after the moment of the planet’s change of motion, we feel that planet’s energy more…