Dear Friends, November opens up a season of active astrology, several bits of which are worth exploring in some depth. As I often say, knowing that certain energies are playing out is its own medicine. Knowing the quality of the energy helps us to name it when it shows up in our lives. Knowing the…
Mars in Scorpio
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…
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,…
Mars Retrogrades back into Scorpio – Death of Philosophy
Mars coming back to Scorpio can represent the piercing gaze of dominance and the calm that comes through the undeniable inner confidence in the possession of strength. This is an outward form of strength and dominance that can come from an inner weakness. Yet this can also be the outer form of more deeply embedded…
Mars Retrograde 2016
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill Mars takes about two years to travel around the zodiacal band while Earth takes one year to travel the same distance around the Sun. When Earth is directly beside Mars in orbit,…
Mars trine Chiron : Willful Creation/Healing of Fractured Visionary Reality
We create from what we can imagine. We are living right now inside the imaginings of people whose mental illness makes them believe they are superior to other human beings. This video is part of the resistance, the new imaginings that we use to pull ourselves towards liberation. ~ Adrienne Maree Brown, Beyonce’s Visionary Fiction:…
New Moon in Aquarius 2016
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to do. It’s best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking. Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the…
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…