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…
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New Moon in Libra 2015
This is a very obscure question, I said, and we shall need keen sight to see our way. Now, as we are not remarkably clever, I will make a suggestion as to how we should proceed. Imagine a rather short-sighted person told to read an inscription in small letters from some way off. He would…
Venus in Virgo and Mercury Direct
Venus is now in Virgo. In traditional astrology this is the sign where she is considered in her fall. This is often taken to mean that Venus doesn’t express Venusian traits as strongly in Virgo as she does in her opposite sign of Pisces, or in Taurus or Libra, where love is openhearted and given…
In the Heart of Sol — Mercury Retrograde Midpoint
What’s past is prologue. ~ Antonio, from The Tempest by William Shakespeare On September 30th Mercury and the Sun meet at the midpoint of the Mercury Retrograde cycle. In this cycle for a few days before their exact meeting, and a few days after, the mind can be a bit frazzled and all over the…
Mercury Retrograde in Libra 2015
When a planet apparently reverses direction in the sky it also symbolically reverses itself in our lives. When this planet is Mercury, the invitation is to tread more carefully in the realm of thought. The Mercury function turns inward during every Mercury Retrograde, which happens three times per year. This presents an alternative way of…
Bucky Fuller, Mercury Rx by way of Chart Study
You can never learn less, you can only learn more. ~ Buckminster Fuller If you want to get a comprehensible dose of the vastness of the Universe, look as far into the writings of Buckminster Fuller as humanly possible, then look farther. Like many other groundbreaking geniuses, Bucky was given the exquisitely divine gift of…
Saturn doing new things, you do too
Saturn is now traversing new territory. In March of 2014 Saturn hit the farthest he had been so far, 23 degrees of Scorpio. Then, between March and November of 2014, Saturn was traveling over ground that he’d already covered in order to make sure that we received details of experiences and growth lessons that Saturn was…