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…
pisces
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…
Sun square Chiron – Nuances of Awareness Through Language
Poetry, after all, milks the unconscious. ~Anne Sexton This is a moment in astrology that emphasizes understanding of the strengths possessed in personal identity with regard to about general existence in life – our skills, accomplishments, achievements. Alongside that, there could be a simultaneous awareness of the shortcomings of what could be called the reason for existence. There could…
Neptune Retrograde 2016 – An Impartial Washing
An impartial washing containers for a sea that strong are held only by the beyond pretensions of human holding are just that what surrender means is cultivated is experienced if reality is dissolving you can see through it to the core and the essence gradually shaped by the curved pad of your thumb and it…
Ambiguity Tolerance – Mutable Grand Cross 2016
A healthy amount of ambiguity tolerance is the life giving quality of this astrological moment. In a space where simultaneously and continuously, so much is happening, arising, firming up and taking form, dissolving, changing, and evolving, in many areas of outer life, and in many spaces within oneself, keeping a certain set of qualities…
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…
Mercury sextile Chiron: The Mind and Its Discontents
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Mercury will remain in a tight partile sextile to Chiron until Monday May…
Mercury in Pisces Moving Fast and Other Numina
This week, from the Sunday March 13, to Sunday March 20th, Mercury is traveling at a much faster speed than its average. When planets in the sky are in fast motion the experiences associated with them on earth also move quickly. On many days this week, Mercury is now moving at almost double its…
Venus in Pisces 2016 – Love More Than Love
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe, Venus in Pisces native Venus in Pisces 2016: March 12…
A Poem for the Pisces Eclipse
Last Night As I Was Sleeping by Antonio Machado Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous illusion!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? Last night as I was…