Just one month after Saturn entered Sagittarius in 2015 the shooting at the headquarters of the weekly French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo took place in Paris. Two shooters, supposedly murderously inflamed about the magazine’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, caused 12 fatalities in an act that reportedly was meant to avenge the Prophet. Immediately, a…
Saturn in Sagittarius
Romping to Know What Romping Means – Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius
During this Mercury Retrograde the opportunity arises to reflect on the ways the mind wavers and falters and how words can fail and inflect various forms of violence. Mercury is romping backwards to understand what romping means. But the same stellar configuration that reflects this harmful potential also provides its remedy. Mercury is moving in…
New Moon in Gemini: The Nature of The Trickster
New Moon at 4 degrees 47 minutes Gemini May 25, 2017 3:44 PM ET The New Moon happens within 5 days of the Sun’s entrance into gemini, ushering in nearly a fully month of Gemini’s airy brightness, propelled by the force of the waxing Moon. The fruit of June’s Full Moon in Sagittarius is contained…
Saturn trine Uranus — Future’s Gleaming Threshold
Saturn Retrograde in Sagittarius trine Uranus in Aries — 26 degrees — December / May / November The energies of Saturn and Uranus can be brilliant energies combined together. Uranus’ futurism, indomitable will, and intuition applies itself into the grit and grime and demand of 3D reality and makes something that truly advances some segment…
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Leo: Love, High Fashion, Daring & Politricks
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Leo 22 degrees 28 minutes February 10, 2017, 7:32 pm EST Lunar eclipses stimulate the emotional body. This month’s lunar eclipse is both magnified in effect, and broadly fiery in quality. While a solar eclipse creates outer events, lunar eclipses cast light on inner states of being, which can then…
Saturn in the Third Decan of Sagittarius
As Saturn has journeyed deeper through the final 10 degrees of Sagittarius, it stimulates the centripetal pull of focused will power and unyielding stare of ‘whatever it takes’. Saturn, the great naysayer, the great denier, is associated with boundaries and thus has the property of dividing or cutting, like Mars. This space in the zodiac…
On The Malefics
Mars in Pisces is approaching an exact square to Saturn in Sagittarius. Chiron is also involved. This Mars square Saturn will not be exact until January 19th. However, Mars is a fast planet in the sense that its approach and effect can be felt way ahead of its exact configuration. From the annals of history,…
New Moon in Sagittarius 2016 – Of Centaurs and Descrying Horizons
New Moon in Sagittarius, 7 degrees 43 minutes. November 29, 2016, 7:18 AM EST. The New Moon in Sagittarius takes place in one of the brightest and most optimistic signs of the zodiac, near the heaviest and most serious sign of the traditional seven. As the Sun and Moon merged, the Sun was moving toward…
September’s End Planetary Overview
Before October enters our world, let’s take several deep clarifying breaths along with several clarifying looks at September, to wrap up this incredibly intense and eventful month and gain some footing as we look ahead at the rest of the year. Mercury direct and moving forward through Virgo: The dust has settled. Take a look around…
Saturn squaring the Nodal Axis; Pisces Lunar Eclipse – Heavy Accuracy and the Binding Ephemeral
The light of the Moon in Pisces is reflecting the radiance of the Sun in Virgo. Creativity hangs in the balance with precision. Straddling a ravine splitting contradictory worlds produces a duality of experience we are more able to hold in this Piscean moment. But there is the influence of Saturn squaring the…