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…
Saturn in Sagittarius
Saturn sextile the North Node
Saturn’s sustained re-entry into Sagittarius is emphatically and immediately colored by a concern with relationship, coming at the tail end of a Venus Retrograde and on the same day as Mercury stationing retrograde in the sign of relationship. Saturn’s dispositor, its planetary ruler, is Jupiter in Virgo. Jupiter is taking the energy of Saturn, shaping,…
Saturn in Sagittarius Retrograde 2015 – Dour Optimism
Saturn is currently picking up speed in the sky. When it turned retrograde on March 12, it had already been at the same degree in the sky for over a month, since February 9. From February 9 to April 17 — just three days ago — Saturn remained at that same degree, 4 Sagittarius.
E.A. Poe fodder for Pisces-Sagittarius times
Edgar Allan Poe has a prominent Sagittarius – Pisces square in his chart, while his Sun and Mercury occupy the 29th degree of our Capricorn sky. As the Moon completes its void in Capricorn, entering Aquarius tomorrow to join the Sun, we can meditate on Poe. Increasing melancholia broached by sifting through his work. Conjuring the…
Believe Nothing, Entertain Possibilities
As I’m sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head (may be happening right now). Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually…
Early degree Mutable signs getting b%tc# slapped into form
Dear those with planets at early degrees of mutable signs, Specifically, 0-4 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Neptune transited your mutable planets at those degrees from 2012 to 2014. It was a highly spiritualizing, diffuse, vast influence. It opened you up to other realms of perception and ways of being in the world….