This Solstice season, bells are tolling for the death of the Old Paradigm. You can hear them all over the globe.
The shifts they signal are too profound to stay local, or national. The changes upon us right now are not confined to either the First World or the Third World; the Northern of the Southern hemisphere; the 99% or the 1%.
Ours is a world made up of intricately interlocking systems.… click here to continue reading.
It was when Mars (anger, militancy) opposed Neptune (confusion, pretense)
as it was turning direct, just before November’s Full Moon, that the tide began to turn.
After being caught with their pants down for a few weeks, the media seems to have found its voice as regards the Occupy movement. Editorials condemning the encampments are coming out thick and fast. Mayors who were on the fence are caving in to city councils suddenly all up in their tough-guy boots.… click here to continue reading.
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Get your yellow highlighter out. It’s time to mark your calendar; the Full Moon this month is a stand-out.
First off, it peaks on the eve of eleven-eleven-eleven. Eleven is considered a master number in numerological tradition. Even just one eleven is enough to raise the eyebrows of those who assign to numbers a numinous significance. As the lunar cycle peaks, we will get the power of eleven iterated by three, itself considered a perfect number by the ancients.… click here to continue reading.
It’s hard to believe the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon is just over a month old. 
Long expected by astrologers, long awaited by progressives and long dreaded by the One Per Cent, the movement hit the ground running.
It expresses the world moment so precisely that it seems to have arisen full-blown, like Athena from the head of Zeus. Germinating since 2008 when Pluto entered Capricorn, it is an organic consequence of the dirty secrets that were revealed when the economy went bust.… click here to continue reading.
The corporate media tried to ignore the Occupy Wall Street movement. Lord knows it tried. 
Over the past three weeks, as protests filled the streets of New York and started springing up in cities all over the country, the TV news at first played blind, deaf and dumb.
They tried to distract the public with the usual meaningless faux-controversies. But the Equinoctial transits were so powerful that even these non-issues came with subtexts that were inadvertently on-the-mark.… click here to continue reading.
To get a bead on the energies of this month, let’s first consider its place in the solar cycle. A time of Dark Mysteries, Scorpio has a strong seasonal character. It is governed by the planet Pluto, governor of taboos and secrets.
Not only the Sun, but Venus and Mercury ingress into Scorpio in October. This will make for a potent Halloween (or Samhain [pronounced SOW-en] in Wicca): our annual celebration of the human desire to know forbidden things .… click here to continue reading.
On this tenth anniversary of you-know-what, I don’t want to write about 9/11. I’ve written elsewhere about the implausibility of Washington’s story about what happened that day, as have many other astrologers (see especially the blogs of Eric Francis), and the explosive transits under which it happened (see Rick Tarnas’ monograph). It was the first Big Lie of the 21st century, and has amassed so much refutation that a cultural movement arose to hold it.… click here to continue reading.
The Sun’s in Virgo and the Moon’s in Pisces at the Full Moon on September 12th. Both are misunderstood signs, so this lunation can be hard to deal with.
It isn’t that Pisces and Virgo are inherently any more difficult than any other zodiacal pair; it’s that our society doesn’t value the impulses they represent– impulses which we are brought up to assume are steering us in the wrong direction.… click here to continue reading.
Pluto is slowing down for its station opposed to the midpoint of the US Venus and Jupiter, and 
the rot at the core of the American system is blossoming in the summer heat. The nation’s values (Venus) are being stripped raw. A twisted morality (Jupiter) is being exposed.
As individuals, we can’t afford to lose our minds amidst the madness, nor lose sight of our own moral compass. To stay engaged yet sane and humane, we must observe collective psychopathy while keeping a distance from it.… click here to continue reading.
I don’t have to tell you, dear reader, that there’s nothing like astrology for knowing which way the wind is blowing. Not just in our own individual life, but knowing the meaning of the storms we’re all being buffeted by together right now, during this thrilling, surreal, crazy-making epoch.
The Moon is closer to us than any other celestial body ; not only astronomically but in other ways as well. As planetary cycles go, the lunar cycle is a relatively accessible chunk of time to wrap our minds around.… click here to continue reading.