Archive | 2012

Poison Permits

Pluto (toxicity, pollution) is settling in, after four years in Capricorn (economic infrastructures). So far, the transit has taught us quite a bit, in some arenas. For example, before the Wall Street meltdown of 2008 most of us probably hadn’t given a millimeter of brain space to dirty tricks with derivatives. Now, the dangers of casino capitalism are on the public’s radar.

It’s a start. But to match the radical necessity of these times, economic solutions have to go as deep as the ecological peril we are in.… click here to continue reading.

Dec 2012
The Finger of God

Here we are, at last, at the end of 2012: the end of world as we know it.

I am joking. Sort of. I do think that if we play our cards right, we have a chance to make this the end of many aspects of the world, as we have known it. And to usher in a new version of the world. As we want to know it.

The Mayan cycle of thirteen baktuns was 1.8 million days long — 5,125 years — and it ends this month.… click here to continue reading.

Predictable Shock

Mars will set off the Uranus-Pluto square in late November, striking at its most powerful point of access (see the Nov Skywatch). Much has been written about this transit’s unpredictability; but the concept needs to be qualified. We have learned enough about how Uranus and Pluto work to refine our understanding about the nature of shock.

During the transit’s peak years (2012-15), political upheavals should no longer be surprising. Shake-ups to governmental conventions are inevitable as the pillars of worldly power crumble and crack.… click here to continue reading.

Nov 2012
Hearing the Call

It is now winding to a close: that annus mirabilis, 2012. It has rocked the calendar with a chorus of spectacular transits one after another. We’ve had a full-throated Mars retrograde, an ingress of Neptune into the sign of its rulership, a high-pitched Venus occultation, and the Uranus-Pluto square¹ whose first two exactitudes serenaded us in June and September. And in the near distance, you can practically hear the fabled winter solstice transits, like the roar of an approaching crowd.… click here to continue reading.

Cat Eyes

Are there Scorpios in your life who cast a spell on you? Certain members of this select coterie can engage other people like quick sand. A sense of intrigue emanates from deep within them. And every year, as the season begins to chill, this energy eroticizes the atmosphere for all of us. It has to do with the lure of the unseen. Secrets draw us in.

This Halloween (Samhain to the ancient Celts) the Sun is joined in Scorpio by Saturn, a transit we will be talking about in upcoming Skywatches.… click here to continue reading.

Oct 2012
Your Duopoly at Work

The crowd was well-pumped, thanks to the Olympics earlier in the summer. When the games in London were over, Americans looked around hungrily for another garishly lit mega-spectator sport to dive into. In late August Mars slipped into Scorpio (until October 6th), whose egoic aspect excels at high-stakes strategizing, manipulation, character assassination and back-stabbing. The stage was set for the bloated orgy of mendacity that is the US presidential election season.

When the transits spiked at the Autumnal Equinox, bringing crescendos of popular feeling (Uranus in Aries) and bloodshed in the halls of power (Pluto in Capricorn), Americans clicked into gear for the next round of photo ops, sound bites, gaffes and gotchas.… click here to continue reading.

Grand Slam

A few days ago a skeptical acquaintance said to me, “Well, here we are almost at the end of 2012 — the year that was supposed to be so dire!” I think she meant that, despite the prophecies she’d read about on the internet, everything was just fine. I thought, Are you kidding me?

On just about every count, 2012 has so far expressed, with cinematic color and clout, exactly the sort of cataclysms that the Uranus-Pluto square ¹ had led astrologers to expect.… click here to continue reading.

Sep 2012
Shift in Velocity

Get ready to shift gears.

As September begins, the personal planets are facing straight ahead. Since August 7^th, when Mercury stationed direct, the last of them made the shift from retrograde to forward motion. You may have felt hurdles move out of the way.

In the background, meanwhile, the three outer planets are still retrograde, beckoning us inwards, into subtler terrain. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto represent the drives of non-ordinary conscious, of which our cells are more aware than our minds are.… click here to continue reading.

One or Three Butlers?

The polls tell us that Mr. Romney’s strongest support is among low-income white men and high-income white men. In other words: the pissed-off jobless dude and the boss-man who outsourced his job. Go figure.

Similarly ironic are the political preferences of Tea Party enthusiasts, who claim to detest reckless spending, and the government — the same government their candidate is spending recklessly to join.

There is nothing subtle about Uranus — governor of the shocking and outrageous – when up against Pluto – the planet that pushes things to extremes, the better to expose their toxicity.… click here to continue reading.

Aug 2012
Aerial View

It isn’t just you. Everyone who isn’t completely shut down is feeling it. Disruptions on the inner and outer planes are inevitable and absolutely appropriate right now. They are part of our destiny.

We are just about midway between the first and second exactitudes of the most important transit of our lifetimes: the square between Uranus, the planet of revolution, and Pluto, the planet of renewal. Their first exact hit was June 24^th.… click here to continue reading.