Archive | February, 2012

Fog Fight

Is there a lot of kvetching in your life right now? It wouldn’t be surprising, given that Mars is in Virgo, and retrograde to boot. This transit is great for editing and tweaking: incremental reform. But if unconsciously channeled, it makes us prickly and irritable. In Virgo, Mars’s default is fuss and worry.

What’s especially interesting is that the sign opposite Virgo — Pisces — is getting a lot of action right now as well, from Neptune and Chiron.… click here to continue reading.

Feb 2012
Water, Water Everywhere

It’s a once-in-168-year event. In a year chock-full of world-altering transits, it’s one of the most important. The god of the sea is inaugurating a thirteen-year-long shift in the way we look at water. To people with water-dominant charts, Neptune’s entry into Pisces on February 3rd will feel the way a drop of water must feel when it finally reaches the sea.

The archetype of water means many things. On the level of physical reality, Neptune governs drinking water, oceans and rivers, pipelines, gas and oil, leaks and spillages.… click here to continue reading.