Trigger Transits
Things are starting to cook.
Over the next few weeks we’ll have a series of short-range transits that will serve as triggers for the dramatic long-range ones that have been the subject of so much astrological buzz: the transits of 2010-15. These are the years singled out by many ancient traditions as the make-or-break threshold for humanity.
September 2009
The Secret of the Opposition
Their first exact opposition coincided with one of those heightened historical moments like the day JFK was shot or the day the twin towers exploded; a date our future selves will remember as a “Where-were-you-when…” event. It was November 4th 2008, the day Obama was elected. Where were you that night the world whooped with relief and danced in the streets
July 2009
Knowledge and Knowing
Like the scientists, mystical thinkers honor Einstein as extraordinary; but from a somewhat different point of view. For us, the wispy-haired old fellow with the unforgettable eyes exudes a wisdom that trumps intellectual smarts.
In fact he was prodigious on both scores: that of mental acuity (Aquarius) and spiritual understanding (Pisces)1. I can’t think of another scientist whose face has been reproduced on postcards, lapel buttons and tote bags. Though Western culture tends to reserve the word “genius” for people gifted in conceptual thinking, those of us who hung posters of Einstein on our dorm room walls did so for other reasons. I, for one, was enchanted by the rumor the.
Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard
Americans have trouble understanding that what comes up must come down. The collective entity that is the USA has Jupiter (inflation, increase) conjunct the Sun.
Everyone surely realizes, at this point, that what was happening before the housing bubble burst last fall was crazy and fraudulent; yet the media is still talking about “prices returning to normal.” What standard of normalcy are they referring to?
Cream Pies
The next seven years are going to be big. Forget the five-and-ten-year plans your consultant told you to make. We will all be flying by the seat of our pants. You astro-heads already know this. There’s been a lot of talk about the Grand Cross, the major configuration that will dominate the sky through 2015. […]
The Great and Powerful Oz
Remember in The Wizard of Oz, when Toto started tugging at the curtain behind which the old scamster was pulling levers; and the big scary face intoned, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”? The Great American Meltdown we’re watching now has much in common with that other great American tale. This time […]
October 2008
The Bubble Bursts
At this writing, the gargantuan Wall Street “bail-out” has proven itself to be anything but the panacea its proponents claimed. Washington’s attempt to cut interest rates in tandem with international central banks has been revealed as too little too late. Whether the US government’s partial nationalization plan will do anything to slow the downward spiral remains unclear, while the prospect of putting bank ownerships into the hands of a government as corrupt as this one are ominous indeed.
July 2008
Starved and Stuffed
Saturn Direct
This month Saturn is direct again, climbing up through the early degrees of Virgo. Readers whose natal charts contain a planet in this degree range will feel a pinch they may remember quite well — from last October, and then again in February — when Saturn was in this same place. But you aren’t in the same place, are you?
February 2008
The Capricorn Shift
On January 25th, Pluto entered Capricorn.
When the Tiny Little Planet of Great Big Power crossed that line into the first degree of Capricorn, humanity was introduced, once again, to a new chapter in its evolution. Pluto’s tenure through this no-nonsense earth sign will restructure humanity’s vision for about 15 years.
December 2007
Fire at the Threshold
The Jupiter-Pluto Conjunction