Upon the inauguration of America’s new president, millions of people felt something extraordinary happen; something that went beyond a mere political victory party. It felt to many as if a flood of inspiration was unleashed —- not just in the USA, but, remarkably, all over the world – whose power astrologers chalk up not to a man winning an election, but to the epochal transits upon us. The fact that Americans selected their candidate on the very day of the opposition between Saturn (the past) and Uranus (the future) is only one piece of the story.
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Know Your Devils
As the US presidential election looms ever closer, Jupiter and Uranus are conjoining in the sky. The mass mood is agitated, electric, prickly.
Will we meet this moment with insight and enthusiasm, or with frazzled burn-out? It depends on our understanding of the forces at play.
Uranus, the planet of disruptive change, signifies the sense of urgency upon us. Jupiter, the planet of religion, signifies higher principles, gods and devils.
Right now, it’s urgently necessary to name our devils, and to make allies of them.… click here to continue reading.
Oct 2022
Shifts in the Wind
Are you ready to change direction? From the beginning of the month to the end, October is a month of pivots.
Four planets will be changing directions: three go direct (SD) and one goes retrograde (SR). If you are attuned to subtle shifts in the energy field, you will feel them on Oct 2 (Mercury SD), Oct 8th (Pluto SD), Oct 22 (Saturn SD) and Oct 30 (Mars SR).
Backwards and forwards
When a planet is moving backwards from Earth’s point of view, we’re given a chance to dig a little deeper into its symbolism, to absorb its meaning.… click here to continue reading.
Built for This
Spike Lee is on fire. He has two new releases out, one short and one long, just in the past month.
Both films place American racism in historical context. Both are redolent with anguished humanity. Their timing is so spot-on, given the firestorm unleashed by the killing of George Floyd, that people are calling it uncanny.
But prescience like this is as organic as picking up a scent from the breeze.… click here to continue reading.
The Capricorn Stellium Unfolds
Originally published in The Mountain Astrologer, Dec’18/ Jan’19 as
Seeing the Big Picture: Working with the Transits of 2020
In the scope of one year, 2020, several important planetary cycles are launching.
> On January 12th 2020, the Saturn-Pluto conjunction will reach exactitude, the standout transit in a line-up in Capricorn.
> In December 2020, the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction will reach exactitude in Aquarius.
> Over the course of 2020, the conjunction of Jupiter with Pluto will go in and out of exactitude.
Nov 2018
Making Nice
Three planets change direction this month. Each of these pivots is an invitation to get to know that planet’s symbolism more directly and intimately than usual (see August’s SkyWatch for tips on using planetary stations).
Venus and Mercury station on the same day, Nov. 16th. Venus, back in Libra going retrograde, will turn around and head forward.
Heads-up: If late Libra is a hotspot in your natal chart, you may have a nice long dose of Venusian sweetness.… click here to continue reading.
Jan 2018
Water, Water, Everywhere
This will be a year dominated by the water element, literally and symbolically.
Water will be on our minds: externally, in terms of the environment, and internally, in terms of our inner reservoir of feelings.
Grand Trine
The new month, and the new year, begin with a Full Moon in Cancer. This assures us of plenty of drama as 2018 begins.
… click here to continue reading.Does not this brightness produce…an effect of light which frightens one, rejoices another, and agitates all?
Right Use of Power
The US Pluto Return
Originally published in The Mountain Astrologer, 2014.
None of us will live long enough to experience a personal Pluto Return. It takes this planet around 250 years to cycle through the zodiac. But Americans will experience a Pluto Return collectively, in 2022, when this tiny clump of power reaches the degree of Capricorn that it occupied on July 4th,1776.1
When a planet returns to its natal position, the native hunkers down with the archetype in question.… click here to continue reading.
Aug 2014
When Ordinary Meets Weird
August opens with a Venus-Uranus square, setting the tone for the month.(1)
In the sign Cancer, Venus’ preferences lean towards the safe and familiar: cosy settings, cats on laps, dinner at 
your aunt’s house. Through August 13th (when Venus goes into Leo), family issues are in the forefront.
But don’t get comfortable. Uranus is waiting to pounce.
Venus in Cancer loves to make connection, but Uranus wants only to break away.… click here to continue reading.
This Crowd Will Not Disburse
Anandamayi Ma was once asked how someone would know whether to choose the renunciate life. Replied she, “Would one deliberate on whether to flee a massacre?” (1)
We all know what she was talking about. Who among us, if they’ve been paying attention at all, would not view human existence in the twenty-teens as a massacre?
But this recognition is just the beginning.
Not everyone has the chart of a renunciate (and of those who make that claim, many seem to be motivated not so much by a spiritual quest as by a desire to escape.… click here to continue reading.