On the first weekend in June, Mercury retrograde (June 7^th) inaugurates a three-week review of all things Mercurial. We’ll be reconsidering the ways we get around (driving, walking, running, riding the subway) as well as the ways we read, speak, listen, and figure things out.¹

Mars and the Cross

A week after the station, Mars re-ignites the Uranus-Pluto square, unleashing the power of deep and fractious change. On the 13^th-14^th Mars squares Pluto exactly, and on June 24^th-25^th, opposes Uranus exactly.… click here to continue reading.

As Spring comes upon us, big decisions are in the air.  They may be making us feel boxed in, since the transits aren’t giving us much room to move.¹

Mars makes a retrograde station on the New Moon, the first day of March.²  A few days later, Jupiter goes direct. This puts both of these planets on track to set off the cardinal cross.

This is by far the biggest transit of 2014.… click here to continue reading.

You could practically hear the buzz, as the Uranus-Pluto square¹ disgorged each of its first two exactitudes June 24^th and Sept 19^th. That is, the animal part of us could hear it.

The 13-year tenure of Neptune in Pisces has a peak this month.

As discussed in earlier Skywatches, during the years of the Cardinal Cross, Neptune in Pisces looms in the background. This month it is exaggerated by a station in early June and by a square from Jupiter around the Solstice.

It is a once-in-168-year event. In a year chockfull of world-altering transits, it is one of the most important. The god of the sea is inaugurating a thirteen-year-long shift in the way we look at water.

Here it is, the Murravian Mantra: Only by living through our charts can we understand the world, and our place in it.

It happened on the very day Uranus (shocks, shattering) moved into Aries. On March 11^th, the tectonic plates under the Pacific Ocean buckled and northeastern Japan was devastated by the biggest quake-tsunami in its recorded history. At this writing the peril of nuclear reactor meltdown looms as the most far-reaching of the quake’s attendant dangers.

For at least part of the month of March, six planets will be in Pisces; the sign of confusion or bliss, depending on how we approach it. We’ll have the choice to either float on top of the chaos or drown in it. It all depends on how well we understand this most elusive of signs. Pisces is said to govern illusion; but it also promises to steer us through illusion, all the way to the other side...