SkyWatch June 2026 Preview
Fairy Power
The month of June hosts an annual turning point of unique potency: the Sun’s ingress into Cancer. It’s technically the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere. But by lived experience, it’s not the first day at all… Click here to read the full Skywatch.
Beware the Dead Zone
It’s always personal with Trump. He dominates as Henry VIII did in England, or Caligula did in Rome. His trip to China wasn’t about US-China relations, it was about Trump-Xi relations. Everybody knows that Trump’s behavior has nothing to do with statecraft or geopolitics. That is, everybody except the traditional media. Straightjacketed by old-fashioned journalistic […]
SkyWatch May 2026
The Body Beautiful
May opens with a Full Moon featuring two juicy fixed signs. Both Taurus and Scorpio relate, among other things, to how we humans handle having bodies. Taurus has to do with what we ingest, and Scorpio with what we excrete. We may prefer talking about the former than the latter — to the point of […]
SkyWatch April 2026
Spark to Tinder
Where do we stand on the issue of courage? The question seems old-fashioned. We modern folk don’t have legends of dragon-slaying heroes to look up to. We no longer erect statues to great warriors who comported themselves honorably in battle. Probably the last vestige of this type of society-wide inspiration was the respect paid, by […]
Pandora Calling
The Transits of Trump’s War
How do we understand a world unhinged by the psychosis of one man? No easy answer to that one, even for symbol readers. But a starting point, for astrologers, is to see certain public figures as modern myths: personifications of something the Universe wants to teach humanity. We decode transits to get a sense of […]
Fog and Fire
Well, it never worked before, so let’s try it again. Only this time, let’s do it with a drunken captain at the wheel. Israel has dreamed for decades of a splintered, broken Iran. Netanyahu has been grooming Washington for 30 years to swoop in and make it happen. After multiple presidents refused, Bibi finally found […]
SkyWatch March 2026
Reality Ain’t What it Used To Be
There is fire in the sky this month, and not just any old fire. It’s the kind that kicks everything off. Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable Astrology posits three types of fire. There’s the roaring fire of the creative self (Leo), lighting up a room like a hearth. There’s the restless fire of the mind (Sagittarius), […]
SkyWatch February 2026
Unintended Consequences
It’s peaking this month. One of the key transits behind the current chaos, the Saturn/ Neptune conjunction, is exact to the minute of arc on February 20th. But let’s not get waylaid by what Frederick Woodruff calls “prediction porn.” This isn’t about expecting some big event to happen on that day. A transit exactitude is […]
Ice Storm
You could see from his face what a good man he was. Each detail that emerged about Alex Pretti’s life and death was like an icepick to the heart. It felt like our brother had died. He was a caretaker, murdered because he came to someone else’s aid. His death was desecrated further by bald-faced […]
SkyWatch January 2026
Bet on the Tortoise
This month the sky is full of planets in Capricorn turning into Aquarius, two dramatically contrasting signs. Let’s take a moment to liberate them from their stereotypes, the better to navigate the jarring shifts of January. Slow down Sober old Capricorn is not only rule-bound but security-conscious. Usually, its emphasis is on professional and material […]