The major Pluto cycles of the year are now off and running. The daunting conjunctions of January have launched. Up until this year, we were in the waning phases of overlapping cycles. The Saturn-Pluto and Jupiter-Pluto cycles (1) had lost their defining power. The world was awash in that peculiar fog that descends when energy […]

In April the Capricorn dramas of 2020 ratchet up to a new level. But before we recoil in alarm, let us make a distinction between the literal and the symbolic, difficult though this often is. The C-virus is clearly the most obvious manifestation of the transits overhead —  transits that astrologers have been talking about […]

There is not a lot of planetary activity this month, as if the sky is giving us a breather. It knows we are busy, trying to integrate the lessons of last month’s stellium. Flanked and fortified by three other planets — and an asteroid and a lunar node — January’s conjunction of Saturn and Pluto […]

The new year kicks off with major drama. The long-anticipated Capricorn stellium is now upon us. In early January, five planets and Ceres, the biggest asteroid, are less than a degree apart. Wowza. The exact conjunction of Saturn (responsibility) and Pluto (power) is the locomotive that drives this train. It’s the rarest piece of the puzzle, with […]

The big astrological dramas of 2020 are so close we can feel their warm breath on our necks. The most impactful of these transits is the Saturn-Pluto conjunction peaking January 12, 2020. It marks the beginning of a decades-long cycle of global consequence (discussed in detail in this lecture). The Saturn-Pluto conjunction is not arriving […]

Venus ingresses into Sagittarius as November begins. Sensitive souls will feel a shift in their relationships. For the past three weeks, Venus in Scorpio, subtle and covert, has sent us digging for depth in social encounters. For the coming three weeks, our approach to relationship is more straightforward and extroverted; at best, more generous-spirited. But […]

Now is the time to get on Pluto’s good side. The Sun doesn’t enter Scorpio (Pluto’s sign) until Oct 23rd , but the month opens with a Pluto station and a Venus-Pluto square. The day after that, Mercury goes into Scorpio, as does Venus the following week. These introduce a time of invisible fertility, like […]

For the third and last time this year, the Jupiter-Neptune square is taking over the skies. This is our last shot at discerning the transit’s dreams, passions and existential questions. Since 2019 began, we’ve been trying to put together the ideological heat of Jupiter with the oceanic yearnings of Neptune. Every time the square has […]