We have said goodbye to 2020 with a resounding “Good riddance.” The new year begins, buoyed by the world’s fervent hope that now things will turn around. But let’s keep in mind that there are no clean breaks in Nature, nor any sudden endings and beginnings in astrology. Thinking it through Four days into 2021, […]

The Winter Solstice, one of the four turning points of the calendar year, is always a great drama: an annual test of our relationship to hope (discussed in this lecture). This year, it offers even more. Multiple cycles are pivoting all at once. It’s a fitting end to an extraordinary year. The notorious transits of January and […]

I write these columns ahead of time, when the events of the month have not yet been born. All that’s visible is their raw symbolism. It’s good to remember, every once in a while, that the goal of symbolic languages like astrology is not to identify specifics but to infer meaning. Planetary cycles don’t traffic […]

There are two planetary stations this month. One of them features frequently in astro conversations; the other is an eminence gris. The more familiar one is Mercury retrograde (Oct 13th). This is a transit that gets a lot of press, possibly because of its frequency, immediacy and apparent relevance to everyday affairs. But it is […]

There are two planetary stations this month. One of them, Mercury retrograde, features frequently in astro conversations. The other, the station of Pluto, is where the real power lies… To read the full Skywatch, subscribe now. 

It’s not like any summer we can remember. As an unsteady world tries to grapple with uncertainty, a storied series of transits is upon us. These are the notorious Mars squares. From the first week of August to the last, the warrior planet, at his fiercest in Aries, forms back-to-back 90-degree angles to Jupiter, Saturn […]

This month, the Capricorn stellium comes back to haunt us. In mid-July the Sun is in late Cancer, triggering Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn by opposition for a week (7/13-20). Then Mercury begins to oppose them as the month comes to an end. Our focus should be connecting the dots between the beginning of 2020 and […]

The microbial scourge of 2020 has more than one astrological signature, each pointing to a different set of lessons the Cosmos is doing its best to teach humanity. These are explored in the blogs. Eris, which notoriously squared the Capricorn stellium in January, can be seen as Nature’s reaction to humanity’s ecocidal folly. Pandemics, the […]