Growing Pains: The Saturn Return and Quarter Squares

Originally published in The Mountain Astrologer, Oct-Dec 2021

All transits invite us to grow further into ourselves, each planet in its own way. Jupiter, for example, motivates by giving us a green light forward; Mars motivates us with a boost of adrenalin. Less comfortably, Saturn motivates us by showing us what we could be, but are not yet.

Saturn plays a long game: that of getting us to know ourselves better and better through the passage of time.… 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.

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