Mar 2021
All is Maya
As March begins, The Sun and Venus are still in Pisces, exaggerating the oceanic vibe of Neptune that’s been hanging in the air for nine years. Having steeped in Neptune’s mysterious ethers for so long (Feb 2012 – March 30, 2025), we may have forgotten it was there. But its influence has been all-encompassing. At […]
Feb 2021
The Angel and the Bull
Get ready to try on a cool, crisp mindset. The conceptual part of the human animal wants its time in the limelight. The sky is full of Aquarius right now. Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn are in this sign the whole month, and Venus and the Sun are there for most of it. During the couple […]
Jan 2021
Open the Windows Wide
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, […]
Reality Bites
They’re coming at us right out of the gate, as 2021 begins: cosmic echoes of 2020. In astrology, the calendar year doesn’t have a singular beginning. Cycles overlap, bleeding one into another. New lessons begin against the backdrop of old ones. The cosmos is saying: You want to know what’s going to happen? Assimilate what you’ve just […]
Dec 2020
The Vengeful Furies
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 […]
Nov 2020
Moment of Truth
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 […]
Election
Whether he wins or loses, we’re not off the hook. First of all, Election Day won’t be just a day long, thanks to the GOP’s blood-curdlingly cynical campaign against non-existent “voter fraud,” their attacks on the post office and polling stations, and Trump’s Oh-yeah?-Make-me! approach to leaving the White House if he loses. These stunts […]
Oct 2020
The Makings of a Hero
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 […]
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The Makings of a Hero
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Call the Midwives
The writing has been on the astrological wall for years. It tells us that systems of governance are breaking down so they can be cleaned up, reshuffled and made over. It’s a natural process, and a healthy one. But we’re probably feeling like dust motes in a windstorm. When we’re in the thick of a […]