Aug 2020
Revolution and Resistance
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 […]
July 2020
The Soldier and the Samurai
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 […]
Built for This
Spike Lee is on fire. He has two new releases out, one short and one long, just in the past month. Both films place American racism in historical context. Both are redolent with anguished humanity. Their timing is so spot-on, given the firestorm unleashed by the killing of George Floyd, that people are calling it […]
Jun 2020
Pandemonium
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 […]
With Different Eyes
Whatever sign it’s in, Saturn uses absence as a teaching tool. Saturn (lack, negation) moved into the Air element in March.(1) This was when the quarantine was at the point where, for some of us, a stolen breath of fresh air had taken on a new poignancy. We are being reminded that we are oxygen-breathing […]
May 2020
The Iron is Hot
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 […]
Alive Right Now
In the biggest crisis since WWII, humanity is mustering its forces against a very small, very formidable villain. But this time, an organized global response has failed to arise. The U.N. Security Council is MIA. The G20 is in the hands of a murderous Saudi prince. And Uncle Sam, once the great architect of Pax […]
Apr 2020
Acts of God
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 […]
The God of Hidden Things
We knew something was going to blow. For years now, astrologers saw that 2020 would be a year like no other. We didn’t know that the transits would show up as a 21st-century plague. That was the blank that got filled in. The offending microbe is a lot like Pluto, isn’t it? A teeny tiny […]
Not Okay, Boomer
There are many layers of meaning to the virus crisis, from the political to the esoteric, and we’ll be looking at some of them in upcoming blogs. Approaching the pandemic from a plurality of angles is our best bet right now. It’s a bad idea to cleave to a preferred ideology, or to glom onto […]