Feb 2020
Out with the Old
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 […]
In the Darkness of the Cave
“If Ronald Reagan’s presidency was a tragedy, then Trump’s is history repeating itself as farce.” — Noam Chomsky How do we talk about the sordid drama underway in Washington? The conventional media can only offer up its anesthetized talking heads, who seem as eviscerated by futility as the politicians themselves. Helplessly locked in position, like trench […]
Jan 2020
The World and Us
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 […]
Dec 2019
Life on the Precipice
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 […]
Nov 2019
Fight or Flight
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 […]
Oct 2019
A Respectful Funeral
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 […]
Morality and Imagination
It’s easy to lose our bearings, with outrageous news stories coming at us hourly, as if shot from a gun. Let’s take a moment to regain our astrological balance. We’re in a grey area right now, between the Age of Pisces, now dying, and the Age of Aquarius, famously dawning. Against this backdrop, the Capricorn […]
Sep 2019
The Pope and the Hermit
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 […]
Aug 2019
A Friendly Nudge
The heat of fixed fire sets the tone this month. The Sun is in Leo for the first part of the month, as it always is in August; this particular August, Mercury is in Leo, too, for the second part of the month. But there’s an awful lot of Virgo going on as well. Conscientious […]
Civil War 2.0
The planetary formations up in the sky right now are rare and profound, and they’re hitting the USA right between the eyes. There’s a collective destiny at work here. And per the law of synchronicity, the American group soul has conjured up a circumstance perfectly suited to the life-or-death symbolism of a Pluto-Saturn conjunction: that […]