Stop and Think, Stop and Feel
In fairy tales, the gifts magical creatures bestow are always exactly suited to the hero’s tasks. Since life is a fairy tale, the same applies to the tools we are given by circumstances. Each is perfect for our path, and for the age we were born into. Ours being the age of the Fantastic Information […]
Aug 2015
The Rocks and the Sea
Saturn, the planet of hard-core reality, is big this month. And its square with Neptune is starting to itch. The Saturn-Neptune square, which we’ve been feeling all year and will be strong through the autumn of 2016, is the most important transit in the sky right now. In November it will be exact to the […]
July 2015
Why We’re Here
Like all living things, we humans have cellular memory. After we’ve gone through a life-altering transit, its teachings reside deep within the mind/body/spirit, poised and waiting. They’re waiting to spring into awareness. This often happens when a lighter transit comes along, and crosses that same patch of sky. (1) An event pops up to remind […]
Drums of War
The American public is very confused right now, about what’s going on in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. So is Washington. We don’t have the huge, divisive for-or-against war debate that we had a decade ago. Instead there’s an uneasy huffing and puffing from both political parties. It has the feeling of reluctant posturing, but […]
Jun 2015
The God of Mists and Waters
Neptune, the god of mists and waters, casts a dreamy sheen over the month of June. The planetary station on June 12th marks his maximal impact. As a pebble dropped into a pond creates concentric circles in space, the effects of a transit like this spread outwards in concentric circles of time. The couple of […]
May 2015
The Two-Faced God
In last month’s Skywatch, we talked about the tug-of-war between Gemini and Sagittarius: Information vs knowledge. This month a string of oppositions puts this theme front and center. Mercury goes into Gemini as May begins, and stays there until early July. Words flow quickly during this period; topics are multiple and varied. Emphasis is on […]
Without Looking Away
Here in the spring of 2015, Pluto is halfway through Capricorn. Its square with Uranus, having hit exactitude for the last time mid-March, has officially begun its assimilation phase. Our cells have started digesting it. Its lessons are slowly being absorbed into the troubled body of the Anima Mundi. But early April is beset by […]
Apr 2015
Ready to Roll
The intensity of March continues into April. As the new month begins, the suspense is building. The Full Moon is on the 4th, and right afterwards, the Sun and Mercury kick off the Uranus-Pluto square. Fresh from its exactitude two weeks ago, this great square remains king of the skies. Jupiter In the midst of […]
Looking Death in the Eye
It’s the perfect time to look death in the eye. Right now, Pluto and Uranus are leaning in so close we can practically feel their breath.(1) Sparks from the Aries and Leo transits are singeing our eyebrows(2). Feeling bold enough to look death in the eye? This is what you do. First of all we […]
Mar 2015
Ides of March
The big news this month is that the major transit of our times is having its last exact hit. All of March reverberates with the Uranus-Pluto square. It’s Venus that sets it off. She conjoins Uranus and squares Pluto on March 4th – 5th. Mars follows up even more explosively on March 11.th Right smack […]