Sep 2014
A Nose for Secrets
In last month’s Skywatch we looked at an intriguing transit scenario: What happens when a personal planet mixes it up with a transpersonal planet? Two of August’s transits were warm-ups for September’s. One was with Uranus (interruptions of normal function) and one with Neptune (confusion of normal function). This month’s is with Pluto (breakdown of […]
Truth Workers
It’s undeniable that the world is in a state of acute disaster.1 We have here a collective illness that won’t go away without major intervention. But by Natural Law there is an equally remarkable influx of truth-telling happening. It is a cure equal to the need. The Cosmos is nothing if not symmetrical. Visionaries Truth […]
Aug 2014
When Ordinary Meets Weird
August opens with a Venus-Uranus square, setting the tone for the month.(1) In the sign Cancer, Venus’ preferences lean towards the safe and familiar: cosy settings, cats on laps, dinner at your aunt’s house. Through August 13th (when Venus goes into Leo), family issues are in the forefront. But don’t get comfortable. Uranus is waiting […]
This Crowd Will Not Disburse
Anandamayi Ma was once asked how someone would know whether to choose the renunciate life. Replied she, “Would one deliberate on whether to flee a massacre?” (1) We all know what she was talking about. Who among us, if they’ve been paying attention at all, would not view human existence in the twenty-teens as a […]
Jun 2014
Eyes Open Underwater
On the first weekend in June, Mercury retrograde (June 7th) inaugurates a three-week review of all things Mercurial. We’ll be reconsidering the ways we get around (driving, walking, running, riding the subway) as well as the ways we read, speak, listen, and figure things out.1 Mars and the Cross A week after the station, Mars […]
Fake News
Do you watch Jon Stewart’s “fake news?” The Daily Show is my primary health care provider, offering therapeutic release through snark. Without him, many of us would explode from pent-up outrage and frustration at the tin-eared babble that passes for news. But every once in a while I’m reminded that professional skewerer Stewart is as […]
May 2014
Sex and Chocolate
This month starts out with two love slaps from Saturn, the planet of earned rewards. It will be opposed first by Mercury and then by the Sun between May 2nd and 10th. Saturn in Scorpio For a couple of years already, the transit of Saturn (karma) in Scorpio (sexuality) has been asking us to take […]
Take Back Your Jupiter
Crises arise for a host of cosmic reasons. Astrologers figure out what these reasons are by taking apart the pieces of planetary configurations, like this month’s cardinal cross. The fact that most of us are in the throes of individual crises right now is not a surprise to anyone who’s been following this transit. Each […]
Apr 2014
The Path through the Woods
Right now a lot of people are feeling like a character in a fairy tale, making their way through a dark forest. Remember how these stories sometimes featured an old beggar woman, or a troll or talking animal, who showed up to offer the hero a sword of invincibility or a magic cloak? Often the […]
Mar 2014
What About Me?
As Spring comes upon us, big decisions are in the air. They may be making us feel boxed in, since the transits aren’t giving us much room to move.1 Mars makes a retrograde station on the New Moon, the first day of March.2 A few days later, Jupiter goes direct. This puts both of these […]