No More Free Lunch
Last month’s Full Moon brought news that sent a chill down the collective spine of the 99%. Net neutrality received its deadliest blow yet when a federal court moved one step closer to allowing corporations to decide which websites get the fast access everybody wants. The Full Moon was at 26° Cancer/ Capricorn. Transit trackers […]
Feb 2014
Yearning for More
This month let us bless rather than curse Mercury retrograde. The Goddess gives us these brief periods of apparent backwards planetary movement three or four times a year, to review logistical decisions and other mental contents. What a good idea this is, when you think about it. It’s our chance to look twice at those […]
The Most Important Moment
The first moment of a cycle is its most important moment. What the sky is doing at the moment a baby takes its first breath encodes the child’s lifelong potential. The first few days of the lunar cycle set the tone for the entire month.1 And the first month of a given year encapsulates the […]
Jan 2014
A Year of Wisdom and Foolishness
On New Year’s Day there’s a New Moon in the wee small hours of morning. The year is announcing itself like the blast from a trumpet. No one can say we haven’t been warned: the meaning of 2014 is being declared straight out of the gate. It’s about exposing our cherished dysfunctions. Mars and the […]
The Wolves
Astrologers have their eyes on Mars right now, as we will for the rest of this winter and spring. The warrior planet is tightrope-walking back and forth across the degree range occupied by Uranus, Pluto and Jupiter. The kick-off of this riff was Christmas Eve, when Mars opposed Uranus in a debut as emphatic as […]
Dec 2013
Out with a Bang
Astrologers have been buzzing about the tip of the tail of this calendar year. It will feature the Cardinal Cross lit up in all its glory, with Mars poised to light the fuse. Between Christmas and New Year’s, all four Cardinal signs will square each other down in a full-on Grand Cross.1 But the month […]
Nothing Personal
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, we have the latest trend in American race bias: “shop-and-frisk,” the profiling of customers of color. Retail racism is, of course, an American tradition. Some of the most iconic images in our history of bigotry are of the segregated soda fountain. Now the debate has moved uptown. […]
Nov 2013
Emotion-phobes Beware
Half of the sky is in water signs as the month begins. The mood is wet and deep. How to Care Jupiter in Cancer stations on the 6th; it is barely moving, which makes it emphatic.1 During the days around this station, in the sign of nurture, our thoughts may turn to questions of human […]
Lightning Strikes
The transits around the Equinox suggested stark raving madness. One by one, quickly moving triggers have been setting off the Cardinal Cross, starting with Mercury’s ingress into Libra, which sent the horror in Syria galloping out in front of the world’s awareness (see September’s blog). Jupiter’s conjunction to the US Cancer planets told us Uncle […]
Oct 2013
Twist of Fate
The Equinox, still buzzing in the air, set the tone. As October begins, the Sun reaches the degrees of Uranus and Pluto, and >pop< goes the T-square. Each of us is on a teeter-totter of some kind, doing our best to steady ourselves… when suddenly a tree limb lands heavily on one side or the […]