Masters of War
Things are about to get complicated (see the Skywatch for May), with new energies entering the transit picture. So far, this Spring has been all about Mars. The red planet has been throwing its weight around like a bully on the school bus. As we have seen, Mars set the tone for the whole season […]
Martial Law
The USA is aflame with Mars. News of explosions in Boston, Texas and Oklahoma are buzzing through the airwaves. Clips of blood-spattered victims from the marathon on Monday are playing on millions of television screens in an endless loop. At this writing bomb squads in Boston are searching house-to-house, and citizens are being told to […]
Taboo
If you use transits for consciousness work, this month’s Pluto station has your name on it. It initiates a five-month inquiry into the forbidden realms within the self 1. In April’s Skywatch I talk about how we might handle this transit in our personal lives, as well as how to use the lunar eclipse on April […]
Apr 2013
Courage Under Fire
As the month begins, the air is still quivering from the volatile energy of the Equinox. That blast of aggression we just experienced was Mars, the Sun and Venus igniting the Uranus-Pluto square in late March. All Cardinal turning points (Equinoxes and Solstices) are paradigmatic: their transits set the template for the season to come. […]
Arms of Fire
The warrior planet is in his element. A week before the Equinox – on the New Moon of March 11th –Mars entered Aries, the sign of its rulership. This inaugurated a riff of transits that will set off the explosive Uranus-Pluto square (see April’s Skywatch). Among the issues pushed to the fore in this period […]
Mar 2013
Blue Gold
March opens with a flood. Both Saturn and the North Node in Scorpio, a tenacious water sign. Since mid-Feb until the middle of this month, half the solar system is in Pisces, a diffused, receptive water sign. In July, Jupiter goes into Cancer, a nurturing water sign. Sunken Treasure All year we are being asked […]
Flying Monkeys
When you saw The Wizard of Oz for the first time, were you, too, terrified by the flying monkeys? I think the sight of them triggered something deep in the collective imagination. It was these creatures that came to mind, with horrible absurdity, when I was imagining what the children must be feeling, in villages far […]
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