SkyWatch Jun 2024
Mental Confetti
There’s a lot of Gemini bouncing around this month. Especially after Mercury’s ingress on June 3rd, the mass mood is clever and skittish. Lovers of variety and wit will be energized under these skies. Language is more fun than usual. People’s minds are running thoughts with usual ease, so social interactions may feel more fluid. […]
Cease Fire
Any other boomers out there experiencing acute déjà vu? As children of the Uranus-Pluto conjunction, the transit that radicalized our generation, many of us are getting flashbacks from the Gaza protests happening right now. We might be remembering the Oscars in 1978 when Vanessa Redgrave caused such a stir, speaking out against Zionist extremists. The […]
May 2024
The Independent Mind
The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction, exact on April 20th, launched a salvo. The transit announced our entry into a time of accelerated change. Hardly a surprise, to anyone who’s been paying attention. Transits don’t tell us anything we don’t already know. Like a clock on the wall, they just tell us what time it is. Keeping an […]
Know Your Devils
As the US presidential election looms ever closer, Jupiter and Uranus are conjoining in the sky. The mass mood is agitated, electric, prickly. Will we meet this moment with insight and enthusiasm, or with frazzled burn-out? It depends on our understanding of the forces at play. Uranus, the planet of disruptive change, signifies the sense […]
Feb 2024
Odd Bird
Are you a non-Aquarius who finds herself intrigued by this odd bird of a sign? There’s a lot of it in the sky right now, so this is our chance to get better acquainted with its wavelength. Aquarius is often brilliant, sometimes opaquely baffling, and never less than fascinating. And if you have Aquarius in […]
Jan 2024
Future Tripping
New Year’s Day in the Western calendar always packs a multiple punch. It begins the month, laying out the themes of January. And it also begins the solar year, which means its transits constitute the birth chart of 2024. The big news for the month and the year – not to mention the next two […]
Dec 2023
I Do Not Think; I Believe
At its best, Sagittarius lives its whole life in a passionate search for truth. At its worst, it believes it has found it. As it always does in December, the Sun stays in Sagittarius until the Solstice (12/21). This year, Mars is there as well, all month. Mercury too retrogrades back into Sagittarius on 12/22, […]
Nov 2023
Under the Quiet Waters
Just as the season’s flames were burning out, the world received a new firestorm on an energy level. I discuss the chart of the Middle East crisis in the MothersSky blog. On personal and collective levels, we are having to navigate the element fire. On November ninth, Mercury enters Sagittarius, on the 22nd the Sun follows […]
Ring of Fire
There was an earthquake last night here in San Francisco. It felt like the Earth was shuddering from the violence occurring on the other side of the globe. It was the eve of the Blood Moon. Full Moons like this are said to bring to light to that which has been lying dormant. The light […]
Oct 2023
Stop and Look
Do you have any planets at the first degree of a mutable sign? If so, Saturn has your number. The Great Bullshit Detector has found its way back to the first degree of Pisces, which means it is zeroing in on whatever is represented by that natal planet of yours. This may show you things […]