Sep 2023
Hot and Sweet
Get ready to pivot. Venus & Jupiter station the first week of September, and Mercury stations midway through the month. These changes of direction signal subtle shifts in the atmosphere – or not-so-subtle, for those with natal planets in their path. Then comes the Equinox (9/22), when we get a shift of a different kind. […]
Aug 2023
Working with Fairies
Saturn, the planet of grown-up thinking, is moving through a sign that believes in fairies. Since just before the summer Solstice, Saturn (realism) has been inching backwards in early Pisces (the otherworldly and uncanny). In August it occupies the same degrees it was in two months ago. As the month begins, it opposes Mercury; as […]
Melting Bones
Until the end of the year, Pluto is back in Capricorn, the sign of skulls and spines. Like a drunk staggering up to the bar for one more round, the dark god is retrograding back to the degree of the US Pluto Return, the transit that’s melting the country’s bones. What’s happening to Uncle Sam […]
Jul 2023
Surprise Yourself
Pluto has retrograded back into Capricorn, revisiting the last couple of degrees of the sign. Like a hunting dog chasing the rabbit back over its own tracks, Pluto will make a few loops before it moves in for the kill. Pluto demands that we identify the issues of the current sign before it moves on […]
Jun 2023
All in the Same Boat
June is alive with flutterings, quick shifts, coming-and-goings. As the month begins, the Sun is in Gemini, the sign of birds, butterflies and weathervanes. Especially when Mercury, too, enters mutable air, things can change direction on a dime. The first half of the month is a time to consider the ways information flows in and […]
May 2023
Rites of Spring
On May Day, Pluto makes its first station since arriving in its new home, Aquarius. Whenever a planet seems (from Earth’s point of view) to stop in the sky, it temporarily takes over the solar system. For days on end, it pumps energy into that one degree of the zodiac: in this case, zero Aquarius. […]
Apr 2023
Brain and Beast
How y’all doing with Pluto in Aquarius? It slid into this new territory a few days after the Equinox last month, when the solar year and the lunar cycle were both brand new. On a collective level, Pluto’s new placement heralds a reckoning with the Tech Revolution and the nature of intelligence. Still in the […]
Mar 2023
Kill Your Darlings
Everything’s shifting this month. There are no fewer than six ingresses (planets moving out of one sign and into another): Mercury and Saturn both enter Pisces (3/2 and 7), Venus enters her home sign of Taurus (3/16), and Mercury and the Sun enter Aries, back-to-back (3/19/20). These transitions create undercurrents in the mass vibration which […]
Feb 2023
End of an Era
Are you feeling that end-of-an-era vibe? Pluto (breakdown) is now in the last two degrees of Capricorn (social fabric). Since 2008 it has been destabilizing collective structures and certainties; this month is its last hurrah. This is the last time in our lifetimes when we’ll experience this transit, so let’s do our best to understand […]
Jan 2023
Pick up the Scent
Like a stoker opening the door of a blast furnace, Jupiter in Aries is ushering us into 2023. The new year and month begin with the big gas giant barreling forward in the most assertive mode (cardinal) of the most assertive element (fire). If you have natal planets in Aries, you know how impatient that […]