There is not a lot of planetary activity this month, as if the sky is giving us a breather. It knows we are busy, trying to integrate the lessons of last month’s stellium. Flanked and fortified by three other planets — and an asteroid and a lunar node — January’s conjunction of Saturn and Pluto […]

The new year kicks off with major drama. The long-anticipated Capricorn stellium is now upon us. In early January, five planets and Ceres, the biggest asteroid, are less than a degree apart. Wowza. The exact conjunction of Saturn (responsibility) and Pluto (power) is the locomotive that drives this train. It’s the rarest piece of the puzzle, with […]

The big astrological dramas of 2020 are so close we can feel their warm breath on our necks. The most impactful of these transits is the Saturn-Pluto conjunction peaking January 12, 2020. It marks the beginning of a decades-long cycle of global consequence (discussed in detail in this lecture). The Saturn-Pluto conjunction is not arriving […]

Venus ingresses into Sagittarius as November begins. Sensitive souls will feel a shift in their relationships. For the past three weeks, Venus in Scorpio, subtle and covert, has sent us digging for depth in social encounters. For the coming three weeks, our approach to relationship is more straightforward and extroverted; at best, more generous-spirited. But […]

Now is the time to get on Pluto’s good side. The Sun doesn’t enter Scorpio (Pluto’s sign) until Oct 23rd , but the month opens with a Pluto station and a Venus-Pluto square. The day after that, Mercury goes into Scorpio, as does Venus the following week. These introduce a time of invisible fertility, like […]

For the third and last time this year, the Jupiter-Neptune square is taking over the skies. This is our last shot at discerning the transit’s dreams, passions and existential questions. Since 2019 began, we’ve been trying to put together the ideological heat of Jupiter with the oceanic yearnings of Neptune. Every time the square has […]

The heat of fixed fire sets the tone this month. The Sun is in Leo for the first part of the month, as it always is in August; this particular August, Mercury is in Leo, too, for the second part of the month. But there’s an awful lot of Virgo going on as well. Conscientious […]

As July begins, the atmosphere is heavy with the portents of the recent Solstice (6/21): an annual milestone that marks the astrological beginning of summer. It was especially poignant this year, as it coincided with a station of Neptune. A double water emphasis set the tone for the three months that follow. Neptune sets the […]