A couple of oppositions this month will test our ability to balance the real and the surreal. The key is to honor both: the worldly Sun (9/7) and Mercury (9/13) in Virgo, and the other-worldly energy of Neptune in Pisces. One way of doing this is to voluntarily access the oceanic mind, whence all creativity […]

There are three planetary stations in August. Uranus stations retrograde on 8/7, Mercury goes direct on the 18h, and Mars stations direct on the 27th. Each station is our private appointment with the cosmos. Each is a chance to make closer contact than usual with the forces the planet represents. When a planet slows down […]

Mars has a lot to teach us in July. It galvanizes an opposition as the month begins and a T-square as the month is ending. How’s your relationship with fixity? Mars in Aquarius will tend to trigger the things we dislike about the fixed signs — inflexibility and stubbornness — as well as the things […]

June begins with a prickly Neptune square, which establishes the tone for the month (exactitude 6/5-7). The Sun and Mercury, airy and logical in Gemini, are faced with the vast inscrutability of the oceanic mind. Popular astrology offers up plenty of symptoms associated with this notorious aspect: confusion, free-floating anxiety, forgetfulness, the tendency to space […]

The big news in the sky this month concerns Uranus, the planet of revolution. After being in Aries for the last seven years, Uranus is moving into Taurus. On the ides of May, humanity begins a new chapter as concerns all things Uranian (advanced technology, political movements, sudden upheavals.) In Taurus, the sign of resources, […]

This month the sky is full of Aries, a sign known for being quick on the trigger. Its impetuousness can make it either refreshingly direct or childishly impulsive, depending on the degree of maturity we bring to it. This maturity is what’s being tested right now, as Saturn in Capricorn makes a showing early and […]

This month begins with a Full Moon steeped in water. The winsome mood pivots dramatically ¾ of the way through the month. On March 20th, the Vernal Equinox arrives like a fiery dawn. This is the first day of Spring, when the Sun in Pisces, the last of the twelve signs, morphs into Aries, the […]

This month is awash with water lessons, specific applications of a yearlong theme (see last month’s Skywatch). There are ingresses into Pisces by Venus (Feb 10th), Mercury (Feb 17th) and the Sun (Feb 18th). In addition, as the month winds down, the ruler of Pisces, Neptune, gets conjunctions from Mercury and Venus, as well as a square […]