This month offers a crash course in power, strategy and subterfuge. The sky is full of Scorpio…
It’s not like any summer we can remember. As an unsteady world tries to grapple with uncertainty, a storied series of transits is upon us. These are the notorious Mars squares. From the first week of August to the last, the warrior planet, at his fiercest in Aries, forms back-to-back…
This month, the Capricorn stellium comes back to haunt us. In mid-July the Sun is in late Cancer, triggering Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn by opposition for a week (7/13-20). Then Mercury begins to oppose them as the month comes to an end. Our focus should be connecting the dots between…
The microbial scourge of 2020 has more than one astrological signature, each pointing to a different set of lessons the Cosmos is doing its best to teach humanity. These are explored in the blogs. Eris, which notoriously squared the Capricorn stellium in January, can be seen as Nature’s reaction to…
The major Pluto cycles of the year are now off and running. The daunting conjunctions of January have launched. Up until this year, we were in the waning phases of overlapping cycles. The Saturn-Pluto and Jupiter-Pluto cycles (1) had lost their defining power. The world was awash in that peculiar…
In April the Capricorn dramas of 2020 ratchet up to a new level. But before we recoil in alarm, let us make a distinction between the literal and the symbolic, difficult though this often is. The C-virus is clearly the most obvious manifestation of the transits overhead — transits that…
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…
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…
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…
