Mercury kicks off the Uranus-Jupiter opposition on the first two days of February, igniting the year’s big cardinal T-square. (1) Whatever arises during these few days is a statement about the key lessons facing us. Whether the event is inner or outer, respond to it with awareness. If you find yourself reacting, instead, that’s okay. […]

2017 begins with a lesson about the fictional nature of reality. The Mars-Neptune conjunction on New Year’s Day asks us to accept that the world is slippery and unknowable. The best approach is a bemused spiritual detachment: to stand outside of events, in observation mode. If our behavior (Mars) vacillates and equivocates right now (Neptune), […]

The feeling that’s in the air right now – that of crisis of faith — began the year, set the tone for its twelve months, and is resounding more vocally than ever as the calendar year winds to a close. Only now it’s spiked up with what Uranus-Eris hath wrought: the results of the November […]

The most important transit of November takes place on an American holiday devoted to gratitude. This is an utterly appropriate approach to the Jupiter-Pluto square. Gratitude is the most fitting response to any transit of Jupiter, the planet of unasked-for blessings, or “fortune” (1). Unlike Saturn, its evil twin, Jupiter does not require that we […]

Don’t get comfortable. We aren’t supposed to be settling in, right now. The transits upon us are not about complacency, they’re about mass destabilization; and the more on-board we are with them, the more creative we will be. Things are rocking and shifting. Our goal should be to align ourselves with the tumult, and let […]

September is upon us. The biggest celestial event of the year, the Saturn-Neptune square, reaches its third and last exactitude on the 9th and 10th. Coming to a head right now are the issues we’ve been looking at in the Skywatches throughout this year. Since late 2015 when the square began, the world has been […]

This month is buzzing with the Saturn-Neptune square, a rich and difficult transit. It’s vibrating the hinges off of August from beginning to end. What happens during the next few weeks shouldn’t come as a surprise. All year the Sat/Nept conflict has been rattling our windows with its central theme: How to live in a […]

We don’t hear much about the Cardinal Cross anymore, but during the first part of July it surges back into life. Our Big Issues – the ones we’ve been confronting since 2010 — will rear their heads… To read the full Skywatch subscribe now.