This month offers a crash course in power, strategy and subterfuge. The sky is full of Scorpio…
November features a flurry of activity starting around the New Moon of Nov 18th: Thanksgiving week in the USA. Back-to-back transits pop into action in one smooth riff. Even though each has its own separate themes, the proximity of these shifts gives them a cumulative punch. Sensitive souls may find it all a tad overwhelming… unless…
Jupiter changes signs on October 10th. This big gas giant, signifier of the way we acquire knowledge, is going into Scorpio for the first time in twelve years. Re-balancing Consider the difference between Libra, where Jupiter’s been for the past year, and Scorpio, where it will be until late 2018. Since late 2016,…
The big configuration that puts 2017 on the map is peaking this month. This is the Jupiter-Uranus/ Eris-Pluto T-square. The last two Jupiter oppositions with Eris, exact to the minute of arc, take place Sept 9th and 27th. During 2017 this column has covered the symbolism of Jupiter in Libra…
For a while now, astrologers have been looking at the transits of late summer 2017 with mixed emotions: some with dread and some with awe, but all with great respect. Uncle Sam singled out The Great American Eclipse, so called because its path of totality highlights the USA from coast to coast, coincides with the New Moon…
Mars sets off the Cardinal Cross this month, igniting our gnarliest issues. Problems that have been dogging us for years make themselves known, daring us forward. If we’re smart, we’ll dive right into them. “Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow?” (1) Mars is now in Cancer (6/4-7/20), a moody,…
There are five planetary ingresses in June. Nearly half the solar system is moving from one sign into another. On the 6th Mercury moves into Gemini, and Venus into Taurus. Each is entering the sign of its rulership. Our mental functioning (Mercury) will be especially quick and active for a couple of weeks.…
A week and a half into May, the god of surprise may appear at our window and set it rattling. Mercury conjunct Uranus is meant to unsettle our opinions and communications. It often does so by lobbing something unexpected our way. This is a cosmic trick, to force us to think differently. If we…
As buds pop from barren trees in the Northern Hemisphere, April is popping with planetary activity. First and foremost, the Sun is setting off the Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto T-square. As it moves through the key cardinal degrees April 8-14th, it ignites our Cardinal Cross issues (see last month’s and February’s Skywatches). By now, these…
