This month offers a crash course in power, strategy and subterfuge. The sky is full of Scorpio…
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.
We’re being teased, again, with that great cosmic riddle: How to tell the real truth from what passes for truth. The Saturn-Neptune square — the biggest deal of the year, astrologically – is exact again on 6/17-18.(1) Even if we feel we’ve already been tested, we’ll be tested again. During…
In a year bristling with chaos, (1) let us take a few weeks out to celebrate the boundless fertility, order and serenity of Nature. As May begins, half the planets in the pantheon are in earth signs (2). When we connect the dots between their placements in the sky, the…
What shape is your ego in? April’s transits will let you know, for better or worse. But first we’d better figure out what we mean by “ego,” a concept about which the modern Western mind is deeply ambivalent. From the psychologists, we hear that a healthy ego should be strong…
March is abuzz with transits — the kind where knowing about them ahead of time can avoid a lot of drama. Detachment amidst attachment The buzz starts on that singular calendar date that’s also a command: March fourth. For a couple of days that first week, Mercury squares Mars in…
Reports of the death of the Uranus-Pluto square have been greatly exaggerated. Have you, too, been hearing that this transit is over? So wrong. Although their final exactitude (1) was last March, Uranus and Pluto will be within orb for years. Right now, the transit is only one slender degree…
The square between Saturn and Neptune, which will be coming at us in waves through 2017, is one of those transits we get better at the longer it goes on. We handle it better as we begin to understand it. (1) But at first, it’s a real conundrum. This is…
The Cardinal Cross is alive and well. Our old friend the Uranus-Pluto square is now past exactitude(1) but still feisty. Every time a third planet passes through its zone of degrees, sudden storms arise.(2) Transit trackers will have noticed the way the seasonal portals ignite the Cross. Since 2010, every…
