On the first weekend in June, Mercury retrograde (June 7th) inaugurates a three-week review of all things Mercurial. We’ll be reconsidering the ways we get around (driving, walking, running, riding the subway) as well as the ways we read, speak, listen, and figure things out.1 Mars and the Cross A week after the station, Mars […]

This month starts out with two love slaps from Saturn, the planet of earned rewards. It will be opposed first by Mercury and then by the Sun between May 2nd and 10th. Saturn in Scorpio For a couple of years already, the transit of Saturn (karma) in Scorpio (sexuality) has been asking us to take […]

Right now a lot of people are feeling like a character in a fairy tale, making their way through a dark forest. Remember how these stories sometimes featured an old beggar woman, or a troll or talking animal, who showed up to offer the hero a sword of invincibility or a magic cloak? Often the […]

As Spring comes upon us, big decisions are in the air.  They may be making us feel boxed in, since the transits aren’t giving us much room to move.1 Mars makes a retrograde station on the New Moon, the first day of March.2  A few days later, Jupiter goes direct. This puts both of these […]

This month let us bless rather than curse Mercury retrograde. The Goddess gives us these brief periods of apparent backwards planetary movement three or four times a year, to review logistical decisions and other mental contents. What a good idea this is, when you think about it. It’s our chance to look twice at those […]

On New Year’s Day there’s a New Moon in the wee small hours of morning. The year is announcing itself like the blast from a trumpet. No one can say we haven’t been warned: the meaning of 2014 is being declared straight out of the gate. It’s about exposing our cherished dysfunctions. Mars and the […]

Astrologers have been buzzing about the tip of the tail of this calendar year. It will feature the Cardinal Cross lit up in all its glory, with Mars poised to light the fuse. Between Christmas and New Year’s, all four Cardinal signs will square each other down in a full-on Grand Cross.1 But the month […]

Half of the sky is in water signs as the month begins. The mood is wet and deep. How to Care Jupiter in Cancer stations on the 6th; it is barely moving, which makes it emphatic.1  During the days around this station, in the sign of nurture, our thoughts may turn to questions of human […]