This month offers a crash course in power, strategy and subterfuge. The sky is full of Scorpio…
It’s Pluto season. The Sun and Mercury are in Scorpio (10/23 – 11/22 and 11/1-20, respectively) and a T-square with Venus and Uranus will bring Pluto’s mysteries into relationships (11/20-23). I’m no fan of what’s happened to Halloween,(1) the Scorpio sabbat. We’ve turned it into a consumer blow-out of cheap…
The Saturn-Neptune square, which has been looming for months, reaches exactitude on November 26.(1) We will be steeping in it for more than a year. It’s the most significant transit since the series of grand crosses anchored by the Uranus-Pluto square, past its peak (2010-15) but in effect through 2023.…
September is an important turning point annually, and this year it is bristling with transits. If you think of transits as messages from the Cosmos — each one whispered in our ear by the planet in question — September is a month of urgent whispers. Knowing when they’re coming, we…
Saturn, the planet of hard-core reality, is big this month. And its square with Neptune is starting to itch. The Saturn-Neptune square, which we’ve been feeling all year and will be strong through the autumn of 2016, is the most important transit in the sky right now. In November it…
Like all living things, we humans have cellular memory. After we’ve gone through a life-altering transit, its teachings reside deep within the mind/body/spirit, poised and waiting. They’re waiting to spring into awareness. This often happens when a lighter transit comes along, and crosses that same patch of sky. (1) An…
Neptune, the god of mists and waters, casts a dreamy sheen over the month of June. The planetary station on June 12th marks his maximal impact. As a pebble dropped into a pond creates concentric circles in space, the effects of a transit like this spread outwards in concentric circles…
In last month’s Skywatch, we talked about the tug-of-war between Gemini and Sagittarius: Information vs knowledge. This month a string of oppositions puts this theme front and center. Mercury goes into Gemini as May begins, and stays there until early July. Words flow quickly during this period; topics are multiple…
The intensity of March continues into April. As the new month begins, the suspense is building. The Full Moon is on the 4th, and right afterwards, the Sun and Mercury kick off the Uranus-Pluto square. Fresh from its exactitude two weeks ago, this great square remains king of the skies.…
