As February begins, things are coming to a head. Every month, the Full Moon period lasts roughly five days: 2½ days on either side of exactitude. This month, that exquisite moment of culmination — when the Moon opposes the Sun to the minute of arc — occurs right out of the gate: on Feb. 3rd […]

By astrological law, the first moment of any process sets the template for what follows. The first big transits of the new year reverberate with a loud inaugural buzz.(1) 2015 begins robustly, with the Sun setting off the Uranus-Pluto square. Like a midwife awakened in the dead of night, we’re being called to urgent consciousness. […]

The Solstice is power-packed this year. The most important transit of our era is coming to a peak. The Uranus-Pluto square is exact to the minute of arc on December 14th and 15th,(1) and the whole month reverberates with this clash of planetary titans. What’s more, on the solstice itself (Dec 21st), Uranus makes a […]

November offers up a potent series of transits, the most dramatic being the conjunction of Mars (male principle) and Pluto (transformation). For the world in general and for each of us in particular, issues that have been building will reach a crisis point. What has been festering beneath the surface now leaps into form.  The […]

In the early part of this month, the Sun (10/3-7) and then Venus (10/8-11) set off the Uranus-Pluto square. For a good week and a half, we get to assess how we’ve been handling the definitive transit of our era.(1) Since 2008, whenever the square has been provoked into action, there’s been an explosion, either […]

In last month’s Skywatch we looked at an intriguing transit scenario: What happens when a personal planet mixes it up with a transpersonal planet? Two of August’s transits were warm-ups for September’s. One was with Uranus (interruptions of normal function) and one with Neptune (confusion of normal function). This month’s is with Pluto (breakdown of […]

August opens with a Venus-Uranus square, setting the tone for the month.(1) In the sign Cancer, Venus’ preferences lean towards the safe and familiar: cosy settings, cats on laps, dinner at your aunt’s house. Through August 13th (when Venus goes into Leo), family issues are in the forefront. But don’t get comfortable. Uranus is waiting […]

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 […]