Open your mind and upgrade your software. It’s time to interact. There are four ingresses into Gemini this month — thrilling news to lovers of mental engagement. The skies favor word-clever dialogues and exciting, new ideas. Venus ingresses on May 9th, the day of the solar eclipse. Mercury enters on the 15th, the Sun goes […]

As the month begins, the air is still quivering from the volatile energy of the Equinox. That blast of aggression we just experienced was Mars, the Sun and Venus igniting the Uranus-Pluto square in late March. All Cardinal turning points (Equinoxes and Solstices) are paradigmatic: their transits set the template for the season to come. […]

March opens with a flood. Both Saturn and the North Node in Scorpio, a tenacious water sign. Since mid-Feb until the middle of this month, half the solar system is in Pisces, a diffused, receptive water sign. In July, Jupiter goes into Cancer, a nurturing water sign. Sunken Treasure All year we are being asked […]

A newborn epoch is upon us. As we take our first baby steps into 2013, let’s consider the unusual significance of what’s beginning. The day before the solstice just past – as readers doubtless already know -- represented the death of an unimaginably old era, and the next day the beginning of a brand new one.

Here we are, at last, at the end of 2012: the end of world as we know it. I am joking. Sort of. I do think that if we play our cards right, we have a chance to make this the end of many aspects of the world, as we have known it.

You could practically hear the buzz, as the Uranus-Pluto square1 disgorged each of its first two exactitudes June 24th and Sept 19th. That is, the animal part of us could hear it.

The crowd was well-pumped, thanks to the Olympics earlier in the summer. When the games in London were over, Americans looked around hungrily for another garishly lit mega-spectator sport to dive into.