Mars in Libra (8/6 – 9/22) is an odd bird of a placement. Mars is about asserting the self, but in Libra it needs others to do so. We often see this placement in the natal charts of those who work with one-to-one relationships — marriage counselors, moderators of debates — or who find themselves […]

Mars is chugging along in Virgo all month, sharpening our attentiveness to tasks. Use this transit to streamline your handling of quotidian matters: how you water your houseplants, schedule your shopping, trim your nails (if Mars is aspecting your natal Venus, go ahead and indulge in a full-on manicure.) Kinship Jupiter moved into Cancer last […]

For the past few Skywatches we’ve been looking at the big astro event of the year: the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. It won’t be exact until early 2026, but the two planets are neck and neck in the sky right now. Neptune in Aries The transit started with Neptune’s ingress in late March, dropping us into a […]

As always, the best way to get a bead on your overall transit picture is to clock the outer planets first. Identify where in your chart the heavy hitters are currently passing: especially Neptune and Pluto. They’re always at work, somewhere, in the background of your life. Unless they’re bumping into a natal planet, or […]

Dress for heat but keep an umbrella handy. In April we’ll be navigating fire while dodging the sprinklers. Mid-month,  Mercury’s entry into Aries and Mars’s into Leo (4/15 and  4/17) impassions whatever we’re doing. Will you use it to fuel your  creativity, or waste it on crude displays of ego? Depends on you. On the […]

This month features the first of the three major ingresses of 2025: Neptune going into Aries on March 30th, Saturn into Aries in May and Uranus into Gemini in July. Neptune takes about 168 years to traverse the zodiac, so when it changes signs, it’s a big deal. Moreover, it’s moving from the sign of […]

February opens with a Venus-Neptune conjunction. This is a sweet, dreamy transit, which will be especially palpable to those with natal planets in late-degree mutable signs. All of us should savor it, as one of a series of fond farewells to Neptune in Pisces, the world-altering fourteen years now coming to a close. On the […]

The new year begins with the Mars-Pluto opposition (see November and December SkyWatches) perfecting — i.e. reaching the exact minute of arc — for a second time, at 1° Leo/Aquarius. Any of us with charts featuring the first degree of fixed signs are getting it between the eyes. Maybe it’s showing up as a conflict […]