This month offers a crash course in power, strategy and subterfuge. The sky is full of Scorpio…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
The world is dominated this winter by the Mars-Pluto opposition. Notorious for power plays (see last month’s SkyWatch), this transit pits the planet of ego against that of decay and renewal, a.k.a. Natural Law. Be on the lookout for things that are ready to die (Pluto), whether living beings, societal…
In terms of world events, November carries a considerable buzz. And there is an astrological logic to all this intensity. We’re dealing with two types of tension this month. The first is a series of fixed-sign stand-offs. The New Moon hits as November begins, with the Sun and Moon at…
October begins with an annular Solar Eclipse — a New Moon with extra clout. It’s a double dose of the smoothest of signs: Libra, the Mr Nice Guy of the zodiac. Let’s deepen our understanding of Libra by challenging its mistaken association with romance. Libra is not about love so…
