It happens annually around this time. The Sun’s leap out of the swamps of Scorpio into the aspirational surge of Sagittarius is one of the year’s most dramatic shifts. Picture a flaming arrow blasting upwards out of a cool green marsh. This year, we have three arrows bursting skyward. On the 15th, Venus enters Sagittarius, […]

Are you ready to change direction? From the beginning of the month to the end, October is a month of pivots. Four planets will be changing directions: three go direct (SD) and one goes retrograde (SR). If you are attuned to subtle shifts in the energy field, you will feel them on Oct 2 (Mercury […]

Traditional astrology credited us humans with having two minds. Mercury, the “lower mind,” is the kind of intelligence that governs automatic thinking. We use it to do rote tasks, collect and disseminate data. It asks the who/what/where/how questions of life. Jupiter, the “higher mind,” governs philosophical ideation. More abstract and wide-ranging, this part of the […]

Uranus has a star turn this month, giving us a chance to consider how much we value freedom. Not just our own; other people’s, too. This is the planet of revolution. It’s about how whole societies handle, and resist, the need to change. There’s no better time to ponder the layers of meaning of a […]

Kicking off the month is a square between Mars and Pluto (peaking 7/1-2), fire vs. earth. The warrior planet is maximally bellicose in Aries, where it’s been for more than a month. Mundane astrologers will be watching the headlines for inflammatory discord. Those who track their personal transits will be watching their compulsions. Mars in […]

As June begins the Sun is in a flurry of Gemini, a sign made for the digital age. The world is full of information, and this restless sign wants to know it all. On the 13th, Mercury, the messenger, joins the Sun in Gemini. It’s in this placement that Mercury (locomotion, mental processes) is most […]

During the first week of April, Mars and Saturn in Aquarius are too close for comfort (peaking 4/4). But then, this transit is not about comfort. It’s about putting the pressure on… Subscribe to read the full Skywatch. 

This calendar month begins a day before the start of the lunar cycle. Here comes March, ready or not. If you use the lunar cycle to navigate the unfolding of time, as the ancients did, you’ll appreciate the shape of March. One New Moon (March 2nd) launches the month, and another closes it (March 31st). […]