The big news this month is the inauguration of the Jupiter-Uranus cycle. On April 18th – 26th, they conjoin, overlapping in the sky. But the conjunction has meaning beyond that single transit. A conjunction is the beginning of something.  When planets meet up in the sky, it’s less a singular event than a starting gun: […]

There’s electricity in the air this month, with the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction just over the horizon. This is a major transit, a milestone along the road to the Age of Aquarius. The sign Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, so the conjunction puts the spotlight on a collective vibe that’s already a flashpoint: Pluto’s arrival in Aquarius. […]

Are you a non-Aquarius who finds herself intrigued by this odd bird of a sign? There’s a lot of it in the sky right now, so this is our chance to get better acquainted with its wavelength. Aquarius is often brilliant, sometimes opaquely baffling, and never less than fascinating. And if you have Aquarius in […]

New Year’s Day in the Western calendar always packs a multiple punch. It begins the month, laying out the themes of January. And it also begins the solar year, which means its transits constitute the birth chart of 2024. The big news for the month and the year – not to mention the next two […]

At its best, Sagittarius lives its whole life in a passionate search for truth. At its worst, it believes it has found it. As it always does in December, the Sun stays in Sagittarius until the Solstice (12/21). This year, Mars is there as well, all month. Mercury too retrogrades back into Sagittarius on 12/22, […]

Just as the season’s flames were burning out, the world received a new firestorm on an energy level. I discuss the chart of the Middle East crisis in the MothersSky blog. On personal and collective levels, we are having to navigate the element fire. On November ninth, Mercury enters Sagittarius, on the 22nd the Sun follows […]

Do you have any planets at the first degree of a mutable sign? If so, Saturn has your number. The Great Bullshit Detector has found its way back to the first degree of Pisces, which means it is zeroing in on whatever is represented by that natal planet of yours. This may show you things […]

Get ready to pivot. Venus & Jupiter station the first week of September, and Mercury stations midway through the month. These changes of direction signal subtle shifts in the atmosphere – or not-so-subtle, for those with natal planets in their path. Then comes the Equinox (9/22), when we get a shift of a different kind. […]