In June we face it again: the great conflict of 2021. Mid-month, the Saturn-Uranus square peaks for the second time. The world has been feeling the impact of this transit since late 2020. It’s most obvious during its exactitudes (2/17, 6/14 and 12/24), but we’ll be trying to assimilate it into early 2023.  Here’s a review of […]

The ongoing contest between the bull (fixed earth) and the angel (fixed air) rears its head strongly in May. The year began with this Taurus-Aquarius theme (see January’s SkyWatch) and now it is back, this time with the cards stacked on the side of the bull. May begins with Mercury, Venus in Taurus – exultant with […]

During the first part of April, we’ll get a pop quiz. Pluto (destruction/ rebirth), the main driver behind the extraordinary past 14 months, will get squares from Venus, the Sun and Mercury. Between 4/11 and 17, one by one, they’ll slam into Pluto, now slowing down for its station on 4/27. Expect the dramas that […]

As March begins, The Sun and Venus are still in Pisces, exaggerating the oceanic vibe of Neptune that’s been hanging in the air for nine years. Having steeped in Neptune’s mysterious ethers for so long (Feb 2012 – March 30, 2025), we may have forgotten it was there. But its influence has been all-encompassing. At […]

Get ready to try on a cool, crisp mindset. The conceptual part of the human animal wants its time in the limelight. The sky is full of Aquarius right now. Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn are in this sign the whole month, and Venus and the Sun are there for most of it. During the couple […]

We have said goodbye to 2020 with a resounding “Good riddance.” The new year begins, buoyed by the world’s fervent hope that now things will turn around. But let’s keep in mind that there are no clean breaks in Nature, nor any sudden endings and beginnings in astrology. Thinking it through Four days into 2021, […]

The Winter Solstice, one of the four turning points of the calendar year, is always a great drama: an annual test of our relationship to hope (discussed in this lecture). This year, it offers even more. Multiple cycles are pivoting all at once. It’s a fitting end to an extraordinary year. The notorious transits of January and […]

I write these columns ahead of time, when the events of the month have not yet been born. All that’s visible is their raw symbolism. It’s good to remember, every once in a while, that the goal of symbolic languages like astrology is not to identify specifics but to infer meaning. Planetary cycles don’t traffic […]