This month offers a crash course in power, strategy and subterfuge. The sky is full of Scorpio…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
There are two planetary stations this month. One of them features frequently in astro conversations; the other is an eminence gris. The more familiar one is Mercury retrograde (Oct 13th). This is a transit that gets a lot of press, possibly because of its frequency, immediacy and apparent relevance to…
There are two planetary stations this month. One of them, Mercury retrograde, features frequently in astro conversations. The other, the station of Pluto, is where the real power lies… To read the full Skywatch, subscribe now.
