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 […]

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 everyday affairs. But it is […]

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. 

It’s not like any summer we can remember. As an unsteady world tries to grapple with uncertainty, a storied series of transits is upon us. These are the notorious Mars squares. From the first week of August to the last, the warrior planet, at his fiercest in Aries, forms back-to-back 90-degree angles to Jupiter, Saturn […]

This month, the Capricorn stellium comes back to haunt us. In mid-July the Sun is in late Cancer, triggering Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn by opposition for a week (7/13-20). Then Mercury begins to oppose them as the month comes to an end. Our focus should be connecting the dots between the beginning of 2020 and […]

The microbial scourge of 2020 has more than one astrological signature, each pointing to a different set of lessons the Cosmos is doing its best to teach humanity. These are explored in the blogs. Eris, which notoriously squared the Capricorn stellium in January, can be seen as Nature’s reaction to humanity’s ecocidal folly. Pandemics, the […]

The major Pluto cycles of the year are now off and running. The daunting conjunctions of January have launched. Up until this year, we were in the waning phases of overlapping cycles. The Saturn-Pluto and Jupiter-Pluto cycles (1) had lost their defining power. The world was awash in that peculiar fog that descends when energy […]

In April the Capricorn dramas of 2020 ratchet up to a new level. But before we recoil in alarm, let us make a distinction between the literal and the symbolic, difficult though this often is. The C-virus is clearly the most obvious manifestation of the transits overhead —  transits that astrologers have been talking about […]