This month offers a crash course in power, strategy and subterfuge. The sky is full of Scorpio…
This month offers a crash course in power, strategy and subterfuge. The sky is full of Scorpio… To read the full Skywatch please subscribe.
Love, romance, friendship. As any astrologer will tell you, personal relationships are far and away the hottest topic clients want to know about. Yet the two signs of relationship, Libra and Scorpio, are particularly poorly served by pop interpretations. Scorpio is over-hyped, Libra is misconstrued. They’re both big in the…
We’re being challenged to play with fire this month, without getting burned. The Sun, in Leo until 8/22, is met by the Moon at the Solar Eclipse (8/12), which raises the challenge to a double dare. Poor Saturn and Neptune, both deeply ambivalent about having to spend years in…
Stay fluid this month. As July begins, the Mars-Uranus conjunction (7/3) may provide a jolt or two. It’s a practice session for the wobbly Saturn-Neptune conjunction, acting up again this month. That transit, which peaked as the year began, was the earthquake whose aftershocks we’re still feeling. In an actual…
May opens with a Full Moon featuring two juicy fixed signs. Both Taurus and Scorpio relate, among other things, to how we humans handle having bodies. Taurus has to do with what we ingest, and Scorpio with what we excrete. We may prefer talking about the former than the latter…
Where do we stand on the issue of courage? The question seems old-fashioned. We modern folk don’t have legends of dragon-slaying heroes to look up to. We no longer erect statues to great warriors who comported themselves honorably in battle. Probably the last vestige of this type of society-wide inspiration…
There is fire in the sky this month, and not just any old fire. It’s the kind that kicks everything off. Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable Astrology posits three types of fire. There’s the roaring fire of the creative self (Leo), lighting up a room like a hearth. There’s the restless…
It’s peaking this month. One of the key transits behind the current chaos, the Saturn/ Neptune conjunction, is exact to the minute of arc on February 20th. But let’s not get waylaid by what Frederick Woodruff calls “prediction porn.” This isn’t about expecting some big event to happen on that…
