JUPITER RETROGRADE Jupiter, the planet of good fortune and higher purpose, turns retrograde on June 20th. Like Saturn, Jupiter is a planet of tests. But instead of withholding things from you, Jupiter usually piles on the good stuff – like a budding romance, an uptick in finances, or a bushel of golden opportunities [...]
GROUP HUG Just about everyone you know is going to need a hug this week. The approaching Sun/Neptune square on June 13th brings out people’s private anxieties and emotional insecurities putting them on show for the entire world to see. People will feel vulnerable and like they’re emotionally naked. They’ll be uncharacteristically weepy, [...]
SNARK WEEK When did everybody get so bitchy? That's the question you'll be asking this week when Mars opposes Pluto on June 5th. Nobody's copping to it, but you can feel the hostility in the underhanded remarks, harsh criticisms, and wholesale lack of support. But before you go into full victim mode you [...]
LUNAR ECLIPSE IN SAGITTARIUS Lunar eclipses are connected to the collapse of something in your life. This might concern your relationship, job, health, or best laid plans. It may feel like it came totally out of left field, but chances are there were signs all along. In fact if you were to check [...]
SATURN RETROGRADE Every planet in Astrology - except for the Sun and Moon - turns retrograde. And when it does, that planet will act contrary to its nature. Now you'd think that Saturn turning retrograde would be a good thing. Famous for being the planet of trials and tribulations, a Saturn retrograde might [...]
A SNEAK PEEK Planets, like people, like to dip their toe in the water first to see if the temperature is right. And on May 13th, Jupiter, the planet of good fortune and higher purpose, will enter the zodiac sign of Pisces. It won't be there for very long before it turns retrograde [...]
UP YOUR GAME What do you do when you don't like the way the game is being played? Do you cry foul, humbly accept defeat, ask for a do-over? Maybe you get so angry that you kick over the gameboard and send all the pieces flying - but that only means you have [...]
A TECTONIC SHIFT There is nothing making you stay put if you don't want to. We often feel hemmed in by circumstances, overburdened by obligations, and defined by our responsibilities, but the truth is these all take their marching orders from you and not the other way around. Uranus is the planet of [...]
FAMILY MATTERS On April 23rd Mars enters Cancer. Cancer is the zodiac sign most associated with hearth, home, and family. Many people equate it with an idealized past, giving it the rumpled folksiness of a Norman Rockwell painting, but not all families are the Waltons. Sometimes they're the Sopranos and Mars traveling through [...]
PAY IT FORWARD A lot of times when something wonderful happens – like a godsend, a windfall, or a surprise breakthrough – we thank our lucky stars and move to cash in on it immediately. But there’s more to good fortune than a doggy treat for exemplary behavior as the Sun/Jupiter sextile on [...]
