KNOW THYSELF You'll want to be careful about the way you rationalize your actions. Whether you're searching for a silver lining or explaining away a dubious endeavor it's important that you be honest with yourself. The Sun conjoins Pluto for the first time in Aquarius on January 21st. This is as important as [...]
CRANKY COSMOS There's a lot of disaffection going on in the heavens this week with retrograde Mars in Cancer forming an opposition to the Sun in Capricorn on January 15th and Venus passing under the rays of Saturn in Pisces on January 18th. It's clearly not the time to make a pitch, ask [...]
GOING BACK TO GO FORWARD We live in a society that insists on moving forward. We expect to come up with solutions, power through problems, and escape tight fixes in the eleventh hour. These are signs of ingenuity, perseverance, and what comes of keeping your cool under pressure. Normally this would work if [...]
YOUR YEAR AHEAD: 2025 In 2025 the modern planets – Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto – begin forming sextiles or trines to one another in air and fire signs. This is good news for Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius because you will finally feel like the wind is at your back. The [...]
JUPITER SQUARE SATURN ROUND TWO A Jupiter/Saturn square is Astrology's version of the Squid versus the Whale. It involves two enormously powerful entities locked in a battle for dominance. The first time these planets squared off against each other was in August 2024. Back then it was Jupiter that was moving forward in [...]
TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Neptune is the planet of the imagination in Astrology. It's Neptune's job to get you to dream of something that's fuller and richer than what life has to offer you in its current circumstances. It's only by getting you to fall in love with the possibility of what [...]
VENUS OPPOSITE MARS The difference between a square and an opposition in Astrology is that with a square the differences between the planets can potentially be hashed out whereas with an opposition the differences are often irreconcilable. On December 12th Venus will form an opposition to Mars in the sky. It won't be [...]
WE CAN BE HEROES Mars retrograde on December 6th throws your entire life into reverse. Not only will this thwart all future progress for the time being, but it looks like you'll be drawn back into a recent crisis you survived, disaster you averted, or accident you walked away from. It's kind of [...]
THE REVENGE OF MERCURY RETROGRADE On November 25th all the gremlins come out to play. This is when Mercury turns retrograde and its reverse direction will release a Pandora's boxful of glitches, debacles, and fiascos into your day-to-day life. These could manifest as automobile breakdowns, computer malfunctions or your coffeemaker suddenly calling it [...]
GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD You may feel a lot like Dorothy at the end of the Wizard of Oz. Yes, your feet are bruised and blistered, but you stayed the course - despite the allure of poppy fields, abduction by flying monkeys, and bittersweet discovery that the Wizard you pinned your hopes on [...]
