FAMILY MATTERS On September 4th, 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 [...]
WAKE-UP CALL Uranus retrogrades are famous for pendulum swings. They're not as abrupt in their about-faces as a typical Uranus transit, but they can be just as absolute and uncompromising. Let's say you've spent months rallying against a cause, refusing to yield an inch on a hotly contested point or even considering seeing [...]
CROWDED SKY There's an extraordinary cluster of planetary squares all taking place on August 19th. It begins with a T-square comprised of Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn followed by a Full Moon/Uranus square and then concludes with an extremely rare Jupiter/Saturn square. This is a raucous combination and you can expect things to get [...]
IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEONE GETS HURT There's no denying that there's a rambunctious quality to the Mars/Jupiter conjunction on August 14th. That's because Jupiter is exuberant by nature and can't help enlivening the energies of any planet it's near. One becomes more daring, loud, and boisterous when Jupiter is next [...]
COSMIC MONKEY WRENCH Mercury retrogrades are famous for sowing the seeds of confusion, sprinkling flies in the ointment, and making you look left when you should have been looking right. They're not exactly deal breakers, but they can certainly throw a cosmic monkey wrench into the smooth workings of your day-today lie. That's [...]
RUDE AWAKENINGS Unexpected turnarounds and surprise about-faces abound when Venus in Leo forms a square to Uranus in Taurus on August 2d. And in the most public way! You'll be discovering sides of people you thought you knew (but now realize you didn't) while finding yourself left high and dry by those who [...]
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY Few planetary aspects are as unforgiving as a Sun/Pluto opposition and given that the one on July 23d will be the first to occur in the zodiac signs of Leo and Aquarius you can expect it to be especially powerful. Whatever thin hope you were banking on will be [...]
FRENEMIES Mars in Gemini stokes rivalries – the reason being that twins are siblings and sibling rivalries are the earliest form of competition. Everything you learned about winning, losing, thwarting and outwitting comes from those early years spent battling with your sibling for Mom or Dad's attention. All of this will come rushing [...]
BEING THE BIGGER PERSON Are you playing games with somebody’s heart? Or is this person playing games with yours? These are questions worth asking when Venus, the planet of love and beauty, forms an opposition to suspicious Pluto on July 12th. An opposition is when two planets sit opposite one another on the [...]
I WANT TO BELIEVE Hopes and wishes dissolve before your eyes when Neptune turns retrograde on July 2nd. It's disappointing to say the least, but like all retrogrades, this is the Stars’ way of testing you to see if you are truly committed to the path you're on. The dreams you have when [...]
