ATONEMENT Your sincere and heartfelt admission that you did wrong may not make things right, but it will go a long ways towards mending a broken trust. The Venus/Neptune trine on October 15th followed by its last sextile to Pluto at the 29th degree of Capricorn on October 17th says that this isn't [...]
JUPITER RETROGRADE Jupiter, the planet of good fortune and higher purpose, turns retrograde on October 9th. 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 [...]
SOLAR ECLIPSE IN LIBRA You're bound to be thrown off balance between your ME and your WE when there's a Solar Eclipse in Libra on October 2d. If there's too much ME in your life then that means you've shut people out. You're convinced that only you can fix a problem and that [...]
FATAL ATTRACTION Venus in Scorpio is a film noir Venus – dark, nefarious, and saddled with a mysterious past. It's important to remember that Venus rules over the power of attraction in Astrology; it describes the kind of energy that you draw into your life. Subsequently Venus here means that you will be [...]
LUNAR ECLIPSE IN PISCES It will feel like your world is unraveling this week thanks to the lunar eclipse in Pisces on September 17th. Things tend to fall apart when the Full Moon disappears from the nighttime sky and the fact that it's taking place in Pisces – the last sign of the [...]
NICE PROBLEMS ARE STILL PROBLEMS Every square brings a challenge and the Sun/Jupiter square on September 12th is no different. This conflict in planetary energies is often portrayed as gushing Pollyannaism, an inflated sense of self-importance, or even hubris but your problem will be simpler than that – too much of a good [...]
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 [...]
