HERE COMES THE SUN For centuries the Spring Equinox heralded the start of a new year. In fact it still does in Iran, Turkey, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It's called Nowruz which means "new day." The Sun is exalted in the zodiac sign of Aries because this is when the young Sun – [...]
ANSWERING THE SIREN CALL It isn't always easy to tell the difference between a vision and a fantasy. Each beckons you to have faith in the phantasmal; to put aside your doubts and fears and follow your dreams. You pray that your dreams are taking you to where you want to go, that [...]
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Uranus is the planet of revolution and change however it takes on a more enlightening aspect when it forms a sextile to the Sun in Pisces on March 9th. This is like that moment in a Shakespeare comedy when things are made right. Identities are revealed, outlandish schemes [...]
TRIPLE CONJUNCTION CAZIMI! Triple conjunctions are rare birds as is, but the fact that two of the planets will be cazimi makes them rarer still! On February 28th the Sun will conjoin both Mercury and Saturn in the zodiac sign of Pisces. Typically a Mercury/Saturn conjunction acts like a wet blanket in the [...]
GENDER TROUBLE A Venus/Mars conjunction is supposed to be favorable for romance. The thinking is that women are from Venus and men are from Mars so what's to keep this combination of cosmic energies from creating a match made in heaven? Well, that might have been true back in the day when men [...]
STELLIUM IN AQUARIUS Mars and Venus join Mercury, Pluto, and the Sun in the zodiac sign of Aquarius this week. Usually this would signal a time for everyone to put aside their differences and interlock arms for the greater good, but that won't be happening because of the dark planet in the room. [...]
BREAKDOWN OR BREAKTHROUGH? Once again the Sun will be forming a square to Uranus, the planet of revolution and change, on February 8th. These are bi-annual occurrences when most of us watch in disbelief as our best laid plans get turned upside down or inside out. You can think of Sun/Uranus squares as [...]
GREEN LIGHT Striving doesn't always result in arriving. There are plenty of times when one sets out to achieve a goal and things just don't pan out. Perhaps you launched too early, waited too long, or support for what you wanted to do came too late. Success is part timing, part circumstances, and [...]
URANUS OUT OF RETROGRADE Uranus, the planet of revolution and change, comes out of retrograde on January 27th. After weeks of backsliding, you will feel like you're finally moving with the current of events rather than against it. Uranus's job in Astrology is to break down the things that aren't working – like [...]
WELCOME TO THE NEW AGE An extraordinary astrological event will be taking place on January 20th. This is when the Sun and Pluto form their last conjunction in the final degree of Capricorn before crossing over the zodiacal threshold into Aquarius. For some signs (mostly the earth and water ones) this marks the [...]
