Pay attention to self-care during tonight's complex New Moon in Cancer, which is also a Solar Eclipse. Influences from Saturn, Pluto and Uranus combine to put demands on your ability to understand and respond to your own needs. You’ll find yourself crashing and burning if...
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This month’s Full Moon is also a Lunar Eclipse and it’s setting up to be a doozy, with Mercury as the Shadow Agent. The Moon is in sunny Sagittarius, while Mercury and the Sun are in cool Gemini. Gemini and Sagittarius are polar opposite signs,…
This Is A Pivotal Day If you are one of the millions of people having a Saturn transit this year, today is likely to be pivotal for you. Sometime around January 25, when Saturn turned retrograde, you were cast on an inner journey to discover...
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(Seen this post before? That’s because Chiron goes retrograde every year. This year, does it affect YOU? Read on to find out. . .) “Wake up!” says Chiron. “Are you feeling wounded? Recently I brought you a difficult experience. It was also a reminder, an…
“Wake up!” says Neptune. “Recently I showed you that there is more to your life than what can be experienced with the physical senses. I demanded that you look deeper. Now I’m telling you again: it’s time to re-dream your life.” Today Is A Pivotal…
This month’s New Moon is also a Solar Eclipse and it’s also an occasion for lightening up. That may seem like a contradiction, because an eclipse tends to have a heavy feel, plus Saturn is involved, which also feels heavy. But this eclipse falls in...
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If you’ve read my monthly Forecasts over the years, you may have periodically noticed that sometimes I’ll describe days in which “nothing is happening,” and you may have wondered what use you could possibly make of information like that. These are days in which no…
“Wake up!” says Pluto. “Recently I initiated some part of you into a death-and-rebirth experience. Now I’m telling you again: this is a time of profound change.” (If you've seen this post before, that's because Pluto goes retrograde every year. Some years it will affect...
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When astrologers want to understand the archetype that underlies a zodiac sign, they look to the mythological stories that center around the deity that rules the sign. To understand Gemini, we look to Mercury, ruler of thought and ideas, wearer of the winged cap. To...
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Once upon a time, in the long ago and far away, when gods and goddesses walked the earth among humans and when human beings aspired to godhood, there lived a centaur named Chiron. A centaur, as you may know, looks like a man from the...
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In the last month (February of 2011) Chiron has now moved into Pisces for the first time in 50 years. Chiron is the Wounded Healer and Pisces is the symbolic “ocean of dreams.” What does this mean? In Greek and Roman mythology, Chiron is a...
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In the first two articles of this series, I looked at what happens when Pluto and Jupiter get together in the sky and form a stressful square: Jupiter Squares Pluto: Going To Extremes Jupiter And Pluto Go On A Binge This month’s square is their...
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“Wake up!” says Saturn. “I gave you a chance to see your responsibility recently. Now I’m telling you again: this is a time of testing.” Today is a Pivotal Day When a planet turns retrograde it makes a pivot in the sky and also creates…
You may have read recent articles about a “new zodiac sign” called Ophiuchus. It’s not actually news. Here’s the article I found: http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/wobbly-earth-horoscope-zodiac-wrong-110113.html. This article went viral, and I (and astrologers all over the nation, apparently) are getting questions about the “new sign” from people…
This month’s New Moon is also a Solar Eclipse, and it's one to take seriously. Influenced by Saturn, this Capricornian eclipse has got a heavy sense of responsibility and duty. We can expect real-world events to result from this solar eclipse, reminders of what we...
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This month's Full Moon (Dec 21) is also a Lunar Eclipse, bringing emotional intensity even though it’s in emotionally light Gemini. Gemini’s desire to skate across the surface of emotions may conflict with the Moon’s need to look at emotional shadows during an eclipse. Several...
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We’re in the middle of a Venus retrograde period, lasting from October 8 to November 18. Today is the day in Venus’ backwards journey that she conjuncts the Sun. The Sun sheds light into the dark corners and brings illumination to Venus’s domain, which is...
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(If you are beginning this thread here, read this first.) Psyche wandered the earth, lost in grief. She found herself at the temple of Ceres, where she cleaned and tidied the harvest tools until Ceres took notice of her anguish and advised her to go...
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Friday, October 8 through Thursday, November 18, 2010 What Is Venus Retrograde? When Venus goes retrograde, she takes our hand and pulls us into the darkness of our relationships. A retrograde period of any planet is a retrospective of that planet’s themes. It is like…
Jupiter and Uranus have returned to Pisces briefly, on their way to moving into Aries for real. Once in Aries, Uranus will spend 7 years there, while Jupiter will whip through in just 1 year. Uranus: Hey, this is a little annoying, to have to...
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