February 18, 2013 “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…
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As you know from a good look at your local teen, or your memory of your own adolescent and post-adolescent years, the crankiness of teens can take many forms: anger, rebellion, shyness, withdrawal, lack of confidence, poor grades, lack of ambition, aimlessness, awkwardness. It’s the…
This year I’ve had the wonderful fortune to find not one but two excellent interns. Erica and Sara will each be doing a Pandora blogpost every month to talk about their experiences and learning. Here’s the first from Erica: When I first read that Jamie…
Jupiter went direct last week on January 30. It does this every year and when it does, we Earthlings tend to feel a sense of adventure swelling in our hearts. Jupiter brings good things, and, after several months in retrograde, he’s on the move again….
You may have seen my blogposts about Chiron and wondered “What the heck is that?” Chiron is not something they teach about much in grade school when you learned the planets of our solar system, but it is a member of the planetary pack. Not…
(this one’s for the ladies) This article is dedicated to all the wonderful women in my practice (and in the world) who are looking to share heart, mind and body with a perfect partner they haven’t met yet. In the last few years I’ve been…
January 10, 2013 Human Being is praying aloud. Human Being: I feel so lost. Why will no god hear me? Jupiter: We hear you. Chiron: We are here for you. Jupiter: We noticed that you’ve lost something. Human: Indeed I have. I’ve lost my wisdom. …
I just saw Lincoln last night—it’s the portrait of an irascible, progressive man at the very height of his powers, in just one crucial month near the end of his life. To find out more about who he was and what he was doing, I…
This transit is exact on December 26, 2012 Our scene opens at a wine and cheese reception. Human Being arrives, along with The Astrologer and a host of deities, heroes, demigods, monsters and other fabulous beings. Some of these are fabulous in the mythical sense,...
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We all have, built right in, the urge to do something great in our lifetime, to build a monument (symbolic or literal), to create a legacy, to achieve. Saturn in our astrology chart tells us how to build that monument and where. Saturn in Gemini? ...
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Uranus goes direct today, as it does every year. If you feel that things have descended into chaos in the last few months, change is afoot and clarity may be right around the corner. . . (read about it)
As the scene opens, we see a Human walking through dreary countryside, carrying heavy burdens. Saturn and Chiron show up on the scene. They talk with each other. Saturn: I see you showed up to help. Chiron: Yes, of course. A Human is in pain…
A solar eclipse in Scorpio is bound to be intense. How do we cope? Fortunately Pallas Athene assists with a helpful trine from Pisces. Details About This Eclipse Date: November 13, 2012 Time of eclipse: 2:08 PM PST Type: Total (strong in intensity) Visible in: …
This year Neptune goes direct on November 10, 2012 Neptune has spent the last few months (since June 4) traveling backwards. Today she turns her face forward and re-covers the same ground. Why should it matter to you? If she’s passing through a zone where…
Human Being is walking his inner landscape. He is at the docks. There’s a pier that extends out into the water, into the fog. There he can just see the shape of a massive sailboat, rising and falling with the swell of the waves. Waters...
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Jupiter’s yearly pivot from direct (forwards-moving) to retrograde (backwards-moving) begins tomorrow. Calling all Geminis, Virgos, Sagittarians and Pisceans born between If you were born in the following date-spans, you can expect a period of growth and expansion this year, which has already begun: Gemini: born…
The last time Saturn changed signs, I wrote about it here in the Pandora blog. That was in July of 2010. Now Saturn is finishing up the tail-end of Libra (his favorite sign to occupy) and entering the dark, mysterious regions of Scorpio, to travel...
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Uranus and Pluto are involved in a momentous, years-long square in the sky right now. This is a really big deal and I want to tell you why. Every pair of planets in the sky has a cycle they go through together, like the cycle…
Success, thy name is Saturn. Yet Saturn is such a boogeyman, an object of terror for astrologers, their clients and those of the general public who understand what Saturn demands of us. Feeling trapped? Guilty? Obligated? Pressure to perform? Blame Saturn. Then roll up your…
5 tips from an astrologer on raising not just any child, but the one you got You want the best life for your child, but it’s hard to know what that is, and parenting is loaded with moments of urgency, moments where something important needs…
