“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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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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Scorpio, thank you for keeping the darkness at bay! Scorpio is that side of us that stores, protects and keeps our painful experiences and memories safe, and manages the instinctual side of our life. It’s a sort of holding-place for all the dark things in…
Our old friend Pluto has turned direct this week (on Monday, September 13, 2010, to be exact) and he’s bringing to a close this year’s underworld journey. What follows is a repost from last year, with dates updated for 2010. Yup, Pluto is showing up,…
This month Saturn and Pluto meet in a clash of wills. This is the third—and blessedly final—pass of their difficult square, which began last November. This square is causing people everywhere to feel as if they are caught between the proverbial rock (Saturn) and hard...
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When last we saw Jupiter and Pluto, they were just dragging themselves shakily away from a crash landing. Today we find them in Jupiter’s (very messy) living room, occupying a stuffed chair and outdated, falling-apart sofa, looking at some objects on the coffee table. Jupiter: ...
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It's the question everybody's asking--when will the recession end and hope and prosperity be restored? There are not one but several very difficult planetary combinations happening in the sky this year and they are contributing to a blanket of gloom. That's the bad news. The...
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“Darling I don't know why I go to extremes Too high or too low, there ain't no in-betweens And if I stand or I fall It's all or nothing at all Darling I don't know why I go to extremes” * That’s Billy Joel talking...
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June’s full moon is also a lunar eclipse, and a complex melting pot of influences it is too. The Capricorn moon likes to keep a lid on all things emotional, while the Cancerian Sun says, “let ‘em rip!” Toss intellectual Mercury and passionate Pluto into…
Mars retrograde may be over, but it isn’t really finished until Mars has exited the “retrograde patch,” that span of 0-to-19 degrees of Fixed signs he’s been in for the last 2 months. So themes of anger management, self-assertion and the need to be a...
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“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.” Today Is A Pivotal Day When a planet turns retrograde it makes a pivot in the sky and…
This December 31st we have an extremely special kind of full moon. Not only is it a lunar eclipse, but it’s also a blue moon! A blue moon is a second full moon inside a calendar month. It only happens in months that are long...
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I’m not one of those doom-saying astrologers. I won’t rant about how the world’s going to end in 2012 (or any other year). But Saturn square Pluto is starting this month and going through August of 2010 and it’s serious. It really is heavy. And…
Yup, Pluto is showing up, right on schedule, to take out the garbage. Today Pluto turns direct, ending his yearly backwards journey. Pluto has traveled several degrees backwards and today turns his face forwards again. He will now retrace forwards the same steps he made…
The Federal Reserve Bank has been having a hell of a time since the beginning of 2008. This is reflected in its astrology chart. Pluto in the sky has come opposite its position in the Fed’s chart. This is something that few human beings get…
This is Part Three of a three-part series of posts describing the planetary influences of 2009 as if they were acted out by characters on a stage. In this post, I talk about ways these characters will be dialoguing with each other in 2009 and…
This is part one of a three-part series of posts describing the planetary influences of 2009 as if they were acted out by characters on a stage. The Play’s The Thing One great way to understand astrology is by seeing it as the drama…
Venus, archetype of love, beauty and relationship, has a dual nature: one side of her is the sultry sensualist (hedonistic and self-indulgent at the worst) and the other side is the cool, unapproachable beauty (or ice princess at the worst). How can one archetype have…
