In celebration of the birthdays of all the Aries Rams out there, I’ve made this blogpost to celebrate their astonishing efficiency. And so here we go: 5 reasons why Aries gets more done than anybody... 1. Aries is action-oriented Your friendly neighborhood Aries understands the...
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Venus, goddess of Love and Beauty, goes retrograde in our skies about every year and a half. When she does, she takes us into a six-week journey into the past to uncover what may be the hidden or forgotten places in our relationships. How 2012’s…
Our old friend Pluto has turned direct this week (on Friday, September 13, 2011, 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 2011. Yup, Pluto is showing up,…
The Four Astrologies Recently, someone asked me the precession question. It is one of about four questions I hear over and over again from people who are curious about astrology despite having been taught to be skeptical of it. I have already answered it here…
“Wake up!” says Jupiter. “Recently I initiated you into a big-time growth experience. Now I’m telling you again: it’s time to expand.” Today Is A Pivotal Day When a planet turns retrograde it makes a pivot in the sky and also creates a metaphorically “pivotal”...
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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…
(This article is continued from two days ago, so please begin here to join the conversation already in progress . . . ) Astrologers use a combination of personality traits and event-dates to rectify a birth chart. So an astrologer who is about to do...
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“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 article is continued from yesterday, so please begin here to join the conversation already in progress . . . ) But patterns (and thus standout traits) are only recognizable when you have the whole picture in front of you to sort through. Doing a...
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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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You may have heard astrologers talk about “rectification,” describing it as a difficult and mysterious process (which it is), often expensive and certainly time-consuming. Rectification is an intricate process which is particular to astrological work and I thought I’d tell you what it’s all about....
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Are you tired of dating and not finding someone who is really right for you? Are you bogging down in your marriage, unsure if it meets your needs—or ever will? What if you could become so irresistibly attractive that your ideal type flocks to you?...
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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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