The week begins with a flurry of planetary activity. Retrograde since election day, Mercury stations direct on Monday, righting communications. The same day, however, Venus makes an emotionally challenging conjunction to Saturn in Scorpio. Tuesday also sees a pair of exact aspects, as Mars conjoins potent Pluto in Capricorn under the reddened light of a [...]
The week begins with the first solar eclipse in Scorpio, opening a tunnel we’ll travel for weeks to come. The following day a retrograde Mercury retreats into Scorpio, bringing thoughts and communications back toward the dirty heart of the present. Not long after, small Chiron stations direct, squeezing a tear into the waters of [...]
The dark river we’ve followed up to this point begins to meander wildly, the sense of a clear path eroding. Then the water begins to bioluminesce, glowing strong and strange in a rainbow of eerie neon colors. Maybe its algae. Soon enough the river is full of figures dripping color and arguing with each other [...]
The week begins with the Sun’s ingress into Scorpio on Monday. The Sun trines Neptune on Tuesday and then conjoins Saturn on Wednesday night. Mercury,also in Scorpio, conjoins the North Node on Wednesday, enclosing the first half of the week in an intense reverie. The second half of the week is dominated by Mars’ opposition [...]
The still-new Moon waxes slowly across the week, incrementally increasing the tempo. There is a steady build, but the real intensity lies some weeks out from here. The Sun currently walks the last degrees of Libra. It will finish them this week, entering Scorpio to join newly enthroned Saturn next. For now, though, it traverses [...]
The following is an excerpt from my 2012 Astrological Almanac. The 2013 Astrological Almanac is now available for presale. This handy tome contains descriptions of every day, monthly summaries, an ephemeris, a yearly walk-through, and more. In Scorpio, Saturn brings attention to the ways we deal with life’s most intense topics: sex, death, transformation and [...]
This potentially dramatic week sees the Moon wax her way toward a Full finale this Saturday. But first, Venus in Leo squares Mars in Scorpio on Wednesday, triggering relationship tensions throughout the middle of the week. This contentious configuration is offset a bit by Mercury in Libra’s even minded and pleasant trine to Jupiter in [...]
September begins with the Sun in Virgo, shrouding the northern hemisphere with a harvest glow. The Virgin Sun’s rays fall across the results of a difficult quarter, the scorched fruit of summer piled high. Yet a phoenix maybe glimpsed in the fading light. There is much to consider and do. The Messenger’s Magistery Mercury entered [...]
We spend the week on the boundary between the concrete and imaginary, between what is and what isn’t- yet. The pressures of the real and the imaginary are both abundant. Venus endures a depressingly mundane square to Saturn all week, while Friday night holds the Full Moon in Pisces. The next day Mercury enters analytic [...]
The week begins with the Sun in the last degrees of Leo, making an energetic but potentially irksome sextile with Mars. Wednesday holds a very positive Mercury-Jupiter configuration and sees the Sun enter Virgo. Here our angle on the Sun lines it up with the fixed star Regulus, the regal and benefic heart of the [...]
Austin Coppock is a writer and astrologer based in the San Francisco Bay area. He has published yearly Almanacs for 2011, 2012 and 2013 and is the current president of the Association for Young Astrologers.
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