A number of important changes take place this week. The Sun and Venus both change signs this Wednesday. The Sun leaves Aries for Taurus and Venus exits Pisces, entering Aries later the same day. Mercifully, Mercury goes direct this week. These alterations to the planetary line-up initiate the next act in this season’s astro-drama. The [...]
Mercury goes retrograde in Aries on March 30th. The swift planet will walk backward until April 22nd, treating us to the usual slew of miscommunications, dropped calls, broken phones and scheduling changes. However, this particular Mercury retrograde presides over a rare pile up of planets in Aries, with a minimum 5 planets present in [...]
The Full Moon in Virgo this Saturday will occur with the Moon closer to the earth than it’s been in 18 years. The Moon’s decreased distance from the earth will be visually exaggerated by the earth’s atmosphere, which will magnify the image of the Moon, making it seem not just closer, but A LOT closer. [...]
This week the Moon waxes into visibility, growing from a silver finger-nail into a cup half full of reflected light. On Wednesday, Mercury leaves the whale’s song of Pisces behind for the bull horn of Aries. Two days later, Uranus crosses into the Ram’s arena as well, joining Jupiter in Aries this Friday. Mercury and [...]
The waning Moon ticks down the days until the New Moon (March 4th) . On Monday, Venus slips out of her castle and into quirky, abstract and occasionally despondent Aquarius, where she’ll be until March 26th. This week’s prevailing conditions are foggy with a tendency to turn inward. Unfortunately, the traveling Mars-Mercury conjunction has pushed [...]
This week the Moon goes Full in Leo late Thursday night, opposing a gaggle of planets in Aquarius. Between them a rainbow bridge appears, crossing the imagined and the embodied, daring us to make the journey. Behind the Full Moon, Venus and Saturn move into a square this week, calling for us to tighten up [...]
Note: These are deeply and profoundly cruel. You probably shouldn’t read your own. Instead, read the horoscope of an ex- you despise. Aries: You’re Invincible! Relationships? Pfff. You don’t need nobody for nothin! You’re so independent and awesome that if you were in a relationship with someone, it would totally be as a favor. [...]
Saturn in Libra stations retrograde on Wednesday, January 26th, following the 22nd’s celebratory Jupiter ingress (See Re-Enter The Dragon) with a strong dose of reality. The old judge’s about-face exposes limits and highlights necessities. Coming on the heels of Jupiter’s exciting ingress into Aries, Saturn’s retrograde station highlights what it is necessary to make all [...]
On January 22nd, Jupiter leaves the cosmic confines of Pisces for the rowdy arenas of Aries. We got a taste of Jupiter in Aries last year, from June through August of 2010. But the big planet wussed out and retreated back into Pisces. On January 22nd, 2011 Jupiter re-enters the Ram’s sign, charging until he [...]
(The following essay is an excerpt from my 2011 Astrological Almanac.) 2011 is an intermediary year, following the storms of 2008-2010 and preceding the difficult configurations of 2012-2015. It may be a far cry from the year of milk and honey, but 2011 holds the opportunity to make progress in a way that the difficult [...]
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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