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 [...]
This week the Moon waxes its way toward Full (May 16th), 3 planets change signs and we’re treated to a lovely set of conjunctions. Mercury, Venus and Jupiter spend most of the week conjoined in late Aries. This rather pleasant stellium condenses the hard lessons of the last month and a half into the future’s [...]
The New Moon in Taurus occurs early in the week, Monday night for those in the Americas. This monthly reunion of the Sun and Moon re-centers affairs somewhere amidst the great fields Taurus. As discussed last week, the question is what to plant in these fields now that that the chaos is beginning to subside [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This Thursday a rare thing takes place- both Venus and Jupiter station direct the very same day. This end to both of the benefic’s retrogrades also happens to happen in signs in which each is very powerful. It’s a fine omen for the second half of the season, and should make for a nice week [...]
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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