The week begins as the last of the weekend’s “super moon” disappears beneath the horizon. Early in the week Mercury enters Taurus, the financial fields where the messenger will spend the next two weeks. Mid-week, Mercury makes a blurry sextile with Neptune, while the weekend is dominated by the Sun’s conjunction with Jupiter in Taurus. [...]
Photo by Sigurd Rage The Moon waxes its way to fullness, shining out over a week of mixed influences. The Sun strides closer to conjunction with auspicious Jupiter, highlighting the rewards of courses pursued successfully. Yet meanwhile Venus creeps ever deeper into the shadow of her coming retrograde, rousing uncomfortable feelings and messing with cash [...]
The Moon wanes its way toward invisibility over resetting circumstances. The week begins with Mercury’s re-entry into Aries, the sign the swift planet turned retrograde in back in March. Mercury spends the week moving into a conjunction with Uranus, conjoining the electric planet on Sunday. On Thursday morning, the Sun strides onto the spring [...]
This week begins an interesting, complicated and somewhat chaotic period that will last for the rest of March. Disparate combinations stain the skies over the coming weeks- good, evil and other mixing freely. The main players in the drama this week and next are a recently retrograde Mercury and a Grand Earth Trine. The Grand [...]
The week begins still humming from last Sunday’s Full Moon in Cancer, but moves swiftly into its own series of developments. With Mercury, Venus and Mars all featured prominently in the action, this week’s gestalt theme is all about relationships of all varieties. Mercury, freshly ingressed into Capricorn, spends the middle of the [...]
The first week of the year begins slowly but hosts a cluster of interesting influences at its end. The work week sees Mercury apply to aspects with Saturn and Neptune, challenging us to connect the simultaneously spacy and serious wavelengths. Yet the action waits for the weekend. On Saturday night, the messenger enters Capricorn, [...]
THE BREATH OF THE DRAGON 2012 comes to us already swathed in a gauzy cocoon of mythology. It started with a reconstruction of Mayan astronomy/astrology a few decades back, but like a snow ball rolled down hill, ideas about 2012 have gathered mass and momentum with astonishing speed since then. At this point it seems that [...]
The entire week is haloed by the Solstice, one of the year’s pivot points. In this place between seasons, several important shifts take place. First, on Tuesday, Venus takes here leave of Capricorn and enters Aquarius, the lady of our skies exchanging her goat horns for a bucket. Wednesday sees the Sun slide into Capricorn, [...]
The week begins on a low energy note, waning Luna moving slowly toward Wednesday’s New Moon in Scorpio. On the way there, Venus and Mars close in on a passionate square that is interrupted by Mars’ aspect to cold Saturn. Wednesday’s New Moon in Scorpio refocuses affairs on the nightscapes of the arachnoid sign just [...]
The week begins as a new lunar cycle unfolds. No Cardinal Crosses, no Mercury retrograde. This week begins with a set of dynamics that will be with us for the next 3 weeks, an overstock of planets in Earth Signs pushing us to focus on physical and fiscal matters. Meanwhile, Jupiter stations retrograde in [...]
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.
