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 [...]
This week entails two very interesting celestial events. First, on Tuesday morning, Venus stations retrograde, beginning her 6 week retreat across the sky’s catwalk. Then, on Sunday, we’re treated to an annular solar eclipse in Gemini. Between these two occurrences, we plunge headlong into the next phase of the year, marked by an unusual [...]
This week holds a release we’ve been waiting for. After months retrograde, Uranus stations direct in Aries this Friday. Uranus’ vigorous but unruly station is followed swiftly by a lunar eclipse in Gemini, completing this season’s series of eclipses. All this occurs within spitting distance of Mercury’s direct station next week, haloed by the growing [...]
A partial solar eclipse waits for us at the end of a somewhat tense week. A loose Grand Cross connects the planets as the Sun runs a gauntlet of aspects that will become familiar this Summer. The partial solar eclipse occurs on July 1st, the Sun losing a crescent of its radiance to the claws [...]
This Wednesday, June 15th, we are treated to a Full Eclipse of the Moon. The eclipse occurs at 24 Sagittarius, conjoined the North Node, the Dragon’s Head, known as Rahu to Vedic astrologers. This is the first eclipse in Sagittarius in the Gemini-Sagittarius cycle. We had a lunar eclipse in Gemini on the Solstice in [...]
The skies are busy this week, kicking off a month of serious transitions. First we’re treated to a partial solar eclipse on June 1st, which is followed by Mercury’s entry into Gemini and Neptune’s retrograde station on the 2nd. Then, on the 4th, Jupiter jumps into Taurus, where the big planet will reside for the [...]
We stand between a pair of difficult eclipses. The lunar eclipse in Capricorn was last weekend, on the 26th and the solar eclipse in Cancer comes this Sunday, on the 11th. It is a period of deeply personal challenges and changes. The astrological dynamics of the eclipses are often framed in terms of spiritual evolution. [...]
Pisces Parables Part II – Click here for Part I “More stories? I suppose. Judging from the black on those thunderheads, it’ll be naught but fools shippin out for the next few nights. Listen, you keep the fire in my brain fueled with that pit-damned oil they have the gall to pour into a [...]
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.
