Photo by Thierry Brésillon The Moon wanes over a week of powerful changes. First, Tuesday sees small Pluto station retrograde in Capricorn, shadowing the early week. Friday, however, holds Mars’ long awaited direct station. The retrograde malefic throws it back in drive in an almost perfect opposition with Neptune in Pisces. Meanwhile, the Sun in [...]
This week sees both the season and the lunar cycle shift, setting the stage for the next phase. Yet things are still over-run with unfinished plots from the last act, asking us to straddle present, past and future for a bit. We enter this week carried by the slow avalanche of March’s Grand Earth [...]
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 slowly disappearing Moon wanes its way across the first half of the week, overseeing the Sun in Capricorn’s square with Saturn in Libra. The Sun-Saturn square brings with it a certain heaviness, and may exaggerate obstacles and obligations. Yet Friday morning, the Sun moves into lively Aquarius, pulling our attention away from onerous duties [...]
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 following is an excerpt from my 2012 Astrological Almanac. This handy tome contains descriptions of every day, monthly summaries, horoscopes, an ephemeris, a yearly walk-through, and more. It’s available as a paperback or eBook, so if you like what you read, be sure to get one! Mars’ retrograde through Virgo is one of the defining [...]
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 [...]
This week the Moon wanes its way slowly across the sky, riding on the fumes of last week’s delicious Full Moon in Taurus. Luna’s destination is far more intense than her point of departure, though, as she’s headed straight for next week’s partial solar eclipse in Sagittarius, on November 24th. Get ready for another plunge [...]
This relatively auspicious week sees Neptune’s direct station on Wednesday, Thursday’s Full Moon in Taurus and the movement of Mars into Virgo. This week sees the Full Moon in Taurus preside over pleasant, stabilizing moments, Yet bucolic moments are ever-so-slightly stained with the worrisome shadows of tomorrow’s unsolved problems. Make the most of the 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.
