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 [...]
(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 [...]
The lunar eclipse this Monday night/Tuesday morning, the 21st, is the first eclipse in the new series on the Gemini-Sagittarius axis, which opens up a whole new can of subtle evolutionary and karmic worms. We’ve been in the Cancer-Capricorn cycle for the last year and a half, which has highlighted an embrace of the hard [...]
December’s Mercury retrograde crosses the Janus-faced cusp of Capricorn and Sagittarius. Mercury stations retrograde in Capricorn on December 10th, but makes his way back into Sagittarius’ wide fields by December 17th, stationing direct on December 29th. The messenger will stay within the wide fields of the archer’s sign until January 13th. This Mercury retrograde therefore [...]
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 [...]
As the skinny Moon waxes its way into a new month, we see plenty of changes in the celestial line-up. Both Mercury and Venus step out of Scorpio this week, leaving the poor Sun all alone in the arachnoid sign. The changes this week will likely come as a relief from the undue intensity of [...]
“Cocoon” by Jennybird Alcantara This week we make it to the center of the situation, with the Sun in Scorpio moving to conjoin a retrograde Venus on Thursday. This configuration brings our focus to the transitions and transformations we’re in the midst of- like the cocoon dweller inspected halfway between caterpillar and butterfly, its a [...]
This week sees several changes. Mercury, flying through the last degrees of Libra, enters Scorpio on Wednesday, intensifying and sharpening the tone of communications and the wavelength of thoughts. The Moon waxes fat and silver throughout the week, approaching and achieving fullness on Friday night, just in time for the weekend. The Full Moon 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.
