This week begins with the slow dark of the New Moon in Pisces, but from there a new cycle unfolds swiftly. Mars enters Aries on Monday night, quickening the meandering processes in play. From it’s Sunday perch, Mercury’s direct station lends a growing clarity to the week, which moves with greater direction and speed than [...]
The Moon waxes towards full this week, raising the tide waters of wyrding higher still. Monday dawns shortly after the Sun’s entry into Pisces and the same morning rays illuminate Saturn’s retrograde station in Scorpio. Immediately thereafter, the Sun moves into a hallucinatory conjunction with Neptune, which it completes on Wednesday. Finally, Friday bears witness [...]
A new lunar cycle begins with a serious week. Mercury and Mars in Pisces spend the week in trines with Saturn in Scorpio, lending much of it an industrious tone. The emphasis on Saturn is doubled by the slow planet’s upcoming retrograde station next Monday. Yet Mars’ midweek conjunction to Chiron makes it difficult to [...]
The Moon wanes over a transitional week. Things begin with Mars’ undersea conjunction to Neptune in Pisces. The pair is joined early in the week by Mercury, who enters Pisces on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Venus in Aquarius makes some very pleasant aspects to Uranus and Jupiter before grinding into a square with Saturn over the [...]
Ship of Fools The following is an excerpt from my 2013 Astrological Almanac, a handy tome with daily, monthly and yearly astrological analysis, an ephemeris, a plethora of essays, and more. You can grab yourself a copy here. The old gods of the oceans, rivers and lakes stir. The water nymphs and apsaras awake to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The dark river we’ve followed up to this point begins to meander wildly, the sense of a clear path eroding. Then the water begins to bioluminesce, glowing strong and strange in a rainbow of eerie neon colors. Maybe its algae. Soon enough the river is full of figures dripping color and arguing with each other [...]
The still-new Moon waxes slowly across the week, incrementally increasing the tempo. There is a steady build, but the real intensity lies some weeks out from here. The Sun currently walks the last degrees of Libra. It will finish them this week, entering Scorpio to join newly enthroned Saturn next. For now, though, it traverses [...]
This week is easier than the ones that preceded it. Venus enters Cancer on Tuesday morning, which is follow shortly by Mercury’s long awaited direct station. The upcoming Mars-Saturn conjunction adds a bit of pressure, but compared to the scenes recently concluded and the one up next, it’s a nice break. Take the time [...]
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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