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 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 [...]
The season’s storms continue, and many get kicked up a notch. Some walk perilous paths, certain of their purpose, cloaks wrapped tightly around them. Others watch objects of comfort and desire burn, winds carrying away the ashes for a sky burial. Yet the sky will return what the gale has stolen. This week is host [...]
The Solstice Sun shines across far reaching concerns this week. On Tuesday, the Moon finds the Sun again in the last degrees of Gemini, the first New Moon in Gemini to go uneclipsed in years. Wednesday holds the Solstice itself, the Sun’s exit from the abode of the frenetic Twins and entry into the tidepools [...]
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 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 [...]
The Moon wanes over a week of transitions. Mercury enters Pisces on Monday, starting things off with the messenger’s shift into the spacey, imaginative sign. The middle of the week is hampered by Venus in Aries’ square to Pluto in Capricorn, providing a few irritations and smothering some excitement. Meanwhile, the Sun stays in an [...]
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 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 [...]
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.
