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 the Moon wanes over a changing line up of planets and dynamics. Throughout the week we move toward Friday’s Sun-Neptune trine, lending it a certain dreamy, distractable quality. Meanwhile, Mars and Venus move toward an aspect in Signs that echo last year’s lessons on love and war. Finally, Sunday sees the Sun descend [...]
This week the Moon wanes its way back to the Sun, with the New Moon waiting for us this Sunday. The early sees Venus return to Scorpio after her brief holiday in Libra and also witness’ Mercury’s entrance into Capricorn and subsequent conjunction with Pluto. The Crossroads Staircase Mercury leaves Sagittarius this week, entering Capricorn [...]
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 [...]
This week builds on the energies unleashed during the last. As the Moon waxes through the first quarter, we hold hands with a backward walking Venus and look into the mirror of Mercury’s conjunction with the Sun in Libra. Virtue, Deprivation and Debauchery Venus went retrograde in Scorpio last week, and we’ll be walking backwards [...]
This week the patterns that permeate the season are born into being. The New Moon comes Thursday, laying the orphic egg of the month to come. Also on Thursday, Venus finally goes retrograde, beginning her season-long underworld journey in earnest. The tension between elegantly balanced plans and meandering passions that defines this week is the [...]
The Equinox has come and gone, leaving us stranded at the entrance to the next season. This week sees us plowing past the threshold into the heart of the coming quarter’s dynamics. This week Mercury finishes his 9 week scamper through the fields of Virgo with an opposition to both Uranus and Jupiter in Pisces. [...]
Venus left Libra on Wednesday, the 8th of September, removing herself from the gilded halls of the white palace and beginning her descent into the twisting tunnels below. Venus will be in and out of those tunnels for quite some time, as her upcoming retrograde (Oct. 7th-Nov. 18th) will see her back and forth between [...]
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.
