(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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The following horoscopes wrap an interpretation around the celestial landmarks of 2010. This includes the presence of Saturn in Libra and Jupiter in Pisces for the bulk of the year, the spring-time retreat of Saturn back into Virgo, the early ingress of Jupiter and Uranus into Aries, the series of alignments between Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn [...]
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.
