This week offers insight and the opportunity for joys large and small. Things begin, on Monday, with retrograde Mercury’s meditative conjunction with the Sun and Jupiter’s […]
The Basics Let us begin with the astronomical fundamentals of Mars’ retrograde. The facts, as it were. First, Mars assumes retrograde motion in relationship to the […]
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The following is an excerpt from my 2014 Astrological Almanac. The 2015 Astrological Almanac is now available. This handy tome contains descriptions of every day, monthly […]
December 2013 – July 2014 The following is an excerpt from my 2014 Astrological Almanac. The 2015 edition of the Astrological Almanac is now available. This […]
This week the Moon waxes while planets pile into Aries. The Sun goes first, crossing the equinoctial boundary late Tuesday night. Venus, not long behind, follows […]
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 […]
The Moon wanes away from fullness this week, which begins on a contradictory note. An onerous Sun-Saturn square hangs over the first couple days- yet those […]
A waxing Moon looks down over an interesting week. The Sun and Mercury in Aquarius make stimulating aspects to Uranus in Aries and Jupiter in Gemini […]
Mars is concerned with aggressive, vital energies, matters of attack and defense, conflicts, courage and hard work. Although the planet‘s effect can be energizing, it touches […]
The bodies most often categorized as planets in modern astrology are the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Planets? The clever […]
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 […]
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 […]
The week begins with the Sun’s ingress into Scorpio on Monday. The Sun trines Neptune on Tuesday and then conjoins Saturn on Wednesday night. Mercury,also in […]
September begins with the Sun in Virgo, shrouding the northern hemisphere with a harvest glow. The Virgin Sun’s rays fall across the results of a difficult […]
The week begins with the Sun in the last degrees of Leo, making an energetic but potentially irksome sextile with Mars. Wednesday holds a very positive […]
The Moon waxes over another troubled week. Yet while the winds howl, clarity grows. On Tuesday the Moon lends her force to the T-square between Uranus, […]
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 […]