As an astrologer, I understand that when we click with some people and not others it’s because planetary interactions between the charts of different individuals manifest differently. If your Mars (aggression) is in a challenging aspect to my Moon (emotional sensitivity), I may feel threatened or irritated by you. If your Pluto (power and intensity) sits on my Sun (expression of Self) I may feel overpowered by you. If your Venus aligns with mine, I will probably love you instantly!... Read more
Back in 2010 and 2011 I did a radio show on Blog Talk Radio and with Mercury Retrograde I thought it would be a good time to download the shows and start reposting them. There were some fun shows, and it’s actually inspired me to start the show up again. Meanwhile though, I thought you might enjoy listening to this show on Mercury retrograde. The end of the show is a call-in portion where people ask questions about their own... Read more
The Sagittarius Full Moon takes place just after midnight on June 13th Eastern time. The Moon in Sagittarius encourages us to expand our visions – to aim higher and gain greater understanding. In Sagittarius we refuse to take no for an answer – suddenly we know that we can do and be more than we ever thought possible before. Like all Full Moons, the Sagittarius Moon will be exactly opposite the Sun in Gemini. Gemini wants to embrace the... Read more
catch up on Part I here. Psychology The psychological picture that we can derive from the astrological chart of Eliot Rodger shows an individual with a significant wound (Saturn/Chiron/Sun) to his sense of Self. The writings clearly reveal a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (see this article in Psychology Today,” the root of which is a wound to the Self. The “Narcissistic Wound” usually occurs in childhood and in a weak personality the individual tends to blame others rather than... Read more
Introduction On May 23, 2014 Eliot Rodger, a 22-year old former student, went on a shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded thirteen others. Rodger, a young man who was desperate for attention and felt invisible according to his writings, left a series of Youtube videos and a 107,000 word treatise detailing virtually every detail about his life and the road to sexual obsession and rage that fueled his “Day of Retribution” against the women who rejected him and the... Read more
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” —Dr. Seuss We can think of Mercury Retrograde periods as times when we look through the wrong end of the telescope. This can seem to us like a “mistake,” or we can take another... Read more
Mercury turns retrograde June 7, and you may have already noticed that communication is getting wonky and glitches are everywhere. Yesterday a client’s phone service was temporarily terminated in the middle of our consultation which is an everyday type of occurrence when Mercury is retrograde. (If you missed my posts on retrogrades you can catch up here and learn more about the positive aspects of retrograde planetary cycles.) Conventional wisdom instructs us not to make any big decisions or sign contracts when... Read more
You can read the entire article here. If you’d like to receive a monthy summary translated into language that is easy to understand, sign up for my newsletter in the sidebar. Meanwhile, here is the introduction to the June forecast: As June begins two planets are retrograde, meaning they appear to move backwards. Three planets turn retrograde during the month of June, so by the end of the month five planets will be in retrograde. For more about what that... Read more
As I was writing the Planetary Illuminations report for June (coming soon to an inbox near you if you are on my mailing list!!) I found that the discussion about retrogrades was substantial enough to deserve its own post. Astrologically is not always astronomically correct because we observe the motion of the planets from our perspective here on earth. From here, the planets sometimes appear to change direction and move backwards instead of forwards, and we call this “retrograde motion.”... Read more
The New Moon in Gemini occurs on May 28th. Because the New Moon is the beginning of a new lunar cycle, there is a fresh new energy that is available to us at the New Moon. It’s an opportunity to make a clean start and begin anew. Gemini is the sign of the twins, and often it manifests as two faces of the same person which never have an opportunity to meet. We experience this internally as duality – a... Read more
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