I LOVE this post from Phil today: I see him everywhere. He’s in the supermarket tabloids…the soldier’s camouflage…the politician’s dissembling…the celebrity’s alcoholic binge…and in the movies. Neptune is so much with us. We seem at times to be living in a world adrift at sea, pulled by seahorses with no direction home. The Saturn-Neptune opposition, which makes its last exact stare-down in about three weeks, has brought this home. . . . Shifts in collective consciousness do not always shake... Read more

What has gotten into our prezident? After six years of denying the global warming problem and passing bill after bill to decimate environmental protections, all of a sudden George W Bush has decided to create a new global framework for reducing carbon emissions. (Updated 6/4: Watch this hilarious video lampooning Bush on global warming.) Back in March of 2001 Bush, who had promised during his campaign for president to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, reneged on that pledge... Read more

June begins on the heels of a powerful Full Moon with a strong Jupiter influence that is helping to counteract the potential for bitterness of the opposition between Saturn’s need for a structured reality versus Neptune’s need for mystery and flexibility. The Saturn/Neptune opposition has been one of the strongest planetary influences since last summer, destabilizing, rebalancing and integrating the line between our dreams and illusions (Neptune) and the pressure to live a practical life with rules and boundaries (Saturn).... Read more

After getting my laptop back with a shiny new hard drive and reloading software until 2 am, Skywatch for June is late and I am behind on everything. Please visit some of my friends today for your astrological fix: Susan regales us with tales of her (second) Saturn Return and prepares for Pluto in Capricorn. Phil rocks out at a Plutonian transformative concert. Kathryn hunts for Madeleine McCann and muses on missing people in general. Melody investigates her daughter of... Read more

image from Worth1000.com Despite a 6.5% decline in the Chinese stock markets, the Dow Jones and S&P averages relentlessly rose to a new high and the Nasdaq index went up 21 points. Americans are unique in their unabashed optimism and the apparent belief that what goes up need not come down. In that belief we have forgotten the lessons of Icarus, who constructed a pair of wax wings so that he could fly to the Sun. You might remember what... Read more

Tomorrow’s Full Moon occurs at 9:05 pm EDT and brings with it a flood of positive energy. The Moon is full in Sagittarius, the sign of expansion, adventure and optimism. During the Full Moon the solar light of conscious awareness illuminates the instinctive depths of our lunar experience, and in Sagittarius our own lunar depths are lit up with a bright fire of knowledge and awareness. Sagittarius loves a good party, and the Sagittarius Full Moon is a time of... Read more

Check out Dharma’s post from Sunday which fills in some of the blanks in my portrait of JFK’s health issues. He also muses on the expectations parents place on children and how that is reflected in the birthchart in Saturn/Neptune contacts: I think it’s natural for parents to have hopes and dreams for their kids, even unrealistic ones, dreams that perhaps compensate for what they haven’t managed to achieve. If you’ve built up a business, you’re probably going to want... Read more