Phil Brown has a great post today on the shift in how we perceive Saturn based on the change in parental roles: Capricorn has a broad range of meanings, one of which has to do with the parent or persons of authority. Capricorn’s ruler, Saturn, plus the 10th house are often associated with the individual father. However, the whole issue of assigning a parental gender to planets and luminaries is problematic in modern culture, where shifting gender roles have made... Read more
According to the Queen in Through the Looking Glass, “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” An article in the UK’s Daily Mail reveals that many scientists are beginning to accept what many of us have always known (bits snipped from this excerpt): Do some of us avoid tragedy by foreseeing it? Some scientists now believe that the brain really CAN predict events before they happen. Professor Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Cambridge University, says:... Read more
(A portion of this article is reprinted from an earlier post) In ancient Celtic times, the wheel of the year was honored as the turning of the seasons. In the northern hemispheres, the winter solstice was the shortest day of the year and represented the return of the light, and the summer solstice, being the longest day of the year, was the Celtic fire festival. The equinoxes represented the points of balance when day and night were of equal length:... Read more
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, currently starring as Henry VIII in Showtime TV’s “The Tudors,” recently checked himself into a rehab center at the age of 29 – smack in the middle of his Saturn return. Meyers is an interesting actor – he has a sneering intensity that reveals his background as a bit of a punk as well as blazing if androgynous good looks and startlingly blue eyes. Born and raised in Ireland, his father left the family at an early... Read more
Empress card from the Sharman-Caselli tarot deck The traditional astrological symbolism of Ceres has not really worked for me and I’m finding it not to be useful now that the importance of Ceres has been promoted with her reclassification as a “dwarf planet” along with Pluto. Some of the interpretations assigned to Ceres by astrologers are these: Ceres in the horoscope shows the early nurturing we received and how we nurture others. It also directly rules food and clothing. I... Read more
Art by Nancy Bright Looking ahead to my own progressed Lunar Return (when the progressed Moon returns to its place in the birthchart), I found this great article called “Cycles within Cycles.” Often we think of a planetary event like the Saturn Return (when transiting Saturn returns to its place in the birthchart) or the Uranus square or opposition. But in reality each cycle is a dance that opens channels of awareness, preparing us for the next dance. The second... Read more
From Skywatch for May, posted this morning: There are two Full Moons in May, the first of which is on May 2 at 6:10 am EST in Scorpio. Scorpio is the sign of intensity and passion, the impulse that pulls us into the deepest part of our soul and forces us to experience life in the most profound way possible. The Full Moon occurs when the Moon opposes the Sun, and although the Sun illuminates the Moon it is the... Read more
Ever since George Bush began the debacle known as the Iraq War he has been going through a series of problematic planetary cycles that have put him under tremendous pressures and forced confrontations with many of his friends and associates. You can read more about the overall State of the President in this article from January which has links to previous posts as well. Transiting Saturn is still putting pressure on Venus in his chart, showing difficulties in partnerships and... Read more
Jupiter is currently square to Uranus, an aspect which typically causes us to expand (Jupiter) our ability to take in and absorb radical information (Uranus). At the same time Saturn is trine to Jupiter which tends to keep our feet on the ground while we explore wildly contested theories. Which makes me think perhaps there is something to this: The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be wormholes leading to other universes, a new study says. If so,... Read more
Many cities and towns have old laws on the books against “fortune-telling,” but they are rarely if ever exercised. Now Philadelphia has taken a giant step backwards by “closing storefront psychics, astrologers, phrenologists and tarot-card readers who charge money for their services.” I don’t know how a storefront psychic is different than one who works over the phone, and there is no disputing that there are a lot of charlatans and scam artists out there as there are in any... Read more
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