Betty White has had one of the longest running careers in show business. Her career began just after her high school graduation, and she had her first radio show before she was 20. She was the star of the long-running television program The Golden Girls, and was a supporting actor in many television programs and films. Recently though her career seems to have exploded. Since 2009 she has appeared in three films, and she recently became the oldest living person... Read more
Mercury turns direct today after three weeks in retrograde motion, so after today communication will get a bit easier and we are less subject to all kinds of snafus. It will take a few days for Mercury to pick up steam after its change of motion, but Mercury is in its own sign of Virgo where it is strong and able to operate without hindrance. Additionally, Mercury is in harmonious aspect with both Pluto (transformational power) and Venus (the power... Read more
Jupiter and Uranus are the two planets of liberation, and back in May they converged in the first sign of Aries, the sign of courage, warfare, and action. The two turned retrograde over the summer, and a few weeks ago Uranus retrograded back into Pisces to complete its mission of revolutionizing (Uranus) the realm of our spiritual experience (Pisces). Yesterday Jupiter retrograded back into Pisces and the two planets are within a degree of each other now, so the influence... Read more
A reader on my Facebook page asked a really good question: “how does [Mercury retrograde] work with a New Moon and we are supposed to start new things??” Mercury retrograde periods are more appropriate for reviewing, re-doing, re-visioning, and renovating than for initiating something new. This is an assimilation phase. New Moons are times of new beginnings, because the Moon cycle begins anew when it conjoins the Sun. So we have a bit of looking forwards and backwards at the... Read more
The Virgo New Moon occurs Wednesday morning September 8th at 6:30 am Eastern (10:30 am GMT) on the heels of a beautiful aspect from Venus, the planet of love and beauty, to Chiron and Neptune. This Venus aspect has been opening up channels of love and creativity, assuring that old hurts can be more easily healed. With the Sun and Moon conjunct in Virgo at the New Moon, the emphasis here is on the details of life, bringing us back... Read more
After last year’s debacle over the Swine Flu hysteria, vaccine makers aren’t taking any chances and are practically giving the stuff away this year. Strikes by train workers in London and France are creating Mercury retrograde havoc for commuters. Let’s file this under Mercury retrograde for revisiting past research efforts that fell by the wayside: Scientists are researching the medicinal value of “magic mushrooms” and marijuana. Watch for a post on this subject coming soon! And in news that isn’t... Read more
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Interesting timing, as Jupiter and Uranus continue their conjunction in Pisces, blowing apart (Uranus) the conventional wisdom and accepted belief systems (Jupiter) having to do with all that is transcendent and beyond ordinary understanding (Pisces). Stephen Hawking has created a firestorm in his new book, The Grand Design, in which he declares that an intelligent creator was not necessary for the creation of the Universe. This is nothing new – Hawking has long argued against the need for a supernatural... Read more
The Musings on Astrology show on Blog Talk Radio happens (nearly) every Sunday at 11 am. This week’s show is focused on Pluto. Pluto represents death, and endings, and the new beginnings that arise out of the destruction and elimination of something that has passed away. Pluto is very powerful during the month of September as it slows down in preparation for its change of direction in mid-month. This provides us with a great deal of energy to push through... Read more
I might have been too optimistic when I wrote that the global planetary intensity would begin to subside as soon as the last aspect aspect of Saturn to Pluto completed in August. After all, Saturn and Pluto are just a little more than a degree off their exact square, and Jupiter’s expansive qualities still are well within range of exacerbating the power conflicts that Pluto tends to engender. In addition, Pluto is at a virtual standstill in preparation for its... Read more
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