The verdict on the Oscar Pistorius trial is due on September 11th after the end of closing arguments. Pistorius was arrested for the Valentine’s Day shooting of his girlfriend, Veena Steenkampf. Previously he rose to fame as the first double amputee to win a medal in an able bodied world track event. As I wrote last spring: Pistorius is a Bionic Man as befits a transhuman athlete in the Aquarian Age – fitted with artificial limbs that some argue give him an... Read more
Much of this article was originally posted in July of 2007. Chris Brennan and Eric Meyers recently participated in a lengthy debate comparing traditional and modern astrology which you can listen to here. Somewhere along the line astrologers split into two camps as some moved forward into humanistic or psychological astrology (leading into evolutionary and transformational astrology) and some moved backwards towards traditional or medieval astrology. Rob Hand was one of my favorite authors, and his book Planets in Transit is... Read more
An opposition from the Sun to Chiron (wounding and healing) on September 7th can open a window on a wounded aspect of ourselves to illuminate the darkness and help us to release the pain. This process is not always comfortable: as I wrote earlier this month “Healing hurts, but not as much as not healing.” When an old wound emerges we often want to escape from the discomfort that it brings, but if we can instead surround the feeling with light and... Read more
“There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree…their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we... Read more
Time is governed astrologically by the planet Saturn. Called Kronos in Greece, he was associated with the ravaging effects of time. For this reason he was also associated with death and the end of our time on Earth. However, Saturn’s reign is associated with a Golden Age: First of all the deathless gods who dwell on Olympos made a Golden Race of mortal men who lived in the time of Kronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like... Read more
Mercury just moved into Libra after spending a few weeks in the perfectionist sign of Virgo. I have to admit, I really enjoyed Mercury’s trip through Virgo this time since it helped me to get organized. I created checklists for housecleaning chores and organized my many to do lists although I can’t say I actually really got anything accomplished. Libra is the sign of balance and relationships – when Mercury travels through Libra our mind and communication seeks ways to find harmony and... Read more
The September 2014 Planetary Illuminations report is now up on my website and you can read the forecast in its entirety here. If you are not yet on my mailing list please sign up using the form below. * Email Meanwhile, here is the introduction with the major influences in September: As September begins we have been under the combined influence of Mars and Saturn, both in Scorpio, and coming into conjunction at the end of August. This has led been a powerful... Read more
After years of speculation, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie secretly married last weekend at their estate in France. Brad and Angelina are totally different astrologically – each offers the other what is lacking in their own chart (see Brad’s chart here, and Angelina’s chart here). Brad Pitt is a Sagittarius and has Jupiter in Aries which conjoins Jupiter in Angelina’s chart, giving them a sense of opportunity and fortune when they are together. However, Brad has a stellium of planets... Read more
The Moon is New in Virgo now – the beginning of a new lunar cycle, an opportunity to clean and scrub our lives with Virgo determination and bring our focus to the details: the food we eat, the cleanliness of our home, the ways in which we can improve ourselves and our surroundings. Virgo seeks perfection and this is a time for a life review to see where alterations are needed to help us to operate more effective in this... Read more
“I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped... Read more
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