Mercury and Venus are aligning in the sky and over the next week or so they will be beaming a beautifully bright light from the western sky, appearing as the brightest “star” visible in the heavens. Normally Mercury moves a little more quickly than Venus but at the moment Mercury is slowing down in preparation for its retrograde turn on the 17th so the two planets will be within three degrees of each other until around April 11th. Astrologically, Mercury... Read more
art by Rainbow Carnage. Last fall when I was in Jamaica, transiting Saturn made a square to my Mars. Saturn is the planet that causes restriction – it brings delays, disappointments, and can cause us to feel overworked. Mars in our chart shows where we are energized, inspired, and how we go about getting things done. Having just gone through a major transit of Pluto to my Mars, my Mars is pretty well activated. I speak up for myself, get... Read more
Venus rules today under the Libra Full Moon which culminates at 10:25 pm Eastern time. When the Moon is full, the light of our emotional interior as described by the Moon is more powerful than the light of the conscious mind as represented by the Sun, and there is a culmination of our hopes, dreams and desires. In Libra the Moon craves partnership, balance and harmony. There is a longing here for integration and a need for connection and peace. The... Read more
This is wrong in so many ways (thanks to Astrococktail for the article): Mumbai: Is astrology a science or an art of making money? The city-based NGO, Janhit Manch, has started a debate on the issue in the Bombay high court. A public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the manch and its convener Bhagwanji Raiyani, along with his associate Dattaram Kumkar, has questioned the validity of predictions by well-known astrologers, including Bejan Daruwalla, and unknown babas like Brahmarshi Shri Kumar Swami.... Read more
This whole debacle with Jesse James and the now eleven affairs he is supposed to have had during his marriage to Sandra Bullock, has me asking this question again. Astrology provides a window into the motivation behind people’s actions, so I took a deeper look. Sandra Bullock’s chart is not a very emotional one. She has the Moon in reasonable and rational Aquarius, showing that her feelings (the Moon) tend to be filtered through the mind rather than the emotional body. She... Read more
I don’t think anyone is very surprised that Jesse James has been having an affair with a stripper and porn star, but it’s still a shocking turn of events after her Oscar win seemed to signify a period of great fortune for Sandra. And so it is – she has Saturn sitting right on her Midheaven, the cusp of the tenth house of Career, showing that she is a hard worker and very concerned with achieving her goals. (7/26/64, unverified time... Read more
The US House of Representatives passed Obama’s health care bill last night, paving the way to the bill being signed into law. Under the opposition of Saturn to Uranus which began in the fall of 2008 and will conclude this summer, it has been virtually impossible to obtain any kind of compromise between two opposing views. In the American political landscape this has occurred not only between liberals (Uranus) and conservatives (Saturn), but also between the left and right ends... Read more
Art by Kathryn Rodenbach. The Sun enters Aries today, marking the Vernal Equinox – the time at which the days and nights are of equal length. The charts for the Equinoxes and Solstices are significant in predicting the energy that will be circulating over the next few months, and these charts are often used by weather forecasters as well as other prognosticators of various kinds. The chart for the current Equinox shows an exact opposition of Saturn to the Sun,... Read more
Sunday morning at 11 am Eastern! Tomorrow’s show, the first in a few weeks due to my bad flu which rendered me voiceless, will be a discussion of the Ceres archetype. Ever since Ceres was reclassified with Pluto as a dwarf planet (I actually like the original name given to Pluto, Ceres and Eris: The Plutoids), issues associated with Ceres such as the plight of women around the world and the health of the ecology of the planet have been at the... Read more
I’ve written about this before, but we have seen a huge surge of technology addiction since Uranus entered Pisces back in 2002, creating what we call a “mutual reception” with Neptune in Aquarius. We call this “mutual reception” because Uranus is traveling through Pisces, the sign that is ruled by Neptune, and Neptune is in Aquarius, the sign that is ruled by Uranus. This is a “double whammy” that connects the principles of Uranus and Neptune. Uranus rules technology and... Read more
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