Solar Eclipse in Cancer The Annular Solar Eclipse on June 21 will emit a thin golden ring of light around a pulsating black center. For those who can view the eclipse in daylight hours, the supremacy of the radiant sun will be overcome by the darkness of night, the blackness that gives birth and through … Continue reading Cancer Solstice Eclipse
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Mercury Retrograde in Cancer
Mercury Retrograde in Cancer Mercury shifts retrograde at least three times a year, yet some are positioned at more pivotally important times than others. Mercury will station retrograde at 14º45' Cancer on the night of June 17 in Pacific standard time, only a few days before the Moon will eclipse the Sun on the solstice. It is … Continue reading Mercury Retrograde in Cancer
Pallas Athena, Jupiter, & Pluto on the Kosmic Tonic Podcast
Pallas Athena & the Jupiter Pluto Conjunctions I was recently interviewed on the Kosmic Tonic Podcast about the meaning of the asteroid Pallas Athena conjoining Jupiter and Pluto during all three times that Jupiter and Pluto unite together in 2020. I met Eliza and Jasmine at UAC (United Astrology Conference) in 2018 and Kestrel at … Continue reading Pallas Athena, Jupiter, & Pluto on the Kosmic Tonic Podcast
Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius
Take up the blood from the grass, sun. Take it up. These people do not thirst for it. Take up the insect children that play in the grass, sun. Take them away. These people are sick of them. Take down the long slender reeds, sun. Cut them down. These people cannot make flutes any longer. … Continue reading Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius
New Moon in Gemini
New Moon in Gemini The New Moon in Gemini on May 22, 2020 heralds a lunar cycle that will require the cunning skills of Mercury, the ability to consider many perspectives while navigating twists and turns in events and keeping an open mind regarding necessary changes in direction. Gemini delights in the discovery of new … Continue reading New Moon in Gemini
Stargazer Podcast conversation on Planets in Fall
I'm happy to share a conversation I had recently with Rachel of Aeolian Heart Astrology who recently began her own podcast called the Stargazer Podcast. If you haven't already noticed Rachel's writing previously I suggest checking it out at https://aeolianheart.com as well as the benefits you can receive by joining her Patreon. I've read Rachel's … Continue reading Stargazer Podcast conversation on Planets in Fall
Venus Retrograde in Gemini
Venus Retrograde in Gemini Venus will station retrograde on May 12 at 21°50' Gemini, initiating us into a forty-four day period in which the star of Aphrodite will backtrack through the zodiac until stationing direct on June 25 at 5º02' Gemini. Thus the zodiacal terrain of five to twenty-two degrees of Gemini will receive a … Continue reading Venus Retrograde in Gemini
Full Moon in Scorpio
Full Moon in Scorpio The Full Moon in Scorpio on May 7, 2020 will illuminate the most inward depths of feelings and memories, penetrating underneath the surface of whatever emotional material has been gathered since the Taurus New Moon on April 22. Like laying down within a pastoral landscape of bees pollinating flowers, swallows diving … Continue reading Full Moon in Scorpio
Planets in Fall and the Spirit of the Depths – schedule change
Saturday, May 16, 2020 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time I recently announced I will be teaching a workshop for Nightlight Astrology called "Planets in Fall and the Spirit of the Depths" on Saturday, May 16. I will still be teaching on May 16, but the time has been moved to 1 pm Eastern standard time … Continue reading Planets in Fall and the Spirit of the Depths – schedule change
Taurus New Moon & Uranus
New Moon in Taurus The monthly lunar cycle ends and begins in darkness. While the New Moon in Taurus on April 22 is an inception of a new cycle, there is a death and rebirth process for the Moon to undergo under the rays of the Sun that is necessarily nurtured by darkness. There is … Continue reading Taurus New Moon & Uranus
Spring Speaker Series: Planets in Fall and the Spirit of the Depths
Nightlight Astrology Spring Speaker Series Saturday, May 16, 2020 1 pm Eastern Standard Time I'm excited to announce I will be presenting as part of Nightlight Astrology's Spring Speaker Series, which is free to attend and taking place online, on May 10th, 16th and 17th. My talk is entitled "Planets in Fall and the Spirit … Continue reading Spring Speaker Series: Planets in Fall and the Spirit of the Depths
Chiron on the Radiant Astrology Podcast
I recently spoke with Christina Caudill on her Radiant Astrology Podcast about Chiron in Aries, Chiron's role in astrology bridging the realms of Saturn with the realms beyond Uranus, and what we can learn from the mythology of Chiron. We talked on the day that the Sun in Aries was conjoining Chiron exactly, with both … Continue reading Chiron on the Radiant Astrology Podcast
Full Moon in Libra
Full Moon in Libra Amidst so much uncertainty around the world, the Libra Full Moon will illuminate the changes that have been taking shape during the pandemic and how we have been adjusting. The Full Moon has a relational focus due to being in the outwardly directed home of Venus, with its pull to examine … Continue reading Full Moon in Libra
Ceres at the Crossroads of Civilization
Ceres and the 2020 Pandemic The krater above was created near the end of the life of Empedocles, who declared that forces of love and strife are at the root of creation. On the left is a crowned Persephone, while on the right stands her mother Demeter. In between are Hermes and Hekate, deities who … Continue reading Ceres at the Crossroads of Civilization
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