Chiron in Pisces: Mediator of Water Chiron stationed retrograde at 14 degrees Pisces on June 17, 2013. Chiron and Neptune have been widely conjunct during the first half of 2013 in Pisces, and will remain together within a wider orb of nine degrees for the next year. Chiron and Neptune began their current cycle in … Continue reading Chiron in the Flood of Pisces
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Gemini and the Ugly Duckling
Gemini New Moon: meetings of Mercury & Venus The Lunar Eclipse on May 24 occurred at the same time that Mercury and Venus were conjunct at 19 degrees of Gemini, also in range of being conjunct Jupiter. In June the cycle continues, as Venus and Mercury will be conjunct again, magically, at the time of … Continue reading Gemini and the Ugly Duckling
Persephone: Queen of Soul and Spirit
Persephone conjunct Saturn in ScorpioPersephone asteroid (#399) is conjunct Saturn in Scorpio on May 28, 2013 and has about a two degree orb of a conjunction with Saturn from May 1, 2013 through July 21, 2013.Persephone asteroid (#399) also had about a two degree orb of a conjunction with the North Node of the Moon … Continue reading Persephone: Queen of Soul and Spirit
Pleiades in midst of Midspring Eclipses
Pleiades: Seven Sisters Whenever Mercury enters the sign of Gemini as it did on 5/15/13, it is thought of as Mercury returning "home," since Mercury rules Gemini. Yet this is even more true according to myth, as Hermes is the son of the Pleiadian sister Maia (the Pleiades are seven sisters in Greek Myth), and … Continue reading Pleiades in midst of Midspring Eclipses
Taurus and Incarnation
Taurus and Being Human in FormWhat do you desire? What do you value? You may have noticed others, including astrologers, asking you these questions recently as we have been experiencing an incredibly intense time period of Taurus energy these past couple of weeks, but especially now. Unrelated to astrology, in the community college class I … Continue reading Taurus and Incarnation
Isis: Archetype of Love and Devotion
Isis in Astrology Asteroid #42 Isis associations: unity, love, loyalty, devotion, sustaining, synthesizing, reassembling, resurrection, alchemy, soul retrieval, healing of fragmentation, finding wholeness of Self through union with other, kundalini, sex magic, mother of inner divinity, wholeness, and mourning protector of the dead. The house and sign placement of the Isis asteroid in our birth … Continue reading Isis: Archetype of Love and Devotion
Aries and Individuation
The Birth of Archetypes In Botticelli's masterwork The Birth of Venus we can sense the initiatory impulse of Aries: a Goddess arising out of an oceanic expanse, naked and primal, radiant and yet revealing an inclination to slightly cover up her exposed beauty. Or perhaps that slight insecurity is coming from the woman rushing in to cloth … Continue reading Aries and Individuation
Saint Francis: by way of Neptune and Uranus
On March 13, 2013 the story of Saint Francis re-entered mass consciousness with the birthing of Pope Francis. No matter your opinion regarding the political scandal and gossip concerning the Vatican and the Catholic Church, the horrific accusations and coverings up of sexual abuse amongst priests and other acts of oppression, the choice of the … Continue reading Saint Francis: by way of Neptune and Uranus
Osiris: Alchemic Archetype
OSIRIS ASTEROID Asteroid 1923 Osiris was discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar Observatory near Pauma Valley, California. At this time, Pluto was conjunct the North Node of the Moon in the sign of Virgo. The Virgo Pluto and North Node was also trine Saturn in Capricorn … Continue reading Osiris: Alchemic Archetype
An angel watches over an argument between Ceres and Mercury
In Pisces Time Venus is conjunct Neptune in Pisces at 2 - 4 degrees. Sun is conjunct Chiron in Pisces at 9 - 10 degrees. Mercury retrograde is conjunct Mars in Pisces at 19 -20 degrees. Pisces is always on our minds at this time of year, the end of Winter in our northern hemisphere, … Continue reading An angel watches over an argument between Ceres and Mercury
A Light in the Darkness
December 21-23, 2012 The times surrounding the Winter Solstice of 2012 We all knew the world wasn't going to end today (at least I hope you knew), but the sudden mass shift into higher consciousness and rainbow light predicted by some new age philosophers hasn't exactly been happening either. Many of us have been inundated … Continue reading A Light in the Darkness
Triple Goddess T-Square: Vesta, Juno, and Pallas Athena
There is just so much going on right now with astrology transits, it isn’t quite as obvious to pay attention to the asteroids named after Goddesses. I mean, we not only have the Pluto-Uranus square going on, we have Pluto and Mars conjunct in Capricorn, we have Venus and Saturn conjunct in Scorpio, we have … Continue reading Triple Goddess T-Square: Vesta, Juno, and Pallas Athena
Passion of Juno, Intensity of Scorpio
While the lunar nodes shifting into Scorpio and Taurus, Saturn culminating its journey through Libra, and the square between Capricorn Pluto and Aries Uranus has been drawing a lot of attention, an archetypal energy that has drawn mine is Juno. When the north node of the moon shifted into Scorpio around September 1, 2012 it … Continue reading Passion of Juno, Intensity of Scorpio
Pussy Riot in the Stars
Pussy Riot has been one of the biggest stories during this time of Aries Uranus square Capricorn Pluto. The energy of Aries in Uranus is reflected in the image above, the energy of Capricornian Plutocrats attempting to control and repress this same energy, below: There is more going on with the cosmic archetypes relating to … Continue reading Pussy Riot in the Stars
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