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This coming Saturday, Venus completes her retrograde motion for this year. Her next retrograde will begin early October 2018 (in Scorpio). At 5:18 AM CDT on 4/14/2017, Venus will station direct conjunct Chiron at 26o Pisces and sextile Mars in Taurus. Sitting directly in between Venus and Mars are both the Sun and Uranus, which… Continue reading Visionary Fiction Alliance
Today is Super Bowl Sunday. From where I’m sitting, it seems the NFL championship has been taking a back seat to other battles of late. In my post called Happy 2017!, I mentioned a few bits of information I would like to revisit. At that time, Mercury was still retrograde. In the fourth paragraph, I… Continue reading Astrology Update: February 2017
This evening, we're in for a visual treat. The full moon will rise flanking Mars. As the following diagram shows, look ESE around sunset. If skies are clear, you'll easily spot them. Last night, I was able to see Mars glowing brightly about ten degrees below the waxing gibbous (nearly full) moon. The above diagram… Continue reading Moon-Mars Rise
On Jeopardy, some phrases are categorized as before and after. The title of today’s blog can be seen that way: “seeing red,” and “red light.” Within the next 24 hours, the two red planets will both station retrograde. When Mars and Pluto aspect, it is common for one who has been a bit angry to then… Continue reading Seeing Red Light
At 10:32 am CDT today, Venus enters Leo—a sign she won’t leave for good until October 8th. Between now and then, she’ll conjunct Jupiter three times, most conspicuously on July 1st. Venus will dip her toes into Virgo on July 18th, station retrograde on the 24th, then reverse back into Leo on July 31st. Back… Continue reading Venus Enters Leo
A Quick Review In Astrology, the Zodiac is comprised of 12 unique combinations of four elements and three cardinalities. Cardinal wants initiation. Mutable wants adaptation. Fixed wants stability. This morning at 8:07 am CDT, the sun takes its turn making an exact square to Neptune. Our will, egged on by logic, runs contrary to our… Continue reading Filling a Lake
Mercury station retrograde (in Gemini) precedes sun ingress Gemini by approximately 31 hours. That’s close enough to consider them as a single event, or rather the onset of a temporal window. Sun ingress Gemini is the start of an Astrological month, a month which, this year, is dominated by Mercury retrograde. Via the analysis described… Continue reading Mercury, Gemini, and Everyone
Regarding people, Astrologers often study charts for those moments when a planet returns. The most (in)famous of these is the Saturn Return. With events, we can also study return charts that occur due to retrograde motion. The following is an example. On January 12, 2015 at approximate 10:30 am, I was involved in an accident on… Continue reading Retrograde and Return
[Update 7/19/20210] These years, thanks to Google Maps and smart phones, we almost always know where we are (on the globe). But how often do we get lost within our spiritual journeys? For someone who stays home a lot, I’ve been on quite a journey. I moved into this house three and a half years… Continue reading Reinvention
Yesterday I did a Tarot reading for a woman who may have a decision to make in the near future: to stay at her current job or accept an offer that is forthcoming. The first card I pulled, front and center, was the Nine of Cups—the wish card. The sign of Aquarius, which we are… Continue reading Is it a Sign or just a Coincidence?
A Fool's Inclination 