When the Moon entered Cancer and Venus entered Libra on Friday, the astrological world held its collective breath. These two fast-moving celestial bodies were, we felt, the catalysts that would galvanize the slow-building and long-anticipated cardina…
Author: April
Remember that marriage survey?
A couple of years ago, many of you were kind enough to participate in my survey about marriage. The results of the project can be found in my article “When Will I Get Married?”, which appears in the Aug/Sep 2010 issue of The Mountain Astrol…
Eclipse fallout: Impermanence as a good thing
I woke this morning thinking about how exhausting that lunar eclipse on Saturday was, and about how I’m just beginning to find my balance. And my mind kept returning to this old essay about the impermanence of things – right down to the e…
The Upside of Eclipses
Eclipses are coming! Eclipses are coming! Time to hide under the bed, batten down the hatches, buy duct tape to seal off the doors and windows? In a word, no. But we astrologers can sound a little like tabloid journalists as we breathlessly – urg…
June 26, 2010 lunar eclipse in Capricorn: lighting the quivering fuse
The chart for the June 26 lunar eclipse at 4.26 Capricorn is a doozy, with the Moon conjunct Pluto, the Sun conjunct Mercury, and the whole shebang square Jupiter/Uranus on one end of the sky and Saturn on the other (click image below for a larger vi…
A decade of Big Sky Astrology
Today I’m celebrating the 10th anniversary of BigSkyAstrology.com – which was actually yesterday, but I remembered too late in the evening to write a post or, for that matter, have a piece of birthday cake. In the early summer of 2000 the s…