Cautious Communications, Mercury enters Cancer

Tension is kickstarted on Monday, July 6 as our ability to care with the Sun in Cancer will require some inner adjustment with Pluto retrograde in Capricorn. We may be overly-obsessed with the control of personal needs and gains, which can lead some to make unpleasant demands. To work through this, we can utilize last […]

Everyone Has A Story

Last Friday, I did a charity event, which meant I did a dozen readings back-to-back in a short space of time. I was worried that I’d end up being a kind of fairground fortune teller. Cross my palm with silver, etcetera. My worries turned out to be groundless. Although I’d lost my voice by the end of it, the experience was energising and profound. This was thanks to the people who came to see me. They reminded me — again — of something important that astrology teaches: everyone is interesting. In a way, I’m used to this. All my clients […]

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Beards

Big bushy, smooth furry, patchy, pointy, oiled, curled and swooshing. Beards — big ones or neat ones — are the facial fashion for dandies these days. It’s so much fun. And maybe the biggest change in men’s fashion since bell-bottoms. Neptune is, of course, the planet of fashion, and since early 2011, the god of the seas has been in his own sign, which rules the sailors, romantic yearning, fantasy: Game of Thrones and Liam Hemsworth’s sweater, perhaps. Those Scandinavian chunky knits certainly say hello sailor. Neptune was last in Pisces throughout the 1850s, and indeed that was exactly when […]

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The Week Ahead…

So anyways, did anyone see the hook-up between Venus and Jupiter in the night sky last week? I managed to catch it a few times on my drive home- and was stationary at the traffic lights for long enough on…

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Summer 2015: a Starry Summer Triangle, Pluto’s historic flyby – Cosmic Pursuits (plus, astro-notes)

Cosmic Pursuits, Brian Ventrudo’s excellent astronomy website and newsletter, gives us a heads-up on the brilliant Summer Triangle of stars Vega, Altair, and Deneb (Adige) with double star Albireo twinkling colorfully in the triangle’s center.

Of course, depending on your vantage point, the trio may be called the Winter Triangle!

Now let’s consider a little astrology concerning Vega (Alpha