mercury rx darker woodsOn Friday, Mercury turns retrograde at 5.58 Capricorn. The Sabian Symbol for 6 Capricorn is, I think, a beautiful and exciting one: “Ten logs lie under an archway leading to darker woods.” The logs can be the things that are …
Author: April
Previewing the December 21 lunar eclipse: Sleight of Hand
READ AN EXPANDED ESSAY BASED ON THIS BLOG POST HERE! Sometimes, momentous events happen without our knowing it; only in hindsight does everything seems clear, even preordained. This is often the case with eclipses. We wait with bated breath for somet…
Astrology and Your 2011 Wedding
I’ve been choosing wedding dates for couples for more than a decade now, and each year it gets both easier and more difficult. Easier, because I know what I’m looking for and have figured out how to find it quickly. But more difficult becau…
Marketing and astrology are not mutually exclusive
I’ve packaged a cleaned-up version (I edited out most of the dirty words) of my recent lecture on using your birth chart to market yourself along with a little workbook I designed to help you wring every drop of astrological goodness from it. Y…
Today’s Aspect-palooza: Four Seasons in One Day
Astrologically, things have been relatively quiet since the New Moon. That ends today, with a veritable bonanza of astro-activity. To wit: While you slept, the Sun squared Neptune. Jupiter and Venus both turn direct. Jupiter has been retrograde since J…
Solar astrology this week: preparing to fly
The Sun is winding down its annual tour of Scorpio’s turgid bayou country, headed for the clear, open skies of Sagittarius (arriving on November 22). But as it paddles for the surface, the Sun makes aspects this week to three planetary giants: Ju…
Join me and SDAS for a fun-filled night of … marketing.
Join me and the San Diego Astrological Society on Friday, November 12, at 7:30 p.m. as I present a lecture on “Using Your Birth Chart to Market Yourself: How astrology can help you do what you’re good at for people you like.” To the t…
Mercury in Sagittarius: Infinite Jest
Mercury entered Sagittarius on Monday for a several week stay (it will enter Capricorn on the 30th). Those born with Mercury in this sign (or in my case, in the 9th house and opposed Jupiter; same difference) will freely attest to its ebullience, phi…
Neptune turning direct: The Fog.
I spent the last couple of days mostly on the couch, mindlessly surfing the net and taking long naps, eating leftover Halloween candy, almost completely unable to marshal my resources and get anything done. I figured it was a sort of social hangover af…
Scorpio New Moon Astrology: Transformation is Hell
Transformation is Hell Humans hate change, and we rarely submit to it willingly. Rather, transformation is usually the consolation prize for having survived some godawful trek across a barren, lifeless landscape. We may refer to these journeys as ̶…