The Cancer New Moon on the 12th is a Supermoon and a partial solar eclipse. The term Supermoon (™ astrologer Richard Nolle) simply means that the Moon is at its closest point to the Earth. When the Moon is full and a Supermoon it appears large in the sky. When the Supermoon is a New Moon, we can’t […]
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Like human beings, nations and entities also have astrological charts and a look at the planetary cycles affecting nations can tell us a great deal about what is in store. Personal request from me: Political posts can generate nastiness. Please keep all comments productive and astrological. Pluto Geeky astrological detail: I use the Sibley chart […]
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The predominant planetary influence this week and next centers around our relationship to our bodies. But not just our relationship to our bodies, our experience of being IN a body and all that this entails: the connection between the body, mind and spirit; the food that we take in to nourish and nurture ourselves and […]
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The political chaos that we are now experiencing seems to follow every alignment between Uranus (radical change) and Pluto (destruction and transformation). Today’s chaos is the result of the tumultuous change fostered by the challenging square between Uranus and Pluto between 2010 and 2017. Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice emerged during the Uranus/Pluto conjunction of […]
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Mars turned retrograde on June 26th, and even the Planetary K index which measures geomagnetic activity reacted with a level 5 storm, helping to intensity even more the aggression and heightened energy of the Mars station (catch up with Mars retrograde here). The Moon is full in steady Capricorn now to help us find greater […]
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From Earth and Sky: The July 2018 full moon [in Aquarius] presents the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century (2001 to 2100) on the night of July 27-28, 2018, lasting for a whopping 1 hour and 43 minutes. (In contrast, the previous total lunar eclipse on January 31, 2018, lasted 1 […]
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(Note for newbies: “retrograde” means that as we observe it from earth, a planet appears to be moving backwards in the sky. Planets obviously don’t cycle backwards, but from our perspective they do appear to and we call that “retrograde.” When a planet is retrograde its astrological influence is more personal, it often turns our […]
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You have spent a lifetime quietly mourning or ignoring your losses and your lostness with no funeral, no wake and no way to nurture your joy. Time for a burial. No, for a burning! For a great funeral pyre that will light the night sky. Then a festal meal of bread and wine. And, from […]
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The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about a referendum in Switzerland regarding the very nature of money. You will probably hit a paywall, but here is the relevant portion: A decade after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the world is still debating the causes of the financial crisis—down to the meaning of money […]
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Art by Frenta. Neptune turns retrograde today and will remain in retrograde motion until November 24th this year. Neptune (and the other two outer planets) are retrograde for half the year every year, so it’s not a huge deal as planetary cycles go. Still, for the next few weeks while Neptune is gradually picking up speed in […]
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