Ruler: Mercury Exalted: Mercury Detriment: Jupiter Fall: Venus Polarity: Feminine/ Negative Modality: Mutable Element: Earth Body Parts: Small intestines, abdomen, pancreas…plus other functions controlling digestion and absorption of nutrients Nature: cold, dry, analytic I wrote a post for my new…
Author: Jo Tracey
Saturn Direct: learning your lesson
Saturn has been retrograde since mid March. During this time we should have all been using the time wisely to get our Saturn shit together. Saturn constricts rather than expands (which is why many astrologers see Saturn transits…
Tuesday Toolbox: Eclipses…
Eclipse season is almost with us again- we have one next week and two in September: 18/8/16 Full Moon 25 Aquarius 51′ 1/9/16 New Moon 9 Virgo 21′ 16/9/16 Full Moon 24 Pisces 20′ There’s debate over whether the first of…
The Week Ahead- and something about happiness…
You’ll be pleased to know I made it back from my weekend in the Australian bush unharmed. Of course I exaggerate, but I’m a Pisces- I like to weave a little fantasy and colour into reality…it makes for a good…
Venus in Virgo…
Venus is about to move into Virgo- a sign she’s not particularly comfortable in. Venus in Virgo is in what traditional astrologers term the sign of her fall (remember back to this Toolbox?). This doesn’t mean that Venus is weak…
Mars in Sagittarius…
I don’t know about you, but Mars Retrograde was hard…so hard. Sure, Mars doesn’t like to be travelling in any direction other than forward, but I tend to think the worst part of this particular phase was his period back…
Leo New Moon…
I was talking to a friend the other day while I was out walking. Whenever I can, I like to do that- walk, that is- over my lunch break. After covering the usual topics- travel, work, travel, food, Bali, travel,…
The week ahead and something about a camping trip…
As this goes to press, all being well we’ll be on our annual “camping” trip. We call it camping, although we don’t sleep in tents (well, my brother does, but that’s his choice) and there is a flushing toilet and…
Mercury in Virgo…
One I prepared much earlier… ‘and on that farm he had a …. crocodile!’ announced Sarah. ‘But there aren’t any crocodiles on farms, Sarwah,’ pointed out A. My daughter and my niece were singing “Old Macdonald Had a Farm” in…
Uranus Retrograde 2016
One I prepared earlier, but the technical details have been updated. If I had a dollar for every person over the last couple of days who has mentioned how much they need a break, some time away, some time…