December 28th, 2016: Mature Confrontations

Ilya Repin - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org

Ilya Repin – Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org

  • Sun conjunct Mercury Rx in Capricorn: 7 degrees
  • Mercury Rx in Capricorn sextile Mars in Pisces: 7 degrees
  • Saturn in Sagittarius square Chiron in Pisces: 21 degrees

Sun/Mercury Rx can uncover answers, or spotlight the return of someone from your past. News, conversations or reconnections will give you more to go on, but nothing’s final. Rather, this aspect encourages you to ask more questions or continue the review. Will the structure hold? Is the commitment real? Where are the weak spots? Mars adds gentle initiative – keep looking, thinking, considering and act accordingly. 

Rules, denial or obligations define (Saturn) the wound (Chiron). The crisis of the square will make this influence especially tense and unpleasant. But the square is an active aspect. Chiron is meant to be confronted, so use the tension to do that. Mars’ influence on Sun/Mercury Rx encourages you to take action, in light of what you hear or learn (just remember it’s Mercury Rx).

The Capricorn/Saturn influence is dominant. This means maturity and self-control are your sharpest tools. 

These influences are part of the Capricorn New Moon. 

 

 

Advanced Synastry Course Coming Up in January

            The Advanced Synastry Course will begin the week of January 22nd and last for six weeks/lessons, until March 4th.  Although the basics remain, this is a newly revised version of the course and it should prove challenging.  We will do a great deal of angle work and focus on […]

Last Few OTC Readings Left

    Hi, Folks– Last chance for an OTC reading.  Looks like there are six slots still available, scattered during the 9th, 10th, 12th and 14th of January. Readings are spontaneous readings by me which last about 45 minutes.  The cost is $60.  I will use the natal chart, progressions, transits and we will have […]

December 27th, 2016: Quiet Conquest

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola – Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org

  • Capricorn Sun sextile Mars in Pisces: 6 degrees
  • Pallas enters Pisces

Pallas reenters Pisces after her Rx and return to Aquarius. The undefined pattern/strategy is ready to be pursued, again. Pallas Rx was a time to revise, and ensure that the pattern wasn’t an illusion. Now you can move forward with your creative/compassionate plan. Pallas is named after the warrior goddess, Pallas Athena, so she is also associated with victory. But in Pisces, the battle may not be obvious. It could be a spiritual battle, or strategies that help you overcome loss.  

Sun/Mars can help, as they energize Pisces. Purpose harmonizes with action, for gentle but certain progress. None of these energies are about violent conquest. But they do encourage quiet victory.  

Just A Little Broken: RIP George Michael

Fragile, strong, sweet, sharp — a little broken. George Michael was a superstar with a seemingly boundless musical gift, but it was his vulnerability that made him special. Something, somewhere, had been cracked (one felt), and, like a “golden repair” on a Japanese pot, it made George Michael beautiful. Michael’s soul seeped out gradually into his stage persona. At first, he just seemed like a pretty, talented teenager eager to have fun and make money with his schoolfriend. But then there was Careless Whisper: we heard that sweet, strong voice deliver the wistful, hurting lyrics, and it was clear his talent was bigger than Wham! This is such a sensitive […]

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Dec 29, 2016 Capricorn New Moon = 1940 ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ New Moon both @7Cap

Reluctantly tonight, I’m posting just a brief historical and astrological note to say that the Syzygy Moon of FDR’s ‘The Arsenal of Democracy’ speech ("we have to be…") delivered on December 29, 1940 @7Cap00 will be conjoined–by degree repeated and thus emphasized–by the New Moon of December 29, 2016 @7Cap55 at 1:53:08 am est (White House Washington DC). The concept of weapons and matters