Tag: venus retrograde

And then there were four: Venus and Jupiter turn retrograde this week

Most of my readers already know this, but planets don’t actually travel backwards.  Astrology observes the motion of the planets from our perspective on earth, and from our perspective they occasionally appear to be moving backwards: we call this retrograde.   Pluto, planet of darkness and transformation, turned retrograde at the end of April.  Saturn, planet […]

The astrology of 2020: What can we expect?

Astrology of 2020

Before we can look ahead, we need to understand the past. As many of you already know, Pluto left expansive Sagittarius for restrictive Capricorn in 2008, beginning a domino effect that crashed financial markets around the world and punctured bubbles of false optimism that was keeping financial and economic systems afloat. Between 2010 and 2017, […]

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Taurus Full Moon Awakening, October 24 2018

Full Moon Art from Etsy.   The October Full Moon is sometimes called the Hunter’s Moon – in the northern hemisphere this is the time when the deer are rutting and behave wildly, and humans are preparing for a long winter by stocking up on food. This Full Moon occurs at zero degrees Taurus – the […]

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Astrology of Now: Sharing Secrets

The god of communications, Mercury, and Venus, the planet of peace and love, meet a few times a year to catch up on some gossip and maybe even steal a kiss. These two usually get along well since much of the time they are either in the same sign or sextiling — at least by sign. At this month’s rendezvous, on October 15/16, it looks as if Venus and Mercury may be sharing a secret or two since they are in subtle Scorpio. Mercury is direct, of course, and about to meet with Jupiter at the end of Scorpio; Venus, […]

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