Tag: Retrograde

Keep on Keeping on…

So Mercury is retrograde? What does it mean for you?
When Mercury stations in the 1st house
Communication is fast and sometimes aggressive- yell first, ask questions later. Very often decisions and plans are made on the fly- quite often without the s…

Don’t Look Back in Anger

Jab, straight, uppercut, duck, weave, hook, straight.
Easy enough instructions.
Shoulders down, back foot down, punch from the hip, core on, wrists strong… WTF?
This mornings training session was always going to be a sweat fest. That’s cool- a…

Your Career & the Cosmos: Thinking Time

OK, I posted the full Saturn retrograde post here yesterday. Now for the “at work” version. My latest post for Your Career & The Cosmos is here. I reckon I’m going to have to go back to NZ to get a new crop of mountain photos if I…

The Real Thing

Living in Australia, we are lucky. For many reasons. For many others we also learn about boundaries and responsibilities early. We learn about the wildlife that can kill us, we learn about how to build our houses to mitigate the risk of the elements. A…

Running on Empty?

I have Mars in Scorpio, in the 8th house.
At 3 Scorpio, not only is Mars in the sign he rules (ie very strong), in the house naturally associated with Scorpio (this is good too) in traditional terms (for reasons to do with words like “triplicity”, …

Step back- 2012 Retrograde Dates

I know we are well into January, but here is your annual guide to all things retro-planets, that is.
During any retrograde cycle of any planet we bring our attentions within. The energy of the planet is intensified, and that energy is brought within.
D…

Retrogrades and Recalibration

Today’s a busy day astrologically- a New Moon, an Eclipse and, in case you haven’t already been impacted by delayed flights, lost baggage, traffic snarls and missed meetings, Mercury turns retrograde.
The usual Mercury retrograde rules apply, but i…

Hope, Faith and Optimism

I am writing this from a seat in Perth Domestic Airport waiting for a flight home, hopeful that not only will the schedule the airline is operating to match mine, but also that my bag will depart on the same flight as I do.
Hope.
Last night I said a te…

An apology and a shout out

I’d like to start this post with a public apology to everyone on the same flight as me to Perth yesterday. You all got to share in my extremely shitty transit.
Now, I’m not normally one for checking the daily movement of the little guys against my…

It’s a Metamorphosis

When we were in NZ the other week, my friend showed us this really cool website that demonstrated the earthquakes in Christchurch as they were happening. It showed in timelapse the quakes in real-ish time.
Quakes are, of course, a very Pluto phenomeno…