The first quarter Moon is in Libra today, creating a very wide (but still active) cardinal grand cross between the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Pluto, and Uranus. Meanwhile Saturn/Neptune are still in a close square. Here are some of the extraordinarily complex themes at work during the recent activation o

​The Moon is in Libra today, about to enter Scorpio, and meanwhile Venus has just entered the sign of Leo. What to watch for: * Good news comes in an email or conversation with someone* Working out an agreement is successul* Agreeing to terms or coming to a smooth resolution* Compromise* Empa

I’m heading out of town for a birthday holiday with my family. I will return to horoscope writing next Monday! Meanwhile, I wrote this last night. This is for all my readers and all my astrology friends…isn’t astrology amazing?! Thank you for supporting me and my work, and here is

Happy Full Moon Everyone! Here’s what to watch for today… * The Saturn/Neptune square highlights the difference between the court of public opinion/perception, and the simple or direct reality of someone or something…”facts” and “stories” and the manipulati

The Moon is in Libra today. Meanwhile, Mercury has just entered Gemini and is now moving from the opposition to Mars into a gradual opposition with Saturn and the activation of the grand cross again in the weeks to come.What an awful few days in the ongoing saga of these public attacks.Here are a f

The Moon is in the sign of Libra today, and the mutable Grand Cross is slowly being activated again by Mercury in Gemini. Here’s what to watch for: *Open mindedness and anger* Increased intellectual tension (Mercury/Saturn)* Relativism vs absolutism (Mercury/Saturn)* Rigidity vs open mindedne

The waxing Moon is in Scorpio today.This morning I spent time meditating on the mutable grand cross and an image came to mind that I ended up exploring in depth.The image that came to mind was of sediment lying at the bottom of a jar. This image led me to a famous passage in the Old Testament book

The Moon is in Scorpio again today, meanwhile Mercury’s opposition to Saturn is growing stronger.Yesterday’s filibuster on gun control in the senate is a great example of the Mercury/Saturn opposition intensifying in the midst of the mutable grand cross. Using the headline as a metaphor

The Moon is in Scorpio this morning, about to conjoin with Mars. Today a meditation on the discovery of a new layer of inscription being decoded on the Antikythera mechanism (an ancient astronomical computing device that was found in a shipwreck in 1901).Yesterday I explored the 49th hexagram of th

Happy Summer Solstice AND Full Moon!!!What a glorious day of light, reflected by both the Moon’s brightest face and the Sun’s longest day.Here’s what to watch for:* The end/climax of a struggle drawing near (Mars about to station and turn direct)* A transitional phase climaxing an

In the next week Mars will station and turn direct in Scorpio.Here are some general tips for a Mars station:* Clear the air if you have to, but don’t throw tantrums, if it’s important enough then you are strong enough to be tactful* If something has been weakened don’t be surprise

As Mars is getting closer to stationing we can watch for… * Reminders of what’s important that come through the word “no”* Reminders of what’s important that come through something failing or not being received as well as we hoped for* Reliving a frustrating pattern bu

The last quarter Moon is in Aries today, and Mars has basically stopped moving and will turn direct by the end of the week.Here’s another set of themes you might notice this week, especially as the last quarter Moon comes through today:* Humility or grace in defeat* Emotional courage* Showing

Happy Mars Stationing Day. Brought to you by an Aries Moon that is moving toward a conjunction with Uranus in Aries!Here’s what you might see out there in life land:* Feeling recharged, recovering, and raring to go* Accidentally injuring yourself, again, and feeling generally pissed off or gr

Its last quarter Moon today, and the Moon is in Pisces. Meanwhile Venus and the Sun are traveling closer and closer to an exact opposition with Saturn.The Sun and Saturn have such an interesting relationship. This morning it brings to my mind a passage from the Tao Te Ching: “Contraction pull

The waning Moon is in Aries today, moving toward sextiles with Venus and the Sun and then a trine with Saturn. Meanwhile, Venus and the Sun are opposite Saturn in Sagittarius and Mercury is applying to an opposition with Mars. Here’s what to watch for both today and this week: * Venus is at t

The Moon is in Taurus today, applying to a trine with Jupiter in Virgo. Meanwhile, the Sun and Venus are now almost exactly opposite Saturn and square to Jupiter and Neptune.Here’s what to watch for:* An overly restrictive attitude held for too long within a relationship leads to misfortune*

The mutable grand cross is about as exact as it’s going to get during this dark moon to new moon period.Major themes to watch for:* A major transitional phase that could be related to differing beliefs or opinions, rivalries or ideologies within romantic relationships, friendships, or larger

Happy New Moon! The new Moon is later this evening and will coincide with a mutable grand cross. It’s a big day in astrology town.Here’s what to watch for in this mutable grand new moon:* Incompatibilities becoming less and less tolerable* Make or break decisions in relationships, jobs,

Venus is cazimi today, at the heart of the Sun and finally ready to begin her rebirthing process!What does this mean?* Go back to roughly the end of October, 2014 for the last time Venus was beginning her rebirthing phase and starting a new cycle. For example, my wife and I were just returning from