Mercury and Venus in Scorpio are conjoining today, just as the first quarter Moon is ramping up. More to come on the first quarter Moon, tomorrow. Meanwhile…Here’s what to watch for today:* Depth and sensitivity in relationships* Depth and sensitivity regarding difficult topics in relat

We are just on the edge of Venus turning retrograde on Saturday afternoon.Here are some things to think about:* As Venus turns retrograde we will be moving into the dark Moon phase, suggesting that something is ready to be released or that decomposition is reaching its final and deepest stages. You

More Jupiter in Scorpio wisdom.* How do our desires become the vehicle for our spiritual growth?* Desire is problematic for us for a lot of different reasons. One of the most obvious reasons we struggle with desire is that desire keeps us stuck in a cycle of needing what we don’t have, strugg

The most important signs you have that Venus and Jupiter are coming together in Scorpio…* You are feeling horny and destructive and yet yoga or sacred chanting might feel good right about now…* You are getting everything you wanted, and it’s making you paranoid* Being realistic fe

The Sun has entered Scorpio this week, and ruling planet Mars is in its exile in Libra.* The Sun in Scorpio represents the most solid and stable time of solar descent in the zodiacal year.* Each day takes us deeper and deeper into darkness.* Darkness is materiality, the unconscious, and also the so

Jupiter’s entrance into Scorpio, along with the Sun brings to mind a variety of interesting themes, thanks in no small part to Jupiter being the dispositor for the finalizing of the Saturn/Neptune square.* As Saturn and Neptune have been square to one another for quite some time now, we’

Today, Halloween tales from Jupiter in Scorpio…​* Jupiter in the Mars ruled, feminine/yin water sign of Autumn brings together the qualities of disintegration, death, destruction, depth, and intensity, with wisdom, faith, hope, renewal, growth, and nobility. What do these themes look li

More notes on Jupiter in Scorpio.* In addition to officials of all kinds, including politicians and lawyers, Jupiter has long been thought of as the planet of the guru, the teacher, the sage, the priest or priestess, or the professor.* Jupiter in Scorpio is the dark guru, the teacher of the underwo

More today on Jupiter entering Scorpio… * Jupiter entering Scorpio for the next year heralds a time of heightened instinctual intelligence. In the psychological language of the elements, water is related to our primal, physical instincts. I sometimes use the example of Scorpio, a solid, Mars

More thoughts today on Jupiter’s entrance into Scorpio, this time from the I Ching. * The 47th hexagram of the I Ching is sometimes called “Exhaustion.”* The image of hexagram 47 is that of an empty lake, a body of water that has drained into an invisible abyss beneath it.* The Ch

​Today we’ll take another look at Jupiter in Scorpio. * Another lesser known astrological configuration involves the domicile ruler of any sign being in the 12th sign relative to its home sign. For example, ever since Saturn entered Sagittarius it has been in the 12th sign relative to C

Jupiter is completing its opposition to Uranus, and will soon enter Scorpio.Here’s an interesting preview of what you might expect from a year of Jupiter in the sign of the Scorpion:* Jupiter entering the sign of Mars means that growth, expansion, wisdom, faith, and renewal will come alongsid

Welcome, Jupiter into the sign of Scorpio!!* Today Jupiter enters the sign of Scorpio to stay until next November.* In traditional astrology, Jupiter is the domicile (the home) of Mars. It is the feminine abode of Mars. Scorpio is a solid water sign. I do not personally recognize the outer planets

It’s last quarter Moon today and the Sun will enter Scorpio this evening.A few quick things to remember about Scorpio:* When the Sun moves into the sign of deep Autumn it brings intense clarity to things like death, loss, and depth…these normally “dark” subjects become ironi

A few more important notes about Scorpio today…* More than perhaps any other sign, people love to try and “rebirth” Scorpio into something “nice.” Whenever a conversation comes up about Scorpio someone is always bound to say that Scorpio is really about rebirth. First,

Mars has finally retrograded out of Sagittarius and is now in the late degrees of Scorpio, its home home sign. The Moon is also in Aquarius today, moving toward a square with Mars.Here are a few things to watch for:* By going back to something from the past we find ourselves empowered* Something fr

The Moon is in Aries today, and Mars is retrograde in Scorpio.During my morning meditation I sat again with the 40th hexagram of the I Ching, called “liberation,” and thought about the return of Mars to its home sign through its retrograde motion. The 40th hexagram of the I Ching has to

It’s first quarter Moon time! The seed of a new cycle emerges and now again a new story is taking hold. The Sun and Mercury are preparing to enter Sagittarius by the end of the week and Autumn will give way to winter.Let’s discuss for a moment the archetypal tension between Aquarius and

The Moon is in Virgo today, just moving past a square of Saturn and sextile of Mercury, and shortly opposing Neptune and then making sextile to the Sun and trine to Pluto. For the second time in my life my dogs have fleas while Mercury is in Scorpio. It looks as though we caught it very early, but

The dark Moon is void of course in Libra this morning, and will push into Scorpio by tonight. New Moon by Wednesday of this week!Meanwhile, Venus has moved into Libra, one of her two domiciles, and Mars will join her there by Thursday evening, just after the new moon. Also, Mercury is moving closer