Raison d’être – “the most important reason or purpose for someone or something’s existence.” When Venus and Mars contact one another in conjunction, they fuse archetype. How would our values (Venus) motivate and compel us (Mars)? This examination may occur both in celebration and under duress. … Continue reading
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Astrology of 9/27 – 10/3: Transforming and Expanding Worldviews
We’ve got Pluto stationing direct this week, as it widely squares the Jupiter-Uranus opposition. This opposition is going exact this week. The inner planets are hanging out in Virgo and Libra and making a few aspects to Pluto this week. Together these transits evoke a … Continue reading
Astrology of 9/20 – 9/26: The Resonance Field
The Mercury-Mars conjunction begins to separate this week. The Sun enters Libra, Mercury will trine Pluto and square Saturn, and Mars will exact an opposition to Neptune. In the background (or more the foreground for many of us!), the Jupiter-Uranus opposition is growing tighter (exact … Continue reading
Aquarius Rules Psychic Phenomena, Too
It’s easy to view psychic phenomena as an emotional capacity, such as through the element of water within the zodiac. Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces will demonstrate emotional levels of psychic aptitude. In Cancer, we sense how other people are feeling – we are empathic. In … Continue reading
Astrology of 9/13 – 9/19: Quest Alignment
Nothing like a Sun square Saturn transit to start up the week to get robustly hearty in here. While on one end of the spectrum a Sun in Virgo – Saturn in Sagittarius transit could have us feeling really puritanical and harsh, it’s also about the true … Continue reading
Astrology of 9/6 – 9/12: Process is Union
This week begins with a doubly Neptunian Full Moon in the sign of Neptune’s rulership – Pisces. We are emerging from a still-active Sun opposition to Neptune, which has correlated with some dissolution of boundary, especially in the realm of identity. Whether we met this … Continue reading
Astrology of 8/30 – 9/5: Martial Zen
This week we are leading up to a Full Moon in Pisces (on the 6th), so our lunar energy is growing. Mercury retrograde will re-enter Leo before stationing direct on the 5th. Mars and Mercury will join up in Leo and shortly after, Mars will … Continue reading
Astrology of 8/23 – 8/29: Taking Your Truth Seriously
A dynamic week unfolds for us as Saturn will station direct, after just being part of a Grand Fire Trine with the Solar eclipse in Leo only days prior. What are we setting in motion, into reality? While Saturn stationing retrograde prepares us to reconfigure … Continue reading
Astrology of 8/16 – 8/22: The Solar Eclipse Portal
This is our Solar Eclipse week! And it’s fiery out here. We have a few transits aspecting the eclipse point (Mars and the Sun), so many of these sections can be read as background information for this eclipse itself, as this is our surrounding celestial … Continue reading
Astrology of 8/9 – 8/15: The Simmer Between Eclipses
We are in the midst of eclipse season. The lunar eclipse has already occurred and we are heading toward the solar eclipse in Leo August 21. This week, we see a lot of goddess asteroid astro, we enter the last quarter phase of the Moon … Continue reading