In which Mars in Pisces annoys Saturn in Virgo.
Back in July, Mars and Saturn stood together in the workmanlike sign of Virgo, marking a time to embark upon ambitious works requiring extraordinary attention to detail. Then, we took up our chisels to sculpt the world into useful forms – a trestle here, a reservoir there, a berm for …
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Money, music, and women
All are ruled by Venus, which is turning retrograde on March 6. Retrogrades often seem to take things away from us, like a tide going out and carrying with it precious sand (and perhaps our beach umbrella). But sometimes when the retrograde tide goes out, we find unexpected treasures lying …
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Eclipses: The Latitudes of Home
Each time the eclipse’s shadow falls across one of our guiding lights, we awaken to old fears and, hopefully, get a bit better at facing them. But the eclipse-touched places in us remain a little ajar, just below the surface. They are as rich as freshly-plowed earth and ready to receive the seeds of startling change…
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Choosing Wedding Dates with Astrology
by April Elliott Kent Previously published in Llewellyn’s 2005 Moon Sign Book. For a more detailed look at choosing wedding dates with astrology, read my tutorial! Hey, diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the …
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Fault Lines
Oh yeah. Eclipses. They rattle us because they remind us where the bones are buried. They haunt our sensitive spots and tap on the trick knees of our psyches with the tiny ball peen hammer of fate until eventually – reflexively – we shoot right through the ceiling.
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The Astrological “I”
by April Elliott Kent This article originally appeared in The Mountain Astrologer magazine, April 2005. “I walk into my local metaphysical bookstore. A string of bells tied to the door tinkles, and I’m hit by a cloud of patchouli. Making my way past the incense burners, small cedar boxes, Tarot …
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New Moon in Aquarius: Valentines
Whatever your disposition, celebrate some part of your Aquarian season with friends – unite your power with theirs in ritual and activism, playing team sports and games, or just throwing a party. There is powerful sweetness in finding your people – and, like Aquarius, holding on tight to them, with your arms wide open.
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Eclipses in Capricorn: The Winter of Our Discontent
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourg’d by the sequent effects…we have seen the best of our time. (The Duke of Gloucester in King Lear, Act 1, Scene …
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Eclipses in 8th and 2nd Houses: Crisis in Intimacy and Self-Sufficiency
by April Elliott Kent This is PART 7 of 7. | Read the previous installment here Don’t know how to find where an eclipse will fall in your birthchart? This post will help. It’s perhaps a year since our protagonist made her dramatic leap of faith, throwing herself headlong into …
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Eclipses in 9th and 3rd Houses: Crisis in Mastery and Skill
by April Elliott Kent This is PART 6 of 7. | Read the previous installment here Don’t know how to find where an eclipse will fall in your birthchart? This post will help. It’s been some months since the death of her mother, and our young woman has a secret: …
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