Astrology Highlights for Jan. 20-26, 2025: The Truth Will Set You Free
Sometimes we have to let ourselves get good and angry, mad enough to spit tacks, before we feel free to say and do exactly as we please. Just one insensitive person hurting our feelings will often do the trick.
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Episode 274 | Sun Meets Pluto: Deep Cleaning!
The Sun’s conjunction with Pluto is an ideal time to let go, cleanse, and reset. The Last Quarter Moon in Scorpio directs us to escape obligations that don’t suit us, and join with others to build new things. Venus and Mars fall into one another’s arms for a sexy embrace, and their aspects to Uranus keep things fresh. Mercury gathers intel from Mars, Uranus, and Neptune, and April answers a listener question about fitting transits into your daily schedule.
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Astrology Highlights for Jan. 13-19, 2025: Where the Center Lies
We’re leaning into a time of rapid change, with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the Lunar Nodes shifting into new signs in a period of just six months. The winds of change can sweep us up and deposit us somewhere new and exciting, but they can trigger destructive fires as well. When too much changes too fast, we can feel disoriented and lose our center.
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Episode 273 | Cancer Full Moon: Worldly Ambition, Human Connection!
A cranky Cancer Full Moon, flavored by contentious Mars and Pluto; the Sun aspects Mars, Uranus, and Neptune, then enters Aquarius. Venus squares off with Jupiter, comes together with Saturn to stabilize. Opportunities arise when Mercury connects with Venus and Saturn. And a listener question about Pluto transiting the 7th house.
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Astrology Highlights for Jan. 6-12, 2025: Spirit and Spreadsheets
Give your fanciful, imaginative Pisces side a chance to come out and play. Learn to read tarot cards, begin a meditation practice, or take up the guitar, safe in the knowledge that your practical side will keep you from quitting your job to join a rock band when you’ve only learned three chords.
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Episode 272 | Aries First Quarter Moon: Tea Kettles Boiling!
Mercury enters Capricorn and triggers imaginative Neptune. The lunar nodes enter the signs of Pisces and Virgo for an 18-month stay. Mars retrogrades into Cancer, and the Aries First Quarter Moon is one of the most first-quartery First Quarters of the year.
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Episode 271 | New Moon in Capricorn: Feeding the Albatross!
The Capricorn New Moon offers a message of care and kindness. Venus enters Pisces, a sign of unconditional love. Irresistible Mars makes the second of three oppositions to immovable Pluto. The Sun sextile Saturn, and Mars trine the North Node, offer a vision of a dream that is within your grasp. A listener question about combining transits and secondary progressions when you’re looking at your chart. Plus: An albatross, agape, and achievements!
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Astrology Highlights for Dec. 23-29, 2024: A Spiritual Yard Sale
The Sun reaches the midpoint between two eclipse seasons, and now is the time to let go of what you don’t need, maybe even things that are actively hurting you; it’s a spiritual yard sale to prepare you for the eclipses that are coming up in March.
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Episode 270 | Jupiter vs Saturn: Legs Spinning in Midair!
The critical midpoint between eclipse seasons; Jupiter squares Saturn, and Mercury aspects them both; Venus in sparkly Aquarius shakes things up with Uranus. No major lunation this week, but we look at the void-of-course Moon periods and take a listener question about what it means for a planet to be strong in your birth chart.
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Astrology Highlights for Dec. 16-22, 2024: Nowhere To Go But Up
At the winter solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun reaches its lowest point in the midday sky. As we look back over the calendar year, we may be tempted to chastise ourselves for what we haven’t accomplished. At the Capricorn solstice, there’s no place to go but up.
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