January 4 Solar Eclipse: Marley’s Ghost
In this eclipse chart, Saturn in Libra is a Jacob Marley figure (Saturn rules business, and Libra represents partners), contesting the single-minded ambition of the Capricorn with a single question: What good are achievements if you have no one to share them with you?
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December 21 Eclipse for Your Sign: Aries-Virgo
The December 21 lunar eclipse at 29 Gemini is not only ruled by Mercury retrograde, but the chart for the eclipse sports a flamboyant square from the Sun and Moon to Jupiter and Uranus in Pisces. What does this mean for your sign? Today, Aries – Virgo. Libra – Pisces follows tomorrow.
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Eclipse fallout: Impermanence as a good thing
I woke this morning thinking about how exhausting that lunar eclipse on Saturday was, and about how I’m just beginning to find my balance. And my mind kept returning to this old essay about the impermanence of things – right down to the earth beneath our feet – and about …
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LunarEclipse in Capricorn: lighting the quivering fuse
The chart for the June 26 lunar eclipse at 4.26 Capricorn is a doozy, with the Moon conjunct Pluto, the Sun conjunct Mercury, and the whole shebang square Jupiter/Uranus on one end of the sky and Saturn on the other (click image below for a larger view). Eclipses always symbolize …
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Eclipses in Capricorn: The Buck Stops Here
Saturn describes the universal rule that says you create your own reality. But I don’t mean to suggest that the awful things that happen to you are a function of your nasty karma or your failure to think positively enough. Rather, I consider Saturn’s message empowering, not punitive. The very word “responsible” implies that you are able to respond. Nowhere in that word will you find the concept of “blame.” Responsibility is not about assigning blame, either to yourself or others; rather, it’s about finding the most useful way to frame a given situation, and to accurately assess the ways in which you are able to respond to its challenges and opportunities.
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First Quarter Moon: Get Paddling
At the Quarter Moon phase, the Sun and Moon form a scratchy square (90 degrees) aspect with each other; it’s an uncomfortable aspect, symbolizing the unconscious mind at odds with conscious will. But squares do tend to propel us forward in a way that easy aspects don’t. Conflict with others …
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Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn: Live and Learn
This Full Moon ushers in a new, two-year-long cycle of eclipses in the signs of Cancer and Capricorn. Welcome to a critical phase of redefining safety and security and of figuring out how to provide for yourself and your loved ones. Our household is okay at the moment, but we do live in California, a state that is teetering on the precipice of bankruptcy. Many of our friends are unemployed, and others with government jobs have had their hours cut through furlough programs. It’s a little hard to see where it will end up, but I’m pretty sure it’s not going to be pretty.
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Pluto moved into Sagittarius in January 1995 where, save for a brief period between April and November of that year, it has remained ever since. Until today – when at 5:02 pm PST it will leave that sign, and won’t return for another 233 years. Isn’t it staggering to think …
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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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