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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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…
Read MoreThe Accidental Tourist
Transiting Mars, as we all know, will rendezvous with Saturn tomorrow (11:12 am PDT) in the early degrees of Virgo. Pretty much the acme of a hard-workin’ transit, wouldn’t you say? Typically, I’m up to my elbows. We’re leaving at the end of the month for an epic journey to …
Read MorePost-eclipse exploits: As the Tooth Turns.
Wednesday’s lunar eclipse made a rather precise square to my Ascendant – an astrological symbol laden with meanings both practical and esoteric, among them a description of the physical body. If yon friend, family member, or client is ailing, undergoing surgery, getting into an accident, or doing somethin’ freaky with …
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Full Moon in Virgo: The Wheat and the Chaff
I have a confession to make: I don’t hold a very high opinion of popular culture. I prefer the gritty dramas of HBO to reality television, independent films to big-budget action movies, and Charlie Rose to Oprah. I loathe shopping malls, chain restaurants, and Starbucks. I’ve never been on the …
Read MoreEclipsealicious.
Other than cranking out reports for people, I hadn’t been paying much attention to Wednesday’s eclipse. “Not much in my chart sits at 17.44 of a fixed sign,” thought I… oh. Except my natal Sun, at 13.08 Leo, that is. Might that explain the uncontrollable tooth-grinding and exhaustion of the …
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In lieu of an actual post…
Random announcements and shameless hucksterism! – I’ve posted a new/old article on the timeless subject of choosing wedding dates with astrology. The article originally appeared in the Llewellyn Moon Sign book approximately a hundred years ago, and I’m publishing it on the site now because my contract says I can. …
Read MoreHoliday Deals!
It’s holiday sale time at Big Sky Astrology, so stop by and oogle these fab deals, good through December 31, 2007: The recent new Moon in Sagittarius squared the September Solar Eclipse in Virgo, so your current eclipse patterns are getting an extra little kick about now. Get some perspective …
Read MoreIn which Pluto gets my attention.
I was standing in a dusty, enchanting used bookstore in Julian, California yesterday afternoon when the universe nearly hit me over the head with a subtle message regarding my future. I was making a pilgrimage to meet with Steven Forrest, master of myth and mischief, in the remote and forbidding …
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Fun With Asteroids, Saturn, and Eclipses
Saturn is poised at the final dramatic degree of Leo, preparing to hurl itself into Virgo on September 2. Pretty darn close, too, to Tuesday’s Lunar Eclipse points at 4.46 Virgo/Pisces. Felt like it, didn’t it? The last degree of Leo is associated with a fascinating fixed star called Regulus. …
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