Venus moves into Libra: Why isn’t the sky raining gum drops?
So I hate to be the one to break it to you, but placing Venus in Libra in a solar system full of bigger, slower, meaner planets that are in a bad mood is about as effective as putting a Glade air freshener in a slaughterhouse. Both are fighting way out of their weight class.
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The “Diamond” Eclipse: Push back
Saturn’s your personal coach, kicking your ass all the way to the finish line. When he’s done with you, you’ll be huddled in a corner, weeping – or else stronger and more glittering than you ever imagined you could be.
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Jupiter/Saturn Opposition: Cosmic Taffy Pull
Bumping this up for next week’s Jupiter/Saturn opposition A neighbor in my rural hometown used to put us kids to work each year pulling taffy. Sounds like a delightful, Normal Rockwell-esque activity, but it was surprisingly hard work. An opposition between titans Jupiter (expansion) and Saturn (contraction) is not unlike …
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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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I Survived the August 2010 Cardinal (Anti-)Climax and all I got was this stupid t-shirt
When the Moon entered Cancer and Venus entered Libra on Friday, the astrological world held its collective breath. These two fast-moving celestial bodies were, we felt, the catalysts that would galvanize the slow-building and long-anticipated cardinal t-square (Jupiter conjunct Uranus, opposed Mars conjunct Saturn, and all of them square Pluto) …
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Leo Full Moon: The Cat and the Computer
The Cat and the Computer As an astrologer and website designer, I spend the majority of my days in the technology-rich realm of Aquarius, gazing at a computer screen. The Internet gives me access to a vast landscape of information. Email helps me maintain friendships with far-away kindred spirits. My …
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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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Everyday Astrology: The Days of the Week
Most modern American families no longer grow our own food, other than what we produce in small hobby gardens. Few households have a full-time homemaker with time to mend hems and bake her own bread. Have we jettisoned the need for planetary wisdom along with our plows and thimbles?
Read MoreThe last days of Saturn in Virgo
After spending just a little over two years in Virgo (since September 2, 2007), Saturn enters Libra on October 29. If Saturn is the demanding father or boss who pushes you mercilessly toward some standard of excellence and achievement, his transit through signs describes his management style. While Saturn transited …
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New Moon in Virgo: The Lingua Franca
My husband and I have a long-standing disagreement about language. I’m kind of a grammar, punctuation, and spelling nazi. I believe that respecting these elements of our language brings precision to our discourse and helps us make ourselves understood. Plus, attention to these details suggests to me that a person …
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