Now, that’s how it’s done.
Sometimes, the Sun in aspect to Uranus (such as today’s square) acts like a truth serum – especially with the Sun in ethical Sagittarius. Case in point: Scandal-plagued San Diego Congressman Duke Cunningham resigned today – with honor and grace – from the House of Representatives. It’s a first step. …
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Sun + Mars + Saturn = Compound Agony.
The agonizing pressure you’ve been feeling over the past couple of days has been the two-pronged attack of Mars retrograde approaching an opposition to the Sun, while the Sun ramped up to a conjunction with Saturn. Sun + Mars + Saturn = Compound Agony. Poor Spike took the biggest hit …
Read More“Fetch me more mead!”
I guess it’s the Sun approaching that conjunction with Jupiter – picture a sort of Henry VIII figure sitting at a banquet table that’s groaning with food and drink, waving a turkey leg and hollering “Fetch me more mead!” Well, Sun/Jupiter or whatever, we’ve got a busy weekend coming up. …
Read MoreAutumnal Equinox, Mars retrograde, general exhaustion
The Sun entered Libra at 3:23 pm PDT today,signalling the beginning of Autumn here in the northern hemisphere. I’m working on my newsletter, but it’s not going very smoothly. Perhaps I’ll get something posted in time for the October 3 Solar Eclipse/New Moon in Libra. Meanwhile, Mars will be retrograde …
Read MoreFinding the Inner Puritan
Garrison Keillor, no doubt responding to transiting Saturn approaching his Sun in Leo, ruminates in Salon today * about “finding one’s inner Puritan” as the road to “weight loss and eternal happiness.” When I tell people I want to lose weight, I wish they’d look at me in slack-jawed amazement …
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Saturn in Leo really IS bad news for leaders.
In light of articles such as Ed Tamplin’s, which suggests that Saturn’s recent entry into Leo spells difficult times ahead for “kings and kingdoms” (are you listening, George?), I found this story from Salon very amusing (note: to read full article you’ll need to be a Salon subscriber or sign …
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Tell me what you’re thinking.
Early Sunday morning – meaning, we’ll be feeling it most today and tomorrow – Venus will oppose Pluto. Pluto in hard aspect to Venus always puts me in mind of a bandit holding up a bank in an old-time western. “Gimme all yer money!” Pluto hisses, low and mean — …
Read MoreWhen trines attack!
I was chatting the other day with an astrologer friend whose birthday is the day before mine, and we were comparing notes about the recent opposition from transiting Neptune to our natal Suns. In short, pretty good for me, not so great for him. We pondered and mused about this …
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But I don’t want to wake up.
Jeez, it’s like I’ve been in a bunker around here. Work, work, work, then yesterday Jonny had a miserable cold (and he almost never gets sick), and the next thing I know it’s more than a week and I haven’t updated the blog. For which you might well thank me …
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The Vapors
What a fantastic aspect for Valentine’s Day: Venus conjunct Neptune (Feb. 14, 4:48 pm PST). Dreamy, candy-coated luvvvv. Romance. What Victorian ladies used to call “the vapors.” Despite my occasionally crusty exterior, I am no stranger to idealism and romantic love; I was, after all, born with Venus trine Neptune …
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