Highlights for Feb. 3-9, 2020: Unwinding, Having, and Getting
Mercury enters dreamy Pisces for a good, long stay; Venus in Aries gets feisty; and a Leo Full Moon that’s… well, intoxicating.
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Episode 4 | The Capricorn Solstice Is Frequently Sunny in Minneapolis
As April bravely endures a bone-chilling, 55-degree day in San Diego, she and Jen discuss the Capricorn Solstice, Venus in Aquarius (she wants her space), and this week’s Last Quarter Moon. Plus: Podpets on the move, more about square aspects, a preview of the upcoming eclipse, and a courageous attempt to explain mutual reception with a housesitting analogy.
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Highlights for July 1-7, 2019: Inspire by Example
Big Sky This Week: A Solar Eclipse, Mars in Leo, Venus in Cancer, and Mercury retrograde.
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Highlights for Feb. 25-March 3, 2019
The spark of genius that makes Aquarius so compelling, and its inherent contradictions, reflect humanity in its purest form. We all want to be completely original, but sometimes we need a tour guide to show us how it’s done
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Venus and Mars in Aries: Wild horses
Transiting Venus and Mars entered Aries last week, and over the past couple of days they made trines to Saturn in Sagittarius. Normally a deliberate and focused worker (with no Aries planets in my birth chart), I’ve had a devil of a time settling down and getting anything done.
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Venus Retrograde: Changing from the Inside Out
Retrograde motion is a matter of perspective. That is, the planet isn’t moving backward, it just looks that way to us. Nothing is “wrong” with a retrograde planet; it’s your way of looking at the matters related to the planet that may be askew.
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Full Moon in Aquarius: Looking for Lightning
Aquarius is an astrological change agent that works quite a lot like lightning; a fixed sign, it remains static for long stretches of time, as dependable and unchanging as a placid summer sky. But even while it’s standing still, Aquarius gathers energy like a cell phone plugged into its charger. When it accumulates too much, it needs to get rid of some – and it’s anyone’s guess where it will land.
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Conjuring love
I think what manifests results in our lives is pretty simple – readiness, intention (showing a willingness to engage in the process of getting what you want), and attention (so that you recognize it when it shows up). The beauty of ritual is that it helps us clarify what we want.
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Venus and Pluto: What you have left
“Sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”
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