Eclipse Aspects to Natal Planets: The Narrative of Change
Planets woven together by difficult aspects describe your defining attributes; each time an eclipse scores a glancing blow off these aspects (about every four and a half years), you’re given another chance to become a little bit more…you.
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Episode 19 | Jupiter Meets Pluto: Two Thumbs…Up?
Feisty Mars enters Aquarius, Venus enters Gemini, a First Quarter Moon in Cancer, and the first in a series of Jupiter/Pluto aspects that promise to be…interesting.
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Episode 10 | Neptune and the Zen of Groundhog Day
April and Jen roll up their jeans and wade into a Neptunian miasma of topics, including Venus/Mars vs. Neptune, how January’s Big Astrological News hit Buckingham Palace and why astrology is like theater. Plus: Grab some popcorn and join April and Jen at the (decades-old) movies!
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TRANSCRIPT Ep 010 | Neptune and the Zen of Groundhog Day
TRANSCRIPT: Big Sky Astrology Podcast, Episode 10 010 | Neptune and the Zen of Groundhog Day (January 27, 2020) Download the full transcript (PDF) [00:00:00] Jen: [00:00:00] Welcome to the Big Sky Astrology podcast – with April Elliott Kent and me, producer and cohost Jen Braun. Hey friends, Jen here. …
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Episode 6 | Saturn & Pluto Eat More Crunchy Things
Happy New Year! This week, Mars enters Sagittarius and the First Quarter Moon is in Aries. Otherwise, it’s a slow astrological news week – so April and Jen set you up for next week’s big Saturn/Pluto conjunction, which astrologers have been talking about forever! All this, plus: if planets were dogs, an iconic poison control spokescritter, and taking a bite out of the new year with lots of food references. CLICK THE SHOW TITLE FOR SHOW NOTES AND TRANSCRIPT.
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Spring: Faces of Mars
Loss and savagery, failure and ruthlessness, cruelty and hurt come to us inevitably as a natural consequence of Mars energy in the world — the price paid for progress — and we lose our innocent Aries enthusiasm soon enough; but over time it is broken down into the rich, emotional loam of Scorpio, from which beautiful things grow….
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Mars in Aquarius: Working with friends
Uranus in Aries’ “pop” combined with the “fizz” of Mars in Aquarius should be enough to revive the most careworn and depleted among us, a sort of bromo fizzy for the soul. The entrepreneurial snap of Aries and the networking brilliance of Aquarius have the potential to propel creative or business projects to exhilarating heights.
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Mars in Scorpio: Sexy Time, Revenge, and Cleaning up the ick
Geez, Mars is already about to move into Scorpio? It seems like it’s only been in Libra for about twenty minutes. I guess that’s just in comparison to the approximate geologic age that it spent in Virgo. Here’s a capsule review of what to expect while Mars transits Scorpio …
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Aquarius New Moon: Year of the Full Metal Rabbit
Hail the Aquarius New Moon (Feb. 2, 6:31 pm PST) and the Chinese Year of the Rabbit! I confess that I know next to nothing about Chinese astrology, but over the years I’ve been baffled by descriptions of the alleged gentleness and delicacy of those born in Rabbit years. Since …
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Mars transits: 3 ways to botch them
Transiting Mars moved into my first house a few days ago and I’ve been reminded – as I am every two and a half years – of a few things. First of all, important Mars transits – such as Mars moving into the first or tenth houses, or conjunct its …
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