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 22 | Taurus New Moon and Venus Gone Wild
It’s Taurus New Moon time, but April & Jen explore the mounting tension between Saturn and Uranus that interfere with this sign’s legendarily calm vibe. What does it mean when Venus is out-of-bounds and totally unsupervised? And what will her protracted aspects to Neptune mean for your relationships?
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Virgo Full Moon: Clean One Drawer
When you’re overwhelmed to the point of inertia, taking even a single step at least sets you in motion. And focusing on one tiny area of your life—setting a modest goal and seeing it through to completion—immediately gives you a sense of power and control.
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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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Pisces New Moon: Xanadu
Under Neptune’s enchantment, we imagine our own Xanadu, our mystical dream world of utter bliss. It’s the gift of this New Moon season, then, to build our castles in the air, and to dream of living in them full time
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Solar astrology this week: preparing to fly
The Sun is winding down its annual tour of Scorpio’s turgid bayou country, headed for the clear, open skies of Sagittarius (arriving on November 22). But as it paddles for the surface, the Sun makes aspects this week to three planetary giants: Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. The transiting Sun’s trine …
Read MoreNeptune turning direct: The Fog.
I spent the last couple of days mostly on the couch, mindlessly surfing the net and taking long naps, eating leftover Halloween candy, almost completely unable to marshal my resources and get anything done. I figured it was a sort of social hangover after the push of hosting a big …
Read MoreJupiter and Neptune reunion
I discovered his music in 1982. I was working for a local newspaper group in Orange County, and one day on my lunch hour I wandered into a record store (remember those?) and this delicious pop music was playing. I immediately asked the clerk what it was, bought the album, …
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Sometimes, you CAN go home again
It was by no means the most important thing that happened today in the world – a day when Pres. Obama announced his first nominee to the Supreme Court, a day when the State of California upheld Proposition 8 – or even in my community (a horrible accident about a …
Read MoreLost in the 12th House
Old Tyme Astrology Books of Yore consistently connected the dots between the 12th House/Pisces and spirituality, confinement, and illness – experiences that seem pretty random until you actually get sick and are confined to the couch for a week, with little to do except contemplate the meaning of life and …
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