I’ve been fielding some questions about what the upcoming Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in the sign of Aquarius “means”. It’s getting a lot of buzz because it is not only a major event astrologically, but also astronomically, as the two planets will be close together by not only celestial longitude (the measurement used by the Zodiac) but […]

This is the first of what will be at least a couple of posts on the upcoming presidential election. I’m doing this not just as an exercise in prediction but because it’s important that we have some idea of what we need to guard against in the upcoming months, and how we can mitigate harm […]

If you keep up with the current astrology, you’ve surely read the warnings — including my own — about Mars’ transit through Aries that began in June, and will be active for the rest of the year due to a retrograde. There are good reasons for these warnings. Given the current state of our society, […]

If you’ve spent much time at the beach and understand what you’re looking at, you can read patterns of seaweed and sand to learn more about recent patterns of the deep ocean tides . If you understand what you’re looking at, you can read the pattern of a fairy ring in the grass and know […]

The cross-quarter holidays (commonly called Beltane, Lammas, Samhain, Imbolc, and by many other names) are celebrations of their Elements — Earth is the Spring/Summer Midpoint in Taurus, Fire is the Summer/Autumn Midpoint in Leo, Water is the Autumn/Winter Midpoint in Scorpio, and Air is the Winter/Spring Midpoint in Aquarius. Magically, these holidays are the perfect […]

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner Back in January, I noted in my post about 2020: "Overall, this year’s focus is on the structures of civilization — everything from infrastructure to communication networks to the structures of laws and ideas that keep […]

My book — Touch the Earth, Kiss the Sky: Allowing the Rational Mind to Welcome Magic and Spirituality — has finally been released! Here’s an overview as well as a look at the Table of Contents and the first section of the Introduction so you can decide if you want to add it to your […]

Back in the late ‘70s, when I was still on my slow, self-funded adventure through college, I spent a couple of years working at the local race track as a groom. It was a 7-day a week job, starting at 5 in the morning, 3 or 4 hours a day — or longer if one […]

Just a short update for the month ahead. The New Moon falls late in the evening of October 27 — 11:38 ET. Watch your secrets this month. They may be exposed, or you may discover that keeping the secret led to unintended consequences. Or you may blurt out a secret and regret it, or discover […]

As the world gets a little crazier every day, we are overdue for some time to spend sorting things out, finding the patterns, organizing effective responses. This Virgo New Moon, while not an eclipse, is a remarkable configuration that, over the next month, may give us the knowledge and power we need to make important […]

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts While the challenging outer planet transits that dominate this year are still in force, this Leo New Moon brings a bit of relief and lightness to the overall picture, giving us a […]

I’m often asked by skeptics how I can possibly believe that the planets influence human behavior or events. My response is that they are asking the wrong question. What they really want to know is how I can possibly believe that astrology can predict human behavior or events. It’s obvious that the Sun and Moon […]

You’ve probably heard the myth of Icarus, but I’ll tell it again, because it’s a good one to keep in mind over the next few months. Back in the days of King Minos, who was the son of the gods Zeus and Europa, a craftsman named Daedelus built a labyrinth for the king. Minos needed […]

This year’s Gemini New Moon brings us face-to-face with decisions and choices that we must make based on the best information we can gather. And therein lies the problem. There will be no lack of information — if anything there will be too much. We’ll have difficulty determining the accuracy of the information we have, […]

I love the weeks when the Sun is in Taurus. Here on the mountain where I live, everything is growing apace, the trees leafing out in multiple shades of green. I write this on my front porch, as the Sun rises through the trees to my left. Small cherries are forming on the tree in […]

Part I of this post is here. The Saturn return happens when Saturn comes full circle around the zodiac to reach the place it occupied at your birth. It occurs for everyone at approximately ages 29.5, 59, and 88.5. (There is some variation in the exact timing because of retrogrades.) The return is the ending […]

In traditional astrology, Saturn is known as one of two "malefic" planets (the other is Mars). Saturn has always had a big, bad wolf reputation, but, while that reputation is not undeserved, modern astrologers take a broader, more growth-focused view of this powerful planet. Modern astrology approaches Saturn as the lord of time and space, […]

The Aries New Moon — coming, as it does, on or within a few weeks of the March Equinox — inevitably brings a noticeable shift in the ambient energy. This year, Aries is (as always) urging us to move ahead, to “boldly go”, to break new ground. But this New Moon’s natural exuberance is being […]

"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement." ~ Florence Scovel Shinn The chart of the Spring Equinox — a.k.a. Aries Ingress, the moment when the Sun moves into the sign of Aries — gives […]

Recently, a bi-partisan group of 44 ex-senators wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post. Here is the first paragraph: “As former members of the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans, it is our shared view that we are entering a dangerous period, and we feel an obligation to speak up about serious challenges to the rule […]