Retrograde Reminder

This article is In honor of Mercury, obviously the best and brightest and smartest and funniest of all planetary spirits, who decided that it should be accidentally deleted and rewritten THREE times before finally getting (or allowing) it to stick. I implore you to burn some incense and give your prayers to the trickster God if not for your sake for mine! haha

I think it’s been overshadowed by the Eclipse but Mercury is still Retrograde as of the 13th and will be going direction on September 4th.

What makes this Mercury Retro period unique is that not only is it occurring during the period of the intense and dramatic Leo Eclipse but it will slow down to go stationary Direct at the exact degree of the Eclipse.

It’s these “stationary” points where a planet appears to slow and stop in the sky that they are most powerful and, in the case of Mercury, most surprising, disruptive or even amusing.

This is rather curious.

As mentioned in my post on the Leo Eclipse, these periods of drama and acceleration can be times of crisis and whenurgent decisions must be made -or are made for us- and when we may feel as if we are “on the wrong side of a swiftly closing gate”. In these pressured times we may speak or act impulsively, hastily or be directed on our heated passionsrather than our intellect or intuition.

So, for many of us, the" pressured words and actions” may come back to haunt us or we may have an opportunity to revisit the dramas, circumstances, stand-offs or disasters that arose and get an opportunity to try again or to have the last word.

Mars Joins Mercury - september 1-3

Adding fuel to the Leo Fire is Mars who has been traveling in Leo since the new moon all the way back on July 20th.

Mars will finish this transit by joining Mercury right at the Eclipse degree. For those of us who's natal charts line up with the Ecilpse will really feel that martian sense of heat, anger and urgency at this time.

Everyone should be mindful of this tense weekend and watch for short fuses or dangerous situations.

Mercury Direct

Mercury goes direct on the 4th but will remain in this degree for about 5 days. Planets do not just "go direct" like a switch, they progress on their own terms and slowly get back to their regular speed. Even then there could be some flashbacks when Mercury returns to the degree it went retrograde earlier in the month.

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Oct 20, 2017

Libra New Moon - Balancing Acts

Libra is the sign of Balance and harmony. Easily evident with it’s symbol: The Scales. which is a device to measure balance and equality between two separate objects. The glyph can also be intepreted as a setting sun, halfway over the horizon and it’s the Sun’s entry into Libra that marks Fall as the sun declines and days grow shorter in length.

Aug 30, 2017

Aug 22, 2017

4 Keys to Navigate an Eclipse

First stop and think about this: The word consideration literally means “to observe the stars. From the Latin considerare "to look at closely, observe,” and Sideris or “constellations, stars” it’s likely a navigational term used by sailors who had to observe the stars in order to direct themselves to their destination. We look to the stars so we can navigate towards our desired destination.

Aug 19, 2017

Leo Eclipse

The German term for crisisis: Torschlusspanik is literally “Shut-door-panic” or fear of being on teh wrong side of a closing gate. This may be a perfect term for our feelings right now and the sense that we are wasting our lives, "betting on the wrong horses" or, at least, uncertainty around important decisions whose windows of opportunity are quickly closing. Some of us may be happily on the other side of the gate and ready to move on to new pastures and for them they may be a compassionate ear for those others.

Mar 3, 2017

Venus Retrograde (March 4 - April 15)

Will my love life ever get better? Will I get dumped? is it too late? I can certainly empathize, having many burnt fingers from ignoring these omens, but I now pass through these cycles with a dose of think-skinned stoicism and come out the other side just fine. It's really not all bad (not always anyway!) and it can even be a positive, pleasurable time however an attitude of open, non-attachment with regards to love and luxury is the best prescription. Isn't it always?

Feb 27, 2017

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Pisces pt2

Pisces is one of the mutable signs and as the name implies, it is willing or able to mutate, adapt and transform, something the fixed signs have much more difficulty with. Pisces, perhaps more than the others, is suited to mutation and transformation as it is the last sign of the zodiac and is considered to be the sum of all other signs before it and the stage of final transformation or repeating of the cycle back into Aries.

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