the planet of width enters the sign of depth…from Air to Water, from love to lust After spending a year in the Cardinal, Air sign of Libra dispensing love, harmony and justice, and perhaps feeling wronged himself, Jupiter now enters the murky quagmire of the Fixed, Water sign Scorpio. Moving from the extrovert Air to the introvert Water element. Here diamonds are surely to be found, but only by those who are prepared to dig deep and expose the real from the fake. Jupiter, or Zeus as the ancient Greeks knew him, was the King of the Olympian gods. He was omniscient, knowing and seeing [...]
….the soul-searching is over, time to transform and… time to break free! On the 28th September Pluto will station direct at 16°51’ Capricorn after just over 5 months of being retrograde. This station will involve those with planets/angles between 14-19° of the Cardinal signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. Pluto is concerned with power, regeneration, survival, transformation, sex, obsession and possessiveness. Pluto is the god of the Underworld. Pluto in Capricorn (ruled by Saturn) is concerned with the deep-reaching transformation of social order, laws and hierarchies. He[...]
On the 20th of this month there will be a New Moon at 27°27’ Virgo, a Mutable, Earth sign ruled by Mercury which is also presently transiting this sign. It takes place on the heels of the Libra Equinox (22 September) when Autumn officially rolls in. The house axis involved in this lunation is the 6th-12th, Virgo-Pisces involving such matters as discrimination vs universality, order vs chaos and criticism vs compassion. The New Moon will involve those persons with planets/angles between 25-29° of the mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces). New Moons are times when the [...]
I feel you…… Early Wednesday morning (Europe) there will be a full Moon in Pisces. In the Western world we tend to indulge ourselves in feeling-based activities on full Moon days but in Tibetan Buddhist monastic tradition this is a day devoted to the purification of “negative” karma during which people are encouraged to indulge less, thus creating space to contemplate the true nature of reality (1). In traditional astrology the Pisces Full Moon is connected to the 12-6th house axis and the Pisces/Virgo opposition, in short; in the 12th house our energy goes with the flow whilst [...]
