OOB MERCURY MOVES INTO CAPRICORN And stays for quite a while! OOB Mercury barges out of Sagittarius with the usual bluntness and awkwardness that often characterises his sojourn there and bounces into Capricorn. It’s OOB status started on November 23 and ends on December 22. After fun-loving Sagittarius this move into Capricorn will certainly hit him with force, dampening his mood and deepening his thoughts and encouraging all of us to think, plan and talk in a much more serious fashion more so during the OOB phase which takes up the first part of Mercury’s stay in Capricorn. [...]
NEPTUNE STATIONS DIRECT IN PISCES The fog will lift…but the lies may continue Neptune turns direct on the 3-4 December at 22°38’ Pisces (antiscion 7°22’ Libra). This means that uncertainties or lack of clarity that you have been internalizing and that may have surfaced from the past, finally starts to lift as the fog clears (look to the house where you have Pisces on the cusp to see where the fogginess may have been manifesting for you as well as the sign/house/aspects of your natal Neptune). Neptune transiting through the houses has the effect of “dissolving” the matters [...]
NEW MOON IN SAGITTARIUS The New Moon will occur at 01°37’ Sagittarius (antiscion 28°23’ Capricorn) and will be the first of four new moons on the 1° degree of the relative signs over the next four months. One might suppose that with Jupiter being the dispositor of this New Moon things might be on an upward curve after the past two very intense lunations connected to the eclipses along the Scorpio/Taurus axis. A moment of respite and hope after despair. Think again. Only five minutes after the exactness of the New Moon, dispositor Jupiter in its own sign of Pisces stations [...]
JUPITER STATIONS DIRECT Believe... After a 4-month retrograde period which started in Aries, Jupiter stations direct at 28°47' Pisces (antiscion 1°13' Libra) only minutes before the New Moon in Sagittarius (ruled by Jupiter). Now only Mars, Neptune and Uranus remain retrograde. Jupiter is the traditional night-time ruler of Pisces, only more recently was Neptune assigned as modern co-ruler. Jupiter is a hot moist, masculine planet whilst Pisces is a cold moist, nocturnal and feminine sign. Jupiter stations direct conjunct Fixed Star Scheat which Robson explains as “losses [...]
MERCURY ENTERS THE SIGN OF SAGITTARIUS Mercury, ruler of Gemini (collects information about whatever, whenever it can) and Virgo (only interested in information that can be used in a practical way) enters the sign of its detriment and will go OOB on the 23 November until the 22 December. The OOB status will mark a heightening of the Mercurial characteristics, thinking big will be the norm. Mercury in the sign of the archer has the tendency to overlook and discard generalised information (Gemini) and practical details (Virgo) placing attention on the bigger picture and thus becoming [...]
VENUS ENTERS SAGITTARIUS After approximately twenty-days stay in Scorpio’s deep and murky waters Venus now enters the more free-wheeling sign of Sagittarius. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter and this rather over-optimistic planet might induce Venus to yearn ecstasy in some form, especially during the days when it will be in a square aspect to transiting Neptune in dreamy Pisces (December 3-4). Rules often also mean a lot to Venus in this sign, inviting others to follow our rules as we preach what we often don’t practice may therefore be another way of expressing itself...this trait [...]
FULL MOON AND TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE IN TAURUS “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” N.D. Walsch The lunation and eclipse will occur at 16°00’ Taurus (antiscion 14°00’ Leo) on the day of the midterm elections in the US. The Full Moon and total Lunar eclipse will be visible partially or totally in the following areas of the world: North/East Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, much of South America, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Arctic, Antarctica (1). The Moon is sandwiched between a retrograde Uranus and the North Lunar node whilst opposing a Sun also part [...]
MARS RETROGRADE IN GEMINI AND STILL OOB “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.” Frank Herbert On 30 October Mars will station to go retrograde at 25°36’ Gemini (antiscion 4°24’ Cancer) whilst still OOB (until 04/05/2023) and c// Pluto (until 05/11/2022). Mars is in his own term at 25° Gemini but will soon slide backwards becoming once again peregrine, remaining OOB and retrograde. Mars is known as the lesser malefic in traditional astrology and can be really wayward when he finds himself in positions like those cited above. In the Air signs, and in[...]
MERCURY ENTERS SCORPIO the great revealer…. A lot of secrets could come out when Mercury transits the enigmatic sign of Scorpio. Mainly because Mercury in Scorpio is a great detective, uncovering things that some or most of us would rather pull the carpet over. Mercury might also go overboard in insults when and if perceiving wrong-doing and ideas and thoughts could get very fixed and obsessive too. On the plus side with this transit…nothing, absolutely nothing, will be taboo (conversation-wise)! Some interesting aspects: 8-9 November: opposite Uranus R in Taurus [...]
NEW MOON AND PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN SCORPIO How deep are your feelings, how dark are your thoughts…. There will be a New Moon and a partial Solar eclipse at 2°00’ Scorpio (antiscion 28°00’ Aquarius) on the 25th of October. This is the second partial solar eclipse of 2022. The partial eclipse will be visible in the northern hemisphere in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Guernsey in the United Kingdom and will begin in Iceland to be seen at its maximum from Russia (1). The New Moon will be in a tight conjunction to Venus, in her detriment in Scorpio which looks to me a bit [...]