MARS ENTERS ARIES …no stopping me now! Mars will enter its home sign of Aries giving us all a hands-on, get-out-there-and-do-it energy. In the natal theme Mars represents our basic drive, our energy, the way we act thus our assertiveness and our anger. We experience our first Mars return at age 2 years and this is when we learn to assert ourselves by saying “NO” to everything and everyone. It is at this age that we learn how to control our Mars function, or not, if no-one is there to direct our assertiveness into the right channels. If for some reason we are unable to [...]
MARS CONJUNCT NEPTUNE IN PISCES Are we all living in a yellow submarine?* Mars and Neptune will conjoin at 24°59’ Pisces (antiscion 5°01’ Libra) on 17-18 May depending on whereabouts in the world you find yourselves. Mars isn’t totally defenceless in Pisces, here he enjoys triplicity and term, Neptune is the modern co-ruler of Pisces. A Mars-Neptune conjunction could hint at a victims (Neptune-Pisces) of violence (Mars) theme or at the illusion (Neptune) of strength (Mars) as well as being guided by a higher power (Neptune) in all our actions (Mars). Mars-Neptune [...]
FULL MOON AND TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE IN SCORPIO On May 15-16th (depending upon where you are in the world) there will be a Full Moon at 25°17’ (antiscion 4°43’ Aquarius) in the Fixed, Water sign of Scorpio. At last, after many, many months, we have a lunation where both the Elements and the Modalities are well balanced. Both the Moon and the Sun form a Fixed modality T-square to Saturn. The Establishment wants lasting security and once more may try to obtain this through exercising tight controls over people and situations. However, the luminaries also both make harmonious [...]
JUPITER MOVES INTO ARIES tolerance becomes difficult From cold and moist to hot and dry, on 10th May Jupiter moves out of Pisces where it has rulership, for a 5-month foray into Aries where it will remain until 28 October, stationing retrograde at 8°43’ Aries (antiscion 21°17’ Virgo) on 28th July. Jupiter being hot and moist and Pisces being a cold, wet sign could have brought rains and floods in some parts of the world as the planet transited Pisces but Jupiter in Aries seems better fitted to wild fires, droughts and extreme heat some of which have already appeared on the [...]
MERCURY STATIONS RETROGRADE A good time for the monkey minds to re-organize their thoughts Mercury stations retrograde at 4°51’ Gemini (antiscion 25°09’ Cancer), one of the signs that it rules together with Virgo. The Mercury station occurs only 12 hours before Jupiter enters into the sign of Aries. The retrograde period will end on 3rd June when Mercury stations direct at 26°05’ Taurus (antiscion 3°55’ Leo). The last time Mercury was retrograde in Gemini was between May and June 2021. What was going on in your life then? Mercury entered Gemini on the 29th April so[...]
VENUS ENTERS ARIES Venus, the planet of values (what WE value and desire), love and finances, enters the sign of Aries on the 2nd of May. In Aries, Venus is in her mythical lover’s daytime den (her night cave is in Scorpio, the other Mars’ ruled sign). Venus in Aries is full of bravado, actually she always gets what she wants in any sign, but she’s more open and adventurous in Aries, sexual, but perhaps not sensuous, and certainly not “comfy” here. Aries and Scorpio are in fact the signs where Venus is in her detriment, where she is at least at ease in her surroundings. [...]
NEW MOON AND PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN TAURUS feeling comfortable isn’t always the best thing…. This is the second New Moon in April and the first of the eclipses in 2022. It will occur at 10°28’ Taurus (antiscion 19°32’ Leo). There are no planets in the Fire element, our intuition is down and it’s hard to get started, this latter characteristic is also confirmed by the chart having only one planet in the Cardinal signs. Jupiter rules four of the planets in the chart and Venus rules another three, optimism and love should abound or perhaps too much confidence will [...]
MERCURY ENTERS GEMINI Mentally unstable? Only a few hours after Pluto stations retrograde, Mercury enters one of the signs that it rules on the 29th April and stations retrograde on the 10th of May. Mercury is obviously in his element here, a rational and agile thinker open to new ideas and experimentations, puns and intellectual flexibility are also part of the game although Mercury is also the prankster of the zodiac and here words could be used to alter the truth in some way! A little bit of history: Mercury in the Greek myth is associated with Hermes and he held an amazing[...]
PLUTO STATIONS RETROGRADE exploring the dark to find the light…… Only a few hours before Mercury enters Gemini, Pluto stations retrograde. Pluto has been in the sign of Capricorn since 2008 and this is the fourteenth retrograde period since then. The planet will station retrograde at 28°35’ (antiscion 1°25’ Sagittarius) on 29th April and backtrack to 26°07’ (antiscion 3°53’ Sagittarius) where it will station direct on 8th October. The retrograde period will affect those persons with planets and/or angles in the Cardinal signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn [...]
FULL MOON IN LIBRA is it “me” or “we” time for you? The Full Moon will occur at 26°45’ Libra, a Cardinal, Air sign ruled by Venus (antiscion 3°15’ Pisces). A predominance of Earth and Water elements characterise this Full Moon with only one planet in the Fire signs. Practicality, compassion and empathy but with little energy or intuition to actually get things started although we are definitely restless with 5 planets in the mutable signs. Venus, dispositor of this Full Moon, is exalted in Pisces and parallel the Moon as it sextiles the Mercury-Uranus conjunction in[...]