URANUS STATIONS DIRECT ON 26-27 JANUARY 2024 and the unexpected becomes manifest…. Uranus ends his yearly, five-month retrograde period at 19°05’ Taurus (antiscion 10°55’ Leo). So, what might we expect by taking Uranus at face-value in Taurus now that it is about to move direct once more? On a mundane level, the disruption and innovation of monetary values as we now know them – Bitcoin or virtual money with less cash around and thus less freedom to spend our money without being controlled electronically. A completely new way of managing farming and food production may [...]
OOB (only just) FULL MOON IN LEO There will be an OOB Full Moon at 05°14’ on the sign of Leo (antiscion 24°46’ Taurus). The Moon is only just OOB and will re-enter bounds within a few hours. Leo is a Fixed, Fire sign. In traditional astrology Leo governs the 5th house, so this Full Moon operates on the 5th-11th house axis (Leo-Aquarius): the things we create for our own personal satisfaction (including our children) vs our group efforts, the artist vs the scientist, the autocrat vs the democrat etc. Moon is separating from an opposition to Pluto, newly arrived in Aquarius only a[...]
VENUS ENTERS CAPRICORN ON 23RD JANUARY 2024 And things suddenly get serious as we jostle lust with ambition, the need for control with prestige and respect and the eternal (for Capricorn) battle between private and public. From Fire to Earth, frivolous and gaudy to self-possessed and distinct. Social propriety and etiquette, at least on a public level, mean a lot to this rather ambitious placement for Venus, less so perhaps in the bedroom, but that is a side that Venus Capricorn would prefer to keep private! Venus’s contours are finely chiselled and with a distinct “no frills [...]
SUN CONJOINS PLUTO IN CAPRICORN FOR THE LAST TIME The Sun will conjoin Pluto on the 20th January at 29°59’ Capricorn just 22 minutes before it enters Aquarius and Pluto will enter Aquarius approximately 11 hours later. In the days or hours preceding the Full Moon (on the 25th) there might be a battle of wills between head and heart on a personal level or leaders/dictators and the people if we think more on the mundane level. This is because the Sun-Pluto conjunction is the last one of the series (the first conjunction of this cycle was on 21 December 2008) and the next one will be on [...]
PLUTO ENTERS AQUARIUS FOR THE SECOND TIME On the 20-21st January 2024, Pluto will re-enter the sign of Aquarius for just over an eight-month stay before retrograding into Capricorn for the last time on 1st September this year. Pluto entered Capricorn in November 2008 and will finally and definitely leave the sign on the 19th November 2024 remaining in the sign of Aquarius until year 2044. Pluto will once more activate the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction which took place at 00°21’ Aquarius on the 21st December 2020. Worth noting is that the Sun will conjoin Pluto on the 20th January [...]
OOB NEW MOON IN CAPRICORN There will be an OOB New Moon at 20°44’ Capricorn (antiscion 09°16’ Sagittarius). This is the 3rd New Moon in a series of five at 20° of their relative signs. Capricorn is a Cardinal, Earth sign, so persons with planets or angles of the natal chart at 17-23° of Capricorn, Aries, Cancer and Libra will be particularly affected by this lunation. This is yet another lunation involving Mars (still OOB for a couple of weeks). The Sun and Moon are in fact “besieged” by (sandwiched between) two malefic planets, OOB Mars and Pluto on the final all-or [...]
OOB MARS ENTERS CAPRICORN The marathon runner... Mars is still OOB as it enters Capricorn, the sign of its exaltation, it will remain OOB until the 23rd of January when it will be at 14° Capricorn. “Pure” Mars in Capricorn characteristics include ambition, discipline, persistent and even patience which is usually a feature not associated with this planet. On the harsher side it can show lack of empathy, recklessness as well as rigidity and inhibition as it sometimes struggles to contain itself. All these features will be enhanced and re-enforced due to the OOB status and also [...]
MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT Let’s move forward with optimism… After a twenty-two-day period of retrograde motion, first in the Earth sign of Capricorn and then in the Fire sign of Sagittarius, Mercury now stops in his tracks at 22°11’ Sagittarius (antiscion 07°49’ Capricorn) before slowly picking up speed and moving forward to re-enter Capricorn on the 23rd January. As the late Erin Sullivan so eloquently wrote in her book “Retrograde Planets”: “Mercury retrogrades in Fire signs often test our ability to respond to life with spontaneous energy and to be more creative [...]
Hi all, here’s quick overview of the main astrological events taking place in 2024. The astrological highlights of this year put the focus on the last degrees of Capricorn and the very first degrees of Aquarius as Pluto dodges back and forth between the signs before entering Aquarius for its definite stay on the 19th of November until year 2043. Many of the those with planets in the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) have had trying times since the planet entered the sign in 2008 and this final 3-hit aspect over the last degrees again in the coming year has and will continue[...]
JUPITER STATIONS DIRECT “Life doesn’t get much better than this.” – Stanford Wong Jupiter stations direct at 05°34’ Taurus (antiscion 24°26’ Leo), the same degree as the Lunar Eclipse in Taurus at 5°09’ on the 28th of October and will thus be activating the eclipse. This is what I wrote about the eclipse at the time: “This is the fourth and final eclipse of this year. The Moon is approaching a conjunction to Jupiter R and applying an opposition to Sun, Mercury and Mars. Our emotions (Moon) could be very entangled with holding on to our material comforts (Jupiter [...]