JUPITER IN GEMINI STATIONS DIRECT After its annual 5-month retrograde period Jupiter will station direct on the 03-04 February 2025 at 11°16’ Gemini (antiscion 18°44’ Cancer). Jupiter in Gemini enjoys Ptolemaic dignity by term between 7-13.59° and by face in the first ten degrees of the sign but it is also in detriment for the whole length of its stay there. So, it’s not a particularly well-functioning planet in this sign but it is also a hot, moist masculine planet and Gemini, being an Air sign, is also hot, moist and masculine so it does have accidental dignity to help it [...]
URANUS STATIONS DIRECT and the unexpected becomes manifest…. Uranus ends his yearly, five-month retrograde period at 23°15’ Taurus (antiscion 06°45’ Leo). Slowly picking up speed, on the 6-7 July this year Uranus will make a brief and tentative entrance into the sign of Gemini, remaining there until 7-8 November when the retrograde period will take the planet back into Taurus until 25-26 April 2026 after which Uranus will permanently enter the sign of Gemini for approximately seven years – but that’s another story! So, what might we expect by taking Uranus at face-value [...]
NEW MOON IN AQUARIUS “It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.” Chris Matakas There will be a New Moon at 09°51’ of Aquarius (antiscion 20°09’ Scorpio), a fixed, Air sign on the 29th January, this is the third in a series of five New Moons in a row at 09° of the relative monthly sign. The lunation has Moon peregrine in Aquarius and Sun in detriment in the sign, looks like neither head nor heart know exactly what to do (leaders and people). The two lights are separating from a conjunction to Mercury (also peregrine) perhaps there might have been some arrogant [...]
MERCURY ENTERS AQUARIUS Abstract ideas or unconventional truths? In Aquarius, a sign co-ruled by Saturn (traditional) and Uranus (modern), Mercury is even more thirsty for knowledge, always in search of new ideas and technologies but ready to reject or even abandon them as soon as new (Uranus) becomes normal (Saturn). Mercury in Aquarius will give us new visions, make us aware of new possibilities, allow us to envision an ideal world or society, which might be great as a theory, but much less so as a practicality. Aquarius is a fixed Air sign so here Mercury is at home in the [...]
OOB FULL MOON IN CANCER ON 13-14 JANUARY 2025 the mooniest Moon…. On 13-14 January there will be an OOB Full Moon at 23°59’ Cancer (antiscion 6°01’ Gemini), nurturing qualities could be at their best or, on the contrary, at their worst. Full Moons are when matters climax, they are “now or never” moments regarding any projects we have initiated or intentions we have set at the preceding New Moon fourteen days ago. The OOB Moon is applying a conjunction to a retrograde OOB Mars which is also running to meet the Moon. Moon is in dignity in its own sign, Mars is in [...]
LUNAR NODES ENTER PISCES-VIRGO AXIS ON 11-12 JANUARY 2025 The transiting nodes are reality checks on our soul path… On January 11-12th, the Lunar Nodes will enter the Pisces/Virgo axis after having been in the Aries/Libra polarity since July 2023. So, the modality will change from Cardinal (Fire-Air) to Mutable (Water-Earth). With the North Node transiting the sign of Pisces this could be a good moment to relax and just go with the flow (in the area of your chart affected by the transit). In short: remember that it may be difficult to let go (South Node in Virgo) but you need to dive [...]
MERCURY MOVES INTO CAPRICORN 08 JANUARY 2025 AND THEN GOES OOB Seriously? 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 will started only a few hours later on January 09 and end on January 20. After fun-loving Sagittarius this 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 lasts for the major part of Mercury’s stay in [...]
VENUS ENTERS PISCES On 2-3 January, Venus, the planet of love, romance, harmony and values, glides into the sign of Pisces, where it is exalted. Pisces is ruled by Jupiter (traditional) and Neptune (modern). So, we may be lost in a realm of fantasy, washed over by feelings of love and happiness, dreaming of a lottery win, happy in the company of all and capable of seducing all, not really in tune with reality. Relax whilst you can! Venus will make the following aspects during its stay in Pisces: 14 January: square Jupiter R (11°59’ Pisces-Gemini) – don’t spend all your money[...]
OOB NEW MOON IN CAPRICORN How much longer must we cling to the past? The OOB New Moon at 09°44’ Capricorn (antiscion 20°26’ Sagittarius) is the 2nd of a series of 5 on this degree of the relative consecutive signs. This is the last New Moon of 2024. The lunation chart is rather interesting for its paucity of longitudinal aspects. The New Moon in fact stands alone, without aspects to the other planets. The King and the Queen of the chart (or the leaders and the people) together, on-lookers at the state of the world. Maybe it’s a WTH moment, wondering what’s happened or [...]
MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT Let’s move forward with optimism… After a period of retrograde motion in the Fire sign of Sagittarius, Mercury now stops in his tracks at 06°24’ (antiscion 23°36’ Capricorn) before picking up speed and moving forward. Wherever Sagittarius is in your chart you’ve been invited during this time to re-evaluate the matters of that house and do so with responsibility since Mercury has already been twice in a square aspect with Saturn and will make a third pass on 27 December. This, for some, may involve purchasing that new phone, computer, car or [...]