Seeing as many astrologers like to make predictions for the upcoming year, here’s mine! Will Queen Elizabeth II Abdicate? If so, When? 14th December 2017, Cattolica, Italy 21.17 Asc. 22°18’ Cancer I am the person asking the question and, being British, the Queen is my Queen so 10th house. L10 Venus at 16°55’ Sagittarius Her role/job as Queen is the turned 10th (radix 7th): Saturn 29°22’ Sagittarius Part of resignation and dismissal: Saturn+Venus-Sun (269 22 + 223 49 – 263 02 = 230 09) 20°09’ Scorpio There are no aspects between Venus and Saturn but[...]
Let’s move forward with optimism… After a twenty-two day period of retrograde motion in the Fire sign of Sagittarius, Mercury now stops in his tracks at 13°01’ (in my previous article about the Mercury retrograde period, I made an error in stating the direct station degree...many apologies) before picking up speed and moving forward. The antiscion point (also worth watching if you have planets/angle there) is 16°59’ Capricorn. 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 [...]
……new beginnings There will be a New Moon at 26°31’ of Sagittarius on December 18th. On New Moons we set our intentions for the month ahead and this one in particular offers the Sagittarian perspective on our destiny and our relationship with the universe inviting us to look ahead with optimism. This particular Lunation will be in close conjunction with Saturn in the very last degree of Sagittarius adding a more serious note to our enthusiasm and cautioning us to be wary about what we ask for! The New Moon is also almost exactly conjunct the Galactic Centre, that dark hole [...]
...down to earth After approximately 2.5 years in the philosophical, truth loving sign of Sagittarius, Saturn now enters its home sign of Capricorn. The last time Saturn was in Capricorn was from 13/02/88 to 09/06/88 and after a short stay as it retrograded into Sagittarius again, from 12/11/88 to 05/02/91. What was happening in your life then? Capricorn is ruled by Saturn so this no-nonsense, down to business, straight-in-the-face planet will be perfectly at ease here. In this sign Saturn will be a lot about redefining moral behaviour on a personal and public scale, it’s a high [...]
….concentration Here we are again on the brink of another Mercury retrograde period, the third and final one of this year. The planet will station at 29°15’ Sagittarius, a mutable, Fire sign. The twenty-ninth degree of any zodiac sign is rather special, it is known as the anaretic degree (29°0’-29°59’). “The 29th degree appears to carry both omen and overture, it speaks of some sort of unproven karma and stands out among other degrees as a harbinger of change” writes astrologer Michele Adler*. Mercury is not only stationing retrograde it is still out-of-bounds [...]
….“The Storyteller’s Moon” On the 3rd of December there will be a Full Moon at 11°40’ Gemini, as we all know, full moons are when matters that have been simmering under the surface emerge to be dealt with. This lunation occurs on the 3rd-9th house axis (Gemini-Sagittarius) in traditional astrology; how I think vs how they think, short trips vs long journeys, reason vs intuition etc. Both signs are concerned with gathering and spreading knowledge as well as education and travel. It will most affect those with planets or angles in Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces between [...]
…..will we see clearly now? In earlier days Neptune was known as the planet of “chaos” meaning that the planet has little or no action upon the physical plane, it’s sphere of influence being largely confined to the psychic or emotional plane and….its influence in the natal chart will depend upon the native’s ability to respond to its vibrations.* Neptune turns direct on the 22nd November at 11° 28’ of Pisces, its own sign. This means that uncertainties or lack of clarity that you have been internalizing and that may have surfaced from the past, finally start to lift as the[...]
With 4 planets in the mutable signs including a natal, stationary Saturn at 25°32’ Virgo I have been obviously very attentive to transiting Saturn’s sojourn in Sagittarius over the last two and a half years. Having had a third and final exact square from the transiting planet to my natal Saturn (in 11th, rules 3rd and the traditional 4th and the transit was in my 2nd) on the 10th November I’ve clearly been keeping track of the planet even more accurately over the last couple of weeks and now I can safely say that Saturn is galloping towards Capricorn in true Sagittarius fashion! In[...]
Scorpio is a Fixed, Water sign which deals with emotions and feelings on a deep level, therefore on this New Moon we should feel encouraged to seed any new projects with the right amount of fervour and commitment if we wish to see them manifest during the month to come. It would also be wise not to include emotional blackmail and desire to win at all costs as part of our intentions. The Lunation will occur at 26°19’ Scorpio and the Sun-Moon duo will be standing alone in the sky (if the trine to the Centaur - or comet or planetoid, whichever you prefer - Chiron is excluded). This fact [...]
