On the 16-17th January 2018 (depending in which part of the world you live in) there will be a New Moon at 26°54’ in the sign of Capricorn. Capricorn is a Cardinal, Earth sign, so persons with planets or angles of the natal chart at 24-29° of Capricorn, Aries, Cancer and Libra will be particularly affected by this lunation as well as its antiscion point of 3°06’ Sagittarius. New Moons are notoriously the best moment to set fresh intentions for the month ahead and with Capricorn involved, this needs to be done in a very serious, responsible fashion with the aim of making your [...]
….a suddenly serious mood descends Today, Mercury barges out of Sagittarius with the usual bluntness and awkwardness that often characterises his sojourn there and bounces into Capricorn. He just manages to get his foot through the door when he crashes into Saturn (2°50’ on 13th January), ruler of Capricorn, and newly arrived in his austere palace after almost 30 years of zodiacal wandering and who sternly warns him to walk and not run. 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, [...]
Mars and Jupiter will be aligned at 17°55’ in the sign of Scorpio early tomorrow afternoon (GMT). This is unusual since the last time the planets were together in Scorpio was in 1946 at 0°. The two planets are also in a tight sextile to Pluto in Capricorn on one side and to the Moon in Virgo on the other. Can we expect more sexual scandals (Jupiter and Mars in Scorpio) to be brought up from the murky depths (Scorpio) of the corporate world (Pluto in Capricorn) with even more intimate details (Moon in Virgo)? Will we have psychological energy (Mars in Scorpio) and be rational enough [...]
the mooniest Moon…. This will be the first Full Moon of 2018 and it occurs at 11°38’ of Cancer, a Cardinal, Water sign. The most motherly of Moons opposes the sternest and most fatherly of Suns, the former is supported by a Grand Water Trine involving Moon (Cancer), Neptune (Pisces) and Mars (Scorpio), the latter by a stellium of planets in Capricorn; Saturn, Venus, Sun and Pluto. Do we want to go with the flow (Grand Water Trine) of our emotions or are we stuck (stellium in Capricorn) in our conventions? Are we courageous enough (Mars in Scorpio) to follow our intuitions and [...]
Here's my annual astro-transit calendar for 2018: ASTRO-TRANSIT CALENDAR 2018 JUPITER, SATURN AND OUTER PLANETS Jupiter 23°-30° Scorpio, 0°-11° Sagittarius (Rx =8/03-10/07) Saturn 1°-11° Capricorn (Rx 17/04-05/09) Uranus 24°-30° Aries, 0°-2° Taurus (Rx 07/08-06/01/19) Neptune 11°-16° Pisces (Rx 18/06-24/11) Pluto 18°-21° Capricorn (Rx 22/04-28/09) January 2018 [...]
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 [...]