VENUS IN PISCES In love with love On the 26-27 of January (depending on where you are in the world), Venus, the planet of love, romance, harmony and values, glides into the sign of Pisces, the sign of its exaltation, ruled traditionally by Jupiter and where Neptune, modern co-ruler of Pisces, has been transiting since April 2011. On the 15th of February (a day after Valentine’s Day) Venus and Neptune will be cuddling up real close (24°04’ Pisces in longitude and also tightly parallel by declination). What might that mean? That we may be lost in a realm of fantasy, washed [...]
URANUS STATIONS DIRECT The road ahead seems quite bumpy…. Uranus ends its yearly, five-month retrograde period at 14°56’ Taurus (antiscion 15°04’ Leo) on the 22nd January. Now all the planets are direct in motion. 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 and virtual money have rocketed, we are being invited and coaxed to use electronic payments in lieu of cash and thus getting involved in yet another way[...]
MARS STATIONS DIRECT BUT REMAINS OOB mental stress and unexpressed plans Finally, OOB Mars stations direct at 08°07’ Gemini (antiscion 21°53’ Cancer) on the 12th of January and it was about time might I add from a very personal perspective having 4 planets in the mutable signs including Mars itself in Gemini! The planet will now be able to express its energy in a more straightforward manner although it will remain OOB and still rather a wild card (also peregrine) until the 4/5th of May. When Mars is retrograde its energies turn inwards and it may seem that our plans backfire [...]
VENUS ENTERS AQUARIUS After a spell in serious, practical Capricorn, Venus enters the cool, collected and independent sign of Aquarius. In this sign Venus wants the liberty to come and go as it pleases but this doesn’t necessarily mean unfaithfulness, just that equal rights and a seemingly no-strings-attached attitude need to be maintained for relationships to function. It’s the Venus placement par excellence for bed-buddies in a mix-and-match of friends becoming lovers and vice versa since Venus here is rather emotionally distant and has an attitude for open and unconventional [...]
MERCURY STATIONS RETROGRADE IN CAPRICORN Mercury stations retrograde at 24°21’ Capricorn (antiscion 5°39’ Sagittarius) and conjoins Venus only 4.5 hours later. When Mercury retrogrades in an Earth sign we often ask ourselves what the tangible results of our life might be. Security matters and practical concerns seem to be often on our minds. Perhaps you need to look for new possibilities or new ways of earning money or perhaps you are just being too self-critical, so keep calm, consider all the pros and cons of any major decision you might want to make and wait until the retrograde[...]
JUPITER MOVES INTO ARIES tolerance becomes difficult From cold and moist to hot and dry, on 20 December Jupiter moves out of Pisces where it has rulership, for a short stay in Aries remaining until 16 May 2023 when it enters Taurus. This is the second time that Jupiter has entered Aries, it was there from 11 May to 27 October this year giving us enough time to get the feel for it. The dispositor of Jupiter in Aries is Mars, now transiting Gemini, OOB until 3 May 2023 (for the major part of the planet’s stay in Aries) and retrograde until 12 January 2023. These two planets never[...]
OOB MERCURY MOVES INTO CAPRICORN And stays for quite a while! OOB 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 started on November 23 and ends on December 22. After fun-loving Sagittarius this move into Capricorn 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 takes up the first part of Mercury’s stay in Capricorn. [...]
NEW MOON IN SAGITTARIUS The New Moon will occur at 01°37’ Sagittarius (antiscion 28°23’ Capricorn) and will be the first of four new moons on the 1° degree of the relative signs over the next four months. One might suppose that with Jupiter being the dispositor of this New Moon things might be on an upward curve after the past two very intense lunations connected to the eclipses along the Scorpio/Taurus axis. A moment of respite and hope after despair. Think again. Only five minutes after the exactness of the New Moon, dispositor Jupiter in its own sign of Pisces stations [...]
JUPITER STATIONS DIRECT Believe... After a 4-month retrograde period which started in Aries, Jupiter stations direct at 28°47' Pisces (antiscion 1°13' Libra) only minutes before the New Moon in Sagittarius (ruled by Jupiter). Now only Mars, Neptune and Uranus remain retrograde. Jupiter is the traditional night-time ruler of Pisces, only more recently was Neptune assigned as modern co-ruler. Jupiter is a hot moist, masculine planet whilst Pisces is a cold moist, nocturnal and feminine sign. Jupiter stations direct conjunct Fixed Star Scheat which Robson explains as “losses [...]
MERCURY ENTERS THE SIGN OF SAGITTARIUS Mercury, ruler of Gemini (collects information about whatever, whenever it can) and Virgo (only interested in information that can be used in a practical way) enters the sign of its detriment and will go OOB on the 23 November until the 22 December. The OOB status will mark a heightening of the Mercurial characteristics, thinking big will be the norm. Mercury in the sign of the archer has the tendency to overlook and discard generalised information (Gemini) and practical details (Virgo) placing attention on the bigger picture and thus becoming [...]