PLUTO ENDS HIS RETROGRADE PERIOD ….the soul-searching is over, time to transform! On the 10-11th of October, Pluto will station direct at 27°53’ Capricorn (antiscion 2°07’ Sagittarius) after just over 5 months of being retrograde. Persons with planets or angles between 23-30° of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) will be most affected by this station. Pluto is concerned with power, regeneration, survival, transformation, sex, obsession and possessiveness. Pluto is the god of the Underworld. Pluto in Capricorn (ruled by Saturn) is concerned with the [...]
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[...]
NEW MOON IN CAPRICORN How long must we cling to the past? The New Moon at 01°32’ Capricorn (antiscion 28°28’ Sagittarius) is the 2nd of a series of 4 on this degree of the relative consecutive signs. With the New Moon making part of a five-planet stellium in Capricorn (Moon, Sun, Venus, Mercury and Pluto) and Uranus R and North Node both in a trine aspect to Venus and Mercury, this New Moon has definitely got an Earthy feeling to it. Cardinal energy is also the most prominent, forging ahead yet keeping doggedly to the rules and whatever they may represent seems to be the theme [...]
VENUS ENTERS CAPRICORN From 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 attached” attitude in this serious sign. Ambition is often part of the picture too. Although in daytime triplicity and in its own term from 0-5°59’ this nevertheless doesn’t seem to be the best placement for a [...]
forget love and peace…. The first of six New Moons at 23° of their relative signs. This New Moon will take place at 23°53’ Libra (antiscion 6°07’ Pisces) and will be squaring Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn, now all direct, in Capricorn, it will also still be in orb of an opposition to Mars retrograde in Aries, thus forming a Cardinal T-square aspect. The lunation is also in tight separating orb to the Saturn-Pluto conjunction of January again re-activating this degree and its consequences. Libra brings to mind the usual Venus topics with a very harmonious nuance. So, we could [...]
It’s a repeating theme…. This is the last of this year’s Summer eclipses and will be visible from South/West Europe, much of Africa, much of North America, South America, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Antarctica* see link in the bibliography. The OOB Moon is in its detriment at 13°37’ Capricorn (antiscion 16°23’ Sagittarius) with its retrograde ruler Saturn just having re-entered the sign. The Sun is at 13°37’ Cancer in the sign of the Moon and is separating from retrograde Mercury, both planets oppose by sign, but not by degree, the stellium of planets in Capricorn [...]