Listening Inside to What I Want
2.6.10
I'm not exactly sure what I want to write to you today, but I want it to be about me.
This admission is actually a great place to start, believe it or not… since I want this to be one of those 'more personal' essays and to address a relevant astrological topic. That opener neatly aligns my personal reflections with the ongoing Mars retrograde in Leo. (Yes: Still retrograde, still in Leo.)
In my latest internal meditations, I've startled myself with the discovery that I know far less about what I want than I've always thought I did. This is not necessarily a complaint with the particulars of my current circumstances.
Saturn-Pluto Square II: 'We, The People' vs. Plutocracy
2.1.10
Right near the second exact peak of the Saturn-Pluto square (Sun Jan 31), we Americans received news that our Supreme Court will now allow corporations to buy elections.
Okay, that's not exactly how the delivered decision reads. It merely permits corporate money to be poured without limit into campaign ads, that's all.
So if, say, the First Bank of the Galaxy doesn't like Senator Jane Doe's vocal support for a financial reform package—one that might defend the average (under-informed) consumer from the greed machine—the First Bank can simply buy up as much media time as its bank-rolled coffers will afford and attack her credibility.
End of 'Hope', Beginning of… ?
1.20.10
As of a few days ago, planetary big-boy Jupiter moved out of Aquarius… and into Pisces.
That also means Jupiter has left the current sign of Neptune's residence, effectively ending their several-month conjunction ('so 2009!')… and now enters Uranus's longtime home-sign, to approach another big conjunction.
Jupiter will conjoin Uranus (within 5-degree orb) from May of this year into February 2011, uniting the solar system's rabble-rousing revolutionary (Uranus) with the guy who makes everything bigger (Jupiter).
Jupiter in Pisces: Feeling Our Unity
1.17.10
As of today (Sun Jan 17), Jupiter will enter Pisces, the final sign of the zodiac wheel, for the first time since 1999.
We like to stay abreast of where Jupiter's traveling, since he is the 'great benefic' and thus often the deliverer of optimism and opportunity, fortune and breadth of vision. Jupiter's a guy we want to keep happy.
Thankfully, Jupiter is very happy when he moves through Pisces, a sign he traditionally ruled (before Neptune was discovered in 1846 and many modern astrologers reassigned Pisces's rulership to him).
2010: A Pivotal Year
1.3.10
Let me just put this out there right up front: I expect 2010 to be something of a game-changer.
Even as I write that, I can't be entirely sure of exactly which games (personal, societal, global, galactic) are slated for changing—or whether these changes will feel, to any one of us, either transcendent or destructive. (It'd probably depend who you ask, and on which day.)
But the dramatic concurrence of astrological events in mid-'10 first captured my (and many other astrologers') attention many years ago, and I've since been wondering how it all might manifest.
A Double-Retrograde, Blue-Moon, Lunar-Eclipse New Year
12.30.09
As we celebrate the passing of '09 into '10, the planets are bestowing an astrologically unusual New Year's.
First of all, not only is Mars still retrograde (through March) as I've already mentioned, but now so too is Mercury—it first turned retrograde on Dec 26, and remains that way through Jan 15. Mercury retrograde, of course, can turn our communications batty, our transmission capabilities unreliable and our transport detoured or delayed.
On top of that, New Year's Eve (Dec 31) brings a full moon in Cancer… which also happens to be a lunar eclipse.
Live from Mars Retrograde!
12.20.09
I had intended to spend the earlier part of today writing an astro-article for you.
Only problem is, I woke up enraged. Kind of puts a damper on one's mood to wax instructive about this planet conjoining that planet.
It didn't help that I had an anger-filled dream during my morning slumber… one in which I was going continuously ballistic in a public place, yelling and screaming, stealing and breaking things, hitting people, then trying to run away and escape from the police.
Refresher: Mars Still in Leo
12.10.09
Ordinarily, by now, Mars—in Leo since Oct 16—would've already moved himself onto the next sign-visit in his zodiac circuit.
But this isn't an ordinary moment for Mars, who has instead begun to slow his apparent motion, in preparation to go retrograde on Sun Dec 20 for nearly more than 2½ months.
So let's please reacquaint ourselves with the Mars-in-Leo qualities presently persisting in their influence over us.
