SAFE HOUSE Grand trines can be tricky things. They signal good fortune, but they can also portend danger; the idea being that when you're blessed with good fortune then you immediately become a target for those people or forces who covet, resent, or hunger after what you have. Usually we think that we [...]
CLASH OF THE TITANS! Things reach the breaking point when fiery Mars squares unbending Saturn on August 24. Each planet is in the zodiac sign that it rules – Mars is in Aries and Saturn is in Capricorn – which means that neither one is going to back down. Mars won't stop until [...]
THE GOOD EARTH The Sun enters Virgo on August 22nd. Virgo is an earth sign and the Sun here for the next four weeks will reintroduce the stability, consistency, and security that's gone missing. It's something you'll want to take advantage of because the Sun will be acting as the third point in [...]
WAKE-UP CALL Uranus retrogrades are famous for pendulum swings. They're not as abrupt in their about-faces as a typical Uranus transit, but they can be just as absolute and uncompromising. Let's say you've spent months rallying against a cause, refusing to yield an inch on a hotly contested point or even considering seeing [...]
IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD It's human nature to bristle at limits imposed on us. We don't like being told we can only go so far, that we can have this but not that, or that we're simply not as ready as we think we are for the next step. Sometimes we take [...]
COMMON GROUND Jupiter and Neptune form a sextile for the second time this year on July 27. And with a second sextile comes a second chance to get things right. Thankfully barriers drop and sympathies increase when these two planets are close to each other. They're not so close that they don't see [...]
TOMORROW IS ALWAYS A DAY AWAY Few things are as crushing as a New Moon/Saturn opposition. Whatever thin sliver of hope remains is abruptly removed. Beginnings are over before they've begun, endings are as swift as they are premature, and any chance to appeal or regroup is immediately snuffed out which means that [...]
ERRAND INTO THE MAZE The Sun opposite Jupiter on July 14 shows you pleading your case to somebody who's already decided against you. This person may nod sympathetically, express concern, and even act like he's on your side, but don't buy it. Jupiter in Capricorn is indifferent at best and when you add [...]
IF NOT NOW, WHEN? "Carpe diem" means "seize the day", but not all days are meant to be seized as you'll discover on July 8 when retrograde Mercury squares Mars. The pressure is on for you to act boldly, to charge ahead; but there's a silent part of you that knows better. It [...]
OH WELL, KARMA'S A BITCH Jupiter and Pluto are named after the two gods of Justice in Roman mythology. Jupiter is the higher authority you appeal to in hopes that things will be made right and Pluto is the divine retribution that pursues wrongdoing to the ends of the earth. When two planets [...]
