WHEN THEY GO LOW, WE GO HIGH We live in angry times. Nowadays you can experience hostility in all kinds of places. Maybe it's free-floating anger in the workplace, road rage on the commute home, or talking heads hollering from the screen. It's hard to rise above the situation when so many people [...]
TRUE BELIEVER Jupiter is the planet of good fortune and higher purpose. Jupiter lifts our sights and our spirits so that we reach for our better selves rather than stoop to our lowest common denominator. Jupiter turned retrograde on March 8. This is when it pulled the plug on all of those things [...]
WATER OF LOVE A grand trine is a triangle in the heavens formed by the appearance of one planet in each of the three zodiac signs of like element. This week's grand trine will be in water, the element of love. But this isn't love born of heat and passion (like fire); this [...]
YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE Planetary oppositions are like congressional standoffs. There's nothing remotely complimentary or potentially harmonizing about them. On June 27 the Sun in Cancer will face off against Saturn in Capricorn. That means that there's something you want but there's no way you're going to get it. The higher [...]
A PLANET CALLED HOPE On June 18 Neptune turns retrograde. Neptune is the planet of hope. Maybe you're hoping that someone you're in love with will love you back, wishing for a better life, or feeling like this time a lucky break really will work out. Neptune is the arch nemesis of cynics [...]
RUDE AWAKENINGS Unexpected turnarounds and surprise about-faces abound when Venus forms a square to Uranus on June 14. And in the most public way! You'll be discovering sides of people you thought you knew (but now realize you didn't) while finding yourself left high and dry by those who promised to be there [...]
DON'T GET GASLIGHTED Do you know what gaslighting is? It's when someone is messing with you. It begins with sowing seeds of doubt about conversations you never had and promises you never made and gradually escalates into the other party accusing you of making things up in your head. Suddenly it's not him [...]
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE This week Venus will form a grand trine with Jupiter and Neptune. A grand trine is when three planets in different signs (different signs but signs that still share the same element) create a triangle in the sky. A grand trine often brings good fortune and protection. Since the [...]
RESTORATION Jupiter and Neptune were brother gods in Roman mythology. Jupiter ruled the skies and Neptune ruled the seas. Both were known for their wild tempers as we all know from watching the kind of damage that storms and hurricanes can do. Yet they also shared a reciprocal relationship. Rain falls from the [...]
URANUS IN TAURUS Uranus, the planet of revolution and change, enters Taurus for a seven year stay. Uranus is most powerful right when it enters a sign so you can expect to see many of the fixtures in your life overturned and tossed about – almost as if a cyclone had torn a [...]
