Jun82010

Sky God Overload

I'm not complaining; however, it should be noted: If you’ve opened yourself to Uranus and Jupiter at their glorious conjunction, expect to be buzzing with energy. Energy is fun. We like energy. We load up on coffee and buy energy drinks. But too much and we get jittery, perhaps a little manic and ungrounded. The same is true of drawing the energetic pulses of Jupiter and Uranus … [Read more...]

May252010

Jupiter Uranus JuJu

I’m dancing as fast as I can. In fact I tripped and slammed into the stone steps leading up to my house the other day, surprised I didn’t shatter my knee. I’m feeling fragile, over-stretched, and under-prepared these days. Most everyone I meet feels the same way—as though we’re already caught in the undertow of the coming eclipses and that big cardinal square between Saturn, … [Read more...]

May102010

Mercury Retrograde Bomber

When Mercury goes retrograde, for three weeks every four months, communication and machinery break down, and the logical mind goes on vacation. The trickster gums up our thinking so that we find ourselves storing the butter in the dishwasher and dropping our checkbook in the trash. It's an aggravating time. But the next time we curse this tri-annual event, we should remember … [Read more...]

Apr252010

Grounded

Pluto's retrograde station is explosive; Mercury's is fraught with miscommunications and snafus. Between both events this month (Pluto's on April 6 and Mercury's on April 17), Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull erupted. There was the lord of the underworld appearing in a volcano at the top of the world. There was messenger Mercury (in earth sign Taurus) sending plumes of grit into … [Read more...]

Apr122010

Pluto still a force

I'd begun to think I was living in an alternate universe where things were so grand, its reporters had nothing to talk about but a very-good-golfer's sex addiction. But last week Pluto stationed retrograde and suddenly we have so many difficult things to talk about, words hardly do them justice. En route to commemorating the tragic Katyn massacre, the Polish president, Lech … [Read more...]