On July 15, 2016, we celebrated Mooncircles' 16th birthday. No MTV-style parties here, but we have gotten a mobile friendly update. We hope you like the new look. And, we're offering astrological party favors! Find your free chart, moon phase and transit reports here. We launched Mooncircles on a Mercury retrograde near a solar eclipse. I mention this to offer courage to … [Read more...]
For several weeks this spring, a shouting Donald Trump made fun of the way Hillary Clinton was shouting. He complained that her voice was shrill and it hurt to hear it. All politicians shout. But women know exactly what it means when they’re accused of being shrill. It’s code for “Your strength is unattractive.” Recently we lost a beautiful strong woman. Basketball coach Pat … [Read more...]
There are often horrific events during Mars retrogrades. The Mars impulse--always in danger of getting dicey--comes more easily unhinged during these weeks. Events in Orlando just last week are a heartbreaking testament: Christina Grimmie's murder, the Pulse nightclub massacre, and the alligator who grabbed the little boy on a Disneyworld vacation. Bad things happen all the … [Read more...]
Venus suggests flowing robes, laughter like music, and a sensuous ease with life. She's feminine receptivity, beauty and grace, unless you're talking to an astrologer, for whom Venus the planet is primarily a symbol of love and money. But are these associations accurate? What is our real experience of the Venus archetype? And how does this correlate with her position in our … [Read more...]
Moon mystics and particle physicists are similarly obsessed with the invisible world. The physicists voyage into the unknown using the predictive power of their equations. In the 1960s mathematical conjuring took a few of them—the most renowned was Peter Higgs—to a startling conclusion. They’d been trying to solve the mystery of what happened in the instant just after the Big … [Read more...]
