When you connect the dots, it's easy to see the fraternal spirit of Gemini in its stars. Here are the twins, Castor and Pollux, holding hands, and engaged in lively conversation for all eternity. Yet this month you can't lie back and watch this pair stroll across the night sky. The Sun is in Gemini. That means this constellation is currently veiled by our closest star's bright … [Read more...]
Shiva and Shakti are dancing in the Underworld–and you?
Venus and the Sun are conjunct today (March 25). Male astrologers throughout the ages have concluded that this condition disadvantages Venus. A Sun/Venus conjunction in someone's birth chart suggests that Venus is "combust"--which means she disappears, is overpowered, or burned up by the intense light of the Sun. Yet I've met enough people born with this conjunction to know … [Read more...]
Saturn-in-Sag Success Strategy
Saturn energizes success, and when he's in Sagittarius, he especially supports those who act and think in Sagittarian ways. Since Saturn calls us to "focus" and optimistic Sag delights in what's "positive," one fine and simple strategy for 2016 is "Focus on the positive." Such an attitude can open us up. It can lead to new opportunities and life-changing adventures. If we can … [Read more...]
Sky Events Worth Noting
Linking the heavens to your earth-bound life is beneficial. Your inner rhythms become more confident as you harmonize with the outer symphony and your life acquires a more beautiful soundtrack. The two sky events most worth paying attention to this cycle occur on June 21, when it's solstice and Venus enters the shadow of her retrograde. Solstice signals a change of seasons. … [Read more...]
End of the World Averted
Maybe all those emails worked--the ones promoting various global meditations to shift our consciousness and save the planet's future. Today, just eleven days past the end of the Mayan calendar (which occurred on October 28, according to some calculations), a large asteroid is hurtling past us, coming within 200,000 miles of our surface, making it closer than the Moon. How nice … [Read more...]
