Energy sensitives are well aware of the current line-up of planets in Aries. It's easy to catch headaches these days! Aries is fire that burns hot in the head. It sends us charging forth--discovering, battling, creating, protecting--wherever our impulsive thoughts lead. With the Full Moon in Libra, the sign of balance, we get a not-so-secret instruction: pause and regain … [Read more...]
What was the message—when the winged Messenger, Mercury—entered its-retrograde shadow just as NASA’s Messenger entered this planet’s orbit? And what should we make of the first close-ups of Mercury’s surface being released on the very day the planet stationed retrograde? Of the gods, Mercury is the most clever and nimble, an artist of intricate puzzles. Perhaps he knows we’ve … [Read more...]
It’s hard to imagine that anything could shift our focus from the stunning revolutions sweeping the Middle East and Africa last month. That was expansive Jupiter reaching zero Aries—raising courage and sending through this sensitive degree in the World’s chart the conviction that new worlds are possible. Just as we began to ask ourselves, when and where all this regime change … [Read more...]
Like lucky paparazzi behind the hedges, we’ve been given plenty of god sightings these days. During exciting times—and these are such times—the archetypes walk more boldly among us, teaching or meddling, depending on the day or your point of view. I never understood why ancient astrologers claimed Saturn was exalted in cooperative Libra. It seems like such a soft or even … [Read more...]
Great day! The gods are alive in Egypt! Mubarek resigns after thirty years as Egypt's dictator. There is much to say about the astrology of this event, but as my computer live-streams Al Jazeera's great coverage, I find myself thinking of Saturn, exalted in its current sign: polite, harmonious, and graceful Libra. When one of the commentators was asked to sum up this moment, … [Read more...]
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Jeff Jawer, The Mountain Astrologer
