Transformational Times This year’s Winter’s Solstice chart features an exact Sun and Pluto conjunction at 0º Capricorn. When planets cross 0º of the cardinal signs – Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn – their energy more directly impacts public awareness and the world stage. The influence of Pluto has been intensifying over the last few years, [...]
Astroview: Reality Altering Ride
As Uranus and Neptune Trade Signs Electric, high-tech Uranus and watery, unifying Neptune have been taking each other’s signs for a spin since 2003 and we’ll be along for that reality-altering ride until 2011. Inventive Uranus and visionary Neptune are involved in an interplay of energies called mutual reception. This astrological construct occurs when two [...]
Diary of an Astrologer
April 7 – Washington, D.C., 5PM I am so happy. I just had a call from my daughter, Sofia, announcing that she is pregnant. I am going to have a grandchild! The couple has started their family. All is well! I put on my astrological hat. I know Sofia’s natal chart by heart which makes [...]
Astroview: Winter Solstice 2009
Another year has flashed past at warp speed while Pluto, planet of ruin and renewal, corruption and reform, crisis and transformation, continues creeping along at its painfully slow pace joining the Sun center stage, yet again, in the Winter Solstice chart. This year the Sun and Pluto conjunction in Capricorn, with its aim of demanding [...]
Astroview: Chiron transits Neptune
Embody Your Essence A significant yet subtle union is forming between the planets of healing, Chiron and Neptune. This conjunction is a slow moving, long-term transit whose broad range of influence spans the years between 2005 and 2015, if we consider a 10˚orb. This year the transit will come close to exact, and in June [...]
Astroview: The Winter Solstice 2007
Getting Down to Business! Hang in; another spin around the Sun is about to begin. The astrological New Year begins at the Winter Solstice, and this year’s chart is full of challenge and promise. As the Sun stills before veering northward, it stands in close conjunction with Jupiter, planet of opportunity and growth, and Mercury, [...]
Astrology: A Universal Language of the Soul
Astroview Astrology can revolutionize our vision of life and self. Forget the trite newspaper and magazine columns. Think big. Think cosmos. Think planets swirling round on their axes, careening at astounding speeds around suns, stars swiftly spiraling in galaxies around galaxies. We forget. This is where we live, on a planet flying through space at [...]
Astroview: Pluto Demoted but Still as Potent
Pluto may have been demoted, dwarfed and relegated to a mere number by the astronomers, but it has not lost any of its stature or clout with astrologers, and Pluto called by any other name or number will still turn you inside out when it hits your chart. In fact, from an astrological vantage, Pluto’s [...]
Astroview: Jupiter Square Uranus
Spark the Creative Fire! Break-ups, breakdowns, breakthroughs, bustin’ out, the bolt from the blue, big leaps of faith and big changes in world view are just a few of the things a Jupiter and Uranus combo can do. Expansive and adventurous Jupiter and erratic and disruptive Uranus have been squared-off throughout 2007. The first exact [...]
