Pisces Season
Pisces, symbolized by the two fish swimming away from one another, but forever bound by a cord, they keep each other from straying too far towards the light or the darkness. A union of check and balance desperately needed in a mutable, diffusive water. Pisces can keep diving into the watery abyss infinitely, a place where we can forever dream into a mandala of soul. We must be careful to not go too far in any direction, light or dark, but lock in our inner north star, our guiding light, our own faith.
Locating A New Roar
A full moon perfects in the sign of Leo on Feb 12, 2025 at 8:53 am EST. Leo’s planetary ruler is the Sun, and here it sits not only in opposition to its zodiacal home, but both luminaries receive a square from Uranus in Taurus. This Uranian interference emits electric ripples that will directly color what is swelling under this lunation.
Spiritual Jester
Bill Hicks the Spiritual Jester. Connect at Astrum Opus for the full chart delineation.
Jupiter Direct
Jupiter had been retrograding in Gemini since October. February 4th, Jupiter will station direct at 11°. As Jupiter stations direct and slowly gains speed, this will begin to signal the finishing work in Gemini before he has a zodiacal upgrade and enters Cancer in June.
Jupiter is given a nice boost from the planet Mercury the day prior to the station. February 3rd, Mercury in Aquarius will contact Jupiter through a pleasant trine, opening up communication, reorienting to new ideas, and lending an innovative perspective.
The retrograde story in your chart may be focused around a mental and/or social remodel. Connect here with your rising sign to see what is transpiring intellectually and socially for you!
Personal Grail Lunation
A New Moon in Aquarius is forming in the sky, and I am feeling it, and you should too. The Aquarius sector is reverberating with underground activity, similar to tectonic plates that are shifting. Maybe you felt a noticeable jolt here and there to your waking life, nudging you towards a personal intimacy of self-knowledge. Yet pinning it down is certainly a perplexing act. The movement is subtle, it is subterranean, it is powerful.
The New Moon perfects at 9° Aquarius on January 29th, but before the lunar queen dances with her solar king, she first passes through all the sensitive points of early Aquarius. The Moon will touch first the zero point of Aquarius Wednesday afternoon, still feeling the dizzy speed of Mercury who has just zipped by. Zero degrees, possessing all possibilities. The beginning, the ending, the infinite, and simliar to a New Moon, a shadow cast in the Sun.
Ross Ulbricht
Ross Ulbricht has been a prisoner for 12 years, and possibly has the chance for a pardon under the new administration. This is a case study of Saturn and the 12th house, which are both associated with the casting out of society and into places of isolation and alienation. I look at all the key dates of Ross’ arrest, charges and convictions in relationship to Saturn and the 12th house. I also look at the possible pardon chart, will he be pardoned by Trump?
Season of Aquarius
January 19th, Sun enters Aquarius. A fixed air sign, ruled by the planet Saturn, and where the Sun’s dignity is not in its best fighting condition. The Sun is considered to be in detriment, which tends to depress the solar attributes of the great luminary. The light is weakened, as are the solar qualities of leadership, initation, confidence, strength. Saturn, whose nature is polar opposite from the burning ball that gives earth any fighting chance, fights the light by casting chilly shadows and decimating any signs of life. Saturn who oversees the hands of this reality’s clock, reigns supreme this time of year.
Engaging the Soul
The first Full Moon of 2025 is in her home sign of Cancer, the protective crab. The Moon, often associated with emotions and mood, due to her frequent changeability, finds herself growing to full bloom on Monday, January 13, 2025. The Moon is not alone in the sky when she shines bright and high, Mars will be tracking close behind and will be visible. Mars has just reentered Cancer through the retrograde motion, and with him he brings greater guarding, anxious action and heightened awareness.
Resolution Lunation
Closing out the year, an earthy, grounded New moon in the sign of Capricorn will root us firmly into the coming new year. A New Moon is an opportunity to set new intentions, redirect our energy and goals, and in the sign of Capricorn, we are double blessed with the will and fortitude of the goat to move new plans forward in a cardinal sign. We are under a resolution lunation, one that can assist us in resolving that which we wish to release. What are we not bringing forward in 2025?
A Solar Depression
Saturday, Dec 21 at 4:21 am EST, our darkest eve of the year will reach maximum night, and from there our Sun will start his great return. The triumph of light over dark will proceed. What has been building up until then is the struggle within the battle. The Solstice reminds us of what we have been carrying around, waning limbs that weigh us down. Limbs that further anchor us into an inescapable past, robbing us of crucial nutrients for upward growth. The Solstice is a point of inward reflection, a period that permits space to digest what it is we need to release to the underworld so we can live in the outerworld.
Astrology Speaks: Venus Trine Uranus
Astrology Speaks is a reflective series on how the many ways a transit manifests. Whether this be a personal direct experience or an observation on the collective, this is meant to help catalog and understand better how the planetary transits add a qualitative experience to time.
December 2, 2024 09:26 am est
Venus in Capricorn trine Uranus rx in Taurus 24.36°
This transit occured in earth signs, ushering in unique surges of creative and compassionate energy that is dynamic and equally grounding. This energy was building as early as November 30 and can be felt until Dec 5th.
Imagine a lighting bolt hitting a mountain top, the earth will consume this energy, producing a ground current. That energy will travel outwards along the ground surface, and anyone in close proximity will absorb this electrifying shock.
A Coming Light
December 1st marks the beginning of a new month, a New Moon, and Advent season. We welcome the light to lift us up.
Today is the New Moon in Sagittarius, which occurs in the second decan, overseen by the Moon. The double dose of lunar energy in this already mutable, shifting fire sign, is quite helpful when signifying new chapters. The Moon is changeable by nature, and right now the sign of Sagittarius is looking for a hopeful shift. This New Moon has the power to bring in spirited optimism and new energy for stalled out projects.
I Will To Will Thy Will
On November 25th, Mercury stations retrograde at 22°, further increasing mental agitation and nebulous daydreaming. During this retrograde, the action planet, Mars is also slowling down in Leo preparing for his debilitating retrograde on Dec 6th. The two planets associated with speed are now spinning their wheels, and going nowhere fast.
This is a really good period to give over to this time, where the mind seems to be sinking into quicksand. The most fatal step one can make when trapped in the death grip of quicksand is to keep moving. This period from Nov 25th until Dec 5th, any quick solution or attempt to problem solve, may only bury you further. This is where optimistic faith steps in.
Uranian TKO
A Uranian Full Moon profects in the sign of Taurus on Friday,November 15, 2024, at 4:29pm est. This Full Moon will immediately make contact with Uranus by conjunction, which will induce shock waves through the Moon’s own rays. If the Moon was a bell, and you were to clang it with a rod, you could imagine the waves of the moon vibrating with sheer force, emitting out to civilization, this is Friday’s energy. On top of that, we could blend this unpredictable, possibly erratic lunation with the fixed star Algol. Algol is a bright fixed star that sits at the upper left of Pleiades star cluster and Perseus constellation. Algol is connected to the slayed head of Medusa, also known as the demon eye, or the gorgon’s head. To the naked eye, it almost looks like it is winking at you, like its letting you in on a deep universal secret. This is a powerful and complex fixed star. The contact between Uranus, the Full Moon and Algol could have the potential to usher in accidents, unforseen violence, but could also bring in victory and give an edge to competitors. Which brings me to the main point of this astro exploration.
On the night of this lunation and very close to the Full Moon being at its peak, a well-anticipated battle will be taking place. Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul.
Deep dive on both of their charts and the night of the fight, connecting the great Saturn* Jupiter conjunction of 2020.
I make bold predictions here, all in the name of astrology fun!
Plutonic Lessons Learned
Pluto stations direct at 29° Capricorn once last time beginning on October 11, 2024. This will be last the movement in the last degree forward in our lifetime for this planet in Capricorn. Pluto first entered Capricorn in 2008. Wherever Capricorn is in your natal chart, there has been profound exploration, tunneling, reconfiguring to this house. The work has been hard and it has been a long process. As Pluto sets to move out of Capricorn in November, this last pass at the anoretic degree is asking what last insights, what last details need to be wrapped up. This is the finishing work to the house you have been building. Something can be officially ending, a project, a relationship, a business. A phase may be over, the lessons were discovered and learned, and maybe its time to let go of this particular process.
To further investigate the final pass of Pluto in Capricorn, I pulled a tarot card for each RISING sign.The intention for each card was what final lessons need to be realized and wrapped up.
Poisoned Wells
On September 24, 2024, a historic ruling by the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take regulatory action in regards to the practice of water fluoridation and its levels in our drinking water supply. The court ruled that water fluoridation poses potential health risks to the public, specifically in children and pregnant mothers and their brain development.
I look at the astrological transits not only around this historic federal ruling against fluoride, but also look at the inception birth chart of fluoride entering US water plants.
Lunations of October
October lunations, which include a Libra solar eclipse on the 2nd and a full Moon in Aries on the 17th, are respectively ruled by Venus and Mars. Both lunations together speak to a narrative around what we deeply desire, how we fight for it, and how we orient ourself going forward. There is a lot of watery emotional energy behind these lunations, which can make us feel this with deep passion and drive to transmute our current position.
Piscean Dark Waters
Eclipse season returns! The full Moon in Pisces on September 17th, will be a partial lunar eclipse at 25° Pisces. This partial eclipse kicks off the first of many along the Pisces*Virgo axis. This axis will be highlighting the archetypes of Pisces and Virgo, the dreamer and the realist. These eclipses will explore the light and shadow of both mutable zodiac signs.
Venus On the Ma’at
Venus in Libra seeks balance, she seeks truth, she seeks justice, she seeks order, she seeks understanding. Symbolized by the scales, Libra is similar to Egyptian Goddess Ma’at, who oversees the orderliness to the universe. Weighing her own feather against the heart of each man, calculating humanity’s acts, deeming them worthy of continuing on into the afterlife. Libra seeks order amongst the chaos, attempting to find reason, logic, truth, balance and beauty.
Necessary Weight of Saturn
I have been associating Saturn with an anchor. A heavy, iron weight that wherever it drops in the zodiacal wheel, it has the intention and certainly the power to create a very resonant drag through time.
This space Saturn occupies in our wheel may create a drag in our own life. This may be an area that we feel at times isolated from, attempting to create deeper connection.