HIGHER THOUGHTS

                            November is typically a feisty month.   This month is noexception.  However, after the rock ‘em sock ‘em ride of October with Mercury retrograde and...

We barely step foot into October when Messenger Mercury turns retrograde motion on Saturday the 4th.   The last week of September we already felt the effects of communications snafus, slower-than-usual responses, technical glitches.  And travel, yes indeed,...

September opens with a powerful combo:  Saturn and Mars conjoined in heavy Scorpio.  It doesn't get any stronger than this.  Big money, psychological and mental health matters, deeply embedded emotions stir and are called to the surface to be...

I hope you are enjoying the summer so far.   Like the rest of 2014, it has not come without its challenges.   Now that joyful Jupiter has moved into rip-roaring Leo, we are invited to enjoy all life has to offer.And August opens with gusto.  A planetary...

2014 has certainly shaped into a challenging year.  Most if not everyone I know has significant life concerns to manage.  It feels as if we no sooner come up for air than unrelenting forces push our head back under water.  If I've learned anything, it...

Like the opening bars of a great symphony, June begins softly at first, hinting at where we're to point our focus this month.June 1st, Jupiter joins the Moon in its home sign of motherly Cancer.  Expand your love, compassion and care, they prompt.  These two...

We survived April's grand cross and two eclipses.  Hooray!  Life just feels...lighter.   We are not quite out of the woods just yet.  The effect of April's activity is still at play, lingering on.  Significantly reducing the sting from...

Astrologers are a vast and diverse breed.  So it is a rare event indeed when consensus occurs among our community as it does around April's heavyweight planetary events.    For those of us in the business of explaining cosmic effects, we...

I admit, looking at the astrological coordinates for March, I felt intimidated.  There is SO much to cover in this month's blog.  I grit my teeth and buckled down.  Where to begin?  Of course, came the reply.   Start where anyone...

All through this winter we are asked to turn inward in some key aspects of our lives.  To slow down, review, reflect and revisit what otherwise gets passed over in the constant shuffle forward.  With the New Moon recently past on January 30 and Venus...