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As we turn from April into May, our awareness is heightened by the waxing Moon.   Under its strong light, old issues are dug up to look at beneath the inescapable glare, especially involving family:  either your own or the larger human family that we...

April opens up between two eclipses.  The first, on March 20th, was a total solar eclipse on the New Moon, while the second falls on Saturday, April 4th, Easter and Passover weekend.  It is a total lunar eclipse of the Full Moon.  The period between...

Can you feel the surge?  March 2015 is not rolling in like a lamb.  More like a lion which will ROAR most of the month.  Especially mid-month.  No gentle spring is this.  The cosmic foot keeps pressing down on the accelerator with very little...

February opens up three planets and asteroid Chiron in watery Pisces:  Venus (love and money), mystical Neptune, Motivating Mars and Healer Chiron.   Like no other water sign, Pisces calls us to pause and reflect.  So with Messenger Mercury in...

I’m not sure how many of us are more than happy to say good riddance to 2014 but I bet it is the overwhelming majority.  There is something to be said for doing all of the heavy, internal work required of us for the past two years while Saturn has cycled through...

December launches the Season of Light, illuminating dark spaces in our lives to show us the way, the truth and the paths of possibility.  This December shines particularly bright as it marks the shift of taskmaster Saturn from Scorpio into Sagittarius.  For...

                            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...