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I am a reporter with a unique beat. I use my understanding of planetary cycles to provide advance notice and analysis on the Zeitgeist of the day. If you have ever wondered “why is this happening now,” my insights will transform your experience of the headlines, adding new meaning and understanding. Call it Astrology for News Junkies. If you’re curious to know why the Impossible Burger is trending…or why the outcome of the 2019 Israeli elections was likely to be a shocker …or why “Woodrow Wilson, Stud Muffin” was a New York Times headline in December 2013, you will find it here, in over a decade’s worth of historical research and reporting.
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Tuesday 5/17/2022: Late Sneak Peek at the Week; Mars-Neptune in Focus; a Saturnine Full Moon/Eclipse
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It’s Tuesday and Mercury is still retrograde. That’s my explanation for why this forecast was written later than planned. Hopefully many of you have signed up for the Whether Gal segment that is part of Avid Reader Alison’s 2022: Year of Love podcast. That’s where I give a sneak peek of this much more detailed Sneak Peek, and the one that posted this past Sunday includes a stunning visual of the front page of the Sunday NYT that is perfectly in sync with planetary patterns. Astrology is amazing, as the NYT never fails to prove.
Before we get to the day-by-day forecast, let’s take a brief look at the Full Moon/lunar eclipse we had at 12:14 AM ET on Monday. Here it is, set in Washington, D.C.
Observations:
And now, the week:
And now, the news.
Sunday’s Sun-Saturn square, combined with the Sun-Neptune sextile was expected to reflect heavy news of cuts and losses, bordering on the surreal. Why else would the Sunday NYT editors plan in advance to devote the entire front page to this:
The grimness of planetary patterns (with a surreal twist) is this photo of President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, hosting a delegation of Republican senators who were A-OK with defeated former guy’s extortion attempt and delay of promised aid to Ukraine.
Another potential symbolized by Saturn is ambitious advance. Sweden and Finland plan to apply for NATO membership, and their leaders are coming to Washington on Thursday.
In other heavy news:
The NYT Magazine was devoted to health, and articles featured Saturn’s streamlining and Mars Neptune seductive ideals, as in breast reductions, butt lifts and phalloplasty.
Add Jupiter (expansion) in Aries (firepower, crusades, aggression), and we get:
The massacre in Buffalo was one of several in the U.S. that day, and it is interesting to note how many of those murdered embodied the upside potential of Neptune, e.g., a woman who ran a food pantry; another who cared for her invalid husband; and a savior/physician killed in a church.
Tuesday’s primary races in PA are bonkers, with Dr. Oz (a Mars-Neptune name if ever there was one), a hedge fund guy, and Islamophobe/homophobe Kathryn Barnette duking it out for the Republican nomination, while Barnette and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano refused to allow press coverage of a “routine campaign event.” We need to keep an eye on the seeds being planted now in this new Mars-Neptune cycle, as we will experience three squares between Mars and Neptune over the next several months: October 12, November 19th and March 14th.
One story we should watch is Ben Bernanke’s opinion that the U.S. is headed for a period of “stagflation,” i.e., continued high prices, but little growth. Let’s see where we are at with that theory during the Mars retrograde period, which begins this fall. Mars retrograde can feel like a truck spinning its wheels in the mud, and three contacts with Neptune can reflect a bubble effect.
UPDATE: on Merrick Garland, who hasn’t had much going on in what we know of his horoscope since 2021. If he was going to do anything useful, we might have heard about it around May 11th. And guess what? He did something — or at least, his Justice Dept. did. “Prosecutors pursue inquiry into DFG’s handling of classified material.”
UPDATE: on Vladimir Putin. The birth data astrologers have is iffy, but if it’s correct, we’d expect a focus on core family and foundation concerns. Thus it was interesting to see an in-depth article about his family in the NYT. It is rumored that he is being treated for cancer and that oligarchs are planning a coup. Let’s see where he’s at in early August.
Meanwhile…
With Jupiter at the Aries Point, we expected to hear news — and we did — involving:
On Friday the 13th, Jen Psaki said farewell to the White House press corps and introduced her replacement, Karine Jean-Pierre. Heather Cox Richardson explains it all for you — except for the part about their horoscopes. Psaki’s can be found in a post from January 2021. I’d continue this comparison but it turns out that there are conflicting reports in reputable media outlets re: Jean-Pierre’s birth date (1974 or 1977). For now let’s just observe that Jean-Pierre’s Leo Sun will be under the influence of Saturn for the second and third time in 2022 at the end of August and mid-December, as Saturn in Aquarius opposes it. Many thanks to Avid Reader Lynn for alerting me to the conflicting dates in an earlier version of this forecast.
Finally, longtime Avid Readers may be familiar with the disembodied entities who call themselves the Hathors, and are channeled by sound healer Tom Kenyon. They had plenty to say during the Uranus-Pluto square of 2011 – 2016, most of which was warning bells and coping strategies for staying grounded in the anticipated storm. They’ve been quiet since January 2021, but Kenyon posted a message on Sunday, and given its content, it’s astonishingly in sync with that day’s planetary patterns! On the Saturn hand, the Hathors think we’re toast. OK, not quite — but they think we’re likely to downsize — as it were — before it gets better. On the Neptune hand, they offer helping coping tips, including a sound meditation (soooo Neptune!).
OK! That’s it for now — unless you’d like to take a listen to Whitney Fishburn and I dish the astrodish in Episode 7 of “Off the Charts: A Stellar Newscast,” where we break down Roe v. Wade, Samuel Alito and John McCain — sprinkled with deep thoughts, laughs and a couple of jokes.
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This image is worth repeating because Mercury is retrograde.
Plus, it was expensive to license, but I wanted to support the Ukrainian photographer, Hanna Postova.
Furthermore, Saturn is hot in the cosmos now, and Mars-Neptune is aptly depicted in assorted shades of rose.
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Monday 5/9/2022: Sneak Peek at the Week; Mercury is RETROGRADE; Jupiter in Aries
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We have two big planetary shifts this week, and they both happen on TUESDAY. Mercury goes retrograde and Jupiter leaves Pisces for its first passage into Aries.
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Here’s how it goes:
A pause, while I present this Really Useful Mercury Retrograde Survival Guide:
Mercury turns retrograde at 4 Gemini. It will travel backward in Gemini until May 22nd, when it backs into Taurus. Mercury will turn direct on June 3rd at 26 Taurus, where it will be conjunct the Fixed Star Algol. This star is tied to the head of the Medusa, and we may be hearing stories of people literally losing their heads around this time. Mercury reenters Gemini on the Full Moon of June 14th. Mercury won’t cover new ground until June 18th, when it reaches 4 Gemini (where it is right now).
Mercury retrograde in Gemini suggests a ton of double-talk and “on the other hand” discussions, and even an insistence that two contradictions can both be true at the same time. Hey, Gemini sees it both ways. Clever and entertaining wordplay is likely to capture our imagination, none of it really going anywhere, but gosh, it sure is fun.
The Sabian Symbol for this Mercury retrograde is “a radical magazine,” which image of “a periodical publication of extreme views demanding widespread social and political change,” writes Sabian Sage Blain Bovee. OMG — astrology is AMAZING. It occurs to me that a magazine is also “a chamber for holding a supply of cartridges to be fed automatically to the breech of a gun,” (says your local dictionary), and this ties in curiously with Jupiter’s ingress into warrior Aries. Watch the headlines.
You are more personally affected by this Mercury retrograde if you have planets or angles around 26 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius, and 4 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces. Consult your local astrologer for details.
A pause, while we recap what was written about Jupiter in Pisces and Aries at the end of 2021:
Speaking of Jupiter referring to horses, with Jupiter at the Aries Point over the weekend, isn’t it amazing that horses were so prominent in the news? I’m talking about Rich Strike, the horse that won the Kentucky Derby with odds of 80-1!!!
Back to the forecast:
Here is Beth Owl’s Daughter’s Tarot Card of the Week, which seems to be reflecting the newborn feeling of Jupiter’s ingress into Aries.
The news is locked and loaded, but I can’t type it up right now, given that this is shipping at midnight.
Keep an eye out for the next episode of “Off the Charts: A Stellar Newscast,” in which Whitney Fishburn and I dish about the horoscopes of “Justice”Alito, John McCain, and the assault on Roe v. Wade and other civil rights, as seen through the Aries Ingress and other planetary patterns. That should drop on Friday. Here are prior episodes.
For a modern psychological take on Ghislaine Maxwell’s horoscope, check out this three-part video collaboration with Kathy Rose. It’s called “Astrology of the Famed: Revealing the Human within the Horoscope.” Which famous person should we talk about next?
And remember, you can always find a audio/video sneak peek of the Sneak Peek at the Week on Avid Reader Alison Woo’s nifty podcast 2022: The Year of Love. In this week’s episode, she’s talking about the lessons of love to be learned in the TV series, “Bridgerton.”
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Mercury and faithful friend — somewhere in Ukraine…
Monday 5/2/2022: Sneak Peek at the Week; Venus in Aries at the Aries Point, for Starters…
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Meanwhile…
The solar eclipse and New Moon in Taurus are behind us, and we’ll find out what the former was all about around July 20th. This week, we can put the New Moon energy to good use, supported by numerous easy alignments among the planets. Don’t be evil. Here’s how it goes:
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And now, the news.
With Venus at the Aries Point in a sextile with Jupiter (expansion) and Pluto (power), fashion is in focus tonight at the 2022 Met Gala. Here are the red-carpet arrivals.
Guess who has two planets and his Ascendant at the Aries Point, and thus is likely to be attracting attention this week and next, with Venus-Jupiter at the AP? Justice Samuel Alito — and here are thoughts on his horoscope from 2020. And guess who allegedly wrote this leaked draft SCOTUS opinion that is allegedly legit?
Other Venus-Jupiter in Pisces stories from last week include:
Meanwhile, here are stories I was going to include in last week’s forecast, but I was concerned I was giving you way too much to deal with in one forecast.
Reflecting the heavy squeeze suggested by Sunday morning’s square between Mercury and Saturn, it’s interesting to learn that this is when Twitter’s board met to discuss Elon Musk’s takeover bid last weekend,Mercury sextiled Neptune at 6:37 PM ET, putting an idealistic spin on the earlier gravitas (remember this is what was anticipated in the forecast last week?). Negotiations continued into the wee hours, while the Moon was void for nearly ten hours, for gawd’s sake.
I wonder how much of the Mercury-Saturn gravitas at the start of their meeting was as a result of a letter sent to the Twitter board by 18 House Republicans, including four who were named in the preceding paragraph’s list. That letter would be taking a page out of the playbook of Viktor Orban of Hungary, who uses financial “incentives” as a way of maintaining power, explained in this write-up of Orban’s horoscope…and also in one of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from last week. HCR also covers how the Florida legislature, directed by Governor Ron DeSantis, passed legislation that dissolved the land use deal Disney has had since 1967, in retaliation against Disney for speaking out against DeSantis’ “Don’t Say ‘Gay'” bill.
Meanwhile, DeSantis also directed lawmakers to pass his personally-drawn redistricting map for the state, which eliminated two districts represented by Black members of Congress, including the Val Demings (D-FL), who hopes to win Marco Rubio’s Senate seat in November.
Elsewhere, the populist party lost to the environmentalist party in Slovenia last week. It’s quite an extraordinary story, so check out that link if you don’t already know the details.
UPDATE: on VP Kamala Harris. Remember I told you that the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction affected her horoscope more than most? On the day of transiting Neptune’s first of multiple exact squares to her Ascendant, she tested positive for Covid.
These two from WaPo aren’t new, but they’re fun:
Also fun: the upside potential of challenging aspects between Mars (action, assertion) and Neptune (pixie-dust, music), as evidenced by Randy Rainbow. He has an exact Mars-Neptune opposition that also engages his super clever Mercury (in Gemini) and probably his perfection-seeking Virgo Moon. Here’s a write-up of his horoscope from a few years ago. Last week, as transiting Jupiter (expansion, publishing) made contact with his Mercury, the NYT reported this:
Randy Rainbow will never stop fighting the good fight. Here’s his most recent musical parody — a response to Ron DeSantis’ quest for world domination, which, as of today, includes the establishment of a “voter-fraud police force” that appears might report directly to him.
Right-o. That’s the news for now.
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Monday 4/25/2022: Sneak Peek at the Week; Pluto Retrograde; New Moon in Taurus — Eclipsed; Venus Conjunct Jupiter, Oh Joy!
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Lots to talk about this week — here are the highlights:
The upcoming eclipse means that it’s time once again to offer Avid Readers several paragraphs on how this week’s solar eclipse and next month’s lunar eclipse are likely to affect your own personal horoscope. These paragraphs are not computer-generated. They are my typed-by-hand observations unique to you, and they all can be yours by tossing $52 into the Joyful Random Expression of Appreciation basket, located here. Then you’ll need to email me your birth data, if you know I don’t already have it. I will send insights before Saturday’s New Moon.
Here’s how the week goes:
Here is what the New Moon/Solar Eclipse looks like, set in Washington, D.C.:
Observations:
Oh, but this is a solar eclipse, too. So let’s write about that — or if you prefer to listen to a talk about eclipses (and also Pluto’s retrograde), here’s 25 minutes of a fun conversation with Avid Reader Alison in Episode 15 of her podcast, “2022: The Year of Love.”
Solar eclipses act like a “bottleneck” of energy. Light flowing from the Sun is temporarily interrupted, focusing attention on that interrupted point. As light is held back, something new and possibly fragile may enter the picture and grow. And here I would be thinking of Michael, the kindhearted policeman in the storybook Make Way for Ducklings, who stopped the flow of traffic on Beacon Street so Mr. and Mrs. Mallard and their brood of eight could safely make their way to the Boston Public Garden. Otherwise, they would have been roadkill. Got that?
Often the seeds planted for growth during an eclipse are hidden. Sometime later, when the eclipse is activated by a transiting planet, whatever was planted can make itself known quite suddenly and forcefully. And once it’s out, there’s no going back.
Here’s an example of an eclipse trigger. On January 10, 2020, we had an eclipse at 20 degrees of Cancer/Capricorn. It was a lunar eclipse, offering illumination and release. This is when the novel coronavirus was named and its genetic sequence released. Countries began mobilizing to deal with it. In early March 2020, Jupiter hit 20 Capricorn, followed by Mars on March 17th. That’s when most of the world went into lockdown. Then, on December 14, 2020, Mars was at 20 Aries for the third time this year (because Mars was retrograde). 20 Aries is a square to 20 Cancer/Capricorn, thus triggering the eclipse again. That’s the day the first Covid vaccine was administered in the U.S. The planet representing the vaccine in the chart for that event is Mars! Meanwhile, in the UK, a mutation of Covid-19 that spreads faster than the original was identified. Coincidence or conspiracy?
A pause, while I marvel at the synchronicity between the marching orders of the New Moon (“Never give up the good fight!!”) and Beth Owl’s Daughter’s Tarot Card of the Week, which just landed in my inbox. To illustrate this week’s prescient Card, she cites an essay Dan Rather penned yesterday, “Standing Up to Bullies,” with three recent inspiring examples of courageous souls never giving up on fighting the good fight!
And now, the news.
These two from WaPo aren’t new, but they’re fun:
Also fun: the upside potential of challenging aspects between Mars (action, assertion) and Neptune (pixie-dust, music), as evidenced by Randy Rainbow. He has an exact Mars-Neptune opposition that also engages his super clever Mercury (in Gemini) and probably his perfection-seeking Virgo Moon. Here’s a write-up of his horoscope from a few years ago. Today, as transiting Jupiter (expansion, publishing) makes contact with his Mercury, the NYT reports this:
Randy Rainbow will never give up the good fight. His last musical parody was a response to Florida governor Ron DeSantis’ horrible “Don’t Say ‘Gay'”bill, ICYMI.
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That’s the news for now, only because there is so much going on in the cosmos this week, and I feel I’ve given you plenty to digest.
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When I entered “Pluto Ukraine” and “Hades Ukraine” into the Adobe Stock search engine, this is the image that came up.
“Sonya, the Fisherman’s Wife” stands in the Odessa harbor, looking out to sea. She represents loyalty and fidelity.
Slava Ukraini!
Monday 4/18/2022: Sneak Peek at the Week; Sun enters Taurus; Jupiter-Neptune & More in the News
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The hottest days in terms of planetary action this week are Monday and Sunday, bracketing a workweek that offers an excellent potential for productivity. Highlights are:
Here’s how it goes:
And now, the news.
Lots of stories reflecting last week’s Mercury-Pluto square, which suggested a bonanza for investigative reporters. Add in the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Pisces, suggesting BIG (Jupiter) in all things Neptune (e.g., drugs, conspiracies, espionage, deception, fantasy, victims, refugees, spirits of all kinds, intangibles, oceans, oils, plastic, toxins, chemicals, etc.) and FOGGINESS in all things Jupiter (the media, courts, collective belief systems, horses, the liver, etc., etc.) in a way that evokes all things PISCES (endings, empathy, feet, surrender, intuition, unity).
Meanwhile…
In other news, on the morning of the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction...
Add the power plays and news from underground potential of the Sun-Pluto square to the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction and we see:
Finally, Episode 5 of “Off the Charts: A Stellar Newscast.” is now available! This time, journalist and fellow astrologer Whitney Fishburn and I are talking about the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction, and much more. Thanks for listening!
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