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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.
Note that I do use astrological jargon in The Forecast in my effort to show how the planetary patterns are reflected in mundane events. I explain what the jargon symbolizes, so that all who want to understand the connections between astrology and the news may do so. However, I do not use astrological jargon in personal consultations, just plain English.
Astro-logical Forecast for Monday 2/6/2012: Sunny Side Up
/in The ForecastA brief void of course Moon on the East Coast — from 7:31AM – 8:24AM ET — blink and you’ll miss it. Then, it’s off to the races with Moon reigning supreme in sunny Leo, taking pride, wanting to have fun and needing so very much to be loved and adored. If you’re in a relationship with someone with Moon in Leo, now you know what to do to keep that relationship running smoothly. If you were born with Moon in Leo and you’re not feeling like the king or queen of your own little fiefdom, we have to stop and wonder why…
Back to the energy of the day, with a general uptempo Moon in Leo vibe. It goes like this: happy sunny boost from loving Venus at 4:28AM ET (sweet dream?); potential reach for ambition or “wet blanket” challenge from controlling Saturn at 7:31AM ET; innovative solution/thinking around lunchtime, courtesy of rebel Uranus; ending on a high note thanks to expansive Jupiter inflating that regal Leo Moon, which will be exactly full (of itself?) on Tuesday at 4:54PM ET. Oh — and throw in an idealistic hook-up between mental Mercury and the Sun in technogeek Aquarius (exact Tuesday at 4:03AM ET), and the most fabulous ideas of the century could be flying around…at least in the minds of those who are generating them.
There are no other Moon voids that could toss a twist in your intended straight-as-an-arrow course until Friday from 12:11AM – 2:54PM ET — something that would be noticed more by those in the Eastern time zones.
In addition to the Tuesday’s Full Moon, which I will cover tomorrow, Saturn, planet of ambition and control, turns retrograde at 9:03AM ET…until June 25th. In your own personal world, this suggests the potential for revisions and/or delays in moving structures forward in whatever area of the horoscope Saturn is at. You can review the period from January 26th to June 13th of last year: did you experience delays then that moved forward some time after June 13th.
Saturn turns retrograde at 29 degrees of Libra; it turns direct at 22 Libra. So if you have a planet or point in your horoscope that is between 22 and 29 Libra (and also Aries, Cancer and Capricorn), you will feel this transit more than most. Last but not least, if you were born February, March, October or November of 1982; May-September of 1983; or November 1952 – November 1953, then congratulations, you are in the middle of your first or second Saturn return, without a doubt one of the most important times in your life.
Astro-logical Forecast for Saturday & Sunday 2/4-5/2012: Home Sweet Home
/in The ForecastMoon entered emotional security-loving Cancer at 1:04AM ET on Saturday, in case you hadn’t noticed. Cancer rules the Moon and its placement here suggests a weekend focus that may keep you close to home — or creating the feeling of home wherever you may be. Got a sudden urge to spend time in the kitchen? I know I did. Moon in Cancer may also suggest a need to connect with others on a emotional level — including your mother.
I’m not making a call on Sunday’s big game — though watching it should be a good time. There is no void of course Moon to twist efforts to move in a straight line, so upsets by underdogs are less likely to happen. Root for your home team, whichever one that may be.
One of the joys of Mars being retrograde is giving ourselves permission to slow down, especially after a turbo-charged month like January. I’m taking the day off from astrology today — see you in your emailbox on Monday morning.
Astro-logical Forecast for Friday 2/3/2012: Information Overload?
/in The ForecastRead yesterday’s forecast for thoughts on Neptune’s ingress into Pisces at 1:52PM ET today.
Moon continues in chatterbox Gemini all day, not to enter Cancer until 12:06AM on Saturday. If anyone is feeling just a wee bit superior (think of The Church Lady), we may hear about it around 10:24AM ET, when aggressive Mars in prissy Virgo challenges the Moon. In your own little world, count to ten before snapping someone’s head off and don’t take it personally or return the volley if it’s your head being snapped off by someone else. On the plus side, if you’re channeling this energy with the best intentions and consciousness, you can make an impassioned case for something, complete with facts to back it up.
Self-indulgence or over-indulgence may present temptations around 3:03PM ET, as Moon is challenged by Venus in all-encompassing Pisces. Resist the urge to splurge and you’ll thank yourself when that credit card statement comes due.
More on the rest of the weekend later. It’s 12:54AM ET on Friday…and I am officially fried.
Astro-logical Forecast for Thursday 2/2/2012: Neptune in Pisces
/in The ForecastAnother day light on planetary activity, though the buzz that began yesterday afternoon continues with Moon still in Gemini, needing to be the smartest one in the room. Who, what, when, where and how? Ideas can flow easily and with feeling as you wake up this morning, courtesy of a smooth connection between Moon and mental Mercury.
Today is your last chance to experience a full day of nebulous Neptune in Aquarius — and here, I mean the last chance in your lifetime. On Friday at 1:52PM ET, Neptune enters Pisces, the sign it rules. Neptune energy can be challenging for people who live in a material world, as it prefers the immaterial and ephemeral to the material and permanent. Neptune tends to dissolve whatever it touches, leaving you with the feeling that you’re standing in quicksand. Or in a fog. It doesn’t strike with a lightning bolt, like Uranus, or blow things to smithereens, purging and/or transforming, like Pluto. Its effects are much more subtle, but no less powerful.
Here are a few key words for Neptune: intangible forms (wireless communication including film, photography, telepathy, intuition, spirituality, rarefied art forms, including music), oil, dreams, drugs, blood, alcohol, poisons, viruses, water, oceans, seafood. A few key words for Pisces: surrender, empathy, compassion, collective consciousness, belief, martyr, saint. We can anticipate with confidence that headlines over the next 14 years will reflect these keywords with increasing levels of intensity.
It takes about 14 years for Neptune to travel through one sign of the zodiac; the last time Neptune entered Pisces was in 1847. Thanks to astrologer Steffan Vanel for bringing my attention to a post by astrologer Adrian Duncan noting some key developments during Neptune’s last transit through Pisces in the mid-19th Century. Note that the “social democratic demonstrations” (e.g., the “Year of Revolutions of 1848” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848), coincided with Uranus and Pluto hooking up in the cardinal sign of Aries. Note also that Uranus and Pluto are four months away from a three-year long series of seven exact challenges to each other (and that we’ve been feeling the build-up for over a year) in Aries and Capricorn, respectively. Note also that when Uranus and Pluto do make contact, the effect is one of upheaval. But I digress. Here’s the bit on Neptune’s last transit through Pisces:
“This was the period when Charles Dickens wrote his novels of social realism, and social democratic demonstrations shook the capitals of Europe. This was also a time when painters like Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Monet made their impressionist paintings, expanding the world of fantasy and imagination. On the scientific front Darwin’s theory of evolution completely undermined Christian tradition. The first photographs were taken, ultimately leading to the coming world of the movies. Anesthetics were used for the first time in hospitals. Opium became a socially acceptable drug. The accepted reality of the day was undermined and new spiritual, emotional and political realities took form.”
This year, Neptune in Pisces will affect you most strongly if you have a birthday — or a planet, rising sign or midheaven in the early degrees of Pisces, Gemini, Virgo and Sagittarius. On the plus side, there is potential for a spiritual awakening or transcendence; artistic and/or romantic stimulation and/or success. On the down side there is the potential for bewilderment or listlessness. Consult your local astrologer for further details on how Neptune is likely affecting your own personal horoscope. Meanwhile, you can watch Mitt Romney in action as one example of how Neptune can completely fog up efforts of personal projection as it challenges his Gemini Ascendant. Here’s what happened yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/opinion/collins-mitt-speaks-oh-no.html?hp http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/us/politics/poor-quote-by-romney-seized-on-by-his-critics.html?hp Bewildering, eh?
Astro-logical Forecast for Wednesday 2/1/2012
/in The ForecastSavor the last of this month’s Moon in steady Taurus until 2:15PM ET. The dominant lunar aspect today is a challenge from nebulous Neptune, suggesting spiritual and/or artistic concerns, along with the potential for confusion, escapism or whatever else rose-tints your world. An eleven minute void of course Moon ends at 2:15PM ET, with the Moon’s ingress into information junkie Gemini. Lots to talk about in the latter part of the day — whatever will the buzz be about? Information junkie Facebook filing papers for the hottest IPO of the century? How much is all that information worth, anyway — and how can we get a piece of it? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/technology/riding-personal-data-facebook-is-going-public.html?_r=1&hp With Neptune prominent today, the sky’s the limit…at least in our imagination.
Read yesterday’s forecast for that bit about tonight’s potentially sexy challenge between loving Venus and rarin’ to go Mars…which, unless you’ve gone with it before, might best be postponed until after Mars turns direct on April 13th. The choice, however, is totally up to you.