Desert creature though the scorpion may be, Scorpio season isn’t known for its Sun rituals. Instead, we bum a light from the Scorpio Sun to kindle our jack-o-lanterns, our hearth fires, our altar votives. It’s a season where the membrane is said to thin between this plane and the next, where we’re closer than … Read more
We introduce you to your new guide for the coming week: a useful and concise toolkit for the coming astrology of the week. This guide has new content on: what’s happening in the cosmos, what you need, affirmations, and how to make the most of it. During the new and full moons, you will also … Read more
In the conga line passing through Virgo over the past weeks and months, the Sun has taken up the rear. That means it’s also the last planet to wheel into Neptune’s deluge on September 14th. If you’ve ever been toppled by a wave while swimming in the ocean, you know how it feels to … Read more
North Node in Gemini and South Node in Sagittarius Ever wonder why eclipse seasons recur every 6 months? It’s because the nodes of the moon are always 180° from each other, on opposite sides of the zodiac. When the Sun approaches one of the lunar nodes every 6 months, it slots into the perfect geometric … Read more
Night intelligence involves more of your body than day intelligence. If you lose your keys at the bottom of your bag, it’s often easier to let your hands do the rummaging. In a lampless room, you grope your way until you can palm the lightswitch. Other senses get activated in the midnight hours too. The … Read more
From September 22nd – October 22nd, the Sun warms through Libra, marking the pivot from Summer to Fall in the Northern Hemisphere and Winter to Spring in the South. This is one of two days per year where night and day find equilibrium, where the Sun and Moon preside over even palaces of time. … Read more
By the time you wipe the sleep from your eyes on Monday morning, Mercury will have stationed retrograde. This season, Mercury crunches to a halt in a square with Pluto, the planet of overturning rocks to inspect the earthworms and beetles that normally stay subterranean. Mercury will be retrograde from September 26th 10:10 pm PT … Read more
For months, Mercury has been traveling through the signs at warp speed, in direct motion, zipping through scorched and productive territory. That all changes on August 29/30th when Mercury enters the breezy Candyland of Libra and gets turned around at beautiful signposts and stuck in taffy quicksand. Mercury stations retrograde on September 26/27th, in a … Read more
The New Moon in Libra, occurring on October 6th at 4:05 a.m. PT, offers a master class on tact, diplomacy, and compromise. With Mars in the throne room, ready to do battle with a cocktail sword, there will be situations that force athletic negotiations on this side of the Via Combusta (the traditionally prickly passage … Read more
After poring over the complexity of the ties that bind us, Venus dons its most comfy dungarees, and hits the spacious vistas of open roads. Less concerned with the alchemical (and sometimes harrowing) ways love breaks us down in Scorpio, Venus in Sagittarius wants to gather the myths, pop songs, and cosmologies that explain … Read more