Libra – September 23rd to October 22nd Ruling planet – Venus Element – air Crystals – jade, lapis lazuli, black tourmaline, smoky quartz Scales are charming, elegant, and popular with everyone. They love beauty, harmony, and art, and relationships are very important to them. At best, they are positive, social, calm, and peaceful. When they … Read more
Monday October 18 brings two welcome astrological turning points as both Mercury and Jupiter stations are direct. This means the end of each of their retrograde degrees. In return, you will find that different areas of your life feel like they come to life after a period of water treading. You may also feel that … 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
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
I was just seasoning a cast iron pan in the kitchen this weekend when I found my thoughts drifting towards the astrological symbolism of what I was doing. Iron is associated with Mars while oil would be a Jupiter thing. I was thinking of the interaction between the two, between the cast iron pan and … 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
Each Mercury is unique, although there are some themes that are common to every Mercury retrograde. If you want to revisit some of my previous posts on Mercury retro pop here, here, and here. I want to explore some of the unique features of the present retrograde Mercury in Libra, and to do that I … Read more
This weekend, an unusual group of planets gathers in Libra as retrograde Mercury, Mars, and the Sun all combine. In this new video, I share some thoughts on these different alignments. In this video, I touch the Mercury retrograde conjunction with the Sun, Mars with the Sun, and the Mercury retrograde conjunction with Mars in … Read more