Category: Lunation

  • The Opening Bagatelle

    Time stood still. The tuning ritual had ended, almost abruptly, and the conductor was about to enter the concert hall. The program will begin with a bagatelle, a short, light and usually whimsical piece. Probably the most famous bagatelle is Beethoven’s No. 25 in A minor, titled “Für Elise” (“For Elise”), composed around 1810 but…

  • The Tuning Ritual

    We will soon enter another period of the three most significant ones of 2026 and the entire month of June is being felt as if we are sitting at a concert hall, watching a large orchestra slowly fill the stage and begin to tune its instruments. We know the performance will be phenomenal; the musicians…

  • One-way Only

    Lo and behold! After years of waiting, the new order is being born during this first lunation of the year. Like all newborns, it arrived demanding attention … and space! Space currently occupied by the old order. A birth in astrology is represented by Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, whose ruler, Mars, is…

  • Stepping Inside

    As we predicted, the transition from two hundred years of earth-centric paradigms to air-centric ones is causing a lot of friction that generates noise and heat. In our “Indiana Jones” analogy, the February 20 Saturn–Neptune conjunction moved a boulder that had kept us from reaching the air-centric world, exposing a passageway we must begin to…

  • Into the Passageway

    I have written for years of how humanity is currently embarked in a fundamental paradigm shift. We are leaving two centuries dominated by “earth energies” that fueled materialism, reductionist thinking and the management of scarcity, to embrace two hundred years of “air energies” where communication, holism and abundance will be paramount. The shift, symbolized by…

  • Sanity in a Mad World

    When I wrote about a “Turbulent Beginning” in the 2026 preview, I was referring to the period of time between January 18, when the new moon in Capricorn will arrive with a powerful six-planet stellium, and February 14, when Saturn will enter Aries, a span which will concern most of this article. What I had…