Category: Astrology
Proper Endings
The final lunation of an astrological year gives us time to reflect on what we have done (and not done) through the year, extracting wisdom that will serve us for the new year in Aries. This time, however, there is urgency to reflect on more than a yearly end, for this will be the last…
Amid Crises and Confusions
Before talking about the astrology of the waxing phases, which culminate with the full moon in Leo on February 12, let’s look at some background energies that are fueling the destruction of the old and the sprouting of the new, for the new paradigms are lead by Pluto which, being in Aquarius, is leading us…
Highest Values
After experiencing the shift in signs of the nodal axis, the full moon in Cancer and the opposition between Sun and Mars, it is time to move on to the second half of January. Sun entered Aquarius on January 19 and the new moon will happen ten days later. Before delving into astrology, however, let…
Consciousness of Wills
In the article A Sobering Lunation, we talked about the Capricorn new moon on December 30 which was followed by the second exact opposition of Mars and Pluto on January 3. Then, on January 6, Mars entered Cancer, a few hours before the First Quarter phase, the crisis of action that saw the resignation of…
A Sobering Lunation
The always powerful new moon of Capricorn, at 9°44′, is the first after the winter solstice and will occur on December 30 at 3:27 p.m. in California, 4:27 p.m. in Mexico City, or 11:27 p.m. in Central Europe. The solstice marked the maximum Night Force and therefore Capricorn represents the integrated collective, which is typically…
Gaining Altitude
As we have discussed many times, humanity’s evolutionary processes are manifested as the orbits of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, the so-called transpersonal planets. Their orbital periods are such that the energies they symbolize affect large segments of the population and for longer periods of time. For this reason alone, Pluto currently marks the basic rhythm…