The realities of Scorpio season may be hitting some of us especially hard. For me, friends and family are confronting the Big ‘C’ in ever increasing numbers. The downright frightening diagnoses seem to be a constant reminder of life’s precariousness. Each breath is a gift. While the more weighty keywords…

If you’re feeling blue, blame it on Saturn. Slowly returning to direct motion, the karmic, cosmic heavyweight always brings a little psychological reckoning. The placement of Saturn in our charts can signal where we hold deep emotional fears. It’s that little voice inside ourselves that highlights our shortcomings, crushes our…

Fixed-sign ascendants ought to steady themselves for the ongoing provocation that the week ahead brings. As the aftershocks of Saturday’s lunar eclipse spill into the days ahead, the tensions between inner knowing and external desire continue to rage. For many of us, questions surrounding stability and security have been thrown…

We’ve all spent the last several weeks living inside our heads. What specifically may have taken up valuable mental real estate differed for all of us, but with Mercury and the Sun in less-than-certain Libra, weighing options and balancing opinions may have left us feeling exhausted. “Equivocation” isn’t a term…

Eclipse season is rarely comfortable. Even if we emerge unscathed, the energetic profile and collective impacts can sometimes take a different kind of emotional toll. The contrapuntal soli-lunar relationship remains an underappreciated dance between light and darkness —between competing desires and borrowed light, concealing something deeper. “When we fail to…

This week’s annular solar eclipse in the sign of Libra (21 degrees, 7 minutes) is sure to be a stunner for all those safely watching the sky event. (Don’t forget you need ISO-compliant specs, not your average shades!) …

Finding clarity will be key as we cruise into the first full month of October. With major aspects and sign changes ahead for the star of Hermes, sorting out the balance of the year — our big dreams and immediate priorities— could help us win the race against time. Given…

As we slide into the last full week of September, the winter of our discontent may settle in early. Mars’s current cruise through the Via Combusta — the path of some of the crunchiest fixed stars in the firmament — may offer little constructive momentum. Opposing Chiron and Eris in…

Tension dissipates at the start of the week as a square between the two planetary benefics perfects. The celestial message is to strive for lightness, making lemonade out of lemons, even as the Libra Moon separates from its intense conjunction to Mars and opposition to retrograde Chiron in Aries. …