After recording a version of this forecast for YouTube, I appreciated coming across the latest Wikipedia-gate: namely edits to the definition of a recession. It appears that, though the US Commerce Department reported consecutive quarterly economic contraction, there was a veritable Mercury-square-Mars-like tension of narratives between Democrat and Republican pundits…

Was the most recent cyberattack on the US healthcare sector another another preview of the upcoming Mars-Uranus-North Node conjunction in Taurus? The Hoover Dam transformer blowing? The Henan banking crisis? Or, planned boycotts of major grocery stores who are allegedly price-gouging customers? …

All the astro news that’s fit to print! Here’s your surivival guide for navigating the sometimes crunchy celestial energies this week. We’ll cover: Jupiter turning retrograde Uranus and the North Node conjunction Squares between Mercuy and Uranus and Mars and Uranus While there will be a couple of nicer aspects…

If you didn’t catch my general forecast for the upcoming triple conjunction, then be sure to check it out for a more in-depth overview of the energies at play over this period. …

I’m often surprised how closely news headlines reflect major planetary transits. I’m not sure why I’m repeatedly shocked; after all, I believe in the symbolic language of astrology, yet I’ll read the paper and think, “Holy smokes! Could astrology be any more literal?” The most recent news that caught my…

Committed astrologers owe it to themselves to dabble in the canon of ancient astrological literature whether they practice traditional astrology or not. Yes, this is my personal opinion. Yes, it’s biased because I love history. And yes, it’s arguably an antiquated view, but one which is entirely defensible when one…

This week I woke up seized by a wave of anxiety. No, that’s not the right description. Imagine a graveyard at night — preferably the eeriest graveyard you can conjure up. There should be tombstones. Lots of them. Erected to the memory of all your dashed hopes and failed dreams…

Recently, I attended an astrology workshop where the astrologer, delineating charts the audience submitted, mentioned that a participant had two planets in mutual reception. The configuration was Mars in Libra and Venus in Scorpio — both planets in their detriment, but, in the astrologer’s estimation, mitigated by the “reception.” I…

If you read my last blog post on the Magic of Triplicity Rulers in Astrology, then you’ll recall our introduction to Dorotheus of Sidon, the first-century astrologer whom A. Wasserstein, reviewing David Pingree’s 1976 translation of Carmen Astrologicum, called “immensely influential among Persian, Arabic and Byzantine astrologers of late antiquity…