The astrology informing today's essay is mind-blowing! As I write this, the Moon is EXACTLY opposite Neptune and square to both the Sun in Gemini which is EXACTLY opposite Jupiter in Sagittarius, forming a damn near exact Grand Cross (four exact squares!!!) in the mutable signs! And that's just for starters. If you know any babies born today, they are going to be very amazing people! People born with Grand Crosses don't have easy lives but they usually have exceptional live

Profound Structural Change like that of the times of Kublai Khan, Charlemagne, Emperor Justinian & Monctezuma were extremely difficult to live through for the average person. Today, however, the average person has the accumulated wisdom and current theories of the world available to us on our smart phones and other computers. Although the big tech companies are acting like dictators afraid of dissenting voices and banning and shadow banning people with whom they disagree po

Astrology, real astrology, is the examining of where the planets are in the sky now as a way of figuring out what the hell is going on. It is the study of cycles, each planet, including the Sun (the Earth, really) and the Moon move around the Zodiac at a different rate.

In my opinion, there are two things at the heart of all human caused suffering: (1) POOR DECISION MAKING; and (2) THE PERPETRATOR FEELS DEPRIVED.

There is an AMAZING amount of powerful Astrological Aspects going on today. Mars EXACTLY sexytiling Venus, a totally sexy day made even sexier by Venus entering its home side of Taurus and being within Three Degrees of Separation with Uranus, so sudden love affairs are more than possible, they're likely! Now Mercury is sexytile Neptune and that is usually not the best combo for making BIG decisions, but there are so many mitigating aspects that I have concluded that if you ar

"Excelsior" is Latin for "ever upward" and is the motto of New York State, though our feckless politicians seem to think this only refers to our taxes, ever upward!

When a planet goes retrograde it appears to be moving backwards through the zodiac. When it goes backwards through the zodiac, it retraces its "steps" and REmakes the same angles (aka "aspects") and conjunctions (passes over the same degree) as it has already done. To understand what a particular planet is going to be doing when this happens we have to look at the meaning of that planet and the sign it is going through, though if you know your chart or have it read by an astr

As the author of the international best-selling astrology teaching/flash cards/future predicting self-help book/cards set, KARMA CARDS, I have thought long and hard about the planets, signs, and houses of an astrological chart, both natal and "mundane," what's going on on a particular day (from the Latin, "mundus," the world). I have evolved a system for looking at the planets, signs and houses of a chart as a psychological language, though KARMA CARDS is more of a fun lear

The Astro Weather today and this weekend inclines all of us to get in touch with deep seated and possibly hidden events that traumatized us when we were younger. The planet Mercury, which "rules" our logical mind, our practical analysis, our skill set and things like that in the psychological language that I consider astrology to be, the planet Mercury is EXACTLY sitting on the same degree of the zodiac where the comet Chiron is doing its ice ball thing. Mercury was the Wi

You can't access any media without having to at least see a headline about how "polarized" is everyone and/or everything about everyone and/or everything. The concept of polarization is actually the phenomena I often use to explain how astrology may work. Polarized sunglasses are called that because they only let light going along a certain polar axis, lets' say North to South, they only let that light in and not the light that is not vibrating on that axis line. If you tak

Jupiter is going retrograde and won't go stationary direct until August 12th. It seems everyone knows about Mercury Retrograde and if you read my essays you know Merc Ret basically means Be Aware or Beware.

The Astro Weather Energy Matrix is so intense of late that I am at risk of sounding like Chicken Little. It's not that the sky is falling, its that a number of intense aspects that would be noteworthy enough if only one of them was all that was going on are happening at the same time, it's complicated and subtle and powerful! As I write these words, the planet Venus (what we love, how we love, the type of person we love) is EXACTLY on the same degree of the zodiac (called a

I hope I have made it clear when writing my essays over the past few years that what I predict as the Astro Weather Energy Matrix can often be Plus Or Minus a couple of days, sometimes even longer past the "sell by" date of an aspect I am delineating.

To paraphrase pioneering physicist Neils Bohr's comment about Quantum Mechanics, "If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet," If you don't feel scared when you interact with the 21st Century Fear Delivery Machine, also known as "Media," you haven't understood it yet. I have come to the conclusion that far to many "journalists" and "writers" WANT us to to be scared! Some have noble motives, like scaring us straight, but they are assumi

When the planet Mars, symbol of The Energy Available to our Ego to Get What It Wants is in trine aspect (120 degrees, usually easy peasy) to both Saturn and Pluto, yikes!

I understand why people have a hard time believing that there is anything real about astrology. They haven't taken the time to read my work or the work of the other hard-working astrologers who are trying to make sense of this crazy world through the PRACTICE of astrology, like the practice of medicine and law. Practice makes, well, better. As someone who's had the pleasure of meeting The Amazing Randi - I used to love seeing him do stage magic on WONDERAMA, a children's pr

SIHT DAER: As I have struggled with this incredibly powerful Mercury retrograde period I have come to learn The Error of My Ways and I am thankful for that. I came to realize that I had unwittingly offended someone, though when they explained the situation I realized that they had every reason to feel that way. I was wrong. But this can be a good thing, if you are living a life committed to lifelong learning. To paraphrase the eminently quotable Albert Einstein's comment

The internet is awash in people trying to tell you what Uranus in Taurus is going to produce in our lives. As usual, it runs the gamut from "the best time to be alive ever" all the way to "run for your lives!!” I have a lot of respect for you all and so I'm going to give you the meanings associated with the planet Uranus and sign Taurus and you can get a hint of how this New Normal is going to be coloring your world. The reason for the "Run for your life"-ers is because Ur

There are a few things everyone should keep in mind over the next few days. The first one is DON'T MAKE ANY BIG DECISIONS!!!!

If you're wondering why you or someone you care about are more than a bit on edge now the Astro Weather Energy Matrix is super sensitive with the Sun coming into conjunction with Neptune in Neptune's home sign of Pisces in a few days. The positive expression of Sun conjunct Neptune is Awareness of Compassion but at the other end of the spectrum it can be confusion of purpose and idealization of ego, to name just a few meanings. Add to that the fact that Mercury is on the la