Grief is not a preference, for choosing to not have grief when grief is there is to defer and burden someone else with having to do your grieving. This makes the world a sick place. – Martin Pretchel It’s the long-awaited Jupiter ingress into Pisces. Other than a brief dipping Read more…
The Starry Threads of Fate & Fortune:December 2021 Venus Meets Pluto and Retrogrades over the rocky Capricorn terrain of 2020. Remember Capricorn 2020? The astrology of plagues and dis-aster (ill-fated stars). There was the volatile minefield of eclipses all over the ground of Capricorn. The Saturn-Pluto conjunction on the planetary Read more…
The Starry Threads of Fate & Fortune:December 2021 The Final Showdown:Uranus, Saturn & Culture-Making Saturnian Winds. Promethean Ground. Culture at the crossroads. Between unruly Earth & heavy Sky. It’s like this: when an immovable obstacle meets an irrepressible force of resistance. The eternal struggle between the necessity of order and Read more…
Courting the Old Sky Gods:Celestial Navigation Report: December 2021 The Winter Solstice Chart: December 21st, 2021. Solstice. Solar Midnight. Midwinter’s Simmering. The Sun’s moment of Deep Stillness.The Sun’s ingress into Capricorn marks the Winter Solstice. It is this exact moment the ancients believed would be etched into the next 3 Read more…
A friend who is an acupuncturist, ceremonialist & grief counselor recently asked me for advice about the most auspicious timing to host and facilitate several grief rituals. As with so many questions regarding astrology, my initial impulse was to stress the significance and complexity of individual charts, and just how Read more…
Astrology, the Grief Pipe & the Modern World Let’s take a moment and try to bridge our understanding of Astrology from the marginally meaningful and generalized pop culture horoscopes of today to the exalted high art of divination it once was for so many of our ancestors, for thousands upon Read more…
The Many Talents & The Quiet Mind As a personal and professional practice astrology can be as layered and nuanced as the celestial patterns themselves. This opens the gates for there to be many types of astrologers: Western, Vedic, Chinese, Classical, Hellenistic, Renaissance, New Age, Intuitive, Psychological, Humanistic, Evolutionary, Psychic, Read more…