16-17 June 2015: New Moon in Gemini
A New Moon served up with Mars – this dish is hot The god Mars having a good time (notice Eros/Cupid untying his sandal) – image per Wikipedia This new lunar month is kicked off by a kicker of a...
View Article21-22 June 2015: Cancer Ingress of the Sun
A solstice so pumped with testosterone and pheromones anything could happen Eros shoots his arrow – image per Wikipedia It’s solstice time again, true winter in the southern hemisphere and true...
View Article1 July 2015: Venus conjunct Jupiter, in Leo
Fanfare for a queen and a king: this is a right royal event in the heavens ‘Jupiter rebuked by Venus’: painting by Abraham Janssens, image per Wikipedia For weeks now anyone watching the western sky...
View Article2 July 2015: Full Moon in Cancer-Capricorn
A plaintive song of longing, sung in the glittering aura of a martyr’s crown Orpheus charming the beasts (image per Wikipedia) – if only he were here to help out with the Full Moon! This is a very...
View Article16 July 2015: New Moon in Cancer
Passionate and wild, this one bursts out of nowhere with fists flying Roman boxers – image per Wikipedia. The New Moon may or may not be as calm, and brutally handsome… The New Moon continues the...
View Article31 July 2015: Full Moon in Aquarius
Tyger, tyger, burning bright/In the forest of the night… Image from Shutterstock William Blake’s eerily powerful poem about the tiger (or is that the Platonic Idea of ‘Tiger’?) could apply equally...
View Article4-5 August 2015: Venus and Jupiter together again, and other eddies of desire
Venus conjoins Jupiter again, amidst many similar planetary surges of ‘I want…’ It’s pudding time, with extras – image from wikimedia.commons The second of three conjunctions of the two traditional...
View ArticleJuly-November 2015: Venus and Jupiter in the matrix of Desire
A little bit of what you fancy does you good – or does it?! Yesterday I began a long post on why the world is so on fire with desire at the moment. I left it kind of dangling,...
View Article14-15 August 2015: New Moon in Leo
The thirst for glory meets the hard-edged need for transformation and renewal Image: commons.wikimedia.org I could be cute and refer back to that Creedence Clearwater Revival hit ‘There’s a Bad Moon...
View Article29-30 August 2015: Full Moon Virgo-Pisces
Mystical, madcap, sometimes manic – this toy balloon’s about to pop Up, up and far away: image per Wikipedia The Full Moon which brings the Leo New Moon to climax is climbing high in the night sky...
View Article13 September 2015: Solar Eclipse in Virgo
The party’s over, it’s time to sober up ‘My name’s Nurse Rached and I’m here to help.’ Image per Wikipedia The latest New Moon is also a partial eclipse of the Sun, forming at 06:41:13 hours UT on 13...
View Article23 September 2015: Libra Ingress of the Sun
An equinox chart electric with the energy for sudden, swift change Electic plasma: image per Wikipedia Today is the spring equinox in the southern hemisphere and the autumn equinox in the northern...
View Article28 September 2015: Total Lunar Eclipse in Aries
The eclipsed Moon dips deep into a creative cauldron of healing (A different perspective on an eclipse, for a time when new perspectives are overdue) This Full Moon is more than...
View Article12-13 Oct 2015: New Moon in Libra
It’s ‘RR’ for rollercoaster ride, again Image per Wikipedia The latest New Moon shakes the dust off and sends in a broom as zealous as the magical monster in Fantasia – the one sorcerer’s...
View Article27 October 2015: Full Moon in Taurus-Scorpio
From ‘RR’ for Rollercoaster Ride to ‘R’ for Recovery (and a ‘P’ for Pressure) We can forget about smut this fortnight; it’s not ‘Debbie Does Dallas’, it’s Saturn Does the Full Moon,...
View Article3 November 2015: Venus conjunct Mars in Virgo
Drawing together threads of integration with the Pleasure Principle The Rose of Love and the Dove of Peace – image per Wikipedia This is a short post about the last of the three Venus-Mars...
View Article11-12 November 2015: New Moon in Scorpio
A new twist for deep processes of healing and integration Image per Wikipedia This New Moon pattern is in some ways quieter than most of this year’s lunations. It isn’t caught up in a lot of complex...
View Article25-26 November 2015: Full Moon in Gemini
This time, Fortuna’s Wheel has turned and fixed: ‘It is written.’ Image: Wikimedia commons This is a very fateful Full Moon, as if we didn’t know already with the ominous sabre rattling between...
View Article30 November 2015: Iris conjunct Flora: a new cycle for Light in the world
Let there be Light – and there is, here and there, despite human interference Image per wikimedia.commons On a purely personal note, I consider this is probably the most significant post I have ever...
View Article11 December 2015: New Moon in Sagittarius
Anima Mundi groans: the labour of creation and transformation The Ouroboros is a symbol of Anima Mundi: image per Wikipedia This New Moon has the spirit of the world, Anima Mundi, racked by labour...
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