Dear friends, What exciting times we live in! The Sun entered Aries on Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 11:49 PM Eastern US time, passing the Equator and heralding the start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the South. And, true to the sky, we are entering into a brave new world, as well as
Posts by Anne Ortelee
Mercury Retro and The New Moon in Pisces
Dear friends, The New Moon is scheduled to take place Sunday, February 23, 2020, at 10:30 AM Eastern US time. The Sun and Moon will meet up at 4 degrees, 28 minutes Pisces, ushering in the last phase of winter and the transition into spring. It’s a busy, focused chart with a whole lot of reverb.
Significant Dates in the Year Ahead: Part 2
Dear all: In our last installment, I discussed Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto’s upcoming conjunctions, and the 13-year, 20-year, 30-year, and 36-year cycles they’ll be starting. This is HUGE and it’s not all that’s going down in 2020. The sky, after all, is full of Gods — each dancing independently through our Solar System, forming aspects both
Significant Dates in the Year Ahead: Part 1
Happy New Year, my friends, and welcome to the very first newsletter of 2020! It will be a bit different from our usual format. Instead of discussing a chart in detail, I’m going to give a quick overview of the year ahead in this newsletter and the next one (which I hope will go out
Happy Solstice! And a Capricorn New Moon Eclipse
Dear friends, The Capricorn New Moon Eclipse will take place in the wee hours of Boxing Day, December 26, 2019 at 12:13 AM Eastern US time. This New Moon is the first of our winter eclipses, and it’s the FIRST major Capricorn event since Jupiter entered that sign on December 2nd. As you can see in the
New Moon In Sagittarius, Hurrah!
Dear friends, The penultimate New Moon of the decade is scheduled to take place on the morning of Tuesday, November 26th at 10:05 AM Eastern US Time. The Sun and Moon will meet up at 4 degrees, 3 minutes Sagittarius — both answering to Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, who is himself hanging out in the
Mercury Retro: When Shall We Three Meet Again?
Dear friends, Trick or treat! Mercury stationed this morning at 11:42 am Eastern US time, turned on his heel and began dancing backwards, over the same patch of sky that he crossed yesterday . . . he’s reaching back to October 11, 2019, when he entered his shadow. What’s been going on for you (in terms of Mercury-ruled matters like
Welcome, Scorpio Season
Dear friends, The New Moon is scheduled to take place just before midnight on Sunday, October 27th, when the Sun and Moon meet up at 4 degrees, 25 minutes Scorpio, almost directly opposite Uranus (the planet of change and chaos), so we can expect tumultuous emotions. Uranus is answering to a very mad Venus in Scorpio,