When my young friend Dylan was about three years old, his mother and I took him to the beach and he built a sand castle. It was a labor of love, meticulously constructed and beautifully decorated. After a while, Dylan began to notice that the tide was rolling in, and that the water was about
Cosmic Event
A Pivotal Moment with Jupiter and Saturn
Bright and early on Thursday morning, May 25th at 8:28 am EDT, we encounter the third in a series of three squares between Jupiter and Saturn that started last August. That makes this the final Closing Square in a Jupiter-Saturn cycle that has been running since May 2000, when the two planets were joined in
A PHYSICAL Mercury Retrograde
Retrograde season is officially upon us! Mercury just stationed retrograde at 23 degrees Taurus on Thursday, April 28th at 1:20 pm Eastern time. Now he’ll be traveling backwards till May 23rd, when he stations again at 14 degrees Taurus. He’s locked in a Grand Trine in Earth with Jupiter in Virgo and Pluto in Capricorn.
Mars Stations Retrograde Sunday April 17
Are you ready for a change? I hope so, because we have a couple of big ones coming up. Sunday, April 17th at 8:14 am EDT, Mars will station to go retrograde at 8:53 degrees Sagittarius, right on on top of the fixed star Antares. He will be moving backwards in the sky for a
Spring Aries Equinox March 20, 2016
The Aries Equinox March 20, 2016 The Sun crosses the equator on March 20, 2016 at 12:31 am EDT, marking the beginning of the Spring Season in the Northern Hemisphere and the Fall Season in the Southern Hemisphere. Some Northern Hemisphere astrologers also use the Aries Ingress as the chart for the year as it