If you care for a better future, if you want your children and grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, drinkable water, and healthy food, everyone needs to face the very large ELEPHANT standing in the living room of human consciousness: OUR PLANET IS IN CRISIS WE MUST ACT NOW.
We must face some uncomfortable truths about ourselves and the way we have been living on the Earth and NOT WITH THE EARTH. Continue reading “2023: Saving the Planet & Creating the Future “
The 2022-2023 Mars Retrograde Cycle
On August 20, 2022, Mars will enter Gemini and because the “god of war” will go retrograde on 10/30/22 Mars will remain in Gemini for seven months! Mars goes retrograde about every 26 months for 58-81 days. When Mars “goes retrograde” it will look like Mars has changed direction but it’s an illusion, caused by the ways that Earth and Mars orbit the Sun. During the Mars retrograde Earth comes up from behind Mars. While we pass Mars it will look to us as though Mars is moving up and down.
The Mars Retrograde Cycle: Re-examining and Reflexing on Actions and Consequences
Ingress: 8/20/22 Mars enters Gemini
Pre-Shadow starts on 9/3/22 this is the degree (8’ Gemini)
10/30/22 Mars stations to Retrograde
11/19/22 Mars in Gemini retrograde at 22’ degrees will square Neptune transiting in her own sign of Pisces.
11/28/22 Mars in Gemini retrograde at 19’ degrees will trine Saturn in his own sign of Aquarius.
Full Moon 12/7/22 Mars will be at 16’ Gemini conjunct the Moon and opposite Sun at 16 degrees Sagittarius. Evening Star – Maximum Brightness
1/12/23 Mars stations direct at 8’ degrees Gemini
3/15/23 Mars leaves the post-retrograde shadow at 25’ degrees Gemini.
3/25/23 Mars enters Cancer (finally!)
Mars rules physical activities, life force, sexual energy, and a competitive and ambitious drive to get our basic needs met and get what we want. A healthy Mars is confident, ambitious, assertive, and strong-willed.
The Mars retrograde of 2022 – 2023 will spend its retrograde cycle in Gemini. Mars in Gemini is known for lively conversation, quick-witted, and hyperactive Mars can use words to wound and defend. Gemini dreads boredom and often is juggling multiple plans, projects, perspectives, and goals.
When Mars goes retrograde we can feel deflated, indecisive, and lack motivation. Mars’s retrograde energy becomes internalized, introspective, and hesitant to react. The internalized anger and stress can acerbate health issues at this time.
We can expect plans or projects to stall or move slower than planned. There can be accidents due to impulsive behavior, disagreements, and aggressive confrontations that are more likely during the Mars retrograde.
Sometimes delays, setbacks, and frustrations during the Mars retrograde helps us discover issues that need to be addressed and behaviors that need to be changed. The Mars retrograde can force us to examine Mars’s issues relating to anger, sexuality, and ambition. If you have been overworking, trying to cope with stress, or are experiencing health struggles the Mars retrograde can force you to slow down and use the Mars retrograde cycle time to reconsider how you have been managing your life.
The Mars retrograde is an excellent time to reexamine what has been working and not working in our lives. We can use the retrograde to reinforce and strengthen the routines that support our goals. We can review and hopefully gain understanding regarding our anger issues, impulses, desires, and ambitions.
If we decide to make changes it is best to wait to take necessary corrective measures when Mars goes direct.
The retrograde is a good time to review your goals and the methods you have been deploying to meet your goals. But, make adjustments, work out the details, and take corrective action to implement changes after Mars has gone direct.
During Mars retrograde DO NOT buy or DIY relating to anything mechanical! Do not force things! At this time initiating or being impulsive will not help and can have serious consequences.
The Mars retrograde is a good time to:
Under the Influence of the separating Saturn Aquarius square Uranus Taurus
All of 2022 to January 24, 2023
Saturn is our solar system’s disciplinarian; Saturn provides the lessons that help us mature and hopefully become functioning adults.
Saturn spends 2.5 years in each sign. Saturn’s rulers are Capricorn and co-ruler Aquarius. Saturn strengthens hierarchies, societal rules, and norms, and increases and empowers authoritarian governments.
Saturn entered Aquarius on December 17, 2020. When Saturn is transiting in Aquarius, we are challenged to think for ourselves, value humanity, not hierarchies, and create new progressive and enlightened structures to help humanity.
Aquarius is the rebel of the zodiac. Aquarius is progressive, freedom-seeking, and innovative. Aquarians value their intellect and rely on logic and reasoning to understand humanity and social constructs. Aquarius wants to remove societal constraints from educational, religious, and governmental institutions. Aquarius excels at reforming outdated systems and “reinventing” cultural norms. A fixed air sign Aquarius is seen as friendly but emotionally detached and compartmentalized, often relentlessly stubborn.
Aquarius rejects old, stagnant belief systems, and structures while encouraging social reforms. Aquarius is known for embracing new technology. While Saturn is in Aquarius there are innovations in technology, digital formats, robotics, automation, physics, medicine, and space travel. Society is more willing to embrace new approaches to how we work, and how we manage economic structures.
We also experience the “out of phase” expression of Aquarius displayed in the public consciousness as individuals and organizations respond to Saturn Aquarius with a stubborn or rigid myopic point of view, while others will express a superficial “shock value” rebelliousness or gain attention with extreme behavior or outlandish conspiracy theories.
While Saturn transits through Aquarius we have an opportunity to make the world a better place by utilizing Aquarian values and principles of maintaining personal freedoms, communicating ideas and knowledge, collaborating with organizations, and acknowledging and honoring our shared humanity.
Uranus in Taurus
Freedom-seeking and innovative Uranus has been transiting in pragmatic and earthy Taurus since March 6, 2019, and won’t leave until April 26, 2026. Unconventional Uranus is in its “fall” in Taurus. Taurus is uncomfortable with the disruptive and radical force of Uranus. Taurus clings to the status quo, security, and stability and has difficulty adjusting to Uranus’ need for progress and change. The last cycle of Uranus in Taurus started in 1942 and saw the rise of fascism and the horrors of World War 2.
During 2021 Saturn and Uranus completed three exact squares. The tension between restrictive and authoritarian Saturn and anti-establishment and unconventional Uranus has been challenging. 2021-2023, transiting Saturn/Uranus square had its last exact aspect on December 24, 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we experienced worldwide government imposed locked downs restricting personal freedoms, supply chain disruptions, social unrest, and political violence. During this period there has been a rise of far-right wing dictatorships, increase income inequality, and chaotic and unsettling climate events.
The almost Saturn Square Uranus of 2022
Currently transiting Saturn in Aquarius and Uranus in Taurus has been almost exactly square but not quite. They have been dancing close, apart by only 37’. The almost square of Saturn/Uranus will cause tension until January 24, 2023, when the planets will finally start to separate.
Welcome to 2021 The Grand Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn and Saturn Square Uranus
2021 brings a welcome change with the greatly anticipated Grand Conjunction happening at the end of 2020. The Grand Conjunction happens every 20 years heralding new energy and focusing the collective consciousness toward new goals and aspirations.
On December 21, 2020, Cosmic giants Jupiter and Saturn make their closest conjunction in 800 years in the early degrees of Aquarius, and a New Day dawns.
On December 17, 2020, Saturn moved into Aquarius, and a few days later on December 19, Jupiter entered Aquarius and they made their Grand Conjunction on December 21, coincidently with the Winter Solstice.
Continue reading “2021: The Grand Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn and Saturn Square Uranus “
Lord of Time and Karma, Saturn entered Capricorn on December 20, 2017, heading towards a fateful conjunction with his brother and nemesis, lord of the underworld, Pluto on January 12, 2020. Historically whenever these brothers have been in aspect to one another the world has had to face challenges that have led to enormous societal changes.
The last time that Saturn/Pluto conjoined in Capricorn was over 500 years ago. The two brothers meet every 33 – 38 years. Sometimes they make three conjunctions with one another. When they make a triple conjunction the world experiences an “implosion of events”; wars, famine, and plague are common manifestations.
Continue reading “2020: The Reckoning of Saturn and Pluto: Brothers at War “
