Should I Attend The Men’s Rites of Passage? This question was posed by a man who was unsure whether to attend a men’s rites of passage retreat that he had signed up for. He felt a deep resonance with the theme and really wanted to do it. The retreat has been designed by Richard Rohr, [...]
Following on from my previous post, the same client told me that they had found a new craniosacral practitioner and sent me the date and time of their first session with them. This is an event chart rather than a horary, so the rules of interpretation are more akin to a natal chart – since [...]
This recent consultation I did is such a wonderful example of the deep wisdom, clear guidance and beautiful poetry of using astrology as divination. A perfect blending of technical craft with mystical art that has very grounded, real world use. A combination my Virgo Sun and Piscean Jupiter loves! Whenever I reflect on how it [...]
Electional Astrology is the art of choosing (electing) a date and time to start a new venture. Astrology charts are not limited to people; everything that has a beginning also has a chart, which will accurately describe how the thing begun will unfold over time. Two of the classic reasons for having an electional chart [...]
One of the most significant astrological transits we’re in the midst of now is the US’s Pluto Return. Pluto is the slowest moving planet in our solar system, taking almost 250 years to orbit the Sun (and hence to return to the same place in an astrology chart). Below you can see the chart for [...]
One of the big transits for 2021 is Saturn square Uranus. This is beginning right now and will continue until December. Saturn symbolises the tradition, hierarchy and those in charge. Uranus is disruption, the rebel and the revolutionary. One of the main ways I see this playing out is in the global financial systems. Uranus [...]
On 21st December Jupiter and Saturn meet to begin a new 200 year cycle, having moved from the element of Earth into Air. I wrote about the kinds of things this represents here. There is another aspect to this cycle that I also want to discuss. Jupiter and Saturn meet every 20 years and describe [...]
During 2020 Jupiter and Saturn have been meeting in the sky, in what is known as a great conjunction. This synodic cycle occurs every 20 years, and is said to describe the Zeitgeist – the ‘spirit of the times’. What is most interesting about the upcoming conjunction is that it happens in Aquarius, an Air [...]
As I mentioned in my previous article, from August 4th for several months Mars in Aries will be squaring the Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn. On the very day of the first square of Mars to Jupiter (August 4th), at 6.08pm local time, a huge explosion rocked the port and city of Beirut, apparently caused by [...]
At 2.45am London time yesterday, June 28th, Mars moved into his home sign of Aries. Usually Mars spends about 6 weeks in each sign, but once every two years it goes retrograde, meaning it spends a longer period in one or two signs. Usually this retrograde period will straddle two signs, but unusually this time [...]
