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We feel that we’ve done all that we can as Luna conjuncts logical Mercury and gratified Jupiter this morning, but her quincunx to gloomy Saturn may still have us doubting ourselves. As we get closer to noon, Sun will separate from the weight of responsibilities in Taurus, to fly higher in Gemini. Like Gemini’s ruler Mercury, we get our own pair of wings for the next four weeks, and can go wherever we like. This means we will move on our curiosity, and stray from home and work. We’ll be quick with reasons as to why we must go here and there, with constant movement, like running more errands, taking small trips, multi-tasking, socializing, networking, and making new friends. Our wings hemp to enhance our communication skills, move beyond language barriers, and provide neighborly assistance. If we’re aware that we…

Sunday’s Solar Eclipse (4:54pm PDT) illuminates what has been hidden, repressed or denied. The Moon — the subconscious — passes between Earth and Sun, eclipsing the light as the shadow takes center stage.

A Solar Eclipse is an especially potent New Moon that both sets into motion a major new beginning, and signifies a death or ending. We entered Eclipse Season — a period of heightened emotions and accelerated change — two weeks ago at the Scorpio Full Moon, and we can expect the intensity to escalate as we move into the most dramatic astrology of 2012.

Eclipses stir up the past, revealing what wants to be healed, resolved or brought to completion. On a more micro level, we revisit themes from the previous set of Eclipses, about six…

New Moon forecasts show the general trends and financial outlook for the lunar month based upon location of the chart.* (see note )

 The New Moon in Gemini, May 20, 2012 (Chart from the point of view of Wall Street and the NYSE. (Click for larger PDF image)

Are you ready for this? TWO new Moons in Gemini this year! Gemini is the sign of the twins so it naturally makes perfect sense to have two in Gemini – however, two new Moons in the same sign doesn’t happen often in Gemini, or any of the signs.  Only when a new Moon is at the very earliest degree of a sign can it happen. The Moon’s cycle is 28 1/2 days – this new Moon in Gemini is at 0° 20′ Gemini; the next new Moon in…

Since the 1990s there has been a relatively constant war in astrological communities along the lines of modern practices vs. more ancient ones.  This sentiment has become more pronounced in areas where the two practices comingle.  You find it in astrological forums or groups online, writers will bash the ideas of others in books or articles, and you can find it in little jabs written into a lecture.  This sort of spirited rivalry is common among many fields and is a relatively healthy thing when working properly.  Rivalries like this are meant to keep each group honest with itself and with the general public. Unfortunately, the general public isn’t really looking into astrology that deeply to see it as two different camps fighting for their place on top, but merely see it as contradictory sets of rules within a supposedly…

The eclipse dragon rises in the east.

Its early Saturday morning. The Sun and the Moon are getting ready to dance together, the degrees dissolve in ancient familiarity, timeless, immutable and inevitable. In the early hours of Saturday, I’m listening to the robot chatter of talking heads on FOX. Like magpies on a line they incessantly chirp. The feet on the ground in Europe go from a stealthy patter to the rumbling of the human herd in a flight of panic. Here’s a dirty little secret; there’s a bank run happening in Europe and it’s happening just as the eclipse is sliding into place.

In ancient Chinese culture, eclipses were likened to great dragons, devouring earth and sky. Need I remind you that we are in the year of the dragon?

Since 2010, China has been quietly divesting itself, along…

Mary Richardson Kennedy’s Death Chart

When I heard about this, the passing of Mary Richardson Kennedy a few days ago, I asked myself, what woman with four children under the age of sixteen would kill herself. What was going on astrologically the day she did this awful deed. What was motivating her psychically and how did she come to this conclusion and transformation? She died on May 16, 2012 at 1:30pm EDT in Bedford, NY. She was the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of President John F. Kennedy.

When we see the photos of a large house and hear about possible unhappy circumstances in her life, we feel compassion and interest for her. How hard it must be to

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Now and then I mention my frustration with how ineffectual we’ve become as a society. We can’t seem to solve a problem to save our lives and it’s maddening.

If you watch a (current) documentary about a societal problem, let’s say the meth epidemic, invariably it concludes with a big ol’ wail about how nothing can be done. There have been all these studies…we have all this information, however we are helpless to do anything but by God, we’re trying!

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Several TV shows we’ve been watching through the winter and spring have been finale-ing this week. I guess we’ll soon be relying on our store of used VCR tapes and old DVDs for entertainment.The Voice has completed its second season. I struggle to remember the winner, even now. Google refreshed an overloaded memorybank: winner was Jermaine Paul, a former background vocalist with Alicia Keys,

How interesting it is, that the recent build up of tension in Europe concerning the stability of Greece and Spain, is taking place precisely during the build up to Monday’s solar eclipse in the first degree of Gemini. We have heard increasing speculation of Greece’s exit from the Euro, while just a few days ago in Spain people drew one billion euro’s worth of savings out of a recently nationalized bank, creating anxiety about a potential run on the banks there. These are difficult days indeed.

One of the areas of life that Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, presides over, is the marketplace. Mercury also rules trade, and traders, so even though the main horoscope for the Euro has the Sun in Capricorn, it can never be disputed that Mercury is a key planet when it comes to this sort of joint…

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