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  This Mercury Retrograde Going to be Good - Detailed Timeline Until June 2023 Mercury turns retrograde in Taurus on April 21, just a day after the big season opener Aries Solar eclipse, and will station direct on May 14. Quickly, a mercury retrograde is something that happens three or four times a year, for about three weeks, and it appears from our vantage point on earth, that Mercury is moving backwards across the sky, instead of forwards.  In addition to the eclipse, we have some big Pluto activity as the sun squares Pluto for the first time, and of course a second new moon in Aries, hosted by Mars in its fall in cancer. What does all of this mean? Well, lots of changes are coming, and thanks to this retrograde of Mercury, we have some time to think about what it all could mean. Over the next three weeks, Mercury retraces its steps through several sextiles to Mars (already had a 1st sextile april 8), Venus, and Saturn (sextiled mercury already once april 5), and gets two more sexti

  Everything you need to know about the upcoming solar eclipse in Aries marking a massive turning point in our world, will be laid out in full for you here.  Because this is such an important eclipse to understand, I invited Antoinette MacKenzie of Pomegranate Astrology to join me. Antoinette is the astrologer I consult with personally, and I recently experienced her specialty bone mother Saturn in Pisces reading which was next level. Besides being an incredible Hellenistic astrologer, she has degrees in literature, history, and philosophy, including a PhD in Literature. She’s taught Literature and History at university level, and has had a lifelong love of myth, poetry and fairytales. All of these elements feed her incredible astrological practice.  I’m honored to have her with me to talk about all the things we must understand about the first solar eclipse in Aries.  1. Why are eclipses important in astrology? What do they mean? They are the markers of major beginnings and endings in

When Mercury enters pisces, in the binary scheme of ‘good and bad’ astrology talk, Mercury is technically in detriment and exile here - double d - debilitated. Why do you ask? Well, because Mercury is both the domicile ruler and exaltation ruler of virgo, where mercury is 2x rational, detail oriented, practical, and quick.  On the other side of the astro wheel spectrum from Virgo sits Pisces, a place where practicality and strict rationality isn't as highly valued. But one of my favorite things about looking deeper into astrology is that planets in fall, exile, debilitated, etc. are actually pretty dang awesome if you change the lense. They are underdogs, they are the superhero who has to prove themselves worthy in a foreign land. They are likely uncomfortable, but being uncomfortable makes opportunities for strength and growth.  Sometimes the things we are good at naturally, become a crutch, and a lot of times we don’t have to work too hard to be good at them. There is no struggle

Relational balance and harmonics require some sort of sacrifice. When you are singing with other people, and if you are trying not to get tomatoes thrown at you, you need to play your part, fall into a harmony, not boldly do your own individual thing in whatever key or note you want. That sounds bad most of the time. Not balanced. Same goes for relationships - there is some requirement of balance between the I am and we are, in order to harmonize. You may have noticed that the image representing libra is a set of scales. This is the ONLY zodiac sign represented by an inanimate object, and isn't it interesting that Libra is the sign that is most generally representative of relationships? There is something more here, and the full moon in Libra tells us so. There is an impartiality of libra, a type of underlying rationalism, and the fact that Saturn, the great master of time, is exalted in libra, goes to show that it is not all touchy feely, you know? On the other end of every Libra

You may be asking, what the heck is Jupiter Cazimi anyway? A Jupiter Cazimi Restarts something called the synodic cycle of Jupiter. What is a synodic cycle? It’s the time required for a body within the solar system, like Jupiter in this case, to return to the same position relative to the Sun, they meet up on the same degree on the wheel of the zodiac, and conjoin as one basically.  When Jupiter reaches the apex point of the same degree of the sun, it is said to be in the heart of the sun, in the chariot of the king, it is infused with the power and energy of the sun. This cazimi of Jupiter happens in the sign of Aries where the sun is in its one and only exaltation, where sun is at its peak of power and glory. Jupiter in Aries historically has been tricky - themes of communism, economic struggles, and war, and we are seeing some very strange things going on in the world, with the Pluto in Aquarius/Capricorn dance revealing some truth bombs and overturning secrets, it seems like there