Category Archives: Astro Daily

If the squares to Neptune made by the Sun and Mercury this week (Mercury-Neptune is exact today) have done their job constructively, you may have cleared out some psychic space in yourself regarding honesty and believing lies. If so, you’re … Continue reading →

Today Mercury enters one of its home signs – Gemini – (it also rules Virgo) at about 7:12 am EDT. This emphasizes the inner twin/duality theme that retrograde Venus and the Sun have opened us up to. As we test … Continue reading →

Here’s our second installment of the Venus Rx in Gemini Files: Brigham Young. [You can read the first installment here.] He has a very prominent Venus retrograde in his chart, and an extremely interesting personal life to match. As president … Continue reading →

Now that Sunday’s Gemini eclipse has us embracing our dark inner twin, and Mercury’s overnight conjunction to Jupiter in Taurus has us ‘thinking big’, the sky is reminding us to ‘keep it real’. Tomorrow at 4:55 pm EDT, the Gemini … Continue reading →

The Sun and the Moon entered Gemini Sunday with fanfare, making an annular eclipse in the first degree of that sign. The eclipse met Neptune, newly arrived in Pisces, at a right angle (called a square), potentially leaving you with … Continue reading →

We take another swan dive into 2012 astrology Sunday, when the Sun enters Gemini, followed several hours later by a powerful eclipse of the Sun. This combination of factors indicates a rapid shift of energy and acceleration of events, which … Continue reading →

One thing that might be fun, as we all navigate this Venus retrograde in Gemini that leads up to some big events, is to look at the charts for some famous people who have Venus retrograde in Gemini. The software … Continue reading →

My old therapist Joe once said if he were to hang a sign over his counseling room door, it would say, “Abandon hope all ye who enter here.” If I were to hang one it would say, “Curiosity will set … Continue reading →

Venus is retrograde the least of all the planets. That’s to say, it’s retrograde the fewest days by percentage than any of the other planets — less than 8% of the time. So Venus retrograde is somewhat unusual, though this one is particularly special due to the fact of the transit of Venus. Nothing like this will happen again until 2117, 105 years from now. Continue reading →

The sky continues to put on a spectacular show in Taurus, with Mercury being the most recent planet to join a concentrated grouping there. It joins asteroids Vesta and Ceres, a lunar point called the osculating apogee, plus the Sun … Continue reading →