Dear Friend and Reader: Monday’s New Moon is in Gemini. One of its distinctive features is its location in the United States chart on the relationship angle. The suggestion is that there is some news, development or at least the need for attention focused on this aspect of our lives. Relationships form the primary environment … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: The United States is famously conceived as a government of, by and for the people, as Abraham Lincoln phrased it in his address at the Gettysburg battlefield cemetery. Every American knows those words. Another use of similar language is contained in the preamble to the Constitution written decades earlier, which begins: … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: We’re now in the last quarter phase of the Moon; it is waning toward the Gemini New Moon, which occurs in about a week. Before we arrive, Mercury makes an opposition to Jupiter, exact on Thursday. This happens once a year, but this year it’s rather special — each planet is … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Today, Mars is square Chiron. This is part of the larger grand cross I’ve been writing about the past few weeks, including our prior Thursday edition. In this short article I want to focus on the Mars-Chiron contact, which brings in Salacia (which is conjunct Chiron in Aries). I’ve always found this … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Tuesday morning, the Sun ingresses Gemini, with Mercury close behind. The Mercury-Sun conjunction forms a fraction of a degree into Gemini at 9:06 am EDT. There is an elegance in Mercury aligning with the Sun in the first degree of Mercury’s own sign, and this gleams out of the chart. Be … Read more