Pluto, Stationing Direct

Dear Fellow Seeker: This week I am writing the October monthly horoscopes. I’m here today with a brief check-in, following up for a moment on Mercury stationing direct Sunday evening, and Pluto in Capricorn stationing direct today (Tuesday). Mercury stationing direct happens instantly when you look at the mathematically calculated position of the planet. There … Read more

Mercury Retrograde: What Did You Learn?

Dear Earthly Voyager: My old friend Christopher McGregor, a self-taught lawyer who approaches jurisprudence from a metaphysical angle, is fond of asking people, ‘What did you learn?’ I always thought this was clever, and I consciously picked up the habit. Now when someone visits a foreign country or comes back from Burning Man or a … Read more

Virgo New Moon & the Mercury Storm

Dear Cosmic Companion: We are approaching the end of Mercury retrograde in Virgo, and are in the last day of the lunar cycle that turns over Wednesday morning with the Virgo New Moon. These are some of our earliest collective experiences of Virgo without the presence of Saturn there. So you might think of this … Read more

We Will Eventually Figure This Out

Dear Cousin, Friend or Client: Good morning, on the cusp of the ‘official’ last weekend of summer in the US. The cardinal T-square (or grand cross, depending on what points you count) is taking a little time off. This is the aspect pattern that drove us from the early part of the year until very … Read more

Sun in Virgo, Pisces Full Moon

Dear Fellow Traveler: The Sun entered Virgo overnight Sunday to Monday in most time zones, beginning the last month of the season. Virgo is a mutable sign, which means that its energy is that of dissolving and blending into the next season — when the Sun enters Libra one month from now. The Sun entered … Read more