Dear Friend and Reader:
Now that we’ve been a alternate lovestyle website for the past three days, we can go back to being an astrology site. If you’ve been away from Planet Waves this weekend, in honor of Valentine’s Day we have been posting the best of our sex writing from over the years. This column is called “Daily Astrology and Adventure” — sex, environmental causes and politics would be the “and adventure” part of that.
We are now in the last days of Aquarius. The Sun enters Pisces — the last sign of the 12 — on Wednesday at 7:46 am ET, and from that point it’s just 30 days till spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Pisces and the end of Northern Hemisphere winter also ends the astrological year. I am sure nobody is complaining about this except for ski resorts. It’s been a long, difficult and indeed cold winter. Thankfully heating fuel was not the $5 a gallon that was being predicted over the summer. As for summer down under, it has been one of the very worst on record, with bushfires in Australia killing many people and causing much damage, grief and havoc. These were the worst bushfires ever in modern Australian history.
If I have not mentioned it before, Kirsti Melto, one of our minor planet aficionados, pointed out recently that Typhon, a slow-moving planet, is mixed up in the Saturn-Uranus opposition. It is in Virgo, in a tight conjunction to Saturn. Typhon is a god associated with hot, dangerous winds — and its involvement in Saturn-Uranus is quite apropos of the raging fires we saw in Victoria, at least from a mythological perspective. I mention this after the fact because Typhon is going to be in that position for a while. Properly called (42355) Typhon, this is an object in the scattered disk, that is, beyond Pluto for much of its orbit. Wiki is not listing the length of the orbital phase; we will check that for you soon. (That would be 232 years, just shy of the length of Pluto’s orbit [that being 251 years] but a lot more elongated, a bit like a centaur or a comet.) Saturn-Uranus can be considered Saturn-Uranus-Typhon — which to me is a hot weather advisory warning for summer in the Northern Hemisphere. It also adds awareness of something spicy to the mentally sluggish energy that we might associate with Saturn in Virgo.
Speaking of hot: Mars is conjunct Jupiter today, in Aquarius. This is hot in a broad-minded kind of way. Mars, currently moving through Aquarius, about to make conjunctions to all the planets you see below at right — except for the Sun, which moves faster than Mars. Look for those ways you can expand your awareness into the ideas that are possible if we work together (Jupiter and Aquarius) rather than if we work alone (Mars in nearly any form).