Jupiter and Saturn meet up on December 21st - The Winter Solstice - at 0 29' Aquarius. The Jupiter-Saturn cycle is approximately 20 years, at the conjunction - known as "The Great Conjunction" - a new cycle begins. From ancient times astrologers have used the Jupiter-Saturn cycle to predict significant collective events and experiences. The…
Lunar Eclipse in Gemini ~ November 30th 2020
The Lunar Eclipse is at 9.30am GMT on November 30th - a Monday, the day of the Moon - at 8 38' Gemini. The Moon is on fixed star Aldebaran - The Eye of the Bull, directly opposite the Sun in Sagittarius is on Antares - The Heart of the Scorpion. Without doubt, the fixed…
New Moon in Scorpio ~ November 15th 2020
The New Moon takes place at 05.07 am GMT November 15th at 23 17' Scorpio. In dark, mysterious Scorpio, the New Moon suggests we may find ourselves engaged with intense, complex matters and issues - relationships, shared resources, secrets, survival. Coming to terms with something, deciphering our true thoughts and feelings. Endings and beginnings. A…
Full Moon in Taurus ~ October 31st 2020
The Full Moon takes place on October 31st, 14.49 GMT at 8 38' Taurus. This is a Blue Moon, the second Full Moon to occur in a calendar month. It is also Halloween, Samhain, and Dia de Los Muertos. A time when the veils between the material and spiritual realms are believed to be very…
New Moon in Libra ~ October 16th 2020
The New Moon takes place on October 16th, 20.31 BST at 23 53' Libra. The New Moon is opposite Mars Rx in Aries and square Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn forming a tense, pressured, rebellious, T-Square. The New Moon is besieged - between a rock and a hard place - separating from an opposition to…
Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio & Libra ~ October 14th – November 3rd 2020
The last Mercury retrograde of 2020, from 11 Scorpio to 25 Libra - Water (emotions/intuition) to Air (ideas/communication). The Sun's entry into Libra on September 23rd - the Autumnal Equinox - announced the arrival of the last quarter of the year. For sure, it's hard to grasp, that it's only been months since the start…
Full Moon in Aries ~ October 1st 2020
The Full Moon takes place at 22.05pm at 9 degrees 08' Aries. The Full Moon brings a reminder of our individual rights and freedoms. How what we freely gave up for the collective good, may not be so easy to retrieve. The pressures of 2020 are weighing heavily on all of us, with no real…
Libra Ingress & The Autumnal Equinox ~ September 22nd 2020
The Sun enters Libra, the sign of the scales and balance, on September 22nd at 14.31 BST, crossing the celestial equator, moving from north to south - The Autumnal Equinox. Officially bringing the start of Autumn to the Northern Hemisphere, and Spring to the Southern Hemisphere. Another turn in the Wheel of the Year, and…
New Moon in Virgo ~ September 17th 2020
The New Moon takes place at 12 Noon BST on September 17th at exactly 25 degrees Virgo. I love the precision of the time and degree - very Virgo! As a sign, Virgo is associated with bringing order to chaos, Virgo likes to sift through and organise all the details, including the tiny, miniscule ones…
Mars Retrograde in Aries 2020
Mars moved into Aries - a landscape he rules - on June 28th for a very extended stay in his home realm. Usually Mars spends an average of 2 months in a sign, but Mars stations retrograde on September 9th. Mars doesn't leave Aries, to enter Taurus, until January 6th 2021 - Mars is in Aries…