Skywatch May 2012

And a Child Shall Lead Them

Mark Zuckerberg was in the news a few weeks ago, on the day Pluto (plutocracy) stationed during its narrowing square to Uranus (technology). Facebook’s acquisition of a smart phone app for a billion dollars had the business page so excited it could hardly contain itself.

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Idiot Box


Rupert Murdoch, the Australian media mogul, is back in the news. The 21st-Century’s answer to William Randolph Hearst (comedian Jon Stewart calls him Citizen Shame) has once again been dragged away from his yacht to answer questions.

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Skywatch Apr 2012

Mars: Foe or Ally

As April begins, Mars is completing one of its relatively rare forays into retrogradation.Since Jan. 23the red planet has been climbing back down through the sign of Virgo.

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Iran Amok


I guess you could say March came in like a lion… if the lion was brain-damaged, gynophobic and high on meth.

In the USA, Republicans reinvigorated the 19th-century war on birth control, Rush Limbaugh called a Democratic law student a slut,

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Skywatch Mar 2012

Sea Hunt

The influence of Pisces is all-encompassing right now. People with a lot of water in their charts will be responding to it especially strongly, but every one of us is submerged in it.

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Fog Fight


Is there a lot of kvetching in your life right now? It wouldn’t be surprising, given that Mars is in Virgo, and retrograde to boot. This transit is great for editing and tweaking: incremental reform. But if unconsciously channeled, it makes us prickly and irritable. In Virgo, Mars’s default is fuss and worry.

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Skywatch Feb 2012

Water, Water Everywhere

It is a once-in-168-year event. In a year chockfull of world-altering transits, it is one of the most important. The god of the sea is inaugurating a thirteen-year-long shift in the way we look at water.

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Dead Giants

 

Astrologers have been talking about the Uranus-Pluto square for so long that we risk forgetting to be amazed when its energies play out the way they have. The momentous uprisings and financial turbulence with which the transit expressed itself in 2011 were such exact illustrations of the planetary..

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Skywatch Jan 2012

Be the Future

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Now begins a calendar year that’s been well worked over before it was born. Variously interpreted eschatological imagery and dubious pop culture prophecies have been pouring forth for years now, exploiting poor 2012 like an MGM child star. Now that it’s here, let’s separate the hype from the essential meanings that underlie it.

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