Scorpios are often considered the most intense, profound, powerful members of the zodiac. Even when they appear self-controlled and calm there is a seething intensity of emotional energy under the placid exterior. Sometimes Scorpios are accused of holding grudges, which is not really true. It’s just that Scorpios rarely forget anything, and are ready to … Read more
On this date, the Sun leaves the Sign of Virgo and continues its journey by entering the Sign of Libra, fittingly, the sign of the balanced scales. Librans are very focused on relating to others and partnerships of all sorts. For a Libran, everything is better if it’s done as a pair. Just like the … Read more
Virgo – from the zodiac window at Chartres CathedralDo not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. — Mother Theresa, spoken like the true Virgo she was Today, the Sun enters the sign of Virgo, and so we enter into, according to some traditions, the Month of Isis, a time of the creative … Read more
Leos, so the tradition goes, are “on” 24 hours a day, showing off and behaving like the sexy superstars they often are. Of course, there really is more to Leo than this cartoonish version. Astrologer Jon Cainer reminds us that, while Leos can be a bit over-the-top and subtlety often escapes them, they are also … Read more
Blessings of the Full Moon in Capricorn,with the Sun in CancerThe theme for this Moon is “The Call of Perfection.” You may have had some nasty run-ins with perfectionism lately, thanks to Mars and Saturn being conjunct in Virgo…perhaps a run-in with law enforcement, or a humorless petty bureaucrat making you life miserable. With positive … Read more
(June 20 – July 22)Cancer is the sign of the Summer Solstice, the beginning of the warmest season of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It is also the birth sign of the United States of America. Cancer is the first water sign of the Zodiac, (making it a cardinal sign), and forms its identity … Read more
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famous Gemini Today, the Sun enters Gemini, … Read more
Happy Birthday, Taurus! If you are a Taurus, you are patient and determined, with lusty physical appetites. You value stability and possessions and dislike upheaval and being rushed, so becoming more adaptable can be a challenge for you. You like a secure home, and you prefer to work in a stable environment. Ruled by Venus, … Read more
Dark of the MoonNew beginningsDark of the MoonPlant a seed tonightDark of the MoonWhat we envisionWill come to be by the Full Moon’s light. The Sun and Moon conjoined in the sign of Aries at around midnight Eastern time, so we are now in the New Moon of the new astrological year. My friend, astrologer … Read more
Despite my ongoing (but, thankfully, lessening!) flu, it would be inexcusable of me to fail to mention that with the observance of the Vernal Equinox, the Sun moved into the sign of Aries, making it the New Year of the Zodiac: Happy Birthday, Aries! As the first sign in the zodiac, Aries is the first … Read more