Oh My Stars

Let’s take a look at Saturn. I mean literally, let’s take a look at Saturn. See that ring? Beautiful, isn’t it? What most people don’t realize about Saturn’s rings are that they are composed of billions of tiny little particles all held in a perfect dance between gravity and momentum, maintaining their fragile design despite…

As we bumbled out of Africa, we brought language with us. A funny thing happened along the way: languages started using fewer sounds. The complexity of inner lives didn’t become any simpler, and the challenges we faced didn’t get any easier. But we dropped some phonemes and made some alterations, and by the time we…

Just because Saturn is leaving Sagittarius and the Galactic Center doesn’t mean its effects on the Human Collective are coming to an end. If a transit makes your legs fall off on a Monday, your shoe budget will be reduced from Tuesday onward. Saturn’s influence on the Galactic Center (where we connect to things much,…

Suppose you have an important message to send, and Mercury is retrograde. Should you wait? Ideally, you probably should. Life doesn’t always work like that though, and whether we’re talking astrology or otherwise, in life you have to play the hand you are dealt. If you have to send an important message during a Mercury…

Another day, another tale of the mighty falling because of their abuse of power: director Bryan Singer (best known for The Usual Suspects and The X-Men films) is being sued for an alleged assault on a 17 year old actor in 2003. Singer was let go from directing Bohemian Rhapsody only a few days ago,…

One of the hazards to avoid as we trudge through the final days of Saturn in Sagittarius? Chiron. If you’ve hung around this blog for long, you may have noticed that I don’t talk about Chiron a lot. There’s good reason for that: I don’t like Chiron. It represents all that injured, deep-down psychological crap…

THE END Have you noticed that books and movies don’t end with those words anymore? Even though you know the story is over, there is no final comforting confirmation, no signal that it’s time to get up and go home, or move onto the next thing in your life. THE END Saturn is now almost…

(Click HERE for more info on the month of October!) Here’s the most important astrological forecast of the month. Really? Yes! Why? Knowing when the Moon Void of Course is happening is probably the handiest of all the common astrological techniques. Learn it, make it work for you, and save yourself tons of unnecessary aggravation!…

A typical horoscope lays out what you can expect for yourself in the next week or month based on your Sun Sign. That sort of thing is great, sure… especially if you happen to be the only person on your planet. Astrology, like life in general, is a lot more complicated than “there are twelve…

I admit it: I’m a bit worried about the upcoming Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Sure, they’re obviously in love, and I think they make a cute couple. No problem there. But no matter how good the security is at a Royal Wedding, there is no way to keep Saturn from crashing…

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