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Neptune Returns to Pisces
1.30.12
When I woke up, excited to continue what I'd begun to write about Neptune's entry into Pisces (which occurs this coming Friday Feb 3), I had to pause and consider whether, in fact, I had already written anything or not.
Having thought, shortly before falling asleep, about wanting to tackle my Neptune-in-Pisces writing the next morning, this article—which I actually hadn't started writing yet—apparently must have appeared in my early-a.m. dreams prior to its inception.
The enthusiasm to 'continue' something I had been eagerly working on, if only in the dream-world, was, however, real…
Mars Retrograde's Alternate Current
1.23.12
As of today (Mon Jan 23), Mars will be retrograde for the next 2½ months… not returning to direct motion until April 13. What the heck does that mean for us?
Well, for starters, the several days on either side of a planet's station (or seeming standstill, as it transitions from moving in one apparent direction to the other) puts a great emphasis on that planet. And with Mars now essentially standing still from our earthly view, his archetypal principles have been dominating our experience for the past week or so.
In short, a Mars station can make us physically edgy, abrupt, defensive and/or ready for conflict. Haven't you noticed?
Doing Virgo
1.13.12
This is your reminder that we're now entering Month 3 of Mars's extended visit to Virgo… a mega-marathon that continues into early July, due to a 2½-month retrograde that begins later this month (Jan 23).
It would've been easy to overlook this news, in light of holiday/new-year madness and the like, though it goes far to explain why our propulsive momentum presently seems shyer, subtler and/or somewhat more finicky.
Mars in Virgo doesn't announce himself with attention-grabbing gestures or over-the-top bombast. Such excesses are too sloppy, with too much room for error.
2012: Reaching the Eye of the Storm
1.9.12
Now that we've had more than a week to watch our silliest New Year's resolutions fall by the wayside, I feel it's time to address what our coming year has in store for us.
Yes, I have provided a far more detailed account of the year ahead in my first-ever e-book, ASTROBARRY'S 2012, but the big headline demands repeating here: Uranus and Pluto hit their exact square in June, with six more hits to follow into 2015.
This, I suppose, is the moment when I should comfort all those folks who couldn't wait for 2011 to end, cursing this now-past year for all the turmoil it brought and pinning hopes for an easier time in its successor.
A Venus-in-Aquarius Holiday
12.17.11
Let Venus in Aquarius serve as your guide for an enjoyably low-stress holiday season.
Rather than feeding into the multidimensional tangles of our histories in individual relationships with the family and friends we share this time of year with—and suffering the psychological strain that can go with it—we could just take a couple steps back and appreciate the whole scene from an impersonal 'diversity of human experience' angle.
Venus in Aquarius (from Tue Dec 20) gets her kicks from being in the mix, watching the players each express their unique quirks (whether or not they're aware of their quirkiness), but not allowing any single oddball to get too close for comfort.
Choosing One Over the Other
12.7.11
I believe we always have choices.
There's always another job to work, another place to live, another fine lad or lassie to date… and even in the most extremely limiting of circumstances, we can at least choose the story we tell ourselves about what's happened to us and, consequently, create very different lenses of reality through which to understand it.
Sometimes, indeed, the overwhelming existence of so many options becomes an inhibiting factor. How to know which is which, and what is what?
