I want to share with you a meaningful path that astrology has opened up for me in recent times, especially since I stepped into fatherhood in 2021. This is something that I never came across in my education, but was always interested in: intergenerational, ancestral astrology work—holding natal charts of a family’s generations next to…
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Blasting Toward Something Better: the Mars, Uranus, North Node Moment
The time has arrived for the aforementioned Mars-Uranus-North Node conjunction, reaching perfection on August 1st. You may have picked up on the energy last week, with the Moon passing through this Taurean territory on Thursday, July 21st. At our homestead, for instance, we experienced a power outage and a slew of rearranged or cancelled plans…
Fire for the Whole: the 2022 Summer Solstice Chart
Some recent discussions and charts have inspired me to look at the Summer Solstice chart for western USA. As the explosive triple conjunction of Mars, Uranus, and the North Node looms large just a month away (exact on August 1st, but look for it all through the end of July and beginning of August), I…
Forecasting 2022 with Soul Song Solutions
After hearing an astrologer deliver a woefully dumpy and wholly unhelpful podcast concerning planetary energies for the year 2022, I reached out to my friend Olivia at Soul Song Solutions so I could offer a more empowering take. While I don’t think there any question that dominant culture is in a real mess at the…
Interview on Soul Song Solutions Podcast
On April 24th, I sat down at Plantasia with Olivia of Soul Song Solutions podcast for an impromptu discussion around Astrology. Topics covered include: A 2021 overview (the Saturn-Uranus square) Timing and transits as tools for personal empowerment The astrological symbolism of Chiron, and the fifty-year Chiron journey Embracing Neptune’s request for an honored ambivalence…
The Saturn Uranus Square: Great Revelations and a Chance for Positive Change in 2021
In the year 2021, the Saturn Uranus square provides the energetic backdrop for the world at large, and many of us personally. Three times this year, Saturn and Uranus will be exactly ninety degrees apart in the zodiacal wheel: February 17th, at 7 degrees Aquarius and Taurus June 14th, at 13 degrees Aquarius and Taurus…
Notes on Mercury’s July 2019 Retrograde
Mercury’s retrograde from July 7th to the 31st joins the signs of Leo and Cancer, and includes a Full Moon/lunar eclipse in Capricorn (July 16th) and a Leo New Moon just hours before the retrograde ceases. Earth will also be receiving impactful energies from Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. I’ve put together some notes to…
Saturn’s Role in the Divinities
When I think of the sacred healing modalities in astrological terms, I see them reflected in the planets who orbit the Sun outside of Saturn.
Astrology and the Birth Chart Through the Lens of a Traditional Dagaran Teaching
I recently read the outstanding and revelatory book Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some. The book is an autobiographical narrative which gives amazing details on Malidoma’s adolescence and initiation into adulthood in the Dagara tribe in Burkina Faso. As Malidoma begins…
Is Santa Claus Out of Bounds?
I know out-of-bounders are often not so keen on big consumer-driven holidays. But when I think about it, even without seeing a birth chart, I am pretty sure Santa Claus has some out of bounds planets. He lives way, way outside of normal society. He’s probably an alien. Nobody dressed like him, until him. Now,…