This is a good time for gearing up to make personal changes. Physical energy in general is high. You might notice the urge to take a walk, get some exercise and be active. Take this in to account in your business planning. Use the energy as initiative to start new routines. It is a good period for sorting, recycling, and reviewing what you have learned in the winter.
Over the course of a year, Mercury will travel around the zodiac and link up with the zodiac sign it turned direct in 3 retrograde periods before. It is overlapping its retrograde place from a year before and near the same time. Thus, we can track issues and topics that take time to resolve.
As individuals, we need to try to stabilize our lives as much as we can. This may be difficult for some as the energies are quite a lot about upheaval and change. Yet, we may need change to find stability. We might have to let go of long held ideas about how our lives work, if things are not working. Each generational group will be feeling this collective process differently.
President Obama has some positive contacts to the horoscope of China that helps him mediate with Chinese leaders and is likely to improve connections over former relations with our country.
At this time, astrologically we have strong representation of female archetypes mixed with the prominent outer planets. Symbolically, this brings issues of women and the dynamics of relationships to the forefront. In Iran, the women are courageously showing themselves to be a powerful force for change.
The Full Moon on June 7 will bring an emphasis to women’s issues. This may support the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. She is getting powerful influences from Pluto to her personal planets, which challenges her to reach for greater power and influence.
The bright side to the crisis is the potential for exciting and innovative developments. New businesses will come out all aspects of society as people begin to think of new ways to replace their lost jobs. Now that there is a more realistic recognition of personal value as earning power, people will be finding ways to make a living on what they are good at and by what they know.
The end of 2008 is bringing some astounding changes in the world. Sometimes what initially seems bad becomes an improvement of circumstances. We are in a time of several large astrological cycles becoming active simultaneously.
The longest cycle is that of Pluto, which is about 248 years. Pluto’s influence is on the collective level and it [...]
There is no reason to expect October to be slow and uneventful, just the opposite. This month will percolate with unprecedented events. The countdown to the election takes center stage, of course. The distractions from this will be the fuzzy math going on between the White House and Wall Street.
Wall Street’s meltdown came just after [...]
In ancient times, eclipses presented important forecasting for the king and country. August 1 is the solar eclipse in the kingly sign of Leo and it happens to make important contact to the leader of our nation. The themes produced focus on communication and power. Secrets and surveillance are the secondary elements of this theme [...]
