What’s a “station” in astrology? When a planet stops moving in the sky, and appears to stand still before moving in the other direction. Astrologers use it as both a verb and a noun: Mercury is stationing retrograde tomorrow morning. Uranus stationed direct last weekend. or I’m thinking about getting a new cell phone, but [...]
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On the Ascendant: Transiting Mars Redux
This post is part of an occasional series about the Ascendant in your horoscope. Today Mars finally leaves the retrograde shadow after being stationary, Rx, or shadowed in some way since last October. All my chart angles—ascendant, midheaven, descendant, and nadir—are in fixed signs. My ascendant is at 14.48 Leo. Back in late November of [...]
Mars Retrograde’s Parting Gift
In my earlier post on Mars retro, I was a little apprehensive about going about my day-to-day work while Mars was backing up over my ascendant. I have Mars in Leo by birth so I’ve been getting knocked around for the last couple months just due to that, never mind the angle. But, thinking that [...]
On the Ascendant: Transiting Mars and Mars Retrograde
This post is part of an occasional series about the Ascendant in your horoscope. The Mars retrograde hullaballoo is bulldozing right over my ascendant, so I’ve been paying attention to the changes as it moves around my chart lately. I have Mars in late Leo in the 1st house, so Mars had crossed my ascendant [...]
