Some days are rather “quiet” astrologically. Others are anything but. Today is the latter. Stephanie Gailing has a great reflective piece at Planetary Apothecary on what’s going on upstairs today. It’s a busy day for astrology! Jupiter has just turned direct after being retrograde since July, and Venus is about to do the same a little [...]
Tag Archives | transits
Halloween Weekend Transit Calendar
Here’s what’s going on in the sky this weekend (all times are Pacific, tweak as necessary): Friday, October 29 The Cancer moon goes void around lunchtime (12:48p PDT), and then doesn’t move into Leo until 5:38p. So there’s a big potential case out there of senioritis/Friday syndrome out there. Good day for brainstorming or connecting [...]
The Transit Laboratory
One of the many services I provide for you here at Signs of Potential is approaching my life like a mad scientist’s test lab for astrology. I do this out of love, don’t worry. It’s an adventure. But I decided, after yesterday’s outing, to bare a little more skin here in terms of how daily [...]
Moon Phases and Transits Grab Bag (audio)
This August I had some extended talks on KKNW with Donna Frindt about different facets of astrology. But the shows are looooong: an hour each, with lots of topics. So to made your life easier, I’ve annotated these two recordings so you can listen to the pieces you find most interesting and skip over the [...]
New Bite-Sized Transit Stream!
I’m adding a punchy new stream of real-time transit info for you on Twitter, RSS, and email, starting today. If this is your sort of thing: Moon in Gemini is about to trine Saturn in Libra right this minute. Get a post-it and make massive, world-changing plans on it. Ready… go! or this: Moon is [...]
The Mercury Retrograde Muck (audio)
If you’re feeling the current Mercury Retrograde rhythm, this show is for you! I got back together with Donna Frindt for another full hour of Metaphysical Thursday, and we took a look at the ins and outs of Mercury retrograde periods, astrological transits, and using the lunar cycle to boost your projects and routines. Impatient? [...]
The Fall of Helen Thomas
The controversial remarks veteran White house correspondent Helen Thomas made last week have ignited a storm of coverage, and her sudden retirement from Hearst on Monday brought a decisive but unsatisfying end to her unparalleled career. The retirement announcement itself seemed more like a last-ditch attempt to exercise some control over the chain of events, [...]
Uranus in Aries, and an Eastern Take on the Oil Spill (audio)
Thursday put me back in the studio with Melanie Farmer and Keesha Ewers, ARNP, for this week’s Metaphysical Thursday. Last week we took a look at each other’s charts; this week we shifted our focus outward to today’s sky and the front page of the newspaper. In the first segment, Melanie looks at the Gulf oil disaster [...]
Transits 101
There are two main types of transits: Aspects being made between planets at a given point in time. This is a bit like a weather report- these transits describe the factors affecting society and mundane events. For example, “Venus conjoins Mars at 29 Pisces today”, “The Moon squares Mercury at 8:15pm EST tonight”, or “tomorrow [...]
Ask the Astrologer #5 – Learning to Deal
On Thursdays I answer astrology questions I’ve received through email or the search bar. If you have a question, contact me and yours might be answered next! How can a Pisces learn not to be emotional? The old saw about the leopard not changing its spots springs to mind here. The objective is really to [...]
