by Melanie Reinhart The current eclipse season began about a week before the recent Lunar Eclipse on March 25th, so about March 18th. It will last for about a week after the Solar Eclipse on April 8th, so until about April 15th. Eclipses usually come in pairs, although occasionally there is more than one of

If we include the ‘prelude’ and ‘postlude’ the entire cycle lasts from November 25th 2023 until January 21st 2024. On December 22nd, so coinciding with the December Solstice, there will be a conjunction of Mercury and the Sun. Stay tuned around this date, as it is like a ‘seeding time’. Ideas which lead into the

The Retrograde Cycle of Venus 19 June – 7 October, 2023 The 8-year Venus cycle is elegant and inspiring. As a regular feature of its cycle, Venus retrogrades every 18 months or so. Every 8 years, the cycle refreshes as Venus returns to the same zodiac position (minus a couple of degrees). This rhythm sounds a tone

by Melanie Reinhart Pluto will move into Aquarius on March 23, 2023, backing into Capricorn twice before finally taking up residence in its new sign in November 2024. Here are the dates: During this period, Saturn will be in Pisces, the traditional ruler of which is Jupiter. According to the work of Alice Bailey, in “Esoteric

by Melanie Reinhart Jupiter and Chiron will be conjunct at 14° Aries on March 12, at 08:43 GMT. Their cycle, from one conjunction to the next, is around 16 to 19 years long, and occurs most frequently in Aries because Chiron spends longer in Aries than any other sign. While in Aries, Chiron reaches its

Since December 2020, Saturn has been passing through Aquarius but will soon transit through Pisces – from March 7, 2023 until February 14, 2026. The last time Saturn was in Pisces was 1993-96 – a very different time. Saturn is moving from fixed air to mutable water. Flying high (Aquarius), like Icarus, may land us in the sea

Jupiter enters Aries May 11, 2022 at 00.22 GMT. Mars will be conjunct Jupiter May 29, 2022 3º19′ Aries @11.30 GMT. The mandala pictured here (made with the ACS program “Astrological Mandalas”) shows the orbital relationship between Jupiter and Mars (ruler of Aries), as viewed from the Earth. The star it makes has eleven points,

Jupiter will conjunct Neptune just once, on April 12, 2022: 14.23 GMT @ 23º58′ Pisces. It remains within orb (of about 8º either side) from the New Moon in Pisces (March 2nd), through the Sun-Neptune conjunction on March 13th, and until the end of May. Thus it also encompasses the ingress of Jupiter into Aries (May

Mars and Venus make conjunctions in Capricorn and then Aquarius, on February 16 and March 6, 2022 respectively. These conjunctions occur an average of nine times per decade. This set features the involvement of Jupiter, Neptune, and the centaur object Nessus, as can be seen in the list below. All times are GMT/UT: Ven Cnj Mars