The weeks ahead offer a complex and fascinating array of Ingresses and aspects between planets. Jupiter conjunct Saturn21st December 2020;18.21 GMT at 0º46′ Aquarius A brief consideration of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, which ‘sets the tone’ for the next 20 years, until its next conjunction. For the last 200 years, these conjunctions have been in Earth

Oh no! The ‘old news’ about the zodiac being ‘all wrong’ and that there are ‘really’ 13 signs of the Zodiac was recently recycled, yet again! This periodically happens, each time raising alarm and consternation in the media. Click here for an article purporting to ‘set things straight’. Can you spot the mistakes?! There are two candidates

By Melanie Reinhart On July 25th 2020,  Mars will enter the forthcoming Retrograde ‘loop’, passing the degree of Aries where it will later turn Direct [15°13′ Aries]. The diagram below shows the full ‘loop’.(90° graph, mid-July 2020 > mid-Feb 2021, illustrates the squares of Mars to the Jupter-Saturn-Pluto trio.) This ‘loop’ is strongly relevant for the next six months! 

Sun Talk All the planets, including the Earth, revolve around the Sun, the centre of Solar System in which we live, and the source of most of its light and heat. The Earth’s relationship with the Sun defines the shape and timing of our alternating days and nights as the ‘revolution’ on our own axis means the

By Melanie Reinhart During these times of collective instability, turmoil, and insecurity, and in addition to learning ‘the wisdom of unknowing’, it makes sense to honour that which is ‘up close and personal’, knowable, and reliable. In astrological terms, this brings to mind the Moon’s cycle.  We actually live on a binary system – the

By Melanie Reinhart On March 24th, 2020, Venus reached her highest position in the sky and has begun descending. On April 9th, she entered the arc of the zodiac in which her forthcoming retrograde loop will occur, and passed the degree where she will later turn Direct again (on June 25th 2020). All the key points

By Melanie Reinhart 2020 is the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, so many celebrations of his sublime music are planned for the year ahead. Because Pluto’s cycle is about 245 years long, Beethoven had Pluto in Capricorn, but also Jupiter, Chariklo and Pholus!! Plus Uranus in Taurus! Just like right now!! What a thrill it was to

By Melanie Reinhart The first aspect Jupiter makes after entering Capricorn on December 3, 2019, is a single conjunction with centaur object Pholus. The process of Pholus by transit is neatly encapsulated by the phrase “the lid comes off.” It’s not difficult to see how, during the last few Uber-Sagittarian decades, billions of people have