retrograde

You know the drill

One week from yesterday Mercury goes retrograde, this time for a shorter period than normal; only twenty days. That’s a bit of heartening news! The planet closest to the Sun goes direct again on November 29, 2025. Get your important papers signed, sealed and delivered, get your appointments checked and verified, and study all transportation […]

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Not just an eclipse

Hello, ducks! Not to take anything away from the total solar eclipse April 8 this year, but we have other astrological events coming as well. And I’ll be taking one of these topics per column and expounding … er, explaining more about its effects on your Sun Sign and occurrences in general. You’ll recall Pluto

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Dark Ages

Sometimes an ordinary term for an era is indicative of one or more truths. I learned last week that in the month of May, 1110 AD, classified as part of the Dark Ages, no Moon shone at night. Can you imagine the consternation of the peasants and indeed of the landed lords and other nobility

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Retrograde Mercury

Hello, readers; you’ll recall I’d promised to write a guest blog when planetary aspects warranted it, and now we’re staring down the barrel of Mercury Retrograde from January 30 to February 21, 2021. But it doesn’t have to be a smoking gun. Remember, there are ways to deal with any astrological transit. Your first way

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