August 2018: other than the eclipse…

Transits keep happening; they aren't all in the spell of the eclipses. Depending on your chart, these are some things you might be noticing now: 1. There's a forming conjunction of Sphinx, Orpheus and the transneptunian Cupido. Just by themselves (without what they'd...

Rebel Rousers

More and more, you hear people saying some version of "The world has gone crazy." The other day in the grocery store check-out line, a woman in front of me said to the clerk, "I just feel I can't trust anything anymore. Everything seems hyped and made-up." Was she...

Mars Retrograde

Aside from the intensity provided by the 3 eclipses this summer, we also have Mars going retrograde in 09 Aquarius on June 26th. It'll remain slow (relative to the Sun) until August 27th when it will turn direct in 28 Capricorn. If either of these degrees are...

20 Cancer Solar Eclipse: July 13, 2018

The Solar Eclipse next month is in 20 Cancer 42 so it is "Pluto on display." And since it has already begun to do its work, if your chart is being touched (er, make that slammed) by this eclipse, you already know it! As well as focusing on the radix and directed (or...

Murder ~ Suicide

Perhaps you wonder what kind of information you might find if you were to subscribe to the "Research" area of this site. I thought an event example might be the best way to give you a sense of that. As you may know, there are now 4 specialized Research areas. One...

The 27 Aquarius Solar Eclipse

We talked some (in the site's newsletter last month) about the lunar eclipse at the end of this month. But here, we want to bring up some ideas about the following solar eclipse in 27 Aquarius on February 15th... not that they're really separate. There's a conspiracy...

2017 Ingress Midpoints

While you would find greatly extended coverage of midpoints from the Capricorn Ingress 2017 chart in the January issue of "Tools of the Trade," here are a few ideas. If these midpoints are applying to radix or directed patterns and points in your chart, you'll want to...

Sums WITHOUT Math!

Some of you had never heard of using Sums. Some of you screamed--and loudly!-- about "more math." One of the reasons you learn to use a 90* dial is that you can do a lot of techniques WITHOUT math. You just "spin the dial." I'm going to show you a really easy way to...