Full Moon in Aries: Brave Hearts
In high school, I was a complete and utter coward. Overweight, brainy, too sensitive for my own good, I was a scared and vulnerable creature. Naturally, bullies lined up to take their shots. Physical...
View ArticleNew Moon in Aries: Grapes of Wrath
by April Elliott Kent One day, driving back from an otherwise uneventful trip to Trader Joe’s, I became so angry at a fellow motorist that I screamed – and it felt so good that I screamed some more. I...
View ArticleFull Moon in Aries: The Sweet Spot
You know that movie, ‘An Unmarried Woman’? Well – I didn’t get it. I mean, I would’ve been Mrs. Alan Bates so fast that guy wouldn’t have known what hit him!” ~ Judy Benjamin, Private Benjamin Great...
View ArticleNew Moon in Aries: Hair of the Dog
© Morpheusm | Dreamstime.com A note, all too necessary in this litigious age: This article uses my personal experience to illustrate astrological ideas. I’m not a doctor (and I don’t play one on TV)....
View ArticleThe May 25 Lunar Eclipse and Relationships
Certainly, eclipses falling in your 7th house or in aspect to natal Venus or your 7th house ruler are signs that your relationship world is likely to be rocked by change. But lunar eclipses, by virtue...
View ArticleLunar Eclipse in Aries: We Lift Him Up
I was chatting recently with a friend who told me that she has been accused of being “too independent.” As I’m a bit that way inclined myself, we laughed together and tried to wrap our minds around the...
View ArticleThe signs of the zodiac
Signs of the Zodiac The signs of the zodiac, usually simply referred to as signs, are by far the most recognizable symbols of astrology. They represent the characteristics of 12 archetypal...
View ArticleSpring: Faces of Mars
by April Elliott Kent I’ve grown lazy in the garden, and everything would be dead if it weren’t for the much-needed rainfall that ended our winter drought last week. Now the lawn, which we let turn...
View ArticleNew Moon in Aries: The Taming
There’s more than a hint of madness in this New Moon in Aries, with the Sun and Moon conjoined Uranus and square both Jupiter and Pluto. Everyone seems busy and overwhelmed to the point of exhaustion....
View ArticleAries Lunar Eclipse: Rights, Grievances, and Relating
At this Lunar Eclipse in Aries, the call of the Sun and Venus conjoined in Libra is to lay down our arms and pull together. But the Moon and Uranus conjoined in Aries are determined to fight tooth and...
View ArticleVenus and Mars in Aries: Wild horses
Transiting Venus and Mars entered Aries last week, and over the past couple of days they made trines to Saturn in Sagittarius. Normally a deliberate and focused worker (with no Aries planets in my...
View ArticleFull Moon in Aries: Brave Hearts
In high school, I was a complete and utter coward. Overweight, brainy, too sensitive for my own good, I was a scared and vulnerable creature. Naturally, bullies lined up to take their shots. Physical...
View ArticleNew Moon in Aries: Sharks
image by YokoIshioka, Deviant Art In the film “Up in the Air,” George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, whose career takes him all over the country to fire employees for companies that are downsizing. Ryan...
View ArticleAries Lunar Eclipse: The White Knight
One morning a few days before the Aries Lunar Eclipse, on deadline and procrastinating with some internet busywork, I ran across something that left me furious. Yes—in the words of the old cartoon...
View ArticleAries New Moon: The One We Feed
An old Cherokee Indian was speaking to his grandson: “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil—he is anger, envy, sorrow,...
View ArticleAries Full Moon: Grapes of Wrath
One day, driving back from an otherwise uneventful trip to Trader Joe’s, I became so angry at a fellow motorist that I screamed – and it felt so good that I screamed some more. I screamed so...
View ArticleAries New Moon: The Beast in Me
I’ve always been reasonably good at getting along with people—except when it comes to anything involving creative expression or “play.” For instance, do not engage me in games of any kind; I’m a poor...
View ArticleAries Full Moon: Keep Fighting
The first message in my Facebook feed this morning was from my nephew, marking himself safe in “The Violent Incident in Las Vegas”. His notification linked to a news story about the latest mass...
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