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AQUARIUS: Gemini New Moon Reading

The trick is not to let the gloom of Saturn or the slipperiness of Neptune push you into cynicism or escapism. Allow them to refine your perspective, forcing you to speak more authentically, accept personal responsibility for your statements, and let go of non-essential chatter....

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PISCES: Gemini New Moon Reading

Amid all these crosscurrents, your intention for this New Moon might involve forging a healthier, clearer relationship with your emotional lineage. Where your fourth-house Gemini traits once spoke of scattered family influences or a parent’s dismissive approach to your feelings, you can now reframe that narrative with conscious compassion for your younger self. True, you might have...

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May 21-23: Softer Aspects This Week

It’s been a rough few weeks, but in amongst the pall, there’s a small reprieve: Venus in Aries trine Mars in Leo, a soft transit, exact Thursday but active all week. Also, the Sun is soft to Saturn/Neptune.

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The Week Ahead—May 17-24 Update:

It's true, there's a hive of pent-up tension, sudden jolts threaten to shake everything we considered safe. Plans unravel, firmaments quiver, the same old drama isn't playing out anymore; even our most deeply held loyalties are wobbling under scrutiny. Is this it? What is this? It's not nothing....

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“The Final Straw”: The FULL MOON at 22°13′ Scorpio, Monday, May 12, 2025, 16:57 UTC

Expect intense break-ups or breakthroughs. Dead-end dynamics are being smashed to rubble. If a partnership has been running on power imbalances, threats and fear, this is when it either falls apart spectacularly or is forced to radically change. Uranus ensures that whatever happens now has an element of shock and liberation. It’s like a jailbreak from a prison you’ve both been stuck in – messy, chaotic, but somehow, vital and liberating...

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CHIRON & ERIS: When the Wound Demands War, and War Demands Healing

Since Eris was officially inducted into our collective psyche in 2005, there’s been an undeniable stirring—a deeply instinctual, sub-subterranean murmur that somehow, somewhere, we're being played. Now, as she draws into conjunction with Chiron, she adds insult to injury, forcing hidden grievances into the open, picking at those old wounds till they're confronted....

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THE MONTH AHEAD: MAY 2025

Whistleblower events in the next week (leading up to 7 May, ☿/⚷/⚨) will ignite fierce controversy. Alternatively, increased evasion or denial of obvious complaints merely festers, creating a breeding ground for bitterness, hostility, and unrest in mid-to-late May....

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“Sowing the Seeds of Resilience” – The NEW MOON at 07°47′ TAURUS, Sunday, Apr 27, 2025, 19:32 UTC

Even in the face of unexpected shifts, it’s preferable not to rush. When the transiting Sun and conjoining Moon in Taurus merge, they generate a potent synergy of firm resolve, inviting us to be calm yet unwavering in our convictions. Together, their luminary influence on the fixed nature of earth, offers the promise of stability and quiet growth, urging us to approach new beginnings with patience and clarity, rather than reckless haste.

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“Crisis of Cool”- THE WEEK AHEAD: April 21-27

We get the third and final hit of both the Mars–Pluto opposition and the Venus–Saturn conjunction in a single week. If relationships have been in intense contention—not just for weeks but for months—this is the final reckoning. A line is drawn between war and peace, power and surrender, commitment and collapse. Whatever’s been festering beneath the surface now demands resolution. Whether it ends in confrontation, closure, or radical transformation, one thing’s certain: a revolution is in order...

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Apr 17 MERCURY/NEPTUNE/MARS

Just know that the new Neptune age WILL NOT be about drifting in loose utopian fantasies and fraudulent, fanciful notions. It augurs an age where battle lines will be drawn and you'll have to stand up for yourself, blazing bright for all that you are at FACE VALUE...

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MERCURY IN ARIES: Quicksilver

Prepare for swift retorts, mental restlessness, and a hunger for new frontiers of debate or discovery. With Mercury in Aries, we can expect both invigorating brilliance and potential fireworks if we don’t gauge our words carefully...

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Critical Degree

As Pluto retrogrades to the anaretic degree of Capricorn on September 2, the full intensity of its transformative power comes to a head.

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SUN/SATURN: Getting Serious

Unless you're someone who thrives on strict discipline, the combination of Saturn and the Sun can be a daunting experience. Put simply, Saturn on the Sun ain't much fun...

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‘Never Enough’ The JUPITER/SATURN SEMISQUARE, Jul-Sep 2022, Mar 2023

Let us revisit the Jupiter/Saturn cycle a little because each year's changing relationship between these two significant planets describes the incremental process of an emerging new reality. As humans, the kind of mutual endeavours we project into our respective societies are represented perfectly by the ebb and flow of Jupiter and Saturn's periods of growth and recession...

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JUPITER/NEPTUNE – Grandiose Dreams

2022 is the first time Neptune will meet Jupiter in Pisces since March 1856. At each conjunction, Neptune subtly introduces a possible 'better' future to Jupiter, who then spends approximately a year transiting through each of the 12 zodiac signs, sowing the seeds of dissolution to all the dreams that stood before, washing them away with the promise of a brand new hope...

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MARS/SATURN – Boot Camp

In Aquarius, the freedom-fighting Mars combines with the harsh disciplinarian force of a socially reformist Saturn, hampering activism and controlling 'social justice' waves of anger and frustrations with the distinct effort to instil new control systems. It is an indication that we are entering a whole new 2-year cycle of painstaking work...

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“For All It’s Worth…” The NEW MOON at 21°18′ TAURUS, Tuesday, May 11, 19:01 UTC

At Taurus, the sign of fixed/earth, the seed of self-awareness that germinated in Aries becomes invigorated into physical form and seeks protection and security. If you are tuned into the natural rhythms of life, you may observe the subtle, primordial pull of both your deliberate and instinctive attention shifting towards the perseverance, stabilisation, longevity, virility, fertility and sustenance of your being.

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In Pursuit of a New Hope: The Week Ahead – Feb 8-14

If ever there was a time when the world needed a new hope, some glimmer of positive inspiration that things might start to take a turn for the better, that there is light despite all of the darkness and confusion that currently enshrouds this earth, it would be now.

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VENUS/SATURN – Karmic Love

True, spiritual love has no bounds. It must be allowed to dance freely both within us and in all that is around us. Constrained love is not true. To become true it must be allowed to flower to its maturity....

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The Bitter Winds of Change: THE WEEK AHEAD – Dec 07-13

It's now December and the icy, Aquarian winds of change are already upon us. Whilst much of humanity seems prepped for the big transition, falling diligently into the Capricornian line, the sheer force of how dramatically our collective consciousness has altered over the past 12 months as Jupiter and Saturn danced with Pluto has left many of us reeling...

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THE WEEK AHEAD: The Question of Meaninglessness – Nov 16-22

After a two-month period of being routed back to the mid-degrees of Aries, Mars is now finally direct again, hedging his efforts into staging a 'come-back'. That's right, the impish god of action and punch-ons is picking up some pace again, but it won't be until the end of this year (22-23 Dec) that he finally takes charge, urging us to do the things we probably should have done a while ago. Will it be too late? With Neptune squaring the Nodes, we cannot turn back the tides of change.

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Pathways to the Reconstruction: THE WEEK AHEAD – Nov 9-15

Well, the US election came but, as it appears, is not exactly gone. As the harshly critical Saturn/Pluto conjunction now prepares to be joined by the judicious Jupiter, the level of fanaticism around the deconstruction of our systems of governance, law, religiosity and moral certitude is only increasing.

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Judgement Day – NEW MOON at 23°54′ LIBRA: Fri Oct 16, 2020

The closest Supermoon of 2020 also sees Planet Earth and all of its inhabitants experiencing the most intense time. In the late degrees of Libra, this New Moon intention is to restore (or create) harmony and balance into our highlighted affairs. However, it appears that there are distant, overwhelming forces weighing heavily against our efforts to make peace.

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Learning to Speak Up to Tyranny and Injustice: THE WEEK AHEAD – Sep 21-27

In the final days of September 2020, the Virgo Sun will reach the Equinox, inaugurating into Libra (Tuesday). This crossing marks a highly significant shift in the Solar cycle, heralding a change in the direction of the Sun's rays falling on Earth. Here, at the sacred turning point, we are called to open our eyes and ears to others as they all become equally significant.

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