ASTROLOGY OF NOW

MERCURY slows to retrograde, and the YOD formed to NEPTUNE/PLUTO reveals the acute degree to which our mental capacity to make out WTF is going on is indeed under considerable siege. For the next few days, an industrial-sized dosage of lies and manipulation will seem hell-bent on messing with our senses...

SUN enters Leo, and we jump out of the frying pan and into the fire...

Every Full Moon beckons the end of something. Under this unyielding second serve, the time has come to confront harsh truths and fortify your sanctuary amidst the chaos.

Empowering Horoscopes for the Capricorn Full Moon: Sunday, July 21, 10:19 UTC

Tune in to the newest episode of Cosmic Bus, where we look at the natal charts of Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks, the alignments that led to the moment of crisis, and the implications for the upcoming U.S. election. We also discuss Sunday's Hades Full Moon in Capricorn and how we can use the symbolism of the stars to navigate the transformative times ahead.

We must transcend the chaos, acknowledging that true justice requires dismantling institutional divisions...

Every once in a while, intensely strong feelings of love and hate get the better of us, making us lose control of where we invest our affection and where we withhold it....

Whether you call it a freak "incident" or "accident," the universe will find a way to unleash your banked-up indignation, sending you charging off on your own private revolution...

[image: Evgeniy Monahov] The past few days have been highly triggering, marked by Venus squaring …

Only in our aloneness do we find both freedom and safety to truly be ourselves.

It's always comforting to know we can count on the stars to give us the big picture heads up. Amidst the chaos and uncertainty, they provide a constant, guiding presence... join us on Cosmic Bus.

Now NEPTUNE is retrograde at 29°56′. This critical degree marks the height of illusion, smokescreens, …

From here on till November, expect an intense period of introspection and recalibration of your "reality complex"...

As Saturn retrogrades this fantastical sign, it drags us through the muck of our unresolved dreams and illusions, forcing us to confront and reshape the boundaries of fantasies and the limits of our delusions....

As Neptune stations to retrograde, it’s like being strung out on a highwire of vulnerability. This is your time to confront those existential dilemmas head-on...

Every Full Moon beckons the end of something. Under this one, prepare to confront harsh truths and fortify your sanctuary amidst the chaos.

SATURN/NEPTUNE 'realisations' can be a total downer...

After 40 days in his fiery Aries domicile, MARS now enters Taurus, and it's a slow burn till July 20 when our celestial warlord saunters into Gemini...

SUN/VENUS now in Gemini, squaring SATURN in Pisces, and you might hear all kinds of tall tales and true of karmic woes, both past and present...

This New Moon forces us to bring radical open-mindedness into our systems of rigorous scrutiny, separating profound truths from widespread nonsense, examining both old and new ideas.

[image: Michele DeCampo]  Venus Cazimi in Gemini—a powerful moment, where the energies of love, beauty, …

Learn instead to befriend the darkness, make your peace with what's about to go down, and slowly learn to move through it, trying to find the light...

JUNE 2024 brings to light our greatest fears and misconceptions, and though it's best not …

I don't wanna. I don't think so.

Remember those times you sucked it up, tamped it down, let them trample all over you...

Jupiter, king of all gods, wooshes into breezy Gemini, ushering in a dynamic period of free-flowing intellectual exploration, opening the doors to a veritable glut of information...

The challenge here is recognising that access to all the knowledge in the world is futile if it does not contribute to our wisdom and understanding.

As the Sun shifts into Gemini, your radar for the hidden, the unspoken, and the obscure is getting sharper than ever....

Let's be real here: relationships, like war, can be damned brutal if one aims to stay true to their character...

there is still some residual tension, tremors and the obligatory Full-Moon conflict, but then, whilst we may have been granted a jail pass for the weekend, we're not out of the woods yet...

SUN now illuminating this ♃/♅ point, explaining why so much about what's been flipping our lid lately is now coming to light...

This celestial rendezvous heralds a period where the choice between freedom and security becomes not just a philosophical question or ideal but a lived reality....

Here's where it gets a little dangerous. The energies, whether personal or non, are raw and edgy and ready to ignite in less than a heartbeat...

Under a Taurus New Moon, we learn that there are no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have chosen to become whole.

Over the next 5-6 months, as Pluto retrogrades through the early degrees of Aquarius, poised to dip back into the critical degree of Capricorn in September, profound transformations are underway....

Less than a week before the Taurus New Moon and we're all looking to find some steady, life-nurturing earth to ground us...

Why do we sometimes show such cruelty to those we care about the most?

Since Mars entering Aries ignites immediate action, catalysing a series of decisive, micro-aggressive moves until matters are fully lit up—watch those tempers....

Some transits are an utter energy vacuum. You feel dissatisfied, inadequate, hopelessly ineffectual and cut off from life, and though you may try to mask the underlying doubt beneath a façade of normalcy, you sure feel drained...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ~Antonio Gramsci

It’s worth noting that the few days around when Mercury stations (either to go retrograde or direct) could be particularly chaotic or intense- a period we bigshot astrologer types refer to as the “storm phase.”

Something critical is tinkering inside the human heart. We are learning to chill, and we get the sense that something profound is happening with our humanness.

Exploring the planetary cycle which seeks liberation but often perpetuates a cycle of oppression, tyranny and the urge for freedom (again).

Leading up to the most tempestuous Full Moon in Scorpio, we have a number of developments that can not only be emotionally triggering, old wounds being aggravated and the epochal JUPITER/URANUS great shift for freedom and space, everything has the potential to change rather rapidly and not in a small way, leading us into a whole new place....

Eclipse over. Job done. Yeah, now deal with the ick of this existential loneliness...

Ok, almost time for the total solar eclipse, it's important to know what you're in for, including some of the basic celestial mechanics involved, atmospheric phenomena, subtle environmental changes, and some of the profound psychological effects this event might have on you, and all those around you...

The most complex eclipse in this Aries series, it demands we step up to work with its powerful energies with wisdom and insight...

Join us for the "Great American Eclipse" epic special at our exclusive eclipse-viewing cosmic bus stop!

the VENUS/NEPTUNE dreams a little dream of ideal love, where fantasies can cloud judgment, leading to some way out fanciful notions and utterly naive choices...

the angst that's built up over the past few weeks accumulates in this spirited place, bringing mental pressure to bursting-point...

In the precarious space between eclipses, we find ourselves suspended in a strange liminal zone, a threshold between all that was and all that could be...

The MERCURY/ERIS conjunction at 24º Aries symbolises the indomitable spirit of the agitator, a pioneering figure whose voice, once suppressed, resurfaces with an interminable fervour...

Amidst life's interminable to and fros, its swings and roundabouts, we once felt steadfast and balanced. Now, as this Libra shadow looms, we find ourselves vacillating, overcome by uncertainty...

On today's Cosmic Bus stop we look at the Aries Ingress chart, a highly portentous glimpse at the year ahead. It is a very turbulent time ahead, I'm afraid, which shows just how close to the end of our tether we all are...

You are not merely a planet in someone else's horoscope; you are learning to remember that you are your own Sun, the protagonist of your own show...

See, that's the thing with you—they never quite really got you, did they? Maybe your heart was broken, several times, pieces scattered and, though pieced back together, never again fitting quite the same...

Feelings of insecurity, sadness, fear, loneliness, and shame yet still, an insatiable longing to be loved, cherished and adored. VENUS just entered Pisces, from whence she will preside over the South Node Libra Lunar Eclipse in a couple of weeks...

"...alas, but that is what we are. Does the space we dissolve into then taste of us?" ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Second Elegy

And so, under the dark moon of Pisces, as we stand on the ultimate cusp of renewal, let us embrace the mysteries, the fleeting moments of connection, the eternal dance of the cosmos, as we, like the ancients, reach out with grace and humility, towards the infinite, our hearts open to the wisdom of the stars, ready to begin anew...

The SATURN/NEPTUNE on Sunday's PISCES NEW MOON signifies a pall over the collective, a sign that those in control have all but lost their grip due to a mix of economic pressures and a perceived disconnect with public sentiment...

With VENUS just yesterday, and then with next week, MARS squaring URANUS, it's time to be ultra-mindful of 'dealbreakers' that could very well turn out to be heartbreakers. Gottman's "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" metaphorically represents four destructive behaviours that, when they show up in any relationship can signal trouble...

When love takes hold, it's like a seductive dance with the devil...

...in Pisces' depths, your thoughts have the power to manifest as your most steadfast allies or your most insidiously worrisome foes...

Under this transit, it doesn't matter how lofty the ideals and grandiose your reasoning. Actions speak, and typically, they're ethically compromised and radically transfigured from the true "collective"...

There’s a lot happening, and you’re invited to play, that is, if you’re not one who, out of petrifying fear, is opting to quiver under your covers for what might happen next...

What we are experiencing right now, at 00º Pluto in Aquarius, is rough. This is the first wave of extreme radicalisation, a social fracturing of unparalleled historic proportions....

In today's bus ride, I discuss the current forces, and why we are preparing for the most serious part of our journey. Sometimes things are so. It cannot always be easy, and we have kidded ourselves for long enough...

So, over the rainbow, MARS ENTERS AQUARIUS, imbuing us with a fiercely independent streak and the spirit to exert considerable force in defending our uniquely freaky chic...

If the much heralded Age of Aquarius hasn't fully dawned, rest assured, dear friends, the astrology of this moment fanfares its official curtain-raiser.

...as a result of ignorance, each day unfurls a bewildering new spectacle, a grand diversion, trying to distract our gaze from the colossal elephant in the room...

Under this Scorpio quarter moon, it's probably wise to reserve your most radical views on Scorpio matters—sexuality, the occult, or death—for more intimate settings rather than propagate them to the wider audience....

We won't see Uranus enter Gemini until July 2025 - the first cracklings of a new paradigm consciousness, until then, this live wire will help Pluto do the archaic empire-demolishing business, progressively electrifying the whole earth and everything on it...

Ok, so if you can imagine where you were around May 12 of last year, minus the level of dumbness about what was about to happen in your life till now- that's where we're at again today, with Uranus just stationed direct at that exact same degree (19°05')...

URANUS turns direct again, and if you've been touched by this retrograde period, which began at the end of August last year (at 23º04' Taurus), you've likely undergone a profound period of internal upheaval and jolting moments of introspection...

So it's not just that the Full Moon has us all up in a tizzy over what's right and wrong with everything and everybody, the Mercury/Mars conjunction, now visible in the predawn skies, opens up all kinds of wounds, especially as it squares off with the Aries North Node and Chiron...

How can a Full Moon feel so empty, you ask?

Facing the light and dark, the best and worst, the most empowering and most toxic aspects in the spectrum of human endeavour...

Looking towards Capricorn, there's a still hubbub of hobnobbing up top. Seems we're still struggling for some sense of legitimacy and to maintain the illusion of social relevance, despite PLUTO's near-full unravelling of the whole hierarchy of patriarchy malarkey....

Dear Ma, By the time you read this, Pluto will have ingressed Aquarius and I would be at least 100TBps from 'home'...

Things pick up an extraordinary pace, with sudden twists and turns so extreme that it absolutely trashes the gearbox with which this 3D thing actually came equipped...