Big Sky AstroBlog

Sabian Symbols speak in whispers…

April — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:47:15 +0000

… until you learn to listen for them, and then it’s more like a shout. We’ve were visited last week by Australian astrologer Lynda Hill, the Queen of Sabian Symbols. For the uninitiated, Sabian Symbols are a set of 360 word pictures - one for each degree of the zodiac - given to astrologer Marc Edmund [...]

Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn: Live and Learn

April — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:30:30 +0000

This Full Moon ushers in a new, two-year-long cycle of eclipses in the signs of Cancer and Capricorn. Welcome to a critical phase of redefining safety and security and of figuring out how to provide for yourself and your loved ones. Our household is okay at the moment, but we do live in California, a state that is teetering on the precipice of bankruptcy. Many of our friends are unemployed, and others with government jobs have had their hours cut through furlough programs. It's a little hard to see where it will end up, but I'm pretty sure it's not going to be pretty.

We have a dream again

April — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:00:37 +0000

Happy birthday to the land of my birth, and a love song to you from David Wilcox: It’s who we’ve always been The land of dreams and visionaries The frontier starts again Make our way with what we carry The journey is from here, hope or fear For our children’s children We are the pioneers We have a dream [...]

New Moon in Cancer: Cleaning House

April — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:16:04 +0000

In honor of yesterday’s New Moon in Cancer (12:35 p.m. PDT), I’ve posted a new essay: Cleaning House When you decide at this New Moon to spend quality time with your heart (and with the Sun and Moon opposed Pluto, you probably will)… it will be the unpleasant stockpile of emotional refuse that you feel compelled to [...]

Jupiter and Neptune reunion

April — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:37:40 +0000

I discovered his music in 1982. I was working for a local newspaper group in Orange County, and one day on my lunch hour I wandered into a record store (remember those?) and this delicious pop music was playing. I immediately asked the clerk what it was, bought the album, and fell deeply in love. [...]

Only in it for the money

April — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:22:59 +0000

Most professional astrologers have run across people who are not just skeptical of astrology, but who have a real axe to grind against astrologers. Apparently, we are money-hungry grifters who amass huge piles of dough from the gullible saps who seek our useless guidance. Yep, they’re on to us - we’re only in it for the [...]

Pucker up - Lemmys!

April — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:16:59 +0000

When my friend, astrologer Fern Feto Spring (calm, wise, and soulful voice of Wisestars.net) told me she’d nominated me for a Lemmy award, I didn’t know what the heck she was talking about. Then my stats log turned up a nomination from the awesome Joyce Mason (I had no idea she even knew I existed), [...]

Roadblocks and shallow water: Sun/Saturn and the Full Moon

April — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:30:03 +0000

The chart for Sunday's Full Moon in Sagittarius features a tight t-square between the Sun, Moon, and Saturn, so this morning has a bit more to demonstrate, I think, than the aggravations of a single morning. The Full Moon calls for reflection, and I'm reflecting on this: Where am I pushing too hard for the wrong things or at the wrong time? When is it necessary to push through blockages, and when is it wiser to heed them and wait for an easier moment? And, with the Sun and Moon in the communicative signs Gemini and Sagittarius, when is it time to speak, and when is it better to listen? ...

Sometimes, you CAN go home again

April — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:52:47 +0000

It was by no means the most important thing that happened today in the world - a day when Pres. Obama announced his first nominee to the Supreme Court, a day when the State of California upheld Proposition 8 - or even in my community (a horrible accident about a mile from our house snarled [...]

New Moon in Gemini: Brothers and Sisters

April — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:00:43 +0000

Few people in our lives get the opportunity to influence us when we are so malleable as in childhood, when brothers and sisters leave their handprints on us as they might in wet cement. But the truth is that while the emotional connection may be less compelling, we share similar bonds with people who share our neighborhoods, our communities, our alma mater, our mother tongue, the country of our birth. Ask any expatriate about the thrill of hearing his native accent or language spoken while in a foreign land. And the next time you’re at a party with a lot of people your age, introduce a tag line from a commercial or television show that was popular when you were in grade school. Suddenly, you’ll find that you’re among siblings who understand something about your history and who speak your language....