Horoscope

This is a week full of all kinds of remarkable astrological activity. Much of it goes well beyond the scope of a weekly horoscope, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention them. I will try to stick as best I can to the smaller issues that are likely to have more of an immediate effect on your personal life. …And what does it tell you about the week ahead when the first of those “smaller issues” is a Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius? I always tell people that a New Moon is a great time to dedicate yourself to changing the things you want to change in your life in the following month. A Solar Eclipse is essentially a very amplified New Moon. It would be a shame to let that go by unused. Venus is having a pretty good time this week, so when you’re managing your re...

Astrology isn’t fatalistic. The planets may dictate the circumstances you are presented with, but it is always your choice how to react to those energies. So, even when it seems that the world is out of control, you are still in control of yourself. And thus it seems to me entirely appropriate that the last full calendar week of 2020 presents us with two transits that we can choose to do with as we see fit. After all, hasn’t this year been basically one big choice foisted on you against your will, after another? On Monday, Jupiter conjunct Saturn is exact in the first degree of Aquarius. You’ve almost certainly seen something or other already about how this is the Great Conjunction. Heck, even people who aren’t into astrology are making a big deal out of it. And d...

There is a particular phenomenon that happens fairly often among both astrologers and those who follow astrology closely. I warn against it all the time but I am prone to that sort of thing myself on occasion. I’m referring to looking at the transits, and getting in a panic over the potential for trouble. That’s understandable. We want to see these things coming, but it’s easy to forget that if you’re having a lousy day, that someone, somewhere is probably having a very good day — and they are experiencing the same placements in today’s Zodiac as you are. I’ve done my best with this week’s forecast to filter out any negativity. But undoubtedly some of it will slip through. Please forgive me in advance. And when you’re reading this, pl...

The last week of the year is rarely noteworthy for any big astrological events, but it always has a certain distinct feeling to it. It’s the neither-here-nor-there week. It’s an interregnum, a pause. Television news networks fill their schedules with “year in review” segments so that most of the employees can take the week off. Mostly though, it’s a chance to rest and reflect before putting that new calendar up, figuratively and literally. And oh my: after a year like 2020, we need something like that. After coming off of the effects of last week’s Mars square Pluto, on Tuesday we have a Full Moon in Cancer. A Full Moon in Cancer is, arguably, the most sensitive Full Moon of them all. I usually warn people about the unusual and sudden moods that can...