Dawne Kovan

Sky Watching Wisdom , Astrology

November 10, 2022
by Dawne Kovan
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Beginners’ Astrology Class with Dawne Kovan DMSAstrol

About: This Zoom course will be a live and interactive group learning, offering you an academic understanding of Astrology and a personal process of therapeutic unfolding. To facilitate this, you will work with both your own chart throughout the learning process. This will enable insight into the wide variety of how astrology can manifest so differently for us all. 

As each birth chart is unique, we will examine the meanings of the Zodiac signs and their place on your chart; the planets and the mathematical relationships between them, i.e. the Aspects. Later we will track the moving planets around your chart and see what they can offer you in terms of choices and changes for your future reference. There will also be the possibility of some full days’ Zoom study on specialist subjects ie relationships, history, and politics, for example. 

To deepen your understanding, you will receive both the tuition and written material for study between classes, plus your personal birth chart, which will be calculated from your birth date, time and place. Please provide me with your birth details before the class if possible. It is suggested that you keep a personal notebook of your progress, insights etc as you will be asked to present a written or spoken assignment on a subject of your choice at the end of Term 3. 

Confidentiality will also be a key element of during your learning process. 

Classes will be recorded and sent out to everyone the following day for reference. 

For more information please contact me on the website. Thanks …. 

Start Date: Tuesday evenings or an afternoon (to be announced) starting in January 2023 – details to follow 

About me: I have taught Astrology for over 40 years in the UK, US and Paris, to name a few – it is my mission to enable students to have the finest information that can enable them to read a birth chart with clarity and ease. Many of my students are now professional astrologers in their own right. I am also a qualified transpersonal-psychotherapist (Psychosynthesis) which fits nicely with Astrology, because it uses the symbolism etc, reflected by the planets and their movements. 

In the late 1990s I was Chair of the Association of Professional Astrologers. (APA)
I am the author of “An Introduction to Astrology” published by Todtri, NYNY; and “Secrets of Numerology” published by Element Books , UK. I have also published articles for the “Astrological Journal UK”, and also “The Mountain Astrologer”, its American equivalent. 

July 20, 2020
by Dawne Kovan
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The New Kid On The Block -18th July, 2020

Sky Watching Wisdom with  Astrologer Dawne Kovan     
Real Time Articles for  today and tomorrow
 This is the beginning of a new set of articles on Astrological matters on a more or less weekly basis. I have been off piste for the last few years for personal reasons – and now I’m back! Ready to bring you astrological insights and wisdom.
The New Kid on the Block is the comet NeoWise –  New Wisdom, we might think – visible through to the end of July and possibly part of August. It is amazing and awesome to behold – visible to all  in the Northern Hemisphere – swinging like a double tailed headlight across the night skies. It is passing through the Great Bear constellation (Ursa Major) and dropping into the arms of the Plough at its bottom edge. This is in the Northern skies so look towards Iceland- and who knows we may even see the Northern Lights.

There is a touch of Gemini energy within this comet – it has two tails, one blue the other white – so it’s a super communicator. Also at its Perihelion, meaning closest point to the Sun, it is at 14 degrees of Cancer, which is where we find the Persian Royal Star, Sirius, the Dog Star. This adds loyalty, love of family, tribe and nation to the signature of the comet. Put together, we could come up with the words “Call your Mum – she hasn’t seen you for months!!” I jest, but we are all missing our nearest and dearest during this time and hey presto! the comet flies into our consciousness with the themes of family and communication.
As this is a comet from beyond the Solar System, it will be talking to all conscious beings on the Earth – which could also be interpreted as marking the fact that we are all in this together – as the human family rather than little clans, tribes and nations. This comet is a one-off  because it has an orbit of 6,800 years,  so we can’t gain anything from its previous visits to alert us as to possible effects of its energies on our lives this time around.  We just have to gather our ideas as the symbols are offered to us. However, we have to take into account the times in which we live right now – with Covid-19, populations in lockdown, businesses collapsing, deep recessions predicted, for starters – and who knows what else.?
So when a bolt out of the blue, like the astonishing NeoWise,  arrives from a far distant galaxy, we have to wonder at its timing and what it’s trying to communicate to us. Comets used to be seen by ancient Astrologers as bringers of messages from the depths of the Universe, from beyond the known boundaries of our Solar System. So they have an otherworldly atmosphere about them. They have generally been associated with changes in climate, governments or royalty, and sometimes even plagues. However, when I look back at previous sightings of other  comets this may not hold up.  What does seem to hold up is the idea of them bringing messages.

 There are many comets out there, but not all are stable enough to hang around once they come close to our Solar System. The two most recent in this century have ended up either fading into the Sun as in 2011; or  the so-called “Comet of the Century”, ISON, which broke apart in 2013 and its pieces drifted off. Whether this newly sighted comet will stay the course is debatable, but right now it seems to be.
The comet that most people will know is Halley’s Comet which visits us every 75/6 years. In the last century it appeared in 1911 and 1986 and will be next seen in 2061. I have been reading some of the historical events around Halley’s comet and they seem to suggest that , like most comets, it has always signalled strange weather patterns  on Earth, deaths of political leaders, etc.  Also in antiquity there were regular visits by many different comets so climate change, for example, seemed to be a way of life around 300-400 BC – and I guess, the link was made that has stuck through until now.
This new kid on the block is a one-off for us because it has an orbit of 6,800 years,  so we can’t glean anything from its previous visits to alert us as to any possible effects on our lives now.  The last time it visited us was 4,500 BC which was the end of the Stone Age and the beginning of working with metal rather than stone and wood – out of which came Iron and  Bronze for longer lasting tools and weaponry.
And it won’t have escaped your notice that the link between comets and plagues may still be valid due to the time of its arrival at the beginning of the Global Lockdown. In China, comet are known as “Broom Stars” and “Swords of Wisdom” suggesting that they can sweep away the dirt and corruption, cutting away insular thinking in governments, institutions and nations. The name NeoWise actually means new wisdom. So let’s just hope, eh?
 So – the first sighting on: Friday, 27th March 2020 17:07 London, UK, gives us a chart that we can read.  We can see that babies born around the time of NeoWise will be the ones who have the opportunity to put this wisdom into effect and make a clean sweep of all the corruption in their world, for their children and grandchildren. Sadly I can’t get the chart to go onto my page right now – so sorry about that. However, Virgo rises on the Eastern horizon,  indicating a good clean sweep.  The Moon’s Nodes (eclipse points) are in Cancer/Capricorn indicating that family, closeness and support from the human collective will win over the corporate, financial structures that have held us all in wage slavery since the 18th Century.
Mercury, the ruler of the Ascendant is in Pisces with Neptune, the mystical planet. This could begin a process of scientific recognition that our minds exist on dimensions other than the purely physical. I know it’s already started, but it’s not yet in the public domain – so we could see new doors of perception opening.   This may have huge effects on our ideas of reality, separateness and the meaning of life, for example. Let’s just see….
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Coming up: As the Moon Nodes have moved backwards over the last couple of weeks from Cancer/Capricorn into Gemini/Sagittarius an article on these will follow.

May 18, 2018
by Dawne Kovan
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The Royal Wedding, 19th May 2018, and Uranus enters Taurus

 

XxxxMany clairvoyants on the internet were predicting that Meghan and Prince Harry would not actually tie the knot tomorrow, 19th May. But astrologers watched wisely as Uranus entered the first degree of Taurus 2 days ago (16th May). Uranus is the ruler of sudden reversals, disruptions and changes – and this wedding is Uranian enough without anything else getting in the way.

Or so we thought – however, we did not expect that due to ill health Meghan’s father would pull out of his paternal role of walking his daughter down the aisle. Uranus had struck – and to make it even more unusual – Prince Charles has stepped up to the plate to assume the paternal role. But only halfway, as Meghan will actually walk part of the journey to the altar alone, as an independent young woman.

This all has the signature of Uranus breathing behind the scenes – upsetting and discombobulating the more conservative ranks among the British ruling classes. And there is likely to be more disruption for the Royal Family as Uranus is sitting exactly on the Queen’s Sun and Prince Charles’ Moon – a karmic link if ever I saw one! However, it has 18 months for it to unfold as it is a slow moving planet.

The position of the planets for the wedding pick up Zodiacal degrees that echo the royals, including Princess Diana – so in terms of Cosmic Essence, she will be there, too.

Your Zodiac Signs – Sun, Moon or Ascendant

NB – The readings below can either be read from your Sun Sign – ie your birthday – or your Ascendant sign, which is calculated form your time of birth. Try also reading it from your Moon Sign, as Hindu astrologers suggest. You may even read them all together for an even broader picture of your life.

Don’t know your Moon Sign? Get your FREE Sun/Moon combination reading and discover how your emotions impact with your ambitions to create your unique life path. Just email me your birth date, time and place and I’ll email it back to you FREE!!!

Aries : 21st March – 20th April: With a sigh of relief you will find the next few years less disruptive and more steady as Uranus finally leaves your sign. Uranus is the ruler of your 11th House of future hope and objectives entering your Taurus 2nd House. This offers you the possibility to begin to look around for a more innovative approach to your value systems, the skills you need to survive and the resources to back them all up. At least you will be able to de-stress now as the pressure is finally lifting.

Taurus: 20th April – 20th May: And now it’s your turn Taurus – to feel an innovative wind blowing through the more staid aspects of your life. Time to look at a new creative way of expressing yourself with the Bringer of Fire planet to your 1st House – and people will notice this with great interest – suddenly you are the person everyone wants to invite to their parties. Uranus rules your 10th House of career so may offer you more choices to express your uniqueness at work. If it’s not appreciated then find another way to do it. You may change location, as well. Just remember to breathe and takes long walks in nature to restore your balance in the face of all this excitement!

Gemini: 21st May – 21st June: As you are permanently interested in absolutely everything, this position of Uranus in your 12th House is likely to bring some major questions about the meaning of life as you see it. And at the end of the 8 years, you are likely to have a whole new spiritual context within which to experience yourself. You may suddenly develop an interest in healing, tarot , astrology, travelling to experience new religious beliefs. Or you may find you have a strong wish to serve your local society doing something practical and meaningful – such as food banks, volunteering to help young children with special needs for example. And you’ll have to read up on it all, so serving your own mind too, as learning is all part of this position.

Cancer: 21st June – 23rd July: Due to recent career changes you are likely to meet a whole new group of friends who have very different values to your own. Cancer can get a little parochial, believing that home is best and mother’s lessons still hold true today. Well, with Uranus blazing his way through your house of new ideas, beliefs and humanitarian movements, you may find that your horizons broaden significantly over the following 8 years. It may offer you an opportunity to dig deep within your own psyche to let go of old habits that get in the way of progress and open you up to sharing yourself in a more confident and open manner. In other words, the crab’s shell can start to crack open and let the light in.

Leo: 23rd July – 23rd August: With Uranus entering your 10th House of career and public profile, you may be offered many opportunities to try on new roles over the next 8 years. Relationships could be the arena where this energy is felt as Uranus rules your 7th House of marriage and partnerships – so it’s other peoples’ changes that you have to adapt to in order to get the best out of this period. This will ultimately make you stronger and more creative as long as you remain flexible when making decisions. You look for security in your career and domestic circumstances, yet we all know that nothing remains the same. Leo is a fixed sign so can look for certainties in life. This can keep you resisting when flexibility is called for when new possibilities are offered.

Virgo: 23rd August – 23rd September: Uranus is sitting in your 9th House of long distance travel, higher education, exploration and beliefs – so guess how that’s going to work out for you? As long as you build the possibility of sudden changes into your plans for this exciting time for you, then you won’t start beating up on yourself for forgetting something important. Basically, you won’t know everything about what’s coming your way – so you can’t get it right and that’s OK – let yourself off the hook. And remember to breathe. Make sure you aren’t the one expected to do everything for the rest of your group. In other words do only as much as you are able and pace yourself. Uranus rules your 6th house of service, health and efficiency – very Virgoan qualities you embody anyway. You may take an important trip abroad to study some unconventional healing methods, for example.

Libra: 23rd September – 23rd October: With Uranus inhabiting your 8th House of depth psychology this can be a little tricky for Libra who only wants things to stay nice. However, you have 8 years to practise digging deep and discovering some amazingly powerful things about yourself, and recognising the power that your family had in creating many of your personal attitudes. Uranus rules your 5th House of fun relationships, children and creativity so will bring many of those to the fore. Expecting permanence from any of the relationships could be a stretch too far at the beginning – only time will tell – but it will be fun, no matter what. A child may surprise you with life plans that suit them but may demand that you expand your attitudes and set them free.

Scorpio: 23rd October – 22nd November: Uranus is sitting in your 7th House of relationships over the next 8 years – so plenty of opportunities are arriving to find a middle ground between your needs and theirs’. Both Taurus and Scorpio are fixed signs and thus wish to control their piece of the planet – and this life is a lesson in letting go. Especially when Uranus arrives in your opposite sign i.e. other people. Uranus rules your 4th house of the domestic situation so a house move may be on the cards, even if you’re lukewarm about it. With Uranus sitting in your kitchen you will get a very clear picture of how the place no longer suits your needs – so time to move on!

Sagittarius: 22nd November – 22nd December: Uranus in the 6th House can bring you opportunity to finally get down to learning the skills you need to write, use social media, maybe even make podcasts and posting videos online. So a good stretch for your mental capacities is coming into being for you over the next 8 years – but you are far too impulsive to sit and wait that long! It’s an interesting dynamic between your Sagittarian part and the 6th House Taurean part – the lesson being to find a balance between impulsion and staying put – to putting down roots and nurturing your ideas to fruition in the face of Sagittarius’ horror of being fenced in. So things can be exciting in the moment and dropped in the next.

Capricorn: 22nd December -20th January: This is a fun position for Uranus to find himself – as you struggle to trust the Universe to have your back. Taurus is your 5th House of pleasure, creativity, children and love affairs and Uranus spending 8 years in there will certainly give you plenty of opportunity to learn to just be in your world. Let life come to you, as it will surely do, in unexpected and exciting ways. This is a time to develop some new some empowering life skills and give up worrying about how much they cost. Trusting the Universe is a skill, too, and those who have developed it have an almost unique attitude towards faith beyond dogma. Life can offer you a great deal as long as you learn to open up to new things – which is also a skill, too.

Aquarius: 20th January – 19th February: Uranus, your ruling planet in your 4th House of security, home and roots can challenge all of those things, which you will likely embrace with some equanimity. The catch is here: do you want to get out and explore the world or do you want to stay home and remain comfortable? Uranus will bring you plenty opportunities to grind away at this problem and to come to some resolution over the following 8 years. You have such wonderful gifts in sociability, humanitarian movements, politics (with a small ‘p’) that Uranus will give you the impetus to get out into the world and explore them. You may find, however, that things start changing around you even as you rest in your favourite armchair: family suddenly appearing on your doorstep, the heating refusing to play ball, the new computer suddenly shutting down on your latest projects – it all points to a thoroughly unpredictable time. You’ll love it, as it’s closer to your true nature.

Pisces: 19th February – 20th March: Being a mystic is part of your persona – you exude kindness, compassion and tenderness. Uranus, the ruler of you 12th House of mysticism will bring plenty of different ways of expressing your inherent qualities. Sometimes Uranian energy can be a little brusque for Pisces – if you are a tender Piscean. Otherwise if you are more of the comical, clown-like Piscean then you’ll lap up the next 8 years with glee. Either way with Uranus in your 3rd House of siblings, neighbours, learning and communication, you are in for quite a large learning curve over the next 8 years. With new spirituality, religion, ideas, Universal truths etc being offered on a plate, what else can you do but taste them? I think the best thing you can do is to expect the unexpected to arrive at your doorstep – life, you, will look very different in 8 years time – if you go with the flow.

November 18, 2016
by Dawne Kovan
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More on Uranus and Pluto -it’s not over yet folks!

Such changes we have been going through over the last couple of months – and unexpected changes, too.  Whenever Astrologers hear the word “Unexpected” we automatically sniff the whiff of Uranus prowling the corridors of power in our governments.

Before I start writing the main thrust of this article, I have a confession to make and it’s this: I have been astonished over the past few months, like most people, how the results of various democratic processes have produced verdicts that no one in the know would have predicted. And this seems to me to be the Zeitgeist (wind of change) in this unsettled period. As an Astrologer I love mass movements of human energies as they shift and change, bringing new ideas and policies into birth – like fresh winds clearing away the stale air around us – that reflect the relationships between the slow moving planets that are evolving at a particular time. For example, the rare conjunction of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune of the early 1990s – which last formed in 1307 – and resulted in a massive worldwide social change through the medium of the Worldwide Web. Now we take it for granted but back then it was breathtaking – with all its attendant issues such as dating sites, pornography and Facebook friendships that are the aftermath of that time.

The massive combination the Uranus (UR) Pluto (PL) conjunction in the mid to late 60s changed societies worldwide and created a whole new way of relating to democracy, authority, rules, fashion, music etc. Since 2008 these two have been creating a long square aspect of 90 degrees giving us an opportunity to see how this challenging aspect between them is in the process of continuing for a while yet – and the world may never be the same again, which may not be doom and gloom at all.
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September 8, 2016
by Dawne Kovan
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Jupiter enters Libra 9th September, 2016

Jupiter enters Libra 9th September, 2016

Jupiter has a 12 year orbit around the Sun and Earth, so if you wish to see how his energy  worked for you through your life the last times he traversed Libra you will need to go back to 2004/5; 1992/3; 1980/81 and so on…..

When Jupiter is strong in our charts, either on the birth chart or by paying us a visit, we can begin to notice an expansive, optimistic energy in our lives. We can look to the future with greater confidence, or begin to see new horizons that seem full of promise. Our attitude towards learning, opening up to new people, also fall under Jupiter’s rays.

The ancients used the term the Greater Benefic to describe him – meaning the Greater Good Guy. Saturn on the other hand was known as the Greater Malefic – meaning the Big Bad Guy. And it is the rhythm of Jupiter’s expansion and Saturn’s contraction that can be likened to the beating of the heart or the in-breath and the out-breath. Through part of 2016 the two planets were in contention – and it’s my belief that the fear element of Saturn won over Jupiter’s optimism that took my country out of Europe. In the US, Donald Trump also fed into this fear level engendered by the SA/JU square through the canvassing for the Presidency through 2016. Continue Reading →

August 26, 2016
by Dawne Kovan
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Solar Eclipse on 1st September 2016

 

Just for those who are new to this site, I would like to welcome you and also give a brief description of what an eclipse actually is. Each month we have a new Moon when the Sun and Moon are together on the same degree of the Zodiac; we also have a Full Moon which is when the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of the Zodiac. An Eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are also on the exact same Latitude of the Ecliptic. The Moon gets between the Sun and the Earth blocking out the Sun’s light, causing a momentary shadow across the Earth – this time falling across Africa, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The Lunar Eclipse is a Full Moon during which the Earth gets between the Sun and the Moon, causing the Moon to turn red and unable to reflect the Sun’s light.

There are usually two Solar Eclipses per year and there can be up to 4 Lunar Eclipses, attendant to them, although that is rare. Eclipses occur around five and a half months apart. They move backwards around the Zodiac counter to the “normal” motion of the planets; starting each cycle at the end of a sign and ending at the beginning. Very “Alice in Wonderland”. On an individual chart they occupy opposite signs across the Zodiac for around 18 months and emphasise the meaning of the Astrological Houses involved.

Solar Eclipses return to the same degree of the Zodiac on the same day every 19 years – so it can be useful to ask yourself what you were doing in September 1997 and how did your life change after then? This can lead to an understanding of the deeper cosmic questions about your inner process of awakening to the fact that we are all made of stardust, each one of us in our own unique way. Continue Reading →

August 11, 2016
by Dawne Kovan
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The Mars/Saturn conjunction in Sagittarius

The threatened Mars/Saturn conjunction in Sagittarius is moving ever closer. If the planets are intelligences, as I believe them to be, then they have been preparing for this meeting since Mars went direct in Scorpio end of June. In other words, they know more than we do. And it has been intensifying since Mars left Scorpio and entered Sagittarius on the evening (GMT) of 2nd August.

Due to Mars moving slowly since his recent change of direction and Saturn being stationary this is a fairly long conjunction that will take us through the first week of September. This is a strong meet up between the two traditionally named “Malefics” – meaning that they have a tendency to cause havoc singly never mind in a conjunction like this one!

I have noticed that they tend to cause strikes in the UK, particularly of transport, as they fall in that particular sector on the 1801 UK chart. And right now we are mired in railway strikes and passenger traumas over the last couple of months. And as I write this it seems to be spreading over the whole country.

On the US the conjunction is bang on the Ascendant of the Independence chart, so the fight between Clinton and Trump will get ever dirtier, at least for the next few weeks. This could frighten their citizens into asking what is happening to old fashioned politics and make them feel powerless.

So how do they each function, I hear you ask? Continue Reading →

June 20, 2016
by Dawne Kovan
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Grand Crosses and Mutable signs

I hope this article helps shed some light on what has been happening over the last few months. I have included the likely effects of the Saturn/Neptune square for you to see how it can work in individual lives. 

Grand Crosses and Mutable Signs

A couple of weeks ago we were under the rays of a New Moon (Sun/Moon conjunction) in Gemini opposite Saturn in Sagittarius both being squared (90 degrees) by Jupiter in Virgo which in turn was opposite Neptune in Pisces. This is known as a Grand Cross aspect involving all four of the Mutable signs. Big stuff. Now the Sun, Moon and Venus have moved on a few days ago, Mercury will keep up the pressure for a few days longer. So, right now this is the planetary mix that is causing a disruption for all of us – particularly those who have planets in those signs on our birth charts.

The Cardinal signs – Aries/Libra and Cancer/Capricorn – have Uranus and Pluto stirring their lives up dramatically and powerfully over these years (yes, years!) actually miss this Grand Cross. All of you with these signs large in your lives will be pleased to know, as you have enough to deal with. The Fixed signs will also miss most of the fray, except to say that the Cross hits them in their security Houses. These are the 2nd/8th – the money Houses; and 5th/11th – the family and career resources. This could feel very unsettling for Taurus/Scorpio and Leo/Aquarius right now – as they are signs that like to know exactly where they’re going and what they’re doing.

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March 2, 2016
by Dawne Kovan
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Total Solar Eclipse in Pisces 9th March 2016 at 1h54 GMT

Hello Everyone – yes, I’m still here!
This latest article is about the upcoming Total Solar Eclipse in Pisces – for more information read on ……

This is a Total Eclipse, which is a powerful cosmic event for the whole world to experience. It will occur mainly through the nighttime in the US and Europe and will be visible in Australasia. The full shadow will fall across Indonesia and may touch the Northernmost tip of Australia.

For countries that are shadowed in this way the full effect of the eclipse will be felt. There will likely be some political unrest across the region – particularly as the eclipse is total, thus powerful.

An Eclipse is technically a New Moon, when the Sun and Moon come together on the same day. Obviously a New Moon occurs every month – what makes a New Moon into an eclipse is that the Moon is on the Ecliptic between the Earth and the Sun. The Ecliptic is the apparent path the Sun makes on its journey around the Earth. Usually the Moon is either well below or above the Ecliptic so it doesn’t interfere with the Sun’s light heading our way.

Eclipses are generally in each Zodiac axis – in this case, Pisces/Virgo – for about 18 months and they recur about every 6 months, give or take a few days. They go backwards through the Zodiac, so will then go back into Leo/Aquarius in August 2017 for another 18 months.
Pisces/Virgo is the axis of mysticism, spirituality and service to humanity. The axis of Love in Action, Service through Loving, Giving for Love’s Sake

Your Zodiac Signs – Sun, Moon or Ascendant  

So what does it mean for me? I hear you ask. Good question -please read on! Continue Reading →

August 11, 2015
by Dawne Kovan
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Jupiter Square Saturn – now and through part of 2016

We are experiencing the first square of Jupiter to Saturn at 90 degrees to each other right now (August 2015) from late Leo to late Scorpio. This is a quarter of the Zodiac. As these signs are both fixed signs it could explain the sensation of being stuck that many of us have been feeling over the last few weeks.

I say the first as they will continue to square each other through the first half of 2016. This would be fairly straightforward were it not for the entry of Neptune into the equation.

I will break this down thus:

a)   Jupiter enters Virgo 11th August, 2015 and moves through most of Virgo at a pretty smart canter to  23 degrees at which point he then turns back (Rx) on 6th January 2016 to 13 degrees of Virgo in April and sits there until the end of May.
b)   Saturn enters Sagittarius on the 18th October 2015 and reprises all the degrees that he first crossed and recrossed over the first 5 degrees of SAG from end of December 2014 through to 17th June 2015. Once in Sagittarius he strolls along to 16 degrees and stations Rx in March 2016.
c)   And it is back and forth on 16 – 13 VI/SAG that they begin a long 3 month square.

Meanwhile, Neptune (NE) has been sitting quietly and slowly moving back and forth, much like the tides of the oceans he rules, in early Pisces. This means that a loose T-square will build up with first of all Jupiter (JU) opposite NE from mid-to end September 2015. Continue Reading →

June 18, 2015
by Dawne Kovan
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Four Months of Venus in Leo

This is me back from my Mindfulness Teacher Training weekend at the Buddhist Centre at Samye Ling here in Scotland. While I was preparing to leave for my trip Mercury went direct – thank heavens, otherwise I would have had to repeat the whole process again! So, having caught up with myself back to “normal” life, I am sending you my latest article.

1) This article will give a brief overview of both Leo and Venus – their meanings as sign and planet then I will look at the two operating together.

2) Then we will look at the whole process of the retrograde period of Venus. Slightly technical, but it can’t be helped if you want to understand how the process works.

3) I will follow this with Venus in Leo through the Signs of the Zodiac.

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Venus is the planet of love, right? Well yes, and a whole lot more. Through the ancient cultures she was known as Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte and the Virgin Mary. The symbol for Venus is the universal symbol for the feminine, so she is associated with young women, beauty, peace and harmony, as well as love. She rules both Taurus and Libra; the 2nd house of personal values, earned money, security; and the 7th House of relationships/marriage and open enemies (did the ancients know a thing or two about that one, we have to ask?) She is exalted in Pisces – the painting by Botticelli of Venus rising from the sea describes this.

Wherever your Venus is placed on your chart is where you will seek those ideals described
above. Her qualities will be modified by any planet that engages with her for good or for stress – while she will modify that same planet with her qualities.

To the Ancients, Venus was the Goddess of Love and the sensual arts. She is associated with jewellery, clothes, and cosmetics. She oversees the bargains struck between lovers and ensures that harmony is achieved. She represents the function within us that seeks to inter-relate and to develop co-dependency with another.

In her Taurus mode she appreciates the beauty of the natural world. In her Libra mode, Venus seeks to maintain fair play and the balance of opposites. Architects and designers who have an eye for symmetry will often have a prominent Venus. Continue Reading →

May 13, 2015
by Dawne Kovan
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Visual Astrology & Mercury Retrograde 

Visual Astrology

As I write this article (12th May, 2015) Mars has just entered Gemini and is opposite Saturn in Sagittarius. Sun Aries natives will likely be feeling as if they are swimming in treacle right now – no enthusiasm or get up and go. Thanks to Saturn it all got up and went! Please remember that the planets are NEVER out to get us, so this week of Saturn opposite your Mars serves the purpose of making you take time, pause for breath and consider before leaping in, to good effect, for a better outcome. There is always a reason why the Universe does what it does to us – and it’s always a good one. Just to note that “consider” means “con” = with and “sider” = the stars – so to consider means to act with the stars.

If you are living in the Northern hemisphere and have clear skies (not here in Scotland – grrr!!) you will be able to see Venus, Mars and Jupiter in the sky just after the Sun has set. Venus is the brightest as she’s closest to the Sun, then Mars with a pink tinge and finally Jupiter. 

And if you are living in the Southern Hemisphere then you will see the same planets but just before sunrise. It’s still an amazing thing to behold.

And please note that the difference between a star and a planet is that stars twinkle and planets don’t – they just shine steady like lights in the sky.

These are the raw materials that the Ancients used to develop the astrology that we work with today.


Just so that you know, I am taking the whole of the Mercury Rx period (see dates above) away from my article writing as I intend to spend it putting all my notes together in preparation for the launch of my own online teaching webpage. I will announce it when it’s done – if it’s something that might be of interest to you then please register your interest on my comments page or Facebook.

So back to Mercury:

For new readers – just to say that planets never actually change direction – they all zoom around the Sun in the same direction. However, the orbit of each planet is overtaken by our Earth’s orbit on a regular basis – in Mercury’s case, every 4 months – so it appears to move backwards. If you imagine slow trains and fast trains, when your train overtakes a slower train, the other train appears to go backwards. You really get strength the illusion of the effect if you’re sitting on the slower train. And so it is on earth as we whip ahead and sending Mercury backwards.

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May 6, 2015
by Dawne Kovan
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A new Royal baby – Princess Charlotte Elisabeth Diana 

Princess Charlotte Elisabeth Diana – 4th in line to the UK throne born  2/5/2015 at 8h34 BST London, UK

We have a new a Royal baby- Princess Charlotte Elisabeth Diana Wales, 4th in line to the throne of Great Britain.  Congratulations to her parents and her wee brother.

When I look at the birth chart of a new born I am aware that it is a chart for life. So her chart is like the acorn that contains ALL her life’s development in seed form. I also have to acknowledge the ground from which she springs ie the Royal Family, the wealthiest families in Great Britain; so she is a child of privilege, “blue” blood, who will want for nothing, except perhaps privacy and an intimate relationship with her mother. The children of such families are raised largely by a group of nannies who may or may not suit the needs of each particular child in their care, then sent off to boarding school at a tender age, to relieve their parents who lead busy and important lives of their own.

Princess Charlotte really is a chip off the family block. She has Cancer Rising which is her father’s Sun and Moon Sign (he was born on a Total Solar Eclipse at the first degrees of Cancer) and her mother’s Moon sign (she was born on a Lunar Eclipse) – it was also the Sun sign of Princess Diana, her grandmother. The Princess’ older brother, Prince George also has his Sun in Cancer (just – one minute later and it would have been in Leo) and his Moon in Capricorn, another Full Moon  reversing his mother’s Full Moon position – although, thankfully perhaps, not an Eclipse. In fact, the chart for the UK has a Full Moon across Cancer/Capricorn as well.

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April 22, 2015
by Dawne Kovan
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Fixed Stars and the Planets this week


Fixed Stars are the bright lights that show the patterns of the constellations. They move slowly – 78 degrees per 100 years. and they are extremely poserful when they are picked up by a planet or angle of a natal chart. Just a note to explain the difference between the Zodiac and the constellations before moving on: the Zodiac is also called the Ecliptic and is created by the Sun’s apparent path around the Earth, divided into 12 signs; the Constellations are the clusters of Fixed stars out beyond the Zodiac.  

I have been thinking long and hard about the latest Total Solar Eclipse a month ago with its accompanying Lunar Eclipse across Aries/Libra. As it happened the Solar Eclipse was a “rogue”as it had had no predecessor for many generations, so no repeat effects.  The Lunar one did have the 19 year repeat – so repeating back through the ages: 1996/1977/58 etc. And I noticed how many of my readers responded to that 19 year repeat – indicating that the Lunar Eclipse has a similar powerful effect on human life as a Solar Eclipse, maybe even more so. 

When I was researching the meaning of this one off Solar Eclipse at 29 Pisces, I discovered that it was sitting in front of a Fixed Star named Scheat, way out in the constellation of Pegasus. In other words, the eclipsed Sun was channelling the energy of  Scheat through its shadow down onto earth. Scheat is traditionally described as being associated with mass deaths by drowning – and what are we witnessing right now in the Mediterranean Sea? Exactly that.

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April 15, 2015
by Dawne Kovan
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Aries New Moon and Mercury Meets Up With Mars

 

First of all there is a New Moon Saturday evening which will clear the air from the last Lunar and Solar Eclipses of the past month. The atmosphere should be lighter and more buoyant than of late, so we can breathe again! We always have to wait for the first New Moon after any Eclipse events to be able to see clearly exactly what was going on – and to be honest, that can take a few months to really sift through some of the impact in our lives.

Then we have the conjunction of Mercury and Mars coming up  next week which will add spice to the whole growth process that we are here on Earth to experience. These two faster moving planets are definitely “content” energies that bring events that work socially rather than the slow moving “Intent” energies of the heavier planetary bodies such as the ongoing Uranus/Pluto square. The content represents our everyday lives with all its comings and going. The “Intent” level of experience represents the Intention of the Universe that works through our lives collectively, so is more impactful and profound.

Mercury is a delightful little planet that packs a punch – it is known as the “most” planet, as it is the smallest, the fastest and the closest to the Sun. It has a cycle of about a year and a week. During this time it will change direction every 4 months for 3 weeks each time, causing havoc worldwide in all the areas of human life that he is associated with – such as communication, the market place, health and young children. He rules both Gemini and Virgo. Continue Reading →