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.
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Please note that this year is a Leap year, which means that a day has been added to the calendar. so, you may notice that the beginning and end dates in some cases are a day earlier than usual. The Full Moon in Libra, that traditionally heralds Easter, always presents relationship matters in your face, whatever your sign happens to be.
Aries : 21st March – 20th April This month is high octane with people coming and going in your social circle – even bringing a little romance into your life. Mars and Venus both dance across the cosmos in your Solar 1st House – so it’s all about YOU – isn’t it always? It could all get a little intense so just be careful that you don’t say something you may regret later. On 7th May, Mercury goes backwards in your Solar 2nd House – offering you plenty of opportunities to get all your financial paperwork sorted out and up to date. Something that you may have overlooked will present itself – remember the devil is in the detail – and how much do you hate details? Just bite the bullet and get it done – you’ll feel so much better. The New Moon in Taurus is really focusing your personal values and finances – just watch that you don’t overspend on something that’s not really worth it in the long run.
Taurus: 19th April – 20th May – see below
Gemini: 20th May – 20th June – The Taurus New Moon falls in your Solar 12th House which tends to mean that you will have to stick to your regular routines and put socialising on the back burner for a few weeks. If you are working on a project that needs a lot of research, then this is the ideal combination to help you do that. Your ruling planet Mercury, the communicator will do a backwards flip as well in the same Solar House – so get your head down and study. This is not the time to make any major changes in your work situation – if you feel that life is too much with you of late, then a little escapist activity, such as writing, painting or even dancing could help you de-stress. Venus and Mars in your Solar 11th House could bring some new friends into your circle – but you may find that until the month is over you can’t really give them much time or energy.
Taurus is ruled by Venus, planet of beauty, sensuality and art. It is a fixed earth sign and therefore you can be very resistant to moving or making decisions quickly. This month, however, Venus is sitting in Aries with Mars – and when these two planets come together – well, romance could be in the air – or certainly all relationships are intensified and made much more dramatic than usual. This trend is likely to last for a couple of weeks, and so if you feel uncomfortable with all that heat – tough! It’s happening for a reason and will clear a lot of your social life out for you – things that you have been putting up with and doing about them. Now is the time to get moving.
Venus has been moving very slowly these last couple of months, and actually doesn’t pick up much speed for another month yet. As it is in your Solar 12th House, you may feel that you are still in the dark about certain things. If you are in a situation where you have to keep things under your hat for whatever reason this could pile on the frustration; but with the New Moon now in your sign, you can at least begin to map out a possible plan of action for the future.
Life does get interesting, though, as Mercury, planet of communication, begins his backward glance into Taurus on 7th May. This could bring a month of your past coming into your present and creating a new future for you. So, people whom you thought long gone or ideas that you put on the back burner could just come up trumps this months.
This month’s short piece that I wrote about the Venus/Pluto myth working its way through the skies gives us a rare glimpse of how “collective” patterns as represented by Uranus, Pluto and Neptune can trigger off major political events worldwide.
The reason that I think that this is a key time in our history is because not only do we have the above Venus/Pluto story but we also have Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron coming together for the first time since 1946/7. They were in Libra then, the sign of balance, justice and harmony. It was a period of licking our wounds and attempting to reshape a broken and beaten up world – I wonder what the relevance will be this time around?
So, if we put the energies of these three slow moving planets together – at the end of Aquarius, by the way – we can begin to see something much bigger beginning to emerge as a possible scenario. Jupiter is the great exaggerator – he magnifies and enlarges whatever other planet he touches; Neptune rules religious beliefs; and Chiron, the Cosmic Shaman, is so new to our astrological palette, that there are a number of different possible interpretations of its behaviour and effects.
Anyway, linking the inflation of Jupiter with the imagination and religion of Neptune and Chiron’s drive to heal all in his own maverick manner – we can easily see something beginning to be played out here. The conjunction this time is in humanitarian Aquarius – the sign of decency, democracy and social equality. Let’s just hope it brings a swelling of humanitarian hearts and enables the powers that be to respond in a manner that leaves us all feeling somewhat better about life.
Another awesome TRIPLE conjunction is gaining steam, like a gathering storm of divine discontent- discontent with the status quo, backed by a huge surge into a new collective visioning. Jupiter, the Wisdom-Keeper, Chiron the Quantum-Shift Shaman, and Neptune, the Invisible Dreamer are coming closer and closer together in Aquarius, exact on May 27 and again July 10. The challenge is to lift ourselves above anxiety-ridden confusion and sense of hopelessness. The high side is a quickening of spirituality in the global mindset and heart set.
The coming of this conjunction surely contributed to the Susan Boyle phenomenon, the Scottish woman who has broken internet records with the popularity of her rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” seen on ‘YouTube’.
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This conjunction is on the South Node of her chart, which means that she is naturally channelling the quality of this energy. This triple conjunction has not happened since 1945-46 – think about that year on the global stage! It was then in Libra, but before Chiron was discovered and became a more available archetypal factor.
I was wondering how the ongoing square of Venus and Pluto would manifest on the world stage – remember ANY planetary aspect involving the outer planets will have world wide implications. The aspect first began its 3 month long, extremely difficult relationship in the first week of February, 2009 and is still resonating in the skies right now.
It is the archetypal aspect of kidnap and abduction of a young innocent woman by a power that is determined to win at all costs.
It took its time for us all to be alerted to the holding of Roxana Saberi by the Iranian authorities – apparently she was able to work officially in Iran as a journalist for 6 years, until her work permit apparently ran out at the end of January 2009. Then it seems she was arrested – accused first of all of buying a bottle of wine, which is illegal in Iran; then accused of not having a press permit; and finally denounced as a US spy, put on trial, found guilty and is now in prison, where she is threatening to go on hunger strike.
For those of us who know the story of Persephone’s abduction by Pluto, Lord of the Underworld – embodied right now in the sky by Venus, the young woman, in hard aspect to Pluto ……. Pluto held Persephone below ground for months as she languished on hunger-strike until her mother, Demeter, managed to persuade Mercury, he of the slick-tongue, to speak on her daughter’s behalf, and bring her out of the darkness into the light of day.
Interestingly, Venus is now at the beginning of Aries schmoozing with Mars, the warrior – could this indicate a very tricky situation with a great deal of sabre rattling between the US and Iran. Could she be the trigger for more action than we might need in the Middle East right now? Will Hillary Clinton, in the role of Demeter manage to sweet talk the Iranians into letting this young woman go free – or not?
Well, well, well. The myths are truly alive and living in our midst, are they not?
