Dawne Kovan

Sky Watching Wisdom , Astrology

June 12, 2014
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Uranus and Pluto meddling again! Your Zodiac Signs and Neptune

I was speaking to my dear friend and colleague Prudence Jones, this morning and she mentioned that when Uranus went over the 4th House (IC) of the UK chart, the bottom fell out of the housing market.

In natal astrology the IC is associated with the family we spring from; the place where we belong and feel familiar. In political astrology it shows the land, housing developments, farming and mining. Here in the UK the aim of every young couple is to get on the “Housing Ladder” in order to move up the ladder by buying bigger and better homes over the years for themselves and their family. This comes from the idea that owning one’s own home is the most important goal of any sane human being. “An Englishman’s home is his castle” goes the mantra. This means that most people in the UK see living in rented accommodation as some kind of failure, even if the greatest portion of their earnings goes on their mortgage payments, leaving little to have fun with. No wonder they’re stressed out!

When Uranus crossed the IC in 1990/91 the bottom fell out of the UK housing market – many bargains were to be made as many people had bought their properties in the 1980s with mortgages that created negative equity for them; thus rendering them effectively bankrupt as they couldn’t sell their properties and realise a profit from them.

Transit Uranus is now making a challenging square to that position and at present our news is full of “housing issues” i.e. too expensive, not enough houses, homelessness, etc. This will run and run as Transit Pluto is now in on the act. Continue Reading →

June 10, 2014
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God’s Knitting Part Three

I believe that the web of God’s Knitting connects to us through our energy centres or Chakras and is a dynamic of vibrating colours and sparkles. My friend Sir Jens Jerndal commented last week on my first article that mystics have reported seeing this netting all around them, as have some people on hallucinogenic drugs.

I believe that the planets find their homes in our bodies through our energy centres, because we and the planets are all made of the same star stuff. Therefore Saturn will settle in the 1st Chakra, Jupiter the 2nd and so on through the planets to the Sun at the crown chakra. For further information on the planets and chakras, please see last week’s audio recording where I discuss this in some depth. You will find it at the bottom of the page of God’s Knitting Part Two.

We are each a unique reflection of this energy net, so much so that even a child born at the same time and place as you will tend to favour certain planetary energies differently to you, because of you will each have your own reasons for being here on Earth. We each find the family, the value systems and education that will give us just the upbringing that we need for our spiritual development this time around. There are no accidents in the Universe. Continue Reading →

June 5, 2014
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Mercury retrograde again and some World News

Mercury retrograde again from 7th June to 1st July 2014

Many people have commented that it seems as if Mercury were retrograde already. This is because of the “shadow” effect of Mercury crossing 24 degrees of Gemini on 21st May, which is the point where he will station before finally going direct on 1st July. The “shadow” period seems to resonate to the change energy of Mercury’s motion even as he is still actually going ahead to 3 degrees of Cancer before he changes direction on Saturday.

This causes a lot of changeable activity. I always groan when I hear deals being stuck during the intense time of the actual retrograde period, as I know that things will not go according to plan, minds will be changed and things will seem to revert to the way they were before. Especially in the health and telecoms businesses, plus upheaval in the world of finances, business agreements, reneging of deals etc.

Builders in your house, especially in the work and communication areas, will tend to forget to come or have 3 jobs on at the same time, which may already be par for the course with them anyway. However it goes, expect disruption and the necessity for them to return a few times to tweak their work to your satisfaction. Phone messages can go astray, diary dates overlooked or confused – and things as simple as being in two minds about what you want to achieve during this time. Continue Reading →

June 3, 2014
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God’s knitting Part 2 and a Podcast

Who knew that there would be another episode of this article? I am as surprised as you are.

My dear friend, the Reverend Bill Darlison, Unitarian Minister, sent me this comment on the last article He said “It reminded me of these inspiring and consoling words from Psalm 39:

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.”

He finished by saying: “It’s all a far cry from the ‘life is pointless’ philosophy which seems to dominate our culture these days.”

I confess that I had not heard the psalm before and it touched me deeply.

Part Two of God’s Knitting

As we are born we take a breath and with that we ingest the net of God’s Knitting. For everyone else it is simply a moment, with a moment that went before it and another that would follow it. It is only the infant that knows the importance of this first breath moment.

This multicoloured interweaving of light energy forms a template from which all the possibilities of the infant’s life can be read – like a map of sparkling rainbows. Once it is formed it can be understood by an astrologer. Not in a deterministic way, for how can we learn anything from a pre-determined set of instructions? But more as infinite possibilities within a particular framework that is created by the sex of the infant, birthplace and the parents’ backgrounds and their ‘plans’ for their child.

We can use the analogy of a train travelling from London to Edinburgh, for example. If we know the time the train leaves the station – i.e. the birth time – then we can plot each station it will pass through with some accuracy, and also know what time it will arrive at its destination. Happily we are not trains, but the birth chart can offer us a picture of our life’s journey with the various stops along the way that we will pass through. The journey is, however, uniquely our own, lived and experienced not along railway lines but on the net of God’s Knitting.

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May 27, 2014
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God’s knitting

If only we could acquire the correct spectacles (eye-glasses) we would be able to see the wonder that is the so-called invisible world. The world of the quantum material that makes up our entire Universe. The thinking and loving “stuff” from which we and everything else is created.

We would be able to see the vast net of criss-crossing lines that are the result of our planetary system weaving the planets in and out and fabricating the most spectacular vision of our reality that exists beyond our eyes.

I call it “God’s Knitting”. And it is this “net” that we are all respond to from the moment we are born. Up until that point, we are subject to our mother’s “net”, so her reality is ours just as her breath is ours. As soon as we emerge into the world as an individual in our own right, something within us responds to the position of the planets, their interrelationships, their placement along the ecliptic as they are filtered through the Zodiac Sign that the Eastern shoulder of our planet is turning. This is our Ascendant, our Rising Sign, that represents our coming into life.

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May 22, 2014
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Mars moves on & Dr Wayne Dyer’s Autobiography

On Tuesday last, 20th May, Mars went stationary at 9 degrees of Libra to begin his forward motion out of Libra. Many people have told me that for them, Tuesday was a contentious day for some and downright argumentative for others. That’s Mars for you!

This forward motion once again feeds into the now Cardinal T-Square between Mars opposite Uranus and both squaring Pluto. The good news here is that the CardinalGrand Cross has now dissipated as the 4th leg Jupiter is moving swiftly on to finish his sojourn in Cancer, thus leaving us with just three planets making a T bar – a bit like a T junction on the road.

Mars will complete this process of opposing UR and squaring PL in mid-June to the end of the month. It will not catch up with Jupiter by aspect until they are both in their new signs: Jupiter enters Leo on 15th July and Mars enters Scorpio on 26th July. They briefly aspect each other at the end of July beginning of August. More on that at the relevant time.

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April 30, 2014
by Dawne Kovan
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We need to talk about Neptune

Just to get us all away from the Grand Cross and Eclipses I decided to write about Neptune today. I mentioned to a friend today what I was planning and he commented “If you can get hold of him.” And in a way, that’s exactly how it is with Neptune – just like grabbing hold of a fistful of water.

However, Neptune is powerful at the moment because he is placed in his natural home, Pisces. He entered Pisces in 2012 and will stay there until 2026, which sounds kind of exact. However, knowing Neptune’s propensity for blurring edges, he was in and out throughout 2011 and will be doing the same through 2025. Backwards and forwards like the two fishes that symbolise Pisces.

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April 24, 2014
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More on the Grand Cross & 29th April’s Eclipse

The Cardinal Grand Cross

As anyone interested in Astrology probably knows by now, we are in the middle of the latest eclipse pattern; and slap bang in the depths of the Cardinal Grand Cross that is showing itself in all its power. There is a lot of sabre-rattling going on out in the world at large: Eastern Europe, Russia and Syria all experiencing the most dense level of the energy in terms of aggression and violence.

There are four Cardinal signs: Aries/Libra and Cancer/Capricorn. These signs are called Cardinal because they mark the four seasons – Aries/Spring, Cancer/Summer, Libra/Autumn, Capricorn/Winter. (Please reverse the order for Southern Hemisphere countries.) Therefore these signs demand action: Aries the action of leaping into life; Cancer the action of conservation and keeping things safe; Libra the action of relating, contrasting and comparing; Capricorn the action of building. And it is these actions that are being put under stress by the four heavy planets that are occupying them right now. All four planets are falling at around 13 degrees of each sign this week. They are: Uranus in Aries opposite Mars in Libra and Jupiter opposite Pluto in Capricorn – all square each other, thus making a Cross in the sky – in other words, dividing the sky into four sections.

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April 15, 2014
by Dawne Kovan
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The “Blood Red Moon” – or rather the Full Moon Eclipse

All Lunar Eclipses that are total i.e. the Moon completely covered by the shadow of the Earth are blood red. This is due to the Earth’s atmosphere obscuring the Moon and nothing to worry about. It is actually quite impressive and not a little eerie to experience.

There are no fewer than 4 such Lunar Eclipses over the next 20 months – this is apparently quite a rarity. Called a Tetrad apparently. The first (although I don’t believe that – there must have been sightings in ancient times) was in 1493/4, during which time Columbus “discovered” the Americas, which were divided between Portugal and Spain.

The next Tetrad occurred during 1949/50 which saw the birth of Israel, NATO and also the beginning of the Korean War 1950-3.

The third instance of a Tetrad was through 1967/8 which saw the 6-Day Arab/Israeli War and the build up to the first US manned space flight the following year. It was also the time of the Detroit Riots and the growth of the Peace Movements and Feminist Movements, also. Yes, there was the war in Vietnam going on but there was huge resistance to it during this time. This resistance seemed to empower young people world wide and life has never been the same since.

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April 6, 2014
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Great People (1) and Where we are now (2)

I heard on the radio yesterday that in Senegal they say that when an old person dies, a library is lost, because their knowledge and wisdom dies too.

So, this part of my article is about two huge libraries of wisdom and courage.

1) A friend recently wrote to me and asked me if I realised that both Jane Goodall and Gloria Steinem were born within 9 days of each other and were both celebrating their 80th birthdays last week.

I quote from her email: “Both have “changed” the world. One on behalf of women and one on behalf of our world’s wildlife, especially Chimpanzees. Each of the women have been enormously successful with their causes and have mounted world attention.

What do you see in their charts that speaks to that? The more I think of it, each had chosen a segment of the population which had been overlooked and each has moved fearlessly for some 40 years to bring their views and studies to the world’s attention AND with great success. What is there in their charts that these two women have in common?”

I love a challenge like this – in fact, I imagine that all astrologers worth their salt would enjoy a nose around these two women’s charts to find THE thing that singles them out as special. However, to be honest, it isn’t as simple as looking at their charts and saying “Eureka! I’ve got it!”

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March 27, 2014
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200th Article – a celebration!

This article is something of a celebration, as it is the 200th that I have written and published out into the world. And very gratifying the whole process has been for me and, I hope, for you, my readers.

The Aries New Moon is on the evening of Sunday, 30th March. It is at 10 degrees Aries and so fits in with the “stuff” of the Grand Cross for all of us. Just because it’s in Aries, it falls wherever we have Aries on our charts and so joins up with Uranus, the Bringer of Change along with it. In fact, they are very close – so those of you who have birthdays around this time are really in for some fun.

The New Moon also makes a 90 degree aspect to Jupiter, the Joy Bringer. Together by aspect Jupiter and Uranus bring relief from long held worries, positive and sudden advancement and expansion. A nice mixture for the New Moon to come across in its journey. The Solar Return (birthday) chart will indicate how and where in your life this is likely to happen.

And yes, there is also the 90 degree aspect of the New Moon to Pluto to contend with, but this is a slower, more measured, denser energy than the JU/PL combination which will tend to work out on the more week by week level.

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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.

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March 19, 2014
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Missing Flight MH370; Prince Harry

Today I am looking at the chart for the missing plane (1) and then at Prince Harry (2)

The Missing Plane – Malaysia Airlines MH370

Take-off Data: Saturday 8th March, 2014 at 00h41 Local time Kuala Lumpur

The chart for the take-off of the missing plane has 7 degrees Sagittarius Rising with Moon at 7 degrees Gemini, just setting to go below the horizon as the plane left KL. The Moon would have been on the horizon exactly while the passengers were loading and the engines were being started up.

Gemini is a double sign so with the Moon on the 7th House cusp of relationships and open enemies, this could describe the two young men who were attempting to escape with counterfeit passports. As it turned out they were found to be innocent. Was there someone else on board who would fit the description of “open enemy”? We may never know, or at best for some time to come.

The degrees being occupied by the ASC and the Moon are known to astrologers as the “degrees of flight” – actually 5/6 Gemini/Sagittarius – so 7 degrees is close enough for me. The links with aircraft manufacture and flying are well known historically for this Zodiacal axis.

There are many theories going around the various social media right now – however, no one is saying that the passengers are dead. If it had been a terrorist attack, then why did no one hear about it? Terrorists are notorious for advertising their “successes” because they want maximum publicity for their causes.

The plane was tracked electronically for quite some time – I believe for 7 hours – after contact was lost. It is not easy these days for anything that size to disappear from view quite so emphatically. So where did it go?

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March 6, 2014
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The Crimean War of 1854 & Venus in Aquarius through the Signs

We all know about the Crimean War, 1854-56, as being the place where Florence Nightingale attended the wounded soldiers in her makeshift field hospital at Scutari.

But what else was going on – why a war and between whom? And what were the planets doing?

To my regular readers it will come as no surprise that the (by now) famous planets Uranus and Pluto were sitting together sharing the same degrees at the end of Aries and beginning of Taurus in 1850 -51 sharing their space with Saturn – thus a triple conjunction. Wars don’t really happen overnight, they require build up. No one woke up in October 1854, saying “Oh, I think I’ll go to war today”. Going to war is a process that has a beginning, a middle and an end – that being the actual war itself.

We know from my examples given in an article a couple of weeks ago, that the War of American Independence was slow in getting up and running. As was the French Revolution. The planetary aspects of UR/PL/Mars and Jupiter ran through the period leading up to both events. Similarly, rumbled along through the 1930s while Hitler built his power base, signalled by the Uranus/ Pluto/Saturn/Jupiter Grand Cross of 1931. Uranus and Pluto lingered on aspecting each other by square (as now) through 1932-33, and finally WWII was waged against Hitler and Japan at the end of that decade.

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February 26, 2014
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Intense Weekend of Planets Changing Direction

Mercury goes direct (Phew! I hear you say) on Friday, 28th February; Mars goes retrograde on Saturday, 1st March; and Saturn goes retrograde on Sunday 2nd March. This is a busy shift and changeover period for us all – we may even experience a bit of an upheaval both in our personal lives or even on the national level.

For new readers, please look at my article of 2 weeks ago, where I describe how direct and retrograde changes of direction occur to all the planets at some point in the year.

I’m thinking particularly of Ukraine, which is already in flux and uncertainty, after so many weeks of street fighting, protesting and violent deaths. We look on with horror and wonder where it will all lead over the next few months. Decisions have already been made about leadership, and yet while Mercury is still retrograde, minds are likely to be changed and the whole thing could start up again when he starts to move forward, no matter how slowly he does that through next week.

On a lighter note, at least with Mercury going direct, we will be able to open our computers and have them work efficiently once more; the Internet will speed up again; and lost things and people could come back to us. As well as lots of “foot in mouth” disease from our rulers and politicians. Something to look forward to, then.

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February 20, 2014
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Grand Crosses, Scottish Independence and the Arab Spring,

There is a lot of “noise” out there in the media about the upcoming Cardinal Grand Cross, including articles that I, myself,have written on the subject. Many of these articles are homing in on 18th – 20th April and suggesting that this is the period during which all the predicted major changes will occur.

This has to be a nonsense because with planets that have cycles of 250 years (Pluto/PL) and 84 years (Uranus/UR) it becomes obvious that they are unable to home in on any particular few days because they move so slowly. Added to Jupiter’s (JU) 12 year cycle and Mars’ (MA) 2 year cycle, the fact that they all get together in mid-April and cause mayhem is over simplifying the whole process.

So what, I hear you ask, is going on?

This process of change, that mirrors the American War of Independence, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the horrendous floods in Europe, during the 1760/70s has already started. Witness the Arab Spring, the rebellion in Syria, and now the Ukraine uprising, to name but a few events, actually started 3 or 4 years ago. They certainly seem to carry the energy described by UR/PL in hard aspect with each other – which COSI* describes as “Force majeure; the collapse of the old order of things and the construction of the new; revolution and the process of transformation”.

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