The 2016 Academy Awards nominees announcement on January 14 met some controversy over the stunningly all-white ballot. And there was at least one surprise entry – the nomination for Mad Max: Fury Road as best picture. The announcement and its cultural impact coincides with the Saturn-Neptune square currently in range throughout most of 2016. We …
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This week Jimmy Fallon mentioned a new music video that was going viral like crazy, so I checked it out. The video is “Love Myself” by Hailee Steinfeld, who you may remember as the awesome young actress from the Coen Brothers film True Grit. Although I don’t love the song or video (maybe I’m just …
Sense8 is a new Netflix original series directed by the Wachowskis, famous for The Matrix trilogy. Sense8 is a sci-fi drama featuring eight lead characters – strangers who suddenly find their lives inextricably connected. And not just in the interweaving storyline kind of way like Short Cuts or Traffic. These characters are literally connected. Called …
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If you’re a fan of Hollywood’s recent slew of fairytale revisions, you won’t want to miss Maleficent. You might remember that I was pretty taken with Snow White and the Huntsman and wrote a lengthy article about it a while back. I loved Maleficent too, and couldn’t wait to look at the chart for the …
I started doing research on Venus out of bounds after editing Steven Forrest’s video workshop on the Out of Bounds Moon. I’ve been wanting to study the subject for a while and finally had the opportunity while writing his recent newsletter. I was thrilled to find that, in my sampling of 130 charts of famous …
Spock Enters the Volcano Analyzing astrological archetypes can get so complex that it’s always fun to see them expressed literally. In Star Trek Into Darkness, the newest installment of the sci-fi franchise, we get hit over the head with the Uranus-Pluto square symbolism in the first few scenes. In astro-speak, right now we’re in the …
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Tracking the Pisces Stellium From the end of February through most of March, we’re graced by a ton of planets in Pisces. This is a relatively rare occurence, and some folks born during this time will have what we call a Pisces stellium. Not everyone agrees on the definition of a stellium, but the most …
Full Moon in Cancer 12/28/12 at 2:21 AM PST at 7º Cancer On Friday December 28th, the full moon, at home in Cancer, the sign of the Great Mother, is matched in expression by its opposition from the Sun in Capricorn conjunct Pluto. Here we have the archetypal mother-nurturer, opposite the solar-expressive father. On this …
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As I started the research for this article on May 2012’s Venus Retrograde in Gemini (and the rare Transit of Venus that occurs on June 5), I quickly opened up a rather large can of worms. For it seems that in June of 2012, we have the makings of a perfect astrological storm. You see, when …
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Welcome to 2012. It sure feels like “full steam ahead” in my neck of the woods. If you’re feeling a forward whoosh of energy, you’re right on track, as we head towards an earth trine of Mars in Virgo to the Sun in Capricorn on January 12. We’re just coming out of a Jupiter retrograde …
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