ASTRO BLOG

EYE ON VEDIC FESTIVALS: PITRIS PAKSHA Over the last five years, I have become fascinated by the impact of our ancestors on our present day karma.  Mark Woylnn’s book, It Didn’t Start With You, reminds us of how our ancestor’s unresolved suffering, much of which is unknown to us, binds us painfully to them. So […]

  ASTRO-FINANCE FOR OCT 2023   Oct is one of the more volatile and crazy months of the year.  We start the month with the crazy Mars/Ketu conjunction on Oct. 4th-5th and many markets like the stock market and metals and oil have fallen into their black hole and should bounce for a few weeks

MERCURY IN VIRGO:  SHORT STAY OCT 3-18TH Virgo is one of the more fascinating signs representing the World Mother. Virgo ascendants sometimes feel cut out of material prosperity and sensual pleasures and feel unhappy taking on the sins of the world embodying the German word, Weltschmerz. The sign is endowed with great intelligence, Shakti, physicality,

OCTOBER ASTROLOGICAL WEATHER FORECAST PART 1    A WEEK TO REMEMBER This is the type of week that if you go on a meditation retreat or climb into a hole, you will have a good experience.  Life in the material and emotional world will be challenging.  Mars is the major culprit as it is combust,

MARS IN LIBRA –OCT 3-NOV 16 Mars moves into Libra on Thursday, Oct 3-NOV. 16.   The transit is afflicted because of Jupiter and Uranus in Aries aspecting it and Ketu in Libra and Mars being combust until January.    Mars in Libra is energetic, confident, charming romantic, and friendly to all but the darker

EYE ON MARS COMBUSTION AND MARS OUT OF BALANCE: Sept 11-Jan. 16th. Mars officially combusts within 17 degrees of the Sun and that impact is there until Jan 16, 2024.  The exact conjunction is actually auspicious is Nov. 18th  near midnight.  Mars combustion may not be a huge problem until it is within 5 degrees

WEEKLY ASTRO-WEATHER SEPT 9-25TH    MERCURY STATIONARY DIRECT: SEPT 15TH  We are all anxiously waiting for Mercury to go direct again on Sept. 15th.  With the Saturn opposition, it has been a particularly difficult one, and am sure that all of you have your horror stories.  One more week. Make sure to smile and let

EYE ON THE SKY: MARS IN HASTA Mars into Constellation of Corvi (Virgo10-23.20): Strategic Planning Mars moved into a new constellation of Hasta on Sept. 3rd and stays there until Sept. 23rd. In Hasta, it can create some lack of clarity about direction and being overly critical.  It promotes strategic planning but not great combative

ASTRO WEATHER:  SEPT 4-9TH –Subtle Disturbances in the Fabric JUPITER TRINE SUN: SEPT 8TH  Aries to Leo We are coming out of the expansive glow of the Venus station direct and the Jupiter stationary retrograde Sept. 3-4.  Jupiter, the planet of optimism and expansion, is throwing an exact aspect onto the Sun between Aries and

 ASTRO-FINANCE FOR SEPT 2023  By Barry Rosen We have a lot of bullish sentiment for the stock market as we go into September as the Jupiter station on Sept. 4th tends to have a strong and expansive influence 5 days before and after. The Venus station on Sept. 3rd should also have a similar influence.