ASTRO BLOG

APRIL ASTRO-WEATHER:  —  UNCONSCIOUS FEARS AND TRANSFORMATION.     There are a number of difficult associations for the month of April that will create emotional challenges: Mars in Exchange with Mercury puts Mars in Aries with Rahu again. Saturn aspects Rahu (60 degrees) Saturn aspects Ketu (120 degrees Jupiter at the end of Pisces Saturn […]

EYE ON SPIRITUALITY: EASTER/PASSOVER MESSAGE Easter Sunday rejoices in allowing the Christ energy within to be enlivened and to flame-up in our soul. In past years with Passover seders, I  was reminded of the symbolism of freedom from slavery and the rebirth and renewal that took place with the fleeing from Egypt through God’s grace

 VENUS IN TAURUS:  April 6-May 2nd—RETURN TO COMFORT   Venus will be very strong in the sky in Taurus for a month and only afflicted by a 30-degree aspect from Rahu.  The first part of the transit in the constellation of Krittika (Pada 2)  April 6-9th is more troubling as it can lead to stormy

ASTRO-FINANCE FOR APRIL 2023 By Barry Rosen   GENERAL ECONOMIC INSIGHTS: The banking crisis is on everyone’s minds, and while we have been reassured that all is fine, we all know better. We are moving toward the Jupiter/Rahu conjunction, which is a signature for bankruptcy, and it happens in the True Node system on June

MERCURY IN ARIES WITH MARS IN GEMINI: PARIVARTNA YOGA Once in a while, we get what Western astrologers call a mutual reception or exchange of signs, and in Vedic astrology, it is known as a Parivatartana Yoga (abbreviated PVY). It can be very powerful and allows a connection and association between the signs involved, and

MERCURY CONJUNCT JUPITER:  MARCH 27-28TH Mercury is in a planetary war with Jupiter in Pisces on March 27-28th and Mercury is winning the war.  Mercury with Jupiter in Pisces has cancelled the Mercury debilitation but it not as if we have not suffered with this transit. The two planets are great enemies and this conjunction

MARS 8TH HOUSE ASPECT TO PLUTO: GEMINI TO CAPRICORN: EXACT ON MARCH 25TH For my financials and mundane astrological predictions, I always pay attention to this one which we get every two years but I have been feeling it personally and have seen my friends and colleagues reacting to it. Mars does throw a sneak

THE YEAR OF  2023-2024—THE YEAR OF SHOBHANA PART 1 The New Year in Vedic Astrology Starts March 21, 2023, for the US and Washington, DC Whereas Western culture delights in January New Year predictions, the Vedic New Year calendar is often run from the new Moon in the spring after the spring solstice for the

The Vernal equinox and the first day of spring happens in  New York  on  Monday, March 20th, at 5:24 pm  EDT for the start of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and for our friends in South America and Australia, it is a time for gratitude as harvest and Fall begins.  The electromagnetic energies shift at

EYE ON  SPIRITUALITY:  SHEDDING THE PAST YEAR AND MOVING INTO A  NEW ONE AND SPIRITUAL REBIRTH We are moving toward the New Moon on Tuesday, March 21st  and an important Vedic Holiday of the Spring Navarati  and the start of the New Vedic year on March 22nd in the United States although in other countries