EYE ON FESTIVALS: GANESH CHATHURTHI Friday August 25th in India and Thursday, August 24th in the US starts an auspicious Indian festival celebrating the birthday of Ganesh, the patron of Vedic astrology. Use this day to let go of the problems that have accumulated over the past year and symbolically let go of them, let […]
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EYE ON THE SKY: MERCURY RETROGRADE INTO MAGHA: AUGUST 23-SEPT 17TH Mercury goes retrograde into the constellation of Regulus (Magha/Leo 0-13.20) for almost 4 weeks and because of the connection with Ketu, we are not looking forward to it. It is a replay of the period from July 21-August 3rd. Mercury in Ketu’s constellation can
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EYE ON THE SKY: MARS CONJUNCT RAHU Rahu, the planet of desire and ambition will be conjunct Mars the planet of action exactly on August 26th in the mean node system and August 27th in the true node system. When they are within 3 degrees of each other, there is a strong influence and that
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EYE ON THE SKY: VENUS IN CANCER AUGUST 21-SEPT. 14 So a bright spot in the sky this week is Venus moving into Cancer and pretty much being unafflicted except into mid-September when it gets conjunct Rahu. Venus and the Moon are good friends in being the two most feminine planets and Venus in Cancer
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EYE ON SPIRITUALITY: BEYOND AN ASTROLOGY OF FEAR Fear will be up big-time during the solar eclipse and you have to remember its all irrational nonsense. Saturn is very strong this week going stationary on August 25th and it can be very intense particularly on Wednesday when it squares the moon and then when it
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EYE ON ASTROLOGY AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE We should not use astrology to prevent us from acting and moving forward with our lives but we can use astrological forecast to see the puppet masters strings that are tugging at our emotions and psychology to get beyond. If we understand what is happening in the stars, it
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EYE ON THE SKY: FEAR AND ECLIPSES AND SEEING BEYOND FEAR With the eclipse coming on Monday and Saturn starting to slow down and go direct into August 25th, fear is mounting in the world and in conversations with people. People are very much on edge about racial tensions, Russia, the economy, the state
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EYE ON THE SKY: SOLAR ECLIPSE AND HEALTH The Sun is the karaka or signifier for health and the eclipse can have an impact on health more than anything. If you have health problems, are Leo rising, or are running a Sun/Rahu or Rahu/Sun period, then you have to be particularly cautious not do things
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EYE ON THE SKY: RAHU IN CANCER/ASHLESHA: EMBRACE LIFE WITH MODERATION In the mean node system, Rahu moves into the constellation of Ashlesha (Hydra, Cancer 16.40-29.59) on August 17th and in the true node system on Sept. 10th and journeys through there until April 29th in the true node system Of the 27 constellations in
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EYE ON THE SKY: MARS ON THE EDGE Mars hits the final part of his 2 year journey toward the exact point of debilitation which peaks into August 22nd when it hits 27 degrees Cancer. Mars governs the adrenals and is at a low energy point and is very tired. As a soldier, Mars is
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