ASTRO BLOG

EYE ON ASTROLOGY: LIVING IN THE FUTURE The planets are schools and teachers that set up karmic circumstances so that we can do it better this time. Its like Bill Murray in the 1993 movie, Ground Hog Day.  Will he learn kindness and compassion this time or continue to wake-up the same grumpy old weatherman […]

Day 9: Thursday, Sept. 27 US/Friday Sept. 28 India :   The Gift of Centeredness Amidst Change Ma Siddhi Datri is the ninth goddess and a  embodiment of Goddess Saraswati. Her name means the “giver of Boons/accomplishments.”   She blesses those who practice their yoga and mediation regularly due to discipline.   She reminds us that if we

PLUTO STATIONARY ON SEPT. 27TH: POWER AND TRANSFORMATION Pluto is going stationary direct today and is very powerful in the sky. Pluto is connected with power and transformation and in extreme cases death of the old so that the new can arise.  The cocoon has be destroyed so that the butterfly can emerge. Dennis Harness,

FOCUS ON VEDIC FESTIVALS: NAVARATRI DAY 8 DAY 8:  Sept 27 (US) ;  Sept 28 (India) :  For those of you struggling the last few days, we have to go back to the metaphor of the challenges of rebirth and the difficult process of moving out of the womb. We have been discussing the nine

EYE ON ASTROLOGY: MERCURY EXALTED IN VIRGO Virgo is one of the more fascinating signs representing the World mother.  Virgo ascendents sometimes feel cut out of material prosperity and sensual pleasures and feel unhappy taking on the sins of the world embodying the German word, Weltscmertz.  The sign is endowed with great intellgence, shakti, physicality,

EYE ON VEDIC FESTIVALS: NINE DAYS DAY 7: Rising to Timelessness and Freedom. We have discussed how the nine days of Mother Divine is the journey from the material existence from the base chakra to the heavens and on Day 7, the darkest day, the energy moves from the third eye to the crown chakra

EYE ON ASTROLOGY: SATURN’S EXACT ASPECT TO KETU Saturn is weak in the gandata area where problems seem unsolvable and where anxiety is heightened.  In the mean node system, Saturn has an exact aspect onto Ketu from Scorpio to  Aquarius at 28.52 today.  The true aspects are exact on Oct. 9th.     We will

EYE ON THE SKY: RAHU TRINE SATURN Rahu is casting a 5th house, 120 degree aspect from Cancer to Scorpio  exactly today in the mean node system and on Oct. 8th in the true node system.  The influence is there until late October within 3 degrees in the true node system and until Saturn goes

THE DISCIPLINE AND DYNAMICS  OF THE 6TH HOUSE: RISING ABOVE THE CHALLENGES OF HEALTH AND CO-WORKERS The 6th house is a house of enemies, disease, litigation, digestive power and everyday work. In the 5th, we  learned how to express our feelings and concepts to others.  In the 6th, we have to work with, and even

EYE ON THE SKY: ENOUGH DOOM AND GLOOM ALREADY Saturn at the end of Scorpio in the gandanta/drowning area is stirring up a lot of intense fear and suffering and it said that Saturn does its most damage in the final 10 degrees of a sign and certain is stirring up a hornet’s nest with