ASTRO BLOG

EYE ON THE SKY:  PRE-HOLIDAY FORECAST FOR CHRISTMAS WEEK Are you tired?  By the winter solstice on Wednesday, you are going to have to slow down to avoid getting sick.   Time for extra meditation, that hot bath and boosting your immune system.  All  that extra sugar from eating extra cookies is hard on the system.  […]

EYE ON THE SKY: MARS IN AQUARIUS/ RAHU’S NAKSHATRA–SATABHISHA And now for a little excitement.   Mars moves into the constellation of Satabhisha Dec. 20th for about 19 days until Jan. 7th.   This star in Western astronomy is know as Gamma Aquarri and is located at 6.40-Aquarius to 20.00 Aquarius in the zodiac.  Mars

EYE ON ASTROLOGY:  THE FATAL FLAWS OF THE ELEMENTS BY RISING SIGN PART 2 As we discussed in Part 1, (see: https://www.appliedvedicastrology.com/hidden-challenges-rising-signs-achilles-heals-part-1/) our  rising sign, which is called the Lagna in Vedic astrology, represents our personality, our temperament, disposition, tendencies, confidence, self-love and self-esteem and its afflictions reveal our inherent internal struggles.  If the owner

EYE ON THE SKY: MORE ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE Happy Winter Solstice. This is a beautiful blog written by my friend Stasia Bliss and really gets to the core of the transformation that is possible at this time: ( a long read but so beautiful for a deep winter night and the deepest of the

EYE ON THE SKY: INTEGRATING THE WINTER SOLSTICE ENERGIES: WARP SPEED The world is still a bit in transition for a few more days. The Sun is in Sagittarius but in the early degrees called the karmic knot or gandata until Dec 18th where difficult energies and karmic lessons involving leadership, fatherhood and deep soul lessons arise

EYE ON THE SKY: MARS CONJUNCT KETU:  DEC 22-31ST–EXPRESSING YOUR POWER WITH LOVE If you watch small kids in a playground, they get angry, fully express it and then go back to being normal.  Anger is a natural emotion that is often an expression of an unfulfilled desire.   Kids are great about it but

EYE ON THE SKY: SUN IN SAGITTARIUS–TIS THE SEASON FOR JOY The bright spot of the Christmas transits is the Sun moving into Jupiter’s sign of Sagittarius on Thursday, Dec. 15th  bringing  expansive joy for righteous action.  One can think of the Salvation Army ringing their bells every Christmas to save the world.   Sun’s positive

EYE ON THE SKY: MERCURY RETROGRADE DEC. 19-JAN. 8TH–  HIDDEN INSIGHTS Everyone knows about Mercury retrograde so I wanted to share some new things.  First of all if you were born with Mercury retrograde, you are more right-brain orientated and have more spatial orientation and recognize patterns and are not logical.  It will be interesting

EYE ON THE SKY: DEC. 12-19TH: WEEKLY OVERVIEW Lot of shifts this week.  Mars moving from its sign of exaltation into a weaker and vulnerable position the next few days is like being on of those old amusement park rides where you are spun and held by centrifugal force and then the floor comes out

EYE ON THE SKY: MARS IN AQUARIUS–ACTION FOR SOCIETY OR SEETHING ANGER. Mars moves into the sign of Aquarius Dec. 11th and stays there through the Presidential inauguration into Jan. 20th.  Aquarius is an idealistic sign connected with humanitarian ideals, scientific discovery and is also a very spiritual sign and also one where the demons