Big Sky AstroBlog

Jul

16

A couple of years ago, many of you were kind enough to participate in my survey about marriage. The results of the project can be found in my article “When Will I Get Married?”, which appears in the Aug/Sep 2010 issue of The Mountain Astrologer magazine. I share the top five astrological significators of marriage, and offer an example chart of a survey participant’s journey to the altar. It’s 3500 fun-filled words and numbers, sprinkled liberally with dazzling charts and informative tables:

And so, I seemed to have become a wedding astrologer. And yet I still didn’t feel completely confident answering the question, “When will I get married?” So, a couple of years ago I decided to conduct an informal study. The focus was simple. I didn’t ask the participants why they got married, whether the marriage lasted or was happy, or even whether it was the first, second, or any other number of marriage. I only wanted to know one thing: Which astrological factors seem most likely to get you to the altar?

Thanks again to all who participated! And let this be a beacon of hope for the intrepid ladies who filled out my Mars questionnaire last summer: it may take me awhile, but I eventually get around to doing something with this stuff.

July 16, 2010 | 3 Comments

Jul

9

Vacation

The July 11 Cancer New Moon is a Solar Eclipse, a response to the call of the unsettling June 26 lunar eclipse in Capricorn. For many, the shock of losing jobs and homes and retirement savings has left us feeling as adrift as a crab that’s lost its shell. But others have lives that look relatively placid on the outside, while inside them there is an almost wild sense of having outgrown that shell. Eclipses mark lines in the sand, lines that indicate where one chapter of your life ends and another begins. Sometimes, leaving behind what’s safe and familiar is the only way we’ll learn who we are… but it makes us afraid that we’ll never find our way back home….

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July 9, 2010 | 1 Comment

Jun

29

I woke this morning thinking about how exhausting that lunar eclipse on Saturday was, and about how I’m just beginning to find my balance. And my mind kept returning to this old essay about the impermanence of things – right down to the earth beneath our feet – and about how that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Tectonics
During this season of eclipses in Cancer and Capricorn – the signs of security and home, and of the larger world outside it – here is some food for thought: As much as we seek security, our souls know we need movement in order to keep growing. Even the earth – our home – is not a given, not a solid platform we stand upon. Like life, it’s a relatively thin and fragile thing, broken into big pieces that bang together, drift apart, and graze each other in passing – full of movement and change, designed to put us exactly where we need to be and to keep us wondering where, precisely, that is. read the full article here

June 29, 2010 | 4 Comments

Jun

25

Eclipses and the Narrative of Change

Planets woven together by difficult aspects are as strong as steel. They represent problems you can’t ignore, and conflicts that chew at you until you find a resolution – or at least détente. They describe your defining attributes; and each time an eclipse scores a glancing blow off these aspects (about every four and a half years), you’re given another chance to become a little bit more … you.

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June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment