STAR WANDERINGS

  Saturn is often seen as obstacles, setbacks, delays we have to face, external limits we can´t get past but Saturn also points to limits within ourselves, the difficult and painful experiences and topics that we don´t want to deal with, that are sitting in our stomachs, unresolved. Like Saturn himself we all have our vulnerabilities that we swallowed at some point of our life out of fear that they are going to threaten us somehow.  With Saturn now in a mutable sign of Pisces, we find ourselves in a transitional space. What was the norm until now might not be acceptable anymore. There is a strong discontent with the present moment, the realization that there was enough of THIS already, that we can´t/don´t want to go any further like this even though we don´t know where to go next.  What we´ve built on the shores might be washed into the sea anytime, it is made from sand. There is no stable ground, nothing to hold on to. This feeling of dissatisfaction with the status quo ...

  Love and light are not enough. We need limits. We need to feel frustrated and challenged sometimes in order to evolve in the direction of „love and light“ philosophy. As I say, people don´t come for a reading when life is good, they come when it hurts. Just to hear „Yes, you are in a difficult space right now“ is comforting in challenging times. Astrology can do much more than that though. We cannot be everything. Negative spaces are good. Spaces that aren´t accessible are creating boundaries for us, forcing us to narrow down our options. Think about it. The mantra of a modern, spiritually aware human being is „the whole world is open to you, you can do anything, you can be everything“. Everything is overwhelming. Where do you start? You might as well spend your life chasing after possibilities or going mad. Grand concepts and visions are important. They drive us forward. We need to have something to believe in. They allow us to live and take action in our everyday life. They sup...

  Dreams, imagination, fantasy… Why is the imaginary sphere of our lives often considered to be useless, redundant, suspicious and even dangerous for us adults? Why is it served to us just as entertainment and/or for „artists only“? Why is the imaginary sphere not taken seriously? Why is there no real space for irrationality in adult world? Why is it only something that is good to stimulate in kids? Why does it always have to be “either-or”, taken into opposition with “what is”? Why can’t the irrational coexist alongside “the real thing” that we are so enmeshed in? Why is it seen as some kind of chimera that takes us away from our righteous serious adult life that is all about tending to our responsibilities? And if it is so “right and good for us”, then why do we so often become desillusioned by this so-called reality? What is reality anyway? I feel like we might not be that sure anymore…. What once felt so firm and solid, written in stone, something we thought is settled, might s...

  Are you ready? „The big P moves tomorrow?“ Lol, this is how my astro buddy commented on Pluto moving into a new sign of Aquarius last week. I immediately thought of my favorite Harry Potter series and „He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named“, „You-Know-Who“ or if we´re brave enough then „Voldemort, the Dark Lord“. When using indirect references, it is obvious who we have in mind, yet it sounds a lot less scary.  We often assume that if we avoid calling things by their real name when we avoid the uncomfortable spaces and they stay undefined that they will be somehow diminished. We fear that if we give them our attention and make them concrete, they will become more real and have more power over us.    From my experience, the opposite is true. Our taboo, Plutonian spaces won’t disappear from our lives when they are ignored. If we pretend like the darkness does not exist, if we try to dilute it, it slowly starts gaining more power over us. It turns into an insatiable beast that slo...

  Walking behind a teenage girl in hot pink pants and white stilettos this morning, I was thinking about how necessary it is to walk in those stilettos before we’re ready. I remembered times when I „was walking in those stilettos“, feeling really clumsy as I „wasn´t there yet“. I wasn´t ready for the attention but had to do it anyway as the urge to stand out was stronger.  If we want to reach new heights, it is necessary to challenge ourselves, explore uncomfortable spaces and feel awkward before we learn how to walk gracefully.   All planets are moving in direct motion now. Jupiter is covering the new ground of Aries accompanied by fiery Venus. There is a lot of masculine, forward-moving energy in the air. We are aware that things are about to change significantly. Anticipation is rising.  We might feel like standing on the launch pad, engines have been ignited and we are waiting for our first blastoff. We might not have a clear picture yet of what´s coming, what ex...

  I love (Venus in) Pisces season. I haven’t always felt that way. Before I was familiar with astrological symbolism, this time of year seemed kind of weird and confusing. I had a kind of blah feeling about it.  It’s neither this nor that, the mutable nature of this time between winter and spring drove me crazy. I wanted to escape the vagueness of it all. I felt the pull, the expectation, the rising energy, the light that is coming but then came another gust of cold air or a sudden snow storm. All my dreams of springs have vanished and with it came disillusion and despair.t. Pisces season. Winter is still here and spring is just around the corner. There is a lightness floating in the air, it shimmers and moves us to imaginative spaces where everything is possible. Yet, at the same time, we are painfully aware that Pisces season is the  “Spring that never comes”. It is a period of transition and the boundaries are porous. Everything gets easily infiltered. Water does not p...

  We often see Saturn as a hard cold reality, difficult decisions we have to make, elements of our lives that are clear-cut. Our western culture celebrates the Saturnian illusion of realism, matter-of-factness, firm predictable structures that keep a firm grip on chaos… That’s not all there is to Saturn. Saturn stands in the opposition to the Sun, the unifying principle. Saturn rules over the opposition, it is of dual nature, it has two faces. As the gatekeeper between the visible and invisible world, it has a foot in both worlds, the material world of Fortune that we inhabit, the reality we can grasp and explore with our senses.  But Saturn has also access to the invisible world of Spirit, the part of the reality that is elusive, that we can’t put our finger on, that escapes any attempt to be clearly defined, described and categorized. Saturn fills the transitional, in-between spaces, the grey areas outside of clearly defined categories. Mysticism, nebulousness, dissolution, ...