STAR WANDERINGS

Everybody makes some noise, Jupiter is about to ingress Gemini. This transition is a part of the ever-unfolding story. It has no beginning, it has no end. We always need to look at where we’re coming from and where we’re moving to. Jupiter is changing from the Venusian/Lunar sign of Taurus to the Mercurial sign of Gemini, from feminine to masculine sign and from fixed earthy sign to mutable airy one.  Jupiter is entering Gemini, i.e. it is activating a new house in your chart and it carries the promise that has been awakened in the Taurean part of our chart forward into a new territory. Venus, the ruler of Taurus is coming into conjunction with Jupiter this Thursday, culminating at the last degree of this sign and a few hours later she is ingressing Gemini making a way for Jupiter.  If you want to get more specific about the themes you´re going to work with, think about your Jupiter in Taurus year and the themes it brought, reflect on the events surrounding...

  As a mankind, we spend way too much time thinking our noble thoughts, drafting grand plans, and looking for solutions up in the sky while forgetting our humble earthly nature.  When anticipating major astrological events, we often tend to overfocus on a short time window looking for something extraordinary and fantastical that will catapult us into a completely different reality. Transits never happen in a vacuum though and they always have a history. Let´s just approach this in a „simple“ Taurean manner.  ​This upcoming conjunction is an important exclamation point within Uranus's slow March through the sign of Taurus. Have a look at the topics of your Taurus house. Where have you been since 2018 when Uranus first ingressed into this earth sign? What was your starting point? What was the lay of the land then? What have been the prominent themes since 2018? What has been shaken at the core for you? Where have been the most dramatic earthquakes? What got totall...

  It´s that time of the year again, eclipse season is upon us. It´s like you can feel the wheel of fortune turning. There is an anticipation in the air days before the eclipse hits, tension before a powerful release. My favorite pre-eclipse metaphor is an image of a hot summer day right before the storm. Clouds are getting increasingly darker and fuller, the wind is picking up and you wonder what is going to happen and when. The pressure is building up, it is hard to breathe or really do anything sensible. The tension is almost tangible. It gets to a point when you just urge that release so that you can relax a bit and deal with the consequences. What happens during eclipses? Why does this period of time feel so heavy and intense? Just the meaning of the word eclipse tells us a lot. The term eclipse is derived from ancient Greek and its meaning refers to things like abandonment, downfall, darkening, being absent, and coming to an end. Let these words work on you, how does it feel?...

  We all have been, at one point, uncivilized, untamed, undifferentiated from our environment, unaware of ourselves and our individual identity. Think of the primal state of our being. A newborn baby, coming to the world, seemingly as “tabula rasa”, in its pure state, free from societal norms and expectations, just acting in accordance with its basic needs. ​ A little prelude to today’s musing about the sign of Aquarius, archetype, that will be with us for quite some time as Pluto has recently embarked on a 20-year-long journey.  Aquarius season represents the time of winter when light is increasing in 24 hours day but darkness is still holding its power.  Aquarius is an air sign, fixed in nature. It is Saturn’s diurnal home. As such, Aquarius often represents the polarization of ideas, thoughts and attitudes. It represents mental divergence away from the center towards ideological extremes. Its ruler Saturn is also located furthest from the center of our solar syste...

  Season of winter. Saturn’s earthly kingdom of Capricorn. Walking through the frozen landscape, we can clearly see the material shape and form of things around us. Everything is stripped to bare bones. There are no embellishments. Even the color palette is limited to different shades of whites, greys and browns. Yet when we look at a snow-covered landscape with the sun coming through there is this almost ethereal kind of beauty. Imagine walking through heavy snow. The air is crisp, it takes a lot of effort to move forward, to breathe. It feels like someone put some extra-weight bags on your body. You are exhausted.   But then you pause, take a slow, deep breath, calm down and look around. You notice the stillness of nature. You notice the world, transformed by the winter, resting. Moving through the wintery landscape can be arduous labor but if you allow it, it can feel like a contemplative walk through a sacred temple. Saturn in its earthy, feminine expression of Capricorn e...

  Intense, creepy, obsessive, dramatic….can we look past what’s right in front of our face, can we go deeper with Venus this season? Goddess of love, beauty and art, a goddess that craves union and harmony. Why does Venus seem so controversial in the sign of Scorpio, why does she acts out the way she does? In Scorpio, Venus is in a Mars-ruled environment. Imagine how it looks when you combine two completely opposite energies – Venusian and Martial. They clash. You can feel a constant stirring, constant tension.  Balance and harmony are an impossible concept here. Imagine Venus in Mars´s autumnal home. Venus dwells in an unknown, unfamiliar, awkward environment that is not supportive of her nature, to things she loves to do, to what nourishes her and makes her happy. She dwells in exile, far away from her home. The place she inhabits is dark. Sunlight rarely reaches this place - you can´t see what lies in the shadows. The sign of Scorpio is the fixed watery home of Mars. Imagin...

  When we look at signs of Virgo and Scorpio through a superficial lens of pop astrology, we might label Virgo as the most predictable, boring sign and Scorpio as the most intense and often the coolest one. When we look deeper though, we can quickly see how much these seemingly complete opposites have in common. They are both feminine yin signs however they both represent a challenging placement when it comes to traditional feminine topics like love, relationships, pleasure and nurturing.  Virgo and Scorpio are placements where Venus and Moon, the planets that represent these topics, have their fall. Venus also struggles in Scorpio and a great benefic, Jupiter, which is often linked to the proliferation of life and fertility, is in its detriment in Virgo. Venus, Moon and Jupiter in general symbolize conditions that are safe and supportive for life.  Virgo and Scorpio are fall sisters. They share a mysterious bond. They inhabit the time of the solar year when dark feminine...