STAR WANDERINGS

Squatting down, underneath the canteen table wearing protective glasses, and earplugs in my ears, I hear somebody comment: „I feel like being underwater “. That´s right, my senses feel off. This whole situation feels threatening despite the protective gear. How can I evaluate the situation properly if I feel so numbed out? Why did I get to this situation in the first place? Is this actually a protection or an unnecessary barrier that slows me down?  All I can think about is how fragile and soft I feel inside. I feel like I´m swimming in the emotional soup of the collective emotion. Despite the protective gear and the real circumstances, my body is under enormous stress. I keep telling myself "This is just a training". But you can never fool your body, your gut instinct. You could almost cut through the tension in the air that´s how thick it feels. You can hear the gunshots in the distance and you have no idea if/when/who is going to enter the room and threaten you. The moment...

  Since Jupiter entered Gemini in June of this year, we´ve been experiencing some growing discomfort. Having both Jupiter and Saturn in my 1st house, I´m quite familiar with the dynamic of this process. It´s like the Braxton Hicks contractions towards the end of pregnancy that are signaling to the body that it is the final stretch, getting ready for labor. Even though, these contractions often get confused with the real thing, their nature tells us that „we are not there yet“. They are unpredictable and non-rhythmic, they do not increase in strength and they are more uncomfortable than painful. Your belly gets hard, the baby might be in a weird position and you can often feel and see some baby body part somewhere on your belly. It´s pretty cool but at the same time kind of frightening. You know you can´t possibly go back. You know it´s coming and you start freaking out whether you´re actually ready (of course you´re not) and whether you should do something about it. But there is st...

  We’ve been through a lot of shock waves for the past few months. Yes, I’m talking about Uranus -heavy influence we’ve been experiencing in the sign of Taurus. Currently, we’re going through the most disruptive contact yet - Mars Uranus conjunction. I’ve been in a recovery mode for a few days. It made me ponder upon the nature of Uranus transits. Uranus brings us intense, electrifying, and shocking events that are energetically very demanding. Uranus works with us through these sudden flashes which might get us wildly excited or violently shattered. Uranus comes through our life like a fierce storm that leaves behind chaos, a path of damage that leaves some part of our life in rubble.   Uranus pumps restlessness into our bodies. It is here to initiate and invigorate. Uranus transits are these exciting thrillers that urge us to explore our desires and push us to let go of the steering wheel. During these intense windows of time, we tend to lose our heads and after the fla...

  Things have accelerated recently. I can´t believe it has been just a month since Jupiter ingressed Gemini. So much has happened already!  With Jupiter in airy sign of Gemini, it all feels like a grand game except noone has introduced the rules. Something always seems to come up that makes you pause. Sometimes it looks impossible right from the beginning – „this can never work out“. But in the end it tends to come together in a very mysterious way.  ​ Jupiter in Gemini is our fortune in misfortune.  He is shuffling our cards of fortune and we can never guess which ones he will deal us. He wants us to just play with whatever we have and be smart about it and when we refuse to fold he hands us a wild card. Jupiter in Gemini is an agent of chaos.  You can never figure out how Jupiter in Gemini works - there are no straight lines, no simple „cause and effect“ scenarios. Everything seems random but at the same time you sense all these events are part of some higher ...

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?...