The biggest, brightest Full Moon of the year has come and gone, leaving us in her wake. Mary Plumb writes some thoughts and stories that appeared with this lunation (accompanied boldly by Mars retrograde and the second Saturn-Pluto square).
In the manner of his earlier article on Venus, Adam Gainsburg writes on the upcoming retrograde Mars opposite the Sun. He also considers both planets within their larger synodic cycles.
Gary Caton looks at this week’s solar eclipse and its significance in the Saros Cycle in his fine article Capricorn Eclipse: New Power Emerges.
Remembering Janus, the Roman god of gates, doorways, beginnings and endings, Mary Plumb looks back and ahead as we enter the new year. Welcome twenty ten!
Guest blogger Claudia Dikinis looks at the Dec. 31 lunar eclipse, Teddy Kennedy’s legacy with the US health care bill, and the general state of the USA at the turn of the year in her wonderful blog.
Adam Gainsburg introduces a new model for delineating synodic cycles with a fascinating discussion of The Venus Journey.
Mary Plumb takes notice of the Pluto transit to the Sun in the Federal Reserve chart. The “populist anger” at the financial powers looks like it might manifest, in part, as an audit of the mega-bank. The blog has links to other commentators on the subject.
Mary Plumb writes personally about Chiron turning direct and slowly moving forward again – with Neptune, Jupiter and the Full Moon close by.
Gary Caton notices a few key historical events from Mars’s previous long transits in Leo (1962-63 and 1915-16). He then looks at the current ingress chart (Oct. 16) cast for Washington, D.C., and the Sibly chart to see what we might expect in these months approaching the Uranus-Pluto square.
Mary Plumb looks at President Obama’s big week from Copenhagen to Oslo, including an important shift in his progressed chart.
