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December: Saturn moves into its own chilly Capricorn, joining Pluto, first step in a stormy, two-year rendevouz...

December features frosty skies, whatever hemisphere you’re in, mainly because cold Saturn moves into Capricorn’s chilly domain, the giant planet’s own sign, where it joins wrecking-ball Pluto to further disassemble our expectations of stability for the next couple of years.

This big move coincides with all the major planets from Earth outward beginning to cluster inside just half the sky, culminating in a fateful huddle with Jupiter and Saturn in 2020. So, as Earth swings from one side of the solar system to the other, it kind of feels like a slingshot or roller coaster ride, as we either fall toward the populated side of our system or pull away from it, only to be dragged back in. Basically, we’ve got two practice runs before the big one, so time to get a feel for the swing of things.

That track really begins in earnest next month, but with Mercury retrograde most of December, it’s a great time to rethink your plans for the next couple of years, figure out what your options and bottom line might be when push comes to shove, the beginning of which is already underway, clear to anyone watching the news. Expect more of the same, and bigger, right over the horizon, so when you start to make those new year’s resolutions this time around and next, figure that you may actually have to not only keep, but cling to them...

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November walks the edge of the crossover between this year’s mixed, open skies and the intense bowl and bundle-shaped heavens on their way. With Jupiter racing into mid-Scorpio, it’s accelerating business as usual down below while the greater skies start signaling the changes to come. The difference between this and ordinary “as usual” is that there won’t be a return to the baseline normality (or even a slowdown) which is the usual result of usual swings. At least not any time soon.

That’s because the speed change isn’t from the regular growth surge-and-pause tide-like cycle we usually expect, but from our previous normality falling apart in preparation for a shift of social and political power and control. Similar to the period just before World War II, there is a sense of uncertain urgency all over sparked by the evident loosening of the ordinary ties that bind and protect and the presence of both conflict and eventual reordering just beyond the horizon.

So enjoy November’s brisk ride on mostly-locomotive Mars skies, as what’s to come isn’t a subsequent relaxing, but an acceleration of historic proportions, starting with and even-faster December and the new year ushering in an unusual two-month-plus of all planets charging forward, nothing retrograde, not even Mercury. As the planets begin to cluster, the effect is that everything speeds up, like a spinning ballet dancer pulling in her arms as the musical crescendo rises to its eventual climax...

October swells with compelling change, seductive and dangerous at the same time. The sexy Venus-Mars conjunction in Virgo sparkles in the sky, while Mars leads a forceful locomotive-pattern sky for most of the month, making for heated action out front, but even more so behind closed doors.

All this takes on hidden urgency as Jupiter makes its change for the year into Scorpio, where dark ambitions swell and secrets are at the heart of whatever is just about to happen. Both success and failure take on a fated quality that transcends the players involved and goes deeper than the individual plans or actions of any of them, while affecting all. With the emphasis on the Scorpio-Virgo combination, there’s a slightly perverse edge on matters, as those signs together are so wrapped up in S/M that you’ll see more than fifty shades of play involving personal and political dominance and submission, which may not be everybody’s favorite game.

It’s all about compelling (and compulsive) risky business that’s more like surging over hidden deep-water rocks than battling a more obviously dangerous storm. If you hit, you’ll go down in an instant with all hands, but if you float freely past the threat, you’ll never know the danger you were in, only the thrill of riding the swell and the exciting places it takes you to.

September: Uncertainty rules, like an unexpected migration straining against the sky, spreading unease...

September looks dicey, as multiple opportunities arise from splash skies mainly characterized by linked oppositions, as the world still reverberates from last month’s solar eclipse. The 14-year Jupiter-Uranus opposition cycle peaks, with exploding revelations that rock many boats, while in 1-2-3 order multiple planets oppose Neptune, making certainty intermittent and confusion rampant.

Further, these two oppositions are linked together in a modified “mystic rectangle” featuring not the usual mellow sextile but a truculent semi-square, so adjustment is jumpy and grating, like a malfunctioning clutch trying to shift gears. It’s certainly an interesting and consistent month-long pattern, but one with a lot of surprises made more difficult to digest by misinformation, deceit, and delusion.

The air is one of unsure but compelling change, as if a sudden and unexpected, unseasonal migration of birds is filling the sky, destination unknown, motivation a mystery, implications vaguely unsettling. All is not comfortable, and it may be hard to know exactly why and sort out what’s useful from what’s simply distraction.  Untrustworthiness abounds, so don’t get pulled in until you’ve checked more than twice, giving time for further revelations and warnings to manifest.

Good news is that Venus and Mars are headed for a charming and sexy run together, especially as Jupiter speeds out of Libra and into Scorpio, all starting next month. September is a decidedly shaky preface to October, so thread your way with care until firmer ground appears...

 August: The Great American Eclipse is all the news, with ramifications across the country and around the world...

August skies are monopolized by the Great American Eclipse, the first solar eclipse where the path of totality touches the U.S.A. alone, and no place else. and doesn’t also traverse another country (it starts in the Pacific Ocean, ends in the Atlantic) since 1918. For sky viewers, it’s a big deal, and will be a big summer tourist attraction across middle America. But astrologically, it’s also a big deal, as it opposes America’s natal Moon (national feelings), and it directly hits the country’s president on his Ascendant (physical image) and progressed Sun (inner, developing ego). Every six months, eclipses (there’s also a lunar August 7) make for choppy waters, unexpected seismic shifts, the rug pulled out from under, and this one is likely to be writ large because of those involved. Not for us to predict specific events, but with the generally chaotic trends already in place, one may expect a few publicly-capsized boats and suddenly-triggered tumult arising from an upset populace.

But beyond politics, the sky is a bit quirky, with the Jupiter-Pluto square turned into T- and grand crosses, making progress bumpy and fractious at best, more of the spontaneous breakage phenomenon we were seeing in the spring. There’s a nice, morphing grand fire trine (Sun, then Moon, with Saturn and Uranus) to catch a ride on briefly, three weeks in, but you’ll have to keep an eye out for opposing forces while slipping into that good thing. Especially as Mercury is retrograde and opposing Neptune (all kinds of deceit in the works, coming to light). Trust only yourself and favor the scenic road less-travelled and you can enjoy the summer’s end and catch the rest of it on the news...

July brings mixed skies, wide-open for opportunity but also spiked with trouble spots from a Jupiter T-square involving Pluto and the Sun and Mars, with spotty quincunxes making tripfalls along the verge. Whereas most moments have been safe ground for spontaneous forays of ambition or inspiration over the last couple of months, start looking where you leap to avoid unexpected brambles invading the footpath.

Take care to establish in each step a fallback position, as looming next month is not only the usual, surprise-laden biannual eclipse season, but this time a really big one: the Great American Eclipse whose path will rake the U.S. coast to coast with likely fallout for some time to come. That’s especially the case as it exactly touches American President Trump’s Ascendant and progressed Sun (and opposes the national Moon), and he’s already under increasing bombardment. Any direct hits there will doubtless ripple across the nation and around the world.

So imagine you’re moving, timewise, into the vicinity of an erupting volcano – it will be a spectacle with great opportunities for memorable experiences, but be wary of the falling ash and occasional lava flow that may suddenly bubble up under your feet if you get too close to the action. The view above and all around will be fascinating and distracting, but keep glancing down at the ground nearby to make sure you don’t step in something you’ll regret...

 JUNE: as summer beckons, so does opportunity, which blossoms like a tropical flower after a rainstorm.

June is busting out all over, so if you haven’t already got things underway to take advantage of continuing fair skies, time to get on with it. Blossoms are blooming and blooms are blossoming, wherever buds had been hibernating through a cold spring (symbolically speaking, as astrologically it’s the same down under, despite reversal of weather seasons).  There are multiple trines and grand trines daily to tie your ambitions to, so the chances of a good outcome are high, even if you’re not doing the actual choosing first-hand. The afflictions of the last year are for the moment dispersed, and future ones are yet to threaten, so embrace the smiling heavens and let them enfold you with their potential.

The only caveat in the midst of all this vernal glory is to keep a steady hand on the wheel, even as you relax into the pace. It’s very easy to go faster than you intend and wind up overshooting the mark or spinning off the road even on a gentle curve. When the wind is at your back, you can get swept along to situations you may not be able to sustain when the weather gets more unstable. Enjoy the experience and take on as much as you can, just not more than you can handle later.

Oh, the lark in the morning she rises from her nest,
And she mounts in the air with the dew upon her breast...

May, at last, looks like a month to rejoice in, after a long stretch of normally-benefic Jupiter turned bull-in-china-shop by the lingering T-cross with Uranus and Pluto. Finally, the skies open and held-down opportunities have the space to blossom, supported by daily-formed grand trines involving Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, with the Moon filling them all in from time to time. Births, projects, and journeys begun this month have built-in good fortune that will abide through darker days ahead.

So, spring is finally spring this month, time to rise and fly like the lark in the morning and get an overview of all the possibilities for new places to go and new ways to bring your flower to bloom without the variety of troubles that have been disrupting Jupiter’s march through the signs for a very long time. Remember, though, it’s all momentary, in context of the inexorable vortex we are all spinning toward, broadly characterized by the follies of Brexit and the recent American election.

If there is an historic parallel or metaphor for this sunny period of seeming respite, it would be the fun and futuristic 1939 Worlds’ Fair and the fantasy it represented. Regardless of what may be on the horizon, a lark under sunny skies on a fair breeze is something to treasure. For this moment the world is your glistening, fresh oyster on the half shell – savor the dish before it gets roasted by the coming barbecue...

April: your palm can bear fruit this month, if not struck by lightning from aggravated Jupiter T-square...

April advice: your palm tree can still bear fruit amid this month’s storms, providing it isn’t struck by lightning along the way. Sounds like an April fool, but it’s not. Jupiter’s wrecking-ball T-square with Uranus and Pluto begins to fade after a tight alignment with the April 11 full Libra Moon, already two days into Mercury retrograde, so blustering instability is the name of the game. With that blocked Jupiter leading a locomotive or bucket sky pattern most of the month, the urge to break your fist on the wall is strong but should be avoided. Force will only further stymie the situation, particularly when there are two nice trines of Mars and Pluto (briefly) and Saturn and Uranus (all month) that allow more careful players to slip around obstacles and onto big rewards on the back of accompanying diurnal and lunar grand trines. The prize goes to the clever and the watchful, not to the urgently insistent, so make your choice to win or lose.

The lesson for the month is the wisdom of abandoning non-working and ultimately undesirable directions, which six week of Venus retrograde have unraveled. Cut losses and move on, using Mercury retro to rearrange the game plan, switch gears and redraw the map. And all this in the middle of a sky awash with conflicting winds and storms, a prickly nest of sesquiquadratures (135 degrees) and quincunxes (150 degrees) that allow no rest and invite sudden incidents and accidents. Step carefully, keep your head down (lightning strikes higher objects), and the fruit is yours to harvest...

MARCH: current breakage trend may be part of greater plan above, but it means stormy disarray down below...

March comes in like a lion, regardless of the weather, as retrograde Jupiter tightens up the harsh T-square with Uranus and Pluto, continuing the theme of breakage in the attempt to make forced redevelopment. Like a bull in a china shop, the result instead of exciting improvement is broken china, frightened and hysterical customers, upset shop owners, and an ever-angrier bull bent on further destruction.

That’s not just a description of American politics, but of what the sky is up to in general wherever you are, on the individual as well as political level. The “bad Jupiter” trend we’ve been on these last four years continues as we spin toward a 2020 vortex where real outer and inner change may be accomplished. Mistakes have been made at every level, mostly through neglect and self-involvement, and the poisonous piper is being paid accordingly.

Most notable nearly all this month and into April, Venus is retrograde. That’s about taking a second look at what you thought you wanted, liked, craved, and ingested, and then finding it wasn’t to your taste at all. So, the challenge becomes how to spit it out, change or revive your previous preferences, and get what you actually do want, if it’s still anywhere to be had and you’re not too sick from what you just ate. Buyers’ remorse, return policies (which may not be honored), and the betrayal of vows number among the other manifestations of this retro.

Last month was a messy and confused eclipse period, compounded by Mars-Uranus, but it will take the shock of the next set of eclipses in August and the following set in February 2018 to finally clarify and begin to rectify the deconstructive trend so casually and thoughtlessly fallen into by so many, individually and socially, locally and internationally. But for now, start by clearing your own mind, paying attention, and doing something, anything, that comes from your head and your heart, instead of your recently-ailing gut...

FEBRUARY: like lightning in an exposed field, eclipses and Mars/Uranus clash may illuminate, or destroy...

February compounds the already extreme skies by doubling up on the harsh and unexpected. It’s eclipse season again, with a lunar eclipse at 22 Aquarius-Leo followed by a solar eclipse at 8 Pisces. This always makes things topsy-turvy, where the rug gets pulled out from under when least anticipated. But month’s end adds a kicker to the mix in the form of the biennial Mars-Uranus conjunction, a traditional harbinger of violence, especially in parts of the world where it’s on one of the Angles. That’s compounded by its position in the already-contentious Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto T-square, whose recent signature has been forced change through breakage and conflict instead of cooperation and growth, formerly the usual signature of Jupiter involvement.

The upside is a sexy and scintillating Venus-Mars conjunction ripping through Aries, exciting the senses and promising the fulfillment of action and desire in combination...although it never quite completes its union, as Mars dashes ahead to collide with Uranus instead. All in all, it will be a month to keep your eyes open, step gingerly, but enjoy the fruits of the moment before the next instant arrives with unannounced change, reversing direction at your peril...

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January skies witness the locking-in of the winter-to-spring Jupiter T-square with Uranus and Pluto, without the more relaxing basket pattern that somewhat eased late December. The thrust of it is change and expansion (Jupiter) through conflict (Uranus) and force (Pluto), reaching its peak for the month as the full Moon in the second week transforms it into a large cardinal grand cross. Things will be heating up above and below, and not just from global warming (though that, too, just ask a polar bear). What was a feeling of uncertainty last month breaks into action this month, but with more locked horns than real progress the result. At least, Mercury retro finishes up after the first week, so clarity is available, even if results are not.

There is a bit of a dreamy side to it all, as both Mars and Venus cross over Neptune in Pisces so the hope of doing and getting what you want is very much at the fore, if only you can get past the battling herd and find a spot where visions can become reality unhindered. Wherever you find those fantasies fulfilled, you deserve it, as it’s all focused around the South Node, which is about both rewards and comeuppance, karma in fulfillment. In that vein, it may seem there’s less choice than usual, as the month begins with Sun crossing Pluto and ends with Mercury crossing it, both indicators of situations that are intransigent if you stand and fight, though many will make that choice. Irresistible forces and unmovable objects are on collision course. Hopefully, you can avoid being either one...

Trump’s Stars (NY Daily News) – Nice roundup on America’s wildest card by astrologer Lynn Hayes...

Vector Signs (Graphics) – Zodiac glyphs and illustrations are notably boring and hackneyed...here are some creative new graphic approaches...

Changing Horses (Daily Mail) – In midstream yet, all because of an astrology reading...

New Dwarf Planet (CFHT) – Our solar system is getting ever-more crowded... click on the photo for a nice view of just how...plus a view of all twenty-seven...

Recycled Souls (MalcomsAnomalies) – Not astrological per se, but helps put into clear relief where the horoscope begins (and the subsequent development of character)...

To Ban, or Not (The Hindu) – In the home of the star-smitten, another round of debate rages whether to banish a favorite pastime...

Hospital Astrology (QZ) – Well, here’s one form of treatment that is at least low-risk...

Ancient Telescope (NAM) – Sacred spaces with limited sky view featured high-focus view of happening celestial events...

Captured Planet (DailyGalaxy) – Could the still-at-large giant Planet Nine be a runaway captive, snagged by our solar system?...

Cloned Cows Over The Moon (ANS) – Identical cows born at different times appear to follow their horoscope traits...

Plutonic Ocean (Brown) – An ocean sloshing about on Pluto, today??! Amazing...

Electric Wind (AGU) – What lurks above...our sister Venus was stripped and ripped of all her water by this little horror...

Milky Way Missing (NOAA) – Can’t see it for the night lights, and that actually disrupts life down here...

Philosopher’s Guide to the Galaxy (Mysterious Universe) – That would be the ancient Greek mystery sextant-like Antikythera device, more broadly interpreted...

The Path To Nine (Agencia) – A host of trans-Neptunian objects may point to the searched-for mystery planet in our system...

Death from the Sky (Mysterious Universe) – Ancient cultures around the world share tales of incidents when above rained destruction on below...what, and when, are the questions...

Our Own Little Asteroid Moon (JPL) – It circles us, in our orbit, an actual candidate for the likes of Lilith...

Star Songs (Mysterious Universe) – We’ve long said the planets’ wavelengths are what affects us...stars have them, too, and here’s a listen to several...

Stonehenge Imagined (Sputnik) – Now they say the whole thing was moved from Wales, or that it was the gonads of something even larger, and, and...

Useful Moon (Inquisitr) – She’s worth having around, after all, say scientists...

Is Your Business Prepared... (GlobalRiskInsights) -- ...for a hit from the sky? It’s not just cyberattacks from humans that could shut you down...

End-Times Tussle (Times of Israel) – An astrologer predicts the end, a cleric punches him out for it...all on live TV...

Like A Lava Lamp (JHUAPL) – That’s Pluto’s heart, which continues to amaze...

Kind of a Drag (Telegraph) – That’s what Stonehenge was, according to new experiment...the astrological center was simply towed into place on sleds...

Sleepless Moon (Huff Post) – Both kids and adults seem to have trouble sleeping at full Moon, whether they can see the light or not...

New Planet Lurking (ANS) – More speculation on a big one hanging around our neighborhood, from the fellow who helped demote Pluto...

Nepotism Beyond the Grave (Daily Mail) – The prematurely-passed Daily Mail starcaster passed on a message that he wants his nephew to replace him...

Arctic Space Weather Danger (Washington Post) – New cruises in the High Arctic could find themselves without a compass...

If The Moon Exploded (TechInsider) – Or just vanished. The results would be catastrophic...which makes one consider that the effects of astrology may be as much about rhythmically maintaining things as causing change...

Poles To Heaven (LiveScience) – Prehistoric gateway to the sky among Amerindians...

The Right Spin (AIP) – We’ve got it, and that’s an important assumption...

Sappho’s Stars (UTA) – A poem by the elusive muse of Lesbos, dated by its celestial description...

Good Advice (ANS) – The best thing a wise astrologer can do may be to keep silent, unless asked...

Morphing Magnetism (ESA) – North America is getting less magnetic, Asia more, and fast...does this tell us something?..

Synchronized Planets (PSU) – Astrology is about planets being in dynamic resonant exchange. It appears some other systems do it even better than ours...

Big Dwarf (JPL) – Third-largest, and unnamed, dwarf planet in our own system...who knew?...

Planets In Cathedris (York Press) – Floating planets in a cathedral, in a Mystery Play...wonderful image...

When Astrologers Agree... (Complex) -- ...that things are awful. An example of many recent articles complaining about too much retro...

Entropic Time (Gizmodo) – Arrow of time, or multiverse, or...?...this has got to be the cleverest science/music video of the year...

Remains of the Fray (Guardian) – After the premature demise of UK astrologer Jonathan Cainer, who’s left standing? And who’s next, makes you wonder...

Will The Moon Leave Us? (Pravda) – And what will happen when it does...?

Small Planet, Big Wind (AGU) – Pluto puts up stiff resistance to the solar wind, in a unique way...

Jonathan Cainer Passes (Guardian) – The former Daily Mail astrologer is no more, from a heart attack at 58...

Astologer Hacked (Ahmedabad Mirror) – Astrologer claims bookies tapped into his site, wanted to know the future for sports odds-making...

Space Weather Protection (Washington Post) – Real storms from above could cripple us, and now Congress is taking action...

Extinct Aliens (Nature World) – Something to look forward to...it’s estimated that alien civilizations in the sky probably have already existed, but they’re long out of business...

Makemake Moon (Crikey) – Distant planet, distant moon, the more you look, the more you find...

Helical Madness (djsadhu) – Yes, we move in a spiral, everything does...check the other different YouTube videos that follow as well, lots of engaging visual approaches...

Debunking the Debunkers (538) – Astrology gets put down a lot, but can you believe the debunkers? Here’s why not...

Sleepy-Wakey (Science Daily) – Women are more sensitive to diurnal time shifts...is it the Moon?...

C-Story (NIExpress) – More C-sections because astrologers are choosing birth time?...haven’t heard this one for a few years...

Planetary Hum (New Republic) – This sounds like an infrasound terrestrial phenomenon, but it could be ultrasound interference of interplanetary frequencies...

Retro Celebration (Bustle) – Here’s what to do when it’s raining retrogrades, cute...

Transit of Mercury (Sky and Telescope) – The rare, ultimate cazimi Mercury is on its way...watch the Sun (carefully) to see it...

Emergency Moon (Advancing Care) – It may or may not be proveable, but ER folks firmly believe the full Moon brings more business...

Wildly Popular (Times of India) – Subcontinental upstart is biggest astrology site, or claims to be...

Subtle Cycles (ABC) – Like planetary influences, and brain magnetism, the cues that engineer sleep-time shifts aren’t obvious. It’s takes tiny tweaks, not big changes, to make major adjustments...

Moon Lock (UniverseToday) – We put the brakes on the Moon, so when will it return the favor?...

Wobble Trouble (Maritime Exec) – The Earth’s real axis (not the normally wide-ranging magnetic poles) has taken a sudden shift Eastward...

Sleeping Children (Cantechletter) – Does the full Moon affect kids’ sleeping patterns? No, but yes, it would appear...

Hot Comets Breed Sweet Life (RawStory) – As their crystals heat up approaching a star (like the Sun) they start to synthesize sugars, like a vat of home brew...

Astrologers Call All The Shots (Gulf News) – In West Bengal politics...officeholders (and seekers) don’t make a move without a glance at the stars...

Are Turkeys Affected by the Full Moon? (Field and Stream) – Why so long in asking? So many questions, so little time...

Boom and Bust (SeekingAlpha) – Economic cycles are swinging more intensely, and note the graph, it’s the Jupiter wave we’ve been talking about, and its hard aspects to Saturn...

More Than Tides (CNRS) – Mother Moon may affect us lots more than we thought...by keeping us hot (yes!), it may maintain our magnetic field that keeps out deadly space winds...

Gobbling Giant (Microcap) – Jupiter just ate something splashy – part of its symbolism we forget, demonstrated: it engulfs and devours...

Moon Tubes (National Geographic) – Volcanic tunnels, big enough to live in...perfect discovery for a worm moon...

The Sky Is Falling (Esoterix) – That seems to have been a problem, over the years, and the memory lingers...but just when, actually, did it?...

Dinosaur Rings (SETI) – Saturn’s rings and icy moons may be new, in planetary terms, from when our own dinosaurs were in flower...

Lunar Tilt (NASA) – Arctic ice reveals shift of lunar axis way back...

“Like The Moon” (Huff Post) – That would be Donald Trump, according to 10-year-old wise beyond his years. Cruz, like the Sun, Kasich, like the Earth. But this kid is actually feeling the Bern...

Darkness in the Afternoon (NCRegister) – Re: Easter...was the darkness during the day of Christ’s crucifixion a solar eclipse, as the Greek text seems to say? Probably not, but that evening’s lunar eclipse may tell yet another tale...

Cayce’s Astrology (ANS) – He covered a lot, much of which has come to pass, and the rest, well, maybe yet...

The Unseen Homeless (Forbes) – That would apply to half the planets in the universe, according to the latest. “Rogue” wanderers without home stars are everywhere, but invisible...

Dueling Cycles (PhysOrg) – Double cycle interplay is warming things up...

Jupiter Sweeps Clean (Science News) – The big planet cleaned our clocks before migrating further out to become our protector...

Mystery Mounds and Menhirs (ATA) – The way to the next world was through Cygnus and Orion for Amerindians, Neolithic French made do with a monster menhir...

Why Don’t Planets Hit Each Other? (Forbes) – Well they do, sometimes, and used to do it a lot...

It’s About Heritage (DNA India) – Astrology is, and should be supported, researched and brought into the modern age says Subcontinental pol...

Chasing #9 (UniverseToday) – The Kuiper Belt could provide the clue to big, slow, terrestrial planet in our own system...

Reverberation (SpaceWeather) – Our magnetic field literally shakes, and shakes us with it, when solar storm blasts like great ocean swells crash over us, or even just pass by...keep track of it all at www.spaceweather.com ...

Mourning Nancy (ANS) – Who’s going to miss her more than astrologers? She helped put them back on the political map...

Dark Mercury (CS Monitor) – For something that rules writing, it appears it’s covered in pencil lead...

Sky Emerald (Siberian Times) – It may have come to Earth when comet struck Tunguska...

Circling Snowflakes (MNN) – Planets form the way snowflakes do, and each as different as well...

Surfin’ in the Rays (Daily Mail) – By full Moonlight, down under, what could be more fun...great pix...

The End, My Friend (Express) – Super New Moon, total eclipse, asteroid close encounter, how could this not be the end of the world?...

Astrology vs. Religion (Phila. Tribune) – Many Christians still disapprove of astrology because, clearly, they don’t understand it...

Frog Songs (Desert Sun) – A lyrical reminder that when the Moon rises, lots of folks get involved...

Moon and Tides (Techinsider) – It’s more than just the Moon...and astrologers should make the inference that it’s more than just one, or all, of the planets, too...context is everything...

Surprise Meteors (SETI) -- ...and a potentially threatening comet behind them...

Moon Forever (Spaceref) – It’s an international postage stamp, very cool, get ‘em while their around...

Warming Topping Natural Cycles (Missoulian) – It appears global warming may be trumping long-term astrolonomical (such as Milankovitch) cycles...

Pluto’s Lunar Ocean (Astronomy) – Subterranean, liquid water ocean may have flourished on Charon...the planet(s) of the next world get even stranger...

Spanish Pyramid (Ancient Code) – First one in Spain, looks real to us, link to great video in Spanish...

Planets Cause Quakes (Indian Express) – Do they, really? Well, it’s about gravity vectors, and that’s a really good start...

Stone Circle? (Beaver Island) – On Beaver Island, MI? Maybe, but the island’s really strange history is worth a read, regardless...

East Meets West (ANS) – Vedic and Western astrologers in major palaver seek common ground...

What Is A Planet? (Forbes) – We deal in planets, but what really defines one? Starts with Pluto, but lots more to think about...

Rolling Poles (Nature) – The Sun’s magnetic poles are somersaulting, driving sunspots in their wake..

The Best Planet (Atlantic) – That would be Uranus, according to this lengthy and fun but strictly astronomical take. But look at all the perfect astrological keywords used to describe the oddball spheroid...

Flocking Politicos (Hindustan Times) – Jupiter conjunct the North Node (Rahu) in Vedic Leo promises bad juju, has Subcontinental politicians nervously consulting their starcasters...

The Floating Hills of Pluto (JHUAPL) – Like the land of the dead, the planet of the same is chock-a-bloc with ethereal mysteries only now being uncovered...

Super Earth (NPR) – We’re missing a whole third class of planet in our system, with all kinds of odd potentials...but the mysterious “ninth planet” now under consideration just might be one...

Sports Astrologer (Fusion) – How do you get to be one? Tales from the upbringing of athletics starcaster Andrea Mallis, with a word on the Super Bowl, too...

Smelling the Stars (Racked) – An astrology-born perfume, based on your own natal chart? How sweetly celestial...

Tricky Math (Yahoo) – The Babylonians, it appears, were using some fancy calculus (literally) to track Jupiter’s orbit...

Rainy Moon (Eurekalert) – The Moon’s phase affects local rainfall, and although maybe not every mood, definitely your sleep...

Head-On Collision (UCLA) – That’s what formed the Moon, not a glancing blow...we are two planets, together...

Lunar Crimes (mocregister) – When the Moon is full, the cops have to come out, they’re expecting it...

Climate Mix (Heartland) – A lot of planetary cycles go into historical weather, and despite this denier’s take, adding human effluence to the stew could throw off the rhythm...

Tribal Honors? (Huff Post) – The lunar cycle, writ in blood, for bonding?...

Mercury Retro On Amazon (Ayurastro) – Phenomenal research, really, and even more refined here...

Name the Moon (Deathandtaxes) – Does our Moon really need another name, at $1 a chance?...hilarious weirdness...

Planet Nine (Caltech) – It’s big, and it’s hanging out in a weird orbit twenty times farther out than Neptune, with a cycle of ten to twenty thousand years...but not directly observed, yet...and oddly, it could be useful, for us...

Full Moon Behavior (Hickory Record) – New book out on research on full Moon effects on various types of folks and events...

Five Planets (Sky and Telescope) – All visible at the same time, what a locomotive chart looks like, first hand...

French Pups Score Points (ANS) – Pedigreed dogs show distinct characteristics depending on planetary angularity, research journal reveals...

Disrupted Cycles (Summit County Voice) – Usually it’s planetary cycles working their will on us...now, it seems in quite the reverse, we’ve knocked out a big one all by ourselves...

Moon Migration (DispatchTribunal) – Arctic marine animals chase the moonlight in winter...

No Way to Start the Year (Washington Post) – With all sorts of signs, seasons, and planetary cycles available, we had to start off on January 1...here’s why...

Are Horoscopes Still A Thing? (Smithsonian) – A good question, from the concierge of America’s attic...

Credit Cycles (ValueWalk) – Back in 1867, folks were thinking about all this in strangely deeper ways...

Changing and Unchanging Cycles (Huff Post) – There are a lot of them, a thoughtful article wrap...

High Water, Full Moon (CityWeekly) – A horoscope-y kind of way to think about when something happens...

Lunar Cycle, Life Decisions (Mirror) – This writer makes major decisions based on the Moon...might give that a second thought...

Quo Vadis, Astrologer? (Independent) – In this day of science and cynicism, what place for the starcaster?...

Bipolar Sleep/Wake (IBTimes) – Diurnal cycles are linked to bipolarity...not surprising, actually...

Signs Meme Takes Tumblr (Techinsider) – Astro-themed meme had social media site in thrall throughout 2015...

Zodiac Killer (GlobeAndMail) – That’s what this columnist felt like when faced with astrologers’ glib advice...

Planetary Stamps (Collect Space) – Of the postal variety, coming this year, pretty...

Inherited Traits (Eurekalert) – Another diurnal, seemingly sky-driven, set of characteristics turn out to be genetic...

Gene Cycles (The Scientist) – Diurnal cycles change with age, some even get better.

The Spectrum (FastCodeDesign) – Of Earthlike planets, we couldn’t pass up this graphic...more here...

Giant Comets Threaten (RAS) – They threaten us...more than asteroids...very traditional, actually...

In Praise of Skeptics (ANS) – They give astrologers courage...well, we hope so, anyway...

Christmas Moonlight Swim Peril (Afloat) – It’s common knowledge that this Christmas sports a rare full Moon, and even a two-tailed comet. But few know the hazards it will engender for swimmers off Ireland...swimmers, in winter, off Ireland?...mirabile dictu...

Gods, Monsters, and Scientists (New Scientist) – Does (or will) the host of new voted-in names for recently-discovered objects have any symbolic meaning, as the traditional planet names seem to have? Hard to tell, considering...

Lurking Beyond Pluto (Fox) – Earth-size planets, perhaps two of them, frozen in space…

Stonehenge Glaciers (Telegraph) – Stonehenge moved there by glaciers? No it wasn’t…the Telegraph will print anything…

Heart Yes, Horoscope No (NY Times) – Being brought up in a culture steeped in astrology…a unique and conflicted outlook for a modern woman…

Space Weather At Pluto (Wired) – It’s beautiful, and throughout the system, in NASA visualization…

Astrologer Cracked Case (Manorama) – Next to still water and four coconut trees, said the starcaster to the cop, and sure enough, the loot was found right there…

Ban Astrology on TV (India Today) – That’s what Subcontinental officials again threaten to do…

Earth Without Moon (Huffington) – We’d likely not be here, too boring for life…

“Stonehenge” of the Levant (EpochTimes) – On the Golan Heights, 40,000 tons of black basalt—stacked into at least five concentric rings, unexplained…

Superflares (Warwick) – The Sun could let out blasts 1000x greater than we’ve ever seen, judging by what’s just been noticed elsewhere…

Jupiter’s Whirlwinds (MPS) – They go opposite of ours, because it is, quite appropriately, like a boiling pot…

Aligned to the Moon (Discovery) – An ancient Greek temple, in Italy, why wouldn’t it be?

Are Scientists Wrong? (Irish Times) – …to dismiss astrology? Nice that someone is asking the question, if a bit airily…

The Lost Light of the Moon (Daily Forward) – Elaborate, sophisticated Talmudic reinterpretation of women and the Moon, their place historically and philosophically…

Astrologer In Office (MMTimes) – After years of astrologers advising the Myanmar dictatorship, now one has actually gotten elected under new democracy effort…

Eleven Ghosts (Manorama) – Meanwhile, next door, Indian astrologer leads exorcism of spirits causing bus accidents, to some scandal…

The Moon and Your Body (Care2) – More on just how the Moon affects you, for real…

Flying Gold, No Eclipses (New Scientist) – We could have had eclipses every month, but we got gold instead…

Mars Crunching Moon (Berkeley) – The Red Planet is in the process of crushing its moon Phobos into what will become a dusty, Saturn-like ring…

Dies In Jail (DW.com) – Astrologer who challenged government mysteriously dies in government detention…

Hairy Dark Matter (JPL) – It’s sprouting from Earth, and the other planets, does this explain anything astrological?...

Our Planet Moon? (New Scientist) – Is our Moon a planet? According to new definition, yes, and Pluto still wouldn’t be. Get it together, astronomers…

All The Rage (Standard) – This season’s fashion plate is chock-a-block with astrological themes…

Mini-Pluto (Discover) – Just discovered: three times the distance of Pluto, rather much smaller…named V774101, so far…

Full Moon Rising (El Dorado News) – It’s not often this interesting, or weird, in El Dorado…

King Tides (The Weather Network) – The lunar pull isn’t just a daily or monthly affair – around Vancouver, it’s a seasonal peril as well…

Astonishing Pluto (JHUAPL) – After all the pointless debate about the status of the planet of Death, it and its wild moons are turning out to be the most amazing planetary outpost in the entire solar system….

Retro Mind Set (ANS) – An evolutionary psychological problem may be what keeps much of science from further investigation of astrology…

When Cops Turn To Astrology (The Hindu) – Why did all those newly-promoted officers turn up to work for the first time at odd hours? Odds are, an astrologer was involved…

Save the Owls! (AsianAge) – Astrologer seeks to protect useful species from lethal Diwali black magic hanky-panky…

On-Sale Cycles (Lacrosse Tribune) – Those items you want at the grocery store on sale are on a 12-week rhythm…snatch ‘em up now, or wait three months…

Dwarf and a Planet? (Science20) – What if there are more rocky planets like Pluto farther out? Or even bigger ones? What would that imply?…

Fourteen Songs About Astrology (Paste) – Says it all…so many, who knew?

Jupiter Unbound (Washington Post) – When the big boy went nuts…It may have been a while back, but it shows just how much mutual influence planets have on each other, and thus whoever’s on them, the essence of astrology…

Mystery Earthworks (NY Times) – Giant prehistoric structures broader than the pyramids along with mysterious symbols are spotted in Kazakhstan by NASA flyover…does this set back our civilization dating?...

Getting Certified (ANS) – Standards for astrology…there need to be some, just to establish legitimacy, but not everyone agrees how it should be done…

More Little Lunatics (XYZ) – Do kids get crazier on full Moon, or do teachers get better at coping with it? A good across-the-board question in this sort of investigation…

Seers, Speculators, and Spirits (AsiaOne) – Thailand’s astrological politics is a mix of animism, religion, and real astrology…

Less Lunar Impacts (Discovery) – Long research reveals Moon may not be so bruised, and neither may we…

Dead Skull Comet (NASA) – The “Halloween asteroid” flyby is really a comet, a dead one that resembles a skull…and then there’s the fireballs to keep track of…including one of our own…

Giant Solar Storms (Lund Univ.) – Tree rings reveal massive solar storms in the Dark Ages that next time round could devastate modern technology in a flash…U.S. government is preparing for it...

Business Cycle Dragons (FtAlphaville) – Chinese have been tuned in to natural economic cycles from the get-go…

Potholes on Pluto… (Mysterious Universe) – …and pyramids on its moon. Horizon photos raise a host of mysteries from the planet of Hades…

Convicting Confessions (Mumbai Mirror) – Admissions of guilt to an astrologer and a priest combine to put away a rapist and murder in special women’s court…

Moon In Peril (Express) – Halloween asteroid flyby will miss earth, but could it blow up the Moon? Not likely, but the Express loves the thought…

Lunar Cycling (Bangor Daily News) – Something else to do at full Moon, a trend that’s all the rage…

Early In The Game (Hubblesite) – It appears we are one of only the first set of planets likely to develop life in the universe, the rest are yet to come…food for thought…

Mass Extinctions (RAS) – Triggered by comet/meteor showers, on a regular cycle…every time…when next?...

Black Magic Murder (Times of India) – They’re at it again, this time the astrologer provides the tipoff…

Pluto’s Plenty (CMNS) – Pluto and company are enormously more interesting and varied than ever dreamed of…

Gods, Monsters, and Scientists (New Scientist) – Does (or will) the host of new voted-in names for recently-discovered objects have any symbolic meaning, as the traditional planet names seem to have? Hard to tell, considering...

Lurking Beyond Pluto (Fox) – Earth-size planets, perhaps two of them, frozen in space…

Stonehenge Glaciers (Telegraph) – Stonehenge moved there by glaciers? No it wasn’t…the Telegraph will print anything…

Heart Yes, Horoscope No (NY Times) – Being brought up in a culture steeped in astrology…a unique and conflicted outlook for a modern woman…

Space Weather At Pluto (Wired) – It’s beautiful, and throughout the system, in NASA visualization…

Astrologer Cracked Case (Manorama) – Next to still water and four coconut trees, said the starcaster to the cop, and sure enough, the loot was found right there…

Ban Astrology on TV (India Today) – That’s what Subcontinental officials again threaten to do…

Earth Without Moon (Huffington) – We’d likely not be here, too boring for life…

“Stonehenge” of the Levant (EpochTimes) – On the Golan Heights, 40,000 tons of black basalt—stacked into at least five concentric rings, unexplained…

Superflares (Warwick) – The Sun could let out blasts 1000x greater than we’ve ever seen, judging by what’s just been noticed elsewhere…

Jupiter’s Whirlwinds (MPS) – They go opposite of ours, because it is, quite appropriately, like a boiling pot…

Aligned to the Moon (Discovery) – An ancient Greek temple, in Italy, why wouldn’t it be?

Are Scientists Wrong? (Irish Times) – …to dismiss astrology? Nice that someone is asking the question, if a bit airily…

The Lost Light of the Moon (Daily Forward) – Elaborate, sophisticated Talmudic reinterpretation of women and the Moon, their place historically and philosophically…

Astrologer In Office (MMTimes) – After years of astrologers advising the Myanmar dictatorship, now one has actually gotten elected under new democracy effort…

Eleven Ghosts (Manorama) – Meanwhile, next door, Indian astrologer leads exorcism of spirits causing bus accidents, to some scandal…

The Moon and Your Body (Care2) – More on just how the Moon affects you, for real…

Flying Gold, No Eclipses (New Scientist) – We could have had eclipses every month, but we got gold instead…

Mars Crunching Moon (Berkeley) – The Red Planet is in the process of crushing its moon Phobos into what will become a dusty, Saturn-like ring…

Dies In Jail (DW.com) – Astrologer who challenged government mysteriously dies in government detention…

Hairy Dark Matter (JPL) – It’s sprouting from Earth, and the other planets, does this explain anything astrological?...

Our Planet Moon? (New Scientist) – Is our Moon a planet? According to new definition, yes, and Pluto still wouldn’t be. Get it together, astronomers…

All The Rage (Standard) – This season’s fashion plate is chock-a-block with astrological themes…

Mini-Pluto (Discover) – Just discovered: three times the distance of Pluto, rather much smaller…named V774101, so far…

Full Moon Rising (El Dorado News) – It’s not often this interesting, or weird, in El Dorado…

King Tides (The Weather Network) – The lunar pull isn’t just a daily or monthly affair – around Vancouver, it’s a seasonal peril as well…

Astonishing Pluto (JHUAPL) – After all the pointless debate about the status of the planet of Death, it and its wild moons are turning out to be the most amazing planetary outpost in the entire solar system….

Retro Mind Set (ANS) – An evolutionary psychological problem may be what keeps much of science from further investigation of astrology…

When Cops Turn To Astrology (The Hindu) – Why did all those newly-promoted officers turn up to work for the first time at odd hours? Odds are, an astrologer was involved…

Save the Owls! (AsianAge) – Astrologer seeks to protect useful species from lethal Diwali black magic hanky-panky…

On-Sale Cycles (Lacrosse Tribune) – Those items you want at the grocery store on sale are on a 12-week rhythm…snatch ‘em up now, or wait three months…

Dwarf and a Planet? (Science20) – What if there are more rocky planets like Pluto farther out? Or even bigger ones? What would that imply?…

Fourteen Songs About Astrology (Paste) – Says it all…so many, who knew?

Jupiter Unbound (Washington Post) – When the big boy went nuts…It may have been a while back, but it shows just how much mutual influence planets have on each other, and thus whoever’s on them, the essence of astrology…

Mystery Earthworks (NY Times) – Giant prehistoric structures broader than the pyramids along with mysterious symbols are spotted in Kazakhstan by NASA flyover…does this set back our civilization dating?...

Getting Certified (ANS) – Standards for astrology…there need to be some, just to establish legitimacy, but not everyone agrees how it should be done…

More Little Lunatics (XYZ) – Do kids get crazier on full Moon, or do teachers get better at coping with it? A good across-the-board question in this sort of investigation…

Seers, Speculators, and Spirits (AsiaOne) – Thailand’s astrological politics is a mix of animism, religion, and real astrology…

Less Lunar Impacts (Discovery) – Long research reveals Moon may not be so bruised, and neither may we…

Dead Skull Comet (NASA) – The “Halloween asteroid” flyby is really a comet, a dead one that resembles a skull…and then there’s the fireballs to keep track of…including one of our own…

Giant Solar Storms (Lund Univ.) – Tree rings reveal massive solar storms in the Dark Ages that next time round could devastate modern technology in a flash…U.S. government is preparing for it...

Business Cycle Dragons (FtAlphaville) – Chinese have been tuned in to natural economic cycles from the get-go…

Potholes on Pluto… (Mysterious Universe) – …and pyramids on its moon. Horizon photos raise a host of mysteries from the planet of Hades…

Convicting Confessions (Mumbai Mirror) – Admissions of guilt to an astrologer and a priest combine to put away a rapist and murder in special women’s court…

Moon In Peril (Express) – Halloween asteroid flyby will miss earth, but could it blow up the Moon? Not likely, but the Express loves the thought…

Lunar Cycling (Bangor Daily News) – Something else to do at full Moon, a trend that’s all the rage…

Early In The Game (Hubblesite) – It appears we are one of only the first set of planets likely to develop life in the universe, the rest are yet to come…food for thought…

Mass Extinctions (RAS) – Triggered by comet/meteor showers, on a regular cycle…every time…when next?...

Black Magic Murder (Times of India) – They’re at it again, this time the astrologer provides the tipoff…

Pluto’s Plenty (CMNS) – Pluto and company are enormously more interesting and varied than ever dreamed of…