June 13 to 20, 2013 Visible planets: Morning: none Evening: Mercury, Venus, Saturn I have to admit, I am having a difficult time writing the intro to this week’s Alacazem astrology column. I want to write about Elizabeth “Bets” Stiles Patterson, a beautiful young girl who accidentally fell off a cliff on a magnificently…
June 6 to 13, 2013 Visible planets: Morning: none Evening: Mercury, Venus, Saturn “The same, only different.” – Anonymous How many times have I heard that said, or said it myself? Hundreds, maybe thousands. It refers to so, so many things, and certainly describes how I’m feeling today. Every year, the seasons come and go….
May 30 to June 6, 2013 Visible planets: Morning: none Evening: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn Our celestial sojourn through three eclipses and the third of seven exact Uranus/Pluto squares over the last six weeks has left me feeling older, wiser and even more aware of the overload of stimuli contained in each and every nanosecond…
Anyone interested in observing the movement of our visible planets against the backdrop of the starry night sky should take note of the unusual dance of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter over the next few evenings above the western horizon in twilight. I’m posting a few graphic depictions of this stellar event from the Sky &…
May 23 to 30, 2013 Visible planets: Morning: none Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn A full Moon lunar eclipse [May 24 @ 10:26 pm MDT] and Mountainfilm in Telluride promises a literally “moving mountains” Memorial Day weekend for all who find themselves in the little town at the end of our rainbow-flooded, magnificently breath-taking, beautiful box…
May 16 to 23, 2013 Visible planets: Morning: none Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn May in Colorado is a month of embracing beauty, magnificent skies, pounding rain, shimmering rainbows, budding trees, restless winds and – overall – predictable duality. The fixed earth sign Taurus is solid and staunch, steadfast and reliable. The Taurus zodiac month –…
May 9 to 10, 2013 Visible planets: Morning: none Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn I’m writing these words just one hour prior to the exact Sun-Moon conjunction of the May 9th New Moon solar eclipse at 19 degrees Taurus. I can feel the magnificent nurturing power of the Mother Earth. Raindrops fall upon our metal roof…
May 2 to 9, 2013 Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury Evening: Jupiter, Saturn I don’t know about you, but these last several weeks have been as challenging and transformational as it gets for me. Of course, it makes sense astrologically – we are in the middle of that recurring, ongoing and demanding Uranus-Pluto square, as well…
April 25 to May 2, 2013 Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Saturn Evening: Jupiter Looking back and feeling the rush of emotion that forever flows in the River of Life is something I do, on occasion. Weddings and funerals, birth and death; those poignant moments of love and pain, loss and gain that snag me like…
April 18 to 25, 2013 Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Saturn Evening: Jupiter The all-powerful Sun and warrior Mars move in to calm, steady Taurus this week to join the mythological goddess of love and beauty – sweet, seductive Venus – and in so doing, the cosmic clock slows its pace and settles in to the…