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The Last Degrees of the Signs
October 4, 2026
The last degrees of all the signs are quite strange. They have in them the complete accumulations of the sign they’re in. They are cosmic. Oceanic. Piscean, all of them. Piscean energy mixed thoroughly into the sign they’re in. At best they are wonderfully giving, and tremendously resourceful. Psychic.
Thoughts Concerning the Mayan New Age Chart
September 30, 2026
Juno conjunct Sun: Juno has to do with mechanization, and is obviously the asteroid of AI. Juno wants to control everything, and certainly humanity is now thinking of this as its top priority.
Harmony
September 27, 2026
The wall has uncounted layers, and some of the outermost ones are tearing open, (can you hear them? The sound reminds me of a youthful throat being softly cleared), because a woman is gently working to emerge from this wall, a gray woman who doesn’t yet have any certain color, at least none of her own, or maybe the…
The Asteroid Vesta
September 20, 2026
She is our inner knowing, our spiritual center, our pure intuition. It is wondrous and joyous to be attuned to her. The thing is, we all have a connection to her, but many of us can’t access her.
The Asteroid Juno
September 16, 2026
Juno is the asteroid of labelling. We label stuff because it makes us feel safer, more organized. When someone writes a poem they may label it, “great,” or “good,” or “good enough,” or “not quite good enough,” or “lousy.” Juno likes these labels.
An introduction to plus points
September 13, 2026
I want to tell you about another technique that greatly excites me. It involves degrees that I call plus points. That’s where you add two degrees together to arrive at a third one that is a complete blending of the two you’ve added together.
Seed and Fulfillment Degrees
September 9, 2026
If you’re interested in how these seed and fulfillment degrees are calculated you may find the information in my book, The Circular Temple. For right now, I want to tell you about what they mean, and how to use them.
The Birth Chart of Dolly Parton
September 6, 2026
Dolly Parton’s birth chart is a see-saw formation. This is where the planets divide themselves into two groups. In her case, one of these groups is comprised of planets starting with Uranus and going to Jupiter, which is a distance of about 136 degrees.
The Asteroid Pallas
September 2, 2026
Pallas is the asteroid of fear and repression. When something scares us and we don’t know what to do with it, we repress it. This is an idea derived from the astrologer Ellias Lonsdale, who has been accused of a negative approach to the asteroids. The asteroids are not inherently solely negative.
The Mayan New Age Chart: Predictions
August 28, 2026
This is Part 5 in a series of posts about The Mayan New Age chart. In Part 1, I wrote about the Mayan New Age chart as a beginning and ending of the Long Count Great Cycle. In Part 2 and Part 3, I wrote about the Mayan New Age chart’s Sun/Moon angle return.
The Mayan New Age Chart: Monthly Tithi
August 27, 2026
This is Part 4 in a series of posts about The Mayan New Age chart. In Part 1, I wrote about the Mayan New Age chart as a beginning and ending of the Long Count Great Cycle. In Part 2 and Part 3, I wrote about the Mayan New Age chart’s Sun/Angle return.
The Mayan New Age Chart: Sun/Moon Angle Return Chart for the Current Year
August 26, 2026
This is Part 3 in a series of posts about The Mayan New Age chart. In Part 1, I wrote about the Mayan New Age chart as a beginning and ending of the Long Count Great Cycle. In Part 2, I wrote about the tithi chart—the Mayan New Age chart’s Sun/Moon angle return.
The Mayan New Age Chart: Sun/Moon Angle Return Chart for the Current Year
August 25, 2026
This is Part 2 in a series of posts about The Mayan New Age chart. In this post I look at the Sun/Moon angle return chart for the current Mayan New Age year. To read Part 1, click here.
The Mayan New Age Chart: The Long Count Great Cycle
August 24, 2026
According to the Mayans, we ended what they refer to as a 5,125 year Long Count Great Cycle on December 21, 2012 at the Winter Solstice, and simultaneously started a new one of the same length at that same moment.
Degree Symbols and Subjectivity
August 23, 2026
Other modes of astrology aim at objectivity in analyzing a chart. Degree Symbols aim at subjectivity. The primary problem with this is that when using degree symbols to interpret a chart, an astrologer may engage in projecting her or her own issues and biases on the chart, which then distorts the interpretation of it.
A cup overflowing with clear water
August 17, 2026
The Chandra Symbol for Aries 4 is “A cup overflowing with clear water.” Emotions want to clear themselves out, and if you let them flow out, they do. Charge your water with love and light and other messages you want to take in, and then drink it. Let things wash away that need to be washed away.
The Phantom Pearl
August 16, 2026
Here amidst banyan porosities, the pallid, lightning-shaped boughs of them, we steer the bayou, navigating estuaries of brown swamp in search of the Phantom Pearl.
About the Asteroid Ceres
August 15, 2026
In the last eclipse, on August 12th, the asteroid Ceres is conjunct Mars, and the two bodies are in the same degree – Cancer 1.
Saros Cycle of the August 12th Eclipse
August 15, 2026
In the year 1179, on March 10th there was an eclipse in about 26 Pisces. Eclipses happen in groups, and these groups are divided into what is known as Saros cycles. This eclipse that happened in 1179 was the first eclipse of the 126th Saros cycle. (Node: many Saros cycles are going on at once simultaneously).
Neptune in Aries
August 14, 2026
Maybe Aries is the strangest sign for Neptune to be in. Maybe it’s because Aries is such an outward sign – it’s a sign of exploration, which most of humanity currently takes to mean outward exploration. But Neptune is a planet that wants to be inward.