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There are a total of 6 eclipses in 2009, the big one being a very long Total Solar Eclipse at the end of Cancer on July 22nd centred on India, Nepal and China.
2009: The entire year of 2009 features a Chiron-Neptune conjunction in late degrees of Aquarius, exact in February 2010 at 26° Aquarius; this is the first conjunction of these two since September 1945. Jupiter joins Chiron and Neptune in mid December 2009, with an opposing Mars turning retrograde in Leo. Whoever is elected U.S. president in 2008 might now undertake an emergency mobilisation of alternative energy production, if the problem has continued to be swept under the rug. Mountain Astrologer
Saturn in Virgo opposes Uranus. (First hit Nov 4th 2008, Second:- February 5th 2009, 3rd Sept. 15th 2009, 4th April 26th 2010, final July 26th 2010). Saturn and Uranus are at the climax of their cycle which began with their conjunction in 1988, (the 1988 activator!). The last opposition occurred in 1965 to the start of 1967 also across Pisces Virgo. That cycle started in 1942. The opposition before that occurred 1918 to 1920 across Leo Aquarius. The last time Saturn in Virgo opposed Uranus in Pisces was in the years 1419 and 1420.
Jupiter enters Aquarius and is conjunct Neptune in that sign 3 times this year. (Recent conjunctions Jan 1997, Jan 1984, both in Capricorn. Three in 1971 in Sagittarius. This year's are the first of three in Aquarius since 1843. The conjunction in Aquarius occurred in Feb 1511 Jan 1345 and a triple in 1191).
Saturn enters Libra on October 29th 2009 and squares Pluto three times. Firstly on November 15th 2009, second on 31st Jan 1010 and finally on August 21st 2010. It is this month August 2010 which sees the most powerful manifestation of a cardinal T-square of Saturn in Libra opposite Uranus and Jupiter in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn.
2009 is the International Year of Astronomy is a year-long celebration of astronomy , taking place in to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a Telescope by Galileo.
January 2009
This month sees Jupiter entering Aquarius, an Annular Solar Eclipse, the Moon and 4 planets clustered within a 20 degree arc from January 24th for 2 days and a build up to the second opposition of Saturn and Uranus.
We are already in another eclipse season with two eclipses about to occur. An annular Solar Eclipse in Aquarius occurs on January 26th and a penumbral Lunar Eclipse in Leo follows on February 9th. Prior to this the Full Moon on January 11th forms a tight 'mystic rectangle' with Saturn and Uranus. These two planets apply in opposition all month and dominate the skies. Mercury turns retrograde on January 11th.
Thursday January 1st 2009
Wishing you a Happy New Year 2009.
Yesterday Israel decided to continue its offensive in the Palestinian territory of Gaza despite a French proposal for a humanitarian truce. Israel's fourth day of attacks (four days since the New Moon) has sent the Palestinian death toll to more than 375
At least 53 people were killed and dozens were injured in a fire in a nightclub in Thailand's capital, Bangkok.
Russia says gas talks with Ukraine failed and supplies are cut within hours - amid fears European exports could be hit.
A "leap second" was added onto official clocks around the world at midnight to account for the Earth's slowing spin on its axis. London's Big Ben, whose bongs bring in the new year across the UK, will have its Great Clock adjusted. And the BBC will add an extra "pip" to mark the delayed start to 2009. Twenty-three leap seconds have been introduced since 1972 to keep GMT - internationally defined time - and the Earth's rhythms in synch
As Big Ben chimes the start of the New Year (GMT) the Sun, a decelerating Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto are in Capricorn, the Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune are in Aquarius. Things quickly change.
The Moon enters Pisces 00:28 GMT.
Mercury enters Aquarius today at 09:52 GMT. Mercury turns retrograde on January 11th. Mercury is conjunct Jupiter at 3 degrees Aquarius on 18th Jan. He is at inferior conjunction with the Sun at 1 degree Aquarius on January 20th, and re-enters Capricorn (as a morning star) on January 21st. Retrograde 'morning star" Mercury is sextile Venus on January 26th the day of the next Solar eclipse, he is conjunct Mars on January 27th. Mercury turns direct at 22 degrees Capricorn on February 1st.. He remains in Capricorn until (Valentines day) February 14th. Mercury aligns to Jupiter for the third and final time ( with a close 37 minute orb) at 12 degrees Aquarius on February 24th.
Friday January 2nd 2009
Yesterday a top Hamas leader died in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, the most senior figure to be killed for nearly five years. Yesterday was the 6th day of bombing.
Cuba celebrated the 50th anniversary of its revolution but economic difficulties meant the festivities were subdued.
Russia stopped all gas supplies to Ukraine after the collapse of talks to end a row over unpaid bills and prices. Russia's gas giant Gazprom said it turned off the taps at 0700 GMT on January 1st 2009, when its contract to supply Ukraine ended.
Today is rather astrologically a 'low key' day. The energy is well grounded.
The Moon is conjunct Uranus 13:42 GMT at 19 degrees Pisces.
The Moon in Pisces then moves on to oppose Saturn in Virgo at 18:24 GMT
Saturday January 3rd 2009
The annual Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on Jan. 3rd when Earth enters a stream of debris from shattered comet 2003 EH1. The timing of the encounter favors observers in western North America who could see dozens to hundreds of meteors during the dark hours before dawn on Saturday morning. www.spaceweather.com
Yesterday the UN warned that Palestinians in Gaza face a serious health and food crisis as Israeli air strikes continued for a seventh day. The start of the Israeli air bombardment coincided with the New Moon in Capricorn and the ingress of Mars into Capricorn on Dec 27th 2008. TV news reports show Israeli tanks amassed outside of Gaza, awaiting orders.
Sri Lanka's government claimed a major victory after troops took control of the Tamil Tiger rebels' de facto capital, Kilinochchi.
Russian gas giant Gazprom accused Ukraine of stealing gas meant for other European countries amid growing tensions.
Today the Moon in Pisces sextiles Jupiter and is void of course at 08:51 GMT. She enters Aries 09:50 GMT and waxes towards her first quarter phase tomorrow.
Venus enters Pisces 12:36 GMT. During her residence in Pisces. Venus sextiles Pluto tomorrow. Venus is conjunct Uranus (within 1.25 degrees) on January 23rd at 20 degrees Pisces. Venus opposes Saturn (within 1.5 degrees) and sextiles Mars on January 24th.
Venus is sextile retrograde Mercury on January 26th. Venus enters Aries on February 3rd. Venus will turn retrograde on March 6th 2009 being then positioned half way through Aries.
Today has a little more impetus (from 09:50 GMT) compared to recent days. All eyes are on the Gaza strip.
Sunday January 4th 2009
Yesterday, (under the impetus and crisis of the Moon approaching first quarter phase in Aries), Israeli ground troops entered Gaza, a week after the offensive against Hamas began, (the commencement of hostilities coincided with Mars entering Capricorn and being conjunct Pluto and the passing of a New Moon in Capricorn). Yesterday mass demonstrations were held around the world in protest. Rallies were held in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Athens and several Asian cities, following similar events in parts of the Muslim world on Friday. Earlier, tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs called for an end to the bombing campaign at a rally in northern Israel. US President George W Bush meanwhile blamed the violence firmly on Hamas.
Opposition candidate John Atta Mills narrowly won Ghana's presidential run-off and vowed to be a unifying leader.
Ukraine warned of serious problems with gas supplies for EU countries if its dispute with Russia is not settled soon.
Today the waxing and accelerating Moon reaches first quarter phase 14 degrees Aries at 11:57 GMT.
Earth in Perihelion (closest to the Sun all year) 15:30 GMT
Venus sextiles Pluto 19:29 GMT adding a touch of the melodramatic to the evening.
More aggression, more impetus and greater crisis appear to be on the cards today.
Monday January 5th 2009
Yesterday Israeli troops stepped up operations against Hamas militants, driving deep into Gaza and in effect cutting it in two.
Up to 40 Shia pilgrims were killed by a female suicide bomber near a shrine in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad,
US President-elect Barack Obama and his family took up residence in Washington, ahead of his swearing-in as president.
At least four people have been killed and dozens injured after a series of powerful earthquakes hit eastern Indonesia. The strongest tremor, with a magnitude of 7.6, struck north of the city of Manokwari in West Papua province at 0443 (1943 GMT on Saturday).
Final sunspot counts for the year 2008 are now available and the numbers are very low. The sun was utterly blank--that is, it had no sunspots whatsoever--on 266 days last year. That makes 2008 a century-class year in terms of low sunspot numbers. To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days. Now for the good news: Evidence is mounting that the deep solar minimum of 2008 is coming to an end; we can expect a in 2009. www.spaceweather.com
State of the skies:-The Sun today is half way through the sign Capricorn. There are 75 days to the Vernal equinox. We are in the foothills of an eclipse season. There are 21 days to an Annular Eclipse of the Sun in Aquarius.
The Moon today waxing and accelerating in Aries sextiles Neptune and is void 02:45 GMT for 13 hours. The Moon enters Taurus 15:46 GMT. The Moon is full on January 11th arranged then in a tight 'Mystic Rectangle' pattern with Saturn and Uranus, forming at that time, a hexagon pattern with the local ascendant of London UK. The Full Moon following this one is a Penumbral Eclipse of the Moon in Leo on February 9th.
Mercury is an 'evening star' in Aquarius. Mercury is, from today, appearing to move less than a degree a day, prior to him turning retrograde on January 11th. Mercury is conjunct Jupiter at 3 degrees Aquarius on 18th Jan. He is at inferior conjunction with the Sun at 1 degree Aquarius on January 20th, and re-enters Capricorn (as a morning star) on January 21st. Retrograde 'morning star" Mercury is sextile Venus on January 26th the day of the next Solar eclipse, he is conjunct Mars on January 27th. Mercury turns direct at 22 degrees Capricorn on February 1st.. He remains in Capricorn until (Valentines day) February 14th, the day his speed is greater than a degree a day. Mercury enters new territory on Feb 21st and then aligns to Jupiter for the third and final time ( with a close 37 minute orb) at 12 degrees Aquarius on February 24th.
Venus also appears as 'an evening star' and is in Pisces. Venus is conjunct Uranus (within 1.25 degrees) on January 23rd at 20 degrees Pisces. Venus opposes Saturn (within 1.5 degrees) and sextiles Mars on January 24th. Venus is sextile retrograde Mercury on January 26th. Venus enters Aries on February 3rd. Venus will turn retrograde on March 6th 2009 being then positioned half way through Aries
Mars is on the far side of the Sun and in Capricorn 'till February 4th 2009. Mars eases the ongoing Uranus Saturn opposition by making a sextile aspect to Uranus on January 22nd and a trine aspect to Saturn on January 24th. After leaving Capricorn on February 4th Mars is tightly conjunct Jupiter (within 34 minutes of arc) at 10 degrees Aquarius on February 17th.
What does all this mean? Well right now we are having to cope with essentials only. This is not a time for planning or for vision or for advancement. The solution to existing problems lies in work, in service and in adjustment.
However a change is coming and it starts today with...
Jupiter enters Aquarius today 15:42 GMT
Jupiter in its 12 year orbit of the Sun was last in Aquarius in 1997, 1985 and in 1973.
Jupiter is conjunct Neptune whilst in Aquarius 3 times this year. (Recent conjunctions of Jupiter and Neptune were Jan 1997, Jan 1984, both in Capricorn, three in 1971 in Sagittarius. This year's are the first of three in Aquarius since 1843. The conjunction in Aquarius also occurred in Feb 1511 Jan 1345 and a triple in 1191). This planetary combination symbolises advancement and inspiration in communication, in education and in transport.
It favours science, mathematics and technology. It may well evoke an intolerance to injustice and prejudice. This is a good omen for the year ahead.
Jupiter almost immediately makes a 'one off' waning semi-square aspect to Uranus on January 27th 2009 which is a forerunner to the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus on the Pisces Aries cusp in 2010 and 2011. We are living through incredibly exciting and demanding times.
Tuesday January 6th 2009
Yesterday casualties poured into over-stretched hospitals in the Gaza Strip as Israel pressed on with its offensive against Palestinian militant groups.
The Palestinian health ministry said 90 people, mostly civilians and including 26 children, have been killed since Israeli forces went in on Saturday.
US President-elect Barack Obama is seeing Congressional leaders to discuss his stimulus plan, which reports say could total $800bn
Today the Moon waxes and accelerates in Taurus. Both the Sun and the Moon are today and tomorrow in Earth signs (together with Mars, Saturn and Pluto). This is a very static situation. Today is a day to harness, secure, set down roots, stand your ground and consolidate. It favours acquisition and material comfort.
The remainder of this week sees a build up to the dynamic Full Moon early Sunday (GMT). This will be the last Full Moon before eclipses of the Sun and the Moon take place on Jan 26th and Feb 9th respectively. Eclipses invoke changes and 'stir things up'. Jupiter yesterday ingressed Aquarius. Time is slowly moving on and its quality is subtly changing.
Wednesday January 7th 2009
Yesterday at least 30 people were killed and 55 injured as Israeli artillery shells landed by a United Nations-run school in Gaza, Earlier, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned of a "full-blown humanitarian crisis" in Gaza. Speaking on the 11th day of the Israeli assault, a senior ICRC official, Pierre Kraehenbuhl, said life in Gaza had become intolerable. Palestinian medical sources say up to 600 people have been killed since the attacks began, and Mr Kraehenbuhl said much more needed to be done to protect civilians. Some 70 Palestinians and five Israeli soldiers were killed on Tuesday.
Several EU countries reported major disruption to their gas supplies from Russia as Moscow accused Ukraine of shutting pipelines.
Today the fast moving Moon in Taurus squares Neptune in Aquarius and is void at 06:05 GMT for just over 12 hours. Around that time the Moon eases the Saturn Uranus opposition. (This opposition is now applying to its 2nd climax of 5 which occurs on Feb 5th. The first was on November 4th 2008 the day the USA electorate elected Barack Obama as president).
The Moon rapidly occults the Plaiedes for UK observers 16:23 to 18:00 GMT.
The Moon enters Gemini 18:12 GMT reaching gibbous phase at 22:44 GMT at 3 degrees Gemini. The procession to Sunday's Full Moon climax begins in earnest from then.
This day continues in a similarly static way to yesterday until 18:12 GMT when a 'mild wind of change' might be sensed. Certainly things will appear a little less entrenched from that point in time.
Pressures are now beginning to increase as the full moon approaches.
As the Moon increases in size and motion, Mercury is rapidly decreasing in apparent speed as each day passes. The advice is to hold back, refrain from commitment, open your heart to new possibilities and be prepared to allow gentle changes of heart, mind and in your life take place as the days immediately ahead unfold.
There is more movement tonight (GMT), hopefully there will be more success in stopping the bloodshed in Gaza from now on.
Thursday January 8th 2009
Yesterday Israel agreed "on the principles" of a cease-fire proposal, raising hopes of an end to its conflict with Palestinian militants in Gaza. "The challenge now is to get the details to match the principles," Israeli spokesman Mark Regev said. The Palestinian militant group Hamas said there were "positive signs but no agreement yet". The development came as Israel halted military operations in Gaza for three hours to aid humanitarian efforts.
Also yesterday Barack Obama joined President George W Bush and the three living ex-presidents for a special White House lunch. (Sun signs left to right:- Gemini, Leo, Cancer, Leo, Libra)
A cosmic chicken-and-egg question has been solved by astronomers, who now say that black holes came before galaxies. The findings were presented at a major astronomy meeting in California.
Today the very fast moving gibbous Moon waxes and accelerates in Gemini.
There is a veritable buzz in the ether today. More movement chatter and diversity than of late.
Friday January 9th 2009
Yesterday the UN said its main aid agency is suspending work in Gaza because staff have been killed and injured in Israeli attacks.
US President-elect Barack Obama said that a huge stimulus package is urgently needed to revive the US economy.
Russian PM Vladimir Putin said Moscow will resume pumping gas to Europe, as Ukraine says it will guarantee its transit.
A strong earthquake struck Costa Rica, the US Geological Survey said. It said the magnitude 6.2 tremor was centred some 35km (22 miles) north-west of the capital San Jose at a depth of 28km (17 miles). Reports say the quake - which hit at 1321 local time (1921 GMT Thursday January 8th 2009) - cut off electricity in parts of the capital.
Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3), discovered in 2007 by a - team of astronomers from Taiwan and China, is swinging around the sun and approaching Earth. Right now, Comet Lulin is gliding through the constellation Libra in the southeastern sky before dawn: . It glows like an 8th magnitude star, so a mid-sized backyard telescope is required to see it. Visibility will improve in February as the Earth-comet distance shrinks. At closest approach (0.41 AU) on February 24th, the comet should brighten to about 5th magnitude--dimly visible to the unaided eye and an easy target for binoculars. Star map below.
Barack Obama has his 4th Jupiter return today, Jan 9th 2009. It is entirely appropriate that the climatic nature of the hour (with a dynamic Full Moon approaching) should set the scene for the next 12 years in this man's life.
From today and for two further days the Sun eases the Saturn Uranus opposition. Solutions are available to all problems at this time.
Around 02:30 GMT the Moon forms a trapezium with the Sun, Saturn and Uranus.
The very fast moving 'nearly Full' Moon in Gemini trines Neptune and is void at 06:40 GMT for nearly 9 hours.
The Sun in Capricorn sextiles Uranus in Pisces 15:28 GMT.
The Moon enters Cancer 18:14 GMT opposing Pluto 20:43 GMT.
The 'Full Moon (in Cancer) weekend' is upon us. Emotions are high.
Saturday January 10th 2009
The UN's first truce call is dismissed by both sides in the Gaza fighting, with Israel's PM calling it unworkable. The fighting continued.
More US workers lost jobs last year than in any year since World War II, with employers axing 2.6 million posts and 524,000 in December alone
Today the Moon is at perigee (fastest all month) 10:49 GMT. She opposes Mars 11:05 GMT.
The emotional power of the day approaches a crescendo as the day ends.
Sunday January 11th 2009
Full Moon in Cancer
03:27 GMT
The biggest full Moon of the year. It's a "perigee Moon" as much as 14% wider and 30% brighter than lesser Moons we'll see later in 2009.
arranged in tight 'Mystic Rectangle' pattern with Saturn and Uranus forming a hexagon with the local ascendant of London UK.
http://www.the-wizard.com/MoonRulesCancer5w+Pg30@120med.jpg
This is the 5th Full Moon following on from the Partial Lunar Eclipse of August 16th 2008 and the ultimate Full Moon before the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse at 21 degrees Leo on February 9th 2009.
This is an extremely dynamic Full Moon. It is arranged in tight 'Mystic Rectangle' pattern with Saturn and Uranus forming a hexagon with the local ascendant of London UK.
At the moment of Full Moon the Sun is rising and the Moon is setting at Johannesburg, Ashklabad and at Harare. The Moon is on the local IC (local Noon) at Darwin,
This Full Moon is sextile Barack Obama's natal Mars.
This Full Moon falls exactly on the natal Sun and Ascendant of the Iraq republic chart.
This Full Moon is trine Gordon Brown's natal Mars.
This Full Moon directly hits the natal Sun of Harrison Ford, the natal Mercury of Venus Williams, the natal Mars Saturn conjunction of Dolly Parton, the natal Jupiter of musician Jack Bruce, the natal Uranus of John Travolta (whose 16 year old son died of a brain seizure 8 days ago), the natal Pluto of Yoko Ono and Joan Collins and the natal Ascendant of Carla Bruni.
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The Full Moon sextiles Saturn 04:27 GMT and becomes Void of Course.
Mercury turns retrograde today 16:37 GMT
The Moon enters Leo 17:41 GMT.
The Sun trines Saturn 18:02 GMT.
The Moon, the Earth and Jupiter are linearly aligned within a degree at 19:59 GMT. This is the first of three tight alignments involving the the Moon, the Earth and a planet in three days.
Monday January 12th 2009
Israel said it carried out some 60 air strikes on Gaza on Saturday night Sunday morning, (the night of the Full Moon), as its cabinet discussed stepping up the military offensive. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert then said the goals of the military campaign in Gaza were near, but signals the offensive will go on
President-elect Obama said the US will take a different approach to Iran under his leadership, in a wide-ranging US TV interview.
A search operation is under way after a ferry carrying about 250 passengers and 17 crew sank in stormy seas in central Indonesia. Indonesia's state-run Antara news agency said the vessel went down at 0400 local time (2100 GMT Saturday) in stormy seas.
Pakistani soldiers repulsed an attack by 600 fighters in a tribal area near the Afghan border, killing at least 40 militants, military officials said
State of the skies:- The Sun today is at 22 degrees Capricorn. There are 8 days remaining to the start of the astrological month of Aquarius and 68 days to the Vernal Equinox.
We are now in an eclipse season with eclipses of the Sun in Aquarius and of the Moon in Leo occurring on January 26th and February 9th respectively.
The Moon today is waning and decelerating in Leo. The Moon, the Earth and retrograde Mercury are linearly aligned within 0.75 of a degree at 06:04 GMT. This is the second of three tight alignments involving the Moon, the Earth and a planet in three days.
Mercury is now a retrograde 'evening star' in Aquarius. (Delays in transport, communications, computers and decision making can be expected). Mercury is conjunct Jupiter at 3 degrees Aquarius on 18th Jan. He is at inferior conjunction with the Sun at 1 degree Aquarius on January 20th, and re-enters Capricorn (as a morning star) on January 21st. Retrograde 'morning star' Mercury is sextile Venus on January 26th the day of the next Solar eclipse, he is conjunct Mars on January 27th. Mercury turns direct at 22 degrees Capricorn on February 1st.. He remains in Capricorn until (Valentines day) February 14th, the day his speed is greater than a degree a day. Mercury enters new territory on Feb 21st and then aligns to Jupiter for the third and final time ( with a close 37 minute orb) at 12 degrees Aquarius on February 24th.
Venus also appears as 'an evening star' and is in Pisces. Venus is conjunct Uranus (within 1.25 degrees) on January 23rd at 20 degrees Pisces. Venus opposes Saturn (within 1.5 degrees) and sextiles Mars on January 24th. Venus is sextile retrograde Mercury on January 26th. Venus enters Aries on February 3rd. Venus will turn retrograde on March 6th 2009 being then positioned half way through Aries
Mars is on the far side of the Sun and in Capricorn 'till February 4th 2009. Mars eases the ongoing Uranus Saturn opposition by making a sextile aspect to Uranus on January 22nd and a trine aspect to Saturn on January 24th. After leaving Capricorn on February 4th Mars is tightly conjunct Jupiter (within 34 minutes of arc) at 10 degrees Aquarius on February 17th.
Jupiter makes a 'one off' waning semi-square aspect to Uranus on January 27th 2009 which is a forerunner to the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus on the Pisces Aries cusp in 2010 and 2011.
The week ahead ends with retrograde Mercury in a conjunction with Jupiter at 3 degrees Aquarius on Sunday.
Tuesday January 13th 2009
Yesterday Israeli forces move slowly into Gaza's most densely populated areas, but the military denied an escalation
Russia will resume pumping gas to third countries via Ukraine from Tuesday morning, the EU says, ending a dispute over transit
Outgoing US President George W Bush warned his successor that a terrorist attack is still the "most urgent threat" to the US.
Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3) (photo above) is swinging around the sun and approaching Earth for a 38-million-mile close encounter in late February. The comet is not yet visible to the naked eye, but it is putting on a nice show for backyard telescopes. Comet Lulin is gliding through the constellation Libra. http://www.spaceweather.com
Today the Moon, the Earth and Neptune are linearly aligned within a degree at 06:38 GMT and the Moon then becomes void of course. This is the third of three tight alignments involving the Moon, the Earth and a planet in three days.
The Moon enters Virgo nearly 12 hours later at 18:33 GMT.
From this point in time the Sun and the Moon are again both in earth signs (with Mars, Saturn and Pluto). The remainder of this day and the two which follow are geared to practical matters and precision methodology.
This is a time for critical appraisal.
Wednesday January 14th 2009
In contradiction to Monday's declared news and in true 'Mercury Retrograde' style Russian gas giant Gazprom yesterday said Ukraine has blocked deliveries of gas to Europe, scotching hopes of an end to the crisis.
Also yesterday, a fairly 'low key news day' Israeli troops again entered Gaza City's suburbs and engaged in street fighting with Palestinian militants.
Today the decelerating and waning Moon reaches disseminating phase 10 degrees Virgo 10:26 GMT.
Today Venus in Pisces is at greatest elongation, 47° east of the Sun in the evening sky.
There is a need for efficiency, methodology and precision today. The focus is on cutbacks, realism and industry.
Thursday January 15th 2009
Yesterday Palestinian deaths in the Gaza Strip passed 1,000, medical sources in Gaza said, as diplomatic efforts continued to reach a ceasefire.
The official in charge of trials at Guantanamo Bay was quoted as saying US agents tortured a Saudi man at the camp.
Shares in Europe and the US fell sharply after more bleak news on the US economy alarmed investors.
Jupiter opposes Barack Obama's natal Mercury today, the same day as Pluto opposes his natal Venus. The tide of destiny is strong right now for this man.
Today the waning and decelerating Moon in Virgo opposes Uranus 04:16 GMT and is conjunct Saturn 07:32 GMT, becoming void at that time. This evokes sobering moments.
The day continues with an almost obsessive requirement for detail.
We are in a pre-eclipse 'astrological lull' at the moment, but several sharp planetary conjunctions are looming ahead. Retrograde Mercury and Jupiter are drawing to a conjunction in early Aquarius which occurs next Sunday (January 18th). Venus is drawing to a conjunction with Uranus in Pisces which hits on January 23rd. The Sun is conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius on January 24th. The big day, January 26th, sees the Sun eclipsed in Aquarius, and retrograde Mercury is conjunct Mars in Capricorn on January 27th. The planets are amassing in Aquarius, there are important days ahead.
The Moon enters Libra 22:31 GMT.
Friday January 16th 2009
Yesterday one of the top Hamas leaders in Gaza, interior minister Said Siyam, was killed in an air strike. The head of the UN aid agency in Gaza accused the Israeli military of firing what was believed to be white phosphorus shells at its compound.
Illegal migrants from Bangladesh and Burma said Thai soldiers tied their hands and forced them back to sea on boats without engines.
Senator Hillary Clinton moved a step closer to a confirmation vote on her appointment as the next US secretary of state.
An unprecedented security operation is under way in Washington ahead of Barack Obama's inauguration as US president. With estimates of up to a record two million people attending on 20 January, the event has been designated a "national special security event". Reports suggest more than 20,000 police officers, troops and security agents are involved.
In the UK a third runway should be built at Heathrow, ministers said - but opponents vowed to fight the plans.
Today the Moon wanes and decelerates in Libra for two days and approaches her Last Quarter phase.
The Sun and Moon are now both in Cardinal signs (with Mars and Pluto).
Ten days remain to an Eclipse of the Sun. Retrograde Mercury, a major player right now, is approaching his second (of 3) conjunctions this season with Jupiter on Sunday evening (GMT). Saturday, like today, is primarily social in focus. On Sunday more serious issues may arise.
Saturday January 17th 2009
Yesterday's main news concerned the pilot who landed a plane in the Hudson River New York saving all 155 people on board on Thursday evening (GMT). The event was hailed as a miracle, a touch of welcome news amid a torrent of wretched news stories so far this year. The timings of the incident were reported as follows.
1 1526 local time (2026 GMT): Flight 1549 takes off from New York's LaGuardia Airport
2 1527 (2027 GMT): Pilot Chesley Sullenberger III reports birds hitting both engines
3 1528 (2028 GMT): Air traffic controllers tell the pilot to land at Teterboro airfield in New Jersey
4 1531 (2031 GMT): Pilot decides he cannot reach Teterboro and ditches plane in Hudson River
These critical five minutes reveal the transiting Mars/Pluto midpoint opposite the local ascendant of New York (the danger), and the Uranus/Venus midpoint on the local Mid-heaven of New York ( the miracle). These timings offer a real research potential for 'fine-tuning' astrologers to investigate the story. Astrological harmonics are the tool to use for such precision work.
Astrologer Marjorie Orr wrote yesterday The plane that crashed Thursday into the Hudson River, left La Guardia, NY airport at 3.26pm. This puts Uranus within two degrees of the midheaven and exactly conjunct about ten minutes later as the passengers were presumably climbing onto the wing. Jupiter just into Aquarius favours aviation and was exactly conjunct the Sun/NNode midpoint which is lucky and brings favourable public attention. On the 8th Harmonic which is often strong for accident charts, Jupiter is conjunct the midheaven trine Pluto and square the Moon - so Jupiter produced its lucky trick to get everyone safely rescued.
Also yesterday the US and Israel signed a deal to halt arms smuggling into Gaza, in what Israel's foreign minister says is a step towards peace.
A team of NASA and university scientists has discovered "substantial plumes" of methane floating through the atmosphere of Mars. Their discovery indicates Mars is either biologically or geologically active.
Today the Moon quietly wanes and decelerates in Libra towards last quarter.
Mercury continues in retrograde motion towards a conjunction with Jupiter tomorrow.
The current eclipse season deepens.
Today is largely social. Diplomacy, war, peace, justice, injustice are all in the balance.
Sunday January 18th 2009
Yesterday Israel said it will halt its three-week military offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to Zimbabwe after an absence of more than two months.
US President-elect Barack Obama retraced Abraham Lincoln's steps as he headed to Washington to assume the presidency
Today is the last full day of the astrological month of Capricorn.
The Moon reaches last quarter phase 02:47 GMT 28 degrees Libra and is void from that moment.
She enters Scorpio 06:21 GMT. The social focus of yesterday now gives way to a more intense and willful atmosphere.
The Moon then squares Jupiter and retrograde Mercury at 12:10 and 12:54 GMT respectively. This day could be a little hard going.
Mercury is conjunct Jupiter at 3 degrees Aquarius at 19:07 GMT. This is the 2nd of 3 conjunctions of these two. The first was on new year's eve.
Monday January 19th 2009
Yesterday as Mercury retrograded into the bosom of Jupiter Palestinian militant group Hamas declared a one-week ceasefire to allow Israeli soldiers to withdraw from Gaza.
Nato's secretary general says Afghan government corruption is as much to blame as insurgents for instability.
Beyonce and Bruce Spingsteen are to star in a welcome concert for Barack Obama ahead of his inauguration on Tuesday
A meteoroid of unknown size hit Earth's atmosphere over Sweden Saturday (Jan. 17 at 1909 UT) and exploded, turning the sky "lightning blue and green." Security camera footage suggests the fireball was about as bright as a full Moon; it was visible from Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and possibly as far away as Spain.
State of the skies:- The Sun today is at the very end of the sign Capricorn. The Sun ingresses Aquarius 22:41 GMT today. There are then 60 days to the Vernal Equinox. We are currently deeply immersed within an eclipse season with eclipses of the Sun and Moon on January 26th and February 9th respectively.
The slow moving Moon now past last quarter phase and decelerating makes easy aspects today.
Mercury is a retrograding 'evening star' in Aquarius. Mercury is at inferior conjunction with the Sun at 1 degree Aquarius tomorrow January 20th, and then shines as a 'morning star'. He retrogrades back into Capricorn on Wednesday. Retrograde 'morning star' Mercury is sextile Venus on January 26th the day of the next Solar eclipse, he is conjunct Mars on January 27th. Mercury turns direct at 22 degrees Capricorn on February 1st.. He remains in Capricorn until (Valentines day) February 14th, that day his speed is greater than a degree a day, and the time will be ripe for initiating new projects and plans. Mercury enters new territory on Feb 21st and then aligns to Jupiter for the third and final time ( with a close 37 minute orb) at 12 degrees Aquarius on February 24th.
Venus appears as 'an evening star' and is in Pisces. Venus is conjunct Uranus (within 1.25 degrees) on Friday at 20 degrees Pisces. Venus opposes Saturn (within 1.5 degrees) and sextiles Mars on Saturday. Venus is sextile retrograde Mercury on January 26th. Venus enters Aries on February 3rd. Venus will turn retrograde on March 6th 2009 being then positioned half way through Aries
Mars is on the far side of the Sun and in Capricorn 'till February 4th 2009. From today for five more days Mars eases the ongoing Uranus Saturn opposition by making a sextile aspect to Uranus on January 22nd and a trine aspect to Saturn on January 24th. After leaving Capricorn on February 4th Mars is tightly conjunct Jupiter (within 34 minutes of arc) at 10 degrees Aquarius on February 17th.
Jupiter makes a 'one off' waning semi-square aspect to Uranus on January 27th 2009 which is a forerunner to the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus on the Pisces Aries cusp in 2010 and 2011.
This 'pre-eclipse' week then sees the Sun conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius on Saturday. The big day, next Monday January 26th, sees the Sun eclipsed in Aquarius, and retrograde Mercury is conjunct Mars in Capricorn the day after, on Tuesday January 27th. The planets are amassing in Aquarius, there are very important days ahead.
The Sun enters Aquarius 22:41 GMT today, and a new astrological month begins.
Jupiter today trines Barack Obama's natal Moon, a very favourable aspect. Popularity wins the day.
The dream is realized tomorrow.
Tuesday January 20th 2009.
Tens of thousands of Gazans are destitute and lack running water after Israel's offensive against Hamas militants, the UN yesterday said
A lawyer for the family of a Chechen woman murdered by a Russian officer has been shot dead in Moscow.
Yesterday US President-elect Barack Obama joined events for the annual Martin Luther King holiday, which fell on the eve of his inauguration.
SCANDINAVIAN FIREBALL: A meteoroid of unknown size hit Earth's atmosphere over Scandinavia on Jan. 17th (1909 UT) and disintegrated in a thunderous explosion. The fireball was so bright it turned the nighttime sky blue.
See the movie! http://sydsvenskan.se/webbtv/article406633/Trolig-meteor-lyste-upp-himlen.html?context=webbtv
Today is the first day of the astrological month of Aquarius.
US presidential inauguration day.
The Moon in Scorpio squares Neptune in Aquarius and is void from 03:38 GMT.
The Inferior Conjunction of Mercury and the Sun occurs at 16:00 GMT at 1 degree Aquarius.
This can be considered a 'seed moment of the mind', a 'New Mercury'.
One hour later millions will witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Obama inauguration chart
Presidential power passes to President Barack Obama at 12:00 EST today. The inauguration chart above is set up for this moment at Washington DC.
(USA inauguration charts always have the Sun in Aquarius near the MC and have Taurus rising).
At this moment in Washington DC the Moon is waning and decelerating in the last minutes of Scorpio and is void of course. Thirty one minutes after the inauguration moment the Moon enters Sagittarius and applies in sextile aspect to the Sun and to Mercury and to Jupiter.
An annular eclipse of the Sun is six days away.
Mercury is at Inferior conjunction with the Sun at the start of Aquarius, Jupiter also in Aquarius smiles on close by. Venus applying in conjunction to Uranus is sextile Mars. A planetary kite is forming in the skies involving the Washington DC local ascendant, Mars, and the tightening Saturn Uranus opposition. There is real power and destiny in this moment.
Although President Obama begins his office towards the end of the lunation cycle, in the approaching days to an eclipse (when many things will change and unforeseen situations will arise), and with a retrograde Mercury, the symbolism fits perfectly. This man inherits a mess, the product of the old cycle and its old ideas. There is however hope in this chart. A new seed message has been released, symbolised by Mercury at Inferior conjunction, the chart is very favourable, the sign Aquarius dominates the chart, the sign of 'perfected man', the sign of the future and the sign of The New Age, and the chart has a predominance of favourable sextile and trine aspects. It is nearly moonset at Washington, a magical moment, national past mistakes can be acknowledged, recompensed and laid to rest. The Mars Jupiter midpoint is exactly on the MC, there is practical and visionary energy. Uranus is exactly on the MC ASC midpoint. There is unprecedented world attention here, at this place, at this time.
Exact astrocartographic contacts are occurring at Algiers and Reykjavick (where Mercury is setting), Cairo and Warsaw (Neptune sets), Johannesburg (Sun sets), Harare (the lunar Node sets) , Saigon (Mercury lower culmination), Brisbane (Venus lower culmination). At Delhi Pluto is close to lower culmination and maybe very significantly, Venus, Saturn and Uranus straddle the Iran Afghan Pakistan borders.
The setting Moon aligns exactly to New Orleans, in the opposite direction the moon line aligns to New York, Athens, and the Egypt Gaza region. Pluto aligns to just north of Moscow and on to Kabul. Mars aligns close to Lhasa and Rangoon, the Sun and Mercury align to Saigon (doubly starred), Venus, Saturn and Uranus align to Seattle and on to Perth
Some thirty one minutes after the inauguration moment the Moon enters Sagittarius 17:31 GMT making sextile aspects to Mercury, the Sun and Jupiter.
With the Sun in Aquarius and the Moon in Sagittarius we can imagine that have a global party atmosphere on our hands.
Wednesday January 21st 2009
Yesterday Barack Obama was sworn in as America's 44th president - and its first African-American leader - in a ceremony in Washington DC watched by millions around the world.
Rwandan troops entered eastern DR Congo for a joint operation with Congolese forces against a Rwandan Hutu militia.
Italian carmaker Fiat signed a global strategic alliance with Chrysler, taking a 35% share in the troubled US giant.
Continued fears about the health of the UK banking sector caused sterling to hit its lowest level against the dollar since 2001.
Today Mercury retrogrades into Capricorn 05:37 GMT. He returns there to re-fix and mend a few recent mistakes and wrong decisions. Mercury is sextile Venus on January 26th the day of the next Solar eclipse, he is conjunct Mars on January 27th. Mercury turns direct at 22 degrees Capricorn on February 1st.. He remains in Capricorn until (Valentines day) February 14th,
A lunar occultation of Antares occurs today around 13:38 GMT. The occultation is centred on central south America. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series of Antares lunar occultations is from 2023 to 2028.
Thursday January 22nd 2009
Yesterday President Obama signed executive orders he said will bring a "new era of openness" to government, on his first full day in office
Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said the time has come for the West to lift its boycott on his Palestinian Islamist movement.
The continent of Antarctica is heating up in step with the rest of the planet, according to a new analysis reported yesterday..
Right now, Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3) is an easy target for binoculars and small telescopes.
Today the very slowly waning Moon hits balsamic phase 04:28 GMT at 17 degrees Sagittarius.
The procession to Annular Solar Eclipse next Monday will then begin.
We now live through a few prophetic days where the passing and ending of the old cycle contains in the flavour of the time traces and glimpses of the new.
Around noon GMT this slow balsamic Moon forms a T-square with Uranus and Saturn evoking challenge and change.
The Moon moves on even slower to a sextile aspect with Neptune 16:25 GMT.
Meanwhile Mars in Capricorn strikes a sextile of his own with Uranus in Pisces at 17:00 GMT, stamping an ingenuity and a measure of meaningful activity on the day.
Venus too draws to a close conjunction with Uranus all day today which peaks very early tomorrow (GMT), something potentially exciting and unusual is underway, just be ready for anything.
Friday January 23rd 2009
Yesterday US President Barack Obama ordered the closure of the Guantanamo prison camp and overseas CIA detention centres.
Microsoft has said it will cut up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, including 1,400 immediately.
Today the Moon is at apogee (slowest all month) 00:10 GMT.
Venus is conjunct Uranus (within 1.25 degrees) at 01:01 GMT at 20 degrees Pisces.
The old 'nail paring' Moon enters Capricorn 06:19 GMT and makes easy aspects right up to and beyond Monday's eclipse. The Moon is conjunct Pluto at 10:27 GMT.
The weekend ahead is a pre-eclipse weekend, mighty in importance. The planets are amassing in Aquarius. This is a strong concentration of energy.
All day today the Sun applies to his annual conjunction with Jupiter, this year in Aquarius. The conjunction peaks early tomorrow (GMT). This one is potentially full of new developments.
Also Mars, industriously placed in Capricorn is about to 'trine' Saturn. This confers on today and tomorrow a real opportunity to get things done and forge practical accomplishments..
Saturday January 24th 2009
Yesterday DR Congo sought the extradition of rebel leader Laurent Nkunda after his capture by neighbouring Rwanda.
Two infants and an adult were killed and 10 other people wounded in a knife attack at a creche in north-west Belgium.
US regulators cleared the way for the world's first study on human embryonic stem cell therapy.
The UK has officially entered recession for the first time since the early 1990s, after the economy shrank by 1.5% in the last quarter of 2008.
Comet Lulin remains about magnitude 7.0 as it rises rapidly higher in the southeast to south before dawn. Small-telescope users are spotting it easily, with the Moon now gone from the morning sky. The comet is moving toward Earth and should reach 5th magnitude in late February.
Today the Sun is conjunct Jupiter at 4 degrees Aquarius 05:45 GMT. A conjunction of the Sun and Jupiter in Aquarius has not occurred since Feb 18th 1986. The 'Single European Act' was signed the previous day and the Russians launched the Mir space station the next day. The occurrence before that was on February 13th 1974 the very day that Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from Russia.
Mars in Capricorn trines Saturn in Virgo 08:05 GMT.
Venus still very moist after with her conjunction yesterday with Uranus in Pisces, today opposes Saturn (within 1.5 degrees) at 08:16 GMT. This one has an austere hue.
Venus in Pisces sextiles Mars in Capricorn 09:05 GMT. These two (unusually) remain in waxing sextile aspect right through to the end of February. Something has started, something's going on and the drug here is love.
The Moon and 4 planets are clustered within a 20 degree arc from 11:35 GMT today for 2 days.
We have here a real concentrated blend of planetary forces at work over the next 50 hours or so.
Sunday January 25th 2009
On January 25th 2009 Jupiter squares UK opposition leader David Cameron's natal Mercury, there may well be some serious misjudgments and over-estimations in this man's calculations right now..
The Moon is closely conjunct Mars (<0.75 degree) 02:36 GMT at 22 degrees Capricorn.
The Moon is conjunct Mercury 09:09 GMT at 25 degrees Capricorn and is void of course.
The Moon enters Aquarius 18:57 GMT and makes continues to make pleasant aspects.
Monday January 26th 2009
Yesterday Sri Lankan troops won control of Mullaitivu, the last big town held by Tamil Tiger rebels, the head of the country's army says
Bolivians were voting on a new constitution that President Evo Morales said will empower the country's indigenous majority.
Schools in the Gaza Strip operated by the United Nations reopened for the first time since the Israeli offensive against Hamas militants
Newly-discovered asteroid 2009 BD slowly passed by Earth yesterday only 400,000 miles away. The small 10m-wide space rock posed no threat, but it merits attention anyway. The orbit of 2009 BD appears to be almost identical to the orbit of Earth. 2009 BD may be a rare , circling the sun in near-tandem with our planet. Extrapolating the motion of 2009 BD into the future, we see that it remains in the vicinity of Earth for many months to come, never receding farther than 0.1 AU (9.3 million miles) until Nov. 2010. Future observations may reveal the nature of this strange asteroid; stay tuned! http://www.spaceweather.com/
Welcome to THE DAZE,
and a day and a time of wonder.
The day starts with the ancient Moon is aligned to Jupiter at 5 degrees Aquarius at 04:37 GMT. There then follows an
Annular eclipse of the Sun
at 6 degrees Aquarius
conjunct Jupiter
Stellium in Aquarius. Venus conjunct Uranus in Pisces.
Central eclipse 07-59 GMT.
This eclipse is visible from the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, Borneo, the East Indies, and the eastern Pacific.
http://www.e-earthborn.com/gallery/photoshop/images/aquarius.jpg
http://www.hermit.org/eclipse/2009-01-26/
The first solar eclipse of 2009 occurs at the Moon's ascending node in tropical Aquarius. An annular eclipse will be visible from a wide track that traverses the Indian Ocean and western Indonesia. A partial eclipse will be seen within the much larger path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes the southern third of Africa, Madagascar, Australia except Tasmania, southeast India, Southeast Asia and Indonesia
Timings of the Eclipse. (UT h:m:s)
First external contact of penumbra 04:56:37
First external contact of umbra 06:02:39
The annular path begins in the South Atlantic at 06:06 UT
First internal contact of umbra 06:08:58
First internal contact of penumbra 07:21:05
Greatest Eclipse 07:59:44
At this instant, the annular duration (the ring of fire) is 7 minutes 54 seconds, the path width is 280 kilometers and the Sun is 73° above the flat horizon formed by the open ocean
Last internal contact of penumbra 08:36:31
Last internal contact of umbra 09:48:28
In its final minutes, the antumbral shadow cuts across central Borneo and clips the northwestern edge of Celebes before ending just short of Mindanao, Philippines at 09:52 UT.
Last external contact of umbra 09:54:44
Last external contact of penumbra 11:00:41
Saros 131.
Today's eclipse is the 50th member of the 70 eclipses which form Solar Saros series 131. This series began on August 1st 1125 at 05:15:09 UT and will finish on September 2nd in the year 2369. The series peaked on May 30th 1612 with its longest Total Eclipse. Today's eclipse is the longest Annular Eclipse in the series.
The last eclipse in the series occurred on Jan 15th 1973, the day before the start of 'Operation Desert Storm'. The one before that was on Jan 4th 1973. Before that one occurred on Christmas Day 1954 when Laos gained Full independence, the one before that on Dec 13th 1936 the time of the Abdication of King Edward of Britain, and before that on Dec 3rd 1918 the day of the start of Iceland's self governing.
Astrological contacts from the eclipse.
This eclipse directly hits the natal Sun of Eartha Kit (who died over Christmas 2008) and Nick Mason, the natal Moon of Jeff Buckley, and Ursula Andress, the natal Mars Jupiter conjunction of David Blaine, the natal Mars of Melanie Safka, the natal Jupiter of George Clooney and Boy George (sent to prison 10 days ago and hit hard by this eclipse and the lunar eclipse in two weeks time) and the natal Saturn of Jon Bonjovi. The eclipse is opposite David Cameron's natal Moon and trine his natal Venus.
After the eclipse is over the infant Moon slowly accelerates through Aquarius.
Retrograde Mercury is sextile Venus 23:31 GMT and all day applies in a conjunction with Mars which peaks tomorrow.
Tuesday January 27th 2009
Yesterday's solar eclipse saw US President Barack Obama calling for US energy independence, saying global warming and relying on foreign oil posed threats.
Equally importantly Icelandic PM Geir Haarde announced the resignation of his government in the wake of the country's economic crisis.
Islamist forces captured most of the Somali city of Baidoa - one of the last government strongholds.
The Sudanese military launched an air and ground assault on insurgents' positions in South Darfur, according to a rebel group.
We are now in an eclipse fortnight between eclipses of the Sun, yesterday and of the Moon on February 9th, a mightily sensitive time.
Today retrograde Mercury is conjunct Mars 06:12 GMT at 24 degrees Capricorn. This particular conjunction occurred on Nov 29th 2008 ( in Sagittarius) when the terrorist attack in Mumbai which left nearly 200 dead came to its conclusion. The final conjunction is on March 2nd 2009 in Aquarius.
The slow moving infant Moon aligns to Neptune (within 1.7 degrees) at 23 degrees Aquarius at 17:13 GMT and is void.
Jupiter waning semi-square aspect to Uranus 23:05 GMT a one off aspect, and a forerunner to the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus on the Pisces Aries cusp in 2010 and 2011.
Wednesday January 28th 2009
Yesterday Israel carried out an air attack on Gaza and sent tanks across the border in the worst clashes since its conflict with Hamas ended
US President Barack Obama prepared to try to get Republican backing for his $825bn economic recovery plan.
Zimbabwe's opposition said it has not agreed to join a unity government, as reported by southern Africa's leaders.
Sri Lanka's military said it is trying to secure the north-east coastline to encircle Tamil Tiger rebels as part of a final assault. Troops are moving north from the captured rebel town of Mullaitivu to take the 30km (18 mile) stretch. The military says it hopes to control the entire north within weeks.
All eight octuplets born prematurely in the US are breathing on their own after ventilators were removed from three who initially had breathing problems. The mother is only the second person recorded in the US to have delivered a set of living octuplets.
A mathematical model based on fading sea ice and the population growth of emperor penguins suggests their likely demise.
Today the fresh young Moon enters Pisces 06:13 GMT and begins a slow acceleration towards a rather sweet and liquid conjunction with Venus on Friday morning (GMT) in that sign. We now enter a more ethereal and subliminal couple of days.
Thursday January 29th 2009
Yesterday Russia's military announced it will halt its plans to deploy short-range missiles in its Baltic enclave Kaliningrad. A Russian military official said a change in US attitude had prompted the latest decision.
World news is full, right now, of the shock waves of the implication of Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States. There is a definite ripple effect in many quarters. The European Commission yesterday called on President Obama to cap US carbon emissions and sign up to a global carbon trading system. This is occurring as Saturn and Uranus are approaching the 2nd of their 5 oppositions. Barack Obama was elected on the very day of the first opposition of these two planets on November 4th 2008.
Today the young accelerating Moon hooks into the opposition and is conjunct Uranus 21:15 GMT at 20 degrees Pisces and opposes Saturn (within 1.5 degrees) at 22:32 GMT. She is then unhindered in her application to Venus.
Friday January 30th 2009
Yesterday unions in France led big protests against the handling of the economic crisis, causing disruption to rail and air services.
The UN launched an appeal for $613m to help people affected by Israel's military offensive in Gaza.
Today the youthful accelerating Moon reaches her waxing crescent phase 07:03 GMT at 26 degrees Pisces. She is conjunct Venus at 09:24 GMT at 27 degrees Pisces and is void for a dreamy six hours and one minute.
The Moon enters Aries 15:25 GMT.
Shotgun and starting pistol ! The rest of the day and the weekend ahead are rampant. A time to cut loose.
Jupiter makes her final waxing 135 degrees aspect to Saturn tonight at 23:04 GMT. (1st March 18th 2008, 2nd June 26th 2008). This aspect sets in motion the majestic and slow build up of the 'great opposition' of Jupiter and Saturn which occurs during 2010 and 2011 across the Aries Libra axis. The opposition wll be the culmination of the 'great conjunction' of Jupiter and Saturn which occurred in late May 2000 (in Taurus). The next 'great conjunction' of Jupiter and Saturn occurs on the day of the Winter Solstice in Dec 2020 at the very start of Aquarius. Ponder on this.
Saturday January 31st 2009
The Moon 'increasing in light and motion' resides in Aries and continues in her approach to the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse in Leo in 9 days time.
Amid the urges and surges of this spirited day, Mercury hangs, appearing almost motionless, turning direct again tomorrow. There is great stillness of mind to be achieved today.
February 2009
Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3), photo above http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/lulin/24jan09/chris-brennan1.jpg, discovered in 2007 by a team of astronomers from Taiwan and China, is swinging around the sun and approaching Earth. Right now, Comet Lulin is gliding through the constellation Libra (Tropical Scorpio) in the southeastern sky before dawn. It glows like an 7th magnitude star, so a mid-sized backyard telescope is required to see it. Visibility will improve in February as the Earth-comet distance shrinks. At closest approach (0.41 AU) on February 24th, the comet should brighten to about 5th magnitude--dimly visible to the unaided eye and an easy target for binoculars. Surprises are possible. The hyperbolic orbit of Comet Lulin suggests this could be the comet's first visit to the inner solar system. How it will react to increasing sunlight is anyone's guess.
Saturn opposes Uranus for the 2nd time on February 5th, this ongoing Saturn Uranus opposition hooks into Gordon' Brown's lunar nodal axis and his natal Mars and is conjunct David Cameron's natal Uranus. This looks a testy time for UK politics
A heavy Penumbral Lunar Eclipse at 21 degrees Leo opposite Neptune and Chiron occurs on February 9th. This eclipse has the hallmark of an unwieldy delusionary nature, full of strange magic and glamour, very good for artistic creation not so good for clarity of emotion.
Venus is sextile Mars all month, an unusual astrological situation, promoting man woman relationships and sexual love.
Mars is conjunct Jupiter in Capricorn February 17th. This conjunction always evokes events.
Sunday February 1st 2009
The Moon forms a 'finger of fate' with Neptune and the Uranus. Saturn opposition today around 07:00 GMT.
Mercury turns direct today at 22 degrees Capricorn 07:05 GMT.
Set lose your magic tortoise as Mercury turns direct. Mercury is direct in motion from today until May 7th.2009.
The day follows with similar energy to yesterday.
The Moon squares Mars at 18:08 GMT and is void.
She enters Taurus 22:09 GMT.
The (GMT) day ends with a degree of resignation.
Monday February 2nd 2009
Yesterday Israeli PM Ehud Olmert vowed a "disproportionate" response after rockets and mortars hit Israel, injuring three people.
Crisis-hit Iceland announced a new government headed by the world's first openly gay leader, Johanna Sigurdardottir.
State of the skies:- The Sun today reaches 14 degrees Aquarius. There are 46 days to the Vernal Equinox. Tomorrow we are half way between the Capricorn Solstice and the Vernal Equinox.
We are currently in an eclipse fortnight with the accelerating but steady Moon today at her First quarter phase 14 degrees Taurus 23:14 GMT waxing to a heavy penumbral Lunar Eclipse occurring next Monday.
Mercury is now appearing as a slow moving but accelerating and (since yesterday) a directly moving 'morning star' in Capricorn. He remains in Capricorn until (Valentines day) February 14th, the day his speed is greater than a degree a day. Mercury enters new territory on Feb 21st and then aligns to Jupiter for the third and final time this season ( with a close 37 minute orb) at 12 degrees Aquarius on February 24th.
Venus appears as an evening star in Pisces and she enters Aries tomorrow February 3rd. Venus squares Pluto on Friday, (a touch of the traumatic and not really a good day for the markets). Venus will turn retrograde on March 6th 2009 being then positioned half way through Aries
Mars is on the far side of the Sun and in Capricorn. Entering Aquarius on February 4th, Mars is tightly conjunct Jupiter (within 34 minutes of arc) at 10 degrees Aquarius on February 17th.
Saturn opposes Uranus on Thursday. This is the 2nd of 5 oppositions between these two over the current couple of years. The 1st on Nov 4th 2008 coincide with the USA election. The 3rd is on Sept. 15th 2009, the 4th April 26th 2010, final July 26th 2010.
Tuesday February 3rd 2009
Yesterday the Sri Lankan government told civilians to leave an area where it is fighting Tamil rebels, saying it cannot guarantee their safety.
Leaders of the African Union elected Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as their next chairman at a summit meeting in Ethiopia.
In the UK a protester threw a shoe and hurls an insult at the Chinese prime minister during a speech at Cambridge University.
The worst snow storms in 18 years hit the UK. We on this island are braced for further severe disruption as more snow falls in many parts of the country.
Today the Moon now past first quarter phase waxes and accelerates towards her penumbral eclipse next Monday.
Jupiter in Aquarius opposes David Cameron's Moon today.
Venus the 'evening star' enters Aries 03:41 GMT. There is a lot to tell here. The story of Venus' passage through the celestial sphere will be full of drama and intrigue. Venus will be in Aries right up to June 6th except for a brief (but very eventful) 13 day retrograde slip back into Pisces. Venus squares Pluto on Friday 6th Feb, the first of 3 such aspects which will throw a melodramatic and wanton hue over the entire period under consideration. Venus sextiles Jupiter on Feb 17th and Mars on Feb 18th, an intensely eventful couple of days). The Moon occults Venus at 15 degrees Aries on Feb 27th. Venus appears to slow to a standstill, turning retrograde on March 6th being at that time in a finger of fate arrangement with Saturn and Jupiter. Venus sextiles Jupiter for a second time on March 11th and is conjunct the New Moon at 8 degrees Aries on March 26th. The Inferior Conjunction of Venus occurs on March 27th at 7 degrees Aries. Mercury (approaching his Superior Conjunction) is conjunct Venus at 6 degrees Aries on March 29th. From this time Venus shines as a morning star.
Throughout April Venus remains closely square to Pluto, an aspect which peaks for a second time on April 3rd. Venus slips back into Pisces from April 11th. She turns direct on April 17th at 29 degrees Pisces. She is overtaken by Mars on April 21st and occulted again by the Moon on April 22nd. (An events observable form North America). Venus flares back into Aries on April 24th, squares Pluto a final time on May 2nd, chasing Mars throughout May before entering Taurus on June 6th. This is a very interesting period.
Around 12:30 GMT today the Moon in Taurus forms a 'planetary kite' based around an 'earthy grand trine' involving Mercury now direct in Capricorn, Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces.
At 16:51 GMT we are exactly mid way between the Winter Solstice (in the northern hemisphere) and the Vernal Equinox. In the north the season of 'stirring' begins, in the south the seemingly endless summer is indeed past its glory.
Wednesday February 4th 2009
Iran has launched its first domestically made satellite, prompting concern by Western powers over its intentions.
Key international negotiators have urged Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels to lay down arms and discuss ending hostilities.
In the UK yesterday hundreds of workers continued unofficial strike action over the use of foreign contractors, as Acas talks resume.
Today the Moon in Taurus trines Mars and is void of course from 01:27 GMT.
The fast moving, accelerating and heavily waxing Moon enters Gemini 02:15 GMT.
A frantic talkative blitz of words images connections and movement is underway. A kinetic circus of communications ensues.
Mars, on the far side of the Sun, enters Aquarius 15:56 GMT, (keeping a steady pace with Venus at the start of Aries), joining the Sun, Jupiter, Neptune, Chiron and the Lunar Node there. Mars is conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius on Feb 17th, a truly eventful time, and at the time of the next New Moon, Mars is arrayed in Aquarius with Mercury and Jupiter. Mercury overtakes Mars on March 2nd at 20 degrees Aquarius. Mars is conjunct Neptune on March 8th, and he finally enters Pisces on March 15th. With Venus in Aries during this period we have a rather independent self seeking Mars doing romantic battle with an uncharacteristically complicated Venus, seething with passion, but turning retrograde in possibly angry and tempestuous change of heart.
Thursday February 5th 2009
Yesterday, seemingly a 'low news day', saw Sri Lanka's president declaring that the country's Tamil insurgents are on the verge of total defeat, saying their demise has helped unite the island nation on the 61st anniversary of its independence
Today the Moon continues to wax towards penumbral eclipse (next Monday) and accelerate in Gemini. The Sun and the Moon are both in air signs, (together with Mars, Jupiter and Neptune). The emphasis today is on communication, and lots of it. News travels fast.
Saturn opposes Uranus 11:04 GMT. (1st Nov 4th 2008, Second:- February 5th 2009, 3rd Sept. 15th 2009, 4th April 26th 2010, final July 26th 2010). Saturn and Uranus are at the climax of their cycle which began with their conjunction in 1988. Barack Obama was elected on the very day of the first opposition of these two planets on November 4th 2008. The last opposition of Saturn and Uranus occurred in 1965 to the start of 1967 also across Pisces Virgo. That cycle started in 1942. The opposition before that occurred 1918 to 1920 across Leo Aquarius. The last time Saturn in Virgo opposed Uranus in Pisces was in the years 1419 and 1420.
The fast moving Moon quickly brings the matter to a head as she forms an exact and tight mutable T-square with Saturn and Uranus at 12:46 GMT.
The Moon then trines Neptune and is void from 17:44 GMT for the remainder of the (GMT) day.
We face the prospect of Venus in a debauch square aspect to Pluto peaking early tomorrow (GMT). Get used to it, this square aspect will be around a great deal in the coming months. There is always the flavour of salacious scandal with this one around.
Comet Lulin, rising around midnight local time, is now very close to the fixed star Alpha Librae.
Friday February 6th 2009
Yesterday Somali pirates who held a Ukrainian ship full of weapons for five months freed the vessel after a ransom was paid, reports said.
Sri Lanka's government rejected a call by international donors for it to begin negotiating with the Tamil Tiger rebels.
China declared an emergency in northern and central drought-hit regions, where nearly four million people are suffering water shortages.
The Bank of England reduced interest rates to an historic 1% from 1.5% in an attempt to boost the slowing economy. (Graph above)
Today Jupiter trines David Cameron's natal Venus, a short lasting Jupiter transit which might give the man a boost in popularity.
Venus squares Pluto 04:21 GMT. A dominant (wanton) aspect at work during the coming weeks after Venus turns retrograde on March 6th and is active for most of April 2009.
The Moon rapidly enters Cancer at 04:46 GMT.
The Moon forms a tight cardinal T-square with Venus and Pluto at 08:12 GMT exactly.
The Moon reaches gibbous phase 08:30 GMT 3 degrees Cancer. We are then in a rapid 'top gear' emotional swirl as the procession to next Monday's Penumbral Eclipse is in full sway.
Hold tight, cling on.
The Moon occults the 3rd magnitude fixed star epsilon Gemini for UK observers 19:30 to 20:37 GMT
Latest update:- Saturday February 7th 2009
Yesterday US President Barack Obama said the Senate's delay in passing his economic stimulus bill is "inexcusable and irresponsible".
A UN relief agency suspended relief imports into Gaza after 10 trucks of food were seized, in what Hamas said was a "mistake".
Russia and the EU traded accusations over human rights abuses, at their first high-level talks since the gas dispute.
Russia however said they will assist the U.S. in the transit of non-military cargo to Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday.
This weekend will witness the heavily waxing and very fast moving Moon approaching her penumbral eclipse on Monday afternoon (GMT). Today she resides in Cancer conferring an overtly emotional atmosphere on all situations. Tomorrow the Moon is in Leo but she is somewhat besieged by oppositions from Mars and Jupiter in Aquarius, so there is no plane sailing this weekend.
The Moon, the Earth and Mercury are linearly aligned (within 7 minutes of arc) at 19:08 GMT. This alignment is very tight, be aware of the moment. The Moon is then void.
Moon perigee (fastest all month) 20:18 GMT
Sunday February 8th 2009
The Moon rapidly waxing towards Penumbral Lunar Eclipse tomorrow, enters Leo 04:44 GMT today..
The Moon powerfully and menacingly opposes Mars and Jupiter at 09:24 and 17:43 GMT respectively.
Grave holy splendorous pre-eclipse uncompromising hours are upon us.
Monday February 9th 2009
State of the skies on this eclipse day.:-The Sun today is at 21 degrees Aquarius. There are 39 days to the Vernal Equinox.
The Moon today undergoes a penumbral eclipse. (See below).
Mercury is now appearing as a slow moving but accelerating a directly moving 'morning star' in Capricorn. He remains in Capricorn until February 14th, the day his speed appears greater than a degree a day. Mercury enters new territory on Feb 21st and then aligns to Jupiter for the third and final time this season ( with a close 37 minute orb) at 12 degrees Aquarius on February 24th.
Venus the 'evening star' is in Aries 03:41 GMT. There is a lot to tell here. Venus will be in Aries right up to June 6th except for a brief (but very eventful) 13 day retrograde slip back into Pisces. Venus sextiles Jupiter on Feb 17th and Mars on Feb 18th, an intensely eventful couple of days. The Moon occults Venus at 15 degrees Aries on Feb 27th. Venus appears to slow to a standstill, turning retrograde on March 6th being at that time in a finger of fate arrangement with Saturn and Jupiter. Venus sextiles Jupiter for a second time on March 11th and is conjunct the New Moon at 8 degrees Aries on March 26th. The Inferior Conjunction of Venus occurs on March 27th at 7 degrees Aries. Mercury (approaching his Superior Conjunction) is conjunct Venus at 6 degrees Aries on March 29th. From this time Venus shines as a morning star. Throughout April Venus remains closely square to Pluto, an aspect which peaks for a second time on April 3rd. Venus slips back into Pisces from April 11th. She turns direct on April 17th at 29 degrees Pisces. She is overtaken by Mars on April 21st and occulted again by the Moon on April 22nd. (An events observable form North America). Venus flares back into Aries on April 24th, squares Pluto a final time on May 2nd, chasing Mars throughout May before entering Taurus on June 6th. This is a very interesting period.
Mars is in Aquarius, (keeping a steady pace with Venus in Aries). Mars is conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius on Feb 17th, a truly eventful time, and at the time of the next New Moon, Mars is arrayed in Aquarius with Mercury and Jupiter. Mercury overtakes Mars on March 2nd at 20 degrees Aquarius. Mars is conjunct Neptune on March 8th, and he finally enters Pisces on March 15th. With Venus in Aries during this period we have a rather independent self seeking Mars doing romantic battle with an uncharacteristically complicated Venus, seething with passion, but turning retrograde in possibly angry and tempestuous change of heart.
Penumbral lunar eclipse.
at 21 degrees Leo
opposite Neptune and Chiron.
Saturn opposes Uranus.
central eclipse 15-38 GMT
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The first lunar eclipse of 2009 is one of four such events during the year. The first three eclipses are penumbral while the last (on Dec. 31) is partial. The Feb 09 event is the deepest penumbral eclipse of the year with a penumbral magnitude of 0.899. It will be easily visible to the naked eye as a dusky shading in the northern half of the Moon. The times of the major phases are listed below.
Penumbral Eclipse Begins: 12:38:46 UT
Greatest Eclipse: 14:38:15 UT
Penumbral Eclipse Ends: 16:37:40 UT
Of course, the beginning and end of a penumbral eclipse are not visible to the eye. In fact, no shading can be detected until about 2/3 of the Moon's disk is immersed in the penumbra. This would put the period of eclipse visibility from approximately 14:00 to 15:20 UT. Keep in mind that this is only an estimate. Atmospheric conditions and the observer's visual acuity are important factors to consider. An interesting exercise is to note when penumbral shading is first and last seen.
The map above shows the path of the Moon through the penumbra as well as a map of Earth showing the regions of eclipse visibility. Eastern Canada and the USA will miss the eclipse entirely since the eclipse begins after moonset. Observers in western Canada and the USA will have the best views with moonset occurring sometime after mid-eclipse. To catch the entire event, one must be in Alaska, Hawaii, Australia, or East Asia. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2009.html#2009Feb09N
Lunar Saros 143
Today's eclipse is the 18th of 73 eclipses which belong to this Saros. This Saros is still in its youth.
The first eclipse in the series occurred on August 7th 1702 at 19:20 UT, and the series will end on October 5th in the year 3000. The chart for the moment of greatest eclipse for the first eclipse in the series, set for London UK is shown above. The Saros has its first partial eclipse in 2063, its first Total Eclipse in 2243 and peaks with the longest Total eclipse in 2351. After today's eclipse there are 2 more penumbral eclipses one in 2027 and one in 2045. Recent eclipses in this Saros occurred on Jan 31st 1991, Jan 18th 1973, Jan 8th 1955, Dec 28th 1936, Dec 17th 1918 and Dec 6th 1900.
The Saros chart above shows a fiery mix (6 planets in fire signs) . The eclipsed Moon in Aquarius opposes Pluto yet makes a sextile aspect with a triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune in Aries. Mars in Capricorn squares the triple conjunction and opposes Venus. Mercury is retrograde. The nature of this Saros is to promote rigorous self social and civil projection. There is a baptism.
Astrocartographic contacts.
At the moment of maximum eclipse today the eclipsed Moon is rising over Cairo and Warsaw. The Moon is on the local MC of the east coast of Korea and central Australia. She is on the local IC of Brazil. The Saturn Uranus opposition is centred on central Afghanistan. Jupiter Mars and the Lunar node are setting over the UK.
Astrological contacts.
This lunar eclipse makes almost exact direct conjunctions to the natal Venus of George W Bush and Sylvester Stallone, the natal moon of Helena Bonham Carter and singer Pete Burns, the natal Mars of Amy Winehouse, the natal Mars Uranus conjunction of Boy George (recently imprisoned and hit hard by this eclipse and the solar eclipse two weeks ago), the natal Saturn of Hilary Clinton, and Rory Bremner, the natal Uranus of George Clooney and William Hague, the natal Pluto of Bob Geldof and Vladmir Putin and the natal Mid-heaven of Robert Deniro. The eclipse is also closely square on David Cameron's natal Neptune.
After the eclipse the Moon opposes Neptune (1 degree orb) 19:29 GMT and is then void of course.
Tuesday February 10th 2009
The 'hung over Moon' enters Virgo 05:39 GMT.
Around 14:45 GMT this still dangerous (live and kicking) Moon forms a 'finger of fate' with Venus and Mars.
Wednesday February 11th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Saturn at 15:44 GMT and is in opposition to Uranus at 16:56 GMT.
The Comet Lulin is now a quarter of a degree from the fixed star Lambda Virginis.
Thursday February 12th 2009
The Moon in Virgo trines Mercury 04:18 GMT and is void.
She sails into Libra 08:34 GMT.
The Sun makes his annual conjunction with Neptune 12:41 GMT at 24 degrees Aquarius.
At 21:29 GMT the Moon Venus opposition is eased by the Mars Jupiter conjunction. (This conjunction is on the natal Mercury of Robert Mugabe.
Friday February 13th 2009
Moon disseminating phase 9 degrees Libra 01:17 GMT.
A quiet 'Friday the Thirteenth'.
Saturday February 14th 2009
The Moon squares Mercury at 14:47 GMT and is void of course from that moment.
She enters Scorpio 14:52 GMT.
Mercury enters Aquarius 15:39 GMT.
Sunday February 15th 2009
The Moon in Scorpio squares Mars and Jupiter at 06:25 GMT and 09:00 GMT respectively.
Monday February 16th 2009
Moon last quarter phase 21:38 GMT 28 degrees Scorpio and is then void.
The end of February and start of March sees a dance of the planets Mercury, Jupiter and Mars in the eastern pre-dawn sky. 17th Feb: Mars nearest to Jupiter. 24th Feb: Mercury nearest to Jupiter 2nd March: Mercury nearest to Mars
Tuesday February 17th 2009
The Moon enters Sagittarius at 00:54 GMT.
Venus sextiles Jupiter 04:48 GMT.
The Moon grazingly occults the 3rd magnitude fixed star pi Scorpio for UK observers 06:44 to 06:59 GMT
Mars is conjunct Jupiter (within 34 minutes of arc) at 10 degrees Aquarius at 16:28 GMT.
The Moon then makes pleasant aspects.
At 22:30 the Mars Jupiter conjunction sextiles both the Moon and Venus.
Wednesday February 18th 2009
Venus sextiles Mars 09:31 GMT.
The Sun enters Pisces 12:46 GMT and a new astrological month begins.
Around 18:00 GMT the Moon forms a mutable T-square with Saturn and Uranus.
Thursday February 19th 2009
The Moon sextiles Neptune at 01:37 GMT and is void of course.
The Moon enters Capricorn at 13:26 GMT.
The Moon is conjunct Pluto 19:06 GMT at 3 degrees Capricorn.
Moon apogee 17:04 GMT.
Friday February 20th 2009
The Moon in Capricorn squares Venus at 13:21 GMT, the only aspect today.
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 20:51 GMT. Occultation centred on the Far East and Australia. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
Saturday February 21st 2009
Moon balsamic phase 01:02 GMT at 18 degrees Capricorn.
The Sun sextiles Pluto 08:00 GMT.
The Moon sextiles Uranus and is void of course at 09:01 GMT.
Sunday February 22nd 2009.
The Moon enters Aquarius 02:06 GMT.
The Moon and 4 planets clustered within a 20 degree arc from 10:43 GMT today for 2 days.
The Moon zodiacally aligns to Mercury (within a degree) at 10 degrees Aquarius at 21:24 GMT. Closest alignment occurs 22:02.
Monday February 23rd 2009
Triple conjunction February / March 2009
The view from Australia
The Moon is conjunct Jupiter (41 minute orb) at 00:38 GMT at 11 degrees Aquarius.
The Moon is zodiacally conjunct Mars ( 1 degree 35 minute orb) at 06:49 GMT at 14 degrees Aquarius. Closest alignment for UK observers 06:10.
Comet Lulin is now at maximum brightness and closest to Earth.
Tuesday February 24th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Neptune at 24 degrees Aquarius at 02:08 GMT and is void.
Mercury aligns to Jupiter ( 37 minute orb) at 12 degrees Aquarius at 06:53 GMT.
The ancient Moon slips into Pisces 13:00.
Wednesday February 25th 2009
New Moon in Pisces
Stellium in Aquarius
Saturn opposes Uranus.
Mercury Jupiter conjunction.
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This is the first New Moon following the Annular Solar Eclipse of January 26th 2009 and the fifth before the Total Solar Eclipse on July 22nd 2009.
Saturn is conjunct with David Cameron's natal Pluto for the second time on Feb. 25th 2009.
Thursday February 26th 2009
Mercury sextiles Venus 01:00 GMT.
The Moon opposes Saturn at 01:26 GMT and is conjunct Uranus at 06:10 GMT and is void from that moment.
The Moon lunges into Aries 21:24 GMT.
Friday February 27th 2009
Uranus in Aphelion 01:34 GMT . (Last occurred 1925 and 1841. Perihelions 1966 2050).
The young Moon waxes in Aries
The Moon is conjunct Venus at 15 degrees Aries at 23:57 GMT. This is a lunar occultation of Venus observable on Feb 28, 2009 (local time), over Antarctica.
Saturday February 28th 2009
Jupiter opposes Barack Obama's natal Sun on Feb 28th.
The Moon after making sextiles to Mercury, Mars and finally Neptune at 17:52 GMT becomes void of course.
Moon reaches crescent phase 19:17 GMT at 26 degrees Aries.
March 2009
March 2009 really does look to be astrologically quiet. The month starts with Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune in Aquarius. The Saturn Uranus opposition is weakening.
March 2009 sees the final blast of Uranus conjunct Gordon Brown's natal Mars.
Sunday March 1st 2009
The Moon enters Taurus 03:34 GMT.
Monday March 2nd 2009
Mercury is closely conjunct Mars at 20 degrees Aquarius 03:06 GMT (orb 36 minutes of arc). This is the final of 3 recent conjunctions of these two planets. The first on November 29th 2008 coincided with the terrorist attack on Mumbai. The 2nd was on January 27th 2009. The Moon in Taurus squares them both between 15:00 and 16:00, she then squares Neptune at 22:43 GMT and becomes void of course.
Tuesday March 3rd 2009
Barack Obama's progressed Mars squares his progressed Saturn on March 3rd,
The Moon enters Gemini 08:00 GMT.
Wednesday March 4th 2009
Moon first quarter phase 14 degrees Gemini 07:47 GMT.
Thursday March 5th 2009
The Moon is trine Neptune 02:11 GMT and becomes void of course.
Mercury is conjunct Neptune 09:40 GMT (just over a degree and a half orb) at 25 degrees Aquarius.
The Moon enters Cancer 11:08 GMT.
Friday March 6th 2009
Venus turns retrograde 17:10 GMT today at 15 degrees Aries. She turns to face and form a 'finger of fate' with Jupiter and Saturn which lasts for a fortnight.
Saturday March 7th 2009
The fast moving Moon trines Uranus 00:43 GMT and becomes void.
She enters Leo 13:26 GMT, reaches perigee 15:09 GMT and is at gibbous phase 17:12 GMT 3 degrees Leo.
Sunday March 8th 2009
A red letter day!
Mars is closely conjunct Neptune (46 minutes of arc orb) at 25 degrees Aquarius at 12:51 GMT.
The Moon, the Earth and Jupiter are linearly aligned (within only 1 minute of arc) at 13:21 GMT.
Mercury enters Pisces 18:56 GMT
The Sun opposes Saturn 19:44 GMT.
Monday March 9th 2009
The Moon in Leo opposes Neptune at 06:57 GMT and opposes Mars 07:57 GMT and becomes void.
The Moon enters Virgo 15:35 GMT.
The Moon. the Earth and Mercury align within 8 minutes of arc 18:12 GMT.
Tuesday March 10th 2009
Mercury sextiles Pluto 17:36 GMT.
The Moon is conjunct Saturn 22:27 GMT at 18 degrees Virgo.
Wednesday March 11th 2009
Full Moon in Virgo
separating from a conjunction with Saturn
applying in opposition to Uranus.
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This is the first Full Moon following on from the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of February 9th 2009 and the fourth before another Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on July 7th 2009.
The full moon on March 11th 2009 is conjunct Gordon Brown's Lunar South Node. The Full moon on March 11th is conjunct Cameron's natal Uranus.
The Full Moon on March 11th is conjunct Barack Obama's natal Mars.
The Moon opposes Uranus 05:49 GMT and becomes void.
Retrograding Venus is sextile Jupiter at 12:34 GMT forming this week a 'finger of fate' with Saturn.
The Moon enters Libra 18:47 GMT
Thursday March 12th 2009
Uranus makes the third of 3 passes opposite Barack Obama's natal Mars on March 12th
The Moon in Libra opposes Venus 20:37 GMT and is the opposition is eased by Jupiter.
Friday March 13th 2009
Jupiter is trine David Cameron's Sun on March 13th 2009. this represents a much needed boost after the desperately difficult transits he has undergone so far in 2009.
The Sun is conjunct Uranus 01:28 GMT
The Moon in Libra is trine Mars at 22:40 and is void from that moment
Saturday March 14th 2009
The Moon enters Scorpio 00:23 GMT and reaches disseminating phase 9 degrees Scorpio 17:38 GMT.
Sunday March 15th 2009
Mars enters Pisces 03:20 GMT.
Monday March 16th 2009
The Scorpio Moon makes a trine aspect to the Sun 00:43 GMT and is void from that moment.
The Moon enters Sagittarius 09:22 and immediately squares Mars.
Tuesday March 17th 2009.
Jupiter makes a one off conjunction to Gordon Brown's natal Mercury on March 17th 2009
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 04:50 GMT. Occultation centred on central Atlantic areas. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
The Sagittarian Moon makes a loose mutable T-square with Mercury and Saturn from 14:00 to 21:00 GMT today. Mercury opposes Saturn on Thursday.
Wednesday March 18th 2009
Moon last quarter phase 17:48 GMT 28 degrees Sagittarius. The Moon is the void of course for the remainder of the day.
The Moon slowly enters Capricorn 21:19 GMT.
Thursday March 19th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Pluto at 3 degrees Capricorn at 03:52 GMT
Mercury opposes Saturn 04:00 GMT.
Mars sextiles Pluto 06:11 GMT.
The Moon reaches apogee 13:17 GMT.
Friday March 20th 2009
The Sun enters Aries today at 11:44 GMT and a new astrological month begins.
Vernal Equinox 2009
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The Moon in Capricorn sextiles Uranus 20:06 GMT and is void from that moment.
Saturday March 21st 2009
The Moon enters Aquarius 10:07 GMT.
Sunday March 22nd 2009
Mercury aligns to Uranus within 1.25 degrees at 23 degrees Pisces 05:02 GMT.
The Moon aligns to Jupiter within 1.5 degrees at 17 degrees Aquarius at 20:33 GMT
Moon balsamic phase 20:37 GMT at 17 degrees Aquarius.
Monday March 23rd 2009
The Moon is conjunct Neptune (within 2 degrees) at 12:09 GMT at 25 degrees Aquarius.
The Sun squares Pluto 18:32 GMT.
The Moon slips into Pisces 21:08 GMT
Tuesday March 24th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Mars at 7 degrees Pisces at 11:03 GMT.
Wednesday March 25th 2009
The Moon, the Earth and Saturn are linearly aligned (within a degree) at 05:25 GMT.
The Moon and 4 planets clustered within a 20 degree arc from 08:33 GMT today for 2 days.
The Moon is conjunct Uranus at 23 degrees Pisces 16:54 GMT and is void of course from that time.
Mercury enters Aries 19:56 GMT
Thursday March 26th 2009
The Moon chasing Mercury enters Aries 05:04 GMT.
The Moon is conjunct Mercury at 1 degree Aries at 06:37 GMT.
New Moon in Aries
conjunct Venus
square Pluto.
This is the second New Moon following the Annular Solar Eclipse of January 26th 2009 and the fourth before theTotal Solar Eclipse on July 22nd 2009.
The New Moon on March 26th is opposite David Cameron's natal Venus, trine his natal Moon.
The tender infant Moon is conjunct Venus at 8 degrees Aries at 19:16 GMT.
Friday March 27th 2009
The next five days witness Venus on our side of the Sun, in a conjunction with the Sun, and Mercury on the far side of the Sun.
Mercury squares Pluto 12:15 GMT.
Around 13:39 GMT The Aries Moon forms a 'finger of fate' with Jupiter and Saturn.
Jupiter waxing semi-square aspect to Pluto 16:51 GMT, a one off aspect.
Inferior conjunction of Venus and the Sun at 7 degrees Aries at 19:24.
Saturday March 28th 2009
The Moon in Aries sextiles Neptune and is void from 02:18 GMT.
She enters Taurus 10:10 GMT
Sunday March 29th 2009
Mercury is conjunct Venus at 6 degrees Aries 02:32 GMT.
Monday March 30th 2009
Moon reaches crescent phase 04:26 GMT at 25 degrees Taurus.
The Moon squares Neptune and is void from 06:02 GMT.
The Moon enters Gemini 13:37 GMT
Tuesday March 31st 2009
Mercury is at superior conjunction with the Sun.
The Moon is busy in Gemini.
April 2009
April 2009 starts with the Sun, Mercury and a retrograding Venus in Aries, Mars applying to a conjunction with Uranus in Pisces and opposing Saturn in Virgo.
Venus in retrograde motion is square Pluto all month.
Wednesday April 1st 2009
The rapidly moving Moon in Gemini trines Neptune at 09:04 GMT and becomes void of course.
She enters cancer 16:31 GMT forming a cardinal T-square with Venus and Pluto from 22:00 to midnight GMT.
Thursday April 2nd 2009
Moon perigee 02:26 GMT
Moon first quarter phase 13 degrees Cancer 14:35 GMT.
Friday April 3rd 2009
Today and tomorrow Mercury forms a finger of fate with Jupiter and Saturn.
The Moon starting the day in Cancer trines Uranus at 09:00 GMT and becomes void of course.
Venus is square Pluto 10:30 GMT.
The Moon enters Leo.
Saturday April 4th 2009
Pluto turns retrograde 13:34 GMT at 3 degrees Capricorn.
Mercury sextile Jupiter 14:59 GMT
Sunday April 5th 2009
Gordon Browns gibbous progressed Moon is conjunct this progressed Saturn on April 5th 2009.
Mars opposes Saturn 00:56 GMT.
The Moon opposes Jupiter around half a degree orb 05:36 GMT.
The Moon then opposes Neptune less than 1.3 degree orb at 15:40 and is then void.
The Moon enters Virgo 23:02 GMT
Monday April 6th 2009
Moon gibbous phase 01:26 GMT 1 degrees Virgo.
Tuesday April 7th 2009
The Sun, Jupiter and Saturn form a loose 'finger of fate' over the next three days.
The Moon is conjunct Saturn 03:12 at 16 degrees Virgo at 03:12 GMT. She then goes on to oppose Mars (2.3 degree orb) at 06:28 GMT
Mercury sextiles Neptune 12:38 GMT.
The Moon opposes Uranus 16:53 GMT and becomes void.
Wednesday April 8th 2009
The Moon nearly full breezes into Libra forming a cardinal T-square with the long lasting Venus Pluto square lasting up to 09:30 GMT.
The Moon then cruises to her full climax.
Thursday April 9th 2009
Mercury enters Taurus 14:22 GMT.
Full Moon in Libra
trine Jupiter
This is the second Full Moon following on from the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of February 9th 2009 and the third before another Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on July 7th 2009.
This Full Moon is eased by Jupiter and is quintile Pluto.
After the full moon moment the Moon trines Jupiter 16:21 GMT.
Friday April 10th 2009
Mars is 5 degrees of celestial longitude from Uranus, Venus 7 degrees.
The 'hung-over Moon' trines Neptune and is void from 01:45 GMT.
The Moon enters Scorpio 09:23 GMT
The Sun sextiles Jupiter 13:44 GMT.
Saturday April 11th 2009
Mercury trines Pluto 05:51.
Venus retrogrades into Pisces 12:48 GMT where she resides for 13 days.
Sunday April 12th 2009
The Moon has a busy day finally making a trine aspect to Venus and becoming void at 17:29 GMT.
She enters Sagittarius 18:01 GMT.
Monday April 13th 2009
There are 100 days remaining to the big astrological event of 2009 the Total Solar Eclipse on July 22nd.
Moon disseminating phase 9 degrees Sagittarius 10:54 GMT.
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 13:14 GMT. Occultation centred on central Pacific areas.. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
Around 22:00 GMT today the Moon Neptune and Mercury form three corners of a pentagon.
Tuesday April 14th 2009
The Moon in Sagittarius squares the tightening Mars Uranus conjunction at 17:19 GMT.
Wednesday April 15th 2009
The Sagittarian Moon squares Venus and is void at 04:08 GMT.
She establishes herself in Capricorn 05:28 making mainly easy aspects whilst there over the next couple of days.
Mars is conjunct Uranus (within half a degree) at 10:00 GMT at 24 degrees Pisces. Both planets lie 5 degrees from a retrograding Venus.
The Moon is conjunct Pluto 12:04 GMT at 3 degrees Capricorn.
The Sun sextiles Neptune 19:55 GMT.
Thursday April 16th 2009
The Moon at apogee 09:13 GMT forms a wide earthy grand trine with Mercury and Saturn from 06:00 to 14:00 GMT.
Friday April 17th 2009
Moon last quarter phase 13:37 GMT 28 degrees Capricorn and then forms a sextile to Venus at 16:43 GMT then becoming void.
She enters Aquarius 18:20 GMT.
Venus turns direct 19:24 GMT at 29 degrees Pisces.
Saturday April 18th 2009
Mercury trines Saturn 00:52 GMT.
The Moon slowly accelerates and wanes in Aquarius.
Sunday April 19th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Jupiter (within 2 degrees) at 22 degrees Aquarius at 14:54 GMT.
She is conjunct Neptune (also within 2 degrees) at 26 degrees Aquarius at 22:16 GMT and this then void of course.
The Sun enters Taurus 22:45 GMT and a new astrological month begins.
Monday April 20th 2009
The Moon enters Pisces 05:56 GMT.
Tuesday April 21st 2009
Mars in perihelion. 09:47 GMT 6 degrees Pisces.
The Moon, the Earth and Saturn are linearly aligned within a degree at 11:24 GMT.
Moon balsamic phase 13:29 GMT at 17 degrees Pisces.
A very slowly moving Venus is conjunct and overtaken Mars (4.5 degree orb) 23:19 GMT at the very end of Pisces, the cusp of loves ignition!
Wednesday April 22nd 2009
Uranus is conjunct David Cameron's natal Saturn for the first time on April 22nd 2009
The Moon is conjunct Uranus 04:39 GMT at 25 degrees Pisces.
She then is aligned to Venus (within a degree) at that self same cusp. This is a lunar occultation of Venus as observed from North America as shown below.
Mars rams hard into Aries 13:45 GMT.
The Moon follows suit at 14:10 GMT and is immediately conjunct Mars.
Thursday April 23rd 2009
The period from mid April until mid July sees Venus and Mars close together in the eastern pre-dawn sky. It is unusual for the two to be so close together for so long; they happen to be in the same line of sight as Venus reaches the maximum curve of its orbit. Venus moves above Mars from 22nd April and then lies about 5 to 10 degrees to the upper left of Mars until the middle of June. The diagram at left shows them by the crescent Moon on the 23rd of April.
The view from Australia
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Mercury squares Jupiter 00:53 GMT
The Sun trines Pluto 05:41 GMT
Friday April 24th 2009
Venus unable to resist following Mars slips into Aries 07:19 GMT.
The very old Moon sextiles Neptune at 12:12 GMT and is void of course from that moment.
The Moon enters Taurus 18:47 GMT.
Mercury sextiles Uranus 19:39 GMT
Saturday April 25th 2009
New Moon in Taurus
trine Pluto quintile Jupiter and Neptune.
Venus conjunct Mars in Aries.
This New Moon is midway between the Annular Solar Eclipse of January 26th 2009 and the theTotal Solar Eclipse on July 22nd 2009.
Sunday April 26th 2009
Mercury bleary-eyed is square Neptune 00:55 GMT.
The infant new Moon is conjunct Mercury 27 degrees Taurus (within 2 degrees) at 15:43 and is the void.
Mars squares Pluto 16:10 GMT
The Moon ingresses Gemini immediately sextiling Venus and Mars.
Monday April 27th 2009
Barack Obama's progressed Moon in late Aquarius trines progressed Mars April 27th 2009.
The Moon very rapidly waxes in Gemini.
Tuesday April 28th 2009
Moon perigee 06:21 GMT
Moon reaches crescent phase 11:35 GMT at 23 degrees Gemini.
She trines Neptune 16:23 GMT and is void.
She arrives home in Cancer 22:39 GMT.
Wednesday April 29th 2009.
During the first four hours of the GMT day the Moon forms a cardinal T-square with Pluto, Venus and Mars.
Thursday April 30th 2009.
May Eve sees the Moon in trine aspect to Uranus and becoming void at 16:46 GMT.
Mercury crawls into Gemini 22:29 GMT.
May 2009
The Jupiter Neptune conjunction in May 2009 is opposite David Cameron's natal Mars.
The month starts with the Sun and Mercury (approaching his station) in Taurus. Just over three degrees separate Venus and Mars in Aries.
Friday May 1st 2009
The Moon enters Leo 00:56 GMT and trines Venus and Mars during the day.
Moon first quarter phase 12 degrees Leo 20:45 GMT.
Saturday May 2nd 2009
Venus squares Pluto 17:03 GMT
The Moon opposes both Jupiter and Neptune and becomes void of course at 22:09 GMT.
Sunday May 3rd 2009
The Moon enters Virgo 04:37 GMT forming a finger of fate with Venus and the lunar node around 11:37 GMT.
Monday May 4th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Saturn at 15 degrees Virgo 07:08 GMT.
Tuesday May 5th 2009
The Moon opposes Uranus at 01:31 GMT and is then void of course.
The Sun trines Saturn 09:34 GMT.
The Moon enters Libra 09:52 GMT
Moon gibbous phase 09:57 GMT 0 degrees Libra.
The Moon forms a cardinal T-square with Venus and Pluto between 15:00 and 17:00 GMT.
Wednesday May 6th 2009
The Moon in Libra opposes Mars 04:55 and makes no other aspects.
Thursday May 7th 2009
Mercury turning retrograde today 04:56 GMT at 2 degrees Gemini.
The Moon trines Neptune 10:01 GMT and becomes void.
The Moon enters Scorpio 16:48 GMT forming a potentially risky finger of fate with Pluto and stationary Mercury around 22:27 GMT.
Friday May 8th 2009
The Moon approaches her full phase in Scorpio.
Saturday May 9th 2009
Full Moon in Scorpio
This is the third Full Moon following on from the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of February 9th 2009 and the penultimate before another Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on July 7th 2009.
This Full Moon is aspect less, moving later in the day to square the ongoing Jupiter Neptune conjunction.
The Full Moon on May 9th is sextile David Cameron's natal Pluto.
The Full Moon on May 9th squares Barack Obama's ascendant.
The Moon squares Neptune 18:49 GMT and becomes void of course.
Sunday May 10th 2009
Barack Obama's progressed Moon trines progressed Mercury on May 10th.
The hung over Moon enters Sagittarius 01:50 GMT.
At 04:31 GMT she opposes Mercury and is eased by the lunar node.
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 21:01 GMT. Occultation centred on the Middle East and NE Africa. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
Monday May 11th 2009
The Moon wanes in Sagittarius.
Tuesday May 12th 2009
The Moon sextiles Neptune and is void from 05:56 GMT.
She enters Capricorn 13:10 GMT.
The Moon is conjunct Pluto 19:05 GMT at 3 degrees Capricorn.
Wednesday May 13th 2009
Moon disseminating phase 8 degrees Capricorn 04:25 GMT.
Mercury retrogrades back into Taurus 23:53 GMT
Thursday May 14th 2009
Moon apogee 02:52 GMT.
The Moon makes easy aspects today from Capricorn.
Mercury and the Sun in Taurus are now making a hard square aspect with Jupiter and Neptune. This picture dominates the skies over the next week.
Friday May 15th 2009
The Moon trines Mercury and is void from 01:00 GMT.
She enters Aquarius 02:03 GMT
Saturday May 16th 2009
Around 01:18 GMT the Moon forms a weak 'finger of fate' with Venus and Saturn.
The Sun squares Jupiter 08:46 GMT.
The Sun sextiles Uranus 13:09 GMT
Sunday May 17th 2009
Saturn turns direct 00:33 GMT at 16 degrees Virgo.
The Sun squares Neptune at 05:06 GMT.
The Moon hardwires into the current Sun Mercury Jupiter and Neptune planetary dynamic. She is conjunct Jupiter at 05:48 GMT and Neptune at 07:16 at 26 degrees Aquarius, reaching last quarter phase 07:27 GMT 27 degrees Aquarius, and squaring Mercury 10:41 GMT becoming void at that moment.
She slips (unnoticed) into Pisces 14:18 GMT
Monday May 18th 2009
Inferior conjunction of Mercury at 28 degrees Taurus 10:02 GMT.
The Moon wanes in Pisces.
Tuesday May 19th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Uranus 15:56 GMT at 26 degrees Pisces.
She sextiles the Sun at 21:44 GMT and becomes void.
The Moon ingresses Aries 23:31 GMT
Wednesday May 20th 2009
Retro-Mercury squares Neptune 09:22 GMT.
The Sun enters Gemini 21:51 and a new astrological month begins.
Thursday May 21st 2009
Moon balsamic phase 02:57 GMT at 15 degrees Aries.
Friday May 22nd 2009
The Sun has left the party but Mercury is still in square aspect to the Jupiter Neptune conjunction.
The Moon enters Taurus 04:41 GMT and moves to trine Pluto.
Saturday May 23rd 2009
The Capricorn Moon after making a trine aspect to Saturn is conjunct Mercury at 25 degrees Taurus at 21:47 GMT
Sunday May 24th 2009
The ancient Moon squares Jupiter and Neptune becoming void at 00:49 GMT.
The Moon enters Gemini 06:34 GMT
New Moon in Gemini
Saturn rises at Paris at the moment of New Moon.
This is the 4th New Moon following the Annular Solar Eclipse of January 26th 2009 and the penuultimate before theTotal Solar Eclipse on July 22nd 2009.
The New Moon on May 24th is conjunct Barack Obama's natal Moon.
Monday May 25th 2009
The infant Moon drifts through Gemini.
Tuesday May 26th 2009
The Moon trines Jupiter and Neptune becoming void 01:18 GMT.
She is perigee 03:36 GMT and enters Cancer 06:58 GMT
Wednesday May 27th 2009
Mars sextiles Jupiter 03:20 GMT
Mars sextiles Neptune 04:38 GMT.
Moon reaches crescent phase 17:55 GMT at 22 degrees Cancer and makes nice aspects from there today..
Jupiter conjunct Neptune 26 degrees Aquarius 20:13 GMT. First of three, the second is on July 10th 2009, final Dec 21st 2009 . This alignment is less than 0.38 of a degree from exactitude.
Thursday May 28th 2009
The Moon squares Mars and is void from 03:06 GMT.
She enters Leo 07:45.
The Moon has quiet hours.
After his conjunction with Jupiter, Neptune turns retrograde at 26 degrees Aquarius at 23:54 GMT.
Friday May 29th 2009
The Moon aspectless rapidly waxes in Leo.
Saturday May 30th 2009
The Moon opposes Jupiter and Neptune 04:15 and 04:28 GMT making a trine aspect to Mars and becoming void at 08:19 GMT.
Between 08:00 and 15:00 the Moon forms a dissociate grand trine with Mars and Pluto.
She enters Virgo 10:18 GMT
Sunday May 31st 2009
Mercury turning direct today 01:18 GMT
Moon first quarter phase 10 degrees Virgo 03:23 GMT goes on to a conjunction with Saturn 12:38 GMT at 15 degrees Virgo.
Mars enters Taurus 21:19 GMT
June 2009
During June the notable planetary pattern is a long lasting conjunction of Venus and Mars as they sidle through the sign of Taurus. As the month starts Venus in late Aries is 4 degrees behind Mars. They are conjunct on June 20th and by months end so too only 4 degrees separate. The keyword for June 2009 is Fertility.
Monday June 1st 2009
A powerful start to flaming June as at 06:00 the Moon in Virgo forms a finger of fate with Venus in Aries and Jupiter in Aquarius and at the same moment opposes Uranus in Pisces.
The moon opposes Uranus 08:33 GMT and is void. she enters Libra 15:17 GMT forming eventful aspects through the following hours.
Tuesday June 2nd 2009
There are fifty days remaining to the big astrological events of 2009 the Total Solar Eclipse on July 22nd.
Venus sextiles Neptune and Jupiter at 15:55 and 23:40 GMT.
Around 17:00 GMT the Moon trines the same pair, (Neptune and Jupiter) then opposes Venus at 18:01 GMT and becomes void.
Moon gibbous phase 19:38 GMT 28 degrees Libra.
The Moon enters Scorpio 22:45
Wednesday June 3rd 2009
From 18:00 GMT for 10 hours the Moon forms a Fixed T-square with Venus, Mars and her Node.
Thursday June 4th 2009
Mars trines Pluto 04:32 GMT.
The Moon in Scorpio waxes to the Full.
Friday June 5th 2009
The Sun squares Saturn 19:11 GMT.
The Moon, the Earth and Mercury linearly align (within 45 minutes of arc) 20:58 GMT.
From this time for 7 hours the Moon forms a weak T-square with Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune.
Saturday June 6th 2009
The Moon squares Jupiter 02:19 GMT and is void.
The Moon enters Sagittarius 08:25 GMT.
Venus enters Taurus 09:07 GMT.
Sunday June 7th 2009
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 03:43 GMT. Occultation centred on central Atlantic areas. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
Full Moon in Sagittarius
square Saturn.
This is the final Full Moon before a penumbral Lunar eclipse on July 7th 2009. With the passing of today's lunation we are once again in the foothills of a new eclipse season.
Monday June 8th 2009
The Moon sextiles Jupiter and is void at 13:52 GMT.
Venus is trine Pluto 19:19.
The Moon enters Capricorn at 20:01 and makes easy aspects over the next couple of days.
Tuesday June 9th 2009
Uranus is semi-sextile Neptune.
The Moon is conjunct Pluto 00:44 GMT.
Mercury locks into the semi-sextile, making a sextile aspect to Uranus 21:46 GMT and a square to Neptune 21:54 GMT.
Wednesday June 10th 2009
Mercury squares Jupiter 15:34 GMT.
Moon apogee 16:04 GMT.
Thursday June 11th 2009
Around 04:00 GMT Uranus is on the Moon/Mercury midpoint sextile to them both.
The Moon trines Mercury at 03:32 and is void.
The Moon enters 08:53 GMT squares Venus and Mars in the ensuing 5 hours and reaches disseminating phase 6 degrees Aquarius 21:14 GMT.
Friday June 12th 2009
The Moon wanes in Aquarius.
Saturday June 13th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Neptune at 14:23 GMT and Jupiter at 15:35 GMT.
She squares Mercury 21:05 GMT and enters Pisces 21:33 GMT.
Sunday June 14th 2009
Mercury enters Gemini 02:48 GMT.
The Moon squares Venus and Mars.
Monday June 15th 2009
The Moon opposes Saturn (1.6 degree orb) 04:21 GMT.
Jupiter turns retrograde at 27 degrees Aquarius 07:10 GMT.
Moon last quarter phase 22:16 GMT 25 degrees Pisces.
Tuesday June 16th 2009
The Moon occults the 4th magnitude fixed star lambda Pisces for UK observers 00:48 to 01:50 GMT
The Moon is conjunct Uranus 01:18 GMT at 27 degrees Uranus and becomes void.
She enters Aries 07:52 GMT.
Wednesday June 17th 2009
Gordon Brown's progressed Moon is opposed progressed Jupiter on June 17th 2009 becoming 'void of course' for only 12 days.
The Sun trines Neptune 10:45 GMT and squares Uranus 14:57 GMT.
Thursday June 18th 2009
The sun trines Jupiter 02:29 GMT.
The Moon sextiles Neptune, Jupiter and the finally the Sun becoming void 09:35 GMT. She enters Taurus 14:21 GMT.
Friday June 19th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Venus 13:00 at 13 degrees Taurus.
Moon balsamic phase 13:23 GMT at 13 degrees Taurus.
The Moon is conjunct Mars 14:07 GMT at 14 degrees Taurus.
Saturday June 20th 2009
The view from Australia
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Venus finally passes by Mars on the 22nd of June; at the same time Mercury is visible in the northeastern pre-dawn sky, next to the star Aldebaran.
Diagram shows them with the Moon around the 20th of June.
The Moon squares Jupiter 12:09 GMT and becomes void of course.
She enters Gemini 17:01 GMT setting the scene for the Solstice.
Sunday June 21st 2009
Summer Solstice 2009 05:46 GMT.
The Moon is conjunct Mercury 06:52 GMT.
Venus is at last conjunct Mars at 15 degrees Taurus 13:10 GMT.
Monday June 22nd 2009
Venus trines Saturn 06:31 GMT.
the Moon trines Jupiter and is void at 12:20 GMT entering Cancer 17:12 GMT.
Mars trines Saturn 14:45 GMT.
New Moon in Cancer
19:36 GMT
opposite Pluto.
Venus conjunct Mars in Taurus, Chiron, Neptune, Jupiter triple conjunction in Aquarius.
Pluto exactly rises at London..
The Sun, Moon and Pluto align to Karachi and Edmonton.
This is the ultimate New Moon before the Total solar Eclipse on July 22nd. We are now fully locked in to an eclipse season.
The 'Summer Solstice New Moon on June 22nd applies to a conjunction with Barack Obama's natal Venus.
The New moon opposes Pluto 20:22 GMT.
Tuesday June 23rd 2009
The Sun opposes Pluto 07:38 GMT.
Moon perigee 10:38 GMT
The Moon sextiles Saturn, Mars and Venus from 18:00 GMT to 21:00 GMT
Wednesday June 24th 2009
The Moon trines Uranus and is void from 11:25 GMT.
She enters Leo 16:51 GMT.
Thursday June 25th 2009
The Moon waxes in Leo.
Friday June 26th 2009
Moon reaches crescent phase 00:31 GMT at 20 degrees Leo.
Mercury squares Saturn 08:33 GMT
The Moon opposes Neptune and Jupiter at 12:29 GMT becoming void of course.
The Moon enters Virgo 17:47 GMT.
Saturday June 27th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Saturn at 21:35 GMT at 16 degrees Virgo.
Sunday June 28th 2009
The Moon opposes Uranus 15:27 GMT and is void.
She enters Libra 21:25 GMT.
Monday June 29th 2009
Gordon Brown's progressed Moon enters Libra on June 29th. The Moon squares Pluto 00:41 GMT, She reaches first quarter phase 8 degrees Libra 11:30 GMT, and then makes easy aspects for the rest of her stay in Libra.
Tuesday June 30th 2009
The moon in Libra trines Jupiter 22:00 GMT and becomes void of course. The calendar month ends.
Pluto opposes natal Barack Obama's Venus (for the 2nd of 3 times) on June 30th.
July 2009
We are already well into another eclipse season as July starts. There is a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on July 7th in Capricorn, a very long Total Solar Eclipse on July 22nd in late Cancer, and another penumbral Lunar Eclipse on August 6th.. Jupiter makes his second of three conjunctions with Neptune on July 10th. At this time Uranus is in semi-sextile with Uranus.
The Jupiter Neptune conjunction in May, July and Dec 2009 is opposite David Cameron's natal Mars.
In the first week Venus and Mars are square Jupiter and Neptune. The 2nd and 3rd of July are very dynamic.
Wednesday July 1st 2009
The Moon enters Scorpio 04:20 GMT and initiates an astrologically very dynamic couple of days.
Uranus is stationary turning retrograde at 27 degrees Pisces at 04:56 GMT.
Venus squares Neptune 20:01 GMT.
Mercury trines Neptune 20:48 GMT
Thursday July 2nd 2009
The dynamic planetary situation continues as the Moon waxes in Scorpio.
Mercury trines Jupiter 01:35 GMT.
Mercury squares Uranus 02:14 GMT.
Venus squares Jupiter 04:25 GMT.
Venus sextiles Uranus 17:42 GMT.
Friday July 3rd 2009
From 06:00 to 10:00 the Moon forms a Fixed T-square with Jupiter Neptune and Venus Mars.
The Moon is busy. She reaches gibbous phase 07:20 GMT 27 degrees Scorpio. She finally opposes Venus at 10:04 GMT and becomes void.
The Moon enters Sagittarius 14:12 GMT.
Mercury enters Cancer at 19:20 GMT joining the Sun in that sign.
Saturday July 4th 2009
We are in a powerful build up now to Tuesday's Lunar Eclipse. Also Mars is building to a square to the Jupiter Neptune conjunction.
Earth in Aphelion 01:42 GMT
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 09:39 GMT. Occultation centred on north central Pacific areas. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
Mercury opposes Pluto 15:27 GMT.
Sunday July 5th 2009
Venus enters Gemini 08:23 GMT.
The gibbous and nearly full Moon in Sagittarius squares Uranus and is void at 19:18 GMT.
Monday July 6th 2009
The heavily pregnant Moon enters Capricorn 02:08 GMT.
She is conjunct Pluto 05:29 GMT.
Mars squares Neptune at 14:43 GMT and squares Jupiter 20:28 GMT.
Tuesday July 7th 2009
Mars sextiles Uranus 07:48 GMT.
Penumbral lunar eclipse 09-39 GMT
at 16 degrees Capricorn
trine Saturn
At the moment of maximum eclipse the Sun and Full Moon are aligned between New York and Washington DC. Saturn rises at London. This eclipse sextiles Gordon Brown's natal Jupiter and squares David Cameron's natal Sun.
Moon apogee 21:35 GMT.
Wednesday July 8th 2009
We are now into the first of two 'eclipse fortnights'.
The hung over Moon trines Mars and is void of course at 09:43 GMT.
She enters Aquarius 15:04.
Thursday July 9th 2009
The Sun is sextile Saturn 07:10 GMT.
The Moon slowly wanes in Aquarius.
Friday July 10th 2009
Jupiter conjunct Neptune today at 09:11 GMT at 26 degrees Aquarius. (This is the second of 3. First was on May 27th, final hit Dec 21st).
The Moon in Aquarius is conjunct Jupiter (3.3 degree orb) at 19:42 GMT and is conjunct Neptune (2.6 degree orb) 19:45 GMT.
At this time Barack Obama's progressed Venus is conjunct his progressed Uranus.
Saturday July 11th 2009
The Moon squares Mars at 02:17 GMT and is then void of course. She slides into Pisces 03:44 GMT hitting disseminating phase 4 degrees Pisces 12:24 GMT.
Sunday July 12th 2009
Mercury sextiles Saturn 01:55 GMT
Mars enters Gemini 02:56 GMT joining Venus in that sign.
The Moon opposes Saturn (2 degree orb) at 14:25. The opposition is eased by the Sun and Mercury in Cancer.
Monday July 13th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Uranus 08:03 GMT and becomes void of course. She enters Aries 14:40 GMT.
Tuesday July 14th 2009
Mercury is at Superior Conjunction 02:16 GMT at 22 degrees Cancer.
The Moon accelerates and wanes in Aries
Wednesday July 15th 2009
Moon last quarter phase 09:54 GMT 23 degrees Libra.
The Moon sextiles Jupiter and Neptune at 15:07 GMT and is void.
She enters Taurus 22:30 GMT.
Thursday July 16th 2009
Mercury trines Uranus 07:34 GMT
Friday July 17th 2009
The Moon sextiles Uranus and is void at 20:49 GMT.
Mercury enters Leo 23:08 GMT.
Saturday July 18th 2009
The Moon occults the Palaides for UK observers 01:25 to 03:15 GMT
The Moon zips into Gemini 02:42 joining Venus and Mars in that sign.
The Moon is conjunct mars at 4 degrees Gemini 10:05 GMT
The Moon hits balsamic phase 21:39 GMT at 11 degrees Gemini.
The Total Solar Eclipse approaches.
Sunday July 19th 2009
The Sun trines Uranus 00:36 GMT.
The Moon is conjunct Venus at 15 degrees Gemini at 04:07 GMT.
The Moon squares Uranus and is void from 22:13 GMT.
Monday July 20th 2009
The Moon reaches her home base Cancer at 03:52 GMT.
Mercury sextiles Mars 23:32 GMT.
Tuesday July 21st 2009
Venus squares Saturn 20:06 GMT.
Moon perigee 20:26 GMT
The ancient Moon is in Cancer and very close to eclipsing the Sun.
Wednesday July 22nd 2009
Total Solar Eclipse 02-35 GMT
at 29 degrees Cancer
trine Uranus.
On Wednesday, 2009 July 22, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean.
Jupiter, Chiron and Jupiter still in tight conjunction in Aquarius.
Very long, lasts 6m 39s. Visible from East Asia, Pacific Ocean, Hawaii
[Total: India, Nepal, China, c Pacific]
Central eclipse at 02-35 GMT.
This powerful Total Solar Eclipse on Jul 22nd is trine Barack Obama's natal MC.
From the moment of New Moon the Moon is void.
She enters Leo 03:28 GMT.
The Sun regally follows into Leo 16:36 GMT.
The tender infant Moon conjunct Mercury 18:59 GMT at 10 degrees Leo.
Thursday July 23rd 2009
The Moon in Leo opposes Jupiter and Neptune at 20:29 GMT and becomes void of course.
Friday July 24th 2009
The Moon enters Virgo 03:24 GMT.
Saturday July 25th 2009
Moon reaches crescent phase 08:17 GMT at 18 degrees Virgo and is conjunct Saturn 10:13 GMT at 19 degrees Virgo.
The Moon opposes Uranus 23:15 GMT and is void of course from that moment.
Sunday July 26th 2009
The Moon enters Libra 07:29 GMT. She squares Pluto 07:29 GMT and then makes easy aspects.
Monday July 27th 2009
The Moon makes pleasant aspects from Libra.
Venus trines Jupiter 04:08 GMT.
Tuesday July 28th 2009
From 00:00 to 06:00 GMT the Moon forms an airy grand trine with Jupiter, Neptune and Venus.
The Moon trines Neptune and is void from 02:54 GMT.
Venus trines Neptune 05:52 GMT
The Moon enters Scorpio 10:57 GMT.
Venus squares Uranus 20:38 GMT? and will oppose Pluto on August 1st .
Moon first quarter phase 6 degrees Scorpio 22:01 GMT.
Wednesday July 29th 2009
The Moon waxes in Scorpio.
Thursday July 30th 2009
Around 09:30 GMT the Moon forms a fixed T-square, with Jupiter, Neptune and Mercury.
Mercury opposes Jupiter (2.5 degree orb) 10:38 GMT.
The Moon trines Uranus and is void of course from 12:55 GMT.
The Moon enters Sagittarius 20:10 GMT
Friday July 31st 2009
Mercury opposes Neptune (2 degree orb) 07:47 GMT.
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 15:36 GMT. Occultation centred on India and China. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
August 2009
August September 2009 Saturn's rings edge on.
For the first time in nearly 15 years, Saturn's rings will be edge-on to the Earth and hence invisible when viewed with a telescope during these months. The rings are edge-on to the Sun on August the 10th and edge-on to the Earth on September 4th. Saturn is low in the western evening sky on these days.
August 2009 starts with us already deeply immersed within an eclipse fortnight. The Moon is penumbrally eclipsed on August 6th in Aquarius.
Mercury and Venus are is sextile aspect all month. Mercury in Leo starts the month still dizzily in opposition to Neptune and Jupiter. Venus in late Gemini is in T-square with Uranus and Pluto, opposing Pluto on the first of the month.
The month starts with a flourish, then after a fairly quiet second week the astrology picks up with a series of planetary pictures and planetary symmetries which will cause wave after wave of events as we progress past August 22nd and 23rd, (possibly the crown of the month), right up to planetary turbulence at the end of the month as we pull out of the eclipse season.
Saturday August 1st 2009
Venus enters Cancer 01:28 GMT.
Moon gibbous phase 21:33 GMT 25 degrees Sagittarius.
Venus opposes Pluto 23:33.
Sunday August 2nd 2009
At midnight the Moon eases the waning Mercury opposite Jupiter and Neptune.
The Moon trines Mercury 05:42 GMT and is void.
The Moon enters Capricorn 08:09 GMT. She is conjunct Pluto at 10:16 GMT. She opposes Venus (within a degree) 11:27 GMT.
Mercury enters Virgo 23:07 GMT, joining Saturn in that sign.
Monday August 3rd 2009
Mercury is in earthy trine aspect with Pluto 14:10 GMT.
Tuesday August 4th 2009
Moon apogee 00:44 GMT.
The nearly Full Moon sextiles Uranus and is void 13:31 GMT
The Moon enters Aquarius 21:08 GMT.
Wednesday August 5th 2009
A loose finger of fate planetary pattern involving the Moon with the month long sextile of Mercury and Venus. this pictures is centred around 05:30 GMT.
The Moon slowly approaches her eclipse.
Thursday August 6th 2009
Penumbral lunar eclipse
01-39 GMT
at 14 degrees Aquarius
applying to Jupiter, trine Mars.
This lunar eclipse is conjunct Gordon Brown's natal Mercury and is trine David Cameron's natal Sun.
After the eclipse the Moon is conjunct Jupiter (with 3 degrees) at 23 degrees Aquarius.
Friday August 7th 2009
The Moon in the wake of her eclipse is conjunct Neptune at 25 degrees Aquarius 00:20 and is then void.
The Moon enters Pisces 09:35 GMT.
Saturday August 8th 2009
At 01:35 The Moon opposes Mercury and is tightly eased by Venus.
Mercury sextiles Venus 03:53 GMT.
From 23:00 GMT today for three hours the fishy Moon forms a mutable T-square with Saturn and Mars.
Sunday August 9th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Uranus 12:45 GMT at 26 degrees Pisces and becomes void of course.
She head buts into Aries 20:24 GMT.
Monday August 10th 2009 .
Moon disseminating phase 3 degrees Aries 01:20 GMT.
Mars applies in square to Saturn.
Tuesday August 11th 2009
Mars squares Saturn 00:16 GMT.
At 13:00 the Moon, the Sun, Mars and Jupiter form 4 points of a fire air hexagon. (19 degrees Libra and Sagittarius missing).
The Moon in Aries sextile Neptune at 20:24 GMT and is void.
Wednesday August 12th 2009
The Moon enters Taurus 04:51 GMT.
From today for 4 days Mars starts to ease the opposition of the Sun and Jupiter. This peaks on Friday.
Thursday August 13th 2009
Mars trines Jupiter 16:30
Moon last quarter phase 18:56 GMT 21 degrees Taurus.
Friday August 14th 2009
The Moon sextiles Uranus 15:18 GMT and is void.
The Moon breezes into Gemini 10:27 GMT.
The Sun opposes Jupiter 17:54 GMT. Mars very tightly eases the opposition.
Saturday August 15th 2009
The Moon wanes and accelerates in Gemini.
Sunday August 16th 2009
The first wave, the month long sextile of Mercury and Venus now starts to form a finger of fate with Jupiter. This lasts for the next four days. The second wave the ongoing sextile manoeuvres to focus on Neptune peaking on 22nd and 23rd.
The Moon is conjunct Mars 02:57 at 24 degrees Gemini.
The Moon squares Uranus 06:20 GMT and is void.
She is reborn in Cancer 13:14 GMT. She opposes Pluto 14:36 GMT and then makes easy aspects for two days.
Monday August 17th 2009
Moon balsamic phase 04:42 GMT at 9 degrees Cancer.
The Sun sextiles Mars 10:58 GMT.
Mercury is conjunct Saturn 15:15 GMT at 21 degrees Virgo.
The Sun opposes Neptune 20:55 GMT.
The Moon is conjunct Venus ( <1.7 degrees) 21:12 GMT at 20 degrees Cancer.
Tuesday August 18th 2009
The first wave breaks, a 'finger of fate Mercury', Venus, Jupiter.
Mars trines Neptune 01:29 GMT.
The Moon trines Uranus 07:10 and is then void.
The old Moon bounds into Leo 13:57 GMT.
Wednesday August 19th 2009
From today, the third wave, a mutable T-square involving Mercury Uranus and Mars starts to break. It peaks on 22nd and lasts up to 26th.
Mars squares Uranus 02:25 GMT
Moon perigee 04:49 GMT
Venus sextiles Saturday 10:11 GMT.
Thursday August 20th 2009
The Moon, the Earth and Jupiter are in linear alignment (within a degree) 00:11 GMT.
New Moon in Leo
10:02 GMT
conjunct Regulus
opposite Neptune sextile Mars.
This New Moon on August 20th 2009 is conjunct Cameron's natal Mars. Saturn is conjunct his natal Uranus (for the final time) tomorrow on August 21st 2009.
This is the first New Moon following the long Total Solar Eclipse of July 22nd 2009.
This New Moon chart shows a loose mutable/cardinal grand cross involving Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Mars and Pluto.
After the lunation the Earth and the Moon Neptune align within 2 degrees 06:00 GMT. The Moon is then void.
The infant Moon enters Virgo 14:01 GMT.
Friday August 21st 2009
Mercury tightly opposes Uranus 11:47 GMT (< a degree).
A critical and serious few days now ensues.
Saturday August 22nd 2009
The view from Australia
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August 2009 Mercury close to Saturn post-sunset
Good chance to see Mercury, reasonably high in the western post-sunset sky next to Saturn mid month.
Diagram shows their positions by the crescent moon on the 22nd of August.
Mercury is closest to Saturn (3º away) on August 17th.
Mercury, Venus and Neptune arrayed in fearsome finger of fate arrangement peaks today.
The Moon is conjunct Saturn at 01:24 GMT at 22 degrees Virgo.
The Moon is conjunct Mercury at 09:34 at 27 degrees Virgo
The Moon then squares Mars and is void from 11:44 GMT.
The Moon enters Libra 15:12 GMT.
Venus trines Uranus 23:32 GMT.
The Sun enters Virgo 23:39 and a new astrological month begins.
Sunday August 23rd 2009
Moon reaches crescent phase 18:05 GMT at 16 degrees Libra.
The Sun trines Pluto 18:17.
A formidable planetary symmetry forms in the skies today centred on Sun/Venus Uranus/Pluto and Mars/Mercury Saturn.
Monday August 24th 2009
Amid complex skies a 4th planetary wave starts. This one involves Mercury, Mars and Pluto. and this one sees the month out.
The Moon trines Mars 18:10 GMT and is void.
The Moon enters Scorpio 19:17 GMT.
Tuesday August 25th 2009
Mars enters Cancer 17:16 GMT.
Mercury enters Libra 20:18 GMT.
A change of gear.
Wednesday August 26th 2009
Mercury squares Mars 03:58 GMT.
Mercury squares Pluto 16:05 GMT.
The Moon trines Uranus and is void from 18:35 GMT.
Mars opposes Pluto 20:29.
At 21:30 a loose watery grand trine of the Moon Venus and Uranus rings out.
Thursday August 27th 2009
The Moon enters Sagittarius at 03:16 GMT and hits first quarter phase 4 degrees Sagittarius 11:43 GMT.
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 22:26 GMT. Occultation centred on Atlantic areas. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
Friday August 28th 2009
During this month of August Barack 2009, Obama's progressed Moon has opposed the progressed conjunction of Venus and Uranus becoming void today Aug. 28th, in his progressed horoscope. Saturn makes a single conjunction with his natal Mars tomorrow, Aug. 29th. These are very interesting and significant trends, and a very important time.
Mercury sextiles Venus for the second time this month.
The Moon waxes in Sagittarius.
Saturday August 29th 2009
Around 04:00 GMT a loose mutable T-square between the Moon Saturn and Uranus occurs.
The Moon squares Uranus 05:26 GMT and becomes void.
She labours into Capricorn 14:45 and is conjunct at 1 degree of that sign with Pluto.
Around 20:30 the Moon in Capricorn forms a tight cardinal T-square with Mercury and Mars.
Sunday August 30th 2009
The Moon slowly waxes in Capricorn. (A hard slog).
Monday August 31st 2009
Moon apogee 11:02 GMT.
Moon gibbous phase 14:07 GMT 23 degrees Capricorn.
The Moon sextiles Uranus and is void of course from 18:09.
It is in this state that this turbulent month ends.
September 2009
The third blast (of 5) of the Saturn Uranus occurs this month.
At the start of September the Sun applies to Saturn in Virgo, Mercury is slowing in Libra, Venus is in morning skies in Leo. Mars is in Cancer.
Less then 5 degrees separate Jupiter and Neptune in Aquarius.
Tuesday September 1st 2009
The gibbous Moon surges into Aquarius 03:43 GMT.
The Moon, the Earth and Venus align within 36 minutes of arc 18:28 GMT..
Wednesday September 2nd
The Moon is conjunct Jupiter (within 3 degrees) at 20 degrees Aquarius at 19:27 GMT.
Thursday September 3rd 2009
The Moon is conjunct Neptune at 25 degrees Aquarius at 05:20 GMT and becomes void of course.
She floats into Pisces, huge, full and unfathomable, 15:59 GMT.
Mercury squares Mars 16:20 GMT.
Friday September 4th 2009
Full Moon in Pisces
This Full Moon is the first following on from the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of August 6th 2009 and the 4th before the Partial Lunar Eclipse on New Years Eve 2009.
This Full Moon is conjunct Gordon Brown's natal Jupiter. The Saturn Uranus opposition at this time hooks onto his natal Venus.
This Full Moon is quintile Pluto.
This Full Moon on September 4th is in tight fateful quincunx to Barack Obama's natal Sun.
Saturday September 5th 2009
The hung over Full Moon is conjunct Uranus 16:54 GMT at 25 degrees Pisces and is void from that moment.
The Moon occults the fixed star lambda Pisces for UK observers 19:07 to 20:08 GMT
Sunday September 6th 2009
The Moon enters Aries 02:15 GMT.
From 13:00 GMT to 17:00 GMT the Moon forms a weak cardinal T-square with Mars and Mercury.
Monday September 7th 2009
Mercury turning retrograde today 04:40 GMT at 6 degrees Libra.
Around 14:18 GMT a sextile of the Moon and Jupiter forms a weak finger of fate with Saturn.
Tuesday September 8th 2009
Venus drawing to an opposition with Jupiter now dominates the skies over the next 4 days, and then moves on to oppose Neptune on September 15th.
The Moon sextiles Neptune 00:13 GMT and is void.
She enters Taurus 10:19 GMT.
Moon disseminating phase 1 degree Taurus 12:06 GMT.
Wednesday September 9th 2009
The Moon in Taurus forms a fixed T-square with Venus and Jupiter from 16:00 GMT to 21:00 GMT.
Thursday September 10th 2009
Around 06:00 GMT the Moon eases the ongoing Saturn Uranus opposition.
The Moon sextiles Uranus and becomes void of course at 07:18 GMT.
The Moon enters Gemini 16:18 GMT.
Friday September 11th 2009
Venus opposes Jupiter (1.67 degree orb) 07:55 GMT.
At 13:35 GMT Pluto turns direct at 1 degree Capricorn.
Saturday September 12th 2009
Moon last quarter phase 02:17 GMT 19 degrees Gemini.
Around 11:00 GMT the Moon forms a mutable T-square with Saturn and Uranus.
At 11:31 GMT the Moon squares Uranus and becomes void.
The Moon enters Cancer 20:20 GMT.
Sunday September 13th 2009
Uranus is conjunct David Cameron's natal Saturn for the second time on September 13th 2009.
The Moon is very closely conjunct Mars at 16:11 GMT at 12 degrees Cancer.
The Sun is drawing to her annual opposition with Saturn. Mercury and Uranus are also being drawn into the fray climaxing on the day of the next New Moon Friday 18th September 2009.
Monday September 14th 2009
David Cameron's progressed Mars opposes progressed Saturn today Sept 14th 2009. Saturn opposes his natal Saturn in two days time on September 16th 2009.
The Moon trines Uranus 13:58 GMT and is then void.
She enters Leo 22:40 GMT.
Tuesday September 15th 2009
Moon balsamic phase 11:29 GMT at 8 degrees Leo.
Saturn opposes Uranus 12:50 GMT. (1st Nov 4th 2008, 2nd February 5th 2009, 3rd Sept. 15th 2009, 4th April 26th 2010, final July 26th 2010). Saturn and Uranus are at the climax of their cycle which began with their conjunction in 1988, (the 1988 activator!). The last opposition occurred in 1965 to the start of 1967 also across Pisces Virgo. That cycle started in 1942. The opposition before that occurred 1918 to 1920 across Leo Aquarius. The last time Saturn in Virgo opposed Uranus in Pisces was in the years 1419 and 1420.
Venus now opposes Neptune 21:37 GMT.
Wednesday September 16th 2009
The Moon, the Earth and Jupiter align within 36 minutes of arc at 04:51 GMT.
Moon perigee 07:51 GMT
The Moon opposes Neptune 14:37 GMT. (1.75 degree orb).
The Moon is conjunct Venus at 16:11 GMT and is void.
The Moon enters Virgo 23:56 GMT.
A few astrologically special days ahead.
Thursday September 17th 2009
The Sun opposes Uranus 09:41 GMT.
Mercury squares Pluto 11:50 GMT.
The Sun is conjunct Saturn 18:23 GMT at 25 degrees Virgo.
Friday September 18th 2009
Mercury retrogrades into Virgo 03:26 GMT.
The ancient Moon is conjunct Saturn at 25 degrees Virgo 17:17 GMT.
New Moon in Virgo
26 degrees Virgo. 18:44 GMT
conjunct Saturn, opposite Uranus conjunct Mercury.
This New Moon is the second one following the long Total Solar Eclipse of July 22nd 2009.
After the new Moon moment the Moon is conjunct Mercury 23:56 GMT.
She is void from this time.
Saturday September 19th 2009
Jupiter is conjunct Obama's ascendant on 19th Sept, on the same day the New Moon is trine natal Saturn.
The infant Moon glides into Libra 01:26 GMT.
Sunday September 20th 2009
Mercury at Inferior Conjunction 10:05 GMT at 28 degrees Virgo.
Venus enters Virgo 13:32 GMT
The Moon trines Neptune and is void of course 18:43 GMT
Monday September 21st 2009
Venus trines Pluto 02:55 GMT.
The Moon enters Scorpio 04:52 GMT
Around 06:15 GMT the Moon sits on the Venus Pluto midpoint, sextiling both.
Tuesday September 22nd 2009
Moon reaches crescent phase 06:44 GMT at 14 degrees Scorpio.
Mercury is conjunct Saturn 09:08 GMT at 26 degrees Virgo.
Autumn Equinox 2009
21:19 GMT
Wednesday September 23rd 2009
The Moon eases the ongoing Saturn Uranus opposition 01:00 to 04:00 GMT.
She finally sextiles Saturn 03:33 GMT and is void of course.
She enters Sagittarius 11:44 GMT.
The Sun squares Pluto 14:19 GMT.
Mercury opposes Uranus (1.25 degree orb) 15:36 GMT.
Thursday September 24th 2009
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 06:28 GMT. Occultation centred on the northern Pacific. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
At 21:56 GMT the Moon forms a tight 'finger of fate' with Mars and Jupiter.
Friday September 25th 2009
From 10:00 GMT to 14:30 the Moon acts out a mutable T-square with Saturn and Uranus.
The Moon squares Saturn 14:16 GMT and is void.
The Moon enters Capricorn 22:19 GMT and is conjunct Pluto 23:45 at 1 degree of that sign.
Saturday September 26th 2009
Moon first quarter phase 3 degrees Capricorn 04:51 GMT.
Sunday September 27th 2009
The Moon, the Earth and Mars align (within a degree and a half) 14:25 GMT. For the rest of the day the Moon makes easy aspects.
Monday September 28th 2009
Moon is trine Saturn 03:34 GMT and reaches apogee 03:27 GMT. She enters Aquarius 11:07 GMT.
Tuesday September 29th 2009
Mercury turning direct today 13:08 GMT at 22 degrees Virgo.
The Moon is conjunct Jupiter at 22:27 GMT at 17 degrees Aquarius.
Wednesday September 30th 2009
The Moon forms a very tight 'finger of fate' pattern with Mercury and Mars around 06:00 GMT.
She reaches gibbous phase 08:10 GMT 22 degrees Aquarius, and is conjunct Neptune 11:35 GMT at 24 degrees Aquarius. She is then 'void of course'.
The Moon slips in Pisces 23:27 GMT at month's end.
October 2009
As the month starts Mercury, Venus and Saturn are within 15 degrees of each other in Virgo.
Thursday October 1st 2009
Mercury sextiles Mars 06:00 GMT
The Moon waxes in Pisces.
Friday October 2nd 2009
The Moon is conjunct Uranus at 24 degrees Pisces 22:03 GMT
Saturday October 3rd 2009
The Moon opposes Saturn 03:30 GMT and becomes void.
The Moon enters Aries 09:21 and is full in that sign tomorrow.
Sunday October 4th 2009
Full Moon in Aries
Venus, Mercury, and Saturn in Virgo.
Mercury sextiles Mars again (as on Thursday) 11:37 GMT.
The Moon forms a finger of fate with Jupiter and Venus around 17:26 GMT
Mercury opposes Uranus 21:06 GMT
Monday October 5th 2009
Mars trines Uranus 01:36 GMT
The Moon squares Mars and is void of course at 05:47 GMT, forming a finger of fate with Mercury and Neptune at this time?.
The Moon enters Taurus 16:34 GMT.
Tuesday October 6th 2009
The Moon wanes in Taurus.
Wednesday October 7th 2009
From 11:00 GMT to 18:00 GMT the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and the lunar node occupy five points of a hexagon, the missing point is 24 degrees Scorpio.
Very strong astrological patterns today.
The Moon very busy today finally makes a trine aspect to Saturn at 17:19, reaches disseminating phase 30 degrees Taurus 21:20 GMT, and enters Gemini 21:47 GMT.
Barack Obama's progressed waxing gibbous Moon ingresses Pisces on Oct 7th 2009.
Thursday October 8th 2009
Mercury is closely aligned to Saturn at 07:10 GMT. (Zodiacal conjunction 06:35 at 28 degrees Virgo) This is the tightest planetary alignment of 2009.
The view from Australia
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Friday October 9th 2009
From 01:00 GMT to 04:00 GMT the Moon, the Sun and Jupiter form an airy grand trine.
Venus opposes Uranus 22:01 GMT
From 21:00 GMT tonight until 04:00 GMT tomorrow the Moon, Pluto and the triple conjunction in Virgo of Mercury, Venus and Saturn form a mutable T-square.
Saturday October 10th 2009
The Moon squares Mercury at 01:35 GMT and is void.
She enters Cancer 01:48 GMT
Mercury enters Libra 03:46 GMT
The Sun trines Jupiter 08:39 GMT
Mercury squares Pluto 18:42 GMT
Sunday October 11th 2009
Moon last quarter phase 08:57 GMT 18 degrees Cancer.
Monday October 12th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Mars (<70 minutes of arc) at 01:03 GMT at 28 degrees Cancer.
The Moon is sextile Saturn 01:37 GMT and is void of course.
The Moon enters Leo 05:03 GMT.
Mars sextiles Saturn 20:53 GMT.
Tuesday October 13th 2009
Jupiter is stationary turning direct at 17 degrees Aquarius 03:32 GMT.
Venus aligns to Saturn (within 31 minutes of arc) at 28 degrees Virgo at 10:52 GMT.
Moon perigee 12:24 GMT
Venus sextiles Mars 18:31 GMT.
The Moon opposes Neptune 21:21 GMT and is then void..
Wednesday October 14th 2009
The Moon enters Virgo 07:46 GMT
Moon balsamic phase 18:50 GMT at 7 degrees Virgo.
Venus enters Libra 22:47 GMT.
Thursday October 15th 2009
Venus squares Pluto 17:19 GMT
Friday October 16th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Saturn 07:55 GMT at 28 degrees Virgo.
The Moon sextiles Mars 10:19 GMT and becomes void.
The Moon enters Libra 10:30 GMT
The Moon is conjunct Venus 13:57 GMT
Mars enters Leo 15:33 GMT
Saturday October 17th 2009
The Sun is trines Neptune 00:47 GMT
The Moon is conjunct Mercury at 11 degrees Libra at 05:23 GMT.
Sunday October 18th 2009
New Moon in Libra
trine Neptune.
The New Moon on 18th Oct squares Barack Obama's natal Saturn.
The Moon becomes void of course at the moment of New Moon.
She enters Scorpio 14:23 GMT
Monday October 19th 2009
Saturn sextiles Barack Obama's natal MC on Oct 19th.
The infant Moon waxes in Scorpio.
Tuesday October 20th 2009
The Moon sextiles Saturn and is void at 18:58 GMT.
The Moon enters Sagittarius 20:50 GMT, making easy aspects for a while.
Mercury trines Jupiter 21:50 GMT.
Wednesday October 21st 2009
The Moon occults Antares. Daytime occultation aligned to Europe and the UK (approx. 14:51 to 16:03 GMT). Central occultation time 15:15 GMT. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
The Moon making pleasant aspects today reaches crescent phase 22:46 GMT at 14 degrees Sagittarius.
Thursday October 22nd 2009
The Moon waxes in Sagittarius.
Friday October 23rd 2009
The Moon sextiles the Sun and is void of course at 06:40
She ingresses Capricorn 06:40 GMT
The Sun ingresses Scorpio 06:44 GMT and a new astrological month begins.
The Moon is conjunct Pluto 20:52?
Saturday October 24th 2009
The Sun is sextile Pluto 09:54 GMT
Mercury trines Neptune 16:56 GMT.
Sunday October 25th 2009
The Moon trines Saturn 18:15 GMT becoming void at that time, enters Aquarius 19:08 GMT and is at apogee 23:28 GMT.
Monday October 26th 2009
Moon first quarter phase 3 degrees Aquarius 00:43 GMT.
The first five hours of this day sees the Moon, the Sun and Mars in Fixed T-square arrangement.
During this period at 04:31 the Moon, the Earth and Mars linearly align within 30' of arc.
Tuesday October 27th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Jupiter 16:40 GMT at 17 degrees Aquarius.
The Moon is conjunct Neptune at 19:11 GMT at 24 degrees Aquarius.
Wednesday October 28th 2009
The Moon trines Mercury at 07:23 GMT and is void from that moment.
She tiptoes into Pisces 07:46 GMT
Mercury enters Scorpio 10:09 GMT.
Thursday October 29th 2009
Venus trines Jupiter 02:02 GMT
Mercury sextiles Pluto 03:51 GMT
The Sun squares Mars 07:56 GMT
Saturn first enters Libra today at 17:05 GMT. This residence of Saturn in Libra will bring about very dynamic planetary effects during the period 2010-2011. Saturn will oppose Uranus and square Pluto during this period. These few years ahead will most probably have very serious global consequences.
Friday October 30th 2009
Moon gibbous phase 02:23 GMT 22 degrees Pisces and then moves on to a conjunction with Uranus 04:56 at 23 degrees Pisces and is then void?.
Saturday October 31st 2009
The Moon enters Aries 17:57 GMT
There then follows a cardinal T-square involving the Moon, Saturn and Pluto from 18:00 to 21:00 GMT.
November 2009
On November 15, 2009: The most powerful configurations are beginning. Saturn squares Pluto at 1° 42' Libra-Capricorn, while the Moon and Venus join Neptune and Pluto in a septile pattern. The Sun septiles Saturn as well. Public fears of terrorism or war are accentuated at this time. This Saturn-Pluto square repeats on January 31, 2010 and again in August 2010. These are key dates in terms of oil shortages, oil price hikes, and international co-operation (or lack thereof). The increased use of coal raises new concerns about air pollution and accelerated global warming. Mountain Astrologer.
Sunday November 1st 2009
The Moon in Aries sextiles Neptune 13:29 GMT and is void of course from that moment.
Monday November 2nd 2009
The Moon enter Taurus 00:45 GMT
Mercury squares Mars 00:51 GMT
Full Moon in Taurus
arrayed in Fixed Grand Cross
with Mercury, Mars and Jupiter.
Venus trines Neptune 23:21 GMT.
Tuesday November 3rd 2009
The Moon squares Jupiter and finally Neptune at 18:04 GMT and is then void.
Wednesday November 4th 2009
The Moon enters Gemini 04:53 GMT.
Neptune is stationary turning direct 14:53 GMT at 24 degrees Aquarius.
Thursday November 5th 2009
Mercury is in Superior Conjunction with the Sun at 08:03 GMT at 13 degrees Scorpio.
The Moon in Gemini forms a grand trine with Venus and Neptune from 20:00 GMT to 04:00 GMT tomorrow.
Friday November 6th 2009
The Moon trines Venus 03:47 and is void. She hits disseminating phase 29 degrees Gemini 05:58 GMT and enters Cancer 07:43 GMT.
From 08:00 to 11:00 the Moon forms a tight cardinal T-square with Saturn and Pluto.
Saturday November 7th 2009
The Moon makes pleasant aspects from Cancer.
Moon perigee 07:25 GMT
The Moon trines Uranus and is void from 22:26 GMT.
Sunday November 8th 2009
Brown's Saturn return occurs on November 8th 2009. (This is the first of 3 over the next year).
Venus enters Scorpio 00:24 GMT
The Moon enters Leo 10:23 GMT
Mercury squares Jupiter 14:43 GMT
Monday November 9th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Mars 04:22 GMT at 1 degrees Leo.
Venus sextiles Pluto 05:32
Moon last quarter phase 15:57 GMT 17 degrees Leo.
From 16:00 GMT to 21:00 the Moon forms a tight Fixed T-square with Jupiter, the Sun and Mercury.
The Earth, the Moon and Jupiter align ( within 70') at 17:42 GMT.
Tuesday November 10th 2009
The Moon opposes Neptune and is void of course at 02:44 GMT.
The Moon enters Virgo 13:31 GMT.
The Sun squares Jupiter 18:42 GMT.
Wednesday November 11th 2009
The Moon wanes in Virgo.
Mercury trines Uranus 11:38 GMT.
Thursday November 12th 2009
Mercury squares Neptune 00:12 GMT
Around 05:00 GMT the Moon forms a trapezoidal pattern with Uranus, Mercury and the lunar node.
The Moon sextiles Mercury 07:14 GMT and is void.
The Moon enters Libra 17:23 GMT and is conjunct Saturn 19:55 GMT at 1 degree of that sign.
Friday November 13th 2009
Moon balsamic phase 03:42 GMT at 6 degrees Libra.
The Moon makes pleasant and easy aspects today from Libra.
Saturday November 14th 2009
The Moon makes a trine aspect to Neptune at 11:11 GMT and is void from that moment.
The Moon enters Scorpio 22:25 GMT.
Sunday November 15th 2009
The Sun trines Uranus 01:41 GMT.
Saturn waning square aspect to Pluto, 14:23 GMT, first of three, second Jan 31st 2010, final hit August 21st 2010.
The Moon swoons with Venus 15:42 GMT.
The Sun squares Neptune 23:11 GMT
Monday November 16th 2009
Saturn now in Libra together with Pluto hit Barack Obama's natal Venus very hard on 16th-18th Nov 2009. The New Moon today squares his natal Uranus.Mercury enters Sagittarius 00:28 GMT
New Moon in Scorpio
square Neptune.
The New Moon on November 16th 2009 is trine David Cameron's Saturn.
The Moon becomes void of course at the moment of New Moon.
Tuesday November 17th 2009
Mercury sextiles Saturn 05:01 GMT
The Moon enters Sagittarius 05:23 GMT.
The Moon is conjunct Mercury 09:23 GMT at 2 degrees Sagittarius.
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 23:46 GMT. Occultation centred on the small area where North America meets Asia. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year, there are only three remaining. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
Wednesday November 18th 2009
The Moon waxes in Sagittarius.
Thursday November 19th 2009
Gordon Brown's progressed Mercury is conjunct his progressed Mars on Nov 19th 2009.
The Moon sextiles Neptune and is void from 02:47 GMT.
Venus squares mars 08:23 GMT
The moon enters Capricorn 15:01 GMT
The Moon is conjunct Pluto 18:38 GMT, and squares Saturn 19:08 GMT
Friday November 20th 2009
The Moon makes pleasant and easy aspects from Capricorn today and reaches crescent phase 17:58 GMT at 14 degrees Capricorn.
Saturday November 21st 2009
The Moon continues to make easy aspects from Capricorn.
Sunday November 22nd 2009
Saturn sextiles Barack Obama's natal Mercury Nov 22nd..
The Moon sextiles the Sun 03:04 GMT and is void from that moment.
She enters Aquarius 03:11 GMT
The Sun enters Sagittarius 04:23 GMT and a new astrological month begins.
Moon apogee 20:13 GMT.
Monday November 23rd 2009
A very tight linear alignment of the Moon, the Earth and Mars (11' orb) occurs 10:39 GMT
From 10:00 GMT to 20:00 GMT the Moon forms a Fixed T-square with Mars and Venus.
The Moon is conjunct Jupiter at 20 degrees Aquarius at 19:45 GMT
Venus squares Jupiter 22:03 GMT.
Tuesday November 24th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Neptune 03:36 GMT at 24 degrees Aquarius and is void from this moment.
The Sun sextiles Saturn 15:35 GMT.
The Moon enters Pisces 16:08 GMT
Moon first quarter phase 3 degrees Pisces 21:40 GMT.
Wednesday November 25th 2009
The Moon waxes in Pisces.
Thursday November 26th 2009
Venus trines Uranus 03:00 GMT
The Moon is conjunct Uranus at 13:09 GMT at 23 degrees Pisces
The Moon trines Venus at 14:18 GMT and is void from that moment.
Mercury is trine mars 14:54 GMT.
Friday November 27th 2009
Venus squares Neptune 00:16 GMT and is void from that moment.
The Moon enters Aries 03:11 GMT
From 07:00 to 09:00 GMT the Moon again forms a very tight cardinal T-square with Saturn and Pluto.
Saturday November 28th 2009
From 10:00 to 16:00 GMT the Moon forms a fire Grand Trine with Mars and Mercury
Moon gibbous phase 19:40 GMT 22 degrees Aries.
The Moon sextiles Neptune 23:33 GMT and is void from that time.
Sunday November 29th 2009
The Moon enters Taurus 10:35 GMT
Mercury sextiles Jupiter 11:54 GMT
Monday November 30th 2009
Mercury squares Uranus 19:53 GMT
The Moon is afflicted in Taurus
December 2009
Mars is now starting to oppose Jupiter and Neptune but will not make it this time.
The Jupiter Neptune conjunction in May, July and Dec 2009 is opposite David Cameron's natal Mars.
Tuesday December 1st 2009
The Moon in Taurus opposes Venus at 13:40 GMT and is void.
The nearly Full Moon enters Gemini 14:24 GMT
Mercury sextiles Neptune 14:53 GMT
Uranus is stationary turning direct 18:44 at 23 degrees Pisces.
Venus enters Sagittarius 22:04 GMT
Wednesday December 2nd 2009
Full Moon in Gemini
sextile, Jupiter and Chiron tight again in Aquarius.
The Moon sextiles Mars 19:59 GMT
Thursday December 3rd 2009
The Moon opposes Mercury 10:28 GMT and is void from that point in time.
The Moon then enters Cancer 16:01 GMT
From 16:00 GMT to 21:30 GMT the full moon forms another cardinal T-square with Pluto and Saturn.
Friday December 4th 2009
Venus sextiles Saturn 11:45 GMT
Moon perigee 14:22 GMT
The Moon occults the fixed star delta Gemini for UK observers 20:58 to 21:53 GMT
Saturday December 5th 2009
The Moon trines Uranus at 05:09 GMT and is void of course from that time.
The Moon enters Leo 17:08 GMT
Moon disseminating phase 29 degrees Cancer 14:50 GMT.
Mercury enters Capricorn 17:25 GMT
Sunday December 6th 2009
Saturn makes a trine aspect to Barack Obama's natal Moon on Dec 6th.
The Moon is conjunct Mars at 19 degrees Leo 23:52 GMT
Monday December 7th 2009
The Leo Moon opposes Jupiter (05:00 GMT) and Neptune 08:59 GMT, becoming void at that time.
Mercury is conjunct Pluto 09:10 GMT.
The moon enters Virgo 19:07 GMT
Tuesday December 8th 2009
Mercury squares Saturn 14:36 GMT
The moon wanes in Virgo
Wednesday December 9th 2009
Moon last quarter phase 00:14 GMT 17 degrees Virgo.
The Moon opposes Uranus at 10:05 and is void of course from that moment.
The Moon enters Libra 22:48 GMT
Thursday December 10th 2009
The Moon wanes in Libra.
Friday December 11th 2009
The firery Sagittarian Sun trines a firery Mars in Leo 01:18 GMT.
The Moon sextiles both the Sun and mars 09:00 to 09:30 GMT
The Moon makes pleasant aspects all day till a trine aspect to Neptune at 17:45 GMT.
The moon is then void.
Saturday December 12th 2009
The Moon enters Scorpio 04:32 GMT
Moon balsamic phase 15:02 GMT at 6 degrees Scorpio.
Sunday December 13th 2009
The Moon wanes in Scorpio.
Monday December 14th 2009
The Moon squares Neptune at 01:18 GMT and is void of course at that moment.
The Moon enters Sagittarius 12:25 GMT
The Sun meanwhile squares Uranus 15:27 GMT
Tuesday December 15th 2009
The Sun sextiles Jupiter 00:17 GMT.
Lunar occultation of Antares today around 07:02 GMT. Occultation centred on northern Russia. The current series of lunar Antares occultations will end in February next year. Only two remaining now. These events started in December 2004. The next series is from 2023 to 2028.
The Moon is conjunct Venus at 18 degrees Sagittarius 22:17 GMT
Wednesday December 16th 2009
The Sun sextiles Neptune 00:17 GMT
New Moon in Sagittarius
sextile Neptune.
The New Moon today trines Barack Obama's natal Uranus Dec 16th.
The Moon is void from the moment of new Moon.
She ingresses Capricorn 22:32 GMT
Thursday December 17th 2009
The Moon is conjunct Pluto 04:00 GMT.
Venus trines Mars 12:39 GMT.
Friday December 18th 2009
The Moon closely aligns to Mercury 06:56 GMT, zodiacal conjunction 17 degrees Capricorn 07:52 GMT.
The Moon then sextiles Uranus 20:08 GMT and becomes void.
Saturday December 19th 2009
The Moon enters Aquarius 10:39 GMT
Sunday December 20th 2009
Venus squares Uranus 01:53 GMT.
Mars is stationary turning retrograde 13:33 GMT at 20 degrees Leo.
Moon apogee 14:55 GMT.
Moon reaches crescent phase 15:51 GMT at 14 degrees Aquarius.
Monday December 21st 2009
The Moon opposes Mars (47' orb) 02:44 GMT
Venus sextiles Jupiter 04:53 GMT
Jupiter conjunct Neptune 24 degrees Aquarius 08:53 GMT (32' orb). Final of 3. (First was May 27th, second was on July 10th)
The Moon is conjunct Neptune 12:07 GMT at 24 degrees Aquarius
The Moon is conjunct Jupiter 12:09 GMT at 24 degrees Aquarius.
The Moon sextiles Venus 12:54 and becomes void.
Winter Solstice
17:47 GMT
The waxing crescent Moon sets well before local midnight over the UK and slips unseen into Pisces 23:42 GMT.
Tuesday December 22nd 2009
The Moon waxes in Pisces
Wednesday December 23rd 2009
The Moon is conjunct Uranus at 23 degrees Pisces 21:43 GMT.
Thursday December 24th 2009
The Moon is square Venus at 08:10 GMT and is void of course from that moment.
The Moon enters Aries 11:40 GMT
A very tight cardinal T-square manifests around 17:18 GMT involving the Moon. Saturn, the Sun and Pluto.
The Sun is conjunct Pluto 17:28 GMT
Moon first quarter phase 3 degrees Aries 17:37 GMT.
Friday December 25th 2009
The Moon waxes in Aries.
Venus enters Capricorn 18:17 GMT.
The Sun squares Saturn 23:58 GMT
Saturday December 26th 2009
The Moon sextiles Jupiter 11:46 GMT and is void of course.
Mercury turning retrograde today 14:32 GMT at 22 degrees Capricorn.
The Moon enters Taurus 20:27 GMT
Sunday December 27th 2009
The Moon, waxing to a heavy partial eclipse on New Years Eve is today in Taurus.
Monday December 28th 2009
Venus is conjunct Pluto at 3 degrees Capricorn at 06:47 GMT
The Moon reaches gibbous phase 11:17 GMT 22 degrees Taurus. The procession towards Partial Lunar Eclipse is now underway.
Tuesday December 29th 2009
The Moon enters Gemini 01:15 GMT
Venus squares Saturn 06:56 GMT
Wednesday December 30th 2009
The Moon in Gemini is trine to Jupiter 20:31 GMT and is the void of course.
Thursday December 31st 2009
The heavily pregnant Full Moon lumbers into Cancer 02:46 GMT. She forms a difficult cardinal T-square with Saturn and Pluto from 08:00 GMT to 10:00 GMT.
New Years Eve
Partial Lunar Eclipse 19:23 GMT
at 10 degrees Cancer.
