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The conjunction is perhaps the most difficult aspect to interpret. The two planets involved are harnessed together. One does not function without the other. The energies of the planets may be complementary, like Sun and Jupiter or Mercury and Uranus, or very disparate, like Moon and Uranus or Sun and Neptune. As you can see the Sun/Jupiter and Mercury/Uranus conjunctions …

If any planetary energy represents an unconscious, instinctive, primordial, collective and transpersonal force, it is Pluto. Much has been written about Pluto, probably because all that the planet symbolizes is so little understood or comprehended on the conscious, intellectual level. Liz Greene devoted a book, The Astrology of Fate to it. Jeffrey Wolf Green has dedicated much of his career …

In recent years when astronomers finally got an up-close look at the planet Neptune, they saw a “fuzzy blue” globe, and they were not at all sure just what they were looking at. For astrologers, Neptune represents an equally mysterious energy. Whether it is a “fuzzy blue” sphere or rose colored glasses, Neptune seems to represent all that is not …

We often find Uranus as a singleton in the charts of highly charismatic personalities. As we go through the examples of famous people, we see a kind of “brightness” or “radiance” about Uranians. There is a quality about them that makes others “sit up and take notice.” Along with charisma is a trickster quality. These people tend to do and …

Jupiter is King of the Gods and the Father in Heaven, a sky god. On a psychological level he is the dispenser of law and giver of gifts and of grace. The longing for a Heavenly Father and the need to experience some guiding spiritual principle at work in our lives is the Jupiter principle. There is a restless longing …

Mars is the archetype of the War God, and from Christmas until Valentine’s Day he was transiting his own co-ruled sign, Scorpio. For many days during that period, transiting Mars was a singleton, usually as the only Water sign planet, often as the only Social sign planet. Only when the Moon was in Water or Social sign would Mars not …

Venus is the second of the Preceptor planets, along with Mercury. We saw that Mercury correlates with the nervous system in general and the left hemisphere of the brain, the linear, logical half, in particular. Venus correlates with the right hemisphere, corresponding to the ability to perceive relationships among objects. Interesting neurological research has just revealed “that the ability to …

Mercury and Venus together are the “Perceptors.” Mercury correlates with the thinking, logical, communicative process, which includes the synapses, or nerve connections, in the brain and spinal column. It represents the discrimination function and the ability to discern. In medical astrology, Mercury rules the nerves and the nervous system. Both Mercury and Venus are involved in the total process of …