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Weekly Astrology Forecast: Don’t Get a Hair Cut

Astrology for the Week of February 26 to March 4, 2010
With Venus, the planet of money, beauty and love coming to sit with Uranus in tension aspect to the planet of burdens, Saturn, in the sky there are a few things I wouldn’t do. First I wouldn’t invest in the “next big thing’ or anything [...]

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Relationship Astrology: Uranus & Establishing A Pair As A Couple

Disruptive Uranus is not thought of as a romantic planet, a planet of unity or a planet that has a part in establishing a relationship. Yet, an important task in establishing a happy marriage is to ”separate from one parents and establish a home.” Separation is a Uranus function as this planet presides over all [...]

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Relationship Astrology: Planets Rule In Lasting Relationships

Judith Wallerstein in her 1995 book “The Good Marriage” proposed that there are nine sequential developmental tasks in building a lasting relationship. Looking over the list it was hard not to find a correlation between the planets and the developmental tasks at hand. There were some surprises in the list. Mercury for instance is not [...]

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Weekly Astrology Forecast: Surface Impressions and What Lies Beneath

Saturn has moved in Libra which signals a shift in the things that restricts our movements. Libra is all about relationships, social connections, justice, in other words “What is fair?”. How do we navigate the ties that bind us to our family, friends and community? The danger with Saturn in Libra is that we might [...]

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The Astrology of Evolution: Saturn, Uranus, Pluto At It Again

The Sun in Virgo marches on the join Saturn in his long-term position, shining its light on Old Man Time who is and has been in opposition to Uranus. At the apex of T-Square is the original change agent, Pluto, commanding a position as middleman. This is a story as old as time, the struggle [...]

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Reader’s Question: Troubles With Pluto

Hi Beth,
I’ve been your fan for sometime now, excellent work (and funny too!)
My stats are as follows: DOB: 12-24-1955 in Guantanamo, Cuba born at 2:20 AM. I’ve had Pluto affecting me now for years…first in Scorpio (my ascendant) now in Capricorn, my natal 2nd house, so my question to you is, what should I expect [...]

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September Monthly Forecast: Pay No Attention to Man Behind the Curtain

Two sets of aspect structures are significant this month. One is our old friend the Saturn/Uranus opposition, where old structures are challenged to the foundations. For this past year, we’ve all felt the effects of shifting economic conditions that have overturned our way of life. Now a third player, powerful Pluto in Capricorn, forces his [...]

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The Astrology of the Life Cycle: For Everything There Is A Season

Raise your hands, who remembers Gail Sheehy’s book Passages. Ok, now that you’ve just dated yourself, do you remember what the book was about? In Ms. Sheehy’s bestseller, which was all the rage when I was in college, she talked about the developmental stages of adults, which was broken up roughly into the decades [...]

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The Astrology of Uranus–Dealing With Those Tricky Teenagers

Parents just about experience it hear about it from battle weary veterans who tell their stories with a knowing yet tired look. Your precious darling has just hit the teenage years. You just don’t know who this person with t he multi color hair, and unfathomable body piercings across from the table is. Did some [...]

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