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Steven is back this month with a well-rounded look at the often dread-inducing transit of Saturn in Scorpio. Just in time for Halloween, Saturn's ingress into Scorpio conjures up images of the Grim Reaper. My favorite re-imagining of everyone's least favorite dinner guest appears in this image of the woman on the left, as the character Death from Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman.
But as Steven points out below, it doesn't pay to get scared when it comes to Saturn. Rather, if we work with the image of Father Time as a metaphor, we can see Saturn in Scorpio heralding our need to go through the process of weeding out the dead growth that Mr. Reaper's scythe brings to mind, before we can plant new seeds again when Spring comes around. In the end, this is just another natural cycle of life, to be accepted and even celebrated for what it is. For more, see Steven's note below.
With that "back to school" feeling in the air, it seems appropriate that in this month's newsletter, we'll be sharing the latest updates to Steven's 2013 calendar.
Over the next year you'll have the opportunity to study with Steven in exotic locations like China and Italy, as well as his mainstays in California and North Carolina. See the online schedule for details.
New Editions of Steven's Books
I've spent the last few weeks putting the final touches on the newest printing of The Inner Sky. Although the content inside is the same, we've given the book a new cover, and new layout for the interior. This month I'll be getting it ready for the Kindle and Nook. And then I'll be doing the same with Yesterday's Sky,The Book of Pluto, Skymates IIand Jodie's bookThe Ascendant. It will be great to eventually have all of Steven's books available in digital formats.
We're now in the home stretch of Mercury Retrograde. Mercury stations direct early in the morning of August 8.
There plenty of levity to appreciate in today's Aquarius full moon energy, which is much needed after last month's challenging Mars aspects. Just as the moon is full, it will trine Jupiter, which will in turn form a sextile to the sun. The Sun and Mercury will trine Uranus, and even Saturn is feeling friendly with a sweet trine to Venus. If you're reading this, make the most of these positive energies while they're at hand.
Steven caught just enough of a breather between teaching events to write a wonderful bit about Venus in Cancer below. He's just now beginning his annual AP program in Australia. Then he heads home for a short break before the next program which starts September 28 in Calistoga, CA.
If you're reading this, you know that for the most part, we survived the first pass of Uranus square Pluto relatively in tact. I know some of you out there were a little worried... While many headlines last week had a distinctly Uranus square Pluto signature (we'll look at a couple below), it's times like this that remind us that our fears sometimes get the best of us. And also that the world keeps on turning.
There were some dramatic headlines last week. Sadly, the fires in Colorado are being dubbed "the most destructive in state history." The supreme court let out a couple of very Pluto in Capricorn style decisions. And the Egyptian elections carried the flavor of both the Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn archetypal fields. They elected an Islamist president who pleases the conservatives. But in a surprising (Uranus, anyone?) turn, the new president announced that he'll appoint two vice presidents: a woman, and a Christian! The real-life expression of the planetary energies is always more wonderfully complex than we could have imagined beforehand.
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In this interview filmed at the 2012 UAC astrology conference, Steven joins fellow astrologers ISAR President Gisele Terry and David Cochrane for a discussion about inter-astrological appreciation. For too many years astrologers have been fragmented on their isolated islands of technique, tradition, style etc. This discussion aims to show that if we drop our defenses …
