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![Brutal reality: confronting the Pluto square Pluto transit](https://forestfriend.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Artboard-2v3-web-720x675.jpg)
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Anatomy of a Plutonic shift: a parable
If you have ever googled “when does Pluto move into Aquarius” and been mightily confused, you’re in good company. The answer is not simple and the meaning in the choreography of this series of astrological movements is difficult to grasp. These days, the...![October 28 full moon eclipse: Heads up, eyes open in this zone of acceleration](https://forestfriend.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/full-moon-eclipse-in-taurus-oct-28-2023-sm-1050x675.jpg)
October 28 full moon eclipse: Heads up, eyes open in this zone of acceleration
The world feels like a deeply uncomfortable place, the result of many wills being asserted, pulling and stretching the collective in multiple directions. Mars and Venus conjunct in Scorpio are 6° from the sun, in direct opposition to the moon and Jupiter: a battle of authorities while the rest of us scatter underfoot.
During this epic ox pull, the full, eclipsing moon will conjunct Jupiter at 11° of Taurus and then Uranus at 21° of Taurus, all within 24 hours. This is a time when red storms, whether figuratively emotional or literally hurricanes, swirl faster and bigger as the energy input increases.
![The saga of now](https://forestfriend.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_0819-1036x675.jpg)
The saga of now
This story doesn’t even start with Earth, or with the chunks of rock that used to be the fifth planet from the sun. It involves treachery, conquest, planetary destruction, genocide, slavery, souls in great pain, souls with great love. It sounds familiar because we...![Full moon in Capricorn: Gnomonic Expansion](https://forestfriend.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/july3-2023-1000x675.jpg)
Full moon in Capricorn: Gnomonic Expansion
Tight, tense, locked in, frozen up, on edge. Feels difficult to think long term or gather momentum. Maybe it’s just me. But if you also have natal inner planets in mid to late degrees of cardinal signs (Cancer, Capricorn, Libra or Aries) this full moon is adding...![New moon in Gemini: Think weird thoughts, feel weird feelings, open to the NEW](https://forestfriend.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/june12-2023-774x675.jpg)
New moon in Gemini: Think weird thoughts, feel weird feelings, open to the NEW
We’re entering a point in time where the masculine and feminine polarities in ourselves seem reversed. The urge to shape and act is united with the chaotic feminine, who understands destruction is as essential to “making new” as construction. The urge to receive...![New moon in Taurus: M A C R O C O S M](https://forestfriend.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/may18-2023-3-774x675.jpg)
New moon in Taurus: M A C R O C O S M
Today I’m asking about the new moon in Taurus tomorrow, along with the grand fixed cross happening as Mars moves into Leo on May 20—and many scales of magnitude beyond, an exact conjunction of our collective south node with a massive force in the universe known as the...![Full moon in Scorpio eclipse on May 5-6, king’s coronation and power shifts](https://forestfriend.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/may4-2023-1-889x675.jpg)
Full moon in Scorpio eclipse on May 5-6, king’s coronation and power shifts
“You are a weak monarch in a dangerous interregnum.” The above quote is from the latest episode of Succession, but it made me think of King Charles. For months I’ve been wondering why the court astrologers would schedule a coronation hours after a lunar eclipse in...![Concerning stellar body movement outside of “time”: Reading for the new moon solar eclipse in Aries](https://forestfriend.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/apr18-2023-825x675.jpg)
Concerning stellar body movement outside of “time”: Reading for the new moon solar eclipse in Aries
All human activity is driven by measurement of the movement of stellar bodies: time. But outside of the earthly use of calendars and clocks and events and seasons, what is the meaning of the cycles and spirals and aspects and alignments that our luminaries and planets...![Today’s cards: Reading for the full moon in Libra on April 6](https://forestfriend.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/apr4-2023-808x675.jpg)