Lets take a moment to take a closer look to the moon. Remember the moon is so powerful and it affects the high and low tides. And we humans are 90 percent water, so it naturally figures to think carefully about the moon and how it affects us. This shouldn’t be surprise just common sense. For example full moons are especially known to create high emotional times.

The key is to realize that every 28 days the moon goes through every sign of the zodiac. Everyone is involved, every day, every month. And as it does this, it not only makes aspects with the other planets in the sky all the planets, but in your own natal chart. Even if you don’t know your chart right now you can easily get it online and there are several sites which will give you one for free. Just make a search for astrological charts on Google search where is the moon today and with this you can now look at the aspects of the moon and by comparison what it is doing in your natal chart. You can start easy with just noting when it makes a conjunction (same degree, same sign) as you Sun, Moon and Rising sign. This will take a little self-discipline, but if you want to understand the moon, it is worth it. These days will bring special attention to your quest for lunar understanding. You will be surprised how easy it becomes after you get used to it. Make it a thing to do before looking at your emails in the morning.

Another key is to know what sign and aspects the moon is making to the planets in the sky at the time each day. Again the easiest is to just Google where is the moon today and you will receive the information you need. Also the publisher, Llewellyn, sells a variety calendars, which gives the aspects of the moon every day of the year. It especially good to know what sign the moon is in as its transiting aspects. There is a years weekly overview in the front of the Daily Planetary Guide that will go through the moon’s motions to help beginners know what is going on and learn some techniques. Not only that but eclipses and full and new moons. And finally if you want every thing in one magazine, the Dell Monthly Astrologer and other astrological magazines do that as well, along with articles on popular subject in the astrological world. Take the plunge study the moon.

Got the Cabin fever blues? Tired of Zoom and movie bingeing, media burnout. And the tension of the news? And it looks like more tension as we enter 2021. There will be vaccine pressure, who gets it and when. WOW. So here are this astrologer’s steps to keep above water.

1 – Keep learning by keeping brain sharp: Read a book, learn something new, try art, music your choice, but do it. Be disciplined it takes effort to be positive and self stimulating. 2 Love someone, something, like the blue sky mystery of life 3 Humor see the humor in things, the paradoxes, don’t dwell on negative 4 Don’t “grow old or bored with present”, keep alert for now and tomorrow 5 Get over pain of past don’t slip into remembering difficult memories 6 – Keep dreaming, Eric Fromm said that people who had dreams and goals while in the holocaust survived best. And look what they were up against 6- Look your best even set times for it. Dress up, wear a sharp outfit or shirt, something other than slippers or tennis shoes. Don’t just always be in sweats or pajamas 7 Meditate, listen to good music pray if that works for you. There are books on meditation, watch and learn from YouTube. Don’t just watch, do something alone and quiet, A enjoy good solitude, which is different from lonely. 8 Listen — really listen to other people, what is really going on? 9 Be kind, helpful when you can, 10 Talk to people, reach out, don’t wait for a phone, reach out to friends, relatives, associates make a list. Try these helpful (I hope) steps.

But don’t take my list or anyone’s list. Make you own list. Follow it! Remember disciple and action are the key to beating cabin fever. Keep a pad of paper as you go through your process of your own helpful tips.

Astrology mental heath is more than just a chart, but if you have one here are some tips . 1 Go through the hard and soft aspects how they can teach. 2 Remember squares can be good, they can make things happen. 3 Things will not stay the same. Are you ready for that? 4 Where are Saturn and Jupiter? Saturn looks like restriction? What restriction looks positive? Jupiter shows expansion. Where does that look to happen? 5 Stay positive. Remember we have freewill to make our decisions. There are some things we cannot control, like the pandemic, but how we work with its problems is our decision. 6 May Mercury make you curious about what to do and follow through, 7 Follow the moon rolling through the signs, feel the tidal rhythms Keep an eye on Neptune. 8 Remember Uranus is in Taurus things can be shaken up. 8 Mars is an energy source where do you plug in? 9 Venus shows where the beautiful is. 10 Pluto is still the dark teacher who can lead to transformation. Just saying.

There has been a lot of talk about the covig-19 vaccine. Or should I say vaccines! It seems that there are at least three or four labs saying they are on the verge, or even in preliminary trials. Don’t worry they keep saying it is coming soon. But each “soon” comes and goes. Besides how inclusive would the vaccine be? Dr.Fauchi says it might be 50-60 % effective. I keep wondering what that means. That still leaves and other 50 – 40% not covered. What happened to them. We can’t have a half quarantine, can we? Let’s say my wife and I get the vaccine and she is covered, no covieg-19 for her. But there I am what happens to me? I am exposed, it is not working on me. I have yet to get it all figured out. And with all these companies getting vaccines, perhaps we can mix and match different doses.

I am no genius, but things like these worry me. However I do have an idea when the vaccines will start serious testing and presenting them to the public: the end of December 2020. And my idea for this is that Jupiter and Saturn will be leaving the sign of Capricorn for good! Yay! At last we will be done with these two planets of such different energies will be out of Capricorn. That will mean only Pluto will be there “til 2024, which is still enough time for him to do his thing in getting us all the participate in more of his “transformational” mischief.

However lets just take a look at what it means when Saturn and Jupiter are in Aquarius. It means that these two planets will be able to stretch their legs to a different sign, to a different drummer as the sands of time march on. And that is what we want for the creativity of Aquarius, its drive for out of the box thinking, for unusual solutions, a bit of the rebellious spirit.And believe me we are in need of it.

Saturn entered Aquarius for just a peek starting on March 23. It got all the way 1:57 degrees on May 10th and back to Capricorn on July 1. It is during this period of time that the great experiments on the vaccine got into gear, not the we were going anywhere, but at least we were in gear. The key I think is the note that Saturn in Aquarius gave us a big clue. Changes are coming when both of the big planets are in Aquarius.

This means the 2021 will be an exciting year of growth Hopefully there will be social changes to go along with this scientific creativity. One of the keys is that around summer solstice time Saturn and Uranus will square at 13 degrees of Taurus/Aquarius. This square will give us movement in the right direction and Saturn will direct Uranus into the fray. Couple this with the energy of Jupiter square Uranus in Jan 18th 2021 will deliver the energy to push us in the way to the goods of a vaccine that we can use.

While all this sound like a long time. Remember that it wasn’t until March that we even began to get in gear for a vaccine. That means the Dr. Fauci was right at that time. It will (and did) take a year and in a year we will will have one. Of course will be tinkered with the ways it can be changed and updated with new insights Yet after the great quarantine this should us get to know the “New Normal”

A lot of my friends have asked me how is it that most astrologers did not predict the covid 19? Well, let me explain. Every astrologer on the planet expected 2020 to be a crazy and explosive year. There were lots of reports that the main event would be the conjunction of Saturn with Pluto on January 12 2020. The last time there was this conjunction at this time with both planet meeting in Capricorn had not happened since 1518. That’s right and just to fill you in on that time–it was the time that the REFORMATION started, releasing the horror of religious strife that would bring on things like the many wars over who had the correct religious focus and remember those who didn’t have this correct denomination would surely be sinners to those who did, and it was a battle as to whose religious theology was really saving souls. War was the way to find out. Enough said on the ensuing period of history which came to spawn the English and European problems in terms of the best religion. Also the slave trade really changed focus to Africa from the West Indies. African became the best sort of slave because they were stronger and worked better in extreme heat. Plus, since Columbus had just discovered a new world to exploit and conquer and fight over.

SOOO Back to what astrologers thought this historical concept of the results of the Capricorn cycle involved in 2020′s Saturn Conjunction of Pluto. Plus two eclipses, one right before the conjunction of the 11th. So astrologers all predicted an economic collapse, a stock market crash and the economic systems would all be in shambles leading to a great depression. That was what I thought. And the other idea was that there would be another war of some kind with Iran or North Korea or some other hot spot that would flare up. Actually it was Bill Gates of Microsoft who warned of an epidemic problem. But didn’t date when it would happen. (it was predicted in 2016)

Actually the only astrologer who did predict the plague up front was Ray Merriman Of ISAR who said there might be an epidemic of some kind in 2020 And he kind of threw that out after he had finished pointing out that the stock market would be in terrible shape an a new economics might be upon us.

So, actually the astrologers I know were about half right, the market did collapse and a new economic system would have to evolve, even a great recession. But, oh yeah, that virus.

What is amazing to me was how accurate the events happened during January 2020 was: it was then that the epidemic was wild in China, but went pandemic in late January, even though the president of the US was calling it a hoax. Then came the shelter in place lock-down and the whole situation is still in flux. Millions out of work, food lines hospitals full. The next questions was and will be when will this be over?

For me I don’t see how this can be over until December or longer when both Saturn and Jupiter will conjunct in Aquarius. This is not to say that there not will be times of getting things started, to get better and there will be another wave of the virus to deal with. Yet The vaccine and the real release will not, as I see it,begin until Jan 2021. At this point I will only say that Aquarius is the inventive sign of change and adjustment, of rebellion and individualism, of finding new ways to deal with things that deal with lots of people (the 11th house issue of a lot of people, new interest groups and ways to think of social responsibilities, and political foundations ).

Why is everyone so focused on 2020? At the very core of all this attention is 1518. Why? Because this was the date of the last Saturn conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn. In the zodiac, there are various planetary cycles, lunar, Mercury, Venus etc which tell the type of cycle. What is importance 2020? It is the cycle of Pluto and Saturn conjunction in Capricorn? Our attention turns to history to see what kind of things were happening in the world in that time (1518) and about and after. This is where the terrain gets a little difficult. Consider just four.

Luther nails his demands on the door of a Catholic Cathedral in Germany. This started the Reformation.

Slave trade grows dramatically as the use of Africans for slaves develops all over most of New World

Mercantile Economics starts spreading intense colonial activity for colonial expansion. Leads to wars.

English tensions with the catholic church continue until later King Vlll leaves to start the Anglican Church.

It makes one consider what the might be the ramifications the Saturn Pluto conjunction will have as the new cycle time moves on. We have a world divided over religious differences, economic,and culture. Wars in middle east, more economic trials of the creaking financial market5. Challenges from Russia and China. American leadership is hawkish and impulsive, exacerbating an already sensitive checker board. Playing the serious (Saturn) game of life is the game we should all consider. Make smart moves.

BASIC CHANGES COMING TO CONSIDER:

Think long term.. . .What will the next two the five years down the road be like?. Look at where you have been and how you handled that, where you made mistakes. What worked out. Then down the road a ways a couple to a few more years. Look at foundations that are strong,which are weak? They will be tested Be sure to look at your job, your relationships, where you live, hard times ahead, where it looks brighter. Consider things you have to take care of but are putting off. Be active yet pensive.

Add that every one is fearful of a global worry, climate change–it will get worse until the humans get smart about mother earth. We are a digitally affiliated world and yet must read the writing on the wall we need to unite for our planet. This blog is about a big cycles and how they work in the historical mundane record and personal progress. Be insightful and intuitive, yet sharp and critical as you trod your path.

In this blog I would like to make some comments on the planet Neptune. Often in older astrology books the planet the key words are dreams, ideals, illusion’s, mystery, spiritual, psychic, escapism, addiction, mysticism, and the list goes on with the polarity of the illumination and darkness that is possible with Neptune.
Neptune is first and foremost a water sign, the reference to the sea, which is saltwater by the way, which we always remember as the cradle of life. The symbol of the sign of Pisces, ruler of the twelve house is that of two fish, one pointed up the other deeper down and the two are held by a long almost embryological cord.
It is my contention that the student need only meditate on this symbol to gain great insight to the planet’s meaning. First while the symbol of fish live in the sea, we must also remember that the sea is nature’s solvent. Most things are dissolved by salt water and yet this is the cosmic soup of live of all kinds. It is also the source of the evolution of the survival of the fittest. From the smallest forms of life to the shark, the sea is where it started and still and a whole world of creatures l live.
Fresh water is another story of evolution, but the very origin of fresh water comes from the evaporation of seawater into the air where clouds bring fresh water purified of the salt. This is why Aquarius the water giver. He takes water from the sea to create fresh water and lightening.
The ocean is thus very easily conceptualized as Jung’s unconsciousness –it first and foremost a place of light and darkness, a place where vision can be difficult or clear almost and sometimes to transcendence. It is a place where archetypes flourish. It is a place of dolphins and sharks,
The first thing a scuba diver asks is what is the visibility today. Sometimes the waters are bright with the sun, other time the sea is dark and limited ability to see makes entering the deep dangerous and confusing, it easy to lose one’s way. And we must remember in all this there is a chain of being, a hierarchy in which only the strong survive. Yet the scuba diver will see both the joy of fish embracing the light, of fearing the night where an abundance of creatures can attack. It is also a place where rust can eat away at his gear if not well taken care of. All metals are destroyed over time in the sea, even great battleships. Seawater brings changes.
Depth leans to the darkness, it is the time when the predators can dive deep to hunt with gifts of perception that use evolved ways of seeing in the dark with electromagnet awareness. Sharks can perceive through their own electro awareness. Others use sound. All this can be built on understanding the glyph of Pisces. This higher fish is in the light the other fuller down is in the dark. In the light is the consciousness the darkener the unconsciousness. In short as Jung said, a dangerous place.
Thus we immediately see the immediate few key words: solvent, source of light and darkness, well spring of all life, both predator and vegan. Vision of perception that over whelms, vision of darkness and danger. Ancient sailors were sure of large dangerous creatures that could destroy a ship and gobble sailors. In the light is visual navigation, in the dark deeper instincts dominate.
Lets look at my favorite word for Neptune: solvent and fluidity which brings changes. Neptune is the challenger of boundaries. Things will not remain the same. Visions may sharpen or become darker. One can be sucked into darkness or swim in the light.
This essay is not to present a list or a long group of “key words.” It is hopefully a spark for discussion of symbolism from which meanings can be perceived in relation to the planets and the elements in the zodiac. Neptune is the mystery of light and darkness, of change and boundary’s that will change. Nothing can resist this flow of the sea. Darkness can lead to destructive events, or one can go from darkness to light. Similarly light can go to darkness. One can thrive or drown. Even Saturn struggles with Neptune’s ability to erode structure. As ruler of the 12th house, it is truly a matter of the splendors of illumination or the darkness of death.