Leo’s celebratory spirit permeates the skies each year when the Sun returns to its home sign. Lion-sized levels of courage, creativity and generosity abound in this realm of fixed fire. In 2024, the Leo Sun’s warmth and vitality will be boosted by ever-ready Mars and expansive Jupiter in friendly Gemini. In fact, those two will […]
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Sun Into Cancer 2024: Moonstruck
Highlights of the incoming solar cycle include sign changes for Mercury, Venus and Mars, retrograde starts for Saturn and Neptune, and two full Moons. Two full Moons seem fitting for astrology’s Moon-ruled sign. It all gets underway on June 20th when the Sun settles into the nostalgic, nurturing waters of Cancer.
Sun Into Gemini 2024: Making Hay
Sun Into Gemini 2024: Making Hay Gemini is the domain of siblings, neighborhoods and socializing. The Mercury-ruled sign seeks mental stimulation and craves communication. During the 2024 Gemini Sun cycle, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will change signs. In fact, and probably much to the delight of those curious, affable twins, Mercury and Venus will […]
Sun Into Taurus 2024: Languid And Luxurious
The 2024 Taurus Sun cycle will see Venus and Mars settle down into their respective home signs and Mercury emerge from its retrograde, move beyond the Rx shadow and into Taurus. But before the intensity of the Aries cycle cools down, the Taurus Sun cycle will start with some fireworks of its own.
Sun Into Aries 2024: Game On
The Sun’s visit to fiery, feisty Aries is poised to be one of 2024’s most exciting cycles. Not only will it contain the year’s first eclipses and a Mercury retrograde in Aries, but it will encompass the buildup to the much anticipated Jupiter Uranus conjunction in Taurus.
Sun Into Pisces 2024: Starry Spa
The Sun’s visit to holistic, reflective Pisces starts on the 18th and can be thought of as a celestial retreat. It offers the chance to pause, relax and release before the Sun heads into combustible Aries.
Sun Into Aquarius 2024: Give Me Liberty
For the first time since January 1778, the Aquarius Sun will be accompanied by Pluto. The two will enter the visionary, innovating air sign on January 20th, following their final conjunction in Capricorn. Pluto’s last full Aquarius transit took place between April 1777 and December 1798. Historic events of the period include America’s victory in […]
Sun Into Capricorn 2023-24: Endings And Epic Enterprise
This Sun through Capricorn cycle seems custom-made for those who like to spend the final part of the year reflecting on the past and the earliest days of the new one putting aspirations into action. Part of the planetary activity will take place in mutable signs, aiding release, and another in cardinal signs, supporting those first steps into new endeavors. Throw in a nostalgic full Moon in Cancer on the 26th, Mercury’s dance between mutable Sagittarius and cardinal Capricorn, Jupiter’s station and an important new Capricorn Moon on January 11th, and the theme of clearing out the old to make way for the new solidifies. It all gets underway on December 21st when the Sun enters industrious Capricorn under a productive, waxing Taurus Moon.
Sun Into Sagittarius 2023: Epochal Adventuring
2023’s Sagittarius Sun cycle will see Mercury, Venus and Mars change signs, Neptune station direct and the start of Mercury’s next retrograde. When the Sun and Mars move into optimistic Sagittarius on the 22nd and 24th, they will each quickly be squared by Saturn in Pisces on the 23rd and 25th. Ruled by exuberant, expansive […]
Sun Into Scorpio 2023: War And Peace
In 2023, the Sun will be accompanied by Scorpio’s ancient ruler, Mars, as it transits the fixed water sign. Mercury will also be moving through these immensely passionate waters from October 22nd until November 9th. Additionally, the lunar eclipse of October 28th will be the final one in the present series of eclipses on the Scorpio Taurus axis. Compared to the November 8, 2022 lunar eclipse in Taurus, with its t-square to Saturn in Aquarius, this one should be somewhat milder. That said, Scorpio represents death and transformation. Since April, the eclipses have been shifting into the initiating cardinal signs of Aries and Libra, signaling that one paradigm is dying as another is born. Another difference in this year’s Scorpio cycle is that Saturn has moved from fixed Aquarius into mutable Pisces.