Starcodes May 3, 2024

Astrologers predicted this spring would be as restless as the incoming tide on a stormy full Moon while the Sun shoots off solar flares creating breathtaking aurora borealis and expansive Jupiter conjuncts change-inducing Uranus. These patterns stir the cauldron and echo the late 1960’s with its political, social, psychological, and spiritual resistance and transformation. The weather is as unsettled as our campuses, the world is stirred up and searching for new answers, reaching for fresh potential. All this while Pluto retrogrades in Aquarius and calls for a few decades of societal transformation and investigating the voice of the people.

Along with these big picture changes, spring is often the season for revolution. First we feel the complexity of the world’s woes while the Sun is in Pisces. The Aries Sun inspires us to become more action-oriented, brave enough to start over again, less willing to put up with what we perceive as disfunction. We then tend to dig in our heels and work the garden of our imagination under the Taurus Sun. This week the Sun, Venus, Uranus, and Jupiter are all in grounded, stubborn, earthy, sensuous Taurus, with a most fertile new Moon on Tuesday night. What we plant will grow, so let’s be very careful what seeds we plant for our future karmic harvests.

Trouble can arise if we think we have a simple answer. Mercury, Mars, and Chiron now in Aries…