Quenching steel in water arranges the carbon molecules to form a more brittle microstructure. That’s toughened steel to you and me. The symbolism here lies with the cool, fixed air sign of Aquarius the water-bearer, and his carbon-rich ruler Saturn. Both planet and sign will fix form, and the form in question is the red-hot forge-metal Mars who will become our blade.
Tag Archives: astrology
Sun Conjunct Jupiter In Your Chart
Wealth, luck, and landing on one’s feet. You are larger than life. When you need something or someone it will arrive right on time. This doesn’t necessarily mean everything lands in your lap; you are almost certainly a person who has cultivated their own luck with a positive attitude, openness towards others, and natural self-confidenceContinueContinue reading “Sun Conjunct Jupiter In Your Chart”
Venus and Mars Enter Aquarius
Mars and Venus will be joining Mercury and Saturn in this sign on the 6th of March. I can’t remember where I learned this, but refugees and immigrants in a country where they don’t speak the language sometimes have an Aquarius stellium in their chart. Perhaps because it is opposite in nature to the ancestralContinueContinue reading “Venus and Mars Enter Aquarius”
Mars conjunct Venus conjunct Pluto: March the 3rd
(I laughed when I read the draft of this post, as I wrote it three weeks ago. I didn’t know then how apt some of the language would be, or how sadly dramatic the astrological symbolism would become). With Pluto and Venus, the drive for acquisition or the satisfaction of desires is strong. What isContinueContinue reading “Mars conjunct Venus conjunct Pluto: March the 3rd”
Aphrodite in the arms of Ares. February 16
Venus and Mars by Sandro Botticelli Capricorn takes the heat out of Mars fire. The lust can become steadfastness, the drive less sex, and more ambition and stamina turned towards goals. Venus likewise appreciates the cool collectedness and dependability of Capricorn, and his Planet, Saturn exalts in her sign of Libra, bonding over fairness throughContinueContinue reading “Aphrodite in the arms of Ares. February 16”
A Shoal of Wonders: Jupiter In Pisces
The Jupiterian wave that is coming is laden with a good catch of whatever fancies your imagination can conjure so dream on.
What to do with Pluto Venus and Venus Retrograde energy
Venus Conjunct Pluto on 14 December, Venus Retrograde on 19 December. What to do with Pluto Venus energy: Take a relationship to a deeper level, talk about secrets and sex, your innermost world, your longings, and your regrets. Use your charisma and be sexual – but mind you do so wisely! (Something just for funContinueContinue reading “What to do with Pluto Venus and Venus Retrograde energy”
Grave Enchantments: Venus in The Underworld
Between now and February we have an audience with the myths of Inanna and Ereshkigal, with Persephone and Hades. Venus takes her underworld journey in four ways: Her conjunction with Pluto is to join with Hades, lord of the underworld (occurs 11 and 25 December).She is retrograde: her significations turn inwards, becoming less affective inContinueContinue reading “Grave Enchantments: Venus in The Underworld”
Venus From December To February
Venus reached greatest brilliancy on December 3rd and everyone is looking up at night. The biggest portion of her Sun-lit surface can be seen from Earth, and because she will soon reach inferior conjunction with the Sun (Jan 9th) she is also her closest to Earth, appearing larger and brighter as a waning crescent. WeContinueContinue reading “Venus From December To February”
The Ninth Wave: Neptune, Pisces, And Jupiter
In the other world, in the dream world, and in the spirit world, everything is much more nebulous. There is an order, but not like our physical realm order at all. The dream world, in particular, is unbounded, and at times can be a crossroads between all these places. The word ‘reality’ has no place here; there is only being and experience, so much of it subjective, all of it unquantifiable.
Astrology Imaginarium 