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The Current Astrological Space Chessboard

Transiting Uranus galvanizes whatever planet or point it is aspecting, and whatever house it is passing through in your birthchart. It asks you to overhaul and transform these areas, particularly where you may have been clinging to traditions, habits, fears and restrictive conservatism about them. The more "trapped" you have felt here, the more acutely you may feel this Uranian call to progress and freedom. To work well with these transits, you must use the Uranian virtue of being fully yourself--not someone else's idea of you, and not a living symbol of "the Revolution" at the expense of your own identity. Read On...

Your Desert Retreat Awaits!

If you're in Los Angeles or San Diego, why not get out of the city for the weekend and plan a personal astrology retreat?! Here's an idea: Stay in peaceful Borrego Springs, check out Jodie's celestial art show, and schedule a reading or astrology tutorial with Jodie or Steven. Jodie's exhibit runs March 5 through April 4, 2010.

New Podcast

Kent Bye of Engagedheart.com recently recorded a series of interviews at NORWAC, including one with Steven. Play Evolutionary Astrology and Storytelling with Steven Forrest.

Progressed Mercury

Listen to Steven Forrest discuss progressed Mercury in this sample from the AP program "Intentional Transits and Progressions" (available only to AP students).

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Astronomy Corner

What's overhead in February 2010 in the Northern hemisphere?

Note: The constellation names given are for the planets' astronomical positions overhead. Their zodiacal, astrological positions in the tropical zodiac used by most Western (as opposed to Vedic) astrologers run about 23 degrees later in the zodiac than their astronomical positions. So if you have a current issue of Astronomy magazine, or another viewfinder for the February sky, a quick-and-dirty rule of thumb is to look for the planet in the sky about one sign/constellation before the sign/constellation that planet is transiting through in your birth chart/in the zodiac.

In the evening:
You can see Mars in the east in Cancer, Venus in the west in Capricorn/Aquarius, and Jupiter in the west in Aquarius. Reddish Mars is particularly bright all month, and won't be so large or luminous in a telescope again until 2014, so if you don't have a telescope, grab your binoculars.
You can also see Uranus in the west in Pisces (with at least binoculars), about 20 degrees above Jupiter, under good conditions. These are skywatcher's degrees, not astrological ones. Your fisted hand, held at arm's length from you, measures about 10 degrees across the knuckles.
You can see Vesta in Leo; it will be at its maximum naked-eye visibility on Feb. 16-17, as a faint 6.1 magnitude star. It's much easier to see through binoculars.
After about 10 p.m. early in the month, you can see Saturn in the east in Virgo. It often has a dull golden color. By the end of the month it rises about 8 p.m. Best viewing is after midnight to the south.

At midnight:
You can see Mars in the southwest in Cancer, and Saturn in the southeast in Virgo.

Before dawn:
You can see Mercury in the southeast until mid-month in Aquarius/Pisces.
You can Mars in Cancer in the northwest, and Saturn in Virgo in the southwest.

Confused? Check out www.astronomy.com, or get the current issue from the newsstand. Or better yet, subscribe! It's a fascinating and visually beautiful magazine.

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Looking for an astrological reading with Jodie or Steven? Visit our Readings page for general info, and when you're ready to schedule, visit our Reading Types page for booking information.

Astrology Parapsychology and UFO's!

Listen to a sample of the lecture Astrology, Parapsychology and UFO's, by Steven Forrest. Recorded live. Full lecture available here.

Venus and Mars

Mars transits over our Ascendants about every two years. Last time it went over my Ascendant, I spoke at UAC, the major astrology conference that happens every 3 or 4 years. I was psyched for the lecture and it was well received. Later in the conference, I caught both a cold and a stomach bug and, because of a hotel key malfunction, I got locked out of my room while I was sick. The red planet does seem to bring challenges and stress! Yet it brings excitement and adventure, too. Which will it bring? The choice is really up to you.

Where Mars is in your chart, natally and by transit, you will need to develop your willpower (Mars). You will face a kind of cosmic assertiveness training (Mars). You can do this on purpose-- Read On...