Category Archives: Thoughts for the month

Thoughts for January 2009

Originally posted on 30 December 2008
New Year 2009
Capricorn Ingress 2008
Graphic Ephemeris January 2009
1st Quarter Moon 4 January 2009
Full Moon 11 January 2009
3rd Quarter Moon 18 January 2009
New Moon 26 January 2009
It’s always difficult to know what to write in January. Do you start with an overview of the year or concentrate on the month? Lets [...]

Thoughts for February 2007

Orignally published on 7 February 2007
Plus ca change…
I had an email from someone with a similar chart to Tony Blair asking if he should shut up shot until the end of the summer. This made me think that I should write something about what this means to ordinary people. What ever the conditions we find [...]

Thoughts for January 2007

Originally published on 2nd January 2007
Are you sitting comfortably?
Graphic Ephemeris January 2007
Full Moon 3 January 2007
New Moon 19 January 2007
2007 brings the last year of Pluto in Sagittarius and Jupiter is also in Sagittarius. Additionally Jupiter will square Uranus three times during the year. See my forecast of the year for details. The first of [...]

Thoughts for December 2005

Originally published 17 December 2005
New Moon 1 December 2005
Full Moon 15 December 2005
New Moon 31 December 2005
Capricorn Ingress 2005
Graphic Ephemeris 17 December 2005 – 1 January 2006
We are at the tale end of the year, just after a full moon, Mars has just begun to move forward and Venus is about to turn retrograde. The [...]

Thoughts for January 2005

Originally published Saturday, 1st January 2005

One of the advantages of using astrology is that you can usually find a more appropriate time to celebrate New Year than 1st January. This year it’s 10th January, at the Capricorn New Moon, so don’t feel bad if you’re resolutions are gone already, just reaffirm those intentions in 10 [...]

Thoughts for December 2004

Originally published on Saturday, 25th December 2004

Merry Christmas, look towards the light at the darkest point of the year.
The month ahead
The week ahead – 25th through 31st December
An emotional time is ahead of us. You may say it doesn’t take an astrologer to say that Christmas is emotionally intense but with a Cancer Full Moon [...]

Thoughts for November 2004

Originally published November 2004
Thoughts for November 2004
Monday, 29th November 2004
Mercury begins its retrograde journey tomorrow; it’s not just in Sagittarius, which doesn’t aid its effecacy but also going backwards and at the midpoint between Mars and Neptune. Don’t sign any contracts relating to gun running over the next few days.
Monday, 22nd November 2004
With the Sun [...]

Thoughts for October 2004

Originally published October 2004
Thursday, 28th October 2004
Thursday Take Two
I’d just like to make a further point about the quintiles. I’m not telling people to meditate for anything. What I’d doing is highlighting a particularly fruitful period where this ephemeral energy could be tapped for the collective good, what ever that may be. I’m definitely not [...]

January 2003

Originally published in December 2002
January begins with Mercury turning retrograde on the 2nd at 28 Capricorn; it turns direct on 23rd January at 12 Capricorn. This fits with the positions of the lunations – the January new moon is at 12 Capricorn and the full moon at 27 Cancer. This happened in September with the [...]

June 2001

What went on in June 2001
Originally published in May 2001
Week Ending 10th June 2001
This week you may have noticed we had an election in the UK. Mercury also turned retrograde bringing with it, its usual quota of revisions and reassessments; on Tuesday I went to 21st Century Astrologers and we had to improvise as the [...]