Aquarius Papers - Global Astrology

Mercury Stationary Direct at 25 Virgo Affecting October, November, and December 2022 Pt. 2 – A Third Look at What Inspires Us Which Will Lead to Exceptional Works

by Robert Wilkinson

Mercury is going direct at 2:07 am PDT October 2 and will be in its shadow zone through October 15, after which it enters its next phase of moving through "unknown zones" where the themes of this retrograde will be played out in forward motion. So for the next 2 weeks expect some very productive intersections of past and future, giving us a chance to show how willing we are to update our perceptual files, moving from Virgo service into Libra transfigurations.

Sunday Bluesy Late Show Celebrating the 2022 Birthday of Fenton Robinson

by Robert Wilkinson

Tonight we spotlight Fenton Robinson, who gave the world one of its greatest blues standards.

Sunday Second Show Celebrating the 2022 Birthday of Cass Elliot, Bill Medley, and Paul Williams

by Robert Wilkinson

This finishes our Virgo musical birthdays, and features awesome music! For our second show we dance to the exquisite tunes of three musical birthdays, featuring the Mamas and the Papas, the Righteous Brothers, and Paul Williams! Here's a big happy and merry to two incredibly gifted vocalists and a great composer!

An Astrological Overview of October 2022

by Robert Wilkinson

As the editor of the Astrology Arizona newsletter, I compose an overview of each month. Today we take a look at the primary factors for October.

Sunday Early Show Celebrating the 2022 Birthday of 7 Great Musical Talents – Maurice Chevalier, George Jones, Maria Muldaur, Barry White, Gerry Beckley, Neil Peart, and Jennifer Hudson

by Robert Wilkinson

For today’s early show, we have a feast of musical styles! Tonight we’re dancing at the birthday of some remarkable musicians whose careers touch nearly every type of music known.

Happy 2022 Birthday to One of the Greatest Beings Ever to Walk the Earth, Mahatma Gandhi

by Robert Wilkinson

Every year we offer a huge Happy Birthday to a couple of the greatest who were both born on October 2. This year we launched the celebration with Groucho in the spotlight, and now it’s the Mahatma’s turn!

Happy 2022 Birthday to the Immortal Groucho Marx

by Robert Wilkinson

In one of history's great ironies, two of the greatest beings of the 20th century were born on the same birthday, October 2. They both punctured imperialists and fascist thinking with every phrase they spoke, and each had an amazing sense of humor. A great example of the illumination power of the ridiculous and the sublime existing as one. Today we have some extraordinarily funny quotes!

Saturday Night Attitude Dance at the 2022 Birthday of The Boss, Bruce Springsteen

by Robert Wilkinson

September 23 is the birthday of three of the greatest musicians who ever lived, and this guy's one of them! We have some great music, so we begin the dance early and it goes late. Today and tonight we’re dancing to the music of a true working class hero!

Saturday Early Show Celebrating the 2022 Birthday of the Wrecking Crew Sax Man Steve Douglas, Songwriter Carl Sigman, Actor-singer Mike Berry, and Merseybeat hitmaker Gerry Marsden

by Robert Wilkinson

If you listened to the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Duane Eddy, Aretha Franklin, Bobby Darin, the Ramones, Dylan in the late 70s, or any of Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" productions, you're heard Steve's work. Today we send up a happy birthday to one of the truly great sax players of the 20th century. It's also the birthday of a guy who is almost unknown, but considered one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century, Carl Sigman, UK singer and actor Mike Berry, and one of the greatest hitmakers of the Merseybeat era, Gerry Marsden.

Happy 2022 Birthday to One of the Greatest Spiritual Astrologers of All Time, the Legendary Marc Edmund Jones

by Robert Wilkinson

Yes, today would have been the 134th birthday of Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, Master Astrologer who gave the world the Sabian Symbols, the Jones Patterns, the Sabian Assembly, and a whole lot more!

Friday Musical Feast Celebrating the 2022 Birthday of Members of the Chords, Chordettes, Esquires, Spirit, and Love!

by Robert Wilkinson

We’ve had a host of musical birthdays since the Equinox, so today we dance to some short sets of acts you may not recognize, but you’ve definitely heard their music!

Mercury Stationary Direct at 25 Virgo Affecting October, November, and December 2022 – Demonstrating Our Effective Service to Society

by Robert Wilkinson

Mercury goes direct in motion at 2:07 am PDT on October 2, and speeds up for the next 10 weeks. This shows a quickening of the ability to coordinate, put things together, understand the whole and the parts, the process and the larger cycles. It is now stationary at 25 Virgo, affecting that area in our lives for 3 months to come.

Happy 2022 Birthday to One of the Greatest Poets in History, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

by Robert Wilkinson

It seems this week has produced some extraordinary Spiritual Beings across time! Today is the 815th birthday of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, a.k.a. Rumi.

Professor Robert’s Mojo Love Reports Are Now Available In "The Magic of Venus"

by Robert Wilkinson

As I offered recently, many years ago I created unique high quality comprehensive “love reports” for each sign. Pieces of each sign’s report were posted a couple of weeks ago in 3 articles, and due to requests, today you get all 12 mini-reports in one place.

Venus Astrology in October 2022 - Venus In Libra

by Robert Wilkinson

Venus leaves precise, practical, and fussy Virgo at 12:49 am PDT on September 29 and enters its home sign of elegant, idealistic, and beautiful Libra, where it stays until it enters intensely magnetic Scorpio on October 23. What does Venus’ passage through Libra hold for all of us?

Moving Gracefully Through Life Endings and Beginnings

by Robert Wilkinson

Throughout our lives, we deal with change. People come, people go, jobs which worked at one time in life cease to have meaning in another time, and we all want to know how to play the changes thoughtfully so we can come out ahead when the future arrives. Today we take a new look at how to move toward the job, career, relationship, or life that we desire.

Happy 2022 Birthday and Solar Return to Mātā Amṛtānandamayī, aka Ammachi

by Robert Wilkinson

Today is the birthday of Mātā Amṛtānandamayī, known to hundreds of millions around the world as Ammachi, “the hugging saint.”

Astrology in September-October 2022 – Squares, Conjunctions, the Equinox and More!

by Robert Wilkinson

We’ve had quite a few events in the recent past which will affect us for weeks and even months to come! Today I’ve assembled all of them in a one stop shop.

Super Sunday Celebrating the 2022 Birthdays of Leo Kottke, Bill Monroe, and Mister “Plastic Jesus,” George Cromarty

by Robert Wilkinson

We're in the thick of a bunch of great musical birthdays this week, and our Sunday show is where folk meets bluegrass!

Saturday Night Attitude Dancing to Psychedelic Sounds at the 2022 Birthday of A True Legend, Tommy Hall of the 13th Floor Elevators

by Robert Wilkinson

Our Saturday Night show starts early, since we're celebrating the tragic genius of the jug player for one of the truly legendary bands of history.

Saturday Early Show Celebrating the 2022 Birthday of Legendary Songwriter PF Sloan and Mr. “Honeycomb,” Jimmie F. Rodgers

by Robert Wilkinson

Our Saturday early show celebrates the birthday of songwriting legend PF Sloan. Don’t know who he is? He wrote some of the greatest tunes of the 60s! And today we also celebrate and dance to the music of the “other” Jimmie (F.) Rodgers, who gave us some great folk pop tunes in the 50s!

The September 2022 New Moon at 3 Libra Pt. 2 - Sabian Symbols, Evolutionary Configurations, and More

by Robert Wilkinson

This article covers significant aspects, degree symbols, and other important factors in this New Moon chart happening on September 25. This marks a month of “the dawning of a new day,” with a new sense of the roles we are and aren’t playing. Be willing to balance whatever needs balancing, adjusting whatever needs adjusting, and show humor as you obey the divine prompts. We’re still stabilizing what will resume next near after the Mars retrograde period in November December. This is the heart of the final phase of Saturn square Uranus, and we have a Hammer of Thor active in this chart!

Blue Friday Celebrating the 2022 Birthday Of the Once and Future King of the Blues, Mister BB King

by Robert Wilkinson

September 16 was the birthday of Blues legend BB King.

The September 2022 New Moon at 3 Libra Pt. 1 - What’s Happening in October

by Robert Wilkinson

New Moon this Sunday! This New Moon puts the focus on “the dawning of a new day revealing a world utterly transformed.” Over the next four weeks we’ll all hit a turning point of some sort which helps us get clear about the role we’re playing and how to keep the initiative in our own hands. This is another beneficial New Moon, even if somewhat disruptive!

Astrology in September 2022 - Mercury Retrogrades Back Into Virgo

by Robert Wilkinson

Tomorrow, September 23 at 5:04 am PDT, Mercury retrogrades back into Virgo just after its Inferior Conjunction with the Sun a few hours ago at 1 Libra, the Transfiguration degree.