Aquarius Papers - Global Astrology

The Full Moon of Virgo-Pisces 2012 Pt. 1 – The Light of Originality Taking Shape As A Quickening

by Robert Wilkinson

This Full Moon at 9 Virgo-Pisces is distributive, closing, and very “flowing” with many internal decisions and confrontations connected to past and future. Here our expectancies should be examined to see what we really WANT to see made manifest, and many will tear themselves away from the known and familiar, gambling everything on a great dream.

Astrology in August-September 2012 - What Is A Blue Moon, and Why Does It Matter?

by Robert Wilkinson

We all know that we are about to have a Full Moon at 9 Pisces-Virgo in a few hours. As it’s the second Full Moon this month for most of the world, we call it a “Blue Moon.” But what does that mean?

Astrology in Late August 2012 - Septiles, Biseptiles, and Triseptiles Between Uranus in Aries, Venus in Cancer, and Mars in Scorpio

by Robert Wilkinson

Right now we have some transits that seem to be associated with important developments in many people’s lives, including moves, job offers, and other major forks in the road of individuals and collectivities. If your life is being thrown into changes, release, acceptance, and breakthroughs, you probably have a planet or Ascendant in one of 7 critical zones.

Saturn Conjunct Pluto in Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio – What’s Happened in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and What’s Going To Happen in 2012, 2013, and 2014

by Robert Wilkinson

Today we continue the theme introduced yesterday exploring what happens when Saturn conjuncts Pluto. This article covers everyone born between 1957 and 1995.

Saturn Conjunct Pluto for Everyone On The Planet Between 2006-2014 – Restructuring, Purifying, and Crystallizing Divine Power

by Robert Wilkinson

In early 2010 I wrote about the importance of Saturn conjuncting the Pluto of everyone on Earth. This indicates heavy restructuring of our long range karma, and shows us how to make our Higher Power real in our lives. If you’re over 40, at some point in the past several years you dealt with a heavy load, or had to do a major task that changed your life. Those under 40 are now in the thick of their challenge.

Finding Others Who Are Part of Your Spiritual Community

by Robert Wilkinson

This is something that’s so important given what’s going on in the world that I figured it was time to revisit the subject of attracting others of like mind and heart so we can know who our community really is.

The August 2012 New Moon in Leo Pt. 2 - - Signs, Sabian Symbols, and What It All Means

by Robert Wilkinson

This article covers significant aspects, degree symbols, and other important factors in this month's New Moon in Leo. This one requires that we open to the spiritual linkage coming out of emotional stress, the blessings that come from the death of useless things, and the willingness to love more abundantly and creatively.

New Moon in Leo Pt. 1 - What’s Happening in August-September 2012

by Robert Wilkinson

Over the next 4 weeks, the New Moon in Leo indicates a time where we will link Heaven and Earth within us, and find a new “revelation of worth” that will enable us to a lot done using innovative methods to learn and teach new skills, new ways of releasing the energies of our individuality, and new rhythms of productive, balanced creativity and play.

Astrology in August 2012 – A Venus Cardinal T-Square Finishing A Sequence of Jolting Releases

by Robert Wilkinson

We now enter a particularly volatile zone of release and renewal. Along with the Mars conjunct Saturn, ending the cycle that began July 2010, we simultaneously have Venus finishing up the series of T-squares from Cancer to Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn that started in mid-June. What does this mean?

Astrology in August 2012 – Mars Conjunct Saturn in Libra

by Robert Wilkinson

Mars is now conjunct Saturn. It will be exact at 3:37 am PDT, 11:37 am Greenwich on Aug 15. These conjunctions occur every two years, and initiate a new set of responsibilities and activities wherever they fall in our chart. The last one happened at 1 Libra about 25 months ago. That activated the house where it happened, and set up major themes of the past two years in all of us. We now begin a new cycle of these important planetary energies.

A Pantoum and Some Spiritual Reflections

by Robert Wilkinson

Recently an old friend sent me a pantoum she wrote. That’s a form of poetry with repeating lines across quatrains that offer interesting multiple interpretations for the same words. One thing she wrote set me to thinking about the nature of life, reality, and who and where we are. That’s what today’s post is all about.

Leo 2012 – Noble and Loving Fire Spirits

by Robert Wilkinson

Today we celebrate the royal sign of Leo and explore the shining qualities of this dynamic, playful, loving, powerful Fire sign that represents the principle of Solar Fire, one of the three cosmic fires pervading our solar system. We all have this "kingly" or "queenly"a noble quality in our charts, the area where we are the law, the light, and the center of power holding court in our personal solar system. Leo shows us the way to center ourselves in our Higher Law.