Vernal Verification

We're about to encounter a busy week in sky lore. The equinox* (spring in the north, autumn in the south) arrives on Monday, with the Aries New Moon right on its heels. Then on 23rd March, Pluto ingresses Aquarius for its first visit since 1798. Meanwhile, as I'm writing this, Mars is a gnat's tarsus away from leaving shadow phase**, and will enter Cancer on 25th March.

All this may feel rather like a runaway chain reaction, psychologically speaking, involving an urge to brush off the dust and get right to action. New astrological year; new moon; new everything, it would seem; what is to hold one back? The equinox chart suggests, however, that it's probably worth taking a moment to size up the situation. Perhaps not everyone needs an especially long moment, but some form of analysis, pre-planning and/or discernment is apparently being called for here.

Divination: A Holistic Approach to the Truth

One of the qualities that make astrology endlessly fascinating to me is the way information can be assembled.

Astrology is a form of divination, of attempting to discern and translate the messages of the heavens, using the zodiac as a sort of dictionary (or map, or mandala). This places it in a particular category regarding how one arrives at the truth, in contrast to other disciplines such as mathematics, science and history; each of which treats data in different ways.