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Starcodes April 28, 2017 Heather Roan Robbins (times listed are MDT)

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We have a few weeks of sparks ahead, so let’s see if we can help compassionate, creative ideas catch fire but soothe inflammations elsewhere. Venus re-enters direct, fiery Aries, where it was February 4-april 3rdand cranks the heat up on our emotional responses. Issues that excited or inflamed us in February will heat up again. We’ll tend to care passionately, one way or the other, about anything that catches our heart. Causes that stir our blood we want to do something about right now. Aries loves a good revolution. But we may be only able to see a few feet ahead of ourselves and need to take everything one step at a time. With Venus in Aries we have extra emotional fuel, but our thinking now can erratic and myopic, which is a tough combination, because Mercury has retrograded back into Aries and combusts spontaneous Uranus. We can get hot… Read More

Starcodes March 10 2017  Heather Roan Robbins (all times MT)

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Use this week to prepare for the vibrant spring ahead. Let’s clean our flowerbeds and rake the yard, rake our emotional issues and political secrets out of the corners and send them to the compost. Clear the ground, study, restock, complete work of the mind, body, and soul. If we’re honest with ourselves, we probably know what we need to do this coming season, if not exactly how or where. The recent Uranus-Mars aspects and eclipse series did its best to shake us loose, wake us up, and let us know what we need to deal with the next. Though this will probably be a busy week, we may feel that end of winter, Sun in Pisces, low energy, so let’s pace ourselves. Energizing Mars has just moved into steady Taurus which gives us more physical endurance than enthusiasm. Even though Venus retrograde in Aries keeps our hearts volatile we… Read More

Starcodes Feb 17, 2017  Heather Roan Robbins

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The great question of this astrological decade, the question the planets ask us over and over again, concern what is the right use of power, whether personal power, political power or how we derive and use electrical power. What changes do need to make to avoid the misuse of power, and instead use it in a new, dynamic, safe, and enlivening way. This question intensifies over the next few weeks as confronting Mars in Aries first squares Pluto this week, then conjuncts Uranus next week while those two planets oppose expansive Jupiter. We can expect ground-shifts of all types. Let’s break this down. Pluto brings whatever it touches to the edge of life and death so we can reorganize our relationship to it. From 2008 through 2024 it traverses Capricorn, sign of structure, political power, authority, discipline, and traditions. The last time Pluto was at this point in Capricorn was… Read More

Starcodes Feb 3 2017 Heather Roan Robbins

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We get a taste of spring regeneration a few months early; the heat cranks up and the pot begins to boil this week as Venus joins Mars together in Aries, the sign of willfulness, springtime awakening and revolution. With both emotional planets now in this self-starting and passionate fire sign, it’s all too easy to go off half-cocked; yes we need to dive in and engage, but need always to think about where we’re going, and how best to get there. We need less explosions and more determination. Aries is a willful and freedom-loving sign; the upside is that we can get off the couch and deal with whatever seemed overwhelming last month. We can look at our problems straight in the eyes with more bravery and stamina. But in all this lovely independence we may forget to check in with our beloveds tell them where we’re going. Under stress… Read More

Starcodes January 13, 2017 Heather Roan Robbins

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This can be a subtly tricky week; the astrological influences can leave us feeling both more competent, and like an emotional mush pile underneath. We grow more organized and can get some work done as Mercury joins the Sun and Pluto in competent Capricorn. But it’s hard to get our heart into the work unless it truly inspires our imagination, and we may feel mopey, touchy, or easily discouraged as the emotional planets, Venus and Mars slosh their way through sensitive, fantastically imaginative if easily-victimized Pisces, now through the end of January. Capricorn energy encourages us to deal with everything on our plate in a clean and competent manner. People who feel clear about their goals and supported by their people and their surroundings can gallop ahead. Those with a more amorphous feeling, fuzzier goals, who are resisting rather than directing, or who are processing grief, loss, confusion, may feel… Read More

Starcodes Jan 6 2017 Heather Roan Robbins

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This is a week of adjustments, and the real beginning to the work of 2017. Hang in there. Hold one another’s hand walking across the ice. Find the still center in the spinning wheel, the calm in the storm. Feel the slippery, stormy edges, and move with safety. Invoke the serenity prayer: change what needs to be changed, accept what cannot be changed, and pray for the wisdom to know the difference as the Sun conjunct powerful Pluto and squares ingenious, change-producing Uranus. All while Mercury turns direct after three weeks retrograde. We have a lot to do and deal with, and may not feel like doing so. Our imagination wants to drift and emotions occasionally well up, leaving us feeling flooded and uncertain, sometimes easily overwhelmed with Venus and Mars now both in Pisces. Our minds are brought back to what we sulk over, grieve, and growl about as… Read More

Starcodes, October 7 2016  Heather Roan Robbins

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Is it fair, is it true, is it beautiful? Thoughtful Mercury enters Venusian-ruled Libra, the sign of egalitarian relationships, proportion and beautiful justice, conjuncts expansive Jupiter, and asks those tough questions. Golden leaf–filtered autumn light over a dappled stream may be those things, but no so most acts of human kind. We can do better. So let’s ask what we can do, in all fairness to help the world. Mercury conjunct Jupiter also brings our minds to bounty and excess. Everything may just seem too much. We can expect some wonderful over the top displays on this coming Indigenous People’s day, apple harvest festivals or hot air balloon festivals. But we also see the excess of the wind and rain in the storms pounding the southeast. Looking at the drowned fields and towns of Haiti let’s ask how can we share our bounty in a good way. As the weekend… Read More

Starcodes Sept 30, 2016 Heather Roan Robbins

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Tonight’s New Moon in Libra gives us the opportunity to return to our heart. New Moons are like dawn, a chance to start over and start a new cycle. This new Moon also conjuncts expansive, freedom-seeking Jupiter and asks us to start new, more expansive ways of relating to one another. Libra is the sign of the scales and reminds us that peace, beauty, and happiness is found through proportion and dynamic balance, through social justice and fairness in relationship. Most important, it reminds us to get our soul in right relationship with creation/creator. The Libra motto is the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is a particularly powerful concept while the electrifying planet Uranus is exactly conjunct the distant dwarf-planet Eris, named after the Greek goddess of strife and discord, which is both larger and further out than Pluto and takes… Read More

Starcodes Sept 23 2016  Heather Roan Robbins

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( all times given are MDT) Autumn falls in like a floating orange-mottled leaf. Mercury has just turned direct and our communications can now begin to pick up momentum. The Sun in friendly, socially conscious Libra, conjuncts Jupiter, expands our possibilities and opens our curiosity, and our work year can now really begin. Since Mercury just turned direct yesterday we may have to spend time this week deal with recent problems, sorting misunderstandings, and getting a fresh momentum going. But over this next week we’ll be able to get some perspective and see farther ahead. If we had a minor victory during the last three weeks’ Mercury retrograde, now we need to follow it up with concrete efforts and make it permanent. But all is not light and sunlight, though we can now get on a roll. Mars is out of bounds (north or south of the area usually traversed… Read More

Starcodes September 16 2016  Heather Roan Robbins

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Let an emotional high tide flow through as the weekend begins under a full moon lunar eclipse at 24 degrees of Pisces. It is followed by a flare of energy or determination and brings a potentially creative, decisive, though not necessarily wise, beginning of the week. Eclipses can act like astrological acupuncture and unblock stuck energy, this one sensitizes us and helps us truly feel what we feel. And maybe feel what everyone else feels as well, as our psychic boundaries can feel unusually permeable. With the Sun and Mercury radiating Virgo work ethics we may feel the pressure to stay efficiently busy, but the rest of the aspects ask us to stay in our hearts. Honestly, everything will move faster if we slow down and pace ourselves. The week arcs through sensitive perception, followed by action and a restless heart, and this can play out in many ways. Be… Read More

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