This week we welcome the first of the two Eclipse occurring over this Capricorn Season. It’s a Christmas Eclipse, occurring just after midnight on December 26, but on the 25th in time zones west. It doesn’t feel like your garden variety Eclipse (is there even such a thing?) given that it unites with Jupiter and the South Node (let alone it precedes the one on January 10, which has transformation written all over it—more on that next week). Go here to read about the Solar Eclipse.

Also, I’ve been thinking more and more about Capricorn and this morning something struck me. As someone who loves language, what I realized is that not only does Capricorn inspires us, with its interest in giving shape and form to substance, to “count” but it also has a connection to words that involve “count” or rhyme with it.

There’s “accounting” and “account for” and, notably when it comes to Capricorn’s gravitation to exhibit responsibility, “accountability.” There’s “amount” and with its quest to succeed, a drive towards “amounting” to something. There’s its diligence and it’s not “discounting” any matters that could be of value. And with its persistence, let’s not forget about its call to “surmount” seeming obstacles. And one more, with its honoring of economical richness, there’s “fount”--an important source of something.

While the Solstice occurred yesterday, I still do want to wish you a Happy Solstice. I thought to share part of a gorgeous Margaret Atwood poem that I found in honor of this potent moment:

“...This is the solstice, the still point

of the sun, its cusp and midnight,

the year’s threshold

and unlocking, where the past

lets go of and becomes the future;

the place of caught breath, the door

of a vanished house left ajar...” - Margaret Atwood

Astrological Highlights

December 24

Sun/Uranus Trine

December 26

Capricorn Solar Eclipse

December 27

Sun/Jupiter Conjunction

December 28

Mercury enters Capricorn

All days reflect Eastern Standard Time (- 8 hours GMT)

Stellar Insights: December 23 - 29, 2019

Astrological Highlights