Author: Cynthia Hansen Zehm

April 9 to 16, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Saturn   Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter It’s howling wind outside and Spring has sprung. I’ve been thinking about the world, and how much it seems to have changed since the Mayan Long Count Calendar end date of December 21,...

April 2 to 9, 2015      Visible planets: Morning: Saturn  Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter The April 4th lunar eclipse* in Aries-Libra is the third of four total lunar eclipses in a row, a relatively rare astronomical event known as a lunar tetrad. The last lunar tetrad was...

March 26 to April 2, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Saturn  Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter I awoke in predawn darkness to a cloudless, starry sky. To the east, the first glow of morning backlit the jagged San Juan horizon. I stepped outside to feel the air. The...

March 19 to March 26, 2015   Visible planets: Morning: Saturn   Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter The first day of Spring comes this year on a total solar eclipse “super Moon” day that also coincides with an intense 11-year solar sunspot cycle that sends highly charged geomagnetic particles...

March 5 to 12, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Mercury, Saturn Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter Well, here we are, just days away from the last of seven exact Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn squares, and I couldn’t be more impressed by how the state...

March 5 to 12, 2015   Visible planets: Morning: Saturn    Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter Wild news, explosive events and radical awakenings are par for the course this week as a dueling dance of personal vs. universal will emanate throughout the cosmos. WE, as people living and breathing,...

February 26 to March 5, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Saturn  Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter The last days of February and the waxing week of the Virgo-Pisces full Moon emanate themes of holistic health and universal healing – individually and collectively, locally and globally – as well...

February 19 to 26, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Mercury, Saturn   Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter Venus and Mars are all right tonight… Here we are, entering the Pisces zodiac month, embarking upon Chinese Lunar New Year 4713 of the Goat (which in Western astrological circles symbolizes the sign...

February 12 to 19, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Mercury, Saturn  Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter   The waning Moon rises in pre-dawn darkness all week, its shape more slender with each passing night. The starry blue-black canopy of deep space shimmers above, a sparkling canvas upon which...

February 5 to 12, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn   Evening: Venus, Mars The last week of Mercury retrograde is upon us and I can already feel the ruminating energy of directional planetary change. The snow has melted down here in the wild West End –...