Author: Cynthia Hansen Zehm

January 29 to February 5, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn  Evening: Venus, Mars Revive, revitalize, recover, recuperate, rejuvenate, regenerate, refresh, recharge, replenish, reactivate, redesign, redefine, reassess, reorganize, research, remember, return… Periods of Mercury retrograde are actually some of my most productive times of the year. Instead...

January 22 to 29, 2015   Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn   Evening: Venus, Mars The January 20th New Moon took place at 0° Aquarius - the earliest possible degree – as the Sun and Moon aligned in symmetry to cross the celestial bridge from Capricorn into Aquarius,...

January 15 to 22, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn  Evening: Mercury, Venus, Mars It is always amazing to me how things happening here on Earth so closely align with what takes place in the heavens. Of course, I look for it to do so, and...

January 8 to 15, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn    Evening: Mercury, Venus, Mars Today the phrase “no news is good news” keeps running through my head. I realize this proverbial saying means that not hearing about a situation, or not hearing from or about someone,...

January 1 to 8, 2015   Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn  Evening: Venus, Mars It is New Year’s Day morning and I’m sitting at our dining room table watching the snow fall, trying to come up with appropriate words for the first Alacazem column of 2015. A...

December 25 to January 1, 2014  Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn Evening: Mercury, Venus, Mars As December Solstice celebrates the returning light of the Sun – and the year’s shortest day and longest night - it also marks the first day of winter in the Northern...

December 18 to 25, 2014   Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn   Evening: Venus, Mars The Season of Light takes place each year when the nights are longest and darkness reigns. It’s a time to acknowledge the retreat of the Sun and celebrate its return on Winter Solstice,...

December 11 to 18, 2014  Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn    Evening: Venus, Mars Here we are, December 12, 2014. The world turns on its axis and revolves around the Sun, each revolution taking a little more than 365 days. From space the Earth looks like a...

December 4 to 11, 2014   Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter, Saturn     Evening: Venus, Mars "Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” might be the most appropriate mantra for the current and sixth exact Uranus-Pluto square in orb this month. With the “trend” of killings between law enforcement “peace” officers or...

November 27 to December 4, 2014 Visible planets: Morning: Jupiter                 Evening: Mars Once upon a time in America Thanksgiving marked the beginning of the holiday season. Of course, that was long, long ago. Today, ghosts and goblins, witches and pumpkins, broomsticks and candlesticks put an end to...