Weekly Hello

We have a rare astrological treat in store next week. On Tuesday/Wednesday, Venus and Jupiter will meet in the sign of Cancer. It’s hard to find a bad word to say about Jupiter’s and Venus’s combined joys except, perhaps, that you can have too much of a good thing. Nevertheless, with Mercury and Saturn also in-square there’ll be that annoying voice reminding us that nothing lasts forever and we don’t get dessert until we’ve eaten our veggies. As always with Saturn, it’s pain before pleasure.

I may have said this before but I am learning that Saturn improves with age, that as we grow older we benefit from our experience of Saturnian setbacks. We are more patient and more philosophical about what can and cannot materialize. Our ego has been tamed. (Or should have been tamed.) More than that, Saturnian rewards start flooding in. Well, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but our sustained efforts over the years begin to pay off. In this way, Saturn becomes the gate-keeper, opening up the path to the higher realms of experience and releasing us from our dependence on the material things of life.

Today, Saturday, I’ll be publishing two short videos, the first on Venus and the approaching Venus-Pluto opposition, and the second on America’s 250th solar return. I’ve been meaning to start recording more shorts for some while, and although these aren’t technically shorts, they are a lot shorter than my usual videos! I hope you like them. I’m also going to be putting up videos of my talks at Ammerdown 2025, so keep your eyes open for the first of those – coming soon.