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 https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/05/20/gemini-i-sun-edens-apple/

Later today the Sun enters Gemini at 2:55 pm EDT, 20 May 2025 — the realm of Tethys "great Ocean's empress", and the goddess of all streams and rivers of fresh water. How is your life connected to all other life? How are you dependent upon the essential elements of all that is? Where are you divorced or separated or alienated from these forces, and how do you plan to reconnect to them?
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 "Come walk with me in this meadow," sing the Horae, or "Seasons" of Taurus II. It begins tonight at 10:16 pm EDT and continues for the next ten days. Read more, both commentary and horoscopes, here: https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/04/29/taurus-ii-sun-the-lingam-yoni/
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 https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/04/18/taurus-i-sun-the-plough/

On 19 April 2025 at 10:19 pm EDT, the Sun enters Taurus I, which Austin Coppock called "The Plough." Associated with the Three Graces, attendants of Venus in her bathing, it's a season for starting six-month projects, whether growing food or changing your world.
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 Aries III is called The Burning Rose.  Aries III, the realm of Eros Firstborn, begins today 9 April 2025 at 10:49 am EDT.  What does the burning rose offer to you, and what inflames your passions while the world burns?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/04/09/aries-iii-sun-the-burning-rose/
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 https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/03/19/aries-i-2025-the-two-bladed-axe/

Tomorrow at about 5:01 am EDT, the Sun arrives at 0° Aries, the #AstrologicalNewYear — promising a time of new divisions and separations, as we prepare to eat our way through another cycle of the Zodiac, one tiny bite at a time. 
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 https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/03/09/pisces-iii-pandoras-lidded-cup/

From March 10 to March 20, the Sun will travel through the last ten degrees of Pisces — the end of the astrological year. It includes a lunar eclipse on March 13-14 in Virgo and the last Sun-Saturn conjunction in Pisces for about thirty years. The Greeks and their Roman and Egyptian fellow-citizens of ancient Alexandria honored Elpis (the daemon of Hope) and Maia (the goddess of Memory) at this time of year. How are our aspirations for the future out of alignment with our memories of the past? How can we better align the facts on the ground with the desire for a better future? Maybe that's a worthy subject for meditation in the next ten days.
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 https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/02/27/pisces-ii-sun-dolos-in-the-net/

Dolos, a trickster god, rules the next ten days as a kind of Lord of Misrule. Can we distinguish Truth from Falsehood? What do the paw prints in the snow tell us about how each of them moves in the world?
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 Okeanos, ruler of deep and wild ocean, rules 10 days starting 18 February 2025 at 5:07 am EST. Should you be a shape-changer or a strongman, a mystical wanderer or a walker of the straight way? "The Labyrinth" may reveal those answers.

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/02/17/pisces-i-sun-the-labyrinth/
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Phobos, the lord of battlefield panic, rules the next nine days. How we plan to act when in the fight of our lives, and how we actually act, are not always in alignment. How can we make our heavenly ideals match our down-to-earth practical considerations?
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 Dike, the goddess of the marketplace's standard measures,

rules the ten days of Aquarius I
, January 19 to 29, 2025

How do you measure up
? Where is your thumb on the scale? How are your relationships with others being defined by unwritten contracts?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/01/17/aquarius-i-sun-mark-of-exile/
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 https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/01/08/sun-in-capricorn-iii-the-throne/

The warren of tiny offices and cubicles of Buckingham Palace, or the rows of desks stuffed into unadorned corridors in the Kremlin, or similar set-ups behind the Press Room at the White House or in the Party Congress building in Beijing... These are places where the plans of the powerful often get turned into written policy memos by fresh-faced interns and the nieces and nephews of oligarchs, and the up-and-coming party apparatchiks who launched the first Youth Party program at their high school when they were only twelve.  True believers all, they think that doing the will of the seniors will guarantee their career trajectory forever. Sometimes they're right.

Most of the time, they're under the tired old gaze of a party line bureaucrat, a deputy chief of staff who's been a career workhorse for forty-seven years. Some people think he retired years ago; others are surprised he's not dead.  Like Saturn whom he resembles, he wields the sharp scythe against any staffer who gets out of line, and for him the hourglass is always dropping sand. THere's never enough time, and yet — with youth and vigor to spend as he wishes, it all gets done.

Sometimes, though, at least once a year, the Sun waltzes in like he owns the place (hint: he does) — and sets everyone to bowing, curtseying, and kowtowing to his magnificence.  He sets new plans in motion, regardless of what his usual deputy wants. And things change, not because anyone in the room wants things to change — but how do you say NO to Dearest Leader? 
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 Capricorn II's column is published, here (the horoscopes will be out later today for Patreon subscribers):
  • https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/12/30/capricorn-ii-sun/
This is the Sun in The Pyramid, which is a season associated with oppression, and with oppressive behaviors. Many find that this season involves the awareness that they are themselves subject to oppression from those above them in the social order; and all too aware of the ways in which they themselves subject others below them to the same sorts of oppression. We're caught in the weight of 'the system', unable to rise above our current position and role without oppressing more of those beneath us; and we're unable to shift our role without finding the new weight and constraints of those above us to be insufferable.

The New Moon today, at 5:49 pm, occurs in this self-same decan, and in the Twenty-Third Mansion — which promises both escape from limitations, and diminishment or wasting force. It's hard to face the possibility of declining status, loss of fame and dignity, or diminished wealth... and yet these are exactly what we're being warned about in this coming cycle

It's also a decan ruled by Mars, currently retrograde and inconjunct in Leo — but about to cross into Cancer on January 7, where he'll be in opposition and in exile. Career matters and reputation are about to get bumpy, and home and family life may be expected to carry burdens they're not used to bearing: the donkey of the new year may turn out to be a recalcitrant and rebellious ass

Under stars,
Andrew B. Watt
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The Sun enters Capricorn tomorrow at 4:20 am EST, a few hours before the Sun actually comes up — beginning the ten days associated with two ancient deities: Akephalos and Asclepius. Are you celebrating in the next ten days because an immortal soul is incarnated into a human body — or because flesh and blood must find the light even in the darkness? Maybe it's both. https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/12/20/sun-in-capricorn-i-2/
If you've enjoyed these columns this past year, an appreciative comment here would be much welcomed.
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 The sun enters Sagittarius II — The Bridle/Harness — on I December 2024 at 12:02 pm EST. It belongs to Kore, "The Maiden" -the teen girl who walked into the cave alone, and emerged as Persephone the Queen of the Underworld six months later.

What small but difficult thing will you do now, to achieve greatness at some later date?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/11/29/sun-in-sagittarius-ii-12-1-12-11-2024/

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 The Sun enters Scorpio II *The Alchemical Apparatus*, at 6:38 pm EDT on Friday 1 November 2024. Associated with Leto/Latona as teacher of children, school marm of the gods & mother of Apollo and Artemis, it's hard lessons provided with gentleness & care. https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/10/30/sun-in-scorpio-ii-leto-1-nov-10-nov/
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 The Sun enters Scorpio I tomorrow at 6:15 pm on October 22, 2024 — and stays there until 1 November in the early evening, for just a little over 10 days and 20 minutes. This is the home of the Nymphs, the 'feminine' spirits of naturally beautiful places and placid groves and springs.... who are also the teachers of the useful arts and crafts to mortals. It's a good week to get out your sewing needles, your saws and planes, your knitting needles, and to produce work.
This year, it's also the decan in which Halloween occurs — although technically the evening of All Saints and All Souls, on November 1 and 2, will occur in Scorpio II. That's when Dia de los Muertos is usually celebrated in Mexico, of course... and it's worth thinking of this ten days as the "countdown" to the season of the dead that begins at Samhain/Halloween... on or about October 31-November 1... rather than the season of the dead itself.





https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/10/21/sun-in-scorpio-i-the-nymphs/
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 https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/09/09/sun-in-virgo-iii-12-to-22-sept-2024/

The Sun enters Virgo on Thursday 12 Sept. 2024, at 2:40 am EDT, and stays for ten days. This time is associated with Hestia, the tender of the fire of the gods, their cook and hostess. What delightful meal is prepared for you?
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 Virgo II will host the Sun as artist in residence for the next ten days starting tomorrow 1 Sept. 2024 at 7:28 pm EDT, in the weaving room of the Fates - Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. What will be spun up? What will be warped on? Woven in? Cut off?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/08/31/sun-in-virgo-ii-1-to-12-sept-24/
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https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/07/20/sun-in-leo-i-2/

The Sun enters Leo I at 3:45 am on Monday 22 July 2024. "The Spotlight" is ruled mythically by Hephaestus and astrologically by planetary Saturn — what are you craftily crafting for your future success? What disciplines are you studying and honing to the point of excellence? Without effort, none of us perform at our best.
 

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