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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?

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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.

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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?

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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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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/
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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.





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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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The Sun enters Cancer II on 1 July 2024 at 4:31 am EDT. Called "The Walled Garden" it was a time associated with the divine Hercules and with the planet Mercury.  We tend to think of  Hercules as the muscle-bound warrior, but this is instead the cross-dressing grizzled veteran shaving his beard and living as a woman in order to atone, and heal from, the PTSD of his battlefield experiences at the behest of the Oracle of Delphi.  If even the greatest heroes can suffer mental breakdown — if even the most famous achievements of legend can wound the heroes who did them — maybe we owe it to ourselves to heal the wounded, and give the anguished the tools and techniques for their own well-being.  
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Here's the column for the Sun in Taurus I, *The Plough* (or *Sacred Doubt*), a decan belonging to planetary Mercury in a trickster's masque, the season for honoring Charis, lady-in-waiting to Aphrodite and the goddess of fashion and graceful behavior.
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Here's a poem to use as part of your artistic practices during the Venus-Neptune conjunction in Pisces this Wednesday 3 April 2024. The conjunction perfects at 9:11 am EDT. 
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 Dolos, Prometheus's apprentice and a trickster spirit, is credited with making an exact lookalike of the goddess Truth from clay — and his Titan master breathed into his apprentice's work, thus bringing Falsehood to life. The myth says that just one of the sisters has bad feet, though: is that because Falsehood can't stand on her own legs for long? Or is that because Truth is only able to travel slowly?

The ancient Greeks gave Pisces II to Dolos and said it was administered by Jupiter — a reminder that we should check the feet of any story we hear in the next ten days, as the Sun enters Pisces II "The Net" tomorrow, 2/28/2024 at 9:44 pm EST.

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The season of Aquarius III called "The Knot" begins tomorrow at 1:50 am EST — administered by the Moon and associated in Hellenistic Greek thought with Osiris, it's in part about loosening our attachments and unbinding. What do you need to let go? Where do you need to release? What ties should no longer bind you?


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Sagittarius III, as we've discussed in the past, is the season of Anangke "the goddess of the gods" who defines and designates all that simply must happen. As Necessity, she watches over all events that simply must occur whether the gods wish them to or not.  Largely not worshipped by ordinary mortals, she nonetheless points to the idea that larger realities must sometimes simply be accepted for what they are and how they act upon us.  Some events, no matter how catastrophic or blessed, or even out of the gods' hands.  

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Sagittarius II covers 2
-12 December 2023 — the season of Kore, the girl-goddess sent to be Hades' bride in the underworld. When she returns in the spring, she's Persephone, powerful and frightening. What part of yourself is still afraid of the dark?
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 The Sun enters Scorpio I - The Jawbone - at 12:21 pm EDT on 23 October 2023 - the realm of the nymphai, the spirits of natural places which resonate with femme vibes. We're supposed to learn new craft, new artisanry, new skill, from our observations of such places — Austin Coppock called this part of the sky The Jawbone, while T. Susan Chang called it Storm of Tears.... are you approaching the world as a scientist would? How about as an artist? How does disappointment re-inspire you to try again?

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The Sun enters Libra II tomorrow morning at 7:30 am EDT. Called "Two links of a chain" and associated with the Greek mythical figure of Kairos, a god of Opportunity... it's a great time for you to link together both hope and action toward your goals. Be cautious with Saturn and Mars moving toward a trine on October 12, and the eclipse on October 14 — you've got work to do? Don't delay.
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Hestia, goddess of the hearth and chief cook in the kitchens of the gods, rules the next ten days until the autumn equinox, as the Sun progresses into Virgo III on 12 September 2023 at 8:55 pm EDT. Called "the Sarcophagus," Virgo III invites us to ask for the soul-sustaining nutrition we need. How will you live in a way that honors your mortality?  How will you live in a way that remembers your soul's origins, and destiny?

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