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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/

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

https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/06/30/sun-in-cancer-ii-1-10-july-2024/ —

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.

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/12/11/sun-in-sagittarius-iii-december-12-21-2023/

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.

The Sun enters Sagittarius I — the realm of the Loimos, or sickness-spirits — on 22 November 2023 at 9:03 am EST, just as Americans head off on travel to their largest civic holiday weekend.

Are you adequately protected on planes, trains, and automobiles? How about dealing with "Aunt Fran" at the dinner table?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/11/21/sun-in-sagittarius-i-22-nov-2-dec-2023/

Leto the mother of Artemis and Apollo rules the next ten days. In the Hellenistic era, she was honored as the teacher of the young, bringing them up in the right way to be honorable and capable adults... https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/11/01/sun-in-scorpio-ii-2nov-12-nov-2023/

The Moirai, the three Fate-sisters found spinning, measuring, and cutting threads in my myths, rule the next ten days. WE tend to see them as implacable and immune to negotiation or petition. But a more careful reading suggests that, like any artists or artisans, they have weaknesses, and are not immune to flattery or criticism of their work. If you have ideas about how you might be better used in the tapestry of destiny, you might offer your ideas to them this week, along with some praise and gratitude for how they've positioned your thread in the loom so far... https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/09/01/the-moirai-sun-in-virgo-ii/

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/08/23/themis-sun-in-virgo-i/

Themis, the goddess of custom and procedure (and the parliamentarian of the assembly of all the gods, how's that for a title!?) rules the ten days that begin this morning. Where must we follow the strictest procedures, even against our best judgement? Where must older custom give way to more modern experiences?

The Sun enters Leo III The Banner, tomorrow 12 August 2023 at 7:30 pm EDT.

Today, Serapis is often thought of as a god of abundance and the underworld — a divine amalgamation of Greek Zeus and Hades, and Egyptian Osiris and Apis. We should remember he came to prominence as part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty's political strategy to maintain their power as the foreign-born rulers of an ancient civilization to convey a message: Abundance is the reward for obedience.

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/08/11/sun-in-leo-iii-serapis-3/

Hephaestus rules the next ten days, beginning at 9:51 pm EDT tonight 22 July 2023. *The Spotlight* is a place of both performance, and performance anxiety. Are you ready to be the focus of everyone's attention? Are you ready to try to beat your last personal-best performance? It's a challenging tightrope to walk, and all eyes are on you. How will you measure up?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/07/22/sun-in-leo-i-hephaestus-2/

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/06/10/sun-in-gemini-iii-praxidike/

Praxidike, a terrifying goddess of punishment and redress of grievance, ruled the next ten days of the calendar of Greco-Egyptian Alexandria — her name literally meaning "the practicer of justice", she presided at trials of capital punishment and extracted vengeance in both the mortal and divine realms. At Thebes in Boeotia and elsewhere, her hand was stayed in mystery cult pantomimes only by Castor and Pollux the Dioscuri, who came with swift wings to assist mortals in accidental peril but who spurned the intentional and malicious criminal. Have you committed accidental wrongs for which you may atone? Does anything lurk in you that is truly unforgivable?

The Sun enters Taurus II — *The Lingam-Yoni* — tomorrow 30 April 2023 at 10:35 am EDT.

The Horae, or "hours" are the goddesses that define the process of time passing — one season turning to another, one day turning to another, and one hour turning to another. Variously defined in Greek myth as twelve sisters, or three, or six, they're responsible for the gradual passage of time. How do you make use of the passage of time, and how do you mark the slow, small changes that gradually turn minutes into hours, and hours into days, and days into years?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/04/29/sun-in-taurus-ii-the-horae/

The Sun enters Aries today, and with it Aries I — "The Double Bladed Axe", the realm of Aidoneus, whose name means "the hidden one". Hades is better described as a title, in the same way that "Harry and Meghan" are the Duke and Duchess of Sussex — but Aidoneus is his name. The fire of Aries is in a sense, the Fire Below being rekindled: the earth responding to the approaching Sun's warmth and light with new heat of its own. What is below the ground, can rise above it; what is dead, can be reborn.

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/03/20/sun-in-aries-i-aidoneus-2/

Sun in Pisces III - Elpis/Maia

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/03/10/sun-in-pisces-iii-elpis-maia/

On 3/10/2023 at 3:35 pm EST, the Sun enters "The Cup of Blood" — a time given to the goddess Elpis, "Hope"— linked to the idea of enthusiasm divorced from reality. What do you believe? How will you ground that in fact? What if facts disprove your hope?

Thank you to Calliope and “Little Red Socks” who paid through Ko-Fi to make the horoscopes of Pisces III open to the public.

Dolos the ceramicist trickster rules over the next ten days, as the Sun enters Pisces II at 3:57 pm EST today, 28 February 2023. Called *The Net* by Austin Coppock, it's a place of shifting expectations and confusion about truth — are we in a prison? is this a trap? is this a palace? are we free to leave when we want? Do we want to? *(Thank you to @calliope#1998 and "little red socks" for paying. for today's column to be free.)* https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/02/28/sun-in-pisces-ii-dolos-2/

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/01/27/sun-in-aquarius-ii-phobos-2/

Thanks to an enthusiastic friend who paid me through Ko-Fi instead of Patreon, the horoscopes for Aquarius II (Phobos) are made public to a wider audience this time around. You can find both horoscopes and the full column at this address! Thank you Wren!

Phobos was the ancient Greek god of panic on the battlefield. Shown as a strong man with a lion's head, he was less to be worshipped than propitiated ... through practice and training. You could not escape his clutches once the conflict started and the battle was joined — your only hope lay in what you had learned to do in the gymnasium and on the stadium grounds or on the fields of Mars just outside a city's walls. May we be free of the influence of Phobos in the next ten days and the next year, and remain safe by virtue of our training and practice.

The Sun enters Sagittarius III, The Horse's Skull, at 8:56 pm EST on 11 December 2022 — the realm of Anangke, or "necessity", the goddess of the gods, the power beyond the cosmic, whose machinations and activities not even the divine can overrule. Where does the Divine tell you "no"? Where must you bow to the inevitable?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2022/12/10/sun-in-sagittarius-iii-anangke-2/

Sagittarius I, called "The Poisoned Arrow" begins tomorrow morning. Associated in ancient Alexandria with the season of the Loimos - spirits of illness and disease - it begins 22 November 2022 at 3:32 am EST. How are you shielding yourself in plague time? How will you avoid the common pestilences? How do you keep healthy? Modern Tarot gives these ten days to the 8 of Wands... the mysterious card in which the wands fly across the sky, whether thrust like spears or shot like arrows, is not clear. Whatever you plan to do, do it quickly... and be sure of your targets.

https://andrewbwatt.com/2022/11/16/sun-in-sagittarius-i-the-loimos-2/

The season of Themis begins today at 11:17 pm EDT on 22 August 2022, as the Sun enters Virgo. Themis was the ancient Greek goddess of customs, of mores, and of hospitality, and also presided over the assemblies of mortals and gods; in a sense she was the parliamentarian of the gods. How do you go about creating order and harmony in meetings and discussions? How do you push back against orders to create functional cruelty? How do you find co-workers and allies to the work of making a better world? Where do you play by the rules of the road, to frustrate the aims of the wicked and the villainous? https://andrewbwatt.com/2022/08/22/sun-in-virgo-i-themis/

The Sun enters Gemini III— “the Executioner’s Sword" at 5:52 pm EDT on June 10 2022. The Moon approaches her full position in Sagittarius, while the Sun prepares for his annual conjunction with the shoulders of Orion, just before the Summer Solstice. The ancient Greeks gave this ten-day season to Praxidike, the goddess who attends to the right relations between child and parent, spouses, guest and host, and citizen and state —and punishes those who violate those ancient, unwritten statutes.

The column can be found at: https://andrewbwatt.com/2022/06/10/sun-in-gemini-iii-2/

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Taurus II Sun - "The Lingam Yoni"

Capricorn II Sun (The Pyramid).

Cancer II -- the Walled Garden

Sun in Sagittarius III (12-22 December 2023)

Sun in Sagittarius 1 (22 Nov - 2 Dec 2023)

Sun in Scorpio II

The Moirai - Sun in Virgo II 2023

Sun in Virgo I - Themis

Sun in Leo III — Serapis / The Banner

Sun in Leo I - Hephaestus // the Spotlight

Sun in Gemini III - Praxidike

Sun in Taurus II — the Horae — The Lingam Yoni

Sun in Aries I - Aidoneus

Sun in Pisces III - Elpis & Maia

Sun in Pisces II - Dolos / The Net

Sun in Aquarius II - Phobos

Sun in Sagittarius III — Anangke

Sun in Sagittarius I - the Loimos