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Planetary news this week: Venus in Scorpio and falling stars with Neptune

Astrological update for the week of December 4-11, 2023

Neptune turns direct. This month we have three planets changing signs which means a shift in planetary energies, and that begins with Neptune turning direct this week. This is especially significant if you are experiencing a transit of Neptune to your own chart as it will intensify during this time. Neptune stations can be somewhat destabilizing since Neptune urges us to detach from the practical and embrace the creative and mystical. Neptune won’t begin […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-12-04T07:13:39-05:00December 4th, 2023|Planetary news this week|0 Comments

Planetary news this week: Mercury in Capricorn & relationship issues

Astrological update for the week of November 27 – December 4, 2023

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I wrote about the Full Moon in last week’s post and again yesterday, so you can catch up on the details there – by the time you read this post the lunation will have culminated (4:16 am EST/9:16 am UTC) and the Moon will begin its waning phase. The waning phase of the Moon is a time of letting go and release, there is a sense […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-27T08:24:48-05:00November 27th, 2023|Planetary news this week|0 Comments

Planetary news this week, and catching up:

As many of you know, I took a bit of a writing sabbatical this fall. I expected it to last through the end of the year, but I found I was eager to get back to my life as planetary oracle. Staying closely tied to the movement of the planets is a more powerful support to me than I thought, and if I only learned this one thing in my sabbatical it was well worth it!

There have been no major planetary alignments during this time which made it easier to […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-21T09:16:47-05:00November 20th, 2023|Planetary news this week|1 Comment

Planetary news this week: Virgo season, Pisces Full Moon, much more!

Astrological update for the week of August 21-18, 2023

There’s a lot to unpack this week! Grab a coffee or cup of tea and let’s get cracking.

Sun enters Virgo August 23. The Sun’s entry into Virgo technically marks the beginning of Virgo season, but with Mercury and Mars already in Virgo the focus on order and the world of the mundane is already well underway. The shift from Leo to Virgo will help to soothe some of the fiery energies that have been flying around lately – the only planet left […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-08-21T10:27:33-04:00August 21st, 2023|Planetary news this week|0 Comments

Planetary news this week: The rise of Venus and the Leo New Moon

Astrological update for the week of August 14-21, 2023

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Venus as morning star. On the heels of Sunday’s conjunction of the Sun to Venus (called the “cazimi”), we begin to see Venus rising as the morning star as she passes the midpoint of the retrograde period. The symbolism 40-day cycle of Venus retrograde is pretty profound, as that 40-day cycle can be found frequently in religious texts. At the beginning of the retrograde cycle Venus is ahead of the Sun and rises near sundown, but […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-18T13:45:02-05:00August 14th, 2023|Planetary news this week|1 Comment

Planetary news this week: Pluto square the nodes and the Eris connection.

Astrological update for the week of August 7-14, 2023

This week’s update will be short and sweet because I’m getting on a plane in a few minutes for a family emergency.

The biggest news this week is the continuing challenging square aspect between Pluto and the lunar nodes. This aspect began a couple of weeks ago and continues into this week. The lunar nodes represent the direction of fate from past to future, with the south node representing the past and the north node pointing towards our future direction. There are […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-08-07T07:52:14-04:00August 7th, 2023|Planetary news this week|6 Comments

Planetary news this week: The SuperMoons begin!

Astrological update for the week of July 31 – August 7

Supermoons. If you’re subscribed to my Planetary Illuminations report you’ll read more about this tomorrow, but in August we are in SuperMoon season (™Richard Nolle). We have come to think of SuperMoons as being the giant white discs in the sky that occur at the Full Moon when the Moon is closest to Earth (perigee), but a New Moon can also be a SuperMoon. It’s the distance from the Moon to the Earth that creates the SuperMoon, […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-07-31T11:27:49-04:00July 31st, 2023|Planetary news this week|2 Comments

Planetary news this week: Time to get organized with Mercury in Virgo

Astrological update for the week of July 24-31, 2023

Mercury in Virgo July 28. Mercury was known to the Romans as the messenger god, and was the only one of all the gods to be able to travel between the world of the gods, the world of humans, and the Underworld, the transformational realm governed by Pluto. I love this story because astrological Mercury, as the planet which guides our understanding of our life experiences and helps us to transmute these learnings into knowledge and wisdom, can be a […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-07-24T09:31:44-04:00July 24th, 2023|Planetary news this week|0 Comments

Planetary news this week: Cancer New Moon and Venus retrograde

Astrological update for the week of July 17-24, 2023

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Cancer New Moon. I wrote about this in last week’s forecast so that we could be ready for the New Moon on Monday the 17th, but you may want to catch up here if you missed it. The lunar energies peak in the early afternoon EDT and will fade over the next few days. This a time to reassess the threads of our connections to others and the strength of […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-07-18T11:11:34-04:00July 17th, 2023|Planetary news this week|3 Comments

Planetary news this week: Cancer New Moon and the Nodes change signs

Astrological update for the week of July 10-17, 2023

The lunar nodal axis shift. The changing of the Nodes of the Moon from one sign to the previous sign is an interesting pattern which suggests a revisiting of the past in order to move more fully into the future.The Nodes of the Moon are actually points in the sky rather than physical bodies; they mark the intersection of the orbit of the Moon with the orbit of the Sun and the crossing point between the consciousness of incarnation (Sun) and the subconscious instincts […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-07-10T07:54:10-04:00July 10th, 2023|Planetary news this week|0 Comments