Jan
16
Betterthans & B-Sides 2023: Week #3
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Bear Ryver
Bear Ryver is a consulting and lecturing astrologer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he’s not talking stars you can find him climbing rocks and playing guitar.
Jan
15
thoughts on the saturn uranus square
Risking “tried and true” structures is necessary in order to remain in integrity with nature’s imperatives to growth and adaptability.It’s easy to think that Saturn in Aquarius is only about ideological rigidity.
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Jan
15
Skyvibe Serial 2023: Week #3
Clarity comes as Mercury finally stations direct, and by the end of the week we'll have the entire sky at least looking, if not moving, forward in unison. Full steam ahead is not in the cards quite yet, though.
15 min read
Jan
15
Meeting Martial Mars: Maximum Mars, Maximum Brutality
don’t believe that the malefics are all bad. The decisive, dynamically initiatory, powerful, and physical energy of Mars is constructive and oh so necessary for surviving. Mars is how we defend ourselves.
7 min read
Jan
08
Beyond a Culturally Bound Astrology
Reading Cannon's thesis, I learned that my people have just one ‘constellation’ encompassing the entirety of the sky; and, that some of the stars of the constellation we call Aquila (Altair in particular) were used together with stars from The Big Dipper to recon time.
21 min read
Jan
08
Skyvibe Serial 2023: Week #2
If you feel like your wheels have been spinning, yeah, that's about right. But consider this: spinning wheels is still progress compared to a flat and an engine that won't start. Besides, this week will give us some friction to help our... 'tires' get a grip.
14 min read
Jan
08
Betterthans & B-Sides 2023: Week # 2
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Jan
07
Fortnightly Lunacy: Cancer Full Moon
Instead of writing a post about the Cancer Full Moon, I lived it – busy working in my home office, enjoying some blessedly benefic Moon time - free from the sight of the malefics.
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Jan
03
Taking Courage on Tuesdays
Taking Courage on Tuesdays
Working with the Planetary Day of Mars
The Lesser (but no less Mighty) Malefic
Mars gets
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Jan
02
The Astrology of January 2023
The first month of January comes with a sudden release. We opened the year with Venus retrograde in Capricorn, and closed the year with Venus back in Capricorn. Whether through repetition or delays and restriction we've gone to roots of our relational structures.
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