Dear Planet Waves Reader:

Today’s podcast is done. Note, I’ve redone the audio, archiving the previous one — when you click it will go directly to the new version.

In this edition, I look at the Aries Full Moon, part two — there was one a month ago. I also describe Mars square Chiron and Neptune, which is a complex aspect in full force right now. Mars square Chiron is a kind of opposite energy of Mars square Neptune. One gets stuck in its boundaries, and the other struggles to keep them. So it’s an interesting mix of energies.

Most of what I cover in this podcast is the Venus-Vesta conjunction on Saturday, which takes place in Scorpio. I describe the goddess of fire and her servants, the Vestal Virgins, and how this translates to our experience now. I describe the themes of fire worship and how the Vestals were honored in ancient Rome, and how this imagery represents honoring the inner creative and sexual flame that is the organizing principle in a person who is actually alive. This fire needs to be tended continuously, with love and devotion.

Venus conjunct Vesta is also about older women reconnecting with the passion and energy of younger women, leaving their envy and resentment in the fire pit where it can be safely burned off. The conjunction is Saturday, the night after the Full Moon, and I am planning to cover the topic more thoroughly in Friday’s subscriber edition of Planet Waves.

Dear Friend and Reader:

This week’s audio describes the simultaneous conjunctions in Libra and Scorpio. Over the next 48 hours, the Sun is conjunct Saturn in Libra. And we are in an extended conjunction of Venus and Mars next door in Scorpio.

The first conjunction describes our obsession with “proper relationships” and “doing it right.” Saturn is involved — there is a sense of duty and obligation.

The second conjunction describes what we really do, which is get it on, think about getting it on, want to get it on, need to get it on and hopefully get to get it on, despite the rules; despite what is right; despite our image and propriety and whatever else we finally end up not caring about when the time comes to not care about it.

The astrology describes how to work with this setup. Mars in Scorpio, and Venus retrograde in Scorpio, are both illustrations of authentic desire, and Venus retrograde is a deep personal inquiry. So — let’s inquire.

That’s this week’s audio — brought to you by our subscribers. Comments are welcome below.

Yours & truly,

This week’s free audio is done. And, I’ve also revised it in an entirely new recording. Part one, my weekly podcast, covers the Libra equinox followed by the Full Moon. I then look at the Venus-Mars conjunction in Scorpio and consider yesterday’s vote by the Senate to keep in place the “don’t ask, don’t tell” provision of military law.

This allows military brass to go after people just for being gay or lesbian, as if it were possible to root all the queers out of any group of two million people. It’s ridiculous, and politicians are using this as red meat for their political base — but why is it happening? What is the biology and the psychology beneath the politics? In a somewhat froggy voice (apologies) and a slightly foggy mind, I do my best to put this in to the context of the Venus-Mars conjunction in Scorpio.

The second part is a story about horoscope writing and what it means to work in the astrology business on the Internet. That has just been posted. Just reload the audio file page to get that second recording. It’s titled, “So You Hate Advertising.”

Have a great day — see you with a subscriber edition Friday.