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Sun in Aries II, 2026

2026-03-30T14:57:23Z

The Column for Aries II 2026 is posted here: https://andrewbwatt.com/2026/03/30/sun-in-aries-ii-2026/

Aries II is called "The Crown" in Austin Coppock's book about the decans 36 Faces, but T. Susan Chang calls it "The Kingdom of Gold" in her book 36 Secrets. It's related to the 3 of wands — and it's worth thinking about what territories you claim, what heights you're trying to scale, and what assistance you need to get where you're going.

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I'll add that I haven't posted here since Aquarius II, back in early February, because it's just not generating much traffic overall. I need to simplify my personal online footprint a bit so I can focus on the work that generates results. Please bookmark the andrewbwatt.com site; the column tends to appear on or about the 1st of the month, the 10th, and the 30th of each month ±2-3 days depending on where the Solar ingress occurs.

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Aquarius I - The Mark of Exile 2026

2026-01-19T18:54:22Z

(19 January, 8:46 pm EST)

https://andrewbwatt.com/2026/01/18/aquarius-i-the-mark-of-exile/

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The Pyramid of Capricorn II

2025-12-31T02:05:30Z

Here's the horoscopes and column for Capricorn The Pyramid, associated with Hygeia the goddess of heath and pharmacy https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/12/30/capricorn-ii-the-pyramid/.

I've been sick, I've had family over more days than not, and then I injured myself snow-shoveling... so I don't feel like this is my best work ever... but it's here. :-D

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The Headless Body of Capricorn I

2025-12-20T23:23:16Z

Capricorn I "The Headless Body" begins on 21 December 2025 at 10:03 am EST. This is the moment that the Sun's apparent course across the sky arrives at its southernmost point — and brings the shortest day and longest night of the Northern Hemisphere. What healing are you trying to activate as the year ends? https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/12/20/capricorn-i-2025-the-headless-body/

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Sagittarius II -- The Bridle

2025-11-30T22:49:11Z

Here's the column for Sagittarius II, which begins tomorrow (patreon only):

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/11/30/sagittarius-ii-2025-the-harness/

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Sagittarius I 2025 - The Poison Arrow

2025-11-21T19:48:44Z

Sagittarius season begins at 8:38 pm EST tonight, 21 November 2025, with the season of express deliveries — quick changes, sudden flights of arrows on the attack, and the problem of "ready, fire, aim!" Are you well placed to achieve your targets? The Loimos, spirits of disease, ruled these first days: are you properly inoculated against the disturbances both physical and spiritual which may dissipate your vitality? Apotropaic actions are best undertaken immediately. https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/11/21/sagittarius-i-2025/

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Scorpio I 2025 -- the Double Distiller

2025-10-31T20:27:44Z

Here's the column for Scorpio II The Alchemical Apparatus for Double Distillation: https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/10/31/scorpio-ii-the-alchemical-apparatus/ This decan begins at 12:17 am EDT on Sunday 2 November and continues until late evening (10:33 pm EDT) on 11 November 2025.

As I write these columns, I find that increasingly I try to work the divine attributes of the mythic figure of the Greek god or goddess into the story, rather than Austin Coppock's naming conventions. Yet the two are inextricably linked in my memory now, so it's not always possible to separate one from the other.

In this one, though, the imagery seems especially apt for me as a former school teacher. Leto, the goddess associated with bringing up children through education, is here contrasted with a double-distiller — the device which transforms and purifies both the principal material and its by-products. Just as the distiller refines some material and its distillates into purer forms, so to is the school teacher refined and (we hope) improved by contact with the personal growth of their students.

I often feel such gratitude for my twenty years in the classroom. I'm sad that time had to end, at times... but I'm still honored that I got to do it as long as I did. I hope that for the most part I was worthy of the work.

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Libra III - The Gyroscope

2025-10-09T20:43:52Z

I'm publishing several days early since I'll be offline and away from Friday to Monday.

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/10/09/libra-iii-the-gyroscope/

Nemesis, the goddess of consequences, rules 12-22 October 2025; the significations are to discuss your plans and your secret desires with close confidants, and to maintain operational security (with more effectiveness than a US Secretary of Defense... )

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Libra II, 2-12 October 2025

2025-10-02T18:58:15Z

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/10/02/libra-ii-two-links-of-a-chain/ Libra II, the season of Kairos the god of opportunity, begins tonight shortly before 7pm EDT. how do you intend to take advantage of sudden chances that come your way? How will you know if it's risk or advantage that's come knocking? [Patreon only]

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Libra I — the Blind Erinyes with the swords

2025-09-21T17:30:03Z

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/09/21/libra-i-the-blindfold-and-sword/ Libra I "the blindfold and the sword" begins tomorrow 22 September 2025 at 2:20 pm EDT — the moment of the astrological autumn equinox.

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Virgo III: Hestia in the grocery store

2025-09-11T15:00:32Z

Here's the column for Virgo III *The Sarcophagus*: 12-22 September 2025 starting at c. 8:24 am EDT tomorrow. https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/09/11/virgo-iii-the-sarcophagus/ Hestia and the 10 of pentacles together remind us that sometimes a family dinner is the best way to build wealth and a legacy.

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Virgo II - the Hammer and Anvil (2-12 September 2025)

2025-09-01T13:30:40Z

Virgo II, The Hammer and Anvil (September 2-12, 2025), is associated with craftsmanship (artisanship, to use a more gender-neutral term), but also with the work of the Moirai, or fate-weavers: Clotho the spinner, Lachesis the measurer, and Atropos the cutter. What fate are you weaving, and who is intertwined with you in the business of making the tapestries of your community

(locked to Patreon-only members): https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/09/01/virgo-ii-sun-the-moirai/

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Virgo I 2025 - Themis // A Tree Bearing Fruit

2025-08-22T18:59:57Z

The column for virgo I 2025 just dropped: https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/08/22/virgo-i-sun-themis/

Themis, patron goddess of parliamentary procedure, rules the first ten days of Virgo season, which begins today at 4:34 pm EDT.

- How do you follow divine procedure when consulting with the spirit world?
- How do you follow a similarly ethical and responsible procedure in the human world?
- Does process and procedure matter as much to you as result? Why or why not?

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Leo III - Serapis - August 12-22, 2025

2025-08-10T17:13:04Z

Leo III 2025 starts on August 12, 2025 at 7:02 am EDT. Associated with the Greco-Egyptian god Serapis and the 7 of wands, it reminds us that sometimes you have to let them see you bend your knee, even if you don't bow in your heart.
https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/08/10/leo-iii-sun-the-banner/

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Sun in Leo II 2025

2025-08-01T02:30:28Z

*It's time for Leo II now;*

*it's time for Isis nights!*

*It's time for laurel crowns now!*

*(why don't you wear the laurels?)*

*On the Starry Show tonight.*

(yeah... actually, Leo II begins *tomorrow*, 1 August 2025, at 8:32pm EDT)

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/07/31/leo-ii-sun-the-laurel-wreath/

This is also the Decan in which the Jupiter-Venus conjunction occurs this "year" (they're always about 445 days apart, and this year they're doing so within three minutes of the fixed star Sirius, a planet of stellar reputation for wealth and prosperity and fame and honor. Don't sleep on this one, folks.

- Hymn for the conjunction of the Benefics <https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/04/25/conjunction-of-the-benefics/>

- Hymn for Sirius <https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/07/31/hymn-to-sirius/>

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Leo I 2025 - The Spotlight

2025-07-20T19:17:16Z

The Sun enters Leo I on Tuesday, 22 July 2025 at 9:30 am EDT (and remains for ten days, eleven hours, two minutes). Called the Spotlight, it's associated with Hephaestus the artisan god of the forge. What are you working on? where are you applying your expertise? How are you doing the industrious work behind the scenes, REALLY changing the world while the allegedly great, alleged rulers of the world are fighting about whose changes are more important? https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/07/20/leo-i-sun-the-spotlight/

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Cancer I 2025 - The Walled Garden / Hercules

2025-07-01T13:42:01Z

Cancer I begins on 1 July 2025 at 10:14 am EDT: the Walled Garden, where the myths of Hercules swirl. andrewbwatt.com/2025/06/30/cancer-ii-sun-the-walled-garden

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Cancer I Sun 2025: Nike

2025-06-20T13:27:32Z

Astrology column for 20 June through 1 July, Cancer I and the Solstice season for 2025. Nike, goddess of victory, rules the next ten days — and, strongly associated with Athena and Zeus, reminds us that it's either the practice of wisdom or strength that helps us achieve success, but both is better than either one alone.

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/06/20/cancer-i-sun-nike/

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Gemini III Sun - Executioner's Sword

2025-06-10T12:00:24Z

Gemini III begins today, 10 June 2025 at 11:24 am EDT. Called "The Executioner's Sword" or "Famous Last Words", it marked the window of time in which the rites of the Dioscuri were celebrated — In various guises, these horse-lords who come on swift wings to aid mortals have been helping people for a long time with their troubles.... and reminding us all of our mutually reinforcing mortality and divinity.

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/06/10/gemini-iii-sun-the-executioners-sword/

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Gemini I Sun -- Apple of Eden / Tethys

2025-05-20T13:00:00Z

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/05/20/gemini-i-sun-edens-apple/

Later today the Sun enters Gemini at 2:55 pm EDT, 20 May 2025 — the realm of Tethys "great Ocean's empress", and the goddess of all streams and rivers of fresh water. How is your life connected to all other life? How are you dependent upon the essential elements of all that is? Where are you divorced or separated or alienated from these forces, and how do you plan to reconnect to them?

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Taurus II Sun - "The Lingam Yoni"

2025-04-29T20:27:53Z

"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/

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The Plough - Taurus I Sun

2025-04-18T11:34:26Z

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/04/18/taurus-i-sun-the-plough/ —

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 Sun -- the Burning Rose

2025-04-09T18:39:08Z

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?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/04/09/aries-iii-sun-the-burning-rose/

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Aries I Sun: The Two Bladed Axe

2025-03-20T00:23:02Z

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/03/19/aries-i-2025-the-two-bladed-axe/

Tomorrow at about 5:01 am EDT, the Sun arrives at 0° Aries, the #AstrologicalNewYear — promising a time of new divisions and separations, as we prepare to eat our way through another cycle of the Zodiac, one tiny bite at a time.

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Pisces III - A Stirrup Cup of Hope Before You Go

2025-03-09T14:55:01Z

https://andrewbwatt.com/2025/03/09/pisces-iii-pandoras-lidded-cup/

From March 10 to March 20, the Sun will travel through the last ten degrees of Pisces — the end of the astrological year. It includes a lunar eclipse on March 13-14 in Virgo and the last Sun-Saturn conjunction in Pisces for about thirty years. The Greeks and their Roman and Egyptian fellow-citizens of ancient Alexandria honored Elpis (the daemon of Hope) and Maia (the goddess of Memory) at this time of year. How are our aspirations for the future out of alignment with our memories of the past? How can we better align the facts on the ground with the desire for a better future? Maybe that's a worthy subject for meditation in the next ten days.

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