Living Astrology With Janet Hickox

This week brings us to an intriguing turning point in the cosmic story! Both Mercury and Venus prepare to station direct on Friday, November 13, while Mars, Jupiter, and the South Node meet in Leo. What have we learned, what are we ready to release, and what might finally be ready to move forward? Today, Venus retrograde in Libra forms a sextile to Mars in Leo, inviting us to consider the relation...

After seven weeks of traveling through the fears, instincts, and survival wisdom of the Human Design Spleen Center, we're entering a very different kind of energy. The Sun moves into Gate 1–Purpose, while the Earth grounds us in Gate 2–Allowing. What happens when we stop organizing our lives around survival and begin consciously creating the life we're here to live? This weekend's Scor...

What happens when we stop allowing fear to make our decisions and begin recognizing the truth of what we've experienced? This week on Living Astrology, we're entering the final chapter of the Sun's journey through the Human Design Spleen Center. The Sun moves through Gate 44–Truth, while the Earth grounds us in Gate 24–Blessings. After weeks of exploring fear, instinct, survival, and a...

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio squares Mars in Leo today, October 30, bringing questions of truth, courage, communication, and personal power to the forefront. What happens when something we've kept hidden demands to be spoken? And how do we distinguish speaking our truth from simply reacting? In today's Living Astrology broadcast, we'll explore the tension between Mercury's search...

Why does life keep presenting us with challenges? Are we simply meant to overcome them, or could they be inviting us into a deeper understanding of ourselves? This week on Living Astrology with Janet, we're exploring the relationship between challenge, courage, accountability, and soul evolution through Astrology, Human Design, and the Gene Keys. Our new Human Design week brings the Sun into G...

How do you know when your intuition is warning you about something important, and when an old fear is keeping you from moving forward? This Friday on Living Astrology, we're exploring the fascinating relationship between instinct, fear, courage, and inner wisdom. In Human Design, the Spleen Center relates to our instinctive awareness and survival fears. But those fears don't always mean we...

Tomorrow's New Moon in Libra invites us to reconsider the agreements we make with others—and perhaps the agreements we've made with ourselves. But this is no ordinary invitation to harmony and balance! With Venus retrograde in Scorpio squaring Mars in Leo, questions of love, desire, power, courage, and self-worth are rising to the surface. Meanwhile, in Human Design, the Sun in Gate 57—Ins...

I’m home from Alaska and back LIVE for our Monday morning look at the astrology and Human Design energies shaping the week ahead! We begin with the Sun in Gate 48 — Wisdom, inviting us to draw from the deep well of experience within us, while the Earth in Gate 21 — Self-Regulation asks us to consider what is truly ours to manage, direct, and control. And the astrology seems to echo that invitation...

On Monday, we stood at the Libra Threshold and looked inward. We explored the Human Design Gates of Love, embodiment, Spirit, and what it means to cross a seasonal threshold consciously. Now we turn our attention outward. The Sun has entered Libra, the Autumn Equinox has arrived, and a new seasonal chart has been cast. In mundane astrology, an ingress chart can offer us a symbolic map of the colle...

We have arrived at a threshold. Today is the final day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and tomorrow the Sun crosses 0° Libra, marking the Autumn Equinox and the beginning of a new season. At the same time, Human Design brings us into one of its powerful transition weeks, with the Sun moving through Gate 46—Embodiment and the Earth grounding us through Gate 25—Spirit. What does it mean to bri...

What happens when the conversation isn't finished? Today Mercury in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries, asking us to look carefully at the tension between what we want to say, what another person needs to hear, and the consequences of our words. Then on Saturday, Chiron retrogrades back into Aries, returning to the 29th degree—the final, potent degree of the sign—where the Healer will remain until...

Something is shifting beneath the surface of our collective story. Neptune and Pluto are moving through a long, rare sextile—two of astrology’s great agents of dissolution and transformation working together as the old world changes and a new one struggles to take form. But the future isn’t simply something that happens to us. We participate in what comes next. In Wednesday’s Living Astrology, we’...

"Living Astrology - where Myth & Soul meet Astrology, Human Design, and the Gene Keys." Something deeper is moving beneath the surface this week. We begin Monday with the Virgo Sun sextile Mars in Cancer, creating an opportunity to put thoughtful, practical action behind what matters to us. Then Tuesday brings a significant energetic shift. A new Human Design week begins with the Sun...

Yesterday, the cosmos delivered an entire week’s worth of change in a single day! A new Human Design week began with the Sun in Gate 47—Mindset and the Earth in Gate 22—Surrender. Venus entered the emotional depths of Scorpio, Mercury moved into relationship-oriented Libra, Uranus turned retrograde, and a New Moon invited us to begin again in Virgo. Today gives us a moment to breathe—but the conve...

Today on Living Astrology, we’re slowing down for a special Tea With Venus conversation about love, relationships, self-worth, desire, money, and the sacred agreements we make with ourselves and one another. What is Venus bringing back into view? What patterns or questions are beginning to reappear—and how can we meet them with curiosity rather than rushing to find answers? We’ll also explore the...

September doesn’t begin with a rush forward—it begins with a review. Today, Venus enters the pre-shadow of her upcoming retrograde, opening a longer conversation about relationships, self-worth, money, desire, and the agreements that shape our lives. What is already beginning to surface that we may be asked to reconsider more deeply in the weeks ahead? Meanwhile, the Sun in Human Design Gate 40—Re...

The Lunar Eclipse has passed, but its story is still unfolding. This eclipse window has arrived with profound losses, startling events, natural disasters, and the unmistakable feeling that familiar ground is shifting beneath us. Today, we’ll explore how to move through the post-eclipse landscape without rushing to explain everything, force a decision, or immediately rebuild what has been disrupted...

The Eclipse of Faith: Trust What Is Being RevealedThis week, a powerful Pisces Full Moon arrives as a deep partial lunar eclipse—placing the Moon and Earth in Human Design Gate 55: Faith. But first, Mercury returns home to Virgo, carrying a message from the Well-Worn Path. On Thursday, Mercury enters the heart of the Sun, bringing a moment of illumination just as the eclipse begins to unfold. What...

What if your worth is not something you must prove—but something you are being asked to embody? On Friday, Venus in Libra, the Guardian of Self-Worth, opposes Saturn in Aries, the Master Teacher. This encounter may reveal where we have measured our value through approval, relationship, achievement, or the expectations of others—and where it is time to stand more firmly within ourselves. Then the S...

The stars are alive with possibility this week. Venus and Mercury each enter the extraordinary planetary pattern we’ve been calling the Architecture of the Future—connecting with Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus and inviting our values, relationships, voices, and choices into the emerging story. Mars moves into Cancer, awakening the courage to protect what matters and act from a deeper sense of belongin...

What story are you carrying into the coming solar eclipse—and is it still capable of guiding the future you want to create? This week begins with Chiron turning retrograde in Taurus in Human Design Gate 3, the Gate of Innovation. Through the Gene Keys, Gate 3 carries us from Chaos to Innovation and ultimately Innocence. Chiron’s retrograde invites us to revisit the places where change once felt de...

August arrives as an eclipse month—and the story is beginning to change. On August 12, a Solar Eclipse in Leo invites us to reconsider how we have sought recognition, expressed our creativity, and offered ourselves to the world. Then, on August 28, a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces brings us into deeper waters, illuminating what is ready to be released, surrendered, or returned to the greater whole. Betwe...

Who will you become when you commit? This weekend's astrology invites us to move beyond possibility and into participation. Mercury and Venus help us align our hearts and minds, while Neptune and Pluto continue their quiet work of reshaping our collective future. As the Human Design week shifts into the Gates of Leadership and Imagination, and the Lunar Nodes move into Desire and Commitment, w...

This week, the heavens invite us into one of the most important conversations of the summer. Jupiter forms a series of powerful connections with Neptune, Pluto, and Uranus, asking us to imagine a bigger future while examining where we've been giving away our power. As the Sun enters Leo, we're invited to step more fully into our own creative authority, and when Mercury turns direct in Canc...

Feeling like something is shifting—but you can't quite name it? This weekend's astrology may explain why. Uranus and Pluto are working together for one of the most supportive aspects of the year, helping you think differently about your future and take practical steps toward it. Add Mars working with Saturn, and inspiration becomes action. I'll also correct an important Human Design up...