Empowering Astrology with Katie Sweetman

This week the story starts to change as Mars, the planet of action, drive, and forward movement, turns retrograde on September 9. As with all retrogrades, we can't quite do things the way we would normally. And in the case of Mars in Aries, we have to take a second look at how we use our power, how we express our anger, or how we go after what we want. That said, we're navigating the demands of re...

This week we have Pisces Full Moon on September 2, one that puts a spotlight on spirituality, inner wisdom, compassion, and healing. It's in Pisces that we connect to energy that's bigger than us and, hopefully, we learn to stop resisting what we can no longer resist. Mercury also crosses the Nodes, making for fated conversations or decisions, before arriving in Libra on September 5. And Venus swi...

The great celestial gears shift again. Mars, after making its way past Jupiter and Pluto earlier this month, makes a square to Saturn in Capricorn on Monday, August 24. This is high pressure astrology, something that may feel like a force as well as a forge. In traditional astrology, Mars square Saturn is considered a malefic, which is to say a negative influence. However, I was born with this asp...

We're transitioning from one lunar month to another as we welcome a Leo New Moon, a new moon that wants us to simply get back in touch with ourselves. But this week we may be feeling another build up of stress as Mars get ready to square Saturn.

Mars continues its series of squares to a trio of planets in Capricorn — Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn. This week this Mars fire has to negotiate the realities of Capricorn, from rules and boundaries to the need to create balance, especially if something is not working.

We start the week with an Aquarius Full Moon, one that illuminates, challenges, awakens, and brings us back to a story that began in March 2019, the month that Uranus entered Taurus. So, things may be shaking. Uranus in Taurus has been about the tectonic plates of our lives moving. Mercury also finally leaves Cancer for Leo and Venus arrives in Cancer after a four month stay in Gemini. It's a week...

We're going deeper into Leo Season, a time when the sun shines on personality, self expression, identity, and creativity. This week Mercury in Cancer makes a few tense aspects to Mars in Aries as well as Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn in Capricorn. (Yep, a cardinal t-square). We may have major decisions to make potentially. We're weighing our options. We're revealing something that's hidden, unconscio...

We start the week with a Cancer New Moon, the second Cancer New Moon in a month. It's a second chance to refocus on what really matters, to tend to our homes, connect with family, or get the care that we need.

We round out a lunar month, one that started with a solar eclipse on June 21. What has shifted since then? We may have a few more bumps to navigate as the Sun faces off with Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn, three heavy weights hanging out at the end of Capricorn.

Welcome to July! We're coming off a powerful Capricorn Lunar Eclipse as we step into the week. Life may be a bit loud at the moment with demands for increased maturity and authority as well as actionable steps. After all, Mars is in Aries, too.  The full moon eclipse picked up on Saturn newly back in Capricorn. It's a return to themes and lessons that we were working on since the start of 201...

Another week of major shifts as Saturn, the big hand on the clock so to speak, moves back to Capricorn for a five month review. We're returning as well as wrapping up a story that began at the start of July 2018. It's a shift in tone for us as well as the world. And then later this week we have a Capricorn Full Moon lunar eclipse on July 5. It's all about responsibility, major choices, milestones,...

Big shifts this week as we not only come off a Cancer New Moon solar eclipse, but Neptune turns retrograde, Venus turns direct, Mars squares the Lunar Nodes, and then Mars arrives in Aries for a six month stay. Life's turning us in a new direction. Hang on!

As we open up a new chapter courtesy of the June 5 lunar eclipse, we're beginning to close another that began in July 2018 with this week's solar eclipse in Cancer on June 21, right on the solstice, the punctuation at the end of a two year sentence. Plus, Mercury turns retrograde June 18. You know the drill.

We're between the eclipses. With Neptune and Mars so strong in the astrology, how do we surrender to the new life that's coming in?

We're in eclipse season as we come up to the first in a trio of eclipses on June 5. In the sign of Sagittarius, we have to examine our beliefs, issues of faith, truth, and meaning. It's about facing the shadow within.

With last week’s Gemini New Moon, we’re in a new lunar month and a new season, one that highlights communication, ideas, information, connection, and choices. It also means that we’re in eclipse season; a full moon lunar eclipse is just two weeks away.

We make the move from Taurus to Gemini Season, from earth and our material lives to air and our need to learn and experience. A Gemini New Moon on May 22 marks this transition further, setting up a time for new initiatives with writing, learning, gathering information, travel, and movement.  This lunar month also brings us our first eclipse in the trio of upcoming eclipses. And while we won't...

Busy week as two planets change signs and three planets change direction, all in the course of five days. Life shifts gears, new stories and new rhythms emerge. Originally streamed live via Facebook.

It's the first week of May! A month that we're going to see a lot of celestial gear shifts. This week we start with the Lunar Nodes moving from Cancer-Capricorn to Gemini-Sagittarius. We're collectively moving from the sign of home and family to movement, travel, and learning. And Gemini will start to play an important part in our evolutionary story over the next 18 months.   We also have a S...

I’m joined by Christina Caudill of Radiant Astrology for my inaugural video for my series, Why We Need Astrology More Than Ever. This is an ongoing discussion with different astrologers as to why astrology is best suited for these uncertain times, from its use as a spiritual guide and map to helping to give language as to why certain things are happening in the world.  This series has as spir...

Welcome to Taurus Season! The season that turns us to the earth, money, food, and resource. It's a time to get comfortable, usually, but a powerful Taurus New Moon plus Uranus means that the coming four weeks will be a time of shake up, surprises, awakenings, and getting out of our comfort zone as well as out of our way.

Mercury arrives in Taurus this week on April 27, a sign that wants us to slow down and enjoy life. In the first few days of this week, it's not a time to rush forward or make decisions impulsively without weighing our options. Later this week, however, Mercury meets up with Uranus on April 30 and we may be feeing impulsive, restless, and ready to awaken to new ideas and ways of being. Uranus's tim...

It's the last week of Aries Season, a season that flew by. But as the Sun reaches the end of Aries, it meets up with Pluto and Jupiter. Things may be shaking this week as a result. Also, the Moon meets up with Saturn in Aquarius for the first time in nearly 30 years. We're getting our first check in with our Saturn in Aquarius story this week. Lastly, the Sun arrives in Taurus on Sunday, April 19,...

This week Mars arrives in Aquarius on March 30, setting our Saturn in Aquarius story in motion. Pay attention to the stories that are coming up and how they are part of a bigger story depending that will unfold over the coming two years. (Originally published on Facebook Live.)