Predictions

Mercury turns direct on Monday, March 9 at 8:49pm and its shadow period lasts until Monday, March 30.

As nights draw in and temperatures drop, it’s a natural time to turn within, slow down, and gather for the introspective phase to come. How many of us actually do that? How many of us live in sync with nature and her rhythms?

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Russell Grant, the famous British astrologer, and observed him giving a talk to a large audience. What struck me was how completely at home he seemed while delivering his hour-long speech.

On an emotional level, February 2020 is about opening to change in expressing love and relationship energies.

The false American economy of the past ten or twelve years will be revealed to be moving from inflationary to seriously recessionary. Now that the Chinese Yuan is a petrocurrency, the dollar will see its last days of global supremacy and decline in value.

Astrological ages reveal that this is a time of cleansing rather than doom-and-gloom, destructive endings. By definition, the Pisces dissolution is the washing away of surface delusions in a process of spiritual cleansing.

Mercury turns retrograde on Sunday, February 16 at 4:54pm and remains so until March 10. Its shadow period lasts until March 30.

To understand what is going to be the flavor of 2020, we need only study the planetary dynamics — and subsequent world events — of January.

Sweeping political and social reforms will take place this year, and January will provide some fireworks for the beginning of this process. Hidden agendas become more transparent, and previous acts of treason and criminal nature will be revealed.

Uranus turns direct on Friday, January 10. Its shadow period remains until April 26, 2020. The degree it turns direct on (2º39’ Taurus) is represented in the Sabian symbols by “natural steps lead to a lawn of clover in bloom.” The more we have the courage to be ourselves, the deeper the rewards.