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“And she lived happily ever after” – people laugh at the line a lot today, but sometimes life works out exactly that way. In the old days, astrologers would credit Jupiter for such merry outcomes, while blaming Saturn if things turned out rotten. It’s never really been that simple.

Join Steven for quick overview of a  handful of true astrological stories about things turning out well. You’ll see how people making wise or brave choices – even with Saturn – is how the magic works.

Completing the triangle of co- creation, sometimes the astrologer – acting more like a coach than an oracle – can really make a difference too. We all love a happy ending. Here’s how to create them.

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June Newsletter

We say "astrology" as if it were one unified entity, but of course it is not. How many house systems are there? Do we use asteroids or not? What about Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto? - many traditionalists prefer to ignore them. Meanwhile, Uranian astrologers use hypothetical planets that no one has ever seen - Poseidon, Zeus and so on -  and swear by them. I hear they get good results too. As an evolutionary astrologer, much of what I say revolves around the south node of the Moon - but most commercial astrology programs do not even show its position unless you ask them to.

Even more fundamentally, is astrology about the stars or the seasons? To a Vedic astrologer, the sign Aries and the constellation Aries are the same thing - but not to a western "Tropical" astrologer, where Aries starts with the northern Vernal Equinox, which has actually drifted back into Pisces over the centuries.

To put it charitably, astrology is a "big tent." To put it more pointedly, the many different branches of astrology contradict each other in fundamental ways. Inevitably, this reality leads to the question of which form of astrology is "the right one" - and there begins a slippery slope.

"Nice" astrologers tend to take a tolerant, supportive attitude toward each other, while the "mean" ones spend a lot of time either attacking other systems directly, or doing so indirectly by saying "my astrology is best."

I mentioned Uranian astrology a moment ago. I know very little about it, so I had to Google it in order to get my references to "Poseidon" and "Zeus" right. The first website to which my Google Search brought me opened with the words, "The Uranian system of astrology is really our most advanced and evolved system of astrology to date."

I really aspire to being one of those "nice" astrologers, but obviously the person who wrote those words has it all wrong - anyone can see that MY style of astrology is actually "the most advanced and evolved system of astrology to date."  I am laughing of course - and please laugh too. But, in truth, I have never met an astrologer who knowingly practiced the "second best" kind of astrology he or she had ever found. 

Bottom line, the contemporary world of astrology is a chaos of diversity. We are like the biblical "Tower of Babel," with many, mutually-incomprehensible languages spoken all at once. It is like riding a subway in New York City. The situation has grown much more complex over the last few decades, as more systems and styles have emerged and grown popular. When I was a young astrologer, we all at least had enough language in common that we could argue with each other. Nowadays, as I listen to a Hellenist or a Vedic astrologer, I often honestly feel as if I am trying to follow a conversation in Bantu. I just don't know their words - and they would be just as confused as me were I to ask for their views on the karmic implications of Pluto transiting through a quincunx to a Leo south node in the (Placidus!) eighth house.

All of this brings me to the point of this newsletter. About twenty years ago, a young man of means in New York City decided to test the branches of astrology's tree, and see which ones broke and which ones were strong enough to stand.

September Newsletter

Here's how I am tempted to answer that seemingly legitimate question: very, very little. Alone, a planet is really just an abstraction. 

Mercury, for one quick example, is related to our curiosity - and some degree of curiosity exists in more or less everyone. But obviously there are people who are driven by curiosity, and people who barely feel it at all. 

More to the point, what exactly are you curious about? Show me an article about human migration patterns as reflected in ancestral genetics or 19th century sailing vessels, and I will devour it. Seeing those same articles, you might skip to a piece about how to improve your golf swing - while I would have to be paid handsomely even to read the first paragraph.

Curiosity is clearly not a question of right or wrong. It's more like different strokes for different folks. We all have Mercury in our charts, and we can make a few general statements about its archetypal nature. But what does Mercury actually mean for an individual? Who knows? . . . or rather, who knows - unless we give that Mercury a set of distinct motivations and interests by placing it in a specific sign. After that, we might give it an area of characteristic behavior by putting it in a house. Then we could further wire it into the larger framework of the birthchart by studying the aspects that it makes.

A planet in a specific sign and a specific house: for actual human beings, that is the ultimate indivisible quantum unit of astrological meaning. A planet alone is only a broad idea, about as "human" as a lecture on taxation algorithms.

New Webinar - Working with Chiron

New Book Release

Just released! In The Book of Water, Steven completes his epochal investigation of the four astrological elements. In this fourth volume of the series, he focuses on how people bounce back from hurt and tragedy. 

In the opening pages, he invokes the haunting image of an old woman dancing on a moonlit beach. He writes, "Every line on the dancer's face tells a story. Many of those stories are sad ones . . . and yet we are confronted with an inexplicable miracle: the old woman still dances. Of all of life's mysteries, is there a deeper one? Not that terrible things happen, but that we dance anyway. That we can recover. That spirit regenerates . . . Finding our way back to that dancer is what this book is about. Let's meet the good medicine of the Water signs - the guardians of the sacred mysteries of healing, regeneration, and recovery." 

In this final volume of the series, Steven offers a detailed exploration of Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, along with their planetary rulers and their associated astrological houses: the fourth, the eighth, and the twelfth. Together, these powerful words in astrology's magical vocabulary are the key to returning to joy and wholeness no matter what life throws at us.


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July Newsletter

On July 1, Saturn retrogrades back into Capricorn, where it joins Pluto and Jupiter. Both of them are already retrograde too, and tightly conjunct. Meanwhile, Neptune is also retrograde, as is Mercury. Mercury stations and turns direct on the 12th - but the day before that happens, Chiron turns retrograde. On top of all that, Eris - so often under-estimated and ignored - makes its own station on the 19th, and goes retrograde too.

If you like retrograde planets, July is the month for you, in other words. It's as if the cosmic carousel has reversed its polarity.

I wrote about the Pluto-Eris square in my March newsletter, which you can see here.

I don't want to repeat all of that material here, although it casts a penetrating light on what I want to explore in this piece. Suffice to say that the clash of Eris and Pluto is, to me at least, the heart of the matter when it comes to figuring out why the world feels so crazy now.

What I want to do in this newsletter is to have a look at what it means to see all of this retrograde energy happening now. All of the planets from Jupiter on out, with the sole exception of Uranus, are going backwards all at once, with Chiron trading off a retrograde condition with Mercury toward the middle of the month. The situation is not unprecedented, but it does catch the eye - and as ever, at least from the philosophical perspective of evolutionary astrology, the planetary gods and goddesses are giving us a few tips about where to put our feet next.

THE NODES IN GEMINI & SAGITTARIUS
A Change in the Weather of the Collective Soul

On June 4, the nodal axis shifted out of Cancer-Capricorn and into Gemini-Sagittarius. That means a whole new set of karmic chickens are coming home to roost for all humanity. Anyone can feel the change in the weather - just look at the news headlines from the Spring and compare them with what you are seeing now. Behind the chaos, there is evolutionary purpose - both for all of us collectively, and also for each one of us individually.

Join astrologer Steven Forrest for an in-depth look at the meaning of this important transition for the world in general, followed by a careful exploration of what it portends for you personally. Over the next year and half, those nodes will swing through a specific house or two in your own chart. Adding that house information makes your understanding of these deep evolutionary potentials - and these timely warnings - exactly twelve times more precise.

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1 hr 22 min | Includes video and audio files

October Newsletter

Michelle and I lost our beloved Norwegian Forest cat, Wally, in January. By summer, we were emotionally ready to invite a kitten into our lives. With Covid-19 raging, the search was mostly on the Internet, which is a shaky place when it comes to falling in love with anyone, including a cat. One little guy did catch our hearts and our eyes though - a kitten named Benny. He was  living in a shelter in a city called Hemet a couple hours' drive away. We headed up there on Michelle's birthday, August 12, to have a look at him. We were immediately smitten, and Benny came home with us that same day..

Naturally, as astrologers, we were curious about his chart, but his birth data was not available -  he and his four brothers had been dumped unceremoniously at a kill shelter at the tender age of two weeks. They had been picked up by the saints who run a no-kill shelter where it was "estimated" that they had been born "around May 8."

Astrologers are often confronted with situations such as this one, where there is no time of birth available. After all possibilities for finding a recorded time have been exhausted, the final option is to undertake a rectification. Basically, one works backwards through astrology's predictive techniques to come up with a chart that would have predicted events that have already happened in the person's life. Rectification is a tricky process, fraught with risks of error. Here's a link to a more technical article about the process. It's free. 

Would the rectification process work with our Benny? There were many problems, starting with the fact that he was only three months old. That meant that there were not yet many events in his life. Rectification works best with people in midlife. They have longer stories to tell, which means more clues. I also like to have the dates of events widely spaced over time in order to spread out the transits, progressions, and solar arcs a bit. Too many events clustered in the same year tend to generate "false positives." Benny was so young that most of the planets were still "conjunct themselves."

Just to be crystal clear, let me be the first to admit that in this newsletter I'm going to indulge in some monumentally bad habits when it comes to rectification. I'll at least label them for you. This is a "do as I say, not as I do" situation, for sure. We will come up with a possible chart for Benny - and we will label it "tentative."

I hope you can join me for the next Astrology University Summit October 3-4, 2020 - Astrology and World Events - Challenges and Opportunities.

The summit is FREE to WATCH LIVE. And each talk is free to watch for 24 hours after it is broadcast. All you need to do is sign up and Astrology University will email you all the details!

My talk The Age of Eris, is the closing talk of the summit, to be broadcast at 7pm Pacific Time October 4. 

Growth doesn't come easily. That is true for individuals, but it is true for nations as well. When humanity discovers a new planet, we are pressing out in the direction of new collective frontiers. Invariably, events arise synchronistically which push us toward our limits. We can see that reality reflected in the social changes around the discoveries of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. We are seeing it now.

Eris was discovered in 2005, and ever since it was detected, the world has been in chaos. Eris's current square aspect to Pluto has intensified the drama. If there is any single 100% reliable principle in astrology, it is that every planet has both a higher purpose and the deep shadow. What is humanity stretching to learn now in the Age of Eris? All the noise, violence, and hatred in the daily headlines derives fundamentally from our struggles - and our failures - to integrate the higher possibilities of this new planet. How can we get it right? How can astrologers help? What will it take to save the world?

I hope to see you there!

March Newsletter

The journey of a thousand miles famously starts with the first step - and the journey through the twelve astrological houses starts with the Ascendant. It is literally the beginning of the beginning. When a planet hits it by transit, progression, or solar arc, the reality that crystalizes in your life is that you have arrived at a crossroads

Join Steven for a careful look at how astrology helps you navigate these "mini-reincarnations" in a way that works well for you in the long run. 

Saturday March 7, 2020
Live webinar; approx. 90 min.
9:00am Pacific Time (convert to your time zone)
$25 (through March 5; $30 thereafter)

No need to attend live. All registrants receive copies of the recordings to download and keep. 

Level: All Levels

New Audio Book Release

Audio Version Now Available

A while back, a man named Thomas Miller contacted me about the possibility of creating audio book versions of my work. At first I was resistant. I had always felt a bit proprietary about recording the books myself, but I realized that I had been saying that for at least ten years and still had never found the time actually to do anything about it. I decided to let him have a crack at The Book of Fire, and I loved the results. Thomas is a true professional, and he is off to the races now with The Book of Earth. We are happy to announce that The Book of Fire is now available through Audible.

Enjoy!

Steven

The Book of Fire

In The Book of Fire, award-winning astrologer Steven Forrest offers a triumphant celebration of human resilience. Supported by all nine astrological "Fire" symbols,  your spirit can survive anything - and still go dancing the next day. Regardless of your Sun Sign, the healing magic starts with mastering the paths of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. It continues as you learn to embrace Mars, Jupiter, and the Sun itself. Your resilience finally blossoms in the three Fire houses: the first, fifth, and ninth.

Together, these nine powerful words in astrology's rich vocabulary are the Life-Givers. With them on your side, you can eat the Devil for breakfast and spit him out before lunch. In these pages, you will learn how to make friends with each one of these human allies, both as they appear in your natal chart and as they move through it via transits and progressions. Each one of them promises a vibrant gift from the sky - and each one of them is as close to the core of what it takes for you truly to thrive in this human world as the marrow in your bones.

Next up: watch for three more volumes in Forrest's epochal Elements series: The Book of Earth, The Book of Air, and The Book of Water.

REVIEWS

"For more than twenty years, Steven Forrest has helped me to think astrologically and act accordingly. He always seems to know what new spirit is evolving in me and with this book, this magician of the stars explains his intuitive, integrative method for understanding our future. Part cookbook, part personal revelation, and all soulfully instructive, The Book of Fire is perfect for those ready to advance to a deeper understanding of evolutionary astrology."

- Chip Conley, Hospitality Entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author

Working with Chiron

Join Steve for his newest webinar Working with Chiron!

Chiron is the wounded healer - and there is no healer so effective as the one who has been grievously wounded and still managed to find their way back from the edge of darkness. Where Chiron lies, wounds are guaranteed. The healing, meanwhile, is optional. Those who succeed benefit not only themselves, but also their communities. They become healers, guides, and soul-mentors. How can we achieve that goal?

How can we make our Chironic passage from woundedness to empowerment? Chiron's elongated orbit offers us clues. It touches the paths of both Saturn and Uranus. It thus weaves together Saturn's hard, physical logic and the electrical magic of Uranus. Where Chiron lies you must soberly face the reality of your own wounds - and you can expect lightning-fast miracles too. In fact, learning to expect them is half the work.

August Newsletter

Despite my books and my teaching, the bulk of my income and lion's share of the hours of my working life are all about private astrological consultations. People contact me for recorded  readings, which I send them via MP3 files. Lately when I get such a request, I put them on the waiting list and I tell them that I "hope" to be able do one for them one day. The problem is that those recordings are booked at least five or six years ahead. 

In a few months, I will be 72 years old. At my age, making promises about anything that far in the future feels like tempting the Lord to offer me a little lesson in hubris, perhaps punctuated with a lightning bolt.

I also do "live" sessions here in my office, in person. Those are my favorites. I like the human interaction. I like learning from people. Years ago, when the recorded readings (an international market) threatened to eclipse the face-to-face work, I started booking the two forms on separate tracks. The local work is more available. The wait for an in-person session currently runs something like three years, although right now, because of Covid-19, it is entirely stalled. I'm not seeing anyone in my office.

Potential clients always ask me if I do Zoom sessions or phone work. I never do. The main reason is purely practical - with the other two methods booked so far ahead, how crazy would I have to be to open up a third channel, one that was accessible to the global population of the planet? 

FINDING THE PAST LIFE FINGERPRINTS - WORKSHOP

What makes evolutionary astrology different from all other branches of our craft is that we ask WHY you have the chart you have. We know the answer must exist in the mysterious time zone before your present birth. What karma has ripened? What unresolved issues from your karmic past are surfacing in this lifetime? Two truths: 1) Those issues - and people - will present themselves again in this lifetime, and 2) you are ready to resolve them and not repeat them. 

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New Webinar Release

Steven has just recorded a new webinar to discuss the nodes shifting signs. This is a pre-recorded webinar and a new release. So you can order it today and start listening right away!

The Nodes in Gemini and Sagittarius: A Change in the Weather of the Collective Soul

On June 4, the nodal axis shifted out of Cancer-Capricorn and into Gemini-Sagittarius. That means a whole new set of karmic chickens are coming home to roost for all humanity. Anyone can feel the change in the weather - just look at the news headlines from the Spring and compare them with what you are seeing now. Behind the chaos, there is evolutionary purpose - both for all of us collectively, and also for each one of us individually.

Join Steven for an in-depth look at the meaning of this important transition for the world in general, followed by a careful exploration of what it portends for you personally. Over the next year and half, those nodes will swing through a specific house or two in your own chart. Adding that house information makes your understanding of these deep evolutionary potentials - and these timely warnings - exactly twelve times more precise.

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$25 (through June 30; $30 thereafter)

1 hr 22 min | Includes video and audio files

New Summit Bonus Lecture

May Newsletter

New Webinar Release

Steven had a wonderful time at the annual NORWAC conference this year. Although the annual gathering usually happens in Seattle, this year''s event was online. All four of Steve''s lectures are now available for instant download on his site. 
 

FINDING THE PAST LIFE FINGERPRINTS - WORKSHOP
Zodiacal signs provide different kinds of powers to certain planets. Beyond domicile and exaltation, ancient astrology contains two additional rulership systems - triplicities and bounds. Discover how to use triplicity lords to fine tune timing, distinguish between the various topics of each house, and assess overall esteem and support a person can expect to receive. The bound (term)lords, keepers of the boundaries, provide a key to the relative autonomy, ease or restrictions that a planet is allotted.

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DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS

Astrology's star is rising, yet we still have many detractors. We all encounter doubters. Some are just ignorant. Some actually attack. How can we respond? Often it is inappropriate to offer a lecture. Getting angry never works. What we need are quick responses: zingers aimed at informing people and making them think rather than hurting anyone. Our Holy Grail is a laugh that also enlightens. Over the years, Steven has come up with a few of them . . .

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NEPTUNE - MARTYR OR MYSTIC?

Surrendering and letting go - both of them sound certifiably spiritual, and both skills are in the domain of Neptune. But are they always the right path? Where Neptune lies, life offers you a portal to a higher state. To pass through it, certain human experiences must be claimed. "Hanging on a cross" will not open those doors. How do we discern where we should NOT let go, where we should never surrender? Your soul depends on your answer.

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RETROGRADE PROGRESSIONS OF MERCURY

Not to be confused with the high-jinx of transiting Mercury retrograde, its progressed retrograde periods only happen once in a lifetime. They last a couple of decades. During that time, your memories both of this lifetime and prior ones are undergoing a transformation. You are in essence re-writing your personal history, turning innocent delusion into true wisdom. And when Mercury goes Direct, stand back: if you got the retrograde years right, people are lining up to buy your book!

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The journey of a thousand miles famously starts with the first step - and the journey through the twelve astrological houses starts with the Ascendant. It is literally the beginning of the beginning. When a planet hits it by transit, progression, or solar arc, the reality that crystalizes in your life is that you have arrived at a crossroads

Join Steven for a careful look at how astrology helps you navigate these "mini-reincarnations" in a way that works well for you in the long run. 

Saturday March 7, 2020
Live webinar; approx. 90 min.
9:00am Pacific Time (convert to your time zone)
$25 (through March 5; $30 thereafter)

No need to attend live. All registrants receive copies of the recordings to download and keep. 

Level: All Levels

May Newsletter