The Astrologer Diaries

From my brain to yours: insight, support, advice, and maybe even a little wit and wisdom to help us through these “interesting times” and remind us there’s so much more to life than meets the eye—or any of the five senses!

Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

What Is “Solar Eclipse Energy” Anyway?

You’ve probably heard about how June’s new moon in Gemini is a powerful partial annular solareclipse…and wondering what this means for you. This is actually the perfect thing to ask because this eclipse is happening in the sign of thoughtful, curious Gemini—and Gemini’s ruling planet, Mercury, is right there next to the Sun and the Moon…

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

Secrets, Seduction and Shapeshifting

Last Monday night’s Scorpio full pink supermoon shook a lot of people up more than they were expecting. Full moons generally bring culmination and illumination—of what’s been hidden or obscured. Scorpio, associated with the eighth house of the zodiac wheel, is about transformation, the occult, sexuality and all kinds of mergers.

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

A Kick-Ass Aries New Moon

Show of hands: Who’s ready for a fresh start? Yeah, I thought so. It doesn’t matter whether you’re thinking new job or career, new romance or new energy in the same-old relationship, new home, new hairdo or even just an engrossing new Netflix series to sink your teeth into…most of us are ready to move on to something as long as it feels fresh, exciting and motivational.

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

A Lovely Libra Full Moon

Last weekend, Venus aligned with the Sun in Aries, setting up an influential time for invention, reinvention, falling (back) in love and exploring the edges of your creativity. And then on Sunday, they both aligned with healing Chiron, a comet that functions like a planet and draws our attention to what in the common parlance is called our wounds. Which to me sounds like a big ouch!

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

2021’s Virgo Full Moon

Even if we don't know any other phase of the moon, we always seem to know when it’s full or nearly full.Perhaps because it’s so close to the Earth, and so visible—and so moving—we tend to spend more time gazing at the moon than any other celestial object. The moon resounds in myth and mystique. The Buddha supposedly achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi tree during a full moon….

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

Aquarius New Moon!

Have you been hosting an internal tug of war where half of you wants to fly free and the other half feels stuck on a giant piece of flypaper? And yet, do you also feel like you’re on the verge of something REALLY BIG? Welcome to the Six Planets in Aquarius Show!

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

That Capricorn New Moon…

Just before midnight on Tuesday, 1/12/21, the year’s only new moon in Capricorn will land alongside the Sun (the definition of a new moon) at 23º13’. New moons are times for fresh starts and new beginnings, and ooh baby, couldn’t we all use one right about now?

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

Today’s Great Conjunction

Yass! Today marks the day we’ve all been waiting for, the “Great Conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius. The Sun entered Capricorn, heralding the longest night of the year, the winter solstice, and soon after that, the two largest planets in the solar system aligned as they do every 20 years. But they haven’t met in Aquarius in 200 years!

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

Do You Need a Mindset Reset?

What a month December is already proving to be, with a lunar (full moon) eclipse at 8º Gemini just as the month kicked off, and the next one in the winter series happening today! This is a solar (new moon) eclipse, and it lands at 23º Sagittarius….

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

Chaos or Creation?

This week, Jupiter aligns with Pluto for the third and final time this year. Jupiter is one of the planetary good guys—we call him the “great benefic” because he brings luck, expansion, optimism, hope, wealth, freedom, honesty and integrity to whatever he gets involved in….

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

Pisces Full Moon: Dreamtime!

While many of us were sleeping, the year's only Pisces Full Moon dazzled the slumbering night sky and cast her mystical spell over all us. I wonder if any of you had the same dream I did.

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

Eclipse Season Is Upon Us! 

As if we needed any more excitement, eclipse season is upon us. The first in this spring/summer series, a full moon lunar eclipse that landed in Sagittarius on June 5 may have brought some hidden aspects of your life into the light.

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

New Moon in Aquarius!

If you’ve been wondering what your next big move will be, or whether to do that thing in earnest, or to stop doing that other thing altogether… welcome to What’s Next! Friday, January 24, is a powerful day, especially for people who feel stuck around a certain theme. (And hey, who doesn’t?)

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

What Happens When Transformer Pluto Ends Its Retrograde?

Be honest: You’ve felt something coming on for a little while now, even if you couldn’t name it or point to where you’re feeling it. You might have experienced a similar, but milder, sensation in mid-August or mid-September

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

Solstice = Soul's Tryst!

This Friday, June 21, the Sun reaches its annual zenith just before noon (ET) as it moves into the zodiac sign of Cancer, marking the longest day of sunlight of the year (in the northern hemisphere) as it kicks off summer and is celebrated around the globe as the summer solstice.

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

New Moon in Gemini

The moon has always captivated human imagination because it’s the brightest and largest object in our night sky. Being so close to the Earth, it affects gravity, tides and inner stirrings.

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Suzanne Gerber Suzanne Gerber

Astrology 101: Know Your Sun Sign

Astrology is an ancient esoteric system for understanding human behavior. While modern systems work with 10 planets, a few asteroids and mathematically derived “points,” the Sun is the most vital.

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