On the winter solstice of this year, the Sun will move into Capricorn just a little while after Saturn moves into Capricorn. It will be 8:39am in the morning at our winter solstice here in Sacramento, California. The chart for that moment is called the Winter Ingress chart, and it can be used to predict what sorts of things California will encounter for the winter season, or even for the coming year. It is a rather dramatic chart this time around, not only because the Sun

Lately I've been thinking about the way that astrologers talk about the zodiac signs. Some of them talk as if the signs are planets. Planets are analogous to functions, and signs are the manner in which we perform those functions. So, Mercury is the function of thinking, Mars is the function of getting stuff done, Jupiter is the function of expanding ourselves socially, and Saturn is the function of contracting ourselves socially, etc. It's important to get back to basics