We spent a delightful hour talking with Marianne Pestana about our new book, Phenomena: Harnessing Your Psychic Powers. She’s knowledgeable about the paranormal and her show – Moments with Marianne – is always fun.
Sometimes when I talk about Mercury retrograde, people roll their eyes and laugh. My response is that you laugh at your own peril. This last Mercury retro started on February 16 and ended on March 9, yesterday. Here’s a story that typifies how quickly events can go south during a retro. It’s from a friend on IG:
Trish –
I had to share this with you. I read your blog piece “Mercury Retro Alert!” the day it came out. I obviously forgot about it as I decided to leave my mobile carrier I’d been with for 10 years (AT&T) and switch us (4 iPhones) over to Xfinity mobile for some cost savings this past Saturday. It was a two hour process on Saturday but all appeared well. On Sunday my wife Penny said she couldn’t call or text with hers so I rushed over to Xfinity a half hour before close to get our problem corrected. They said it was a porting issue and her phone hadn’t come over from AT&T but we had a bigger problem. Due to an error, our phones were attached to a stranger’s account and they all had to be cut off. After two hours on Sunday (long after they closed) they asked me to come back Monday.
I took my wife and daughter’s phones with me to work on Monday and my son met me in the afternoon at my office (he lives 30 miles away). We went to Xfinity, had multiple people helping us, we were there for nearly three hours but they couldn’t get the problem resolved and asked me to return on Tuesday…
I returned Tuesday with all the phones and the boxes they came in. After two more hours, they FINALLY got it right and we all have new working phones.
Oh, and this morning my car wouldn’t start. On the third try I got it to stay on and limped to my repair shop. Luckily they had a loaner and I made it to work. I’ll have a $600 bill waiting for me in a few hours. March 9th can’t come soon enough…
Two events mark March 9. Mercury turns direct in Aquarius at 11:49 PM EDT and there’s a full moon in Virgo at 1:48 PM EDT.
Let’s take Mercury first. The end of a Merc retro is always a day to greet with a cheer. It means the end of snafus, miscommunications, feeling stalled and frustrated. For me, this retro has been about re-scheduling of appointments, a few audio/skype snafus on the podcast, rewrites, stuff like that. No huge setbacks. What about you?
This full moon in Virgo at 19 degrees impacts all Virgos, but especially those of you born in mid-September. Or if you have a moon or rising close to or at 19 Virgo . Or hey, any planet at or close to 19 Virgo. Full moons usually indicate news, harvest, completion, and this one benefits from a favorable angle from Jupiter, the planet that represents luck, prosperity, expansion, and abundance.
Some astrologers say that Jupiter is over-rated. But to me, Jupiter is our ally, our personal GPS for true north, the energy that asks us to step out of our comfort zones and embrace what is new, different, foreign to our thinking. Thanks to the angle it forms to this full moon, the news you hear should be positive.
Check out your March forecast in the masthead to see how the Virgo full moon impacts your sign. It’s available as a podcast and written.
My humans believe that since Noah died nearly a year ago, I’ve been lonely. Depressed. It’s one of the reasons they’re always glad when Nika, Megan’s dog, comes to visit. It’s why they do this thing called Rover, where dogs come to play with me for the day. I’m always happy with visiting dogs, especially Nika because she and I are connected through Noah and she’s a really old soul. Wise. She tells me secrets at night when my humans and the cats are sleeping.
Megan adopted Nika when she was eight weeks old and Noah was two. He was her big brother. Her role model. And she was his joy. I was adopted when I was ten weeks old and for the next two years, Noah was my big brother. When Nika came to visit us, we were a pack and what wild fun we had!
Then one week Noah stopped eating. He went to the vet a lot, I could smell the place on him when he came home. He didn’t want to play. We slept curled up to each other. I was sad because he was sad. And one morning he wobbled into the family room, managed to climb up onto the couch next to me, rested his head on my haunches, and drifted away. I mean, I still felt the weight of his head, but he wasn’t there. He stood next to the couch, his body lighter, almost transparent, and he wasn’t in pain anymore. My humans went berserk with grief.
I tried to tell them he wasn’t gone, that he was with me when I chased Frisbees at the dog park, in the backyard, that he was showing me about how much fun it was to chase squirrels. But they couldn’t see him.
Recently, Nika was with me for a couple of weeks and we talked about it. One morning in the front yard, she said, “Hey, dude, let me show you something. Follow me.”
So I did. We took off through the neighborhood, racing each other to the park at the end of our neighborhood. The park isn’t completely fenced in, but Nika knew the boundaries. We sniffed our way to the end of the field, where the trees are thick, the benches are shaded, and Noah was with us, talking to us.
“Hey, I’m always with you two. Sometimes I’m that squirrel that scampers across the top of the fence, teasing you two. Other times I’m in that flock of birds that sail across the sky at dusk. There’re only a few rules. Love everyone, judge no one. Humans, other dogs, cats, squirrels, birds, butterflies, mice, lizards, even roaches. We’re all in this together.”
Then Noah became a butterfly and flew back toward the front of the park. When our humans figured out where we’d gone and found us, a butterfly touched down on the top of the car. A Monarch. Our humans equate butterflies with transformation and talked about whether this was spirit contact with Noah, a synchronicity.
For Nika and me, it was magic. It was Noah.
On February 15, we were guests on Scott Colburn’s radio show, Exploring Unexplained Phenomena. Scott is one of the best hosts in the business, with a broad knowledge of all things paranormal and mysterious. And get this – he was born on 11:11. That tells you everything you need to know about the depth of his knowledge.
Last election season, I was interviewed on a radio show (can’t recall which one), for an astrology book I’d written, The Biggest Book of Horoscopes Ever, that covered the years 2017-2019. I had done charts for both Clinton and trump and saw that trump would be entering a Jupiter return year. This happens about every 12 years – 11.6 – and it’s usually a prosperous and happy time. Clinton didn’t have anything that lucky going on in her chart. I felt that trump, based just on that approaching Jupiter return, would win, just as Obama did and just as Bush did in his second term.
But when I was asked to make a prediction about the election, I went against my own research and called it for Clinton. She won the popular vote, but trump nabbed the electoral college and the presidency. What’s interesting about predictions for that election is that not a single astrologer called it correctly. But a documentary filmmaker did – Michael Moore.
Astrologers use different criteria for making predictions like this. Alex Miller is a master of asteroid astrology. Susan Miller (no relation, at least not that I know of) uses transits, the daily motion of the planets. I use Jupiter. It governs luck, prosperity, abundance, government, the judicial system, courts, foreign governments, people, cultures , and foreign travels. When it conjuncts one of the planets in your chart – same sign, close degree – it’s power is significant. I also base this on the meaning of the planet or point that Jupiter or another planet is conjuncting. So I took the charts of Bernie, Biden, and trump and ran the transits for noon on election day. I also looked at Liz Warren’s chart.
Bernie: None of these men is in a Jupiter return year. On election night, the chart set for 9 pm EST, shows that Bernie, my favorite, has the transiting North Node just past a one-degree exact conjunction with his natal Jupiter in Gemini in the 7th house. The translation of all that is like a story. The North Node is the direction we should move in this life to evolve at every level. The 7th house is partnerships – in this case, constituents, supporters, even open enemies, and Jupiter is government. Looks good. It’s backed up by transiting Pluto at 22 degrees trining Bernie’s natal North Node at 22 degrees Virgo, 10th house of profession and career. This hooks up with his evolution as a person.
Biden: Transiting Pluto opposes his Jupiter in Cancer to the degree, in the 7th house. Jupiter is also opposing his natal Jupiter within a degree. Oppositions involving Jupiter aren’t negative, but indicate you may take on more than you can reasonably handle Does Biden have the funds to go through the primary if he doesn’t sweep other primaries? I don’t see anything in Biden’s chart that indicates a win and I hope I’m being unbiased.
Trump: When you consider that trump is a pathological liar (yes, the lies are documented, more than 16K as of March 2020), who is clueless about almost everything related to government, geography, foreign policy, domestic policy, health care.. etc.
Considering his self-interests and those of his family/kids, this transit chart is interesting.
Trump will be in a nodal return year, Mr. Teflon to the hilt. The transiting NN in Gemini conjuncts his natal NN to the exact degree. This could mean, though, that trump is finally held accountable. The moon alsio is conjunct the NN within a degree. The moon symbolizes the collective – maybe just trunp’s base, but maybe something beyond that. He could win if his base is still with him And they may not be.
The threat of the corona virus – and a possible pandemic – has left the trump admin in a vulnerable position. Trump can’t control a virus. He has silenced the scientists and physicians on this case. He can spin it, replace the voices, but these days the voices of truth have other outlets. Ultimately I think trump loses because the corona virus doesn’t “vanish like a miracle,” as he said, and the stock market keeps plunging.
Liz Warren: Interestingly, Liz is the only one in this group who will be approaching a Jupiter return on election night. Her natal Jupiter is at 0 degrees Aquarius in her 4th house. On December 20, Jupiter will slip into Aquarius and conjunct her natal Jupiter. On December 18, Saturn will also move into Aquarius and conjunct her natal Jupiter. One definition of this is that Saturn makes her dream a reality. But given how things stand now, the day before super Tuesday, the only way this could happen right now since she’s behind in delegates, is at a brokered convention.
PS Mayor Pete dropped out on Sunday evening. Amy Klobuchar dropped out today and says she supports Biden. What did the Biden camp promise them? A cabinet position? the VP spot?
In the fourth episode of our podcast, The Mystical Underground, our guest, psychometrist and psychic Kathy Herman, did a reading on the air for Jon Posey, our technical wizard. He’d never had a reading before. One thing she tuned in on was the spirit of a man with dark hair, whom she felt was one of Jon’s grandfathers. He had some advice for Jon, which Kathy delivered, and then went on with her reading.
Jon – and the rest of his family when he told them about Kathy’s reading – believed the grandmother was the man in the above photo, Lawrence (Larry) Bridges . He was Jon’s mother’s dad.
Something in the reading resonated strongly for him and he got choked up. When the podcast was finished and Jon had done his magic, he sent a link to his mother and aunt. Discussions ensued about which grandfather Kathy had been referring to. All the talk about grandfathers reminded Jon of a synchronicity that had occurred about his other grandfather, Johnnie Harvey Posey, his dad’s father, in the picture below.
Last summer, Jon’s dad was cleaning out a storage unit and came across his father’s service album. See the name jotted to the left? Posey, J.H.
Johnnie Harvey was stationed at Camp Lewis in the Seattle-Tacoma area in Washington during WWII. It turns out that in February/March of 2018, work took Jon (who lives in Alabama) to the same spot, now known as Fort Lewis, where he snapped this photo.
At the time, he didn’t know that his grandfather had been at this same base and his father hadn’t yet discovered the service album. Jon dug it out today and sent it to us. The synchro comes full circle.
The spoken version and the …written version:
MARCH FORECAST
March may shape up to be something of a wild month.
Mercury is still retrograde until March 9, the same day that there’s a full moon in Virgo.
On March 5, Venus enters Taurus and on March 8, the same day that daylight savings time begins, it conjuncts Uranus.
Then on March 24, there’s a new moon in Aries.
However, the most important date this month is March 21, when Saturn enters Aquarius. This transition, the first for Saturn in more than two years, will have have positive effects for all you air signs – Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius and for fire signs Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. But we all feel this shift in one way or another, and we’ll get into the details in a minute. In July, Saturn retrograde slips back into Capricorn until December 18, then into Aquarius it goes for the next 2.5 years.
For millennials born between 1990 and 1992, this Saturn shift marks your first Saturn return, a major turning point in your lives.
If you live to be 90, you have three of these returns in your life. The first, around the age of 29, usually involves pivotal events – you start a career path, get married or divorced, starts a family, make a major move.
The second Saturn return, between the ages of 58-60 is usually the harvest. You might retire or start a new career altogether, your kids leave home and begin their own adult lives, you inherit money, receive professional recognition.
The third one is when you take stock of your life. You’re facing your own mortality. Your beliefs about life after death may change, your dream life may become more vivid, you’re preparing yourself for whatever comes next.
So now, for the specifics.
ARIES: Your best day this month will be on or around March 24, with this new moon in your sign. This new moon happens only once a year, so before it arrives, spend some time thinking about what you would like to manifest in your life. Be clear in your intentions.
This new moon has an additional benefit for you. Saturn, which entered Aquarius on March 21, forms a beneficial angle angle to the moon and helps to stabilize these new opportunities that come your way. The Saturn influence also indicates that at least one of these opportunities is serious and long-term.
On March 9, Mercury turns direct in Aquarius, another plus for you, Aries, and the full moon in earth sign Virgo falls in your sixth house of daily work and health. So something in that area should reach completion. Lucky Jupiter forms a terrific angle to this new moon and that suggests an expansion of some kind – perhaps in your responsibilities at work. Another possibility? A raise or income coming in from unexpected source.
TAURUS: One of your best days this month will be March 9, when Mercury retrograde ends and the full moon in Virgo falls in your fifth house of creativity, romance, kids, and what you do for fun and pleasure. Both the full moon and Jupiter form beneficial angles to your sun and the combination should bring positive news about a romance or a creative project.
On March 21, Saturn enters Aquarius and your tenth house – the profession and career area of your chart. This transit will help you structure your professional life more efficiently and will attract visionary individuals who are helpful.
Then there’s the Aries new moon on March 24. It should help bring in new opportunities to work behind the scenes – as a ghostwriter, for example, or within an organization of some kind. Bu what you’ll really enjoy about this new moon is that 5 out of 10 planets are either in your sign or fellow earth sign Capricorn. This boosts your physical energy, motivation, and drive.
GEMINI
The March 24 new moon in Aries looks like a very good day for you. New opportunities and new people enter your life who are helpful to you in achieving your goal. You may have the chance to work within a group or organization of like-minded individuals. Take note of any events or situations that occur on or after March 21, when Saturn enters Aquarius.
This Saturn transit is important for you because it forms a terrific angle to your sun sign. It helps things in your life generally run more smoothly and you’re able to accomplish more than usual. Saturn is in Aquarius only until July, then moves back into Capricorn until mid-December, when it enters Aquarius again and remains there for the next two and a half years.
On March 9, Mercury turns direct again, which will be a huge relief since Mercury rules your sign. Also on March 9, the full moon in Virgo forms a positive angle to Jupiter in Capricorn, which impacts your sixth and eighth houses. Expect news concerning your daily work that should be really positive. You also may get a break in insurance or taxes.
CANCER
The full moon in Virgo on March 9 should be very much to your liking. You may hear news about some sort of communication project in which you’re involved, or you completing revisions. Also on that day, Venus and Uranus meet up in earth sign Taurus, in your eleventh house of wishes and dreams. This could bring about an unexpected financial bonus and the unexpected beginning of a romance.
The new moon in Aries on March 24 should usher in new opportunities for you with foreign travel or in publishing or you may take a workshop in a topic that intrigues you. With Jupiter opposed to your sign, be careful that you don’t take on more responsibility than you can handle realistically.
On March 21, Saturn enters Aquarius and your eighth house, bringing a visionary quality to your innate intuition. Saturn helps you to structure your finances in a more profitable way.
LEO
Circle March 24. The new moon in Aries is right up your alley, Leo. Like you, Aries is a fire sign, so this new moon forms a beautiful angle to your sun. You may have an opportunity to travel overseas, take or even lead a workshop in your area of expertise, or a publisher may make an offer on your book. Or you might land a dramatic lead.
Pay close attention to events that occur on March 21 – or around that date – when Saturn enters Aquarius and opposes your sun. This transit, which will begin again mid-December and last for 2.5 years, can be unsettling and challenging. It’s a time of assessment, how far you’ve come, what you want to do from here on out.But if you’re patient and work steadily toward your goals, going with the flow, it’s possible to get a lot done.
The full moon in Virgo on March 9 highlights the financial area off your chart. You hear good news about money. With Jupiter forming a beautiful angle to this moon, the amount may be more than you expect.
VIRGO
Two things happen for you on March 9, both of them good! First, your ruler, Mercury, turns direct so things in your life generally straighten out and your communication skills are back up to their usual excellence. Also, there’s a full moon in your sign and lucky Jupiter forms a wonderful angle to it. Any news you hear will be positive, uplifting and will expand your life in some way.
On March 21, Saturn enters Aquarius, where it will be until July when it retrogrades back into Capricorn until mid-December. Then it will stay in Aquarius for the next two and a half years. Look at your chart and see if you have planets in Gemini, Libra or Aquarius and which house cusps are in those signs. That’s the area of your life where Saturn will create structure, and help you to achieve goals.
On March 24, the new moon in Aries will bring in new opportunities with income. Since Saturn forms a beneficial angle to this new moon, these opportunities will have a long-term impact.
LIBRA
March 9 features two important things. Mercury turns direct in Aquarius, which you’ll love. It means your creativity is amped up big time for about a week, until Mercury enters Pisces. So take advantage of that week and dive into all your creative projects. Also on March 9, the full moon in Virgo illuminates your personal unconscious and anything you do behind the scenes. Jupiter forms a beautiful angle to this new moon, so any news you hear will be positive and will expand your life in some way.
On March 21, Saturn makes a big transition when it enters Aquarius and your fifth house. This transit will help solidity all your creative projects, and will bring structure and discipline to those projects. Saturn rules physical reality so it’s always best to have it on your side. Saturn will remain there until mid-July, then it retrogrades back into Capricorn until mid-December. After that, it begins its two and a half year journey through Aquarius and you’re in good shape during those years.
The new moon in Aries on March 24 occurs in your partnership area. A new romance may be in the offing or a new business partnership. Saturn in Aquarius forms a positive angle to this new moon so it’s likely that the business partnership part of this outlook will involve a creative project you’re working on.
SCORPIO
On March 9, Mercury finally turns direct again, in Aquarius. This movement should facilitate your life and get things on track again. Also the full moon in Virgo today should be quite good for you. Jupiter, the planet of luck, expansion, and prosperity, forms a beautiful angle to this moon, and news you hear will bring you closer to achieving a dream. Friends and any networks you have will prove to be very helpful.
Circle March 21. Saturn makes an important transition from Capricorn to Aquarius, your fourth house. So until July, when it slips back into Capricorn, you’ll get a peek into this energy and its impact on your life, which returns in December and stays there for the next two a half years. Your home and family become sources of greater responsibility.
On March 24, the new moon in Aries should usher in new opportunities in your daily work life. You may land a promotion, get a raise, or perhaps you’ll find a different job altogether. Even though this new moon is in a fire sign, Jupiter makes a favorable angle to your sun sign and so do Pluto and Mars. These two planets confer personal power, motivation, and physical energy.
SAGITTARIUS
You’ll be much happier on March 9, when Mercury turns direct in Aquarius and things in your life start moving forward again. Make your travel plans and be prepared to make your pitches and submissions on or after the new moon in Aries on March 24. But first, let’s look at the full moon in Virgo that also happens today.
This full moon brings news about a professional matter. Thanks to the angle Jupiter makes to this full moon, that news could be about money – a raise or bonus that delights you. You’ll be highly motivated to keep the income coming in.
On March 21, Saturn enters Aquarius, where it will be until July, when it retrogrades back into Capricorn. Then in December it enters Aquarius again and stays there for the next two and a half years. This transit through your third house of communication – is favorable for you and brings greater structure to your communication projects. You’re able to make progress now in whatever goals you set.
The new moon in Aries. A fellow fire sign, on March 24 is much more to your liking. This one brings in new opportunities concerning your creative projects, a romance, or your kids. Saturn forms an ideal angle to this new moon, so any opportunities that surface will have a long-term impact.
CAPRICORN
With four out of 10 planets in your sign, you’ve been feeling goal-oriented and highly motivated to achieve your goals. This will get easier after March 9, when Mercury turns direct in Aquarius, in your financial area. Also on that date, the full moon in fellow earth sign Virgo brings news about a project you’re involved in. The project could involve publishing, doing a podcast or broadcast of some kind, or a foreign trip.
March 21 features a major transit. Saturn enters Aquarius and your second house. Sometimes, this transit can result in restrictions on your income, but lucky Jupiter has your back because it will be in your sign until late December. So take advantage of the various sources of income you have now.
The new moon in Aries on March 24 may bring an opportunity to start a home-based business of some kind or you and your partner may be considering a move. Any opportunities that surface will have a long-term impact, thanks to the favorable angle that Saturn makes to this new moon.
AQUARIUS
Buckle up, Aquarius. It may be a wild month. On March 21, Saturn enters your sign, which it co-rules. It will be in your first house of self until July, then it retrogrades back into Capricorn until December. After that, Saturn will be in your sign until May 2023. During this transit you’ll assume more responsibility either in your personal life or at work and may chafe at some of the restrictions placed on you by a boss, parent, or other authority figure. But you’ll learn plenty about yourself and your need for greater personal freedom.
On March 9, Mercury turns direct in your sign, where it will be for the next few weeks. This transit facilitates your communication abilities. Also on this date, the full moon in Virgo brings news about an insurance matter or you’re approved for a mortgage or your partner lands a raise. Whatever the news, it’s positive, thanks to the favorable angle Jupiter makes to this full moon.
The new moon in Aries on March 24 will be much more to your liking. It ushers in new opportunities in communications and travel. If you’re in the market for a new car, this would be an ideal day to go looking. Saturn in your sign forms a favorable angle to this new moon, so the opportunities that come your way will have a long-term impact.
PISCES
MARCH 9 is a day to cheer! Mercury turns direct in Aquarius, in your 12th house. This one helps clear your thinking and enables you to put that fabulous imagination of yours to work. Also, there’s a full moon in Virgo, your seventh house, which brings news about a business or personal partnership. The news, whatever it is, should be positive. You can thank Jupiter for that. The planet of prosperity and expansion is forming a favorable angle to this full moon.
On March 21, Saturn enters Aquarius, your 12th house, where it will be until late July, when it retrogrades back into Capricorn. But take note of any events that occur during this period. They hold clues to what you’ll experience when Saturn enters AQ again in December and remains there until May 2023.
The new moon in Aries on March 24 occurs in your financial area. New opportunities for increasing your income should surface. You might land a raise or find a part-time job that you love that brings in additional money. Saturn forms a beneficial angle to this new moon, and that means the opportunities will have a long term impact.
An excerpt of a 1981 thriller by bestselling suspense author Dean Koontz is getting a lot of attention on social media. In Eyes of Darkness, a Chinese military lab creates a virus as part of its biological weapons program. It’s called Wuhan-400 because it was created in Wuhan and, as the page above says, was the 400th viable strain of man-me microorganisms created at that research center.
It’s another case where a writer plugs into a future event. We’ve written here about many others. Apparently Dean Koontz was not the only writer to tune in to the virus.
Psychic Sylvia Browne predicted in her book “End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about the End of the World”, that the world would be impacted by a respiratory disease in the year 2020.
“In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.” She goes on to write that it will vanish as quickly as it arrives.
Let’s hope that’s the case. At this writing, there have been 76,000 case and more than 2,000 deaths as the virus spreads around the world. (Thanks to Jane Clifford of Wales who turned us onto these predictive writings.)
Bruce flew through the Bermuda Traingle – and lived to talk about it! His story is riveting.
You can listen on any podcast platform, but here are links to 3:
