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Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast

Steven Forrest

Monthly podcast on evolutionary astrology in the style of master astrologer Steven Forrest.

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Chickens and Eggs

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2022/05/29

On June 1, 2021, at 9:21 pm-pdt in Santa Monica, California, my dear friends Linnea Miron and Ricky Williams had a little boy. They named him Sol Forrest Miron – and I bet that middle name caught your eye almost as quickly as it caught mine. Actually he’s named after me only in the sense of synchronicity. Linnea’s mom picked out the name from a list of possibilities. I’ve never met her nor at any time did I slip her a twenty dollar bill. But Sol and I do have a connection. I’m grandpa. Sometimes,

13:56

Some Thoughts About Pop Astrology

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2022/04/26

Here are the first 39 astrological words that I ever published anywhere outside of my local community: “Back in the fifties when I was a little boy, I once put a quarter in a vending machine inscribed with paintings of various improbable creatures. Out came a packet describing the traits associated with my Sun Sign, Capricorn.” Those are the opening lines of the foreword to my first book, The Inner Sky, which came out back in summer 1984. The text went on from there: “the message was that I was shy

18:42

Are We All Suffering from Late-Stage Capricornosis?

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2022/03/21

A couple of weeks ago, Michelle and I hiked up the most popular “tourist” canyon in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park near where we live. It wasn’t exactly crowded, but we probably crossed tracks with thirty or forty other hikers. Passing someone on the trail, it’s my custom to say hi. Many returned my greeting, but I was struck by how many walked past us stone-faced and silent, as if we weren’t there at all. “Ah . . . another sad example of dreaded Late-Stage Capricornosis,” I said to myself.

15:37

THE JUPITER-NEPTUNE CONJUNCTION AND YOUR SPIRITUAL...

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2022/02/22

Astrologers everywhere are intrigued by the upcoming conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune. No doubt it will dominate the astrological blogosphere for the next several weeks. Keep perspective though – Jupiter’s relatively fast orbit guarantees that these alignments are not really rare events. These two planets are conjunct every twelve or thirteen years. At first glance, this might not seem to be a truly epochal astrological event. But this particular apparition promises to be a doozy. That’s because

15:24

February 2022: Solar Returns

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2022/02/01

Many years ago, at the exact moment of my birth, the Sun was located at 15 degrees 42 minutes 31 seconds of Capricorn. This past month, it returned to that precise point at 8:56 pm-est on January 5th. That’s actually the day before my birthday, and by most people’s standards about six and a half hours before it was time for me to blow out the candles on my birthday cake. It works that way for pretty much everybody – our actual “astronomical birthday” often does not fall at the same time as our

09:10

Venus is Retrograde

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2021/12/30

As January opens, the planet Venus is moving in retrograde fashion through Capricorn. As it does so, it is threading its way through a crowded tangle of planets, sharing Capricorn with Pluto, Mercury, and the Sun. Venus turned retrograde on December 19 and will remain in that backwards condition until near the end of this month, finally stationing and turning direct on January 29th. A retrograde planet is going back over ground that it has already covered, often re-thinking and re-framing it. That

14:05

The Nodal Axis Shifts into SCORPIO-TAURUS

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2021/11/30

The nodes of the Moon spend about a year and a half in each sign before retrograding into the previous sign. (They are always retrograde.) The impact of the change on the daily headlines is unmistakable, and it is about to happen again. On December 22, the north lunar node enters Taurus, while the south node backs into Scorpio. They’ve been in Gemini and Sagittarius respectively since June 4, 2020 and they’ll cross into Aries and Libra on July 12, 2023. These dates are, by the way, for the Mean

20:16

Astrology And Psychotherapy - October Newsletter

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2021/09/30

Maybe I am sitting with a client who has the natal Moon on the Midheaven. The symbols tell me that she has been “called to a mission” in this lifetime – that she has something important to do in her community, something that will touch the lives of people with whom she does not have any kind of personal karma. With signs and aspects, I can get a lot more specific, but that’s not my point here. I want to write about a very slippery question, and that is the relationship between astrology and

33:14

A Case Study in Reincarnation - September Newsletter

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2021/08/28

Past lives are a slippery subject. An unscrupulous astrologer could tell you that you were once Christopher Columbus’s red-headed Scorpio girlfriend, and what can you say? It can’t really be proven one way or the other. Reality itself is the ultimate test for any theory. Much of the theory behind evolutionary astrology rests upon an acceptance of reincarnation, but how can we actually test any of it, let alone prove it? Our critics often make that exact argument and it is difficult to refute

15:05

Why I Use Placidus Houses

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2021/06/28

There are many different schools of thought in astrology. Strange as it might seem, in the right hands all of them seem to work, even ones that contradict each other. Western Tropical astrology versus Vedic astrology is perhaps the classic illustration – those two systems can’t even agree on where Aries is! I think of myself as a Capricorn, but in Benares I am transformed into a Sagittarian. It’s confusing, but I like to keep the word “versus” out of the discussion as much as possible. Both

15:50

VENUS: THE FINE ART OF REJECTING PEOPLE

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2021/06/01

Once in teaching a class about the planet Venus, I startled my students – and myself too, a little bit. I heard myself say that the main function of Venus lies in rejecting people. That of course is far from how we normally think of Venus! We imagine the “goddess of love” greeting us doe-eyed and misty, with open arms, receiving us into her heart without even a smidgeon of criticism, hesitation, or pre-conditions. People sometimes spend their lives looking for that kind of perfect love. They are

13:30

THE CENTENARY OF ROBERT A. JOHNSON

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2021/04/21

On April 22, 2010 at 10:05 AM, as the direct result of an incredible series of “coincidences,” I met the late great Robert A. Johnson. Many of us have his books on our shelves – he sold 2.5 million of them, including He and She and We and my personal favorite, Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir. He died on September 12, 2018 at the age of 97. I’m writing about him in this newsletter because he would have turned one hundred years old on May 26th of this year – and also simply because I miss him

12:49

The Parallax Moon

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2021/03/26

If someone were to ask me about the purpose of my life, I’d say that it was about bringing choice-centered, evolutionary astrology to a wider audience. When it comes to accomplishing that goal, the basic problem we all face is that astrology is such a fabulous language, but in order to speak it, a person needs to take a six-week course in its grammar and vocabulary. Most people don’t have the time or the motivation to do that. That leaves a lot of them thinking only of Sun signs. That’s fine, but of

13:42

Retrograde Natal Planets

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2021/02/22

Yikes! Mercury was retrograde when I was born! Am I doomed? Will the check be lost in the mail for the rest of my life? Will my luggage never arrive at the same city I do? Retrograde natal planets often scare people, as if something were wrong with being born with planets moving in that “backwards” condition. Yet most of us have at least one of them, and often more. They are far from rare, in other words. And they aren’t some kind of high jinx in your chart either. They are just different from

17:44

PLANETARY EXALTATIONS; PLANETARY FALLS

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2021/01/31

Everyone with an interest in astrology soon learns about how particular planets rule certain signs. To many astrologers, that makes them automatically “good.” To those same astrologers, for a planet to find itself in the opposite sign is unfortunate. The term they use there is ”detriment” – obviously, not such a good thing. This common notion is simply incorrect, in my experience. The error is easily proven too. The infamous Yorkshire Ripper had a really “good” Mercury – in Gemini, conjunct his

18:21

IT IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS . . .OR IS IT?

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2020/12/28

The fabled Age of Aquarius – does it mean anything at all? Ever since the musical Hair was first performed back in 1967, there has been a vague sense that the Aquarian Age had something to do with hippies or free love or world peace or . . . something. Anyway, from that long-haired point of view, the Age of Aquarius probably ended about fifty years ago . . . unless you bring up the subject among a group of astrologers. Then what you will typically see has very little to do with “harmony and

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JUPITER, SATURN, AND A CHANGING WORLD

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2020/11/30

All eyes are on the sky this month. As most of us probably know by now, Jupiter and Saturn come together and form their every-two-decades conjunction on December 21. And this time they really come together – they stand only one-tenth of a degree apart. That’s close! They won’t “blend into one star” as some people have erroneously said – you will still see two points of light. But it will be a striking sight, something you may have never before seen in the sky. How close is one-tenth of a degree

28:48

A View of Today From Four Years ago

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2020/10/29

A few weeks ago, a French gentleman named Olivier Clerc contacted me about the possibility of getting more of my work published in his country. Naturally, from my point of view, that is an attractive thought. He has connections to the French publishing industry and there are some encouraging early signs that it might happen. I hope so. Getting this kind of astrology out to the global community is a pretty good summary of my life’s purpose. In an email exchange I had with Olivier this morning, he

22:02

What Time Was Benny Born?

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2020/10/01

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,

13:05

What Does A Planet Mean?

Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast ·

2020/09/01

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

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