Hello, Folks–
Very happy to announce that my article, “Vesta: Driven Toward the Sacred” appears in the new issue of The Mountain Astrologer, which should be available in stores in early July.
I’m in very good company, with Ray Grasse writing about the Uranus/Pluto square, Nina Gryphon on the future of Iran and the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction and a number of other great articles covering a wide range of topics. I’ve been reading TMA as long as I can remember, and it seems to have just gotten better and better over the years. It’s especially good if you’re new-ish to astrology. They have lots of extra material for beginners and detailed analysis of upcoming eclipses. If you have a hard time finding it locally, there is also a digital version you can subscribe to. Click here for more info. If you’re interested in astrology and you’re not reading The Mountain Astrologer, you are really missing out.
Hope you enjoy the article and the issue.
Dawn
It’s brilliant.
Thank you for this.
Thank you, Donna. Glad you liked it.
I cannot activate the link. What am I doing wrong?
I don’t know, Pam, the link works from my end. If you type http://www.mountainastrologer.com into your browser it will take you to the issues page.
Your Vesta article in TMA is superb in every way — it’s beautifully written, succinct, and infinitely useful. Now I know what Vesta really means. Looking forward to your new book, and studying your archives. So grateful……….
Thank you so much for your kind words. I’m glad you enjoyed it and I hope you will continue to enjoy the site.
Thanks for this Dawn. I did remember asking you to write about Vesta a couple of years ago if my memory serves me right. Truly, your writing can tackle Vesta in all its glory. My, I’m just fascinated with the subject.
Thanks, KK. A couple of years ago, we didn’t know what we know now. The asteroids are really opening themselves up to us these days. I’m glad you liked the article. There will be more on Ceres in the near future. Pallas as well. And more on the destructive side of Vesta.
Will definitely be an interesting read about Ceres and Pallas. I hope you would write something updated about BML too. Have been monitoring asteroids and their transits for the past 3 years now. And by now I could sum up these asteroids in less than three words each based on my own experiences.
Vesta = relentless devotion
Ceres = overfeeding
BML = slavedriver, overworking
If anything, I learned that the asteroids could reinforce or badly mutate a planet or luminaries during transits not unlike driving one to excesses. BML in tandem with Uranus is a more potent cocktail of tragic endings while Vesta lends a much needed reprieve from the chart’s unavoidable tensions. I try to locate a transiting Vesta if I start running around in circles.
I wrote something about the Black Moon both in The Gyre and on this site a while back. You might like to look it up in the search engine for this site. The asteroids are much more influential than we thought, and provide much needed detail in all charts. They are particularly potent by progression, and that is where they evoke their true meaning. All of the major asteroids have to do with our physical lives as we live them–they are not unformed energies waiting for expression. And they all have their positive and negative sides, one involving creation and the other destruction–but more of that later. Your experience of them will be greatly coloured by the rest of your chart. Ceres has much to do with rituals and the beginnings and endings of life; BML can be destructive, but she is also about our use and abuse of sexuality. Vesta can get you into trouble, too, by putting too much focus on what should be so that you can’t deal with what is. I will be writing more about the asteroids and teaching a new class about them very soon. Stay tuned.