Astrology of Lammas through Autumnal Equinox 2026

TIn mid July, Evening Star Jupiter disappeared into the beams of the Sun before igniting Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in the "most benefic transit of the century"--creating a beautiful geometric shape resembling or basket, or chalice--a deepening of the feminine mysteries underpinning our current Age Change. Jupiter rises as Morning Star August 13.

What Barbault missed, and very few astrologers have spoken of is the fact that 10 Hygeia, one of our largest and most significant asteroids and potentially minor planets, was traveling with Jupiter when he activated the Chalice configuration, and continued to travel with him through September.

I see Jupiter as benevolent masculine energy in service to all life. I see him inspiring and strengthening the Higher Visions emerging naturally from our core feminine essence when we are in contact with our deeper center. I see Hygeia as the feminine complement, nourishing and providing grounded support for our visions and collective movement through these tumultuous times.

The Goddess Guiding Us Who No One Talks About

The Pythagoreans had a Goddess who guided them. In her symbology with snake and chalice, she was much older than their spiritual movement. Yet she was recognized as the feminine diety whose holistic wisdom would guide this masculine religion. I see her as the original Snake Goddess. They called her Hygeia. She, like Venus Inanna, was represented by a five pointed star in the public facing traditions though her symbol in the inner circles was distinct.​​​

She would later be seen as partner of the great Greek Snake and Dream Healer, Aesclepius (Ophiucus), then shapeshifted to became one of his daughters,. Her Chalice, with a snake entwined around its base, became the symbol for the ancient apothocary.

When I discovered her Chalice's modern day use as the symbol for the modern day pharmaceutical industry, my first response was to be disturbed. My second was--ah, she is wise. She is everywhere. She is the Trojan Horse. She was the nurse with holding my hand when I went into surgery for the spider bite on my ear.

Looking into my eyes with the knowing of the Crone, holding the ancient wisdom in the most "ordinary" place--where the people are. She is here always, waiting for us to remember. ​ Like Aesclepeus, in ancient Athens her temples were places for dream incubation and dream healing. So she will be guiding our dreaming circles, a feminine complement to Jupiter.

THE EARTH/SOLAR ARC: In the seasonal turnings of the year, we now have the container of the magical window between the Cross Quarter of Lammas/Loughnassah through Autumnal Equinox.

LUNAR/SOLAR ARC: Of course this period holds the catalyzing energies of the Eclipse Portal, as the Total Solar Eclipse in Leo August 12 swept through Greenland, Iceland, and parts of Portugal and Spain. The August 27 Lunar Eclipse in Pisces will be aligned to Mercury near Royal Star Fomalhaut, associated with Archangel Gabriel the Angel of Dreaming.

VENUS STORY: Evening Star Venus is at her greatest strength and power through this period. She who I have referred to as Water Woman, as she has been in her first Venus in Pisces Cycle for 156 years, and she rose as Morning Star in March of 2025 and appeared as Evening Star in February of this year in the downpouring waters of the Water Pourer (Aquarius Constellation). ​

She is at Maximum Elongation (Strength and Brightness), moving through the Virgin Constellation. Inanna Venus Claims Her Crown (August 16), Ascends (September 14) near completion of her Pisces Cycle as Water Woman (she stations retrograde October 3)

MARS STORY Morning Star Mars out of bounds, brightening in the Morning Sky, in Cancer at thJune Solstice Point when we begin, soon activating the Chalice/Basket, meeting Sirius in the Sky as we gather.

MERCURY STORY: Bright Morning Star Mercury in Leo Joins Jupiter, and Hygeia, meets Regulus and the Sun at the August 27 Lunar Eclipse.

CHIRON CONTINUES HALF CENTURY SHIFT: continues its initial foray into Taurus, the sign it was in at its discovery point, opening us into the alchemy of the body, and soul retrieval through soma soul awakening, until September 16 when it returns for its final movement through Aries for 50 years. ​​​​

SPECIAL NOTE ON THE NODES AND AGE OF AQUARIUS--With the North Node having just moved into Aquarius, we are hearing and feeling the next octave of moving into the "Age of Aquarius." In my view, that multifaceted event is guided this year by Venus, followed by Mars, as they both appeared in this Water Pourer position when emerging from their Underworld meeting in the Evening (Venus) and Morning (Mars) sky, respectively.

​THE STAR STORY: At the Lion's Gate on August 8 Sirius began to appear at heliacal rise for many in the northern hemisphere. She/He will become brighter and more visible each week through this window.

​EVENING SKY: The Virgin Constellation will be Setting in the West as we journey, highlighted by Venus's movement through her body, including an activation of Spica, her brightest star.

MORNING SKY: We will have Jupiter moving through the Lion Constellation and Mars joining Sirius. Mercury will begin as Morning Star meeting Jupiter, then transition to Evening Star after joining the Sun at the August 27 Lunar Eclipse. Saturn will be completing his Morning Star Journey in Aries nearing Algenib, the star in the wing of Pegasus