Astrology
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2025 Forecast for Cancer Rising

2025 is just around the corner and it is time to have a glimpse of what may come in this new year. But first, some preliminaries. This series is arranged by rising signs or ascendants, not your Sun sign. Secondly, these rising signs are based on the sidereal zodiac, not the more commonly seen tropical Continue reading
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2025 Forecast for Gemini Rising

2025 is just around the corner and it is time to have a glimpse of what may come in this new year. But first, some preliminaries. This series is arranged by rising signs or ascendants, not your Sun sign. Secondly, these rising signs are based on the sidereal zodiac, not the more commonly seen tropical Continue reading
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2025 Forecast for Taurus Rising

2025 is just around the corner and it is time to have a glimpse of what may come in this new year. But first, some preliminaries. This series is arranged by rising signs or ascendants, not your Sun sign. Secondly, these rising signs are based on the sidereal zodiac, not the more commonly seen tropical Continue reading
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2025 Forecast for Aries Rising

2025 is just around the corner and it is time to have a glimpse of what may come in this new year. But first, some preliminaries. This series is arranged by rising signs or ascendants, not your Sun sign. Secondly, these rising signs are based on the sidereal zodiac, not the more commonly seen tropical Continue reading
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Mars enters Cancer – 20 Oct 2024

Mars will enter sidereal Cancer on 20 Oct 2024. Mars is one of the slower moving planet, and take on average 2 months to move through one zodiac sign. This time though, Mars will stay in the sign of sidereal Cancer for about 5 months in total, as this transit coincides with its retrogression. This Continue reading
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Tropical vs Sidereal Zodiac

Some of you who have read my posts may have noticed the use of the word “sidereal” when I mention zodiac signs, and may perhaps be wondering what does “sidereal” mean, and why do I need to mention it. Why didn’t just say “Venus entering Virgo” but instead I wrote “Venus entering sidereal Virgo”? Well, Continue reading
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Eclipses – What to watch out for

An astrological perspective on eclipses We will be entering into “eclipse season” soon, with eclipses happening on the following dates: This is part two of a two-part series on eclipses. In part one here, I gave an astronomical perspective on eclipses, sharing how they come about in the sky. In this second post, I will share from an astrological perspective, Continue reading
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Eclipses – How do they come about?

An astronomical perspective on eclipses We will be entering into “eclipse season” soon, with eclipses happening on the following dates: In this post, I will share an astronomical view on eclipses and how they come about. In the next post, I will dive into the astrological significance of eclipses, what to watch out for, what to do and not Continue reading
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Venus enters sidereal Virgo

Venus enters sidereal Virgo tomorrow, and will remain there until 18 Sep 2024, when it will enter Libra. Venus is said to be debilitated in the sign of Virgo. One simple way to look at the concept of “debilitation” is that the planet involved does not have the strength and resources to do its job well. It Continue reading
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Sun – Routine, Health, Self-confidence

The Sun moves into the sidereal constellation of Leo during the night of 16 August 2024 here in Singapore. I thought it is a suitable time to share a bit about the Sun. Regularity, rhythm, routine Of the 9 “planets” that we look at in astrology, the Sun has the most direct and noticeable impact Continue reading
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Zodiac Signs – Why 12, and not 13?

This was one of the big questions that I had when I started learning astrology. Why 12 zodiac signs, but not 11 or 13? There are information on the internet saying that there is a “new” zodiac sign, making it a total of 13 signs instead of 12, which was rather puzzling. And some took Continue reading
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Problems with the Moon – Rahu or Ketu conjunct the Moon

This is the 3rd and last post in this series that looks at the Moon as our mind and emotions, and how malefic planets conjunct the Moon shape our behavioural tendencies. Part 1 of the series can be found here, and the summary can also be found below: In part 2 here, I gave a brief introduction on malefic Continue reading