Weekend Entertainment Guide: Aries Ingress Edition

Upcoming lectures, music, and more

The Weekend Entertainment Guide is a new feature I intend to put out every Friday. Basically, I will distill the best of various astrology email lists I am on for people who are not on them yet. As the Sun just went into impatient Aries, however, how could I possibly wait until Friday to feed my sheep this time?

From my diary, February 9, 2014:

After I bought The Worst of Jefferson Airplane on iTunes, I burned a CD of it to listen to in my car. When Dad moved my car so Mom could go to her hair appointment the morning of 2/6, he caught the last three songs of the CD: “Good Shepherd,” “We Can Be Together,” and “Volunteers.” He came back inside very excited about that triad of songs, especially “Volunteers,” which talks about revolution. I was only half-listening because I was trying to write [a journal entry], but he was going off about the unfulfilled promise of his generation, about going back to the 1960s and starting over, about how some people caught the changes of the 1960s at just the right moment like those sculptures where light comes through exactly at the solstice but others were derailed by them.

Free online lectures

• Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 11 am PDT, Celeste Brooks will speak on the chart of the 2024 Aries ingress for Washington, D.C. This is similar to what I have been doing lately in looking at the New Moon and Full Moon charts for various cities, but the influence is active for a whole year. Register free through Kepler College here.

• Astrology Hub is offering Your Eclipse Pathway to Purpose, a series of events spread out over two weeks. The kickoff is a March 22 panel discussion on the upcoming eclipses with Christopher Renstrom, Jamie Magee, Celeste Brooks, AstroLada, and Mark Borax. Another highlight is a March 29 panel discussion on how to read eclipses in your chart, featuring Rick Levine, Andrea Michelle Kennedy, and Leslie Tagorda. The closing event is a meditation session during the April 8 Solar Eclipse. Register free here.

Great resources

• Deborah Houlding’s Skyscript has a freshly updated collection of charts pertaining to the British royal family. In addition to the birth charts of various newsmakers, the collection also includes charts for events like weddings and coronations. https://www.skyscript.co.uk/royalcharts.html

• You can take your new collection of British royal family charts to do some completely rational and grounded scholarly “research” at https://whereiskatemiddleton.com/. However, you’re going to look pretty ridiculous wearing one of their souvenir T-shirts after Princess Kate recovers from her surgery and returns to public life.

• Prior to the April 8 Solar Eclipse that’s getting a lot of attention due to its path through the southern and eastern United States, there will be a Lunar Eclipse on March 24-25, 2024, and that will be visible throughout the continental United States. Look up viewing information for your area at https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2024-march-25. It’s only a penumbral lunar eclipse, though, so the visual effect might not be too striking. A Lunar Eclipse is a Full Moon where the Moon is conjunct either the North Node or the South Node, and the eclipse is more dramatic the closer the conjunction is. This one has a pretty broad conjunction between the Moon at 5° Libra and the South Node at 15° Libra.

Hot on Substack

• Astrologers' Co-Op
  kicked off its series on the decans of the zodiac today. Emily Hall’s piece on Aries I includes case studies of Aretha Franklin (Sun in Aries I) and Bill Gates (Moon conjunct Midheaven in Aries I).

• Rachel White
  lives in Austin, Texas, which is in the path of the April 8 Solar Eclipse. She has already reported a lot of strange personal experiences that may be related. I don’t know what to make of some of this stuff, but it is an interesting and well-written account.