New Year 2022

Happy Winter Solstice – 12/21/2021
Happy New Year 2022 – 1/01/2022 (a “six” universal year)
Happy Lunar New Year – 2/01/2022 (Year of the Tiger)
Happy Groundhog’s Day – 2/02/2022 (yes, I saw my shadow)

Happy Valentine’s Day – 12/14/2022

To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be.

The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into.

We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when they are lost.

But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be.

It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honor what emerges along the way.

Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame.

Sometimes it will be a flicker that temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness.

~ Heidi Priebe



Happy Valentine’s Day Dear Friends,
May you forgive the lack of astrology newsletters from me. For months since my last message, I have been reflecting on various events happening in the world, both personally and with the collective. My experience has been to note the increasing polarities and conflicts occurring, whether this is the U.S. political battle between Democrats and Republicans, autocracy versus democracy issues, or world power dynamics between China and Russia versus U.S. and other western democracies. As I write this, I watch the news regarding the Ukraine conflict with Russia troops sitting on the borders of this country, and the U.S. involved by increasing their sword waving to conflate this crisis. There are journalists wondering if this will bring another US and Russia conflict that mirrors the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. No amount of fortune-telling and psychic predictions can figure out what will take place; so, we wait and watch because most of us are not connected to the powers that can decide what actions take place.

Yet, beyond these described polarities and extreme oppositions is the issue of the climate and the natural resource crisis (think clean water) that may cause destruction of life as we know it. In this case, it makes no difference what “side” we align with, we can all experience loss and a painful experience through severe weather events and the disappearance of beneficial resources to sustain life. This observance of all things catastrophic can seemingly pose the possibility of taking us down the rabbit hole of depression and despair. But please note that I am not bringing you this newsletter today to put you into a miserable, emotional funk. I am not predicting a dysphoric future (I do not use astrology to predict world events, anyway). What I do intend to do with this message today is to bring a Love Letter to your Soul.

Beyond the issues of extreme polarity and environmental issues, we as a human species may be evolving into a new existence. I use “evolving” not “devolving”. In other words, despite what we may be witnessing around the globe, human consciousness is awakening. Our lives are evolving (at different times and different stages) to a higher consciousness. How is this explained astrologically? Well, after all, I do write this message as an astrologer. Thus, I had better get on with some thoughts on astrological news.

For the last two years starting with the January 2020 Saturn and Pluto conjunct in Capricorn, there has been significant upheaval in various systems and structures around the world. The 2020 saw the beginning of the Covid Pandemic that would change the world in significant ways. Granted, I do not state that astrological events cause anything. Instead, the study of astrology notes the dance humanity has with the celestial bodies, particularly those in our solar system.

January 2021 did not find a permanent resolution to the destruction and death of this pandemic and other earth-bound climate disasters. In fact, there was the additional dance of Saturn moving into Aquarius coming into a hard angle with Uranus in Taurus. While Saturn and Pluto together in Capricorn informed a process of decay and systems breaking down, the change with Saturn now in Aquarius in aspect with Uranus in Taurus still has the potential of bringing the tearing down of systems to build back with better strategies and solutions. In other words, Saturn speaks to the realities of our world and Uranus speaks to breakdowns and breakthroughs, even dramatic change. Together, when these planets are at hard angles to each other we may find conflicts and upheavals, yet also we may find a new perspective within these shifts, offering up gifts that we did not imagine.

This Saturn in Aquarius and Uranus in Taurus square will continue from 2021 with its three distinct transits to 2022 to continue this tension. The energy swings us back and forth where we seemingly fall apart and then come back together. We may find ourselves experiencing strong emotional swings, so make space for the waves of emotions sweeping across the landscape of our lives personally and collectively. Also, Pluto is still driving the evolution of our consciousness.

Pluto is now reaching the end of Capricorn, his evolutionary force relentlessly tearing down old corrupt systems ahead of his entry into Aquarius in early 2023. Meanwhile, Neptune in Pisces is busy dissolving the truth and driving collective insanity to epidemic levels. Uranus in Taurus is stirring up trouble in the economy and storing up revolutionary surprises for 2022, which will see the first Pluto Return in the United States chart since the Founding Fathers in 1776.

Along with tension and conflict, there is a saving grace to 2022! The planets Jupiter, the great benefactor, and Neptune, our spiritual, otherworldly guide come together in a significant conjunction in the sign of Pisces. This event happens on April 12, 2022, and will greatly influence our sense of expansion into multidimensional realities, produce powerful dream time, and for some, escaping into a world of enhanced imagination.

Delivering a Tsunami of Dissolution and Inspiration, the epochal conjunction of Jupiter with Neptune in Pisces is the most evolutionary/revolutionary alignment of 2022. Jupiter conjunct Neptune has not happened in Pisces since March 1856 and before that February 1690, so you can see how rare this event is!

It is also significant because both planets rule Pisces and are magnetically harmonic. If there was ever a conjunction that signifies a planetary wake up call to the existence of life beyond materialism, then this is it. From April to December 2022, you can expect a boom as what was on the fringes goes mainstream.

Pisces is the sign which rules religion, dreams, sleep, tarot, psychics, therapy, psychology, parallel universes, Reiki, healing and all alternative realities. Technological innovations will develop areas like sleep science.

Which brings us to another turning point: the karmic lunar nodes have entered aa new planetary cycle continuing to evolve the personal and collective consciousness. The North and South nodes turned to the Taurus and Scorpio axis on January 18th, 2022. An eclipse cycle falls on an axis of opposing signs. There are forces that can release issues and others that move our souls forward. The North Node in Taurus helps us to advance our souls forward, and the opposing sign is the South Node in Scorpio prompting the release of toxic energy and old patterns.

The message of our eclipses this year will be to resolve our issues with depleting our natural resources and materialism. These harmful patterns may face a time of reckoning as we acknowledge our toxic past. The question is: will humanity step up to honor our connection to our environment? Or will we consume our way into extinction? Will we shift our focus on restoring our natural resources and caring for our sentient creatures? The change agent Uranus in Taurus will join the North Lunar node to serve as a catalyst to to end rampant consumption and to heal our planet. That is my hope.

2022 Dates for Eclipses:April 30th: Solar Eclipse – TaurusMay 15th: Lunar Eclipse – ScorpioOctober 25th: Solar Eclipse – ScorpioNovember 8th: Lunar Eclipse - TaurusThus, as I bring this message to a conclusion, I feel that despite fears of doom and gloom, 2022 will be a year of healing in remarkable ways. We live in a profound time of awakening to our soul’s purpose. We continue to find ourselves able to work together to return to the sacred practices within our human existence. This is done by remembering our individual soul’s purpose and to remember that we are all interconnected. I believe it is important to be working together in like-minded communities that honor the integrity of growth and renewal, to find our moral compass together in harmony and truth, and most of all to grow in love for whom we are both personally and collectively . . . that is my dream and hope for today and forever!