When you have the Moon conjunct Uranus, your emotional life arrives like lightning in a bathtub. Feelings come suddenly, vividly, sometimes violently, and then just as suddenly you may detach, float upward, and observe your own storm with a cool Continue reading Moon Conjunct Uranus Natal Aspect
Your Sun symbolizes the part of self wanting to become unmistakably yourself. The inner fire says, “This is who I am. This is what I came here to become. This is the shape of life that feels honest in my...
When you have the 12th house active in your natal chart, there is something strangely intimate, and slightly unsettling, about the way you disappear. A part of you has stepped through a door no one else can see and forgotten to...
The 8th house is where the human being is forced to develop a relationship with the one fact nobody invited to dinner but everyone knows is standing in the hallway: death. Not death as a dramatic symbol printed on a...
To have the 7th house strong in your nature is to be fated, in the most human and inconvenient sense of the word, to discover yourself through other people. Relationship is one of the primary mirrors through which your psyche...
To have the 1st house emphasized is to live with a heightened awareness of the doorway between the inner self and the outer world. You aren’t simply “being”; you are arriving. There is always some sense, however subtle, that life...
When you have Mars trine Jupiter in synastry, there is often current of encouragement running between you. It makes both people feel a little braver, louder, more alive, and more willing to actually do the thing instead of thinking about Continue reading Mars Trine Jupiter Synastry
Jupiter’s astronomy almost reflects its astrology. It is the largest planet in the solar system, and already this tells you half the story. Jupiter doesn’t do small. Jupiter expands, magnifies, inflates, broadcasts, and fills the room. In the chart, wherever...
When you have the Sun in aspect to Pluto, you are built to sink. You know when something is off. You sense when a room has a secret, when a person has an agenda, when a story has missing pieces. You...
Fire signs carry something childlike. Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius have a natural sympathy with the part of human nature still expecting life to be enchanted. They aren’t always interested in sanding mystery down into a respectable little theory with citations,...
With Pluto transits, you can feel as though some part of you has been led down into a place where ordinary optimism no longer speaks the language. People may tell you things will get better, and you may nod while...
When you have Mercury opposite Neptune, your mind is beautiful, suggestive, full of hidden shapes. You are mentally porous. Impressions seep in. A mood in the room, a half-said sentence, a strange look on someone’s face, the emotional meaning beneath Continue reading Mercury Opposite Neptune Natal Aspect