When Mercury is conjunct Mars, you often say something devastatingly accurate, and then wonder why everyone has gone a bit quiet. There is heat in the way you think. Yours is a mind with spark plugs. Your thoughts arrive fast, Continue reading Mercury Conjunct Mars Natal Aspect
Astrology is often most illuminating when it wanders into the territory of psychology, because this is where symbols start becoming uncomfortably, beautifully human. What it reveals is the contradictions we all carry, the desires disowned, the wounds defended, and the...
Question: What does a planet do when it transits to the 12th house? What are its effects and how do you deal with its energy? When powerful transits move through your 12th house, life can become difficult to describe in...
When Taurus and Scorpio pull against each other in you, life can feel like a conversation between the part of you wanting to build a beautiful garden and the part who knows gardens do not stay untouched forever. One side...
The planet ruling your rising sign often behaves like the master key to your whole nature. It isn’t the entirety of you, because human beings can never fit into one neat category, but it does set the tone in a...
With Mercury in aspect to Neptune, where some people think with intention, marching from point A to point B, you often think by atmosphere, by association, by feeling your way through invisible threads. Thought for you is something you enter...
Question: I’m currently immersed in Jung’s magnum opus, The Red Book, and it has sparked some intriguing thoughts. Jung, a practitioner who incorporated astrology into his work, had a an aspect in his own natal chart: a close square between...
When Saturn transits Mercury in your life, your mind stops being a playground and starts feeling a little more like an office. Not a glamorous image, I know. Nobody wants more paperwork unless they are deeply unwell or trying to...
When you have Mars trine Saturn in synastry, there is often something deeply reassuring about the way the connection moves. It feels steady, grounded, more useful, in the best possible sense. There is a quiet pleasure here in being able Continue reading Mars Trine Saturn Synastry: Discipline Never Looked So Dirty
When you have Pluto in the 5th house, you are unable to move through love, pleasure, creativity, or desire in a light, casual way. Even when you try to, even when part of you wishes you could flirt with life...
People often write about this configuration with a little too much pity and not enough awe. Yes, it can scatter concentration. Yes, it can produce confusion, loss, self-deception, misplaced work, vanished facts, and a peculiar relationship to ordinary necessity. But it can also make language luminous. A mind like this may not remember where it put the paper, but it may know, with unnerving intimacy, the deeper interpretation of an event.
The Moon has always carried a strange hold over the human imagination, and it doesn’t need to shout to be obeyed. It simply appears, changes, disappears, returns, and in doing so reminds us of something both comforting and unnerving: life...