When you have the Sun conjunct Venus in synastry, there is a very natural sense of liking between you. A genuine appreciation. One of you carries the Sun, the other Venus, and together there is this feeling of seeing qualities Continue reading Sun Conjunct Venus Synastry
When the Moon is in your 9th house, your emotional life seems to possess a horizon line. No matter where you are, a part of you is always looking toward the distance, wondering what lies beyond the edge of what...
When the Sun is conjunct Mercury in synastry, there is a strong sense of one of you helping the other put themselves into words. The Sun person brings identity, vitality, selfhood, direction, and the deep inner sense of “this is Continue reading Sun Conjunct Mercury Synastry
The 1st house speaks to the intimate moment when a person enters life and, in a psychological sense, keeps entering it over and over again. It is birth as a biological event, but then as an archetypal movement: the instant...
As a Leo, you have a strong instinct toward becoming unmistakably yourself. Your sign is ruled by the Sun, and the symbolism is important: the Sun doesn’t negotiate its right to exist. You won’t catch it glancing nervously around the...
The 12th house has the feeling of life before life has really begun. It belongs to the borderland before the 1st house, before the body arrives loudly into the world with all its lungs and needs and awkward timing. It...
When the Moon is conjunct the Ascendant in synastry, there is an immediate emotional recognition between you. One of you instinctively understands the way the other enters the world. The Moon person responds to the way the Ascendant moves through Continue reading Moon Conjunct Ascendant Synastry
With Pluto in the 12th house, a great deal of your power lives underground. You are dealing with the emotional side of living below the surface. Beneath anger sits grief, beneath grief sits fear, beneath fear sits an ancient instinct...
When you have Neptune in the 12th house, there is a doubling of the symbolism. Every door within is unlocked. This realm already speaks the language Neptune understands instinctively: dreams, surrender, imagination, unconscious material, psychic sensitivity, compassion, dissolution, retreat, sacrifice,...
As a Cancer, you are the first water sign we meet, and there is something quietly meaningful in this. Before Scorpio takes feeling underground, into the darker realms where desire, fear, power, betrayal, intimacy, and transformation wait with the lights...
Over the weekend, I made a series of witchy comic strips, the sort where I drop the witch into all the petty little situations making ordinary life feel like a test of spiritual endurance. It felt deliciously cathartic. Not wholesome, Continue reading Witchy Comic Strips: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned
With your Moon in the 8th house, your emotional life rarely stays on the ground floor. It wanders downstairs, finds the locked basement door. You have an instinct for what lives underneath appearances: concealed motives, unspoken grief, complicated loyalties, private...