As a Scorpio, you have a way of meeting people beneath the level where most social life happens. While others are exchanging facts, jokes, smiles, and the usual little cardboard cutouts of themselves, you are paying attention to what is...
Mercury describes how you constantly try to make sense of life. It is the inner observer leaning forward, taking notes, comparing details, noticing contradictions, asking questions, filing away useful information, and occasionally replaying a conversation at midnight. Where the Moon...
In the astrological chart, the Moon speaks to what exists before explanation. It is the self who reacts before the adult in your head has had time to think it through properly. It lives beneath the social persona, belonging to...
The Sun wants you to stand in the middle of your own life and recognize the person standing there. Not some character designed to keep everyone comfortable, and not the identity inherited from family expectations, old wounds, social rules, or...
When you have Jupiter in the 12th house, you have a different relationship with expansion. While other people seem to grow by accumulating visible proof their lives are moving forward – more experiences, recognition, noise, or shiny little trophies for...
When you have Mars conjunct Neptune in your natal chart, your desire nature is more porous, impressionable, and mysterious. Mars ordinarily wants something simple: to act, pursue, compete, defend, conquer, decide. Neptune wanders in with music, longing, compassion, fantasy, and Continue reading Mars Conjunct Neptune Natal Aspect
When an outer planet moves across the Sun, the change can feel disproportionately large. The Sun is no minor part of the chart. It speaks to identity, vitality, direction, self-definition, purpose, and the organizing principle around which a person experiences...
When the Sun is trine Moon in synastry, there is a striking sense the relationship knows how to breathe on its own. The Sun person brings identity, vitality, self-expression, direction, and the urge to become more fully themselves. The Moon Continue reading Sun Trine Moon Synastry
In astrology, when several planets or important points gather in one element, the element is seen as the larger part of the personality. It is the atmosphere through which experience is filtered. A person may possess every element somewhere in...
One useful way of understanding aspects psychologically is as deeply ingrained expectations about the self, other people, and life itself. The more subterranean beliefs – the assumptions you organize yourself around before you have even noticed you are making them....
The Moon is the part of the psyche reaching out without thinking. It is the emotional hand extended. It is how we recognize another person’s sadness. It is also obvious in the way we instinctively soften around someone who is...
When you have the Sun opposite Uranus in your natal chart, there can be something in you resisting being overly defined, contained, predicted, or quietly filed away under “this is who you are.” Even if you appear conventional in certain Continue reading Sun Opposite Uranus Natal Aspect