As a Capricorn, you have one of the strangest symbols in the zodiac: the old goat-fish, part creature of the mountain and part creature of the depths. It is an odd little mythological arrangement when you think about it. Half...
Dear Virgo, you have somehow acquired the zodiac’s reputation for being the critic. It is slightly unfair. You don’t necessarily want to criticize everything. You just possess an an irritating sensitivity to discrepancy. You notice the crooked picture frame, the...
The Sun conjunct Ascendant in synastry has a feeling of recognition. It won’t always mean there are violins descending from the heavens. More often it is simpler and therefore more unsettling: you notice each other. The Sun person illuminates the Continue reading Sun Conjunct Ascendant Synastry
When you have Mercury conjunct Venus in your natal chart, your mind would never turn up anywhere looking disheveled. Even your thoughts seem to brush their hair before leaving the house. Seriously, words matter to you beyond their dictionary definitions....
As a Taurus, you belong to the best part of spring, and there is a hidden meaning in this placement. The first green shoot fighting its way through cold soil, trembling with the drama of arrival isn’t you. You are...
When Uranus moves across the Moon, the emotional life begins to refuse old contracts. Whatever once agreed to stay quiet, accommodate, wait, cling, endure, or keep the peace is now slipping its little hands out of the arrangement. At first,...
When the Sun is conjunct Neptune in synastry, one of you sees the other through a more luminous lens than ordinary life usually allows. Neptune looks at the Sun and sees possibility, beauty, meaning, romance, inspiration. The Sun’s identity, confidence, Continue reading Sun Conjunct Neptune Synastry
The 8th house frightens people partly due to the word most closely associated with it: death. It holds the same uneasy reputation as drawing the Death card in Tarot, where the imagination immediately races toward coffins, endings, and ominous music...
The 7th house is traditionally associated with partnership, marriage, and open enemies, which has always felt like astrology slipping in a dark little joke at the end of the sentence. Apparently the same house giving you your spouse also gives Continue reading The 7th House: When Attraction Points Back at You
The 6th house has a quietness to it, and so it makes it easy to underestimate. It is likely to be found in the kitchen at seven in the morning, rinsing yesterday’s coffee cup while privately wondering how exactly a...
The 5th house wants to come alive in full color. It is closely associated with Leo and the Sun, so its territory revolves around radiance, creative expression, pleasure, play, romance, children, artistic instinct, recreation, and the deeply human desire to...
With your Moon in the 12th house, your emotional life struggles to stay neatly inside the borders of your own personality. Feelings enter through hidden doors. You walk into a room perfectly fine and ten minutes later feel heavy, restless,...