When you have Venus trine Saturn, you approach love with the seriousness of someone reviewing a mortgage application, except the mortgage is your heart and the applicant had better possess emotional maturity, a decent character, and preferably a functioning understanding Continue reading Venus Trine Saturn Natal Apsect
The 12th house is the end of an era, though less in the ceremonial ending we associate with death, severance, or irreversible transformation. There is no satisfying door slamming shut here. No dramatic funeral. This house prefers to loosen the...
With Pluto in your 3rd house, your mind doesn’t know how to leave things well alone. You can’t be satisfied with just understanding what happens. Intellectually, you have to know what happened underneath what happened, what it secretly meant, what...
A shift happens when we move from the 10th house into the 11th house in astrology. Life turns around, looks at everything we’ve worked so desperately to achieve, and asks: Wonderful. You’ve made a name for yourself. You’ve climbed the...
A beautiful chaos is associated with your Pisces nature, and it begins with an outrageous expectation – you should somehow remain a functional human being while possessing an emotional imagination behaving as if the entire universe has been invited to Continue reading Pisces: One Fish Wants Enlightenment, the Other Wants a Bloody Drink
As a Scorpio, you belong to one of the most psychologically fascinating contradictions in the zodiac: a creature associated with water, born into the symbolism of a desert, armed with a weapon it would rather never need, and ruled by...
Squares and oppositions share an important developmental purpose. Both represent tensions between psychological functions without a cooperative relationship. Both need inner harmonization, although the nature of their difficulties differs. The square presents the problem through frustration, and defensive habits obstructing...
A square aspect in astrology is conflict. Two parts inside the same psyche have different goals. In the chart it can show an area of blockage. It may not be a clear inner dilemma. It often appears first as frustration....
I’m currently writing about the difference between squares and oppositions, those wonderfully maddening hard aspects in astrology, and I have to say, it’s driving me slightly mad. I’m not always happy with what I’ve interpreted, mostly because the more I Continue reading The Square Is Driving Me Mad, and the Opposition Is Watching
Saturn in the birth chart has an uncomfortable relationship with the parts of ourselves we were taught to hide. It is described as a shadow planet as it points towards those hidden aspects of our nature. It represents those qualities...
When one person’s Sun sits conjunct the other person’s Midheaven in synastry, there is often a feeling the two of you have wandered into one another’s lives at a meaningful point in your personal development. It can be the normal Continue reading Sun Conjunct Midheaven – M.C Synastry
When you have Mercury in conjunction, square, or opposition to Mars, your mind isn’t exactly a peaceful little garden where thoughts float about like butterflies and everyone agrees over a cup of herbal tea. Good God, no. Your mind is...