When we have a strong Sun–Saturn aspect, the symbolism has a father complex, but we can’t reduce it to a simplistic formula about whether the literal father was strict, cold, absent, demanding, or difficult. Often those themes are present very...
When transiting Neptune aspects your Mars, you are dealing with two planetary principles that don’t naturally speak the same language. They can still create something wonderful together, but these two are awkward companions from the beginning. Mars is direct. Neptune...
When you have Mercury opposite Pluto, the mind goes deep, and often it goes there whether you particularly wanted the excursion or not. Mercury describes the way you think, interpret, communicate, question, learn, explain, and narrate reality to yourself. Pluto Continue reading Mercury-Pluto in Opposition: If the Crow’s Here, the Mind Has Gone Too Deep
When you have Mercury in aspect to Neptune, the mind is sensitized. Neptune idealizes, dissolves, imagines, fantasizes, absorbs, blurs, and wanders off with whatever planet it touches, and with Mercury this happens through thinking, communication, perception, language, interpretation, and the...
When you have Moon conjunct Uranus in synastry, the emotional atmosphere between you is alive and charged. There is an electric vibe in the connection, a sense the other person wakes up parts of you. The Moon brings instinct, feeling, Continue reading Moon Conjunct Uranus Synastry: Emotional Whiplash With a Magnetic Undertow
When Neptune transits Venus, your ideals around love, beauty, pleasure, affection, and what feels emotionally or aesthetically desirable is enormously heightened. Venus already describes what you are drawn toward, what you value, what gives you pleasure, what you find beautiful,...
It made me laugh over the weekend when I thought back to the Halloween comic strips I posted last week. I had carefully worried about warning people over the language, as though a few rude words were clearly the most Continue reading Witches Can Murder the Men, but the Cat Better Make It to the Credits
When you have Mercury in aspect to Uranus, the mind is unusually awake, quickened, restless, and alert to whatever is new, unconventional, emerging, or slightly outside the accepted intellectual fence. Both planets have a strongly mental quality in astrological symbolism,...
When you have Venus square Pluto in your natal chart, it is very easy to say – you love intensely and consider the interpretation finished. Intense love. There we are. Astrology completed. Unfortunately, Pluto is rarely satisfied with a word Continue reading Venus Square Pluto Natal Aspect
When Neptune transits Mercury, your mind is misty. Thoughts are still coming, often beautifully, sometimes constantly, but they don’t always line up in obedient little rows. Concentration is more elusive. You may read the same paragraph three times and discover...
Pluto symbolizes the collective shadow: the material humanity would rather believe belongs somewhere else. Cruelty, hatred, domination, sadism, corruption, scapegoating, dehumanization, the appetite for revenge, and the frightening ease with which ordinary people are participants in anything morally ugly. We...
Pluto transits can coincide with devastating experiences, and they don’t just hurt us; they alter the lens through which we understand life. Loss, betrayal, trauma, endings, powerlessness, exposure to mortality, or the collapse of something we believed was permanent creates...