Venus in the 11th house is electric and expansive, a lover of the collective dream, a harmonizer of humanity. To have Venus here is to possess a curious and rather beautiful contradiction. There is a deep desire to belong to…

When Venus finds herself  in the 3rd house — the astrological abode of communication, thought, and immediate environment — something rather magical occurs. The mundane act of speaking is turned into an art form and the daily exchange of ideas…

When you have Venus in the 2nd house, this placement is a beautiful fusion of sensuality and practicality. It speaks of people who experience affection and security as part of the same breath, where financial stability isn’t a cold calculation…

Pluto is silent. It doesn’t demand attention like Mars, nor seduce like Venus. It waits, silent and still, in the caverns of the subconscious, where the real work — the profound, messy, unglamorous work — begins. Astrologically speaking, Pluto isn’t…

When you have the Sun trine Mars aspect, you’re working with a steady, grounded kind of confidence—the kind that comes from inner alignment. It’s the innate, almost unthinking courage that comes from a sense of alignment between who you are…

Saturn in the 12th house is a placement that speaks of old karma, hidden fears, and the strange beauty of solitude. It’s as if your soul chose, before incarnation, a kind of spiritual boot camp. Where your growth comes from…

With Pluto in the 10th house, you’re dragged by the scruff of your soul into the high drama of career, reputation, and worldly authority. There’s an undeniable gravity to this placement. It can make you appear to others as someone…

When someone we love vanishes from the physical world, the experience disturbs our own spiritual self. Something has been pulled from our life, and suddenly we can see the light pouring through the gap. This light points us toward the…

Charles Carter’s Psychological Encyclopedia of Astrology explores how people interact with the world around them. One particularly interesting idea he raises is that those who tend to accept information without much critical thinking might have a weaker Mercury placement in…

The Moon in aspect to Neptune is an astrological configuration that seems like an invitation to live life half in this world and half in another, one foot on the pavement and the other dangling in the waters of the…

To speak of the 4th house is to speak of home, the deep sense of place — where you feel safest, or perhaps, where you first learned what safety wasn’t. It’s the psychological scaffolding around you. The bedtime rituals, the…

With Mercury trine Uranus, we have intellect and intuition, reason and revelation, all taking place in your mind. You’ve been gifted with a brain that reinvents the world. You’re rarely content with the regurgitation of facts or the placid acceptance…