Aries stands at the gate of spring, battering down the door of existence with a cry that’s half war-chant, half love song. To understand Aries is to understand what it means to be alive in the very first gasp of...
Question: Why do Scorpios so thoroughly enjoy giving the silent treatment? The Scorpio silence is a most powerful weapon in the arsenal of human emotional warfare! It’s a dagger concealed beneath a velvet cloak. Not quite the overt sting of...
Pluto takes a sledgehammer to the illusions we were suckled on, the fairy tales of familial warmth and maternal halos, and says, “This isn’t real. Look again.” And it hurts. Because the world we grew up in — even if Continue reading Pluto: Time to Panic
To understand Sagittarius, we mustn’t simply chart traits. This sign is mutable, but not in an inconsistent way. It’s mutable in the sense of flow, of movement, of becoming. Think of fire given legs—it moves, it dances, it seeks. This...
In astrology, Saturn isn’t the one who dazzles us with dreams or seduces us with pleasures—he’s the one who points to the thing we’d rather not face. And it isn’t done with malice, but with a strange, persistent kind of...
Cancer is the watery wanderer of the zodiac, whose pincers grasp so lovingly, sometimes so desperately, at the past. This is the sign of the moon-dweller, the keeper of tides, the private soul. Here, feelings are pressed deep, ready to Continue reading Cancer: Backwards Not Forwards
To be a Leo is to be born with a burning heart, one that demands witness. You are not content to just exist in this world; no, you must live in it, in all caps, as though each breath you...