The Moon, pale mistress of the night, is an emblem of our emotional world, our instinctual tides, the subterranean sea of how we feel and how we relate. For many of us, when the Moon is stressed, emotionally cornered, threatened with abandonment, facing the abyss of grief? We retreat. We lash out. We regress. We…
Month: April 2025
Fire: Dream First, Deal Later
In the zodiac, this elemental energy finds its expression in Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius—three signs that don’t merely live life, they ignite it. Imagine them as mythic heroes charging into the unknown eyes alight with divine purpose and possibly just a touch of mania. This fire type moves through the world with a kind of…...
Astrology: Questions About Death
Astrology isn’t about predicting death. It’s not a fatalistic game. Often when people ask about death in astrology, what they’re often seeking isn’t the date and time of their mortal departure—they’re yearning for meaning, for reassurance, for understanding of transformation. And that’s what death often symbolizes astrologically: it isn’t the literal final curtain, but a…...
When Death Rises in the Chart
I went down to my astrology library and flicked through some books to see if an idea for the next subject would come. Then I came across something by Liz Greene in The Astrologer, the Counsellor and the Priest—a section that concerns death in the chart. So I thought it might be an interesting read,…
Air Signs: Sky-Blue on the Surface, Storm Below
The airy signs of the zodiac—Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius—are the intellectuals, flitting like butterflies through the garden of human consciousness. These are the signs that don’t want to dig into the muck and mire of mortal drama. No, they’d rather observe it, analyze it, maybe even write an essay about it: The Psychology of Interpersonal…...