Mercury trine Neptune in Synastry is the swoon of soul-speech. When Mercury, the planet of mind and message, is in trine with Neptune, the dream-drenched deity of illusion, compassion, and inspiration, we are in the realm of connection where someone Continue reading Mercury Trine Neptune Synastry: I Thought That Too (I Think)
When Pluto progresses into the 5th house, an outer planet rarely changes sign or house, so it can be impactful. The 5th house is the playground of life: it’s finger-painting and flirting, it’s first kisses and spontaneous dances in your...
Will the clash between natal ease and transiting hard aspects bring the best or worst of things. You’re asking if your innate ease with Venus-Pluto trine energy will cushion the blow of a Pluto-Venus opposition. Firstly, your natal Pluto trine...
When Pluto transits Mars, it is a bit of a dark alley in the astrological map, littered with cigarette butts, primal screams, and the ghosts of unexpressed rage. Pluto is the shadowy underlord of transformation, obsession, and power. It comes...
With Saturn conjunct Uranus in your natal chart, you have discipline married to disruption. Boundaries bumping hips with breakthroughs. It’s a contradiction, but isn’t that just the essence of being human? Saturn is the planet of order, responsibility, structure, time-tested Continue reading Saturn Conjunct Uranus Natal Aspect
Mars is the representation of the part of you that goes, “Oi, I’ve had enough of this nonsense!” Now put Mars in Gemini, the zodiac’s intellectual hummingbird, a sign ruled by Mercury, the messenger, the thinker, the talker, and occasionally,...
The Earth signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn are the stalwarts of the sensible. Steady as your nan’s kettle and twice as dependable. They get a bad rap, don’t they? Called boring, unimaginative, plodding even. But let’s not confuse groundedness with drudgery....
The 6th house is the humble, daily-work-obsessed slice of the chart, and it is secretly an area of transformation. It isn’t glamorous, it’s the daily rituals, the repetition, the bits of life that seem beneath the gods, but oh, how...
Venus conjunct Mars in the natal chart is the union of the lover and the warrior. If you’ve got this placement, your love life is full of passion, velocity, and maybe a little bit of yelling. You feel love the Continue reading Venus Conjunct Mars Natal Aspect
Transiting Pluto aspecting Venus is where Venus, the goddess of sweetness, pleasure, aesthetics, and love – gets dragged down into the underworld by Pluto, god of shadows and transformation. It’s a mythological abduction played out across the psyche. And you,...
Mercury is the courier of the universe, darting between realms, tirelessly making connections between our conscious selves and the vast, uncharted territories of the unconscious. It is the archetypal trickster who, while a master of mischief, also holds the key...
True Crimes of Passion – When Love Hurts, is a collection of real-life tales soaked in jealousy, betrayal, and emotional carnage. One tale in particular caught my slightly horrified, slightly fascinated eye: the tragicomic, soap-operatic descent of Pamela Smart, a schoolteacher Continue reading Venus-Pluto: A Deadly Affair