When transiting Saturn trines Mercury, your inner student (Mercury), says, “Right, enough of the daydreaming.” During this alignment, your mind becomes disciplined; you may find that you’re focused, grounded, and productive. This is a period where serious conversations flow smoother, ideas crystallize, and communications carry weight and authority. Use this time wisely. Journal. Plan. Form your…...
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Seen, Touched, Felt: How the Earth Signs Find Meaning
The Earth signs — Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn are the ever grounded souls. They are the folk who prefer the solid ground beneath their feet. A world full of feeling and ether might stir the mystics, but the Earth signs want to know who’s going to pay the bills. Their perception is an ode to reality:…...
Moon-Neptune: Tide After Tide
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…
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…...
Moon Opposite Ascendant
When you have the Moon opposite the Ascendant, it literally means that your Moon is facing off with the your outward mask, your social self, the face you show the world. The inner tides of your emotional world often rise up in contradiction to the image you’re presenting. This could make things feel a bit…
Pluto in the 8th House: The Serpent Sleeps Within
With Pluto in the 8ᵗʰ house the air is thick with transformation. Crises may come—sometimes like heartbreaks, sometimes like revelations. You’re here to transform. To alchemize. To become the living embodiment of the phoenix myth—burned, buried, and born anew. You’ve likely got an intuitive understanding of the underworld—psychological or spiritual. A kind of X-ray soul…...
Mars Opposite Pluto Natal Aspect: Live Passionately or Burn Silently
When you have Mars opposite Pluto, your active and and assertive nature opposes the underworld, the realm of death, rebirth, and the shadowy depths we pretend don’t exist until they erupt, inconveniently, usually during a seemingly trivial disagreement. At these times, you may feel possessed. Like some ancient warrior spirit is rising up through your…
Saturn Transits Mercury: Sober Reflections and Inner Order
When Saturn casts its long, brooding shadow over Mercury, the ruler of our mind, it’s often time to have a proper think. This is a moment when the mental atmosphere thickens. Your thoughts get heavy, and you may find yourself considering your career path with solemnity asking questions like, “Is this really what I’m meant…...
Capricorn Season: Why Yes, I Did Work Through My Birthday. Thanks for Asking
Capricorn is born at the moment when light is at its weakest, teaching us about strength in the most subtle sense. The winter solstice is this sign’s spiritual mirror. When the outer light wanes, the world goes quiet, not because it is dying, but because it is conserving. Nature’s austerity isn’t cruel, but efficient. The…...