When Uranus meets Mars by transit, there is no more polite idling, it’s time make some sparks.” It is one of those astrological moments many people experience as abrupt, electric, and impossible to ignore. The atmosphere around you can seem...
When the Moon is conjunct, square or opposite Pluto, your emotional life descends into the black water to see what lives beneath. You aren’t drawn to anemic explanations of human behavior, you are a person whose inner life is intense, Continue reading Moon Conjunct, Square, Opposite Pluto: The Push and Pull of Deep Emotional Bonds
In astrology, the planets are universal, but there are only so many of them, which at first sounds like a terrible system for explaining eight billion complicated people. The raw materials are limited, but the combinations are not. This is...
Astrology, at its best, doesn’t say, “Here is your fate, now enjoy your assigned suffering.” It is saying, “Here is the particular filter through which you tend to meet reality.” Same sky, same planets, but arranged in a way that...
When the Moon falls in the 5th house, it feels through delight, through longing, through romance, through creation, through the strange and deeply human urge to make something beautiful and then hope somebody claps. This house is where life becomes...
Mars conjunct Jupiter is one of those aspects that can feel like someone has poured rocket fuel into the part of the psyche that says, “Yes, absolutely, let’s do it now.” Mars is raw motion, desire, appetite, and will. It Continue reading Mars Conjunct Jupiter Natal Aspect
Aries is so often cast as the zodiac’s battering ram in a leather jacket, all impulse and ignition, that people forget fire can illuminate as well as scorch, especially in love. The sign has an active romantic inner life. Some...
Aries is the warrior of the zodiac, the one who requires purpose in life the way lungs require air. This is no passive drifting, neutral, or compromising sign. You are animated by friction, by challenge, by the intoxication of something...
Pisces is the zodiac’s beautiful slippery mystic, trying to catch eternity with a fishing net made of dreams, longing, and half-remembered truths. It is maddening trying to pin Pisces down. By the time you think you’ve got hold of it,...
According to Edward Whitman, “As the 10th house has a great deal to do with prestige and reputation, it will easily be seen that the presence of Pluto can either lift the native up to high positions or cast him...
According to Edward Whitman, “Pluto in the 7th house – usually the temperament of the partner will be the exact antithesis of the native and in many instances the partner can be of a different race or religion. It shows...
According to Edward Whitman, “Home and domestic matters and general family interests are affected in a very strange way when Pluto is in the 4th house. It is the position that can be associated in the early part of life...