Air is the power of distance, perspective, and clean perception, the strange human ability of being able to stand slightly outside an experience and say, “So this is what is happening.” Closeness can blur things. When your face is pressed Continue reading The Air Houses (3rd, 7th, 11th): The Airborne Self
Earth is where spirit stops being a beautiful idea and starts having weight, texture, cost, appetite, and consequences. It is the element of incarnation, the place where invisible life condenses into form. A desire becomes a possession. A value becomes...
In the chart, fire refuses to remain merely potential. It says, before language, before planning, before anyone has had the chance to make things complicated, “I am here.” Fire is the animating force, the inner spark pushing life out of Continue reading The Fire Houses: Where the Soul Learns to Burn
The cadent houses are where life starts moving again after becoming too solid, too certain, too attached. If the angular houses are the great beginnings and the succedent houses are the places where those beginnings gather weight, the cadent houses...
The angular houses are where life kicks the door open. They are beginnings, confrontations, declarations, entrances. They are the places where something immediate happens: identity rises, relationship appears, home roots itself, vocation calls. But beginnings, dramatic as they are, are...
The myth of Persephone is one of the most haunting ways to understand Pluto. It speaks to the part of us being taken before it knows how to consent to being changed. Pluto is more than “intensity,” as people like...
Psychological astrology begins with a rather loaded idea: you didn’t arrive here as a tiny spiritual being waiting to be imprinted by whoever happened to be holding the bottle. You came in already with certain expectations, sensitivities, images, hungers, and...
The cardinal cross, the angular houses – 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th, wants movement. It wants decisions. It wants doors opened, bridges crossed, declarations made, lives rearranged, and preferably by next week. Cardinal energy is the great initiator of the Continue reading The Cardinal Houses: The Tug-of-War Between Being Needed and Becoming Someone
When the two of you have Sun conjunct Saturn in synastry, there is usually a strange, unmistakable gravity between you. A heavy feeling of recognition. It is a “Oh no, this person matters.” And this is often the first problem. Continue reading Sun Conjunct Saturn Synastry
One person with Saturn emphasized in the chart strongly felt as though they didn’t fit into the crowd. When Saturn is strong in you, you may feel as though you were born with an old soul and a slightly suspicious...
Your birthplace translates into the chart. Astrology is concerned with what was happening in the sky, but also with how the sky was meeting you from one exact place on Earth. The planets may have been arranged in their signs...
The first Saturn return has a cruel little genius to it. It arrives around twenty-eight to thirty, just as you are old enough to know you aren’t a child anymore, but still young enough to feel personally insulted by the...