With Mars trine Mars in synastry, there is a wonderfully natural sense of momentum between you. Your inner engines recognize the sound of each other before anyone has even touched the accelerator. You don’t have to spend half the relationship Continue reading Mars Trine Mars Synastry
When Saturn transits your Mars, something in you is asked to grow up in the arena of desire, anger, ambition, and action. Mars wants to move, chase, claim, defend, and conquer. Saturn arrives asking, “Lovely enthusiasm. But can you sustain...
The Moon in astrology speaks to the part of you who listens first. It is the inward-turning, receptive, imaginative side of your nature, it absorbs atmosphere before it forms an opinion. The Moon simply feels. It notices. It remembers. It...
Venus is known as the evening star because she often appears at dusk, glowing near the horizon just as the day loosens its grip and the night begins applying its eyeliner. There is something beautifully appropriate about it. Venus belongs...
When you have Venus trine Neptune, there is often a romantic streak in you. It does not need to be forced, it is more natural. You may have an instinct for beauty, devotion, and the invisible emotional atmosphere between people. Continue reading Venus Trine Neptune Natal Aspect
When you have the Moon sextile Mercury, there is often a quiet cooperation between what you feel and what you can put into words. Your inner moods and your thinking mind aren’t locked in some dramatic battle. Instead, they tend...
In astrology, some parts of the psyche are heavy. In a chart, Saturn and Pluto show where you do not get to remain unconscious without consequences. They mark the places where life becomes serious. Something in you is powerful enough...
When you have progressed Mercury square your Midheaven, your thoughts, decisions, conversations, and private calculations aren’t moving neatly in the same direction as your public life, career path, reputation, or sense of where the hell you are supposed to be Continue reading Progressed Mercury Square Midheaven
There is something unmistakable about a person whose inner world is ruled by Mercury. You feel it almost immediately. Life is something they interpret, sort, name, decode, and quietly outmaneuver. Their mind is rarely off duty. Even when they seem...
When Saturn moves across your Venus, love stops being a song you can hum absentmindedly in the background and becomes something heavier, quieter, and far less willing to flatter you. This is not usually the season of romance. It is...
When I had the progressed Moon conjunct Pluto, I expected an “intense emotional experience.” I was waiting for the full Plutonian theatre: an emotional eclipse, some private apocalypse, a crisis with candles around it, the sort of progression people describe Continue reading Why Does Progressed Moon–Pluto Feel Unbearable for Some and Uneventful for Others?
Neptune speaks to the part of us that cannot quite make peace with ordinary life. It governs the longing for something gentler, holier, more forgiving than reality. Deep underneath the practical selves we drag through the day, there is often...