When you have the Sun trine Mars aspect, you’re working with a steady, grounded kind of confidence—the kind that comes from inner alignment. It’s the innate, almost unthinking courage that comes from a sense of alignment between who you are…

Saturn in the 12th house is a placement that speaks of old karma, hidden fears, and the strange beauty of solitude. It’s as if your soul chose, before incarnation, a kind of spiritual boot camp. Where your growth comes from…

With Pluto in the 10th house, you’re dragged by the scruff of your soul into the high drama of career, reputation, and worldly authority. There’s an undeniable gravity to this placement. It can make you appear to others as someone…

Pluto in the 9th house demands that one reckon with the vast realm of belief and understanding, often tearing it down. This is the domain of philosophy, culture, higher education, and spiritual journeys. These individuals often arrive in this world…

When someone we love vanishes from the physical world, the experience disturbs our own spiritual self. Something has been pulled from our life, and suddenly we can see the light pouring through the gap. This light points us toward the…

Charles Carter’s Psychological Encyclopedia of Astrology explores how people interact with the world around them. One particularly interesting idea he raises is that those who tend to accept information without much critical thinking might have a weaker Mercury placement in…

The Moon in aspect to Neptune is an astrological configuration that seems like an invitation to live life half in this world and half in another, one foot on the pavement and the other dangling in the waters of the…

To speak of the 4th house is to speak of home, the deep sense of place — where you feel safest, or perhaps, where you first learned what safety wasn’t. It’s the psychological scaffolding around you. The bedtime rituals, the…

Mercury in a trine with Uranus represents a harmonious and beneficial alignment of these two planets in your birth chart. As a result, you exhibit a unique blend of traits that make you a free thinker, humanist, and independent mind….

A Mars trine Uranus individual possesses an independent spirit and they usually like to do things their own way. Mars-Uranus aspects indicate a quick excitability with a blending of assertiveness, intuition, progressiveness, and inventiveness. They possess daring leadership skills and are…

The third house represents communication, our ability to express ourselves, short journeys, siblings, cousins and neighbours. It is associated with early schooling and our attitude and relationship with knowledge itself, and planets in this house describe how we learn. The…

The second house rules the foundation of the material world. Wealth, possessions, finances, social background, income, talents and tangible values are all found in this domain. Within in the second house realm, there is also a link to the feeling…