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...
When you have the Moon trine Mercury in your chart, your mind knows how to sit beside your heart without trying to correct it. There is something graceful in the way your feelings and your thoughts seem able to recognize...
With the Moon in aspect to Saturn, you learned early that love was not always a soft place to land. For you, feeling safe may have come wrapped in conditions, silences, responsibilities, or the vague but powerful sense you had...
When Mercury is conjunct Mars, you often say something devastatingly accurate, and then wonder why everyone has gone a bit quiet. There is heat in the way you think. Yours is a mind with spark plugs. Your thoughts arrive fast, Continue reading Mercury Conjunct Mars Natal Aspect
Astrology is often most illuminating when it wanders into the territory of psychology, because this is where symbols start becoming uncomfortably, beautifully human. What it reveals is the contradictions we all carry, the desires disowned, the wounds defended, and the...