Venus in Virgo is a bit of contradiction. Venus, the goddess of lace and longing, of kisses in moonlight and silk bedsheets, finds herself in Virgo, the sign of wheat and woven logic, of herbal tinctures and daily devotion. And...
The slow-moving planets— Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto — they don’t really move fast across your progressed chart. So, when we speak of a progressed Pluto making a trine to the Ascendant, for example, we’re often not talking about Continue reading What Does Progressed Pluto Trine the Ascendant Mean?
What does it mean to feel like an outsider, and how might astrology explain this human condition? Let’s first talk Uranus, the trickster with a name that sounds like a playground insult, but the true deviant of the planetary pantheon....
Question: I officially GIVE UP on romantic love. Who am I fooling? The likelihood of me ever being loved is slim to none. I’ll be 28 soon, and honestly, I can say that in all of my 28 years, I’ve...
Question: I know this topic has been discussed many times, the idea that you should marry after your first Saturn Return. So, technically, how long does a Saturn Return last? What should be the degree difference between natal Saturn and...
Question: Pluto is the apex of my T-square. I’m not sure what that means or how to use it to my advantage. My T-square involves houses that affect my inner self/home, relationships, and career. What exactly is the apex, anyway?...
Chiron in the 1st house is the wounded healer right at the doorway of your incarnation, saying something a bit like, “Are you sure you belong here?” Now, this is realm of the I Am, the ego’s entrance, and the...
On 10 September 2025, Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, was speaking at Utah Valley University as part of his “American Comeback Tour.” He was shot in the neck while on stage, collapsed, was taken...
On a quiet morning in Charlotte, North Carolina, a young Ukrainian woman named Iryna Zarutska boarded a train like anyone else, perhaps tired, perhaps hopeful, her earbuds in, her life ahead of her. Moments later, she was brutally attacked —...
With Venus in Leo, it’s a slow-motion kiss in the rain, and a standing ovation after a big romantic scene, all rolled into one. The sceptics might scoff, saying “Well, everyone wants love to be like this,” but you expect it....
Some astrologers believe that Virgo and Scorpio are associated with the same basic principle, they were previously considered to be as one. Equally, they represent transformations of different sorts. Virgo is the reformed living, they transform the unworkable into the workable.
When the progressed Sun forms an aspect natal Venus—there can be a romantic rendezvous. It could be a time to fall in love with others, and with life, art, beauty, and perhaps even with yourself (which, as it happens, is the Continue reading Sun-Venus Progressed Aspects: Love’s Illumination