Planets in the 12th house are often emotionally loaded. It is often because they don’t come into the world through the front door. They tend to move behind the scenes. They sit behind the 1st house, behind the visible self,...
A cardinal cross on the chart points to being pulled in different directions. One part wants independence (1st/Aries), another wants safety (4th/Cancer). One part wants to relate (7th/Libra), another wants to go out into the outer world (10th/Capricorn). The cardinal...
If you have a planet in the 12th house, it means you have a room inside you that doesn’t always keep normal business hours. This part of your nature stirs at odd moments, speaks in symbols, and hides things. It...
Question: I am trying to upgrade my knowledge on astrology so I have bought a couple of books that looked interesting to me. One of these books is by Stephen Arroyo and called “Astrology, Karma & Transformation“. In this book...
People with 8th house placements often feel as though they’re walking through life with X-ray vision, seeing straight through the veneer of reality into the pain beneath. While others may fret about trivial things, this soul hears the silent weep of...
The 10th house is where the drama of destiny unfolds. Some say it’s the house of career, others say it’s a kind of imprint of the mother, and yet others say “No! You fools! It’s Saturn’s realm, the great timekeeper...
The 6th house is the humble, daily-work-obsessed slice of the chart, and it is secretly an area of transformation. It isn’t glamorous, it’s the daily rituals, the repetition, the bits of life that seem beneath the gods, but oh, how...
The 2nd house in astrology is the cupboard of coins and creature comforts. It is all about money, possessions, and self-worth. It’s the “stuff” house. What we have, but also what we believe we deserve to have. And it rules...
The 8th house is tucked away in Scorpio’s domain, it’s the realm of transformation, the place where the ego goes to die so the soul can be born anew. It often feels like we are standing at the gate of...
Let’s set the scene. The 12th house is the womb, the amniotic fluid where ego is dissolved in the sea. It’s where we float in liminal longing, bound only by karma, dreams, and forgotten memory. In this place, boundaries are...
The 12th house is cluttered with the dreams, delusions, and lifetimes. In traditional astrology, it’s the house of isolation, hidden enemies, and undoings. But in the psyche, it’s where the veil between the visible and the invisible thins. Many born...
The 8th house is astrology’s very own basement, the place where all the skeletons are kept, occasionally rattling their bones to remind you they’re still there. It’s the domain of the taboo, the hidden, and the transformational. This is the Continue reading The 8th House Astrology: The Shadow Side of Human Beings