When you have the 12th house active in your natal chart, there is something strangely intimate, and slightly unsettling, about the way you disappear. A part of you has stepped through a door no one else can see and forgotten to...
The 8th house is where the human being is forced to develop a relationship with the one fact nobody invited to dinner but everyone knows is standing in the hallway: death. Not death as a dramatic symbol printed on a...
To have the 7th house strong in your nature is to be fated, in the most human and inconvenient sense of the word, to discover yourself through other people. Relationship is one of the primary mirrors through which your psyche...
To have the 1st house emphasized is to live with a heightened awareness of the doorway between the inner self and the outer world. You aren’t simply “being”; you are arriving. There is always some sense, however subtle, that life...
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...