Occultists like Vera Stanley Alder teach that the stars and planets are living beings evolved to an extent we cannot conceive of. In astrology, we often like to think of the planets as teachers in the great university of the...
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One of the most revealing things astrology can do is hold up a mirror to the weird little ways we trip over our own feet and then act shocked there was a floor. Self-sabotage is rarely dramatic at first. It...
The planet ruling your rising sign often behaves like the master key to your whole nature. It isn’t the entirety of you, because human beings can never fit into one neat category, but it does set the tone in a...
You move through life the way the zodiac moves through its great circular drama: as a sequence of becoming. You begin with Aries, which is the first spark, the first gulp of air, the first glorious and slightly reckless cry...
Astrology is a living field, a pattern of potential that is continually being awakened, challenged, ripened, provoked, and revised through time. Astrologers will often use words like balance, wholeness, and integration, but they aren’t usually describing a finished state. They...
The natal chart is the pattern through which you tend to meet life. When astrologers often speak of “wholeness being reflected by the chart,” they usually mean the chart is a symbolic map of the whole psyche: instincts, conflicts, gifts,...
The planets in astrology are often understood as the living urges within the psyche. Without them, a birth chart is rather empty. The signs and houses provide the setting and the style, but the planets provide the motion, the trouble,...
It has took a long time to separate astrology from the idea it requires psychic powers. Astrology can be approached as a symbolic language, a map of patterns, a contemplative art, a way of understanding cycles, temperament, development, and the...
Astrology, at its best, doesn’t say, “Here is your fate, now enjoy your assigned suffering.” It is saying, “Here is the particular filter through which you tend to meet reality.” Same sky, same planets, but arranged in a way that...
Karen Horney believed that, while a therapist could certainly help untangle the psychic complexes, one could, with sufficient honesty, do a bit of untangling oneself. Not as swift, perhaps. Not as tidy. But real. The natal chart is a symbolic...
Astrology is the ancient kaleidoscope of stars, signs, and archetypes. It dives headlong into the sea of symbolism, intuition, and personal mythology. The statistical approach to astrology is admirable but is often futile. The thing resists objectivity because it lives...