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Why Some Inner Conflicts Feel Like a Wall (Square) and Others Like a Tug-of-War (Opposition): Part Two

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Squares and oppositions share an important developmental purpose. Both represent tensions between psychological functions without a cooperative relationship. Both need inner harmonization, although the nature of their difficulties differs. The square presents the problem through frustration, and defensive habits obstructing...

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Why Some Inner Conflicts Feel Like a Wall (Square) and Others Like a Tug-of-War (Opposition): Part One

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A square aspect in astrology is conflict. Two parts inside the same psyche have different goals. In the chart it can show an area of blockage. It may not be a clear inner dilemma. It often appears first as frustration....

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The Square Is Driving Me Mad, and the Opposition Is Watching

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I’m currently writing about the difference between squares and oppositions, those wonderfully maddening hard aspects in astrology, and I have to say, it’s driving me slightly mad. I’m not always happy with what I’ve interpreted, mostly because the more I Continue reading The Square Is Driving Me Mad, and the Opposition Is Watching→

The Hard Parts of Your Chart Aren’t Going Away

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One useful way of understanding aspects psychologically is as deeply ingrained expectations about the self, other people, and life itself. The more subterranean beliefs – the assumptions you organize yourself around before you have even noticed you are making them....

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Hard Aspects: Wounds, Karma, or Inheritance?

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The hard aspects in an astrology chart – oppositions, squares, and certain conjunctions, depending on the planets involved – often describe the inner arguments inside of us, the emotional knots we keep tugging at even when experience has repeatedly demonstrated...

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Squares in Astrology: When Your Inner World Won’t Cooperate

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The square aspect in astrology describes a condition of inner friction. It won’t allow a person to remain comfortably asleep inside themselves. It brings together forces that don’t naturally understand one another. Unlike the opposition, where tension is often projected...

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The Parent We Carry Before the Parent We Meet

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Psychological astrology begins with a rather loaded idea: you didn’t arrive here as a tiny spiritual being waiting to be imprinted by whoever happened to be holding the bottle. You came in already with certain expectations, sensitivities, images, hungers, and...

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The Astrology of Low Boredom Threshold

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In Liz Greene’s The Dark of the Soul, which mostly discusses psychopaths, there is a section about the low boredom threshold being part of the psychopath’s psychology. This refers to someone needing constant stimulation. It can reflect a need to...

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The Astrology of Knowing Yourself and Still Being a Disaster Sometimes

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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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The Astrology of the Inner Saboteur

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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...

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The Cardinal Cross: The Four Hinges of a Human Life

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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...

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