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...
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...
I have made myself a little tarot set. I am not really drawn to tarot in the standard way, with traditional meanings. I tried the conventional version years ago and, by my own admission, I wasn’t exactly good at it. Continue reading My Tarot Cards: The Sensitive Witch Enters Wrong Door
Astrology is often most illuminating when it wanders into the territory of psychology, because this is where symbols start becoming uncomfortably, beautifully human. What it reveals is the contradictions we all carry, the desires disowned, the wounds defended, and the...
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...
In astrology, the planets are universal, but there are only so many of them, which at first sounds like a terrible system for explaining eight billion complicated people. The raw materials are limited, but the combinations are not. This is...
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...
Question: What in the chart show you are the “runt of the litter” in the family – the oddball, the outsider, the inferior one? If you felt different in your family, you may also have felt unseen, misunderstood, or emotionally Continue reading The Runt of the Litter
In the psyche, the soul has its own private drama using the planetary cast of characters in your birth chart. Now, among these players, there are times when two drives — two core motivations — emerge in active contradiction. It...
This is astrology’s most quietly deceptive aspects: the trine. The harmonious little glyph—like a triangle, smooth and soothing—promising ease, flow, and cooperation. Trines, we’re told, are where the energy moves easily, where talents come naturally, and life just works. But Continue reading Don’t Blame the Trine: Astrology’s Most Misunderstood Aspect
In astrology, a natal retrograde planet means that at the moment you made your entrance into the world, one or more planets appeared to be moving backward through the sky. Of course, they weren’t really doing the moonwalk; it’s just...
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?...