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?...
Who is the zodiac’s most prolific bean-spiller, the one most likely to blurt secrets? Now, there are certain signs and placements who simply cannot resist the compulsion to share, to tell, to speak. It isn’t always out of cruelty or...
In the Jungian and astrological realm of the mind, there is a phenomenon where the psyche, in its silent yearning for wholeness, sometimes rebels against a one-sided imprint. This is, when our experience of the paternal is skewed, exaggerated, or...
Unaspected planets are rogue, they don’t have allies or adversaries in the classical sense. Enigmatic loners in the chart, they neither mingle nor oppose, but remain curiously aloof, and thereby draw immense intrigue. Geoffrey Dean says that these planets swing...
In astrology, the square isn’t the hold-you-like-a-dream Trine, nor the heady, spark of the conjunction, but the angular agitator of the astrological world. The square is a friction point that screams, “You will grow — but not without a bit...
Is astrology really psychology dressed in planetary symbols? Is the subconscious revealed in the astrological chart? Now, in the older days, astrology was a serious business, it was used to predict events like plagues, misfortunes, political uprisings, crop yields and...
This is something I came across in Doris Hebel’s Celestial Astrology. I’m not sure how true it is, but it’s said that different time periods in life are ruled by different planets. According to this idea, the Moon governs birth Continue reading Mapping Life in Planetary Time