The Moon is the part of the psyche reaching out without thinking. It is the emotional hand extended. It is how we recognize another person’s sadness. It is also obvious in the way we instinctively soften around someone who is...
When you have the Moon trine Pluto, your emotional nature can be quietly intense, but it may not always be overt intensity. Quite often, it is the opposite. There can be an unnerving composure to you, a sense there are Continue reading Moon Trine Pluto Natal Aspect
When you have the Moon in aspect to Pluto, you feel things with a depth that can be difficult to explain to people. For others, a feeling may pass through easily. For you, your emotions sink into the ground, disappear...
Question: When you hear, “My mother and I don’t get along,” what’s the first astrological explanation that comes to mind? The obvious astrological starting point is usually the Moon under pressure, but the mistake is assuming one difficult Moon aspect...
When you have a dark Moon, your emotional life is an underground river, black and ancient, moving beneath everything you do. Sometimes it carries you. Sometimes it drags you. Sometimes you are just standing in the kitchen making tea and...
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...
Mother themes in astrology so often become an outsourcing operation. In a particularly mythic mood, the Moon in astrology and mother can become this giant symbolic storage tank where we deposit everything messy, engulfing, needy, manipulative, sorrowful, hungry, unreasonable, tidal,...
When the Moon is conjunct, square or opposite Pluto, your emotional life descends into the black water to see what lives beneath. You aren’t drawn to anemic explanations of human behavior, you are a person whose inner life is intense, Continue reading Moon Conjunct, Square, Opposite Pluto: The Push and Pull of Deep Emotional Bonds
The Moon in aspect to Pluto is a configuration worthy of a candlelit séance and a deep psychoanalytic dive. It’s intense, it’s subterranean, and it’s often formed in the heart of the family dynamic — particularly the mother, home, and...
Anorexia nervosa is a grievous affliction of both the body and of the spirit. It is complex conundrum. It’s a silent scream of control in a world that often feels uncontrollable. It’s like trying to build armor out of bones,...
Question: I don’t want things to be this way. I don’t want people to feel jealous of me. When I get dirty looks, I tell myself it’s just in my head. I’m being paranoid. I want to believe it. But...
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...