With Saturn in the 11th house, the planet enters the gathering: friends, groups, communities, networks, movements, collective dreams, future plans, hopes, allies, social belonging, the wider human web. This house is where we discover whether we belong to a wider...
Saturn is the cold morning after the grand idea, the unpaid bill after the beautiful dinner, the quiet room after the applause has died and you are left alone with the actual shape of your choices. It is simply reality....
In astrology, some parts of the psyche are heavy. In a chart, Saturn and Pluto show where you do not get to remain unconscious without consequences. They mark the places where life becomes serious. Something in you is powerful enough...
In astrology, ♃ Jupiter is the great expander. The universal optimist. The benevolent planet of abundance. When Jupiter is strong in a chart, the psyche often leans toward trust. Some call it naïveté, but it’s often trust. A sense that...
Saturn can sometimes be a kind of psychic sleight of hand, where one’s own discomfort is rebranded as discernment. “I’m not socially awkward,” says the mind, “I just have exquisite taste and loathe small talk.” Hmm. Quite. Saturn doesn’t only...
Capricorns and solemn Saturnian souls are the ones who built the scaffolding your dream climbs on. The realists of reality, who find fantasy inefficient rather than enchanting. Saturn is old father of time, blessing his children with rigor. The Capricorn...
At New Year’s, a time when people swear they’ll become gods of discipline. The calendar turns, the wine wears off, and suddenly everyone’s ready to reinvent themselves… but often with no scaffolding, no roots, no Saturn. Just wild intentions and...
Question: It is said that Saturn is a tough planet. It will teach you lessons by punishing you or making you lose precious things in life. Saturn is the planet of time. It is a hard to please planet. It...
Question: What causes resentment or conflicts in authority? Saturn is the serious suit-and-tie of the zodiac. This planet says, “You reap what you sow.” It doesn’t deal in illusions. It deals in form, timetables, discipline, and delayed gratification. You’ll find...
Question: In an astrology chart, what would make someone a “pity magnet”? Someone who, whether or not they actually have many issues or problems, always receives pity and attention from others—an “oh, poor you.” What a deliciously curious question you’ve...
Question: I was just wondering what, in a natal chart, might cause someone to become extremely bitter and jaded. When we’re little kids, we tend to be open and hopeful because we haven’t yet been smacked in the face by...
What does it mean to feel like an outsider, and how might astrology explain this human condition? Let’s first talk Uranus, the trickster with a name that sounds like a playground insult, but the true deviant of the planetary pantheon....