One person with Saturn emphasized in the chart strongly felt as though they didn’t fit into the crowd. When Saturn is strong in you, you may feel as though you were born with an old soul and a slightly suspicious...
Your birthplace translates into the chart. Astrology is concerned with what was happening in the sky, but also with how the sky was meeting you from one exact place on Earth. The planets may have been arranged in their signs...
The first Saturn return has a cruel little genius to it. It arrives around twenty-eight to thirty, just as you are old enough to know you aren’t a child anymore, but still young enough to feel personally insulted by the...
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...
Angular houses are the places in the birth chart where the soul meets the world, where identity, belonging, relationship, and vocation become visible, embodied, unavoidable. In quadrant house systems, these houses begin at the four great hinges of the chart: Continue reading The Angular Houses: The Four Initiations of Becoming Human
With Venus opposite Saturn, desire is there, beauty is there, longing is absolutely there, but Saturn stands across from it asking the deeply unsexy questions: “Is this safe? Is this real? What will it cost? Can it last? Are you Continue reading Venus Opposite Saturn Natal Aspect: The One Who Loves Deeply but Doubts They’re Desired
You were never really built for lukewarm feelings. With the Moon in aspect to Mars, your inner world is wired to respond quickly, honestly, and physically. Emotions are in your blood. In the sudden heat behind your eyes, the sharpness...
The part of the psyche ruled by Venus looks around at the chaos of existence, sighs, and says, “Surely we can make this more beautiful, more pleasant.” She is the instinct for affinity, the inner faculty that perceives resemblance, correspondence, Continue reading Venus: Put On the Damn Clothes
The part of the psyche ruled by Mercury wants to understand what on earth is going on here, preferably with a clever explanation attached. It is the mind in motion, the quicksilver faculty. It notices, names, compares, translates, questions, categorizes,...
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...
According to Tracy Marks, when planets are in the 12th house, there can be something about you that speaks before you do – in a subtler, stranger, more atmospheric way. You may walk into a room and unconsciously broadcast a...
With Mercury in aspect to Neptune, your mind behaves like a radio left on in a dream, picking up stations from three rooms away, two past lives, someone else’s mood, and possibly a whale song that has no business being...