Mercury conjunct Jupiter in synastry often feels as though two minds have found a way to breathe better in one another’s company. There is something naturally expansive about this contact. Mercury is the small, busy, glittering creature of the mind, Continue reading Mercury Conjunct Jupiter Synastry
Venus is charm, attraction, taste, ease, beauty, receptivity, diplomacy, and social grace. So when Venus energy enters the 10th house, which concerns reputation, public image, vocation, visibility, achievement, and the way one is seen by the world at large, these...
Astrology is a living field, a pattern of potential that is continually being awakened, challenged, ripened, provoked, and revised through time. Astrologers will often use words like balance, wholeness, and integration, but they aren’t usually describing a finished state. They...
The natal chart is the pattern through which you tend to meet life. When astrologers often speak of “wholeness being reflected by the chart,” they usually mean the chart is a symbolic map of the whole psyche: instincts, conflicts, gifts,...
Mars opposite Uranus in synastry is one of those aspects. It can feel like two people have stumbled into each other carrying lightning in their pockets. It is volatile, awakening, provocative, sexy, disruptive, and occasionally so jangling both people may Continue reading Mars Opposite Uranus Synastry: The Electric Push-Pull of Love
Here we are lunar deep. The Moon is your instinctive emotional nature, your need for safety, your memories, your body’s way of feeling before the mind has even gets switched on. The 8th house is no light, breezy house. It...
The planets in astrology are often understood as the living urges within the psyche. Without them, a birth chart is rather empty. The signs and houses provide the setting and the style, but the planets provide the motion, the trouble,...
Mars is so obvious that people mistake him for being simple. He is all heat and appetite and immediate intent. People think, “Well, Mars is easy. Action. Sex. Anger. Done.” But this is like saying fire is merely hot. Fire...
When you have Moon trine Uranus in the natal chart, it suggests your emotional nature has a rather unusual kind of lightness about it. Not “unusual” in the sense of broken or chaotic, but unusual in the most delightful way: Continue reading Moon Trine Uranus Natal Aspect
In astrology, the Moon in the 7th house is the great silver pudding of feeling that gets poured straight into the realm of partnership, marriage, attachment, and one-to-one bonds. It suggests relationships are one of the main places where the...
Uranus opposite the Ascendant in synastry is the aspect of being met by someone who interrupts your being with lightning. They arrive as a revolution in human form. The Ascendant person is there, innocently wearing their face to the world, Continue reading Uranus Opposite Ascendant Synastry: The One I Couldn’t Predict
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,...