The Sun is the symbol of the core vitality, the organizing principle of your psyche. It says, “I am.” The everyday self, our ego, our persona – is the social one. Jung’s Self, however – capital S, is the totality of...
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...
Venus trine Jupiter in synastry is pleasure meeting promise. Love expands, stretches its limbs, laughs louder, kisses longer, believes harder. This is the aspect of mutual uplift: one heart saying, I see your values, the other replying, I’ll help them Continue reading Venus Trine Jupiter Synastry
When the Sun and Mars are in aspect, you don’t merely exist, you assert. This aspect gives the will a bloodstream. Desire becomes directive. You feel life as urgency, as heat under the skin. There’s a primal quality to it....
When the Sun and Venus are in aspect, the core self (the Sun) is personified by Venus. Love, harmony, beauty, and relating are stitched into the fabric of your identity. This often shows up as a naturally likable presence. People...
When Uranus transits the Moon, the home, the inner realm, the emotional mattress you’ve been sleeping on suddenly feels lumpy, unstable, mildly electric. Uranus doesn’t do gradual. It does revelation. It does liberation through disruption. And when it touches the...
In the astronomical sense: Mercury is shy. It never strays more than about 28° from the Sun, so in a natal chart it can only ever be in conjunction with our Sun. No oppositions, no squares, no dramatic stand-offs across...
A Saturn-colored relationship does brickwork. Saturn says, “If you’re going to love, you’re going to learn how to show up on time, tell the truth, and keep going even when the fun evaporates.” When someone’s Saturn touches your personal planets in Continue reading Saturn in Synastry: The Saturn Partner’s Inner World
When progressed Jupiter changes signs, it’s rare because Jupiter moves slow. If it’s entering Virgo, you’re not imagining an internal click. Something has changed. When Jupiter was in Leo, growth came through expression, confidence, creativity, being seen. Faith expanded through...
When Mercury is opposite Mars in synastry, there is a clash between how one thinks and speaks (Mercury) and how the other acts, asserts, and fights for space (Mars). This aspect sets up a live wire. The Mercury person says: Continue reading Mercury Opposite Mars Synastry
When transiting Uranus aspects the Sun, life is going to change. “Expect the unexpected” may sound like a horoscope cliche for the this Uranian movement, but clichés survive because they’re accurate. It can be a time of disruption as liberation....
Wherever Neptune sits in your chart, it casts a silvery mist over this domain. We seek ease, peace, beauty – sometimes through art, sometimes through fantasy, and, if we’re not careful, sometimes through substances or illusions. It’s the part of...