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,...
Question: Do the Nodes represent spiritual development opportunities? The North Node is a direction, a widening of space itself. Emerson puts it cleanly. There is one direction in which space is open to us. It suggests that life subtly responds...
Question: I have the Moon in aspect to Uranus and just recently bought a book that described it in a way I have never come across. I have this aspect in my chart and very much related to the description....
It has took a long time to separate astrology from the idea it requires psychic powers. Astrology can be approached as a symbolic language, a map of patterns, a contemplative art, a way of understanding cycles, temperament, development, and the...
The Moon in the 6th house is the shy little priestess of continuity, the laundress of the psyche, the bit of the chart quietly asking whether you’ve had enough water and why your wardrobe is in such a state. There...
When Uranus meets Mars by transit, there is no more polite idling, it’s time make some sparks.” It is one of those astrological moments many people experience as abrupt, electric, and impossible to ignore. The atmosphere around you can seem...
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
In astrology, the planets are universal, but there are only so many of them, which at first sounds like a terrible system for explaining eight billion complicated people. The raw materials are limited, but the combinations are not. This is...