When the Sun touches Pluto in the natal chart, it’s grip says, “We are going somewhere deep. Bring a torch.” The Sun is the “I am” – meets Pluto – the keeper of the underworld tunnel, the one who says,...
When the Moon, the tender, tidal mistress of memory and feeling – locks eyes with Mars – the red-booted warrior pacing in the courtyard of your will – you don’t get mild moods. You get thunder in a teacup. You...
Saturn is right up there on the rooftop – in the 10th house – where the world looks up at us and says, “Well then, who are you meant to be?” Let’s sit with this for a moment. This house...
Question: Do you ever disagree with other astrologers’ interpretations? Astrology at its best feels like a mythic language: symbols don’t “cause” your life, but mirror it. It’s symbolic and interpretive, so there’s no single “correct” reading. But it’s not meant...
The 12th house is the place where the psyche keeps what it couldn’t process at the time it happened. It’s the emotional well, the dream-mill, the unconscious sea. If the rest of the chart is the personality you can point...
Pluto in the 10th house is rarely about “career” in the usual sense. It’s about destiny wearing a suit. It’s about the part of you that can’t merely get a job and call it a life. Even as a child,...
The 1st house is the front door of the chart: how you meet life, how life meets you, the atmosphere you carry into a room before you’ve said a word. When Saturn lives there, the atmosphere tends to be serious,...
Moon–Saturn in the natal chart doesn’t symbolize a lack of feeling. It’s the presence of feeling with defenses. The Moon is immediate, porous, instinctive; it wants to merge, to be held, to be reassured, to be allowed its tides. Saturn...
Pluto is the dark planet at the edge of our solar system. The icy outlier. It lurks beneath the surface of our smiles and polite nods. The discovery of Pluto (1930) coincided with the Great Depression, a time when the...
Saturn is where flexibility becomes rigidity, where youthful verve turns to a cautious shuffle. It’s the ancient gatekeeper within us. It’s the tough-love planet in our psyche. It imprisons us to help us see what must be liberated. The bars?...
The Uranian soul is contrarian! These are the beautiful misfits who, rather than obediently queueing for life’s mediocrity, choose instead to offer opinions no one asked for. And thank God they do. To be touched by Uranus – steady on...
Venus-Uranus in the psyche of a woman: an intoxicating concoction. What we’ve got here is something electric, something untamed. It’s more than love she’s after, it’s liberation through love. Romance with resistance. Passion with provocation. Venus, the goddess of love,...