Question: My feelings toward Sagittarius are a mix of admiration and frustration! They’re incredibly funny and self-confident, but what gets on my nerves is their seeming inability to take things seriously or stick to commitments. It leaves me uncertain about...
The point of the Ascendant is the point of birth, and the 1st house, the natural house of Mars, represents the entry of the individual into the world. It is not only the physical experience of birth, but every birth...
Question: Some people with a Sun-Uranus aspect feel like an outsider in terms of social groups. I can really relate to this since my way of having fun is just so much more different than other people my age consider...
Mars in the 5th house says, “Go on then, make life interesting.” The 5th house is where we fall in love with being alive: romance, flirtation, creativity, performance, play, risk, the urge to be seen and adored for the sheer...
As we know, the natural sign ruler of the First House is Aries and its ruler planet is Mars. Thus, in a word, we can say that the First House is directly connected with the “projection” of the personality. It...
Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius are those airy, ethereal beings who drift effortlessly through the atmosphere of life, like leaves caught in a breeze, just out of reach, always moving, always thinking. They exist in the upper realms of thought, where...
First, the reputation. Scorpio, symbolized by the scorpion, occasionally the eagle or even the phoenix in more enlightened astrological circles, has long been painted as the brooding anti-hero of the zodiac. Mysterious, intense, perhaps a bit emotionally volcanic. But what...
Edward W. Whitman in his booklet on PLUTO, speaks of the planet as both destroyer and transformer. Plutonian energy annihilates – it’s a force for unearthing, grinding down, and scattering the fragments of what once was until nothing remains. For...
Question: How have you experienced the transit of Neptune conjunct Mars? I am not as motivated as I used to be, very low energy. The mind drifts quite often; there are lots of spiritual insights and feeling closer to nature and...
Question: Is a Jupiter transit like our own personal god of fortune coming to visit? Jupiter often arrives with gifts, opinions, foreign stamps, big declarations, and a slightly alarming confidence that everything will work out splendidly. Sometimes he is right....
The lunar nodes are curious little symbols, easy to overlook in a chart. They sit there like quiet thresholds, almost modest in appearance, and yet many astrologers treat them as among the most hauntingly important points in the whole map....
To carry a Mars–Pluto aspect is to walk around like a controlled detonation. Desire becomes destiny. Anger becomes prophecy. Love becomes a death-and-rebirth ritual with excellent cheekbones. The energy inspires both awe and unease – because it refuses neutrality. It...