Question: Is there a sign that you find to be enviable and one that you secretly wish you had?I’d entertain a day of being a Gemini, the mercurial realm of thought, chatter, contradiction, and sparkle. To spend a day with...
Dane Rudhyar’s insisted that astrology is participation. The 12th house, in his vision, is a laboratory of the unconscious, where unfinished emotional business ferments until it either poisons us or becomes medicine. When the Moon, our instinctual body, our inner...
Saturn in the 5th house is in the realm of creativity, romance, play, and spontaneous delight. This placement often speaks of an early-life lesson: fun must be earned. Pleasure may feel delayed, conditional, or wrapped in self-consciousness. The individual can...
With the Moon is in Leo, your feelings don’t want to be managed or minimized; they want to be experienced, embodied, expressed with courage and color. Your emotional presence is so memorable. At your core is a need to feel...
Uranus in the 4th house can unsettle as much as it liberates. There may be a subtle restlessness in adulthood, a difficulty settling, domestic life must always evolve or risk suffocation. Tradition may feel restrictive. Emotional closeness may come in...
When the Moon locks eyes with Uranus in a birth chart, mood swings can arise. Sudden surges. Emotional lightning bolts. One moment you’re sweet and lovely; the next, you’re feeling a sense of instability. You may startle people. Your feelings...
The Ascendant, also known as the Rising Sign, is the mask that isn’t really a mask. It’s the way you enter the room. It’s the energetic vibe you offer before you’ve said a word. Think of it as the first...
Question: I despise the misconceptions associated with the sign of Virgo. Can you tell me whether there are any more positive things that can be mentioned about this underappreciated sign? Poor Virgo. Earth signs – Virgo, Taurus, Capricorn – rarely...
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...