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...
Question: Do individuals with the Moon in aspect to Saturn in their birth charts project an aura of aloofness to those around them? These individuals don’t discover independence because they crave it; they discover it because life insists upon it….
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...