Mercury is the winged messenger of thought and speech. Neptune is the swirling sea-god of illusion, dream, and disorientation. Now, when in aspect, you may speak of sweet falsehoods because reality, as it stands, is just a bit too coarse,…...

When you have Mercury in aspect to Pluto, your mind is drawn to riddles, mysteries, and inconvenient truths. You’re often found poking around in the intellectual world, lifting veils, peeking behind reality, asking, “But what does it really mean?” You…

Neptune rules over the sign of Pisces, the dreamiest fish in the zodiac, a creature preoccupied with the soul’s yearning. In Rome, it’s Poseidon — an aquatic deity with a temperament of the sea itself: at times tranquil, at others…

The pull of Neptune upon the shores of your Moon is a tide washing over the emotional landscape, softening the hard lines of your emotions and beckoning you into the realm of empathy, intuition, and sometimes, illusion. This transit is…

With Sun conjunct Mars in your natal chart, you might often here a background motivational song. It’s your inner Rocky Balboa montage. You might stumble, hesitate, even cower in the corner at times, but once your purpose clicks into gear,…

The astrologers – the earthbound interpreters of the sky – often label Venus in Aquarius as “detached.” A bit like saying water is “too wet.” What they mean, I suspect, is your affections don’t always manifest in needy declarations. Instead,…...

When Neptune, the dreamy planet of illusion, mysticism, and emotional depths transits the Sun, you might start questioning everything: “Who am I? Am I truly this person, or just a construct? What feels like confusion is often your real self…

Addiction so often masquerades as comfort when in truth it is a beguiling thief, pilfering peace under the guise of temporary relief. How fitting — how tragic — Neptune, the ruler of dreams and delusions, often presides over such slippery slopes….

Question: It is said that Saturn is a tough planet. It will teach you lessons by punishing you or making you lose precious things in life. Saturn is the planet of time. It is a hard to please planet. It…...

When the progressed Moon is sextile Neptune, it has a soft influence over the soul rather than a thunderclap of transformation. What you’re feeling here is an emotional osmosis, a slow soaking of your inner life in the warm bathwater of…

Venus-Pluto doesn’t create love affairs, just as thunder doesn’t create the storm. So much of what plays out in adult love, the affairs, the heartbreaks, the dramas too big for the room, are simply the soul’s most fluent language for…...

The mysterious placement of Pluto in the 3rd house is thought with a torch and a shovel, relentlessly digging, unearthing, and sometimes, setting fire to the flimsy scaffolding of shallow banter. To those with this placement, communication is transformational. Every conversation…...