When one person’s Sun sits conjunct the other person’s Midheaven in synastry, there is often a feeling the two of you have wandered into one another’s lives at a meaningful point in your personal development. It can be the normal Continue reading Sun Conjunct Midheaven – M.C Synastry
When you have Mercury in conjunction, square, or opposition to Mars, your mind isn’t exactly a peaceful little garden where thoughts float about like butterflies and everyone agrees over a cup of herbal tea. Good God, no. Your mind is...
Being born under Cancer means you belong to the Moon in the old astrological language, which is dramatic when you think about it. Your ruling body is the enormous pale thing hanging over humanity every night, staring down at everyone...
When Uranus transits Venus, you are entering an emotional upheaval, and it makes you question whether you have been living your own life or playing a convincing supporting role in everyone else’s. And until recently, you probably thought you were...
When one person’s Sun is opposite the other person’s Ascendant in synastry, there is an immediate sense of the two of you standing on opposite sides of the same doorway, staring at one another with a mixture of attraction and Continue reading Sun Opposite Ascendant Synastry
The 10th house sits at the top of the chart. It is exposed. Visible. Public. There is very little hiding up there. Whatever lives in this part of the chart is pulled toward the world beyond the private self, toward...
In astrology, Saturn has a way of touching the places within us where confidence is least natural. Here, our sense of competence is perpetually under construction, and even our genuine accomplishments struggle to silence the doubt that we are somehow Continue reading Saturn: Fifty Years of Feeling Inadequate, Followed by a Modest Improvement Before Death
An innate wisdom is found in the earth signs. These people understand how life is meant to be touched, tasted, inhabited, and enjoyed. In astrology, this element represents a deeply instinctive relationship with the tangible world. Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn...
The 9th house is where life opens its windows after spending an uncomfortable amount of time locked in the basement of the human psyche. There is a meaning to its position in the zodiac, following the 8th house, the dark...
When you have Mercury trine Mars, there is a wonderful sort of energy in the way your mind works. Your thoughts wear running shoes. You possess a lively, instinctive intelligence that dislikes unnecessary detours. You have little patience for intellectual...
Neptune has a number of ways of taking the edge off life. It is part of its magic and part of its danger. We cannot stare directly at every painful reality twenty-four hours a day without eventually becoming unbearable company, Continue reading Neptune: The Lies We Tell Ourselves to Keep Going
Pluto, as we understand it astrologically, rules trauma, but trauma doesn’t only remain inside the person who carries it. We often imagine the wound as a private ordeal, a locked room somewhere deep in the psyche where one person suffers...