When you have the Sun sextile Saturn in synastry, there is a reassuring sense between you. You sense the person standing beside you is actually going to remain standing there when life gets hard. You see a solidity in one...
When you have Moon conjunct Moon in synastry, there is often a lovely sense that the two of you have discovered someone who speaks your emotional language. There is a natural familiarity between you. Your emotional instincts have been shaped Continue reading Moon conjunct Moon Synastry
When you have Venus trine Saturn, you approach love with the seriousness of someone reviewing a mortgage application, except the mortgage is your heart and the applicant had better possess emotional maturity, a decent character, and preferably a functioning understanding Continue reading Venus Trine Saturn Natal Apsect
A beautiful chaos is associated with your Pisces nature, and it begins with an outrageous expectation – you should somehow remain a functional human being while possessing an emotional imagination behaving as if the entire universe has been invited to Continue reading Pisces: One Fish Wants Enlightenment, the Other Wants a Bloody Drink
I’m currently writing about the difference between squares and oppositions, those wonderfully maddening hard aspects in astrology, and I have to say, it’s driving me slightly mad. I’m not always happy with what I’ve interpreted, mostly because the more I Continue reading The Square Is Driving Me Mad, and the Opposition Is Watching
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 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
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
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
When Uranus moves across Mercury, your mind gets plugged into a different electrical socket. Thoughts are faster, connections appear where you never noticed them before, and old ways of thinking seem cramped. Ideas rush in. Questions multiply. Curiosity heightens. You Continue reading Uranus Transits Mercury: When New Information Turns the Whole Story Around
The Sun conjunct Ascendant in synastry has a feeling of recognition. It won’t always mean there are violins descending from the heavens. More often it is simpler and therefore more unsettling: you notice each other. The Sun person illuminates the Continue reading Sun Conjunct Ascendant Synastry
When the Sun is conjunct Neptune in synastry, one of you sees the other through a more luminous lens than ordinary life usually allows. Neptune looks at the Sun and sees possibility, beauty, meaning, romance, inspiration. The Sun’s identity, confidence, Continue reading Sun Conjunct Neptune Synastry