The first Saturn return has a cruel little genius to it. It arrives around twenty-eight to thirty, just as you are old enough to know you aren’t a child anymore, but still young enough to feel personally insulted by the...
In Liz Greene’s The Dark of the Soul, which mostly discusses psychopaths, there is a section about the low boredom threshold being part of the psychopath’s psychology. This refers to someone needing constant stimulation. It can reflect a need to...
You were never really built for lukewarm feelings. With the Moon in aspect to Mars, your inner world is wired to respond quickly, honestly, and physically. Emotions are in your blood. In the sudden heat behind your eyes, the sharpness...
The part of the psyche ruled by Mercury wants to understand what on earth is going on here, preferably with a clever explanation attached. It is the mind in motion, the quicksilver faculty. It notices, names, compares, translates, questions, categorizes,...
Occultists like Vera Stanley Alder teach that the stars and planets are living beings evolved to an extent we cannot conceive of. In astrology, we often like to think of the planets as teachers in the great university of the...
According to Tracy Marks, when planets are in the 12th house, there can be something about you that speaks before you do – in a subtler, stranger, more atmospheric way. You may walk into a room and unconsciously broadcast a...
With Mercury in aspect to Neptune, your mind behaves like a radio left on in a dream, picking up stations from three rooms away, two past lives, someone else’s mood, and possibly a whale song that has no business being...
Question: When you hear, “My mother and I don’t get along,” what’s the first astrological explanation that comes to mind? The obvious astrological starting point is usually the Moon under pressure, but the mistake is assuming one difficult Moon aspect...
Question: What in a synastry chart can indicate a party/parties feeling nervous? Like, constantly feeling tense in the other’s presence, and making him/her have a minor speech impediment, like a low speaking voice without confidence, fearing he/she might say something...
Question: This probably isn’t very nice, and I won’t win your favor with this one … but I admit: Today I did something nasty – only because I believe it might confuse and maybe, probably, hurt someone. It was deliberate...
I only recently discovered I have the Moon in the 8th house, after my mother’s birth time changed. Which is a very 8th house sentence, really. Even the birth chart had to keep a secret in the basement and reveal...
When you have a dark Moon, your emotional life is an underground river, black and ancient, moving beneath everything you do. Sometimes it carries you. Sometimes it drags you. Sometimes you are just standing in the kitchen making tea and...