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...
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...
As a Pisces, you live close to the shoreline where the self meets everything outside it, and the border is open. You have a porous quality. Life gets in. Other people get in. Atmospheres get in. There is a vastness to...
As a Capricorn, you have one of the strangest symbols in the zodiac: the old goat-fish, part creature of the mountain and part creature of the depths. It is an odd little mythological arrangement when you think about it. Half...
Dear Virgo, you have somehow acquired the zodiac’s reputation for being the critic. It is slightly unfair. You don’t necessarily want to criticize everything. You just possess an an irritating sensitivity to discrepancy. You notice the crooked picture frame, the...
When you have Mercury conjunct Venus in your natal chart, your mind would never turn up anywhere looking disheveled. Even your thoughts seem to brush their hair before leaving the house. Seriously, words matter to you beyond their dictionary definitions....
As a Taurus, you belong to the best part of spring, and there is a hidden meaning in this placement. The first green shoot fighting its way through cold soil, trembling with the drama of arrival isn’t you. You are...
When Uranus moves across the Moon, the emotional life begins to refuse old contracts. Whatever once agreed to stay quiet, accommodate, wait, cling, endure, or keep the peace is now slipping its little hands out of the arrangement. At first,...
The 8th house frightens people partly due to the word most closely associated with it: death. It holds the same uneasy reputation as drawing the Death card in Tarot, where the imagination immediately races toward coffins, endings, and ominous music...
The 6th house has a quietness to it, and so it makes it easy to underestimate. It is likely to be found in the kitchen at seven in the morning, rinsing yesterday’s coffee cup while privately wondering how exactly a...
The 5th house wants to come alive in full color. It is closely associated with Leo and the Sun, so its territory revolves around radiance, creative expression, pleasure, play, romance, children, artistic instinct, recreation, and the deeply human desire to...