In astrology, Pluto is the dark horse, the debt collector, and the therapist of the solar system. It wields a power wholly disproportionate to its diminutive size. It’s not just a planet (or dwarf planet, if you insist on technicalities); it’s an archetype, a force, a mythic reminder that no shadow remains unexamined forever. It…...
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Pluto Transits Mercury: When Someone Rats You Out
When Pluto transits to Mercury in your natal chart, it’s a time where secrets teeter on the brink of revelation. Pluto is the shadowy keeper of transformation and hidden depths, is not one to leave things half-done. It’s the archetypal investigator—turning over the rocks of your psyche, shining its torchlight into the dark, forgotten recesses…...
Sun Conjunct Moon Aspect: The New Moon Soul
The Sun conjunct Moon aspect symbolizes a powerhouse of energies, and is a. The Sun is your golden harbinger of destiny; it points towards the road ahead, to the future. The Moon, our ever-watchful keeper of dreams and shadows, cradles the tender past. In a conjunction, these two archetypal forces align, creating a moment of…...
The Conjunction Aspect: Here Lies the Heart of the Matter
When it comes to the conjunction, it’s like two planets sidle up to each other, leaning close enough to tell one another’s secrets—or bicker, depending on their mood. Historically, astrologers took a broad-brush approach: “If they’re in the same sign, they’re conjunct, as though proximity in the same sign made them kindred spirits. Modern astrologers,…...
The Difference Between Venus and Mars
Venus and Mars are Bonnie and Clyde of our mythological psyche. Each embodying their own potent archetypes. Venus is the attractor—the gravitational pull of our better, softer inclinations. She’s the promise of beauty and pleasure, the longing for connection, the glow of candlelight on a hopeful first date. Venus doesn’t need to chase; she simply is. Mars,…...
Mercury-Jupiter: The Next Volume
With Mercury in aspect to Jupiter, your mind is full of grand ideas rather than tedious details. It’s not the mundane particulars that catch your eye; it’s the patterns, the meaning, the grander why that sets your inner world alight. A noble pursuit indeed! But beware: the stars, while generous, also hold their lessons. This…...
Venus Conjunct Pluto Synastry
The drama of Venus conjunct Pluto in a synastry chart is a cocktail so potent that it can leave one drunk on the heady fumes of desire, transformation, and a bit of obsession too! When Venus, the deity of love, beauty, and connection, sidles up to Pluto, the brooding lord of the underworld, the result…...
Mercury-Mars Aspects: Your Words Are Your Armor and Your Weapon
If Mercury is the messenger of the gods, darting about with ideas and insights, Mars is the warrior, slicing through nonsense with the precision of a blade. Together, they make you a linguistic fighter, parrying irrelevance and thrusting toward honest communication. How noble, how necessary—but also, how potentially exasperating for you when others insist on…...
Exploring Joy on Different Worlds: Jupiter and Neptune
Jupiter lives on abundance, expansion, and optimism. This happiness is the boisterous kind—imagine a wise but jovial teacher, throwing open the doors of a classroom to the universe and shouting, “Learn everything! Experience it all!” It’s joy derived from growth, from success, and from finding meaning in the ever-expanding possibilities of existence. Jupiter’s happiness is…...
Neptune in the 9th House: Nostradamus
With Neptune in the 9th house, it means your bound for the outer edges of comprehension, yet unsure if the destination is a place, an idea, or an illusion. This placement practically begs for a life spent pondering the ineffable, drawn to the horizons of knowledge, belief, and experience. Here, Neptune’s truth might not be…...
Mercurious: The Philosopher’s Stone
In astrology, Mercury is the zippy little planet that’s both the smallest and fastest, gliding around the Sun as if it were late for an appointment. It’s a veritable embodiment of movement, transformation, and cunning intelligence. Mercury as both a planetary body and a mythological figure is a multidimensional being. It stays close to the…...
Mercury-Venus Aspects: What Is Beauty?
With Mercury and Venus—these two planets, bound by proximity—can only form the most intimate and harmonious of aspects. Their potential aspects—conjunction, sextile, and semi-square—each carry a sense of amiability, social grace, and artistic skill. When Mercury (the messenger) comes into contact with Venus (the lover and aesthete), the result is often a person whose thoughts…...