The planet ruling your rising sign often behaves like the master key to your whole nature. It isn’t the entirety of you, because human beings can never fit into one neat category, but it does set the tone in a...
With Mercury in aspect to Neptune, where some people think with intention, marching from point A to point B, you often think by atmosphere, by association, by feeling your way through invisible threads. Thought for you is something you enter...
Question: I’m currently immersed in Jung’s magnum opus, The Red Book, and it has sparked some intriguing thoughts. Jung, a practitioner who incorporated astrology into his work, had a an aspect in his own natal chart: a close square between...
When Saturn transits Mercury in your life, your mind stops being a playground and starts feeling a little more like an office. Not a glamorous image, I know. Nobody wants more paperwork unless they are deeply unwell or trying to...
When you have Pluto in the 5th house, you are unable to move through love, pleasure, creativity, or desire in a light, casual way. Even when you try to, even when part of you wishes you could flirt with life...
People often write about this configuration with a little too much pity and not enough awe. Yes, it can scatter concentration. Yes, it can produce confusion, loss, self-deception, misplaced work, vanished facts, and a peculiar relationship to ordinary necessity. But it can also make language luminous. A mind like this may not remember where it put the paper, but it may know, with unnerving intimacy, the deeper interpretation of an event.
The Moon has always carried a strange hold over the human imagination, and it doesn’t need to shout to be obeyed. It simply appears, changes, disappears, returns, and in doing so reminds us of something both comforting and unnerving: life...
Venus-Pluto carries the scent of a garden just before a storm: roses, earth splitting underneath, beauty leaning ever so slightly toward danger. It speaks to the moment in the soul when love becomes transformative, when sweetness is no longer just...
With the Moon conjunct Mercury in your chart, you think about your feelings, you speak them, breathe them, sometimes even trip over them. There’s no neat boundary in you where emotion ends and logic begins; the two are tangled together,...
When your progressed Moon moves into Aries, something in you stops waiting at the door and finally walks outside. The emotional weather changes. You become less interested in consensus, less willing to shape yourself into something agreeable before you have...
When Saturn moves across your Moon, it has a way of pressing on the softest part of you with the cold finger of reality. It often shows up as a heaviness in the emotional weather, you sense the places where...
When you have the Moon in the 12th house, you absorb feelings, marinate in them, get ambushed by them in quiet moments when the world has finally shut up long enough for your inner life to start speaking. Your emotional...