The Sun is treated as the most important planet, the center of being, the emblem of selfhood, and yet it is also the bit everybody knows. It is the most exalted symbol and the most publicly flattened. The Sun becomes...
People adore synastry because it promises a shortcut to the great riddle of human closeness. We want to know, “Do we fit? Are we destined? Is this person my moonlit twin flame or just a charming liability?” And so many...
The Moon in the 9th house is the wandering heart, the expansive soul, the emotional traveler clutching a passport in one hand and a question about the meaning of existence in the other. When the Moon lives in this realm,...
Venus is charm, attraction, taste, ease, beauty, receptivity, diplomacy, and social grace. So when Venus energy enters the 10th house, which concerns reputation, public image, vocation, visibility, achievement, and the way one is seen by the world at large, these...
Astrology is a living field, a pattern of potential that is continually being awakened, challenged, ripened, provoked, and revised through time. Astrologers will often use words like balance, wholeness, and integration, but they aren’t usually describing a finished state. They...
The natal chart is the pattern through which you tend to meet life. When astrologers often speak of “wholeness being reflected by the chart,” they usually mean the chart is a symbolic map of the whole psyche: instincts, conflicts, gifts,...
Here we are lunar deep. The Moon is your instinctive emotional nature, your need for safety, your memories, your body’s way of feeling before the mind has even gets switched on. The 8th house is no light, breezy house. It...
The planets in astrology are often understood as the living urges within the psyche. Without them, a birth chart is rather empty. The signs and houses provide the setting and the style, but the planets provide the motion, the trouble,...
Mars is so obvious that people mistake him for being simple. He is all heat and appetite and immediate intent. People think, “Well, Mars is easy. Action. Sex. Anger. Done.” But this is like saying fire is merely hot. Fire...
In astrology, the Moon in the 7th house is the great silver pudding of feeling that gets poured straight into the realm of partnership, marriage, attachment, and one-to-one bonds. It suggests relationships are one of the main places where the...
Mother themes in astrology so often become an outsourcing operation. In a particularly mythic mood, the Moon in astrology and mother can become this giant symbolic storage tank where we deposit everything messy, engulfing, needy, manipulative, sorrowful, hungry, unreasonable, tidal,...
Question: Do the Nodes represent spiritual development opportunities? The North Node is a direction, a widening of space itself. Emerson puts it cleanly. There is one direction in which space is open to us. It suggests that life subtly responds...