Being born under Cancer means you belong to the Moon in the old astrological language, which is dramatic when you think about it. Your ruling body is the enormous pale thing hanging over humanity every night, staring down at everyone...
When Uranus transits Venus, you are entering an emotional upheaval, and it makes you question whether you have been living your own life or playing a convincing supporting role in everyone else’s. And until recently, you probably thought you were...
The 10th house sits at the top of the chart. It is exposed. Visible. Public. There is very little hiding up there. Whatever lives in this part of the chart is pulled toward the world beyond the private self, toward...
An innate wisdom is found in the earth signs. These people understand how life is meant to be touched, tasted, inhabited, and enjoyed. In astrology, this element represents a deeply instinctive relationship with the tangible world. Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn...
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...