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...
Question: I have the Moon in aspect to Uranus and just recently bought a book that described it in a way I have never come across. I have this aspect in my chart and very much related to the description....
It has took a long time to separate astrology from the idea it requires psychic powers. Astrology can be approached as a symbolic language, a map of patterns, a contemplative art, a way of understanding cycles, temperament, development, and the...
The Moon in the 6th house is the shy little priestess of continuity, the laundress of the psyche, the bit of the chart quietly asking whether you’ve had enough water and why your wardrobe is in such a state. There...
When Uranus meets Mars by transit, there is no more polite idling, it’s time make some sparks.” It is one of those astrological moments many people experience as abrupt, electric, and impossible to ignore. The atmosphere around you can seem...
In astrology, the planets are universal, but there are only so many of them, which at first sounds like a terrible system for explaining eight billion complicated people. The raw materials are limited, but the combinations are not. This is...