Venus and Chiron in synastry create an interplay of love and pain, beauty and vulnerability. This is something that many of us know all too well, whether we’re aware of it or not. It’s saying, “Yes, love is beautiful, but let’s not forget it’s also bloody complicated.” When Venus, the embodiment of love, grace, and…...
The “four functions” are a key idea in the psychological theory of Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung. According to Jung, people perceive and interact with the world via the use of their rational thinking (air), emotional feeling (water), sensory experience (earth), and intuitive insight (fire). People born under the Earth signs are more likely…...
Question: Since I don’t know much about synastry, I have to ask: If Venus trines Saturn in two charts, does one person or the other feel more loyalty? In synastry, Venus trine Saturn, while it may lack the passion, it strengthens the relationship through thick and thin. Venus, with all her charm, grace, and affection,…...
Uranus trine the Ascendant suggests you give off the kind of liberated ease that many people spend years trying to cultivate. You’re free. Not the “I’ve-got-the-weekend-off” kind of free, but an existential, soul-deep freedom that lets you be delightfully, irrepressibly you. This aspect blesses you with a natural flair for uniqueness, which is a rare…...
With this Venusian placement, it’s a fiery, subterranean cauldron of passion, where love is not some dalliance but a full-bodied, soul-enveloping experience. With Venus in Scorpio, the combination of love and mystery, it is a bit like wandering into a midnight forest, cloaked in mist, but you’re not afraid—you are the mist. This intensity, this…...
Jennifer Lawson lives with rheumatoid arthritis, depression, anxiety, avoidant personality disorder, and mild obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, even with all this to contend with, she is not only surviving but thriving in the way she alchemizes her pain into art and her struggles into stories that resonate across the human experience. The heavens themselves seem to…...
The Sun is the star at the centre of our solar system, and in astrology, it represents who you are becoming and why you landed on Earth with a thud. All the planets revolve around it, and our everyday experience of light and dark, as well as our passage through the seasons, are all influenced…...
Neptune’s influence typically fills you with lofty ideals and visions, often making them seem unattainable or disconnected from reality. However, when transiting Saturn’s stabilizing energy interacts with Neptune through a trine, it brings a rare harmony between your dreams and the practical steps needed to achieve them. This aspect allows you to channel your inspirations…...
Pluto’s transit through the 4th house (crossing the I.C) IS a seismic event in the horoscope that shifts your psychological bedrock, rattles the foundation, and invites you to go in the shadowy underworld of the psyche. This is no superficial journey. With Pluto as your guide, expect to uncover long-buried memories and conditioning. This transit…...
Venus conjunct, square or opposite Saturn, these aspects often carve out a complicated emotional landscape where one might feel unlovable, or perhaps worse, unsure of how to be loved without conditions or performance. You see, Saturn, with all his rules and regulations, brings a bit of tough love to the Venus. “Yes,” he says, “you…
Transits symbolize the ebbs and flows of life, the unexpected turns that challenge us and inspire us. They force us to confront our agency in shaping our destinies. We are confronted with the question: How much control do we truly exert over our lives? As the old adage suggests, some people make things happen, seizing…...
Question: When Neptune is in transit, why does it feel like the tide is coming in and washing over me, revealing things I’ve been blind to and drowning me under a tsunami of stuff I can’t handle? Neptune is the elusive force in our astrological charts that weaves dreams into reality and reality into dreams…....