Question: This probably isn’t very nice, and I won’t win your favor with this one … but I admit: Today I did something nasty – only because I believe it might confuse and maybe, probably, hurt someone. It was deliberate...
I only recently discovered I have the Moon in the 8th house, after my mother’s birth time changed. Which is a very 8th house sentence, really. Even the birth chart had to keep a secret in the basement and reveal...
When you have a dark Moon, your emotional life is an underground river, black and ancient, moving beneath everything you do. Sometimes it carries you. Sometimes it drags you. Sometimes you are just standing in the kitchen making tea and...
With Neptune in the 4th house, home is a feeling you are always trying to find, remember, create, or return to. For you, the idea of home carries a longing. It is a psychic shoreline. A place where the soul...
When you have Moon opposite Venus, you are carrying two goddesses in the same aspect in your psyche. One part of you wants comfort, familiarity, emotional safety, the soft blanket, the known smell of home. Another part of you wants...
When you have Venus aligned with Uranus, love arrives as beautiful, dangerous, illuminating, and frankly a bit unusual in its timing. Something in you longs for an alive, electric, unmistakably different connection from the usual human bargain of “you validate...
When your progressed Midheaven moves into Aries, something in your outer life begins to stand up straighter. It isn’t always dramatic at first. There may be no lightning bolt, no heroic soundtrack, no sudden urge to wear red and challenge...
When you have Moon square Venus in aspect, there is often a little civil war inside you between what comforts you and what you believe makes you lovable. One part of you wants safety, softness, familiar emotional warmth, the old...
The elements in astrology are one of the oldest ways of sorting human nature into broad psychological categories. The elements give us a basic language for temperament. They show whether someone tends to move through life like flame, wind, soil,...
With a strong 11th house, you can sometimes feel part of your life has been outsourced to humanity at large, which is tough because humanity, as a group project, has historically been a mixed bag. Something in you finds it...
When you have the 10th house emphasized, you are dealing with one of the most visible parts of the chart, the place where the private self begins to cast a public shadow. This is less the visibility in the immediate...
When you have the 9th house emphasized, something in you refuses to live inside a small room of certainty. You may function perfectly well in ordinary life, but underneath it all there is a larger hunger. You want your life...