When Jupiter touches Mercury in your life, your mind begins to stretch its legs. It is as though some cramped little room inside you suddenly gets windows, big ridiculous, sunlit ones that make you wonder why you were ever sitting...
The Sun and Moon are the great lights of the personality. In astrology, they are called the luminaries, which already sounds important enough. They are not planets in the technical sense, but symbolically they hold enormous power because they describe...
When Jupiter moves across your Moon, something in you begins to loosen. You may find yourself breathing a little deeper, trusting life a little more, softening in places you didn’t even realize had been braced for impact. Your inner world...
When you have Moon conjunct Venus, something in you instinctively understands softness. You know how to make a room feel safer. Your emotional nature reaches toward beauty. Harmony is your emotional oxygen. There is a deeply nurturing quality here, it...
Planets in the 12th house are often emotionally loaded. It is often because they don’t come into the world through the front door. They tend to move behind the scenes. They sit behind the 1st house, behind the visible self,...
When you have transiting Pluto aspecting Chiron, the obvious symbolism is intensity, exposure, excavation, death-rebirth, and the psychological realm. Chiron is the wound, the hurt place, the old injury. So when these two meet, something in you is being dragged...
When you have the Moon opposite Mercury, one part of you feels everything in tides, atmospheres, tiny emotional patterns no one else has noticed yet. Another part of you wants to name it, explain it, organize it neatly into sentences,...
When progressed Mars moves into the 9th house, your drive begins looking for a larger landscape. This part of you wants to act, pursue, push, fight, desire, and initiate. But it becomes less interested in circling the same familiar pond...
When Jupiter moves across your Sun, something in you begins to stretch toward the light. Your soul has loosened. You may find yourself feeling bigger inside your own life, as though the walls that once seemed fixed have quietly moved...
When Saturn transits Pluto, you aren’t being invited into a light little self-improvement era where you buy a journal, drink more water, and suddenly become a superior version of yourself with fewer emotional problems. This is deeper. This is pressure...
When Saturn moves through Neptune’s waters, you may feel, during this kind of period, as though something soft inside you is being pressed against the hard edge of reality. Your ideals, longings, spiritual beliefs, romantic fantasies, creative inspirations, and private...
When Saturn transits Uranus, you are caught between two very different inner gods. One part wants certainty, a plan, a roof over your head, and trustworthy life. Another part wants freedom, disruption, fresh air, rebellion, experiment, escape, and the possibility...