When you have the Moon trine Mercury in your chart, your mind knows how to sit beside your heart without trying to correct it. There is something graceful in the way your feelings and your thoughts seem able to recognize...
With the Moon in aspect to Saturn, you learned early that love was not always a soft place to land. For you, feeling safe may have come wrapped in conditions, silences, responsibilities, or the vague but powerful sense you had...
Astrology is often most illuminating when it wanders into the territory of psychology, because this is where symbols start becoming uncomfortably, beautifully human. What it reveals is the contradictions we all carry, the desires disowned, the wounds defended, and the...
Question: What does a planet do when it transits to the 12th house? What are its effects and how do you deal with its energy? When powerful transits move through your 12th house, life can become difficult to describe in...
When Taurus and Scorpio pull against each other in you, life can feel like a conversation between the part of you wanting to build a beautiful garden and the part who knows gardens do not stay untouched forever. One side...
The planet ruling your rising sign often behaves like the master key to your whole nature. It isn’t the entirety of you, because human beings can never fit into one neat category, but it does set the tone in a...
With Mercury in aspect to Neptune, where some people think with intention, marching from point A to point B, you often think by atmosphere, by association, by feeling your way through invisible threads. Thought for you is something you enter...
Question: I’m currently immersed in Jung’s magnum opus, The Red Book, and it has sparked some intriguing thoughts. Jung, a practitioner who incorporated astrology into his work, had a an aspect in his own natal chart: a close square between...
When Saturn transits Mercury in your life, your mind stops being a playground and starts feeling a little more like an office. Not a glamorous image, I know. Nobody wants more paperwork unless they are deeply unwell or trying to...
When you have Pluto in the 5th house, you are unable to move through love, pleasure, creativity, or desire in a light, casual way. Even when you try to, even when part of you wishes you could flirt with life...
People often write about this configuration with a little too much pity and not enough awe. Yes, it can scatter concentration. Yes, it can produce confusion, loss, self-deception, misplaced work, vanished facts, and a peculiar relationship to ordinary necessity. But it can also make language luminous. A mind like this may not remember where it put the paper, but it may know, with unnerving intimacy, the deeper interpretation of an event.
The Moon has always carried a strange hold over the human imagination, and it doesn’t need to shout to be obeyed. It simply appears, changes, disappears, returns, and in doing so reminds us of something both comforting and unnerving: life...