Water remembers before we know we are remembering. Here we have left the clean, bright realm of thought, where things can be named, organized, debated, and made to sit politely in chairs. Water lives beneath this. It is the basement...
Earth is where spirit stops being a beautiful idea and starts having weight, texture, cost, appetite, and consequences. It is the element of incarnation, the place where invisible life condenses into form. A desire becomes a possession. A value becomes...
The cadent houses are where life starts moving again after becoming too solid, too certain, too attached. If the angular houses are the great beginnings and the succedent houses are the places where those beginnings gather weight, the cadent houses...
The angular houses are where life kicks the door open. They are beginnings, confrontations, declarations, entrances. They are the places where something immediate happens: identity rises, relationship appears, home roots itself, vocation calls. But beginnings, dramatic as they are, are...
The myth of Persephone is one of the most haunting ways to understand Pluto. It speaks to the part of us being taken before it knows how to consent to being changed. Pluto is more than “intensity,” as people like...
Psychological astrology begins with a rather loaded idea: you didn’t arrive here as a tiny spiritual being waiting to be imprinted by whoever happened to be holding the bottle. You came in already with certain expectations, sensitivities, images, hungers, and...
One person with Saturn emphasized in the chart strongly felt as though they didn’t fit into the crowd. When Saturn is strong in you, you may feel as though you were born with an old soul and a slightly suspicious...
Your birthplace translates into the chart. Astrology is concerned with what was happening in the sky, but also with how the sky was meeting you from one exact place on Earth. The planets may have been arranged in their signs...
The first Saturn return has a cruel little genius to it. It arrives around twenty-eight to thirty, just as you are old enough to know you aren’t a child anymore, but still young enough to feel personally insulted by the...
In Liz Greene’s The Dark of the Soul, which mostly discusses psychopaths, there is a section about the low boredom threshold being part of the psychopath’s psychology. This refers to someone needing constant stimulation. It can reflect a need to...
You were never really built for lukewarm feelings. With the Moon in aspect to Mars, your inner world is wired to respond quickly, honestly, and physically. Emotions are in your blood. In the sudden heat behind your eyes, the sharpness...
The part of the psyche ruled by Mercury wants to understand what on earth is going on here, preferably with a clever explanation attached. It is the mind in motion, the quicksilver faculty. It notices, names, compares, translates, questions, categorizes,...