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Nuts & Bolts: The Natal Chart
A birth chart is a blueprint, your map for navigating the world. It contains everything your soul brought with it into this life, all the potential, all the needs and preoccupations, all the tasks to be completed and lessons learned. In astrology EVERYTHING starts...
Changing The Script
“I’m so tired.“ How many times a day do you find yourself saying that? WHY are you tired? What are you tired OF? What is robbing you of your energy and life force? Vitality is a birthright. We came into this world bursting with the joy of...
Taking the Bull by the Horns
Jupiter loves Taurus. The Planet of Excessive Enthusiasms has been traveling through the Sign of Earthy Delights since May, spending madly—since Uranus, the Erratic Genius, has also been there—accruing expensive toys and luxurious experiences all summer. ...
Venus-Directed
Venus is about the things we value—who and what we cherish, where our time and money goes, what delights our eye or pleases our palate. Our hearts; our muses; our wallets. So, when she goes Retrograde in the sky—as she does every 18 months or so—it’s time to...
Proceeding According to Precedent
Proceeding According to Precedent “Unprecedented” is one of the latest buzz-words, followed frequently by the phrase, “not ideal”. It sure isn’t. For an astrologer, the idea’s absurd. Astrology—the study of stars—is built on cycles observed over millennia....
Reading the Astro-Weather
Periodically, I get panicked emails from clients asking how to handle the astral weather out there. It doesn't have to be disaster-scrolling. Here’s a quick-and-dirty cheat-sheet: Transits. Don’t let ‘em throw you. If the planet is fast-moving,...
Astral Weather, or Why It’s Good To Check In With the Stars
I’m always amused when someone says to me, “No, thanks, I’ve already had my chart done.” Really? Good for you! You never have to listen to a meteorological report again, because you already know when it’s going to rain. But if you want more information about snow, or...
Wading In On Roe v. Wade
At the end of summer, yellow-jacket wasps slow down with the coming chill. They seem to know it will kill them, and they get mean, stinging without provocation. Waning dictatorships behave similarly: they feel power slipping from their grasp, and they lash...
Snow White and the 130 Dwarves
“The Universe is expanding.” That’s Alvy Singer’s response to a psychologist asking why he’s depressed, in the 1977 classic film Annie Hall. “What is that your business?!?” his exasperated mother screams; and we laugh. Well, astrologers aren’t laughing...