12th House Profection Year: It's Time to Let Go and Start a New Life
12th house profection years are all about dissolving old identities so that you can step into new ones. Astrologers tend to focus on the ways that can be a traumatic experience, but when you have built your identity around an idea that is false and doesn’t serve you, 12th house experiences can be liberating.
5 Lessons From My 12th House Profection Year
My 12th house profection year is almost over. I feel like I have reached the top of a tall mountain, and I am surveying the terrain I’ve traveled. Since I am in a reflective mood, I thought I’d share some of the lessons I’ve learned.
Uranus in Taurus: Finding the Courage to Just Be
The digitization of human connection during the pandemic has created a situation where having Taurus-like relationships that put individual embodiment needs over the dictates of a society that rewards a strictly virtual existence can be a revolutionary act.
Progressed Virgo Ascendant: The Joy of Service
As a child, I was a bad Leo rising stereotype. Now that I’m an adult, the influence of Virgo has taught me the joy of service.
Reading Your Birth Chart: How to Put Planets, Signs, and Houses Together
One of the most fundamental skills an astrologer needs to have is the ability to read a planet and its sign and house as a complete unit.
A Quick + Dirty Technique for Reading a Birth Chart With Archetypes
Reading a birth chart can be overwhelming, but archetypes can help you get to the heart of a chart quickly and easily.
Opposites Attract: Finding the Signs that Complement You
We have a natural instinct that we are not entirely complete in ourselves. We need people in our ensembles to balance out the things we lack.
Finding Your Adventuring Party with Astrological Archetypes
I’ve written about the benefits of thinking of yourself as belonging to an ensemble cast or an adventuring party. An ensemble cast is made up of people who have different personalities and skills, who are going after a common goal. Their goal binds them together. Their differences make each member valuable and special because each person brings something to the group no one else has.
But how do you go about finding your adventuring party?
The Astrologer is Present
I am only now coming to realize that some of the essential work of narrative astrology is to celebrate astrology as a language to tell stories about ourselves and our lives.
Firdaria: Outline the Story of Your Life
Sun people and moon people need an entirely different instruction manual for going through life, and the medieval timing technique Firdaria can help you put your outline together.
Sect in Astrology: Are You a Sun Person or a Moon Person?
For decades, modern astrology didn’t have very much to say to people who didn’t identify with their sun sign, but astrologers translating ancient texts in the 1990s discovered that the sun wasn’t always seen as the most important planet in the chart.
According to the Hellenistic doctrine of sect, there are times when the other planets look to the moon for leadership and guidance.
How Transits Can Help You Write Your Own Life Story
How do you know what transits to focus on right now, and once you have a list… What do you do with it?
How Astrology Can Boost Your Full Moon Magic
Full Moons are powerful times for setting intentions and casting spells. With a little bit of astrological knowledge, you can make your workings even more powerful.
Become Your Own Astrologer: Write Transit Stories with the Outer Planets
In this post, I teach you how to read transits like stories.
Become Your Own Astrologer: Think Seasonally
Working with an astrology planner can be overwhelming. There are so many transits to interpret, you have to prioritize.
One way to figure out which transits to focus on is to think seasonally.
New Moon in Pisces: Can We Do This Later, Please?
Astrological transits are like ocean tides. Sometimes, you have to swim against the tide, even though it’s hard.
First Uranus Sextile: Love is a Revolution
Before I could find relationships that make me happy, I had to learn that they existed. This is the story of how that happened.
The Astrology of Hard Times: Learning to See in the Dark
Too many people travel through the underworld blind because they’re so determined to see the light, they refuse to learn to see in the dark.
A Shockingly Simple Journaling Practice to Boost Your Work with Transits
If you're like me, you've had this experience many times:
An astrologer suggests looking at what was happening the last time the transit happened to understand the moment, and you can’t remember.
The solution I've found is a shockingly simple journaling practice.
How Freewriting Can Make You a Better Astrologer
Freewriting can help you to tune into transits and observe their impact on your thoughts and mood.