7 Days of Self Care: Creating a Balanced Routine with Planetary Days
If you’re up on the latest self-care trends, you know that self care isn’t all bath bombs and shopping sprees. Sometimes self-care means doing things like creating a budget.
But knowing that you sometimes need to do the hard thing and Adult in the name of self-care isn’t enough to find balance.
How do you know when it’s time to get take-out and when you should put on a pot of lentils and eat your vegetables?
The Best Mantra for Your Sun Sign to Fuel Your Personal Growth
Tolstoy said, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” With sun signs it’s the opposite. Healthy expressions of the signs are all different, a reflection of the individual. When a sign runs into trouble, it tends to look the same for everyone.
How to Ask Good Divination Questions
Divination is fundamentally a problem-solving tool designed to help you see clearly, anticipate problems, and be proactive about fixing them.
The Challenges of Living with Aries and the Warrior Archetype
One of the difficulties of working with archetypes is that they have the tendency to get stuck in time without anyone realizing it.
The Warrior, for example, is an archetype that seems pretty easy to understand: A warrior is someone who fights, right?
But where in the modern world do you find the Warrior?
Aries in the Wild: Living in the Shadow of Civilization
There is something wild in us that never climbed down from the trees, an inner cryptid that lives by the law of tooth and claw. It is the shadow of civilization, the part of us that must be sacrificed for peace. Like all shadows, it reasserts itself in ways we don't approve of when we turn our backs and refuse to acknowledge it.
Talking Electional Astrology with Erin of Trine the Streets Astrology
In this interview, I talk with Erin of Trine the Streets Astrology about electional astrology.
The Best Self-Care Routine For Your Moon Sign
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to self-care, but your moon sign can help you find the right approach for you.
What Is The Moon In Astrology?
The moon is one of the most important symbols in astrology. It describes your personal recipe for happiness and self-care.
Publications Roundup: Tea Gifts for the Signs and Astrology Books for Beginners
I recently had the opportunity to publish a few articles around the web.
Why Are Horoscopes Always Wrong? (And Why This Astrologer Writes Them Anyway)
Writing horoscopes for the collective is hard, and most of the horoscopes you read aren’t for you. But with a little skill, you can figure out how to make a good horoscope relevant to your story.
The Astrology of Turning 36: When You Really, Finally Feel Grownup
Indian astrologers say that Saturn comes of age at 36 years old. What does that look like from the inside?
What is Astrology Good For? An Outsider Critique of the Dominant Narrative
Astrologers are the Necessary Other, standing outside of dominant cultural narratives and providing alternate interpretations.
Venus in the 12th House: Why It’s Time to Find Pleasure in Solitude
The day Venus moved into my 12th house was one of those high-drama days. I felt like I was made of glass. Every social interaction felt like it left a chip or a crack. Issues with my social circle that I had been coping with adequately for months boiled over all at once.
Venus is supposed to be a benefic planet, so it was surprising to experience a Venus transit that way.
One of the qualities of the benefics, however, is that they try to improve whatever they touch.
Uranus in Taurus: What Is the Price of Freedom?
How much are your values and your freedom worth to you? How much do you have to be paid to give them up?
What is the Purpose of Mythology?: Seeds of Hope in Cupid and Psyche
A myth plants a seed of desire that grows quietly in the unconscious, urging us to make it real. It does this by introducing us to characters that we relate to and putting them in scenarios that give us instructions for how to manifest the things we desire in our lives for ourselves.
Last Day to Register for Renegades Unleashed
Today is the last day to register for my class on Uranus in astrology.
Taurus Season: Let Me Find Peace
In his Book of Earth, Steven Forrest talks about the Taurus need to get your peace foot forward. I have been learning about that first hand during Taurus season this year.
Google in the Age of Air: The Drama of the First Uranus Square
Google recently decided to allow their employees to choose to work remotely. This is a big turn-around from Google’s position on remote work historically. The company’s birth chart and current Uranus transit might explain the logic behind the change.
The Challenges of Night Sect People in a Day Sect World
Over the centuries, the myth of Cupid and Psyche has been seen as an allegory for many different sets of values. I see it as a metaphor for the trials of the moon ruled.
Sun Dominant People in Astrology: When Is Self-Actualization Better Than Ego Transcendence?
There are people who are on this planet to transcend the ego. I am not one of them.
It has taken me a lot of work to be able to write the last two sentences with that much certainty and authority.
I have always been a very spiritual person, and most spiritual traditions teach that you should transcend the flesh and the ego. I’ve always resisted these ideas at a fundamental level.
Until I discovered astrology, I thought that made me a “bad person” who needed to work against my instincts and desires, but studying my chart has helped me to understand why the language of individuation has always resonated so much more strongly for me than the language of transcendence.