Astrology at the End of the World
Perhaps, astrology can help us find a balance between the language of the head and the heart, and in that balance we can travel more hopefully into the dark.
The Most Helpful Sign for Personal Growth
Astrology’s individualized approach can help you level up your personal growth. It helps you develop an accurate model of your strengths and weaknesses, and that self-awareness helps you to zero in on the practices that will be most effective.
All of the signs can help you grow, but one sign is a particularly useful guide in your personal growth journey.
Leo and the Lonely Child
It is common for people with strong Leo placements to feel like lonely children, left alone in their crib to cry in the dark. They may shine. They may be natural performers, but those qualities are the least of their concern. What they want more than anything is to belong in a constellation of stars, to dance and play with the others forever.
Cancer in the 12th House: Cruise Control
I am writing this at the end of Gemini season. I am still in the flurry of intellectual energy, but I can see Cancer coming like a stop sign at the end of a highway. I still have energy, but my body is telling me that I need to downshift and slow down soon, or I am going to crash.
Saturn-Neptune Conjunction: Let's Do Real Magic
Lately, when I look at the magical scene, I feel a lot of despair. Magic is everywhere, and magic is nowhere. The marketplace is full of snake oil salesmen selling bottles of greed. I am so disgusted that I spend more time than I should looking up at the sky and trying to figure out which planet is most likely to come in like a storm and sweep it all away… with Real Magic.
An Experiment: Weaving Together Firdaria and Progressed Moon Phases
Recently, I was experimenting with Firdaria and progressed moon phases. Both techniques allow you to divide your life into chapters, and I was curious to see if looking at them side-by-side would illuminate anything for me.
My 12th house Profection Year... 3 Years Later
By the time I reached my 12th house year in my 30s, I was darkly glad that I would never have children. All the better for my theoretical children to have another mother better equipped for the job. During my 12th house year, my opinion of myself changed.
The Joys of Saturn: Why Aging Is Easier for Saturn and Capricorn People
Saturn and Capricorn have a harder time in youth but an easier time aging, because they learn important lessons about limitations and boundaries early in life.
Pluto in Scorpio and Sedna in Taurus: The Scouring of the Shire
What do the hobbits at the end of The Lord of the Rings have in common with the Pluto in Scorpio (and Sedna in Taurus) generation? Quite a lot, actually.
Diving With Sedna: An Astrologer’s Journey Begins
In 2024, I started including the dwarf planet Sedna in astrology readings. Sedna is named for an Inuit goddess of the sea and the underworld. My work with her is new, but I’ve already found her to be a powerful force for healing and transformation.
How Pluto Transits Can Change Your Life: Reflecting on Pluto Square Pluto
Pluto transits can be life-changing, marking periods of growth, pain, and transformation. During the Pluto square, each planet that has been impacted by those Pluto transits meets up with Pluto again for “trips down memory lane,” bringing up old memories and experiences. This can be a time of healing and reflection, as we are invited to look back at the past and ask ourselves how we have healed and where we still hurt.
Taurus in the Age of Pluto in Aquarius
Even when Jupiter and Uranus leave Taurus, we will need some people to continue wearing lead shoes. Some of us need to visit the cemeteries, keep the physical archives, and relish the smell of the good earth in spring. We need people who will remember that we need to eat physical food sometimes, that we can’t live on data and air.
As a Taurus, I suppose one of those grumpy, earthy people is going to be me.
Psyche in the Underworld: Asteroid Psyche Conjunct Pluto
When asteroid Psyche is conjunct Pluto, Psyche is reenacting her descent to the underworld in mythic time. As we travel with her, we face our shadows, heroes, and villains.
Natural Rulers of the 8th and 12th Houses: Where are Mars and Jupiter?
On the surface, this may seem like a technical debate for late nights at the bar at astrology conferences, but mapping traditional rulerships onto the houses has practical ramifications for how we interpret houses. The traditional planets add nuance, but they also bring the 8th and 12th houses down to earth, teaching us how to cope with some of life’s most difficult territory.
What Is Narrative Astrology?
Narrative Astrology is a framework for identifying the unconscious stories that you use to interpret the world around you. It can help you evaluate those stories to see if they fit, repair stories that have become dysfunctional, and make good stories true.
Is Chiron the Wounded Healer or the Gifted Teacher?
There is more to Chiron than the wounded healer archetype, but it would be a mistake to diminish the wound to the point that he is no longer the wounded healer.
You Also Are Psyche: Beauty and the Shadow Self
“You also are Psyche.” Those words still make me cry... 25 years after I first heard them.
Astrology as Brain Candy
I had always been told that astrology was fundamentally based on fantasy. Night sky as Rorschach test: Humanity looked at the stars and told stories about the shapes we found there. This story is true, but it isn’t the whole story.
Building an Astrology Practice You Love
If you are going to take the risk of working for yourself, you should build a practice that actually makes you happy.
How Astrology Helped Me When I Was Lost
I was a novelist struggling to write my second novel. I was a 27 year-old struggling to get my life together. Astrology helped me with both.