A Tarot Reading for 2025
We are leaving an old world behind. There are things that we are leaving that we liked very much, and we’re not so sure about where we’re going, but no one has to convince us that there are things that need to change.
Pluto in Aquarius: Too Big to Fail, Too Inhumane to Succeed
Pluto in Aquarius shows us the structures that are too big to fail but too inhumane to succeed. Last time, the story ended with the birth of empires. This time, we are watching the last vestiges of empires collapse.
Astrology is subjective… and that’s why I love it
Everything we say about astrology is a story. Every interpretation is an artifact of a moment in time, created by a person who is a creature of that moment. Every astrologer is a person like you and me with wisdom and wounds, talents and flaws.
What Does Scorpio Feel Like?
While I was working on a lecture on Scorpio, I had a vivid experience of the feeling of the sign. This is what happened.
Living With a Progressed Virgo Ascendant: Confident Competence
The key to happiness for someone with a progressed Virgo ascendant is developing confident competence. This is my story.
South Node in Scorpio: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
“In a past life, you were burned at the stake,” the astrologer said.
I laughed darkly and said, “Sounds legit.”
Astrology for the Present
What if the hope–or even the joy–we need isn’t waiting for us in a future that never becomes the present? What if this is the moment we can step into, not perfection, but “books made of blue sky” or “terrible marvels?”
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.
The Sun is a Lonely Child: How the Discovery of Sedna Rewrote the Ego-centric Archetypes of Leo
Leo people with strong suns in their natal charts 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. Astrologer Ada Pembroke explores how the discovery of Sedna rewrites the story of sun and Leo archetypes.
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.
Born Old, Growing Young: The Gift of a Strong Saturn Placement
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.
Pluto Square Pluto: The Transit that Splits Your Life in Two
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.