Last night I told my husband, I missed the time when life was simple. “When was life ever simple?” he countered. “I’ve never known life to be simple.” That sounds good. It sounds authoritative but I was immediately able to go back and outline a time in our life that seemed “simple” to me. We […]
Neptune’s transit of Pisces is well underway. I want to write about Virgo’s experience of this transit because it creates an opposition. Oppositions are the most interesting study in astrology, personally speaking. The Virgo mind is clean and crisp. It knows things. It’s ordered. Neptune in Pisces undermines Virgo’s clarity, sometimes to the point of
Uranus is the great change-maker. He shakes things up, knocks things down, and refuses stagnation of all kinds. He’s the force that keeps society moving forward, and he’s not afraid to break a few eggs in the process. But what happens when he is retrograde in the natal chart? Uranus is retrograde about 40% of
Jupiter: the luck bringer, the philosopher, the great benefic in the sky. Jupiter is a boon in all our charts, helping us find perspective, ambition, and our worldview. But what about the third of us who have Jupiter retrograde in our charts? What does that mean for our world? Iconoclasts – One of the most
One of the most feared planets to have retrograde in the natal chart is Mars. People hear that and think they’ll never get anywhere in life, that they have no drive, or even worse, that they’re in danger. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. In my research, among the 10% of people with
I was talking to a client about destiny and/or a person’s vocation. I recalled really wanting a boyfriend from the time I was five years old. By the time I was six, I was rabid in this regard. I had an embarrassing crush on a fifteen year old neighbor boy back then. I had no earthy
On the little things mean a lot front, I want to give you an idea how wide the range of information you can get from a chart. I’ll use Mercury as an example because while it’s critical (Virgo joke), it’s importance is discounted in astrology as a matter of routine. It’s un-sexy I suppose. Having
