Saturn Transits – Somebody Threw Up on My Sandal (and other Humbling Experiences)

I went to a concert last night, and as I was leaving, somebody threw up on my foot. As we were getting ready to go to the concert, I wanted to wear one of my daughter’s pairs of sandals, and she had expressed that she would be too worried that they would get damaged. I [...]

Astrology and Conscious Parenting: Saturn in Synastry

I don’t know the statistics on this, but I definitely have seen a lot of close Saturn contacts in synastry between parent and child, where the parent’s Saturn is involved. Of the hard aspects, the conjunctions seem to naturally function better than the squares and oppositions. My middle child, a 15 year old girl, is [...]

August 25 – 26, 2009

As I mentioned in the August ErosScopes, August 25-26th is a potentially volatile period. We have three planets changing signs: Venus, Mercury, and Mars. Venus is stimulating last month’s Solar Eclipse degree and joining with the South Node of the Moon, Mars opposes Pluto, and Mercury squares both Mars and Pluto. When planets are changing [...]

More on Venus-Neptune and Relationships

Here are some themes we might encounter with Venus in aspect to Neptune in our natal charts. One of the themes is an attraction to complicated relationships and/or attraction to a “fixer-upper”. Venus-Neptune people seem to be drawn to trouble in love like moth to flame. They might find themselves in love triangles, in love [...]

Break Up Songs

This is not astrology-related specifically, but I thought I would share some break-up songs here. Like the lines from Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve, “I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah/ I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now…”, sometimes music helps. This [...]

How I Spent My (Lunar Eclipse) Vacation

I just came back from a small vacation with my kids. We rented a cottage for a week at the Sand Banks in Ontario, where there’s a gorgeous beach. During that time, we made a stop at my father’s cottage and visited with my Dad and his partner. My brother, his wife, and his 4 [...]

Michael Jackson

I haven’t been a huge celebrity follower in my life, but I do take interest in some who have captured my attention. Sometimes it has to do with sign or planetary combinations that resemble my own chart or those of people close to me. There have been a few Sun Virgo-Moon Pisces famous people whose [...]

Chiron in the Natal Chart

I think interpreting Chiron in the natal chart can be very revealing, especially, of course, if it makes some strong aspects or is otherwise prominent. There are quite a few excellent resources for learning about Chiron available. I’ve leafed through a number of books on Chiron over the years, and different authors focus more heavily [...]

When You Don’t Identify With Parts of Your Natal Chart

I often receive emails about failing to identify with a few of the many parts of a natal chart, on the lines of…”I identify with my Cancer Sun and Libra Moon, but Mars in Aries? It doesn’t make sense.” I also get a lot of questions about being on the cusp of a Sun sign, [...]

Compatibility: Learning From Each Other

An important part of compatibility analysis in astrology that is often overlooked involves shared planetary combinations in the natal chart that are easy for one person and difficult for the other. Example: one person has a Venus-Jupiter trine natally, and the other person has a Venus-Jupiter square in the natal chart. The very fact that [...]

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