“But what makes it hard for me is that I don’t know how I could possibly enter that eternal alliance with Mother Earth. I don’t kiss Mother Earth, I don’t plow her soil… Should I, then, become a peasant, a shepherd, or what? I go on and on, and I don’t know where I’ll find […]
Author: alcuin9
First Steps: Tribal Trines and the Nations of Earth, Air, Fire and Water
An interesting thing came up in a lesson the other day. We were looking at a chart with a heavy second house–and I mean heavy, with the Sun, and the chart ruler, Venus (ruler of the Ascendant) conjunct there. Now, Venus is often conjunct the Sun and I don’t usually give it much weight, but […]
First Steps: Phasal Relationships
First Steps is a new series where I will be covering and re-discovering basic techniques and formative principles. It’s not quite Astrology 101, but will cover the foundations of chart synthesis. If any of you have questions about astrology fundamentals, please email me (alcuin9@gmail.com) or go over to the Facebook page for The Inner Wheel […]
Synastry Studies: Chiron, an Overview
This is part one of an occasional series on Chiron in Synastry. I’ve already addressed Chiron/Venus here, and will be going through inter-aspects of Chiron with all of the relationship planets, the lights, and some interesting sensitive points. This is a little overview of Chiron’s function in a chart in terms of partnership. I’ve had […]
New Posts Soon
I have to apologize for not posting more often. My father’s death has caused a lot of paperwork and reshuffling of things, and that, in addition to keeping up with the commitments I’ve made has got me a bit behind with posting. In the future there will be a continuing series on Chiron in synastry, […]
Ongoing Astrology Lessons
I’ve had quite a few inquiries recently from people who want to study astrology, mainly from people who are not quite beginners but don’t know where to go from here. The Internet is a wonderful tool for astrological information, but the real art of astrology is in consolidating the information and learning how to give […]
The Inner Wheel Now On Facebook!
Hi Folks, I’ve taken the plunge and, as many of you have requested, have put a page for The Inner Wheel on Facebook. You’ll have to bear with me as I learn the ropes, but I’m hoping that it will provide a place for us to have some interesting discussions and interactions. Here is the […]
Ring Around the Relationship Rosy
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction again, as we’re about to have another one, this time retrograde, on September 19th. Again, it falls in my seventh house. And again it amazes me how accurate astrology is in its execution of the archetypes. People get excited about the seventh house because they think […]
Synastry Studies: The Fixed Cross and the Urge to Merge (Part Three)
Please read Part Two of this series here. I’m going to begin this last part of the series by spending a little time discussing T-squares and how they operate. We were discussing crosses in one of my classes last week, and a colleague/student of mine very nicely articulated an astrological truth: we talk a lot […]
Synastry Studies: The Fixed Cross and the Urge to Merge (Part Two)
Please read Part One of this piece here. The one thing that is guaranteed to surprise students is when you tell them that there is more than one Venus/Mars polarity in the chart. Sometimes I tell them what it is, and sometimes I’m Virgo-cruel enough to ask them to go find it. After they sweat […]