Admittedly, my Virgo Mercury is an asset: it worries about every “i” that doesn’t get dotted, every “t” that doesn’t get crossed. And although the conjunction to Venus allows me to makes love to words and allows words to make love to me, almost every other close aspect is a square. To Mars, to Neptune, […]
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Astrology: A Labor of Love – Finale
I’ve held off posting the last piece in this series partly because I didn’t know what to say in the introduction. Yesterday, I posted a comment on a discussion going on at Donna Cunningham’s blog and it sparked off this chain of thought. Donna’s put up Christina Rodenbeck’s very relevant piece about “coming out” as […]
Chiron and Neptune: Fog and Tears
The cardinal T-Square is getting so much press that poor Chiron-Neptune transiting on the 26th degree of Aquarius have been sadly neglected. Do you have any natal or progressed planets in the last five degrees of the fixed signs? If you do, you’re probably feeling the Chiron-Neptune vibes. I’ve got my progressed Venus on 25 […]
Guest Post: Midpoints: An Added Dimension
I first began my instruction in Astrology with a class at the local community college with an Astrologer who had a show on a local radio station. Sometime later, I met an AFA-certified consulting astrologer and rectificationist of some fifty years experience. Jeanette, the “talk radio astrologer” taught liberal interpretation where planets like Mars had […]
Mars and Venus in Scorpio: The Agony and the Ecstasy
In about six hours from now Mars will move into Scorpio. Venus is already there and, apart from a brief incursion into Libra during her retrograde phase, she stays in Scorpio till the first week on January, 2011. God Almighty! I find planetary transits are a good way to get a feel of a particular […]
Pluto in the Seventh
“Make love, not war,” you said All detached Libra Air All glib Gemini Moon And left me alone and abandoned With my seventh house Pluto And my demanding Scorpio Moon. “These are my rules,” he says With his Sun square Pluto obssessiveness And imprisons me With the lines he draws Lines I am now afraid […]
Guest Post: The 12th House “She Did it Backwards and in High Heels.”
The Mist The house of self undoing… the house of prisons… the house of personal enemies. These are undoubtedly rather intimidating images. There is something very unsettling about the loss of control associated with them, much like fear of the unknown. We are told that there are gems to be found in this house, but […]
Earth Angels: A tribute to the Earth signs
My friend Amy recently suggested I write a tribute to all the elements. I did a post on Fire signs last year, and I want to do one on Earth now. For Amy who is a Taurean and for the many of the Earth sign folk whose lives have interweaved with mine and many of […]
My Moon Nep-Tuned
I dissolve, fly, flow…fall apart
There’s nothing left
but melted pieces of my heart
Astrology, Pregnancies and Babies
A young friend of mine and his girlfriend have just discovered the rhythm method and how it can be used to avoid getting pregnant. He’s understandably thrilled. While I was talking to him today I realized that over the years I’ve picked up a few things in astrology that can help people get pregnant or […]