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 […]

Depression: Learning to Be My Own Cheerleader

Posts have been slow lately because I’ve been fading in and out of depression. Some days, weeks, months, and even years, are better than others. I manage my feelings much better now, but I still fall under the spell from time to time. There are a few days during the month when I feel worse-

IMF meets as Venus Stations Rx Oct 8, 2010

The International Monetary Fund meets this weekend in Washington DC as planet Venus turns retrograde today, October 8, 2010 at 13Scorpio 13, a station retrograde.As you see, the mystical number 13, important in Sacred Geometry (as Freemasonry tells us), is being emphasized here as the planet of evaluations and relationships is strengthened while seemingly standing still in the heavens. Erin

Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen: North Node Sextile Mars

Sometimes, we’re huge saps. Like when Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling first got together? We were all, “at least something lovely came out of something corny. And by ‘corny,’ we mean ‘any Nicholas Sparks movie.’ Sure, we shed more than a few tears when the blond beauties parted ways, but now that Michael Sheen’s on […]

Daily Planets Saturday 9/10/10: About Beads and Taxes

That New Moon we had this morning and the conjunction between Mercury and Saturn? What about Venus retrograde (due in a couple of hours)? I hope you enjoyed them, because that, folks is pretty well the end of anything interesting happening up in the sk…

Draconids, Venus Rx, and the Green Comet! Oct 2010/11

Venus turning Rx on Oct 8, 2010 @ 13Sco13 isn’t all that’s hot in the heavens for Oct 8 is the annual date of the Draconid Meteor Shower:Space Weather News for Oct 8, 2010DRACONID METEORS: Every year around Oct 8, Earth passes through a minefield of dusty debris from Comet Giacobini-Zinner, source of the annual Draconid meteor shower. This year, forecasters expect Earth to narrowly miss several