Please read, “The Music of the Spheres: Octaves” before this piece. I’d like you to sit back and think about an outstanding experience of the planet Uranus. Most of us will come up with some sudden shock or turnabout during a major Uranus transit or progression. Most of us will associate Uranus with the […]
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Popularity: Venus, Mars And The Ascendant
“Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.” … Read More…
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Soul Points in Synastry: The Vertex versus the Nodes (Part Two)
As discussed in Part One, there is often confusion about these two, the Vertex axis and the Nodal axis, particularly when it comes to planetary contact to either end of the axis via synastry: both are said to be responsible for the so-called ‘fated’ relationship. But in practice, these two are very different, with a […]
Astrology 101: Why Astrologers Aren’t Concerned About a 13th Sign
(Astrology Explored) Astrologers watched in bemusement and surprise that the internet literally blew up over a astronomer and community college professor Parke Kunkle’s pronouncement that “the earth had shifted” resulting in the magical creation of 13th zodiac sign, Ophiuchus, otherwise … Continue reading →
Soul Points in Synastry: The Vertex versus the Nodes (Part One)
One of the questions that has already come up a number of times in the Soul Points class I’m teaching is, “Both the Vertex and the Nodes are sensitive relationship points that often feel destined, what’s the difference?” It’s assumed that contacts to both the Nodes (particularly the South Node) and the Vertex feel like […]
The Ascendant Template
Each ascendant forms the template for a particular type of personality. People with the same ascendant have the same basic ascendant template overlay in their chart. People with the same
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 […]![]()

