Posted by Shannon in Book Reviews, Things I think about on 29. Jan, 2010 | 3 Comments
Tu B’Shevat, which is known as the “birthday of the trees” or “new year of trees” in Jewish custom, began at sundown tonight. It’s long been my personal favorite although it’s quite a minor holiday; I’ve always chalked this up to my midheaven Moon in Taurus (Mom’s a horticulturist and master gardener) giving me a [...]
I have a dear friend with an aspect that puzzled me for a long time. This person has Mars exactly conjunct his midheaven, at 13 Leo. I scratched my head over this for a while because he didn’t seem to exhibit many of the usual traits or issues that traditionally accompany this aspect. The usual [...]
I have almost no water in my chart, but I have a Uranus-Lilith-Venus conjunction (along with Juno and Vesta, for you asteroid junkies out there) in my fourth house.
The fourth house is, among a few other things, all about your home, how you feel about it, and how you tend to behave there. Uranus in [...]
(Here I’m referring to relationships, not medieval-style spirit possession. That’s an entirely separate conversation.)
I was surfing through Elsa’s archives when I came upon a comment I found most fascinating:
I know I’m Plutonian. And I have a very close relationship (someone I think who would be, in Elsa-speak, my soldier – though he’s not a soldier, [...]
Signs of Potential now has a shiny new mobile site!
I’m out of the house a lot, so I live and die by my mobile browser… and I know I’m not the only one. The new site is Android- and iPhone-friendly (sorry Crackberry users, RiM doesn’t play well with others) and will noticeably speed up your [...]
What’s your sign?
The thing you think of as your “sign”… the one you look up in the newspaper, the one you tell (or lie about) to weird strangers in bars, the one you’re pigeonholed into. In astrology, your “sign” is what we call your sun sign. Your sun sign is simply a marker of where [...]
After reading Jo Tracey’s emotional overdraft post on Saturday, I decided to cut my overly anxious, poverty-complex-riddled Virgo 2nd house a break and book a massage for myself. Of course, it didn’t involve spending new money- I had a credit there already that I needed to use- but the act of calling and making the [...]
Posted by Shannon in Events and Site News on 13. Jan, 2010 | 1 Comment
After Monday night’s mishap I’ve restored about 98% of the site here successfully. I won’t bore you with nerdy details but as a PSA, let me just put it out there to have more than one backup of your files before Mercury goes retrograde… my regular database backup was corrupted and if it weren’t for [...]
Posted by Shannon in Transit Alerts on 13. Jan, 2010 | 1 Comment
This post is part of an occasional series about the Ascendant in your horoscope.
The Mars retrograde hullaballoo is bulldozing right over my ascendant, so I’ve been paying attention to the changes as it moves around my chart lately.
I have Mars in late Leo in the 1st house, so Mars had crossed my ascendant and was [...]
Posted by Shannon in Events and Site News on 11. Jan, 2010 | 1 Comment
Hello gentle reader,
My site has been thoroughly borked, Mercury Retrograde-style, so we’re a little thin on archives here right now. While I nuke the database and put everything back together, please subscribe to my RSS feed for updates, and check out some of my favorite sites:
Posted by Shannon in Astrology and Culture on 09. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
Have a great weekend!
Posted by Shannon in Book Reviews, Books and Resources on 06. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
A peek at my monthly book heap, now with 100% more annotation! These days I’m winding down, in alphabetical order:
Astrology in the Kitchen, by Maria Kozslik Donovan
A subject near and dear to my heart! After I bought this, I realized I already have a copy of it in storage with my cookbooks… I think I [...]
Posted by Shannon in Personal Anecdotes on 03. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
I’m the sort of person who is a fan of finding significance in events- surely this is part of why I’ve become an astrologer. For me the new year’s season has always been personally exciting in an intellectual way, since I find the experience of tying up loose ends and taking stock of things satisfying.
Unfortunately [...]
Posted by Shannon in Books and Resources on 04. Dec, 2009 | No Comments
I have a very tall stack going next to my reading chair these days. At the moment I’m chewing on:
Cosmic Karma by Marguerite Manning (I won this on the radio!)
The Art of Chart Synthesis by Tracy Marks
The Curious Researcher by Bruce Ballenger
Karmic Astrology: Retrogrades and Reincarnation by Martin Schulman
I also have a copy of the [...]
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