Every Thursday, I answer astrology questions I’ve received through email or the search bar. If you have a question, contact me and yours might be featured next! Can your rising sign override your sun sign? Your rising sign doesn’t override your sun sign, but since it tends to be the energy people pick up on [...]
Ask the Astrologer #2 – Chart-tastic
Every Thursday, I answer astrology questions I’ve received through email or the search bar. If you have a question, contact me and it may be featured next! How do I find where Venus is transiting my chart right now? To do this you’ll need a transit chart. Follow the steps to getting your chart, and [...]
How to Get a Free Copy of Your Birth Chart
Every student of astrology should be able to obtain and look at their own chart, and not just have it handed to them by an astrologer. Even if you don’t quite know what you’re looking at yet, as an enthusiast it’s empowering to be able to do it on your own. It’s easy to get [...]
NPR Pledge Drive Meets Scorpio Seattle
Listening to the NPR pledge drive pleas over the past week, I kept hearing the local announcers say something that made me think back to Amy Herring’s portrait of Scorpio Seattle. To make your pledge give us a call at (206)543.9595. Or, if you really don’t want to talk to anyone over the phone right [...]
Open for Business
I have meeting space in the Seattle area! I’m now sharing an office in the Eastlake neighborhood with the lovely and talented Rachel Whalley, a local psychotherapist and Biznik celebrity. 2366 Eastlake Avenue East, Suite 233 Seattle, Washington 98102 I’ll continue to take mail at the address on my contact page- no changes there. Thanks [...]
Friday Time Clock #4: Night Final Edition
The Time Clock started as an offshoot of Havi Brooks’ nifty weekly check-in ritual, now known as the Friday Chicken, over at The Fluent Self. After years in cooking, and because we’re all about the march of time here, my weekly review involves clocks and usually kitchen notes. If you want you can join me [...]
Ask the Astrologer!
Gentle readers, I’m getting more emails with questions lately, and more than a few of you have come to my site by typing questions into your search bar, so beginning today I’m going to start answering one or two astrology-related questions every Thursday. And so, onward! We’ll start with a short and sweet one: Is [...]
An Oddball Wedding Date – Part 3
This is the final post in a series on choosing a wedding date using astrology. Part 1 covered the general factors taken into consideration, and I detailed the process of selecting a date in Part 2. Today we’ll look at finding the best time of day for an event, using the potential charts as a [...]
An Oddball Wedding Date – Part 2
Yesterday I talked about my cram session for choosing a date suitable for El Pisces’ and my wedding. A quirky relationship quite naturally leads to an odd date, so I wasn’t too concerned about the ceremony falling outside of the normal Friday-or-Saturday-evening window most couples require… people already think we’re weird and a Wednesday afternoon [...]
An Oddball Wedding Date – Part 1
When El Pisces and I decided to get married, we knew that choosing a wedding date was going to be a pretty important part of the process- partly because our families are from opposite ends of North America and planning was going to be a chore, and partly because, well, an astrologer just has to [...]






