Signs of Potential

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’ve been studying astrology for almost fifteen years now, and it still amazes me how I can find new things in my chart all the time. There’s definitely a subjective angle to analyzing your own information, because I’ve overlooked or trivialized countless things that would be patently obvious to me in someone else’s chart.
My most [...]

A friend and former coworker of mine has been having a really rotten string of luck over the past year, and every time I talk to him something worse has happened. Work hours getting cut, bad communication from college financial aid officers, problems with the girlfriend, gas prices going up, roommates not paying their rent, [...]

This post is the second in an occasional series on the Ascendant in your horoscope.
Your ascendant is your eyesight- you see the world through it.
Many people speak of the ascendant as a mask, a cover story. But when you learn to work with your ascendant instead of hiding behind it, the world pulls into focus. [...]

I spend a lot of my consulting time with people who are going through heavy Pluto transits, and I hear the same thing over and over again:
Why does it have to SUCK so much?!
Let’s face it, a lot of major Pluto transits just plain suck. If it’s squaring off with something in your chart, you [...]

I now often refer to the current Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune conjunction as the “detox stellium”, but it’s important for me to make clear that it was not me who dreamed up this brilliant label, but the lovely and talented Molly Cliborne. Since I’m a big believer in giving credit where credit is due, here are her posts [...]

This post is the first in an occasional series on the Ascendant in your horoscope.
Contradictions- that’s what this aspect is all about.
The moon conjunct ascendant is a sign of emotional tension in a person; longing to be close to people, but keeping them at arm’s length out of fear. Distant and reserved on the surface, [...]