Signs of Potential

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 [...]

I’ve been an irrepressible joke-maker today… after a friend commented on it, I of course joked that I should go read my horoscope. Which I did… like Molly, I keep a subscription to astro.com’s Personal Daily Forecast, since my own things sneak up on me. And lo, my Mercury return arrived late last night!
I’ve never [...]

The Libra new moon is setting up shop right on top of my natal Pluto and then rolls on to my Mercury, to top off my week of reckoning. World, forgive me if I’m impatient with frivolous crap right now, but if there’s big stuff going on? I’m all ears. I have a special craving [...]

Happy solar return to me (yay!), and back to writing here also.
I, like so many of you, have been just walloped by some recent mega-transits, and I’m still trying to sort out the wreckage, to wit:

an unexpected cross-continent relocation
new (old) day job
relationship upheaval
standard-issue existential crisis that accompanies these things

There were a few things in the [...]

Every month, after the fact, I remember what an impact the moon has on me when it transits certain signs. And every month, before the fact, I say to myself “oh it wasn’t really that big of a deal last time… I’ll just carry on like normal.”
Hoo boy.
Normally I’m an exceedingly calm and rational person [...]

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 [...]

On Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 (late July 21, if you’re in North America) the eastern hemisphere basked underneath the longest solar eclipse of the twenty-first century, reaching a maximum of 6 minutes and 39 seconds in some areas. Since the path of totality cut across so many major cities in Asia- Surat, Vadodara, [...]