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Vedic Planetary Cycles, and Pluto Rising (audio)

Last Thursday I was back in the KKNW studios with Melanie Farmer and Keesha Ewers, ARNP, for our weekly Metaphysical Thursday show. Last week we read the charts of Keesha and Valerie, our board engineer; this week we read parts of each others’. In the first part of the show Melanie reads my jyotish chart, [...]

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Mutable Energy and Making Connections (audio)

Every Thursday I get together in the KKNW studios with Melanie Farmer and Keesha Ewers, ARNP, to talk about astrology and ways to incorporate knowledge into your health and everyday life. This week, we read charts live, on the air, for Keesha the host and Valerie, our board engineer. During the first part of the [...]

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On the Ascendant: Transiting Mars Redux

This post is part of an occasional series about the Ascendant in your horoscope. Today Mars finally leaves the retrograde shadow after being stationary, Rx, or shadowed in some way since last October. All my chart angles—ascendant, midheaven, descendant, and nadir—are in fixed signs. My ascendant is at 14.48 Leo. Back in late November of [...]

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Ask the Astrologer #4 – Smörgåsbord

On Thursdays I answer astrology questions I’ve received through email or the search bar. If you have a question, contact me and yours might be answered next! I owe you a couple of these posts, so this one is extra-long to square us up. Keep sending your questions! How does a planet transit the ascendant? [...]

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Ask the Astrologer #3 – Ascendants

Ask the Astrologer #3 – Ascendants

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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On the Ascendant: Transiting Mars and Mars Retrograde

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 [...]

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Hey Baby, What’s Your Sign?

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 [...]

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On the Ascendant: See the World Your Way

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 [...]

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On the Ascendant: Moon Rising

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 [...]

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