The Practicing Astrologer: Working Within Context
A couple years ago, I worked a popular psychic hotline as an astrologer. One of the things that struck me about my clients was their expectation that in a psychic version of a Zipless F***k, (read your Erica Jong, will ya?) I would know everything about them. Now as astrologers go, I think I’m pretty good, but there was no way that I was going to know EVERYTHING through the horoscope. There is just too much variation in expression of the energies of the planets. Someone’s Moon square Ura

Relationship Astrology: Uranus & Establishing A Pair As A Couple
Disruptive Uranus is not thought of as a romantic planet, a planet of unity or a planet that has a part in establishing a relationship. Yet, an important task in establishing a happy marriage is to ”separate from one parents and establish a home.” Separation is a Uranus function as this planet presides over all manner of separations from teenage rebellion to divorces. Even older adults who have established themselves in the world, when they form a new love relationshi

Weekly Astrology Forecast: All the Wrong Sorts of People
Astrology for the week of November 13 to November 19 Whenever Venus goes into Scorpio I remember what my astrology teacher told our class about Venus in Scorpio people. With a sigh she said, “They tend to love the wrong person, every time. Like Venus in Capricorn, the folks born with Venus in Scorpio tend to be a bit mixed up about what should happen in a love relationship. The driving intensity of the Scorpio dichotomy overtakes sense and reason, and when their buttons are hit they are

The Astrology of the Fort Hood Killings: The Enemy Among Us?
In a shocking and inexplicable incident that claimed the lives of 13 and threatens to claim some the lives of 38 others wounded, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a U. S. Army psychiatrist, opened fire on his fellow soldiers. The November 5, 2009 mass murder took place at a readiness center at Fort Hood, Texas, where a crowd was gathered to witness graduation exercises for some of the soldiers.

Weekly Astrology Forecast: Significant Transformations
Astrology for the Week of November 6 to November 12, 2009. This week starts out under the haze of a lazy Venus trine to Neptune and Jupiter, but it hides the underlying powder keg of a T-Square from the moon to Saturn to Pluto to the moon again. Saturn, of course, is still in tension aspect (opposition) to Uranus. Not only we will be living with the Uranus/Saturn opposition most of 2010 but we will be living with a T-square shadowing our intimate and familial relationships. T-Squares