10-Minute Astrology Lesson: Finding Compatibility with Astrology
Can you determine compatibility between two people by comparing their birth charts? The philosopher in me says it’s a crapshoot at best … but since it’s irresistible to try, here is my method.
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Finding Your Transits
My new book, “Astrological Transits,” gives you lots of ways to think about and work with transits. But if you need a little trouble finding your transits to begin with, this video will show you how…
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Dissociate (out-of-sign) aspects
Sometimes planets can be in aspect to each other even when they are in the “wrong” signs. It has to do with aspect orbs, the amount of “wiggle room” you allow between two planets that are close to, but not quite in exact aspect to each other.
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Progressions: Making Progress
It’s the rare person who really changes much, at a core level. We all do change a little – but it’s not the transits we face that tell that story. It’s the secondary progressions that demonstrate whether or not we are evolving, reaching for our full potential, and making real progress.
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Personal Planetary Order
If you list every natal plant and angle in degree order, along with the aspect it will receive from the transiting planet, you can see at a glance how easy or difficult a given transit is likely to be for you ….
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Derivative Houses
From your mother to your best friend in high school to the cabbie who cut you off on your way to work this morning, everyone who has or will cross your path can be found in your chart. You just have to know where to look.
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Book Review: The Stellium Handbook, by Donna Cunningham
My teacher used to say that having a bunch of planets together in the same sign or house is sort of like having a nursery full of screaming babies and only one set of hands. In technical terms, this bunch of hollering astro-infants is called a stellium, and beloved author Donna Cunningham has written a book about them.
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The Rising Planet: Your “First Responder”
The planet closest to your Ascendant, usually in the first, second, or third houses, is called the rising planet. I also call it the “first responder” planet, because it’s the planet that is first on deck to handle anything new that comes your way. What’s your first responder planet, and how does it operate in your life?
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Progressed Sun changing signs
Last summer, a woman I know underwent a couple of major life changes. Within the space of a few months, she embarked on a strict diet and exercise regiment, lost a significant amount of weight, and launched her first business. As I stood washing dishes one evening, musing on the …
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Marketing and astrology are not mutually exclusive
No matter how much you may dislike the idea of marketing, the minute you try to get a job or a date or launch a business, you’re in the marketing business. And a lot of the reason we fail when we try to sell ourselves is that we don’t understand what we’re selling.
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