Saturn Returns: Are You a Success?
Each Saturn return marks the close of one chapter of your life, but is only the beginning of another. Now is the time to decide which goals are no longer right for you and which are the ones that have meaning.
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10-Minute Astrology Lesson: Combined Relationship Charts
This episode looks at two popular ways to examine the needs and personality of a relationship astrologically, using the Composite and Davison charts.
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House Systems: Dividing the Sky
When an astrologer tells me they use their house system because “it works,” I believe them. I also believe other systems work, because I’ve seen different astrologers produce great accuracy with many house systems.
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Working with Solar Return charts
For a garden variety hedonist like me, the completion of another cycle around the Sun means it’s time for cake! But the astrologer in me is excited for another reason: I get to draw a brand new Solar Return chart for the coming year.
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Scorpio Full Moon: Be a Beautiful Godzilla
Ritual is the way we ask for help from the gods, but if you’re like me, you may not feel comfortable with solemn, formal ritual filled with prescribed incantations and possibly incense. In fact, I think all that’s required is that we simply ask for what we want—politely, respectfully, and winningly, while putting our best qualities forward.
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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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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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Astrological Grammar
Speaking astrology like a native: A guide to astrological grammar: nouns (planets), adjectives (signs), verbs and adverbs (aspects).
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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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