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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Walter White: An Everyman for the Uranus/Pluto Age
Though we have no idea how Walter White’s birth date was chosen by the writers or creator of Breaking Bad, I wondered whether the astrology of the date might reflect the characteristics of the show’s protagonist….
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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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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.
Read MoreBowling for Calamine
So last night I added another to the long list of physical activities at which I am hopelessly incompetent. It seems I really, really suck at bowling. Awhile back, our friends decided that each month we would choose some wacky new activity to enjoy together. We’re a bunch of middle-aged …
Read MoreBalm for my Virgo midheaven.
More celebration of Virgo’s practical magic in this excellent article at Oculus Divinorum, entitled “From Subservient Secretary to Ritual Priestess.” It’s easy to forget, in the push to simplify astrology for the masses, to look a little deeper at the signs of the zodiac and what they say about our …
Read MoreA fresh stream.
The Friggin’Book is unfolding at the rate of about fifteen badly written pages per week. Several mornings each week I hie to my office, fire up the laptop, and crank out some dreck. It’s painless work, because I’m not trying to write well; I’m just trying to get a lot …
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Less than perfect.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks, with lots of work, plenty of socializing, and a root canal (which I can only attribute to a bad Neptune transit). And I’ve been spending a lot of time over at my new office, painting everything in sight. Despite my best intentions and …
Read MoreWhen trines attack!
I was chatting the other day with an astrologer friend whose birthday is the day before mine, and we were comparing notes about the recent opposition from transiting Neptune to our natal Suns. In short, pretty good for me, not so great for him. We pondered and mused about this …
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But I don’t want to wake up.
Jeez, it’s like I’ve been in a bunker around here. Work, work, work, then yesterday Jonny had a miserable cold (and he almost never gets sick), and the next thing I know it’s more than a week and I haven’t updated the blog. For which you might well thank me …
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