Every three to four months, Mercury goes retrograde — and the internet loses its mind. Flights get cancelled. Exes text back. Contracts fall through. Computers crash. Relationships implode. And somewhere, someone posts a meme blaming all of it on a planet that appears to be moving backwards in the sky. Here’s what I actually think about Mercury Retrograde after two decades of reading charts: most people are using it wrong. Not because the transit isn’t real — it is — but because they’re treating it like a weather event that happens to them, rather than a pattern that runs through…
If you are somewhere between 27 and 30 years old and feel like your life is being dismantled piece by piece — your relationship, your job, your sense of who you are — you are not imagining it. And you are not alone. What you are experiencing has a name: Saturn Return. In my years of reading charts, I have sat with hundreds of clients in the middle of their first Saturn Return. The details vary wildly. Some are leaving long-term relationships. Some are walking away from careers they spent a decade building. Some are facing a health crisis, a…
Most astrology books will tell you what a Scorpio is. Very few will teach you how to look at a chart — and understand what it actually says. That is the entire reason the Astrology Made Easy series exists.
A chart reading is not fast. Rowena Winslow on what actually happens when she reads a chart — and why the most important answer is rarely the one the client came looking for.



