Category: Chart Readings
The question of whether astrology can identify a killer is one that serious astrologers have always approached carefully — because the honest answer is more complicated than either the sensationalists or the skeptics want it to be. No placement predicts murder. The configurations that appear consistently in the charts of serial killers also appear in…
Genius is one of the most misused words in popular culture — applied to anyone competent, anyone successful, anyone whose work generates admiration. In astrology, the word means something more specific: the configuration of intelligence that goes beyond what ordinary intellectual talent can explain, that produces insights arriving as if from somewhere other than the…
A note on data: This article uses only confirmed birth data from Astro-Databank. Hitler’s time is rated AA (confirmed from original church records). Mussolini’s time is rated A (Gauquelin data confirmed by birth certificate). Mao Zedong’s time of 7:30 AM is rated B — less certain, so house-based conclusions about his chart are treated with…
I have read charts for gamblers. Not casual people who occasionally buy a lottery ticket, but people whose relationship to risk and chance has restructured their entire life around it — who have lost houses, marriages, savings, and decades to something they could not explain and could not stop. In every one of those charts,…
Sexuality is one of the most consistent and revealing areas of the natal chart — and one of the least honestly discussed in popular astrology, which tends to reduce it to “Venus in Scorpio is passionate” and leave the rest unexamined. The chart does not leave the rest unexamined. It describes the full psychological complexity…
Some people walk through life calculating odds. Others walk through it as if odds were an interesting suggestion that applies to other people. The chart describes both types with precision — and the difference between them is not courage or foolishness, but a specific constitutional orientation toward uncertainty that is written into the planetary architecture…
Health is one of the areas where astrology is most precise and, for obvious reasons, most difficult to hear. The chart does not diagnose — that is the domain of medicine. What it shows is the constitutional terrain: the specific areas of vulnerability, the kinds of conditions the person is most likely to encounter, and…
Some people walk into a room and the room changes. Not because of what they say or do — before they say or do anything — but because of something in the quality of their presence. Others can learn to project authority, to speak confidently, to manage the impression they make. But the natural leader…
This is uncomfortable territory. I am going to write about it directly, because in twenty years of chart work, I have found that discomfort with naming this material costs people far more than honesty ever would. Some charts are structurally oriented toward being on the receiving end of cruelty, control, and violence. Some charts carry…
Some charts are built for dissolution. Not metaphorically — literally. There are specific planetary configurations that describe a psyche structurally oriented toward escape, toward the blurring of boundaries, toward substances that temporarily make the unbearable bearable. Those charts belong to real people. And those people, almost universally, have no idea that what they are fighting…
