Tag: astrology for beginners
Everyone wants to know if wealth is in their chart. It is one of the most common questions I receive — and one of the most frequently misunderstood, because people expect a single placement that says “rich” or “not rich.” That is not how the chart works. Wealth in astrology is a signature — a…
One of the things I have noticed over twenty years of reading charts is that the advice people give each other about difficult emotions is almost always written for someone else’s Moon sign. “Just let it go.” “Stop overthinking.” “You need to talk about how you feel.” “Give yourself space, don’t ruminate.” These instructions are…
Every astrologer hears this question eventually, usually from someone whose chart has just shown them something they didn’t want to see. If my chart depends on where I was born — can I move somewhere and get a better one? It’s a fair question. And the honest answer is more interesting than a simple yes…
Someone just wished you a “Happy Solar Return” — on a card, in a comment, maybe in person — and you’re not entirely sure what you were just wished. The short version: it’s the astrological way of saying happy birthday. The longer version is more interesting, and it points at one of the most useful…
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…
There is a difference between being broke and being structurally unable to accumulate. Most people experience financial difficulty at some point — bad decisions, bad timing, bad luck. But some charts describe something more persistent than that: a specific constellation of configurations that makes financial stability chronically difficult to achieve and even harder to sustain.…
Jupiter is the planet everyone is excited to have well-placed. Jupiter on the Midheaven. Jupiter in the 2nd House. Jupiter conjunct Venus. The content around Jupiter in popular astrology is almost uniformly optimistic — it is the planet of abundance, luck, expansion, and good fortune, and having it prominent in your chart is supposed to…
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…
