Tag: astrology reading


  • The Astrology of Dictators: What Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao Had in Common

    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…

  • Born to Be Poor? The Astrology of Chronic Financial Failure

    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.…

  • The Astrology of Gambling: Why Some People Can’t Stop

    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,…

  • Astrology and Sexual Psychology: What the Chart Reveals About Desire, Obsession, and the Darker Edges

    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…

  • The Astrology of Risk-Taking: Born to Live Dangerously

    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…

  • Astrology and Chronic Illness: What the Chart Shows About a Life of Poor Health

    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…

  • The Jupiter Myth: Why Your “Lucky” Planet Isn’t Working

    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…

  • The Astrology of Charisma: What Makes a Natural Leader

    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…

  • The Astrology of Abuse: Why Some Charts Draw It and Others Deliver It

    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…

  • Astrology and Addiction: What Your Chart Says About Alcohol, Drugs, and Escape

    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…