Venus
When people think of the inner planet Venus, they think of love. In a more fundamental sense, Venus symbolizes the principle of relating. While love is very much Venus’s domain, relating also extends to friendships,… Read More »Venus
March 2021
Mercury Retrograde
Whenever Mercury goes “retrograde”, there’s an instant buzz on the internet. Much of the stuff that’s put out is harmless fun, but the misinformation that sometimes tags along can be detrimental if fed to an… Read More »Mercury Retrograde
Mercury
The inner planet Mercury symbolizes the conscious mind: all the faculties that are connected to the mind and arise out of the mind. We make sense of our world by taking the inputs from our… Read More »Mercury
Inner Planets
The Sun and Moon energies are the foundation of the personality, and they inform all aspects of life. Modulated by the characteristics of the sign in which they are placed, they influence everything we do.… Read More »Inner Planets
Sun-Moon Blend
The Sun and Moon are the life-giving and life-sustaining luminaries, and their sign positions are the most important factors in a horoscope. The blending of their signs results in a very particular and distinct expression,… Read More »Sun-Moon Blend
Luminaries and Duality
Just as there many shades shades of a color, so will people with the same Sun sign differ in the way the Sun’s energy finds expression, via the the Moon sign. For instance, a Leo… Read More »Luminaries and Duality
Mercury/Venus/Mars in Sagittarius/Capricorn/Aquarius/Pisces
In two previous posts, I laid out brief personality sketches of some public figures to show how they manifested the energies of Mercury, Venus, and Mars in Aries through Cancer and Leo through Scorpio. In… Read More »Mercury/Venus/Mars in Sagittarius/Capricorn/Aquarius/Pisces
Moon
We can’t look directly at the Sun, because it’s light would blind us. We can feel its warmth, and its life giving energy, but the light itself can be only be seen via its reflection… Read More »Moon
Sun
The Sun is the presiding luminary, the light that fuels life. The glyph of the Sun is a circle with a dot in the center. The circle is the unmanifest spirit, the field of all… Read More »Sun
Planets and Luminaries
In the post on zodiac signs, we explored the characteristics of all the signs. By themselves the signs don’t do anything. They serve as the medium through which the planets carry out their actions. The planets are the… Read More »Planets and Luminaries