The first thing one notices about President Donald Trump is how divisive is his effect on Americans. According to a recent Washington Post article Donald Trump is described as someone: ‘given to vulgarities and gauche behavior, boastful, thin-skinned, politically amoral, vengeful, unforgiving …’ This description, of course, is from one of his professional rivals (Georgia […]
Saturn on the Birth Chart – Wise Teacher or Inner Scrooge?
‘The nature of Saturn is far more evil than that of Herschel [Uranus]: he is called the Greater Infortune, and he is undoubtedly the cause (subservient to the will of Providence) of the greater portion of human suffering. When he is rising or setting at birth, the person born will suffer much lingering sickness, and […]
Pluto on the Birth Chart – Your Power Trip
Thou art Kāli, the original form of all things, and because Thou art the Origin of and devourest all things Thou art called the Adya [the Primordial One]. Re-assuming after Dissolution Thine own form, dark and formless, Thou alone remainest as One ineffable and inconceivable. Though having a form, yet art Thou formless; though Thyself […]
Neptune on the Birth Chart – Accent on the Ideal
As a rope, not perceived distinctly in dark, is erroneously imagined, As snake, as a streak of water, so is the Soul (Atman) erroneously imagined. Gaudapada,Māṇḍukya Kārikā 2.16-19 Just what does Neptune do your birth chart – and how should we interpret it? To begin with, Neptune is the name given to the Roman God […]
Mercury and The Key to Consciousness
Just what is the role of Mercury on your birth chart? Why does it seem to be ‘neutral’ – neither masculine nor feminine? Most of all, how should we even begin to interpret it? It’s true that Mercury is often overlooked in both chart interpretation and progressions-transits to the natal chart. But, being neither boisterous […]
Chiron in the Twelve Houses
How many of us are familiar with the Chiron house position on our birth chart? I’ve written elsewhere on this site about Chiron but this guide introduces the mysterious Centaur planet to your very own chart. Firstly, to know how Chiron will operate natally is to understand the theme of ‘sacred wounding’ and just how […]
JUPITER AND POSITIVE THINKING
O Jove much-honor’d, Jove supremely great, To thee our holy rites we consecrate,Our pray’rs and expiations, king divine, For all things round thy head exalted shine … Source of abundance, purifying king, O various-form’d from whom all natures spring; Propitious hear my pray’r, give blameless health, With peace divine, and necessary wealth.1 Is Jupiter really […]