Oh My Stars

“The Bachelor: Aries”: He wants to get married… right now! Hurry up and grab your veil, the cab’s waiting! What the hell are you waiting for? Next week: Aries runs away. “Cutthroat Kitchen”: In one of the challenges an opponent tries to get his hands on Taurus’s supply of pastry dough. Taurus, in turn, displays…

I was at home a few evenings ago doing the usual — ignoring both housework and my astrology blog — when the room was filled with a flash of light and a cloud of graveyard-dark smoke. I had been visited by The Scorpio Fairy. “Do I get three wishes?” was my first response. As an…

One of the best things about being an astrologer is when doing a reading for a client results in a practical course of action that can make for real improvements in the client’s life. Understanding your birth chart, and the person it makes you, is incredibly useful. Understanding how current astrological forces are interacting with…

Two news stories have been big in the last couple of days that remind me of one of the basic principles of applied astrology. One of them, not surprisingly, is this week’s close conjunction between Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. The other? Eating meat causes cancer (not the astrological Sign of Cancer, either… the less shy…

12:27 PM To: Matthew Currie From: Beliefnet Editorial Staff Re: Lamar Odom Blog Entry Hi. Just wanted to touch base with you. It’s been some time since you followed up your first blog entry about Lamar Odom like you said you would, and we’re all awaiting your report on the transits he was having. 12:35…

“Character is destiny.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus Many people object to astrology on principle because it’s too fatalistic for their tastes. Not many people want to be told that their will is limited, or that there is only so much they can achieve in life. I can understand that, but astrology is far from the only…

It’s true: as one gets older, some things don’t work that used to work when you were young and full of energy, or they don’t work as well, or they work sporadically, or it takes more effort than it used to in order to get those things to work. What was once your pride and…

After an unusually long stretch in Leo (much of it retrograde) Venus awakened this morning in Virgo to puzzle over where her money went, how much time she spent on that mechanical bull at the bar, and why her bra has “thanks for the memories!” written on it in some stranger’s handwriting and has decided…

(More on readings and how the practical application of astrology can make your planet a better place? Click here!) When I say I’m an astrologer, most people don’t really know what the job entails, and that job varies from practitioner to practitioner. Let me tell you what I do. I am a counselor, much like…

Knowing when the Moon Void of Course is happening is probably the handiest of all the common astrological techniques. Learn it, make it work for you, and save yourself tons of unnecessary aggravation! Seriously: you want to see what REAL astrology can REALLY do? Start by learning about the Void of Course Moon and then…

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