Oh My Stars

So: what will happen to you when Saturn re-enters Sagittarius on September 17th and stays there until December 2017? Astrologers have an understandable tendency to generalize when it comes to the nature of a given planet in a given Sign. That’s understandable, because generalizations are a useful way to grasp complex ideas, even if generalizations are inherently…

I speak to a lot of clients who are in the middle of a crisis, and that is to be expected. I’m at least as much a counselor as a “fortune teller” (ugh, how I hate that term!), and just as a doctor tends to see more people who are ill than healthy specimens, it’s…

LAST TIME ON THIS BLOG: Your friendly neighborhood astrologer Matthew Currie was griping at length about New Age practitioners who tack “astrologer” onto their job description without really knowing much astrology, when he was suddenly struck on the head by a copy of Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages. At this point…

It was recently pointed out to me that I am a part of something called “The New Age community.” This knowledge took me some time to process. it’s like being told that your neighborhood is technically Chinatown or Little Italy when you didn’t realize that. If you are a part of a “community” like Chinatown…

Moon in Virgo is genuinely sweet and caring and loves to take care of people. Chiron rules those old wounds but just won’t heal, or that you suspect should maybe just be left alone. What happens when you put the two of them together in an opposition? I want to talk about my feelings. No…

For many of us this is the end of a long and stressful week. No harm in blowing off a little steam on a Saturday, right? After last week’s sometimes funky aspects the outlook is good for having a good time today. Moon in Virgo isn’t usually known as a party animal, but when it…

A couple of days ago I had in mind exactly what I was going to write about Jupiter in Virgo. An astrology blog doesn’t exactly write itself, but at any given time there are certain themes happening that are easily grasped and assembled into something. Jupiter rules largeness and excess. Virgo has an association with…

A lot of astrologers love yods. I can see why that is. It gives us as astrologers a lot of opportunity to talk about things like “life purpose” and “higher goals” and things like that. That makes us all feel good and special about our work doesn’t it? As I see it, there are one…

Today and tomorrow: a bit of a sidetrack from my coverage of the major aspects in astrology. Today I’d like to talk to you about the quincunx. Actually, I’d like to be able to like to talk to you about it, but I probably won’t like it at all. The quincunx is the most annoying of all…

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! (CLICK HERE for more on what The Void of Course Moon actually is, and what you can do about it — or…

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