I only realized recently that I’ve written very little about the role of the Moon’s Nodes in astrology. That’s a shame, really: they’re incredibly useful and instructive things, and can be just as valuable as any of the planets in your birth chart. In fact, Vedic Astrology calls them “shadow planets”: like planets, but not…

Astrology is like life itself: complex and highly detailed. Astrology is also like life itself in that it can be over simplified for quick and immediate yet usually awful results. Let’s say you’re a freelance writer who knows squat about astrology. But you’ve already finished cranking out articles for your clickbait site about the nutritional…

Part One (Aries to Cancer) is HERE, and Part Two (Leo to Scorpio) is HERE. The planet Mercury in your birth chart has a lot of things to do with what’s on your mind, how your thoughts work, and how you translate those thoughts into words and behaviors. It’s the part of you that plays…

(Part One, covering Mercury in Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer, is HERE.) If you want to get anywhere in life, you’ll need to use your brain and apply a little logic. In astrology, those things are ruled by Mercury. No matter what your Ego (The Sun) tells you who you are, or what you feel…

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