The Midheaven is Not Your Career %>

The Midheaven is Not Your Career

When working with the midheaven, when a client requests that we talk about the midheaven, it is always more helpful to start with the family than with the aspiration.
Nodal Benders %>

Nodal Benders

North nodal benders are things that you are continually in the process of building. South nodal benders are things that you are always in the process of releasing. All nodal benders are about change.
The Hidden Houses %>

The Hidden Houses

The hidden houses are about accountability and abolition. They are about self transformation. They surround the horizon points because accountability and abolition change you and the roles you play.
The Supportive Houses %>

The Supportive Houses

While the angular houses are about the actual events of change themselves, the supportive houses or houses that sextile the horizon are about the places where we see change become more than what was promised.
The Angular Houses %>

The Angular Houses

The reason why the angular houses signify change is because we were not born to live in a static and unchanging world but to live in a perpetually changing world.
Exaltations and Falls %>

Exaltations and Falls

We live in a representational republic where visibility is power, whether that visibility is achieved through political or commercial representation. In other words, exaltations and falls have to do with visibility.
Not All Squares are Created Equal %>

Not All Squares are Created Equal

Mutable squares are the only types of squares where it is possible that both planets in a square share a ruler. This would be like two tenants who share a landlord.
Decolonizing Essential Dignities: Reading Dignities Through Fanon %>

Decolonizing Essential Dignities: Reading Dignities Through Fanon

When we apply Fanon to astrology, we change astrology from a tool of self reflection into a technology for action.
Decolonizing Essential Dignities %>

Decolonizing Essential Dignities

Debilitation is a state of existence in which you are always viewed to be an outsider, where you must constantly prove your own existence, in places that were made to exclude you.
Reading the I Ching Through Yaoi %>

Reading the I Ching Through Yaoi

Just like the yin and yang within the I Ching, the dynamics between an uke and a seme are about power. (tw: fictional descriptions of non-con)
Antiscia and the Aries Point (Part II) %>

Antiscia and the Aries Point (Part II)

However, what did Alexandrinus mean when he wrote that contra-antiscia aspects can “hear” each other while antiscia aspects can “see” each other?
Antiscia and Contra-antiscia: The Underrated Aspect (Part I) %>

Antiscia and Contra-antiscia: The Underrated Aspect (Part I)

Signs that oppose one another across the solstice line are called antiscia, which means opposite shadows.
The North and South Lunar Nodes %>

The North and South Lunar Nodes

Too often, modern astrologers tell clients that going towards north node automatically means more success. I’ve been guilty of doing this too. The association between north node and positivity and south node with negativity is particularly weird when you consider the realities of global north hegemony.
Exploring the Aries Point %>

Exploring the Aries Point

The Aries Point is the fame point. According to Noel Tyl and Robert Hand, it shows how someone can become famous. Let’s take a deeper look and see what it’s really made of.
Tips for Reading Your Natal Chart %>

Tips for Reading Your Natal Chart

Chart interpretation is a little like portrait sketching. When you’re drawing a picture of someone, the last thing that you want to do is start with a detail, like an eye or a mouth, no matter how tempting it is to just zero in on your favorite thing about that person. When you start from the details, you can’t capture the likeness of someone.
Everything You Need to Know About Retrogrades %>

Everything You Need to Know About Retrogrades

There’s a huge basic difference between a Mercury or Venus retrograde and a retrograde of Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn.
Wuxin & Life Process %>

Wuxin & Life Process

The Chinese five elements, on closer look, are not elements at all but related to movement. They represent five life processes.
What Mercury and Venus retrograde Actually Do %>

What Mercury and Venus retrograde Actually Do

When Mercury and Venus are moving ahead of the Sun, visible as evening stars, they represent afterthought. When they become morning stars after retrograding, they represent forethought. During retrograde, a lot of patterns and habits become broken to make room for a mental change.
Progressions %>

Progressions

As you grow, so does your chart
Transits 1 %>

Transits 1

Transiting planets affect natal placements
Transits 1 %>

Transits 1

Different planets have different planetary cycles




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