*+-I pay more attention to the Moon than I used to. Even my cycle is in sync with the Moon these days, the Full Moon and I’m wondering what you are feeling, if anything, in these days before the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Gemini. How sensitive are you? I […]
depression
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*+-What dream did you forget? What was it that you wanted? Not these exact words but something like them I was writing to a querent who was asking about the Gemini Eclipse in her chart. It must have been an 11th House transit for her. I can’t remember exactly. Hopes […]
X is a querent who came to me for a reading and what resulted from the reading was passion. Finding it. Where was it hiding? *** I primarily looked at some of her outer planet transits, the ones that spoke to me. Yup, on the angles or heading there. 1st […]
*+-I spent my 30s searching for the perfect therapist and as I type these words I realize that “perfection” wasn’t the point. Damn Good would have been good enough. I may even have had more therapists than boyfriends during those years. There was K. (to name one) who kept talking about how […]
*+-(A note about John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire: I studied poetry as an undergrad with Donald Justice who is a character in this novel.) The hardest years of my life were before I started studying astrology. Wait. Hold that thought. Some of my hardest years were when Saturn in […]
*+-I was reading an awesome astrology book on the subway and it was interesting because my experience of transiting Saturn through my 2nd House is not what the “textbooks” describe. Or it’s that I took the Saturn challenge. Learned from my mistakes. Especially learned from Saturn in Cancer some years […]
*+-There was this guy. We were dating. In case you are curious, he was Gemini Rising, Sagittarius Sun, Cancer Moon, Mercury in Scorpio, Mars in Sagittarius… I was pretty attracted and yet repulsed by him. His Mars squared my Pluto. We were on the phone once and he made a […]
*+-I have my North Node in the 6th House. Conjunct my descendent but yes on the 6th House side and turning points in my life have all involved my WORK. Climbing out of a lifetime of depression – yes, a lifetime – involved finding my Right Work. It’s a Buddhist […]
*+-Mars Retrograde may make you feel stuck. Mars Retrograde may make you feel depressed. Sometimes when you feel low, it’s helpful to go with the feeling. Adapt to it. I mean, if you have the time to feed the mood and it feels right to feed the mood, then try […]
*+-Cancer can be soft. Capricorn can be hard. And vice versa. Combine and balance these two *opposites* and you’ve got the ultimate Inner Parent: nurturing + discipline = reliable support. For example, letting your kid learn to walk without worrying they’ll fall because you know they will. At first. I’ve […]
*+-One way you can begin to turn depression around is to stop hating yourself for how you feel or don’t feel… But my point here is more specific. That there are times in life that call for passivity or receptivity and this came to mind as I was doing a […]
*+-Disclaimer: no conclusions drawn here. This is an exploratory post. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. I was talking to a fellow astrologer yesterday and the subject of depression came up. He remarked on the association of Pluto with depression, but I’d always seen it as a […]
*+-I think I am going to start tracking the VOC moons, see if they are related to mooD and mood swings, the downward kind or any kind. I may look at aspects to my chart, but just by sign. For example, Pisces works pretty well with mine, trining my water, […]
*+-Depression. What is it good for? Astrologers often blame Moon Saturn contacts for the heaviness of depression and I’ve got the trine and do not disagree. And then there are Moon Pluto aspects which can cause much emotional intensity. No matter how you slice it, does it all come back […]