The Best Matches in Astrology (and the Exact Tax You Pay for Each One)
Nobody books a chart reading because everything is going pleasantly.
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Long-form astrology for the parts of a chart that deserve more than a one-line interpretation.
When Corporate Marriages Crumble: Reading the Stars of the First Trade
Every time two Fortune 500 companies announce a megamerger, the script is identical.
Read articleStop Trying to Speed-Run the Universe: A Grounded Guide to Candle Colors and Your Sun Sign
Last November, a client named Marlo called me from her apartment balcony while her smoke detector shrieked in the background. She was coughing, the hallway sprinklers had barely stayed off, and three dollarstore red tapers had melted into a puddle on a cheap aluminum pie tin.
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Whenever someone finds out I do astrology for a living, there is about a forty percent chance they will tilt their head and ask if I can guess what number they’re thinking of, and a sixty percent chance they’ll ask when they are going to meet their soulmate.
Read articleClimbing the Sky: How the Renaissance Turned the Planets into a Ladder
For a very long time, looking up at the planetary spheres felt less like looking at a starry wonderland and more like staring at the bars of a cosmic birdcage.
Read articleThe 12th House, and the Part of Yourself You Meet Last
A client once sat across my kitchen table with a printed birth chart, looking like someone who had just received an alarming medical report. She pointed a trembling finger at the pie slice sitting just above her Ascendant.
Read articleThe 3rd House: Siblings, Streets, and the Way You Learned to Talk
The screen door slaps shut on a hot July afternoon, the sneakers hit the porch steps at a dead sprint, and the argument begins before anyone has even reached the driveway: who called shotgun?
Read articleThe 5th House Mirror: Why Your Child Triggers the Parts of You You Forgot Were Bruised
It usually happens over something completely harmless. It is 6:15 on a Tuesday, the pasta water is boiling over, and your sixyearold is standing on a dining chair wearing a colander on his head, singing at the top of his lungs.
Read articleCaught Between the Hammer and the Anvil: What Astrological Besiegement Really Means for Your Big Launch
Late on a Tuesday night, if you make the mistake of digging into seventeenthcentury electional texts, you will find William Lilly and his medieval forebears describing a "besieged" planet in terms usually reserved for a hostage crisis.
Read articleThe Transit Trap: Why Your Ephemeris Can't Do Your Therapy for You
It is 1:30 in the morning, the apartment is dead quiet, and you are sitting in the blue glare of your phone screen refreshing a transit chart. In the other room, someone you love is asleep with their back turned to the door because of something sharp you said over dinner.
Read articleThe Moon-Pluto Synastry Dynamic: When Vulnerability Feels Like an Interrogation
You check your phone over pasta on a Tuesday night, let out a tiny, involuntary sigh, and look back up. Across the table, your partner's eyes are locked on yours.
Read articleThe Sun That Blinds and the Moon That Absorbs: Astrology's Narcissus and Echo Dynamic
The drive home after a twohour dinner has a very particular silence. It’s that hollow quiet in the car when you turn off the radio, hands on the steering wheel, running back through the last ninety minutes.
Read articleThe Blind Spot in Your Chart: How Planetary Midpoints Explain the Days Nothing Else Can
Nora sat across my kitchen table on a rainy Tuesday with two suitcases in the trunk of her car and the lease on her apartment broken. She had ended a sixyear relationship and given notice at her design job in the span of fortyeight hours.
Read articleThe Other Half of Luck: What the Part of Spirit Actually Does with Your Life
A few years ago, a client sat at my kitchen table with her birth chart pulled up on a tablet, looking like she had just been handed a speeding ticket.
Read articleThe Clock and the Mirror: What Vedic Astrology Does That Western Never Even Attempted
Around once a month, usually on a Sunday night around one in the morning, I get a frantic email from a client having a quiet existential breakdown.
Read articleWhat Each Zodiac Sign Secretly Blames Themselves For (And Needs to Drop)
A few years ago, a client sat across my kitchen table with a transit chart, three natal planets in Capricorn, and an apology. She had scheduled the reading months in advance, but two weeks prior, right in the thick of her Saturn return, her life had quietly come apart.
Read articleKeep Your Skepticism: Why It’s the Healthiest Thing in Your Astrology Practice
Have you ever caught yourself refreshing a transit app three times before answering a slightly tense text message?
Read articleWhen the Moon Keeps Knocking on the Same Door: Reading Repeated House Activations
A client came to my kitchen table last autumn convinced her sixth house was under a targeted hex.
Read articleThe Weather Turned Ten Minutes Ago: Why Mutable Signs Shift Before the Room Catches On
If you have ever traveled with a Gemini who quietly repacked their carryon three hours before the gate change was announced, or sat across from a Virgo who started pulling backup files before the project lead even finished clearing their throat, you know the look.
Read articleWhy Your Astrology App Thinks Every Tuesday Is a Crisis (and Why It Isn't)
At 7:45 on a Tuesday morning, while I was waiting for the kettle to boil and looking for two socks that matched, my phone lit up with three exclamation points: MAJOR TRANSFORMATIONAL SHIFT TODAY. DO NOT SIGN CONTRACTS OR SPEAK TO STRANGERS.
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