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6 Things You Can Do During Your Saturn Return
This Guest Post is by David Thomas.A Saturn return is a specific time when Saturn completes a full round around the Zodiac and finally returns to its original position. You can find its origin position based on your birth date. A Saturn return is significant because...
The Dispositor Tree
Dispositor Trees Your Chart's Backstory There are many techniques that you can use to read a chart and one method that I particularily enjoy is the dispositor tree. Your dispositor tree shows the back story and how the energy is flowing behind the scenes of your...
Retrograde Planets
Retrograde Retrograde motion is a phenomenon that occurs due to our vantage point here on Earth when we look at the planets in our Solar system. When astrologers use the term retrograde, they are referring to apparent retrograde motion. Definition: To go or to seem to...
Lunar Phases
The Lunar Cycle The Sun and Moon’s synodic cycle The Moon takes one month to orbit the Earth. The Moon phase cycle starts at New Moon when the Sun and the Moon are conjunct. This happens once every month. At New Moon we can’t see the Moon when it is close to the Sun...
Astrology Houses Introduction
Houses Introduction Houses pertain to different areas of life. They are like the backdrop or stage of a play. There are twelve houses in every chart. The houses are numbered from one to twelve anti-clockwise starting from below the ascendant. Houses can be any width;...
Astrological Ethics and Privacy
“It is not possible that particular forms of events should be declared by any person... it is necessary for [astrologers] to adopt inference. Only God can predict particulars.” ~ Ptolemy Introduction We as astrologers would certainly be wise to adopt inference about...
The Asteroids
The Asteroids The asteroids orbit the Sun and they are solar system bodies. They are smaller than the planets and their paths lie mainly between Mars and Jupiter. They are found in what is called “The Asteroid belt” which is a space between the personal planets (Sun...
The Astrological Modes
Modes There are three modes (modality, quadruplicities or qualities). The three modes are cardinal, fixed, and mutable. Each sign has one mode. Every mode has four signs associated with it. The four Cardinal signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. The four Fixed...
The Astrological Elements
Astrological ElementsElements There are four elements or triplicities in astrology; fire, earth, air, and water. Each sign is attributed to one element. Every element has three signs. The elements show how we experience and process the world around us. The three Fire...