Astrology
What Mercury Retrograde Actually Looks Like From Space
Astrology says the planet turns hostile three or four times a year. The sky says something much stranger, and much easier to explain.
The current edition
Astrology
Astrology offers weekend readings written with warmth and without solemnity: weekly notes by sign, explanations of chart basics, and the meanings traditionally attached to lunar and planetary movement. Nothing here claims predictive authority. Written for readers who treat astrology as a pleasure and appreciate being addressed as adults.
Weekly star readings written for enjoyment rather than instruction, in clear language, with a sense of humor and no claim to predict anyone's future.
Astrology
North Node And South Node, The Tradition's Direction Arrow
The lunar nodes are two invisible points where orbits cross, and astrology reads the pair as a compass: inherited comfort in one direction, growth in the other.
Astrology
Astrology Versus Astronomy, And Where The Boundary Sits
One is a science with telescopes and error bars; the other is a symbolic tradition with a very long memory. Here is how to keep them apart.
Astrology
Synastry, Or How Chart Comparison Is Supposed To Work
Synastry is the tradition's technique for laying two birth charts over each other and reading the overlaps as a story about the space between two people.
Astrology
Shadow Periods, The Part Of Retrograde Nobody Mentions
Every retrograde begins and ends in a shadow, the weeks when a planet retraces the same zodiac degrees three times over.
Astrology
How Eclipse Seasons Are Read In The Tradition
Twice a year, for a few disorienting weeks, eclipses arrive in pairs, and astrologers have long treated them as chapters that turn without asking permission.
Astrology
What Your Moon Sign Says About Your Inner Weather
The moon sign is the tradition's map of the private self: instincts, habits, and what you need in order to feel safe.
Astrology
Rising Sign Versus Sun Sign, Untangled At Last
Your sun sign is who the tradition says you are at the core; your rising sign is the doorway the rest of the world walks through first.
Astrology
The Saturn Return, And Why Grown-Ups Fear It
Around age twenty-nine, Saturn completes its first lap of your chart, and the tradition reads the moment as a structural audit of your life.
Astrology
Venus Retrograde, As The Tradition Reads It
Every nineteen months Venus appears to slide backward for about six weeks, and astrologers have long treated the stretch as a season for reviewing love, money, and taste.