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Mars in Cancer: Grieving a Mother Wound

Back in New Jersey, I sought acupuncture treatment to help manage my addiction-level sugar cravings, which I inherited from my mother. So I wasn't nervous to reach out to a traditional Chinese medicine college in my local area that had a low-cost clinic. I was particularly interested in

TRANSitional Astrology: Electional Astrology or Thoughts on Divine Timing

A few weeks ago, my podmate J reached out to me because he needed my astrological know-how to settle on an interview time. This interview was a Really Big Deal. One of the things J and I initially bonded over other than our trans masc identities was that we are

TRANSitional Astrology: Finding a Life-based Framework for my Practice

A couple of weeks ago I was fretting about finding a framework for my astrological practice. I resolved this fairly soon after by ordering over 20 books from my library system on astrology. I then pulled out my Thoth Tarot deck to locate which of the 20 to start with

Life Updates and When It's Great to Be Wrong

Entering into 2024, it seemed to be all about love and relationships. That's what Twitter astrologers espoused, anyway. Frankly, looking at my transits, I thought so too and so did my astrologer and tarot reader. Venus and Mars finally reconnected in Aquarius a few months ago after never

Using Astrology Strategically with Hindsight

The biggest divergence of understanding between traditional astrology, even modern "psychological" astrology*, and pop astrology is what astrology is for. The latter in its rapid proliferation of memes and stereotyping of different zodiac signs is primarily interested in entertainment. The former asks, "In what way can I

The Necessity of Blockages in a Spiritual Life

Gods what a Saturnian title! As I am writing this, I am not in the best of places. To clarify, I am surprisingly feeling good, but my life prospects from a traditional capitalist standpoint look pretty shot. I want to disclose this openly because I haven't seen a

Tracking Saturn Through a Lifetime

Saturn is the source of retentive power. He governs an aspect toward profound knowledge; the science of law; the search for causes, effects, and the origins of things; the utterance of magical words; and the knowledge of deep and occult properties. Picatrix, translated by Dan Attrell and David Porreca Saturn&