[UPDATE 5/31/19: GONGGONG IS VICTORIOUS! The people have voted for Gonggong! Now the IAU just has to approve it. Don’t screw it up guys!] 2007 OR10 is a new dwarf planet beyond Eris, and it needs a name. Astronomers are calling on everyone to vote on a name for this celestial body, and the names […]
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It may look like an out of focus picture of a luminous glazed donut, but it is actually the first successfully obtained image of a black hole, larger than our own solar system. The sound you’re about to hear after what I say next is the collective groaning despair of astronomers: How do we understand
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My new video series “12 Different Types of Aries Rising” is my attempt at systematically decoding the overall archetypal meaning of Mars in each tropical sign and whole sign house in its context as the Ascendant Ruler when Aries is rising in a natal chart. It is the first entry of my somewhat larger project
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In astrology, Mercury is the messenger planet of communication, calculation and language, logic and rationality, neutrality and impartiality. Neptune is the illusionist planet of spectacle and fantasy, all that is synthetic and virtual, glitzy and glamorous, dreamlike and nightmarish. Together, their interaction tracks the life cycle, evolution and complex of communal storytelling and irrationality, the
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La Petite Mort. It is a phrase which means “the little death” in French and is a popular reference to the transcendent bliss one experiences after an orgasm. In astrology, the phrase has taken on a very peculiar role in propping up a view of the 8th house as being related to sex. Spoiler alert:
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I made this 1.5 hour video lecture back in early 2017 and it was previously only available if you paid for it. Since then multiple people have asked me to make it publicly available. So as a way of saying thanks for your support of my work over the year of 2018, I am now
Exaltation degrees are specific degrees of the zodiac where planets are said to be most exalted within the sign of their exaltation. They’ve fascinated astrologers over the centuries because it’s been such a tantalizing mystery about how and why such specific degrees would be noted as being particularly fortunate for each planet. I’ve recently discovered
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If you’ve ever referred to the 8th house as a “Scorpionic” house, this article is for you. Originally I wanted to write an article to definitively show how the 8th house shouldn’t be associated with sex, until it became way, way too long. I realized that in order to back up that argument, I had
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PatrickWatsonAstrology.com is now live! The files transferred onto the new domain at 2:40 am on November 20th 2018 in Phoenix, AZ. I went back and forth a lot over how or if I would continue with the Big Fat Astro moniker, and I’ve finally decided to reclaim my own name for the purposes of professionalizing
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You’re probably going to hear a lot about Jupiter in Sagittarius from now through next year from horoscopes to astrologers talking online. Before I talk about what it will mean for you and your chart, I’d like to show what it means and how it has played out in the real world before. First of
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