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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Why do I use the tropical zodiac? The short, honest answer is that it’s the first one I learned about. Being an astrologer in the western tradition has meant receiving the tropical zodiac as the default from the very beginning of my studies. The longer, honest answer is that the Read more…
Do Whole Sign Houses explain Gauquelin’s “Mars Effect”? First we should understand what it is. Michel Gauquelin was a French dude who got a lot of birth times of eminent sports stars together. When he calculated all their astrological charts he noticed that Mars kept showing up in certain areas. Read more…
Hellenistic astrology can be super intimidating, and even once you sit down and actually decide to read some of these ~2000 year old books, it can be a bit confusing. So I wanted to basically translate into plain English what 2nd-century astrologer Vettius Valens had to say about “Marriage, Wedlock Read more…