Neptune has a bit of a reputation for being the junkie of the solar system, and I think its transits are the best argument for it. When Neptune enters a new sign, it tends to introduce “drugs” that are consistent with the nature of the sign, sometimes quite literally. There are even correlations to the […]
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Quincunxes are good at making you cringe and getting a high score at Scrabble, and that’s about the end of the ‘pro-‘ list. Otherwise, the so-called quincunx aspect is a load of codswallop. It’s a 150° separation between two points, and it’s a bucket of balderdash. It’s also called ‘inconjunct’, and it’s a sack of
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I realize the lifehack to this lifehack list is basically “Use an ephemeris or astrology software”. But even I, as someone from the tech-addled millennial generation can recognize the value of not exporting all brain functions to software and apps. There are some ways in which making quick calculations in your head enable you to
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Before I adopted the term Lots, I knew them as Arabic Parts. This is sort of a misnomer, since they are not Arabic and the term “Parts” isn’t incredibly descriptive at best and um, suggestive and euphemistic at worst. The term ‘Lots’ capture the original idea from Plato’s Timaeus of souls casting lots for different
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One common argument skeptics have against sun sign horoscopes is that the chances of 1/12th of the population having the same day is extremely low. I have to applaud them for being right, in the same way I applaud a two year old for going potty all by themselves. That there can be commonalities between people based
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Across your adventures in astrological navel gazing, you may have pored over the concepts of essential dignity and rationalized away your chart’s clear shortcomings until you could no longer ignore the inexorable truth: Your chart sucks. My mum was an astrology enthusiast who tried to elect my birth for maximum astrological advantage. Instead, I decided to
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Don’t get me wrong: astrology is nearly always neatly descriptive of what’s going on, that’s why any of it makes sense! You don’t even have to go that deep into a chart to see a basic feature that describes a lot about its subject. I realize many of you will see these examples and say
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10) Astrological Terminology Misuse and Abuse Terms and buzzwords/phrases that give me diabetes and other preventable ailments: It’s astrologer, not astrologist. It’s conjoining, not conjuncting. It’s “Mercury is retrograde”, not “Mercury is in retrograde”. It’s [Planet] in [Sign], not [Sign] in [Planet]. Instead of energy, try using a thesaurus. Instead of consciousness, try, well, anything else. Instead
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Saturn entered Sagittarius last night, and I have said a LOT on the subject and a LOT has been said on the subject. If that was all just a bit TL;DR for you, this is the list-icle for you. Saturn is in Sagittarius from September 17th 2015 to December 19th 2017 and here is the lowdown on
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UPDATE: Yep, I failed to correctly predict the 2016 election outcome. Keep reading though. There’s a problem with Hillary Clinton’s birth time. The two most commonly reported birth times for Hillary are 8:02 am and 8 pm, cataloged on Astrodatabank. The claim for 8:02 am come from Alice Mason who talked to an unnamed Clinton associate,
