It’s impossible to create a closed shape with only two lines, making the triangle the most basic closed shape after the circle.
Thinker extraordinaire Euclid of Alexandria noticed a few neat things about triangles around 300 B.C. that we can use today to understand how this shape plays in the birth chart.
One of those things is [...]

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When we start to draw lines across the circle of our selves, we start fragmenting the personality into pieces that compete for energy, attention and territory.
Bringing those fragments back together into a coherent and self-referential (and self-reverential) whole is the driving focus of depth astrology and depth psychotherapy.
There is nothing inherently wrong with lines, whether [...]

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The simplest way to carve a circle into parts is by drawing a line between two points on the circle’s circumference.
(We do this in an effort to get a foothold within the angle-less realm of the circle — the wholeness of the self — which is the basic shape of the horoscope: More on that [...]

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When I analyze people’s horoscope charts, they often ask, “What does it say about money?” Usually there’s either a gleam of excitement or a flash of doubt in their eyes. This tells me more than any single element of the chart might. For while there are some typical chart elements that might quickly give a [...]

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Pioneering astrological thinkers Bruno and Louisa Huber identified the golden mean, a geometric ratio found commonly in nature, as a cornerstone of horoscope interpretation. Though I have been a mathaphobe since about 7th grade, I am fascinated by the role of geometry in astrological understanding. Forget the faraway flapping of butterfly wings: That non-material ideas [...]

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