Mercury is never more than 30 degrees away from the Sun. That’s unique among the planets — all the others trek much further astray from the great ball of fire.
And if you know just a tad about Mercury and Sun’s roles in the birth chart, you can begin to appreciate the importance of our smallest, [...]

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Remember the case of Nature v. Nurture? And how the brilliant psychoneuro- biologists finally resolved it with a burning, complex, insightful answer (”Uh, it’s both, people.”)?
Well, the even-more-esoteric among us have been taking sides for years in a similar debate: Opposites Attract v. Likes Attract. Which is it?
Uh. It’s both.
Because, like Nature and Nurture, if [...]

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Lunching with a friend this afternoon, she told me she’d had her chart read once and that it’s amazing how accurate it is. I agreed and then couldn’t help adding, “When it’s done right.” She agreed back. She’d had a good experience, for which I’m always grateful.
But it got me wondering what I meant by [...]

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A friend gave birth this morning, and of course my first instinct (after tearing up, staring at the pictures and sending my excited congratulations) was to check out the child’s birth chart.
It is an extraordinary thing to look at the chart of a new person because, like the baby, it is pure potential. It is [...]

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