Sadness & Euphoria: What is This Crossroads? (Eclipse Season)
Tonight begins Rosh Chodesh Elul, which is the month before the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana. I love Elul. Elul has a distinctive smell to it. Sometimes it’s the smell of fall, of leaves, the smell of seasons changing. I start to feel hopeful as we move away from…
Instructions for the New Moon Eclipse
Hello the Solar Eclipse/New Moon is next week, August 12th. Wednesday. Sign of Leo the Lion at the 20 degree mark. When is the moment of clear seeing/focus? 1:37 pm Eastern. WRITE IT DOWN. Worth noting the presence of both Mercury and Jupiter (and the Sun of course)…
Your Natal North Node: Garden of Love
And today I sought out the herbal remedies as I was writing the newsletter. Remembering my love for Dandelion. For a minute I had forgotten about their potency and power. Also on my mind is the potency and power of your natal North Node. All the planets (and…
Everything Is Different Now: North Node in Aquarius
No, it’s not the same. Everything is different now. You feel it? The transits are wild, spinning in the sky. The music has the latest instruments, so new we can’t even name them. My book has been out two months now, and I found this lovely YouTuber yesterday with…
Believe in Magic? Jupiter in the 12th House
That I was walking down the street not soooo far from where I live, and it was like a scene in a Yiddish short story. A visibly Jewish man — which is an odd phrase but sometimes I bow to contemporary convention — was sitting on a folding chair outside a row house,…
Jupiter Square Chiron: Vulnerable
Everything looks a little different this morning. Mercury is retrograde in Cancer. Chiron, the Wounded Healer, is in Taurus. Mars entered Gemini the other day and is cruising towards a conjunction with wild Uranus. This could be a roller coaster week. Or not. You may…
More Thoughts On Chiron In Taurus
You have to work with what you have. I’ve been working with people for SO long now. I can’t even remember how long. When was the first time somebody paid me for a reading? 2011? 2012? Earlier? And I see their suffering. It’s hard to miss. I saw it then. I see it now….
Notes From The Moon In My 12th House
I woke up from many dreams. I rarely remember my dreams. They were about my school. Familiar people. A scene of prayer. I don’t want to be too specific. What’s remarkable to me, besides remembering the dreams, is that I didn’t rush to write them down. Instead I went…
Becoming Grace: Chiron in Taurus
Thinking about Venus while the clothes are in the dryer. Thinking about this week’s Venus Uranus, Venus Neptune, Venus Pluto. Venus entered Leo over the weekend. Venus is busy. Venus rules, among other things, how you feel about yourself. She might find something she…
Scared All the Time: Bad Saturn
“I’m scared all the time,” she said, about her Saturn transit. We were sitting across from each other at the cafe, staring at her chart together. I could understand her fear, easily. Who wouldn’t? Only a blind man. This transit was brutal indeed. I won’t give you all…
A Hole in the Shape of A Person: Chiron in the Natal Chart
That all Chiron placements (and transits) are about a wound, and wounds are always in the shape of a person. I have a client (an astrology client) who is quick to blame himself when his relationships go awry, as they sometimes do. There is an urgency to his…
The Whip: More Advice for Your Pluto Transit
What I’m up to today: Did some work on the Patreon. (If you want to join the Patreon you have to talk to me first. I’m protective of my little space. It’s content I do not share anywhere else. Weekly and monthly forecasts of various kinds. It’s all me (voice only) and…
Venus Square Chiron (In Case You Were Wondering)
That this energy is HOT right now and tomorrow too and into Sunday and this is the energy of pain that I was referring to in yesterday’s blog post, but it might not be *your* pain. It might be theirs and it’s climbing all over you. Today I was talking to a colleague…
MoonPluto Astrology Is Back for the New Moon in Gemini
Here we are. Heatwave today. Wait. No. It’s not a heatwave but it is DAY ONE of hotter temperatures after a cold cold winter and a moderate spring. I only had to take my allergy medicine once. And I haven’t blogged here consistently for a long time but instead…
From My Crone Perch: Venus This Weekend!
How did it get to be the end of October already? I’m taking a quick break before I get back to work, making videos for the Patreon. It’s a real Venus-y weekend. We got a Venus Chiron and a Venus Jupiter so my mind is filled with Venus thoughts, and yours may be…
Don’t Freak Out: Mercury Retrograde on the Way!
I announce this periodically, that it’s time to get back to blogging. Well, here I am again. Here I am gonna try again. Really. Here we go. I just got back from a brisk morning walk in the chilly sunshine Tuesday and there’s zero point really in bemoaning…
If it Walks like a Duck: Trusting the South Node
So eclipse season has come and gone, eh? Au contraire, my little kittens! The eclipses set up an ENERGY PATTERN (yes, it needs to be in all caps) for a full year. You won’t know the spoils of this war until, possibly, the very end (September-ish 2026). Yes, yes,…
Adventures in Meadowsweet + A Saturn Story
This post is from my Substack So I made a visit to an herbalist to talk about my health, and I’ve started to brew teas made of dried leaf (or maybe bark or maybe flower—can’t remember now) and I’m realizing that I haven’t touched the plant matter with my fingers. I’ve…
Mercury Retrograding + Crone Time + Stopping Time
I was trying to work on my YouTube channel. Got myself a gimbal and a mic and was having technical difficulties (hello Mercury retrograde) and was washing the dishes when I thought to myself: I’m not a YouTuber. I’m a writer. I’m a writer who realized she was pretty…
Who’s Afraid of Mercury Retrograde
Oh Mercury Retrograde, what are we to do with you? The astrologers guide us thusly: It’s a time to review and possibly to redo. Don’t sign a contract. Double check your travel plans. I bought an air fryer and regret it already. I knew better! But I want to show you…
Pluto is a Torch: I Want to Become an Expert in What Was Shattered
This post is from my Substack “I want to become an expert in what was shattered.” That quote above – and I didn’t quote the whole sentence — is from Jeffrey Rubin’s new book, Psychotherapy Case Studies: Escaping the Prison You Didn’t Know You Were In. I started…