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The next horoscope belongs to a Libra participant born October 22nd, 1967 at 9:21AM.

Our participant was born when Scorpio was rising and when the Sun was in the eleventh house. The sign on the Midheaven is Virgo. The first thing that I notice is that attachment oriented Scorpio is rising giving an urgent thrust to the personality. The nature of the personality is to attach itself to gaining recognition for being in control especially in the professional area since Pluto is located in the tenth house. It’s important to remember that any planet in the tenth house becomes public knowledge. It’s as if the person were holding up a billboard advertising a piece of the personality for the world to see.

Uranus is in conjunction to Pluto making the urge to control especially powerful and extreme in it’s expression. Pluto and…

This is a re-post because I somehow managed to delete the original post. I am not liking the current pile up of planets in Pisces.

Hi Michelle,
Mariana show me what a wonderful advise you gave to her, I am wonder if you can see my solar , after seeing both of them I decided to change my fly and go to Argentina after my Birthday , instead having my birthday there, my concern are two thing: intimate relationship and money and investment., I will be careful with my Pluto in the 2 house that I preferrer than the Neptune…
You will see.
I really aprecite
vero

Some people might not know this, but where you are at the time of your Solar Return changes your Solar Return. Vero will be home for her Solar Return, but she can still get an idea of what her…

Thank you for the question Jchiron. For some reason, I had a hard time with your chart. I am curious to get your feedback

A few things about the aspects…

I think that the Grand Trine you are referring to is much too wide to be considered. Chiron and the Midheaven are almost 10 degrees off from a trine- though, the Chiron-Jupiter trine is the closest Chiron aspect that you have in your chart. I wouldn’t consider the Moon-Chiron square to be strong either, and, it seems like nearly everyone has the Uranus-Chiron opposition because they were in aspect many times between 1951 and 1989- so, it doesn’t have much personal meaning, unless Uranus or Aquarius are prominent, which they are in your chart- in a roundabout way.

Jupiter in Aquarius and Uranus in Sagittarius in Mutual Reception

You have 5 planets in…

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Last week I published an article about difficult transits and the responsibility we have as professional astrologers to discuss both the positive and the negative potential of an aspect.  A lively debate ensued in the comment section, and I’m reproducing parts of it here because discussions like these are valuable.

Cris wrote: I respectfully disagree with you on this – the specifics, not the general idea. In my experience, astrology books and even astrologers are full of doom-and-gloom predictions. You were lucky to find so many people with positive attitudes, but generally, hard transits, from slow planets are interpreted in negative, fatalistic ways. And I see absolutely no gain in doing so.

So, when observing a transit hitting a difficult natal combination, I’d say it is more productive to discuss that client’s usual patterns of response –…

Here we are, gliding along on New Moon energies, which feel a bit like drifting down a soft, padded tunnel; with the sharp Aries Moon in play, we may feel focused, but it’s more a matter of wearing blinders (or is it blinkers?)–we can’t help but be focused if our field of vision is limited. [...]

I can’t believe the explosion in astrological writing online. Here are just a few neat writers and articles I’ve spotted lately.

Natasa Karalic Koprivica takes a scholarly approach in her blog at horaryastrology.info. Here’s her analysis of a question about money, where she applies the methods of Masha’Allah and also Sahl. (Fun fact: Sahl apparently says that a planet in the 30^th degree of a sign (i.e. from 29/01 to 30/00) can be considered to have its strength and virtue in the following sign. See, if I read my books instead of just gazing at their attractive bindings, I might know neat tricks like that!)

Jacqueline Brook is a dynamo in traditional astrology in South Africa – publishing, writing, teaching, running their association. She doesn’t have a blog per se, or not that I’ve found, but you can find her writings at traditionalastrologer.co.za.…

My eye on the sky

The Moon in Aries conjuncts Venus while it squares Saturn and Pluto and your average woman is deeply pissed and frustrated. I don’t know what to say but best not poke her… or best poke her.

You know what I mean. If no one cuts or shoots you today, consider that a win.

If you have an outlet for your raw male energy, you can focus like a tractor beam but don’t expect people to be comfortable with it.

Control freaks are especially up in arms.

See what is coming up - Transit Watch

On March 20^th, 2010, Ceres, the Goddess of grain, enters the sign of Capricorn. We equate Capricorn with conservative outlooks and approaches, tenacity and ambition. It is a sign of success, or at least the hard driven ambition to succeed. Ceres enters this sign in a five year cycle and spends roughly five months here, retrograde dependent. As with everything, there is a cyclic nature involved and reflecting on Ceres, two main historical periods are highlighted. Taking the cycle from a Ceres in Aries beginning to Pisces end, we find a certain pattern with Ceres in same sign and retrograde periods in the year pockets of 1915-1919, 1984-1987 and 2006-2010. Our present cycle experienced Ceres retrograde in Taurus in 2007, Ceres retrograde in Virgo in 2009, and will experience Ceres retrograde in Capricorn in 2010. We can reflect on two…

Yesterday Jupiter conjoined my IC (cusp of the fourth house) and it was one of the best days around here I have had in a long time. I felt great, my Cancer dad gave me and my siblings some money, my puppy was a good girl for a change and my husband is happily making plans to replace the leaky roof on our front porch. I take back all the snarky things I said about you, Jupiter. Well, most of them . . .

The New Moon today is in my fourth house and trine my Ascendant and while this is very pleasant it does make focusing on the world outside of my home more challenging. Having my husband working on the house this next week or so is not going to help with that either. So if I seem less…