Astro Stories

Imagine you are a bird. You have two central preoccupations. One is picking berries or insects for food. You need to be precise. You can’t just pick around in a blur and hope to be lucky. You need a clear focus. Evaluation of distance, details… Your other central preoccupation is to be ready to escape. Predators may attack from above, from below, from North, South, East or West. If your bird business coach has told you to “focus, focus, focus on the berries you deserve” you’re dead. You need unfocused attention. You need a global perception of the world around you to notice when something moves. You may also notice other bushes with berries and make a mental note to go there next. Every time you focus on the berry you’re about to pick, you’re like an antelope drinking at the water hole. You may not see the lions waiting in ambush. You better be quick. You reverse to peripheral vision and unfocused attention, open to detect signs of suspicious activity, you pick another berry… you don’

Let's  conjure up the spirit of Taurus.    Abracadabra, As above so below, the material world is a mirror. The things we see with our eyes are reflections of the psychic dimension.  Some of these reflections have more evocative power than others. They are symbols. They  bridge the visible and the invisible.  The zodiac signs are such bridges. Taurus, as grounded as it looks, is no exception.  The picture of the bull conjures up the vision of herds of cattle and green pastures. Imagine we’re still living in a pre industrial, agricultural society. Taurus shows wealth and fertility.  Do you see the thriving bull? The earth underneath is moist. There are worms under the grass. There is life. In the Northern Hemisphere, where astrology is from, when the Sun is in Taurus, it’s the middle of spring. There are flowers and showers. We can almost feel the etheric dimension nourishing the material plane.  The bull is fleshy, almost juicy. Its mass is impressive. Sometimes it demonstrates his

Once I saw a hen charging a dog. It was a young and  playful dog, it was three times as big as the hen. Behind the bird was a string of cute little chicken. Mother-hen doubled up in volume and charged. I was so impressed. The dog ran away. Since I got this vivid picture as an answer to the question of what a Moon in Aries is like, I can’t see anything else. Yes, Moon is mother, but not only, and even though a mother hen charging like a ram to protect her progeny is a wonderful illustration, there must be more to an Aries Moon than the odd heroic moment…   I know a woman with an Aries Moon. She  doesn’t look like it though. Her own mother had an Aries Moon among a few other Aries placements. The daughter must have inherited something of her primary role model.  I don’t know her well enough to see far beyond her Pisces rising, so I am not able to dissect her privacy for the sake of astrological knowledge.  The Moon is on the private side, that’s my point. If her Sun wasn’t conjunct the

  If you were born in Kiruna, in the north of Sweden, and Cancer or Capricorn were rising, your cross of matter looks like it has been rolled over by a truck.  As you know, Ascendant, Descendant, MC and IC are the four angles. Together they form the Cross of Matter. However, in many charts, it doesn’t look like a proper cross, with all the right angles at the right places, unless you were born when 0 degree Aries or Libra were rising, in which case your cross of matter looks perfect even in Kiruna.  Let’s call the  Ascendant “East”, the Descendant “West", the MC “South” (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the IC “North”.  This flattened cross of matter  looks very wrong. East and North, West and South never collide like that!  The MC is not exactly South actually. The MC is where the Sun peaks in its daily course. It’s in the sky. When you’re looking South, you’re not looking upwards but towards the horizon.  When the Sun peaks, it shows South anyway,  even in Kiruna.  If we wanted a