Astro Stories

  Hello there!  The first house, defined by the Ascendant, is called the “House of Self”.  The Sun is said to be the ego.  What is ego?  For people on a spiritual path, the “ego” is the obstacle. I don’t agree with this negative definition. In a more psychological sense, the ego is simply our sense of identity, our sense of self.  S ince both the Sun and the Ascendant are connected to our sense of self, i s there  some form of competition between the two?  The symbol for the Sun is the dot at the centre of a circle. It is one of the most powerful symbols. The self is at the centre.   Let me tell you a metaphor.  Imagine you’re planning to visit the bottom of the sea. There are beautiful fish down there.  The sea is very deep.  There is a lot of pressure deep down and you wouldn’t be able to breathe. You need a vessel of some kind, a submarine.  So you embark on a small one.  When you reach the bottom of the sea, ...

The MC is who we are as a member of society. If someone says: "Let me introduce you to Dr Faust, who is opening a medical practice in the borough" they are talking about the MC. If they add "I know him personally and he is a real bastard but don't worry, he knows his job and does it well" they are talking about the Ascendant or other personal planets in the first part of the sentence, but when saying "...he knows his job and does it well" they are b ack to the MC. For most people in the borough, that's all what matters. Now, if the guy ends up known in the whole borough as "The Bastard" then yes, it's the MC. The MC is not necessarily about our profession. If the Doctor keeps his bastardness private and is known essentially as "Good doctor, never makes a mistake" then the MC is only about being a good doctor. His wife may leave him anyway, if she married him for his MC she made a big mistake. Check the eighth house f...

In mythology, Hermes-Mercury made a lyre-guitar for Apollo the Sun god. In astrology, the Sun is the energy of expressing our selves, which at some level, may be ego but as we refine our expression, it becomes just love.  By love I don't mean romantic love - it's only a tread in the tapestry. Love is love of life.  Mercury provides the tools. If the Sun is love, the guitar, the manual dexterity that needs to be trained through daily practice, the lungs and vocal chords to sing and the words to say are from Mercury. The painter loves lights, colours and shapes. Mercury provides the paints, the brushes, the eyes to see and the skills to translate the pictures in the mind into colours on the canvas. All artists know that you can't just do anything directly from inspiration to realisation.  A composer knows what instrument they are composing for. There are things that are possible with a trumpet but not with a guitar. The instrument, the messenger, the intermediate pla...

To learn quickly, make it a game!  You can play with these key words on your own, or with friends.  Take a horoscope. Chose a placement. It can be a planet in a sign, a planet in a house, an aspect between two planets or a sign in a house.  Look at the lists of key words below and combine them to find interpretations.  NB: as in life, there will be positive and negative ways to combine energies. If you need more explanations: Each planet is associated with a sign and a house: you get the same key words, for instance for the Moon, the sign it rules which is Cancer, and the associated house which is the 4th.   Planets on principle represent the energy and are more likely to be expressed with verbs (for instance the Moon cares, nurtures, feels....) when the sign is a style or a mood and can be expressed with adjectives,  adverbs or complements:  In Cancer for instance,  a  planet does what it does with sensitivi...

Hello there! I'm really happy to explain, I love explaining things! If you are a beginner in the study of astrology, I am writing for you.  I expect you to know the symbols of the signs and planets, if you don't, you can find them here https://www.astro.com/astrology/in_kdhoros_e.htm On this same website, you can get your own birthchart done for free. You need your date and precise time of birth (more or less five or ten minutes, exact if possible) and your place of birth. Go here https://www.astro.com/cgi/ And now, let me explain. A birth chart is like a big clock with two dials and ten hands. The first dial is made up of the twelve signs. Inside the circle formed of the twelve signs, you can see the symbols of the planets. For instance, in my own chart, the Sun (The circle with a very small circle at its center) is placed in Scorpio (The kind of M ending up with an arrow) The small numbers near the planets indicate the exact degree of the sign where they sit. My Sun is at 1...