Astro Stories

A kite is a beautiful and powerful pattern that can be seen in some chart, like in the Dalai Lama's or Kurt Cobain's. In a kite there are four planets (sometimes more when some planets are conjunct - they are four points anyway) Three of these planets form a Great Trine - that is they are connected by trines. The trine is the most easy flowing aspect between two planets. Most trines happen between planets placed in signs of the same element. You can imagine two characters who are getting on really well, they are on the same wavelength, conflicts are rare or existent, no energy is wasted, they completely support each other. In a Grand Trine, like the three Musketeers they could claim: "All for one and one for all!" Now, to interpret aspects, the first thing to consider is what planets are involved. If the energies are very different, like Venus and Saturn, even a trine won't make them become similar. Liz Greene says that "all contact with Sa...

You mix blue and yellow and you get green. Helen Leaf Black's palette  Green is not a shade of blue, not a shade of yellow, it's another colour. A painter or anyone who loves colours is able to look at a certain shade of green, and see how bluish it is, or how akin this green is to the yellow spectrum. However at basic level, green is not blue, and green is not yellow. In similar fashion, we mix Sun and Moon signs, and of course the Ascendant... and all our placements. The result of this mixing is our personality, and it's similar to the painter palette. It's messy. In some place we can see original colours, in other places they blend in various ways. The descriptions of the signs as character traits are what the painter gets when squeezing the tube. The painting is what we are longing for, the reason why we keep mixing colours. And to make things more exciting (or depressing according to the mood) with us, the palette and the canvas are...