Astro Stories

I got Jupiter, Aries, and the First House.  I had been struggling with Saturn in Scorpio and feeling more and more depressed in the process.  I was thinking of the old Latin phrase:  “Omnes secant, ultima necat” found on ancient sundials.  “All take something away from you, the last one kills you.”  Every single hour does that.  Saturn is time, and it meant also death or tombstone before Pluto grabbed all the morbidity for himself in the name of modernity.  I was thinking of skeletons and of the pirate flag, I was thinking of replacing the skull that means “danger of death” by a scorpion on high voltage electrical transformers or bottles of chemicals… I was thinking of the vanity of the aspiration of writers, artists or other wannabe great men to beat death with a masterpiece (if I am dead at the time of your reading this, thank you) and of the sexual tension that the scorpion’s tail evokes so well, the purpose of which being also to beat death by pass...

The Moon is mother, says the astrologer.  The Earth is our mother. Traditional cultures with roots have been saying it since ancient times. In Greece she was called Gaia. Where is the Earth in the chart? The usual answer is that it’s at the centre, half way between Ascendant and Descendant, where the horizon crosses the meridian.  The Earth is where we are looking at the Heavens from, we can’t see it over our heads moving from sign to sign!   Some chart types, for instance on Astrodienst, include a small circle at the centre. That’s where we are. Here is another answer: Where is the Earth? It’s the Moon!  This is not to be taken literally. I’m not that confused.  Let me explain: Traditional cultures with roots have been saying, since ancient times, that we are children of Heaven and Earth.   There is a fundamental duality in us. We are spirit and matter, we are body and soul, we are from above and we belong below. The planets must express this fundamental d...

  The houses are moving! First thing, you exist. That’s strong, that’s powerful, that’s Angular, that’s First House. Succedent Houses are Houses that come next. Planets located in the second house are following those that are located in the first, in primary motion, that is clockwise. These planets will rise next. The Second house is a Succedent one. You exist, and now you are hungry You want food, you want money Cadent Houses are Houses that fall over. (form latin cadere, to fall) Angles are peaks. After any summit comes decline. After angular you fall into cadent. That’s clockwise logic, aka Primary Motion. It’s worth repeating. The IC is an anti peak, a reversed MC so to speak The cadent house that falls after this anti peak actually starts climbing. It’s the third house, aka House of the Goddess. The Moon is happy there. She is a mirror as you know. Of course Houses don’t move. At least not literally. Houses are like stables. A stable, is it a building, or a team of race horse...