Last year I was told a few times, from various sources (including a recently dead ex-girlfriend, via a medium) that I had to stop “living in the past.” And I was mystified. I did not think of myself as a nostalgic person, wistfully mourning the “good old days.” But the message kept being delivered to …
Old Rules, New Understandings
Planets are connected to signs and they influence each other. It is one of the techniques astrologers use to interpret the symbols in a chart. In traditional astrology, certain combinations of planet & sign pairs were automatically assigned the labels Rulership, Detriment, Exalted or Fall. Using these labels, we were expected to pre-judge certain pairs. …
Just Because I am an Astrologer…
Most people visit an astrologer when they are unhappy or troubled, and are seeking some kind of clarity about the situation. It might be an ongoing challenge in their birth chart, or it might be some conditions stirred up by a transiting planet, but they are trying to find a way to deal with it. …
Organ Donors, Spiritually Speaking
It always surprises me, and saddens me a wee bit, when I see people trying to evolve to a more spiritual awareness creating new fears to supplant the old ones. Recently on a social media site, someone asked “Are you an organ donor? What are you thoughts around organ donation?” My reply was “If I …
Life Is An Illusion, But…
Recently, while wandering through social media discussion sites, I came across a woman’s comment claiming she could not accept that “life is an illusion.” To her, the universe was too big, too amazing and too beautiful to just be an “illusion.” Just an illusion? Illusions do matter. And yes, the physical world is an illusion, …