Your Sun Sign, AKA your star sign, is likely the first piece of Astrological knowledge you come by. Most people, whether or not they are into Astrology, generally know if they are a so-called Gemini, Leo, or Scorpio. These are easy to calculate because the Zodiac Sign the Sun is in changes regularly and consistently roughly every 30 days, returning at more or less the same time every year.
Read MoreIn the fourth Major Arcana Tarot Card, we encounter The Emperor, counterpart to The Empress. Here we meet our self sovereignty and sense of agency, our independence and ability to lead. It is a strong card of taking ownership of ones life and situation, handling the reigns with confidence.
Read on to find out more meanings of The Emperor and what it can signify if it shows up for you as a reversal, and in a general, career, or love reading:
Read MoreInterpreting the Planetary aspects in Astrology is a fundamental process in the analysis of a Natal Chart, which is the degree of distance the Planets or placements are to each other, the way in which they influence one another. The 5 major Ptolemaic aspects are the conjunction, sextile, square, trine, and opposition. Read on for how to interpret them:
Read MoreLearn all about the meaning of the Empress Tarot card upright and reversed, in a general, career, and love reading, and the invitations this lusciously fertile card can have for us when it comes up...
Read MoreYour Moon Sign in Astrology represents a fundamental part of your cosmic blueprint, a part of your so-called “Big 3” (along with your Sun and Rising Sign). Where it was in the sky on the day and location you were born, as well as exact birth time, is significant in determining your inner world, emotional needs, body, nurturance, and maternal figure.
Read MoreLearn all about the voyage into the liminal and our sacred inner knowing with the mysticism of The High Priestess. When we receive this in a reading, it is a call to listen to our intuition and follow our instinct; read on to find out its reversed significations and what it means in a general, career, and love reading:
Read MoreLearn all about the basics of Human Design and what the Human Design types are, as well as your strategy and authority, and how to live in alignment with your own chart and energy!
Read MoreThe Sabian Symbols are a set of cryptic, oracular prompts intuited by gifted psychic Elsie Wheeler and famed Astrologer Mar Edmund Jones for every degree of the Zodiac. They can be used as a way to connect to the subconscious and esoteric realms, acting as a catalyst for reflection. Read on to see them:
Read MoreLearn all about what The Magician tarot card meanings are in a general reading, in a love reading, in a career reading, and as a reversal- including its astrological, numerological, and historical symbolism, and more!
Read MoreFind out which are the best books for learning Astrology, with everything from a beginner's overview to more complex methodologies and niche topics. Here are my top 11 favourites:
Read MoreThe Fool is the card that initiates the whole Tarot, we go on the journey of The Fool through the Major Arcana and beyond. It's a wonderful symbol of pure potential and new beginnings, of belief and infinite faith. Read on to discover its meanings and interpretation for career or love readings, reversed and more:
Read MoreMusic and sound have been an important part of human culture since time immemorial, universally spanning across cultures in a significant role in our history until present. Now, there are even more varieties and interesting studies documenting the powers of healing sounds and more specialised techniques such as binaural beats, solfeggio frequencies, the Schumann Resonance, and more!
Read MoreFarmers have relied upon the Moon's phases for guidance on when to plant crops for optimal growth, dating as far back as the 1800s, at least, from when the Farmer’s Almanac was first published, but these are practices that have been handed down through the ages across cultures. Likewise, it is common in many traditions to cut hair guided by the phases of the Moon.
Read MoreA Solar Return chart is an astrological forecasting technique used for assessing the potential themes and general feel of your next solar year, i.e. birthday year (from one birthday to the next). They are usually cast on your birthday, solar returns are the moment the Sun returns to its natal degree, which can actually be the day before or after your birthdate), but they can also be done retrospectively as well once you are already part-way into your next birthday year if you would like insight into the unfolding of the rest of the year.
Read MoreSecondary progressions, sometimes called secondary directions or a-day-for-a-year progressions, is a predictive Astrology method of “progressing” or, in a sense, maturing your Natal Chart to see how it has evolved from when you were born. It is done by moving your chart forward by one day for every one year of life, so the 30 days after you were born would reflect your first 30 years of life.
Read MoreLenormand cards are simpler than Tarot cards in their interpretation, offering more concise and direct answers, but no less informative! They are read in card combinations to form sentences, a minimum Lenormand reading would require 2 cards, but three is the usual customary. Although their individual meanings are less detailed and nuanced, the method of reading Lenormand can get significantly more complex!
Read MoreThe essential Planetary dignities help to construct an Astrological picture of how well a Planet is performing, how comfortable it is, and the extent to which it can express its strength (or weaknesses) based on its placement in the Zodiac Signs. They are a construct of ancient Hellenistic Astrology largely defined by Ptolemy. The Planetary joys are House placements where the Planets are particularly happy and can also add another layer of detail to our analysis.
Read MoreThe Nodes are physical points in space, not planetary bodies, that represent where the orbit path of the Sun and Moon would seemingly intersect on the ecliptic from our vantage point on Earth. When they are perfectly aligned is when we get the Eclipses.
Read MoreSacred Geometry is the concept of repeating mathematical patterns that can be found in all parts of nature, including ourselves. It is seen in snowflakes, beehives, shells, flowers, our DNA helixes, galaxy spirals, Stonehenge, music and more, are all harmonically aligned with sacred geometry patterns.
Read MoreAstrology House systems are methods for dividing up the sky into a Natal Chart to be interpreted. They take the sky as a 360º whole and use different calculations of division to get the Astrological Houses, cusps, and other important points. The Babylonians may have been the first to set out the concept of House division, using Whole Sign Houses. There are at least 20 different Astrology House systems created, in this post I will discuss 8 of the most popular versions in use today.
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