CompatibilityPisces and Pisces: Two of the Same Sign Together
Two Piscess share every instinct, including the blind spot. Here is what that makes easy, what it makes invisible, and what actually decides whether it works.
Astrology, explained plainly
Your chart, your year and the people in it, written in ordinary English. Every date here is computed from an ephemeris rather than copied from another site, and every article says what astrology cannot tell you as clearly as what it can.
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AspectsVenus Trine Mars: What This Aspect Means
Venus trine Mars puts the two 120 degrees apart. Venus governs love, beauty, money and worth, Mars governs drive, anger and desire, and the pairing is about attraction and pursuit, the classic pairing for how somebody does desire. Here is what the angle does to it.
Dreams & SymbolsDreaming About A Train: Meaning and Research
Dreaming about a train is usually read as a path already laid down, and whether you are on it, and tends to show up during careers and life plans decided earlier that may not still fit. What is actually known about dreams, why dictionaries do not work, and how to read your own.
Finding Your Birth TimeHow to Find Your Birth Time in Hawaii
The hour is on the certified copy of the original Hawaii birth record, not the short abstract. Here is how to ask for the right one, what Hawaii clocks were doing, and what to do if the hour was never recorded.
Rising SignsPisces Sun Gemini Rising: Your Sun Is in the 10th House
Pisces Sun with Gemini rising puts your Sun in the 10th house, which is about career, reputation and public standing. What people meet first, what you are actually aiming at, and why the house matters more than either sign.
Moon SignsGemini Sun Virgo Moon: A Square
Gemini Sun aims to understand things, and to be the person who can explain them; Virgo Moon needs to be useful and to have something under control. The two signs are three signs apart, which is what decides whether those two agree, and it also tells you the lunar phase you were born under.
Solar Return & BirthdaysDecember 20 Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius, and the Exact Degree
December 20 is Sagittarius in every year from 1930 to 2035. The exact degree range, the decan and its ruler, the tarot card that shares it, and what a birthday can and cannot tell you.
Love & RelationshipsVenus in Leo and Mars in Aries: A Trine
Venus in Leo is drawn to warmth and confidence. Somebody who is glad to be seen with you, and Mars in Aries goes after it directly and at speed. You ask, early, and you do not spend long wondering. The two signs are four signs apart, which is what decides whether the wanting and the chasing agree.
Transits & ForecastsUranus Transiting Your 7th House: About 7 Years
Uranus through your 7th house puts about seven years of pressure on partnership. The real dates for all twelve rising signs, computed from the ephemeris, including the retrograde wobble at the start.
Solar Return & BirthdaysOctober 26 Zodiac Sign: Scorpio, and the Exact Degree
October 26 is Scorpio in every year from 1930 to 2035. The exact degree range, the decan and its ruler, the tarot card that shares it, and what a birthday can and cannot tell you.
Moon SignsVirgo Sun Leo Moon: One Sign Apart
Virgo Sun aims to be genuinely good at something useful, and to do it properly; Leo Moon needs to be noticed and taken seriously, especially when low. The two signs are next door to each other, which is what decides whether those two agree, and it also tells you the lunar phase you were born under.
Planets in HousesJupiter in the Eighth House: What It Means
Jupiter in the eighth house puts growth, luck and belief into the department of intimacy and shared money. Here is what it does, where it strains, and which sign that means for your rising sign.
Rising SignsLibra Sun Aries Rising: Your Sun Is in the 7th House
Libra Sun with Aries rising puts your Sun in the 7th house, which is about partnership and one-to-one dealings. What people meet first, what you are actually aiming at, and why the house matters more than either sign.
CrystalsCarnelian Meaning, Uses and Care
Carnelian is chalcedony, a microcrystalline quartz, Mohs 6.5 to 7, used for courage, creativity, appetite. The mineralogy, whether it is safe in water and sunlight, what gets substituted for it, and what a stone can honestly do.
Solar Return & BirthdaysAugust 13 Zodiac Sign: Leo, and the Exact Degree
August 13 is Leo in every year from 1930 to 2035. The exact degree range, the decan and its ruler, the tarot card that shares it, and what a birthday can and cannot tell you.
TarotThe Star: Tarot Meaning, Reversed and Aquarius
The Star means hope, repair, clarity. What it means upright and reversed, the four ways readers handle reversals, and the Aquarius attribution the Golden Dawn gave it.
SynastrySun in the 8th House Synastry
Their Sun in your 8th house lands on shared money, intimacy, and the things you do not say out loud, bringing presence, warmth and a certain amount of weather. What it feels like from the house side, what it feels like from the planet side, and why those are not the same reading.
Planets in SignsAries Third Decan: April 10 to April 19
The third decan of Aries runs 20 to 30 degrees, roughly April 10 to April 19, ruled by Venus. What a decan is, where the idea came from, and the tarot card that shares these ten degrees.
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