Solar Return & BirthdaysJuly 3 Zodiac Sign: Cancer, and the Exact Degree
July 3 is Cancer 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.
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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Moon PhasesBorn Under a Balsamic Moon: How to Check Yours
A Balsamic Moon birth means the Moon was 315 to 360 degrees ahead of the Sun. The arithmetic to check your own, what the phase is read as, and why it is not your Moon sign.
Moon SignsAries Sun Pisces Moon: One Sign Apart
Aries Sun aims to be first, and to find out what you are capable of by doing it rather than planning it; Pisces Moon needs gentleness, and somewhere to put feelings that are not all yours. 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.
Solar Return & BirthdaysSeptember 1 Zodiac Sign: Virgo, and the Exact Degree
September 1 is Virgo 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.
Rising SignsSagittarius Sun Gemini Rising: Your Sun Is in the 7th House
Sagittarius Sun with Gemini 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.
AspectsVenus Trine Saturn: What This Aspect Means
Venus trine Saturn puts the two 120 degrees apart. Venus governs love, beauty, money and worth, Saturn governs limits, work and maturity, and the pairing is about love against fear of not deserving it, the aspect behind a great many quiet, durable relationships and a great many unnecessary ones. Here is what the angle does to it.
Transits & ForecastsJupiter Transiting Your 9th House: About a Year
Jupiter through your 9th house puts about a year of pressure on belief and the big picture. The real dates for all twelve rising signs, computed from the ephemeris, including the retrograde wobble at the start.
TarotQueen of Pentacles: Tarot Meaning and Water of Earth
The Queen of Pentacles means provision, practical care, resources. What it means upright and reversed, the four ways readers handle reversals, and the Water of Earth attribution behind it.
Planets in SignsJupiter in Capricorn: What It Means in a Birth Chart
Jupiter governs growth, luck and belief, and Capricorn is an earth sign in cardinal mode. Jupiter is in fall here. Here is what the placement does, its shadow, and the real dates Jupiter is in Capricorn.
EclipsesSolar Eclipse in Cancer: Every Date and Degree
A solar eclipse in Cancer points at home, family and what you need to feel safe. Every occurrence with exact dates and degrees, what an eclipse physically is, and the 18-year cycle that lets you check it against your own past.
Solar Return & BirthdaysNovember 19 Zodiac Sign: Scorpio, and the Exact Degree
November 19 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.
Zodiac SignsSagittarius Season 2026: Exact Dates and What It Means
Sagittarius season 2026 runs Nov 22 to Dec 21, computed to the minute. Here is what the season is about, the moons inside it, and which part of your life it lights up depending on your rising sign.
Your Age in AstrologyAge 72 in Astrology: Your 1st House Year
At 72 your profected house is the 1st: self and first impressions. How the age gives you the house, which planet runs your year for each rising sign, and why no major cycle lands at this age.
Love & RelationshipsVenus in Libra and Mars in Cancer: A Square
Venus in Libra is drawn to charm and fairness. Somebody pleasant to be in a room with, and Mars in Cancer goes after it indirectly. You get close and wait to be invited the rest of the way. The two signs are three signs apart, which is what decides whether the wanting and the chasing agree.
CompatibilityLeo and Virgo Compatibility: The Honest Version
Leo and Virgo are a semi-sextile, 30 degrees apart. Here is what that structure genuinely means, what strains, and why comparing two Sun signs is the weakest form of this.
Rising SignsVirgo Sun Gemini Rising: Your Sun Is in the 4th House
Virgo Sun with Gemini rising puts your Sun in the 4th house, which is about home, family and the private self. What people meet first, what you are actually aiming at, and why the house matters more than either sign.
Solar Return & BirthdaysFebruary 24 Zodiac Sign: Pisces, and the Exact Degree
February 24 is Pisces 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.
NumerologyLife Path 2: The peacemaker
Life path 2 is the peacemaker: partnership, sensitivity, timing. Here is how to calculate yours from your birth date, what the number actually describes, and where numerology ends.
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