Pluto, the Nodal Axis and Evolutionary Astrology

I remember something my teacher said on a Facebook thread about the internet and astrology. It was about the current generation learning astrology via the net. The downside being that when they look at a chart, they do not always get that some points in the chart carry more weight. In tropical astrology, the Sun, [...]

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Astro Tribes and Connecting in the Age of Aquarius

Astrologers are an odd bunch. They speak a language that most don’t understand. They see patterns in the sky: it talks to them. And they are driven to bring this message to others. This is what Michael Lutin says about astrologers, “We’re a community of people and we don’t belong to the rest of the [...]

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An evening with Pluto

Saturn is slowly retrograding and its square to Pluto will be exact in some time. Jupiter is breezing through Pisces and applying a sextile to Pluto. And the fickle Moon will soon quincunx the Dark Lord. My evening has been rife with Pluto peeking at me: a non-astrological reference in a conversation, a poem that [...]

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Outer Planet Transits

Sometimes Saturn casts Its coming shadow on me Prognosticating sorrows I know Will eventually befall me. And Uranus doesn’t let up He rifts and rives my soul Tears me away from the known And plunks me on an alien shore Where I find myself all alone. Neptune also plays his invidious part I can no [...]

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I fell for Pluto, too

I was charmed, my dark lord, By your armor, by your sword. Your need to always be armed  Caught my fancy, had me disarmed. I was much taken by your unsmiling face: It had no expression that I could trace. Swept away by your mystery Long I wondered about your history. And was rewarded by [...]

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To Saturn, with love

As a teenager, I was in love with Pluto. Dark, mysterious, moody: easy to fall in love with, easy to romanticize. I read and re-read Linda Goodman’s chapter on Scorpio and dreamed… Inevitably then, like an iron filing to a magnet, I fell in love with a strongly Plutonic type and had my heart broken. [...]

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