Venus square Pluto: In Theory and Practice

Dear Friend and Reader: Today, Venus retrograde is in an exact square to Pluto, inching her way toward the Aries Point. The square was exact at 6:21 am ET and because Venus is slow and powerful in the sky, it’s within exact orb as you read this. I’ve been working up to this aspect in … Read more

Love Me Till My Heart Stops

They come here alone and they leave in twos Except for you and me who just came to use If you’re all done like you said you’d be What are you doing hanging out with me?  — Elliott Smith, “Whatever (Folksong in C)” Dear Friend and Reader: Kaila Ann Watson didn’t have an ideal childhood. Nobody … Read more

The Equinox: A Crisis of Confidence

Dear Friend and Reader: The Sun is in Aries and a new season and a new astrological year have begun. Before I get into the equinox chart, we need to look back, because Thursday was the 6th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. It was just six short years ago that a great portion of … Read more

Venus Retrograde: Finding the Missing Piece

I saw a man standing on that hill walking around like he’s got no one will I end up like him, all alone? girl, when you go I’ve got no soul — Bedouin Soundclash Dear Friend and Reader: Most of us, myself included, have spent much of our lives searching for our missing piece, in … Read more

The Perfect Crisis of Individuality

Dear Friend and Reader: This week we are experiencing stand-out astrology involving Venus and Mars, synchronous with an historic conversation about the public’s involvement in personal choices reaching the California Supreme Court — Proposition 8. That, of course, is the ongoing saga over whether same-sex couples should have the same relationship rights as opposite-sex couples. … Read more