Part of my life involves a peculiar two-step jive of indulging-in and relapsing-from the very addictive habit of magical thinking. What do I mean by magical? What do I mean by thinking? There are many universal tropes that come to mind from which to draw; things any child would understand…

Libra and the 7th house: Equilibrium, relational skills, balancing polarities, artistic intellect, social assessment, applying morality. We arrive at the 7th archetype transitioning from developmental milestones, our immediate reality, and into complex “otherness”. Emerging from the first half of the zodiac into the second, we find ourselves dealing in grander…

Pop culture’s take on western astrology dilutes its daunting, yet workable, enigma. Its diagnosis of the study as a divination tool wouldn’t be entirely offensive if it didn’t focus on a singular archetype — the sun/sun sign. Many astrologers would suggest that the transits and aspects made to/by an individual’s…

The most influential contemporary advocate of astrology was the intellectual giant: Carl Jung. He is notable in asserting that “astrology represents the summation of a psychological knowledge of antiquity”. To study and ponder astrology, one eventually takes an alternative and counter-intuitive view of time — that it stretches oddly and…