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Venus Meets Pluto, Heart Blows Open
Yikes, it's a heart-wrenching, tender week. Life and love just keeps coming fast and furious, expanding hearts wider and wider, as Venus, planet of love meets Pluto in the last degree of Sagittarius today. I guess it was about five days ago that I began noticing a distinct energy shift around my heart chakra. The word poignant entered my vocabulary, lodging itself between my brain and heart so that everything passing between had well, poignancy. Yes, everything suddenly developed poignancy...
Weird Aquarius Paris
Paris Hilton: 17 February 1981 What on earth could this Hilton heiress socialite have in common with the Aquarians of the world? Well, she's from planet Uranus, an unpredictable planet best known by Astrologers as the planet of "shock!" What's shocking? She's managed to start a cult of celebrity, folks who are only famous for being well, famous. Far from a stereotypical revolutionary Aquarian (mind you, no Aquarian is stereotypical) she has caught the public attention in a particularly...
Sienna Miller, Style & Substance
28 December 1981 Sienna Miller has become quite the socialite, tromping around Hollywood in her boho-chic signature style. Did she know she'd start a Capricorn fashion revolution, along with Mary-Kate & Ashley? Like another Cap sister Sun sign, Kate Moss, these Goats leave indelible impressions on the people they meet. Sienna's mug had been a source of tabloid fodder since her split from cheating husband Jude Law, which to her dismay has focused on her role as Jude's estranged on and...
Kate Bosworth’s Good Jeans… & Genes
Kate Bosworth: 2 January 1983 Kate's been criticized by the media for her thinness, but this is also a distinguishing quality of Saturn people who tend to be angular, bony or lanky. But also like Kate, many Capricorn people actually do eat less -resembling the pared or slimming down quality of their sign. They conserve everything, food, energy, resources. If you want to lose weight, just look for a Saturn transit or hang out with a Capricorn! Kate broke onto the scene with the Horse Whisperer,...
Saturn People & the Fruits of Responsibility
Jupiter and Saturn are now in earth signs by trine, and this aspect brings expansiveness and levity to grounded, earthy, material activity. From a discussion I had with most insightful astrologer Alex Villamil this weekend about the different ways people respond to Saturn transits, it occurred to me that how good you are at "doing your Saturn" probably arises in equal merit to the luck and benefit you'll receive from this fortunate planetary aspect - known for it's planning, deliverance of...
Got Vision? The Sun Enters Aquarius
Many of us astrologers have a special affinity for Aquarius, and the planet ruling it, Uranus. We live life on the outer limits, like our Aquarian friends. Most of my Aquarian/Uranus-ruled friends are full of surprises, as their edgy energy compels them to do exactly the unexpected thing they were supposed naught to - mainly shake, and wake up, the old order. Funnily, even they surprise themselves with their own aberrant and strange behavior. Appreciably, they have an odd sense of humor,...
Rock Your Stars by Holiday Mathis
My dear friend and syndicated columnist Holiday Mathis has just published this absolutely astro-licious book, Rock Your Stars. And she's so fresh. I'm not just saying this because I love her dearly but because she's one of the few young voices of astrology that's truly different (and we could use more of those). Holly's voice sparkles. From the perspective of a modern gal with real world problems just like you and me, Holly uses the ancient art to expand her toolbox and rule her world. Her...
Desperately Seeking Pluto in Sag Reprieve
Dear Jessica, I'm another Sagittarius who has a run of bad years with this one being one of the worst. I have been trying turn everything around and to sell my house move out of state and start a new career but have had absolutely no luck. My house was in escrow twice and both buyers had to withdraw. Both of my grown....but young adult...children (both Aries) had horrible years health-wise, with my son the victim of an unprovoked attack. My job is very stressful and to work and back involves...
New Years Resolve, Capricorn Malaise, and The Four Agreements
I've noticed some resistance in myself around hopping on the New Year's resolutions bandwagon this year. Maybe there's a general malaise or disenchantment in the air as of late, as my mentor astrologer Paul Bogle and I wondered recently. The circulating Capricorn energy seems to describe what I'm seeing as people's need for answers, not hocus pocus, magical thinking or inner exploration, but hard, cold hold in your hand answers. The collective energy seems to say, enough with the soul...
Carla Bruni, Homewreckers & Uranus?
I am always fascinated by powerful women who go after what and who they want, so watched Carla Bruni and France President Nicolas Sarkozy's relationship with curiosity as it developed in the headlines while I was over in Europe. Primarily because she's lovely, secondly it made headline news in every newspaper. Now I see it's made the front page of the NYTimes Style section which finally prompted me to pull up her chart. MAN trap, serial heart-wrecker, rocker arm candy, photogenic cipher,...
