Sun conjunct Chiron

The astrology of Martha Stewart: Transformation and reinvention

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“When you’re through changing, you’re through.”

This is a quote from the Martha Stewart documentary which I watched last night. I of course had followed her through her career, but I knew nothing about her personal life or her personality and it is fascinating.

Martha Stewart was born under the sign of Leo, the sign of performers and individuals who often have a personality that is larger than life. If they don’t, there is usually a part of them that craves this kind of recognition and it is a life lesson to realize that the true recognition of […]

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By |2024-11-11T10:52:29-05:00November 11th, 2024|People|2 Comments

Sunday inspiration: Take off the mask!

In honor of today’s conjunction of the Sun to Chiron in Aries, the sign of initiation and identity, I offer this beautiful piece from Jeff Foster. We can’t heal wounds which we cover with a mask. The healing of old wounds of not-enoughness is simplified when we present ourselves in true Aries fashion, with the confidence and innocence of a new babe. 


TAKE OFF THE MASK
There is nothing more liberating
than being yourself.
[…]
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By |2022-04-03T07:53:21-04:00April 3rd, 2022|Inspiration|3 Comments

3.29.21. The power of the Libra Full Moon lingers

The Libra Full Moon culminated on Sunday the 28th, but these  lunar energies will prevail over the first few days of the week, and a conjunction of the Sun and Venus straddling Chiron was a potent element of the lunation. You can catch up here if you missed the details.  In English what that means is that the power of Chiron to strip away the veneer of protection and reveal our core wounds so that they can be released once and for all is an important aspect of […]

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By |2021-03-29T07:07:34-04:00March 29th, 2021|Planetary news this week|2 Comments

Psychology corner: The sadness of a happiness expert

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I found this article about a happiness expert who took his own life strangely compelling.  I had never heard of Philip Brickman, but as an astrologer whose Mercury (mind) is in Scorpio, I am an avid researcher of the nature of happiness and depression especially as it shows up in the natal chart.  Brickman is apparently best known for this study in which accident victims and lottery winners were compared to see who was happier in their later lives:

The study […]

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By |2022-09-13T12:47:01-04:00December 7th, 2020|Life|12 Comments

The astrology of Greta Thunberg

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I am often asked to profile good people for a change, instead of the mass murderers and psychologically unbalanced individuals that fascinate me.  So I picked Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish woman who at age 15 has become an internationally known climate activist.  Greta has been diagnosed with Asperger’s and, curiously in light of her subsequent emergence as an outspoken activist, something called “selective mutism” in which a child is unable to speak under certain circumstances.

Greta’s astrological birth chart shows that she has the both the Sun and Moon in the practical sign of Capricorn.  Capricorn people like to […]

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By |2021-01-03T09:05:20-05:00June 21st, 2019|People|14 Comments

The astrology of Shia LaBoeuf’s perpetual troubles

Shia LaBoeuf astrologyShia LaBoeuf has been an acclaimed actor since he won his first award at age 15.  His career as a performer began as a stand-up comedian at the age of 10.  But his long history of troubles with the law began before then when he was arrested for shoplifting at the age of 9.  He was arrested again at the age of 11 for stealing.  As an adult, despite his success in films and great respect from film credits, he continued to indicate a lack of impulse control and ability […]

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By |2017-07-12T14:36:17-04:00July 12th, 2017|People|3 Comments

The astrology of Elliot Rodger, the “Virgin Killer,” Part II

elliot rodger astrologycatch up on Part I here. 

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The psychological picture that we can derive from the astrological chart of Eliot Rodger shows an individual with a significant wound  (Saturn/Chiron/Sun) to his sense of Self.  The writings clearly reveal a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (see this article in Psychology Today,” the root of which is a wound to the Self.  The “Narcissistic Wound” usually occurs in childhood and in a weak personality the individual tends to blame others rather than to seek the healing which Chiron requires.

The narcissist personality is […]

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By |2023-11-21T17:21:42-05:00June 10th, 2014|Crime|2 Comments
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