[ You can read the article here, but you can also watch and listen to it here, on Youtube .] Today we’re looking at the Zodiac signs in a more experiential manner. But before we get to each sign individually, let me just say a few things about what signs do in the chart as a whole. Signs are not indicators of personality. They are indicators of needs . A need is essentially a necessity that is perceived as lacking. For example, food is a necessity for us to live and, if it’s

Next up: Navigating the intricacies of the 12th house of the chart.

Jupiter is a great benefic in traditional astrology. But what if that's not the whole story?

Is the chart really your birth chart? I argue that the cosmos does not give us our chart. Rather, the chart is what we long for and see missing.

The current blog post is not about the origin of house systems, but rather about the origins of the meanings of the houses in astrology.

Today, we get a quick overview of the functions of all the essential dignities (including the two debilities).

We examine the two major dignities and their counterpart debilities with examples of how to interpret them qualitatively.

This post presents Mars as a necessary component of the psyche that we all must develop in order to live a healthy existence.

The Babylonian origin of the triplicity doctrine suggests that its application in the earliest Hellenistic texts has been misinterpreted.

DIFFICULT TO INTERPRET SERIES This will be the first in a series of posts about difficult to interpret charts or chart placements.

If you've ever done any chart work, you have probably come across a dignity table, which is a table generated by astrological software...

In traditional astrology, there are five types of essential dignities and two types of essential debilities. A planet’s sign location may...