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How to Give an Astrological Referral

Author: Alison Price – Updated: February 2025

How to Give an Astrological Referral

Introduction

In one of the Dirty Harry movies, Clint Eastwood famously said, “An expert knows when it’s time to call in the experts.” This principle applies directly to astrological referrals. As an astrologer, you can’t be all things to all people. Some clients will fall outside your area of expertise, comfort zone, or capacity. That’s when referring clients to other experts becomes a vital part of your professional practice.

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What Is an Astrological Referral?

An astrological referral occurs when you suggest your client consult with someone else—either another astrologer or a practitioner in a related field—who may better meet their needs. Referrals are about ensuring your client gets the best support possible. To do this effectively you need to get a couple of things in place.

Know The Expert

Know the expert to whom you are referring your client. Ideally, you’ve worked with them before or are familiar with their reputation.

Maintain a Network

Maintain a network of professionals you trust in astrology and complementary disciplines.

When to Refer Your Clients

There are several scenarios in which referring your client is the right choice:

1. Physical Distance

If a client prefers a face-to-face consultation but lives too far away, you should refer them to a qualified astrologer in their area. Building a directory of local practitioners ensures you’re prepared for these situations.

2. Outside Your Expertise

No astrologer can specialize in every area. For instance:

You may focus on relationship or career astrology but not offer rectification or medical astrology.
Some astrologers specialize in niche fields such as financial astrology, health and wellness, or conception and children’s astrology.

Knowing your limits and strengths allows you to confidently guide clients to someone who can better serve them.

3. Uncomfortable Client Dynamics

Sometimes, a client’s energy or behavior may not resonate with you. Trust your instincts. If you feel you cannot connect with the person, referring them to someone else ensures their needs are still met.

4. Overloaded Schedule

If you’re fully booked for months and have upcoming commitments, such as conferences or vacations, it’s better to refer a client than to keep them waiting indefinitely.

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Who Can Give Referrals?

Any astrologer, at any stage of their career, can—and sometimes should—give referrals. However, newer astrologers (practicing for less than 12 months) may not yet have a robust professional network or the confidence to refer.

How to Build your Referral Network

Ask your mentor or teacher for recommendations.

Engage with local astrology groups to identify trusted professionals.

Create a contact list of nearby astrologers and specialists, including:

Rectification and decumbiture experts
Psychologists or counselors
Numerologists
Hypnotherapists
Psychics or mediums

Steps to Give an Effective Referral

Referring a client is more than simply handing over a name and phone number.

To ensure a smooth process, follow these steps:

Step 1: Confirm Availability

Before sharing another expert’s contact information, reach out to that person. Briefly explain the client’s situation and ask if they can take on the referral. They may be unavailable, traveling, or not accepting new clients. If they cannot help, move down your list until you find someone who can.

Step 2: Share Contact Details

Once you’ve confirmed that the expert can see your client, provide the client with the expert’s email address and phone number. Encourage the client to make direct arrangements for an appointment.

Why This Approach Matters

If you simply give your client an expert’s contact details without first checking availability, the client may contact them only to be turned away. For clients in a vulnerable state, this rejection can feel deeply personal. By coordinating with the expert first, you ensure your client is warmly welcomed, fostering a positive experience for all parties involved.

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My Referral List

Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to refer clients to trusted professionals in astrology and related fields. While referrals don’t happen every week, it’s essential to have a reliable network to call upon when needed.

Here are some examples of the referrals I commonly make:

1. Rectification Experts

When a client needs their birth time clarified, I refer them to a rectification expert. Once their chart is rectified, they often return to me for the actual astrology reading.

2. Numerologists

For clients seeking additional insights or complementary perspectives, I recommend a numerologist whose work I trust.

3. Psychological Trauma Specialists

For charts that reveal deep psychological trauma, I have a Scorpio astrologer in my network who specializes in handling these sensitive situations with care and expertise.

4. Mental Health Professionals

In rare cases where a client appears deeply troubled or at risk of harming themselves or others, I suggest they consult with a qualified psychologist and I have a local one whom I endorse.

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Give to Receive

Referring clients is not about losing business – it’s about prioritizing your client’s needs and ensuring they receive the best possible support. This approach not only builds trust and credibility, but also strengthens your professional relationships and reputation over time.

Be Ready

Referrals may not be an everyday occurrence, but as a practicing astrologer, you need to be prepared. Having a list of trusted experts at your fingertips ensures you can act swiftly and responsibly when the need arises.

They Return

Interestingly, I’ve found that many clients return to me after being referred. In these cases, the referral process enhances their overall experience and reinforces their trust in me as their astrologer. Ultimately, giving thoughtful referrals adds value to the service you provide, demonstrating your dedication to the client’s well-being and your commitment to ethical, professional practice.

Ask Yourself

Do you regularly refer your clients?
Do you have a curated list of trusted experts to whom you can refer?
Have you communicated your areas of expertise to other astrologers, so they know when to refer clients to you?

By mastering the art of astrological referrals, you’ll elevate your practice, support your clients more effectively, and foster a thriving professional network.

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Alison helps you uncover your individual creativity and lead a fulfilling life using your own astrology. She shares her wisdom from the heart with a touch of humor. She offers Consultations for everyone and Coaching for Aspiring Astrologers.

If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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Planets in the 3rd House

Author: Alison Price – Updated: February 2025

3rd House Planets

Natal Planets

There are 12 astrological houses in every chart, so everyone has a 3rd house which I’m going to talk about, and specifically, when each of the planets is placed, or tenants, there.

How Many Planets

Each chart is different. You can have many, a few, a singleton or zero planets in the 3rd house, but if you do have a planet or two, you want to understand them. Briefly the 3rd house governs communication, siblings, early learning and short trips. Each planet in the 3rd house shapes how you think, interconnect and engage with your immediate world. When a planet resides in the 3rd house, it influences how you think, express yourself and connect with those around you. Let’s explore how each planet’s energy, when it is in the 3rd house, shapes up to express itself in line with the houses’ themes.

Sun in the 3rd House

Harmonious Sibling Relationships

With the Sun here, your siblings, cousins, or peers play a central role in your life. You likely have strong, positive relationships with them and may even take on a leadership role within your family or local community. Communication is vital to your sense of self and you enjoy expressing your thoughts with confidence.

Moon in the 3rd House

Emotional Learning and Nurturing Education

The Moon brings emotion and intuition to your learning and communication style. Your early schooling environment was likely nurturing and teachers or caregivers may have played a significant role in shaping your emotional well-being. You express yourself with warmth and may feel deeply connected to childhood memories, siblings, or familiar surroundings.

Mercury in the 3rd House

Curious and Concerned with Public Perception

Mercury enhances your intellect, curiosity and communication skills. You are inquisitive, quick-witted and enjoy gathering information. However, you may also worry about how others perceive you particularly within your neighborhood or peer group. “What will the neighbors think?” is a common thought. You are highly aware of social dynamics and may overthink small interactions.

Venus in the 3rd House

Harmony in Sibling Relationships and Pleasant Communication

Venus in this house brings charm, grace and diplomacy to your interactions. You likely have a loving bond with a sister or female relatives and enjoy pleasant conversations. You could fall in love with the boy or girl next door. Your communication style is artistic, kind and diplomatic making you skilled at maintaining peace in your everyday interactions.

Mars in the 3rd House

Direct and Assertive Communication

Mars in the 3rd makes you bold, assertive and sometimes confrontational in speech. You are energetic in debates and discussions and may have a tendency to use strong language or sharp words. Sibling rivalry or tension may be present, but your passion and enthusiasm drive you to speak your mind without hesitation.

Jupiter in the 3rd House

Optimism and Faith in the Community

Jupiter brings expansion, optimism and wisdom to your communication and local environment. You have a deep belief in the strength of your community and may enjoy teaching, mentoring, or sharing knowledge. Even your street name is likely to be optimistic. Your interactions are positive and inspiring making you a natural storyteller or motivator.

Saturn in the 3rd House

Responsibility for Siblings and Structured Thinking

Saturn’s presence here instills a serious, disciplined approach to communication and learning. You may have taken on responsibilities for your siblings or had a strict early education. While you value clear, logical thinking, you may sometimes struggle with self-expression or feel restricted in communication. It is likely that you have to manage or babysit, your younger brothers and sisters.

Uranus in the 3rd House

Unconventional Thinking and Modern Environment

With Uranus here, you have a unique, forward-thinking mind and may live in a modern or unconventional neighborhood. Your communication style is inventive and unpredictable and you thrive on exploring new ideas and technologies. This is an indication of a lateral thinker. You may also have unusual sibling relationships or experience sudden changes in your local environment.

Neptune in the 3rd House

Dreamy Communication and Connection to Water

Neptune brings imagination, intuition and creativity to the 3rd house. You may have a poetic or mystical way of expressing yourself and can sometimes drift into daydreams. You might also feel a connection to water in your local area such as swimming in a nearby pool, lake, or ocean. Be mindful of misunderstandings, as Neptune can cloud direct communication. Here the postman will deliver your mail to the guy next door in error.

Pluto in the 3rd House

Deep Understanding of Siblings and Powerful Words

Pluto gives you intense, transformative energy in the realm of communication. You have a profound understanding of your siblings and local environment often sensing hidden emotions beneath the surface. Your words carry power and you may be drawn to research, investigative journalism, or uncovering secrets.

Chiron in the 3rd House

Healing Through Teaching and Local Connections

Chiron in the 3rd house suggests past wounds related to communication, siblings, or early education. However, it also gives you the ability to heal others through teaching, mentoring, or sharing your experiences. This placement indicates that you may teach short classes, perhaps piano or math or whatever your jam is, to help the local kids. You may find fulfillment in assisting your community or guiding those around you through wisdom gained from your own past struggles.

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If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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The 3rd House

Author: Alison Price – Updated: February 2025

The 3rd House

This time I’m looking at another of the twelve houses and that is the 3rd house. The 3rd house is part of basic natal astrology as houses fall under the four cornerstones of chart interpretation, which are signs, planets, houses and aspects. As an aspiring astrologer, it makes sense for you to understand which areas of life are represented by each house. Then if your client comes with a question about say, the people next door, you know exactly to zoom into the 3rd house for some insights of their relationship with their neighbors.

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Strong 3rd House Criteria

I believe a strong third house is one in which:

There are at least three planets, stellium or nay.
The sign on the cusp of the 3rd house is ruled by the chart ruler, the Sun (Leo) or the Moon (Cancer).
There is a focal planet in a major aspect pattern such as a T-square, yod, Thor’s hammer (Finger of the World) as this planet is at the sharp end and draws attention.

You can listen to our podcast episode on the 3rd house.

The 3rd House in Astrology

Type of House

The 3rd house is a cadent house, meaning it can be a quieter place.

Hemisphere Placement

Northern Hemisphere

The 3rd house lies below the horizon, making it part of the private, introspective side of your chart in the Northernhemisphere.

Eastern Hemisphere

This house falls on the self-oriented left side of the chart, highlighting personal perspectives and independent thinking of the Eastern hemisphere.

Quadrant Position

The 3rd house is part of the 1st quadrant, emphasizing personal development and self-awareness.

Triple Division

Located in the 1st triple division (“me”), the 3rd house contributes to self-expression through speech, writing and thought processes related to what you want..

Themes of the 3rd House

General

The 3rd house in astrology governs communication, learning and everyday interactions. It represents how you engage with the world on a daily basis, including your relationships with siblings, neighbors and your local environment. I’m going to share some main themes of the 3rd house now:

Siblings and Extended Family

The 3rd house reflects your relationship with siblings, cousins and those in your family of the same generation to you. It can indicate whether you have a strong bond with your brothers and sisters or if there are challenges in these connections. This house also represents sibling rivalry, cooperation and shared experiences growing up.

Neighborhood and Local Community

This house is closely tied to your immediate surroundings, including your neighborhood, local community and even your neighbors. It shows how involved you are in community activities, whether you feel connected to your surroundings and your general experience of daily life in your local area.

Early Education and Learning Style

The 3rd house reveals your early schooling experiences, the way you learned as a child and your interactions with teachers. It also relates to primary education, school friends and how easily you absorbed information. If you struggled in school or excelled in certain areas, these patterns can be seen in this house.

Travel

Short-distance travel and running errands fall under the 3rd house. It reflects your habits regarding short trips, weekend getaways and how you navigate your city or town. Traditionally the astrological definition of “short distance travel” is as far as a horse can go in one day which I believe is about 50km (31 miles) give or take a whicker. Whereas the 9th house, “long distance travel” represents journeys of more than 50km (31 miles), or further than the distance which a horse can trot in a day including international travel.

Weekend Away

A weekend away, less than 50km (31 miles) distance and staying inside your country, is 3rd house travel. If your weekend away crosses an international border, it is a 9th house experience, even if you travel less than 50km (31 miles).

Commuting and Transportation

This house describes how you move through your local environment and you when you are out-and-about beetling around near home. It reflects your habitual routes and how you navigate your city or town. It also covers routine trips such as grocery runs, school drop-offs and visiting nearby places like schools and libraries. Your usual mode of transport vehicle be it skateboard, bicycle, roller blades, taxi, Uber or your car in particular, is represented by the 3rd house.

Communication Style

The 3rd house plays a major role in how you express yourself, whether through speech, writing, texting, or on social media.

It represents:

How you speak in conversations.
Hesitations, lisps, stuttering and the use of filler words – like, ah, um and er.
Your listening skills.
Your preferred communication methods, such as phone calls, emails, or quick texts.
How you interact on social media platforms and nowadays with your emoji use 😊, tweeting or messaging.

A strong 3rd house suggests an active mind, curiosity and ease in social interactions, while challenges here may indicate some difficulty in expressing thoughts clearly.

Extend Yourself

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If you are trying to understand the 3rd house here are some of my ideas on how to extend yourself into understanding more.

Using your birth chart and your astrology journal, please do the following:

Write “The 3rd House” at the top of the page.
List any planets in your 3rd house.
List any points in your 3rd house (Lunar Nodes or the Part of Fortune).
Note the sign on the cusp of the 3rd house.
Note the house planetary ruler (the planet(s) that rule the sign on the cusp of the 3rd house).
Write a brief interpretation of your 3rd house. Mention the sign on the cusp, whether there is an intercepted sign within the house, any planets or points within the house and at this point you can look to your third house ruler’s complex and see how well it is placed (or not) in your chart.

Extend Yourself Further

Transits

Find the next planet that will enter and transit your 3rd house.
Note the date of the house ingress (when it enters the 3rd house).
Note the date of the house egress (when it leaves the 3rd house).
If you have planets in your third house, find the exact dates for the conjunctions from the selected transiting planet to your 3rd house planets.
Write a brief interpretation of this transiting planet and explain how you may expect it to express itself in your life (250 words).

Book Recommendations

Books

Here are a few books about the 3rd house and houses in general.

The Twelve Houses by Howard Sasportas
The Twelve Astrological Houses: The Way of Creative Accomplishment by Dane Rudhyar

eBook

Note: this is a very slim eBook.

On the Road with the Twins: Gemini, Mercury and the Third House by Garrett Coulson.

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Keep in Touch

I think that the 3rd house inspires us to embrace curiosity, communicate with clarity and foster meaningful connections within our daily lives. It encourages the origin of our lifelong learning, open expression and active engagement with the world around us. The 3rd house is not the first place you would likely look in any chart reading, but it will add support and insights to the main themes shown in the chart as a whole.

More on Houses

Here are a few more articles about the astrological houses.

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Listen to more podcast episodes on the houses and related topics.

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If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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Lunar New Year

Author: Alison Price – Updated: January 2025

Lunar New Year

You will know by now I am a solid Western psychological astrologer. Which means I generally do astrology regarding the zodiac signs from Aries to Pisces, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a passing interest in other closely aligned systems of horoscope work.

As we are entering the Year of the Snake, I thought this will be a good time to share some basic information about how the Chinese astrology works and why they have the animals that they do and in the sequence which they are found. We call it Lunar Astrology now as many Asian countries use the zodiac and not just China.

Here I’m just going to explain the method of the creation of the list and also some general characteristics of each of the animals within the Lunar Zodiac. I don’t profess to understand the deeper meanings of the Lunar Zodiac and the BaZi which relates to the four pillars of the year, month, day and hour.

I have studied it on a couple of occasions and found it to be quite a complicated system. Typically, once a year, at around the time when we’re entering the New Lunar Year, I get out my Chinese horoscope book and start having another look, as I try to grasp exactly what is going on. The best book I’ve found on the subject is called The Definitive book of Chinese Astrology by Shelly Wu. If you want to start looking into Lunar astrology, I suggest you start with this book although it is a complicated subject.

The Legend of the Great Race

How the Lunar Zodiac Animals Got Their Order

The order of the 12 animals in the Lunar zodiac – Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig stems from a well-known Chinese folktale called The Great Race. This story explains how the animals were chosen and why they are arranged in their specific sequence. Here’s the story:

The Invitation from the Jade Emperor

The Jade Emperor is a key figure in Chinese mythology and is often regarded as the supreme ruler of the heavens, the earth and the underworld. He presides over all gods, deities, spirits and mortal beings. This makes him one of the most revered and powerful figures in the Chinese pantheon. His influence extends across Taoist beliefs and Asian folk religion.

And so…

Long ago, the Jade Emperor, ruler of the heavens, decided to create a way to measure time. He invited all the animals in the kingdom to take part in a race. The first twelve animals to cross the river and reach the finish line would have a year named after them in the zodiac cycle, with their position determined by the order in which they finished.

And so the race began…

The Clever Rat and the Trusting Ox 

The Rat, small and nimble, was worried about crossing the river. He saw the strong and reliable Ox and the Rat asked for a ride on its back. The Ox, being kind-hearted, agreed. Just as the Ox was about to reach the shore, the Rat suddenly leapt off its back and dashed to the finish line, to earn the first spot in the zodiac. The Ox followed, taking second place.

The Brave Tiger 

The Tiger was a powerful swimmer, but the river’s currents made it a tough journey. Using its strength and determination, the Tiger managed to reach the shore and secured third place.

The Quick Rabbit 

The Rabbit, though not a strong swimmer, cleverly hopped across on rocks and logs which floated in the water. It arrived fourth, impressing the Jade Emperor with its resourcefulness.

The Majestic Dragon 

The Dragon, a mighty and benevolent creature, flew across the river. Despite its speed, it took a detour to help villagers by bringing rain to their crops and rescuing a drowning creature, which delayed its arrival. The Dragon finished in fifth place, earning admiration for its kindness.

The Cunning Snake 

The Snake, small and sneaky, crossed the river by hiding in the Horse’s mane. When the Horse neared the finish line, the Snake suddenly slithered out, startling the Horse to take sixth place. The Horse clip-clopped closely behind in seventh place.

The Gentle Goat, Playful Monkey and Proud Rooster 

These three animals worked together to cross the river. The Rooster found a raft and all three animals cooperated to paddle it to the shore. The Goat came eighth, the Monkey ninth and the Rooster came in tenth as a reward for their teamwork.

The Loyal Dog 

The Dog was an excellent swimmer, but he became distracted and played about in the water. Despite its delay, the Dog eventually made it to the finish line and claimed the eleventh spot.

The Easygoing Pig 

The Pig, known for its love of comfort, became hungry during the race and stopped to eat and take a nap. After resting, it resumed its journey and arrived last to take the twelfth spot.

The Meaning Behind the Order

The order of the animals reflects both their characteristics and their behavior during the race.

For example:

The Rat is clever and opportunistic, outsmarting the larger Ox.
The Ox is hardworking and dependable, second only to the quick-thinking Rat.
The Dragon and Rabbit showcase compassion and ingenuity, while the cooperative Goat, Monkey and Rooster highlight teamwork.
The Dog and Pig display loyalty and contentment, even if they are less competitive.

Moral of the Story

The legend of the Great Race teaches a valuable lesson about determination, cleverness, cooperation and kindness. It also shows how different personalities and qualities contribute to success, offering a timeless reflection of human nature. This tale remains a cornerstone of Asian culture, to inspire both children and adults while explaining the origins of the zodiac’s cherished animals.

How to Calculate the Lunar New Year

Lunar Calendar

The date of the Lunar New Year varies each year because it follows the cycles of the Moon. The Lunar New Year typically falls on the second New Moon after the winter solstice (around December 21st), to place it somewhere between January 21st and February 20th on the Gregorian calendar.

Calculate the Lunar New Year

Step 1: Winter Solstice

The winter solstice (when the Sun enters Capricorn) occurs on or around December 21st every year.

Step 2: Second New Moon

Find the Second New Moon after the Winter Solstice. A lunar cycle lasts about 29.5 days, so the first New Moon after the winter solstice will fall in late December or early January. The second New Moon after the solstice usually falls between late January and mid-February and marks the Lunar New Year.

Example for 2025

The winter solstice was on December 21, 2024. The first New Moon after the solstice is on December 31, 2024. The second New Moon is on January 29, 2025, which is Lunar New Year for the Year of the Snake.

The Twelve Years in Lunar Astrology

Jupiter

It is one of the most revered zodiac signs.

Best Matches

Rat, Monkey and Rooster.

Year of the Snake

Traits

Wise, intuitive, graceful and mysterious. Snakes are deep thinkers who value strategy, observation and quiet determination.

Symbolism

The Snake symbolizes wisdom and transformation, embodying a calm yet profound energy.

Best Matches

Ox and Rooster.

Rabbit and Sheep.

How Each Year Influences People

When in the Year You were Born

Each zodiac year also carries specific energies that affect global trends, making the Lunar zodiac a tool for both personal insight and understanding collective dynamics. The year of birth your birth influences your personality traits and general fortune throughout life.

Note: If you are born very early in the year, before the second New Moon after the Winter solstice, you will be the previous year’s animal.

Elements and Pillars

There is so much more to know about the Lunar Year animals and their symbolism. However, the interplay of the Five Elements and other astrological factors, such as the Month, Day and Hour Pillars, adds layers of complexity. Whether you’re seeking to understand yourself better or align with the cosmic flow of the year, the Lunar zodiac offers timeless wisdom and practical guidance.

Book Recommendations

Here are some Lunar and Chinese Zodiac books which may interest you.

Book Recommendations

The Definitive book of Chinese Astrology by Shelly Wu.

The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes by Theodora Lau.

The New Chinese Astrology by Suzanne White

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Alison Price: Professional Astrologer

Alison helps you uncover your individual creativity and lead a fulfilling life using your own astrology. She shares her wisdom from the heart with a touch of humor. She offers Consultations for everyone and Coaching for Aspiring Astrologers.

If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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Davison Relationship Charts

Author: Alison Price – Last updated: January 2025

Relationship Astrology

Davison relationship charts are part of a broader topic called in general “Relationship astrology”. This has to do with love, romance and finding a partner in life. Read more about relationship astrology topics.

Davison Relationship Charts

Ronald C. Davison

Ronald C. Davison (1914–1985) was a prominent astrologer in the mid-20th century, renowned for his innovative approach to relationship astrology. In the 1960s, he introduced a unique method of chart interpretation, offering a fresh perspective on understanding relationships through astrology. His approach builds on composite midpoint theory but adds a distinctive twist that has intrigued astrologers ever since.

Author of “Synastry”

Davison’s book, Synastry – Understanding Human Relations through Astrology. remains a classic resource. It explores the dynamics of interpersonal connections using astrological tools, cementing his legacy as a thought leader in synastry and relationship astrology.

The Davison Space-Time Relationship Chart

The hallmark of Davison’s contribution is the Davison Relationship Chart, which is calculated differently from a traditional composite chart:

Birthplace Midpoint

Unlike a composite chart that averages planetary positions, the Davison chart determines a physical midpoint between the two individuals’ birthplaces.

Time Midpoint

It also calculates a midpoint in time, based on the birth dates of the two individuals. This unique method creates a single chart representing the “relationship entity” as if it were an independent being.

Why the Davison Chart is Unique

The Davison chart offers insights that are more tangible and rooted in physical reality compared to composite charts. By integrating both time and space midpoints, it reflects the essence of a relationship as a distinct moment in the continuum of life, rather than just an abstract combination of energies.

Astrologers use this chart to:

Analyze the purpose and destiny of the relationship.
Uncover shared strengths and challenges.
Understand how the relationship might evolve over time.

Davison’s innovative thinking continues to inspire astrologers, making his techniques an essential part of relationship astrology.

Davison Chart Example

Imagine one person is born in Europe and the other in South America.

The geographical midpoint between these two locations might fall somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Davison chart is then calculated as if this midpoint were a real location, anchoring the relationship in a specific space and time.

Theory of Davison Charts

A Davison chart is created by calculating the exact midpoint in time (mid-time and mid-date) and space (geographical location) between the birth times, dates, and places of two individuals. This midpoint generates a new chart representing the relationship as its own entity, with its own time, date, and location.

Key Features of Davison Charts

Mid-Time and Mid-Date

The chart reflects the exact moment halfway between the two birth times and dates.

Mid-Point in Space

The geographical location is determined as the physical midpoint between the two birthplaces. This unique approach anchors the relationship in both time and space, providing insights into its purpose, dynamics, and potential growth.

Davison vs. Composite Charts

Davison Charts

Used exclusively to analyze relationships between two individuals.

Composite Charts

Midpoint composite charts can be applied to larger groups or teams, making them more versatile for non-dyadic relationships.

Applications of Davison Charts

While Davison charts are most commonly used for romantic relationships (e.g., male/female dynamics), they are also valuable for interpreting other types of relationships, such as:

Parent/Child relationships.
Boss/Worker dynamics.
Friendships or partnerships with significant interpersonal bonds.

The Davison method provides a grounded, tangible perspective on relationships, offering astrologers a deeper understanding of the connections between two people.

Davison Time Theory

To determine the Davison relationship time, the exact midpoint between the two individuals’ birth times is calculated.

Mid Time Example

If one person is born at 12:00 noon and the other at 6:05 PM on the same day, the Davison relationship time will be 3:02:30 PM. While it’s possible to calculate this manually, the process is complex and requires precision. Fortunately, astrology software like Astro Gold and Solar Fire can easily compute Davison charts, saving significant time and effort.

Davison Date Theory

The Davison chart is also based on the midpoint between the two birth dates, creating a “relationship birth date.”

Mid-Date Example

If one person is born on January 1st and the other on December 31st, the Davison date will fall around July 2nd or 3rd. For individuals born on January 1st, 1960, and January 1st, 1970, the Davison chart’s birth date will be January 1st, 1965—exactly halfway between the two dates.

Davison Key Takeaways

Specifics

Specifics of Davison charts.

The midpoint in time and date anchors the Davison chart, reflecting the unique moment that symbolizes the relationship.
This chart provides a practical and insightful tool for analyzing relationship dynamics.
Modern astrology software make these calculations straightforward, allowing astrologers to focus on interpretation rather than math.

The combination of Davison time and date theories creates a powerful lens for understanding the deeper essence of a relationship.

Example Charts

Angelina Jolie

Birth data: 9:09am, June 4th, 1975, Los Angeles, CA USA.

Brad Pitt

Birth data: 6:31am, December 18, 1963, Shawnee, OK, USA.

Davison Jolie and Pitt

Midpoint Date

Find the midpoint date between Angelina Jolie’s birth date of June 4, 1975, and Brad Pitt’s birthdate December 18, 1963. The result is approximately September 10th, 1969.

Midpoint Place

Next you have to find the approximate place between the two places of birth Shawnee, Oklahoma and Los Angeles, California. I chose the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is what I call the eyeball method.

Guess Davison Place

Midpoint City

It is interesting to guess the place closest to the two birth place’s midpoint and then to cast a chart for that place. This will certainly stretch you as an astrologer as you grapple with the time, date and place concepts for Davison Relationship charts.

Actual Davison for Jolie and Pitt

Astrological Research

Innovation in a Timeless Practice

One of the most exciting aspects of Davison Relationship Charts is that this technique is relatively new in the world of astrology. This is in contrast to a field where many principles have remained largely unchanged for over two thousand years. While traditional techniques continue to provide profound insights, Davison’s work reminds us that astrology is a living, evolving practice.

Modern Invention

The fact that Ronald C. Davison devised this method in the 20th century is a powerful inspiration for modern astrologers. It highlights the potential to innovate, rethink existing paradigms and develop fresh approaches to interpreting charts. It’s a testament to the idea that astrology, like any discipline, thrives when its practitioners stay curious and open to exploration.

Dynamic

Astrology isn’t static, but rather it grows as we apply it to new questions, integrate modern tools and explore creative ways to interpret charts. Davison’s pioneering work serves as a call to action for all astrologers, just like you, to engage in research, experiment with new techniques, and contribute to the ever-expanding understanding of the cosmos. Even if you’re a longtime professional or you’re just beginning your astrology journey, remember that your insights and discoveries have the potential to shape the future of astrology.

What Will You Do?

I hope this inspires you to look at your charts with fresh eyes and uncover your own unique interpretations. What new techniques might you create? Let’s keep exploring!

Extend Yourself

Using the Davison relationship chart between yourself and your partner:

List the house positions of the planets.
Determine which planets are in the same houses as they are in the composite.
List the aspects.
Note all unaspected planets.
Find which aspects are repeated from the composite chart and appear in the Davison chart.
Consider if any major aspect patterns (stellium, grand cross, grand trine, kite, mystic rectangle, yod, Thor’s hammer, cross of David or mini grand trine) are found in both charts.
Interpret the Davison relationship chart (250 words).
Write a comparison report between the composite midpoint chart and the Davison relationship chart (200 words).
Consider which chart you feel has more correctly outlined the relationship with your partner, the composite midpoint chart, or the Davison relationship chart (50 words).

Extend Yourself Further

Cast both natal charts and briefly interpret each one (100 words each).
Simply by looking and not using a computer, find what you believe to be the Davison birth date will be (hint the midpoint date between the two births).
Looking at a map of the world find the two birth places, estimate the position you think the Davison chart will be cast for. Try to find the geo coordinates of latitude and longitude for this place.
Cast the Davison relationship chart with astrology software or an app like Astro Gold and compare it to your estimate.
Interpret the Davison chart (250 words).

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6th House Planets

Author: Alison Price – Updated: February 2025

Planets in the 6th House

Day-to-Day

The planets in the 6th house influence how the themes of work, health, service and daily routines unfold in your life. Each planet adds its unique energy, shaping your approach to tasks, self-care and your relationships with coworkers or those you serve. These placements reveal the strengths, challenges and opportunities for growth within your daily habits and overall well-being.

Sun in the 6th House

Work identity and vitality through service

You derive a strong sense of identity and pride from your work and daily routines. With the Sun in the 6th house, you excel in tasks that require dedication and attention to detail. You often find purpose in serving others and contributing to the well-being of those around you. Health and wellness play a vital role in your life and you’re likely to prioritize self-care and good habits to maintain your physical and emotional vitality.

Moon in the 6th House

Emotional connection to work and health

Your work and routines may fluctuate, reflecting the ebb and flow of your emotions. You feel deeply connected to your daily tasks and find comfort in structure, often becoming unsettled when your schedule is disrupted. You thrive when you feel productive and useful, but it’s essential to protect yourself from stress, as it can impact your health. Self-care rituals are especially soothing and emotionally restorative for you, providing balance and well-being.

Mercury in the 6th House

Analytical work and mental focus

You bring a sharp and analytical mind to your work, often thriving in tasks that require problem-solving, communication and organization. With Mercury in the 6th house, verbal or intellectual work suits you well and you may excel in research or detail-oriented roles. However, you might have a tendency to overthink your health or become anxious if your schedule feels overwhelming. Striking a balance between mental focus and relaxation is key to maintaining your well-being.

Venus in the 6th House

Harmony in work and health routines

You have a natural love for creating balance and beauty in your daily life. With Venus in the 6th house, you thrive in pleasant work environments and may excel in creative or caregiving roles. Your affection often extends to pets, finding joy in their companionship. You value self-care and enjoy indulging in wellness practices such as yoga, healthy eating

Mars in the 6th House

Energy and drive in work and health

With Mars in the 6th house, you approach work and fitness with determination and enthusiasm. You are highly motivated and often bring a competitive edge to your workplace or health goals. While your drive propels you forward, you may have a tendency to rush or push yourself too hard. It’s important to manage frustration and avoid overwork, as stress-related health issues can arise if you don’t balance your energy effectively.

Jupiter in the 6th House

Growth through work and health

With Jupiter in the 6th house, you find growth and fulfillment through your work and wellness routines. You may be drawn to jobs in spiritual, religious, or educational settings, as this placement often favors roles that involve teaching, mentoring, or guiding others. Jupiter brings luck and abundance to your daily life and you’re likely to enjoy exploring holistic or expansive approaches to health and well-being, often inspiring those around you.

Saturn in the 6th House

Discipline and responsibility in routines

With Saturn in the 6th house, you approach work and daily routines with diligence and a strong sense of duty. You are willing to work long and hard to fulfill your responsibilities, often displaying great discipline in managing your health and habits. However, this placement can bring challenges, such as health limitations or work-related stress, which test your resilience. These obstacles, though difficult, ultimately foster long-term growth and a deeper understanding of balance in your life.

Uranus in the 6th House

Innovation and unpredictability in work and health

With Uranus in the 6th house, your work life and routines can be marked by unpredictability and change. You may experience erratic employment or feel drawn to unconventional jobs that allow for freedom and innovation. Similarly, you’re likely to explore unique or alternative approaches to health and wellness. Sudden shifts in your routines or health may arise, making it essential to balance your desire for independence with the need for stability and consistency.

Neptune in the 6th House

Idealism and creativity in work and health

With Neptune in the 6th house, your work often involves creativity or the arts and you bring a compassionate, intuitive energy to your daily tasks. You are imaginative and may find fulfillment in roles that allow you to express your ideals or help others. However, you might face challenges with maintaining clarity or consistency in routines. Health issues could arise from stress or tendencies toward escapism, making it important to establish grounding practices in your life.

Pluto in the 6th House

Transformation through work and health

With Pluto in the 6th house, your work may involve roles that others avoid, often requiring depth, resilience, or dealing with life’s complexities. This placement brings an intense focus on daily routines, fostering profound transformation in your work environment or health habits. These changes, while challenging, lead to empowerment and personal growth. You may feel a strong need to control your routines, but it’s important to remain flexible and avoid falling into obsessive or rigid patterns.

Chiron in the 6th House

Healing Work and Health

With Chiron in the 6th house, your path involves deep healing, both in the realms of work and health. You may have a natural ability to serve as a mentor or guide in your workplace, often offering wisdom and support to others. While you might be drawn to careers in caregiving, counseling, or health-related fields, your journey is also one of healing yourself through your daily routines. You may experience times when your own health struggles or work-related stress inspire a greater understanding of balance and self-care. Embracing these lessons allows you to become a source of strength and resilience for both yourself and those whom you mentor.

North Node in the 6th House

Destiny through Service and Wellness

With the North Node in the 6th house, your personal growth is closely linked to embracing daily work, focusing on your health and being of service to others. While you may initially resist these areas, true fulfillment comes when you lean into them. Seek meaning and purpose in the routine tasks and self-care practices that contribute to your well-being and the well-being of those around you.

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Natal Exercise

Take some time to reflect on how the themes of the 6th house manifest in your life.

Use this exercise to deepen your connection to your natal chart and uncover new insights about your daily routines, health, work and service.

Follow these steps:

At the top of your astrology journal page, write “6th House.”
Write down 10 key themes associated with the 6th house. Leave space to add more keywords as your understanding grows.
Note the zodiac sign on the cusp of your 6th house and its planetary ruler.
Record any planets or points tenanting your 6th house. List them in order from the cusp.
Take time to interpret each planet or point in your 6th house. Reflect on how its energy influences your work, health and daily life. Write these interpretations in your own words, even if you refer to blogs or books for inspiration (300 words per planet or point).
If there are no planets or points in your 6th house, interpret the house ruler and its complex instead.

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Transits Exercise

Take your exploration of the 6th house to the next level by examining upcoming planetary transits through this area of your chart.

Use the following steps to forecast how these transits might influence your work, health and daily routines:

Determine which planet will next transit through your 6th house.
Record the dates the planet enters and exits your 6th house.
Identify the exact dates when this transiting planet will conjoin any natal planets or points in your 6th house.
Focus your interpretation on one key area—work, health, or daily routines. Reflect on how this planetary energy may influence that area of your life. Decide on specific steps you can take to harness the energy of this transit. If focusing on work, set goals for improving productivity or relationships with coworkers. For health, commit to a new wellness routine or address any ongoing concerns. If emphasizing daily routines, consider refining your schedule to create more balance or efficiency.

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6th House

Author: Alison Price – Updated: February 2025

6th House

I’m focusing on the fascinating world of the 6th house, which is a realm dedicated to daily routines, work, health and acts of service. There are 12 houses in every chart. Often overlooked, the 6th house governs the small, consistent efforts that form the foundation of a balanced and meaningful life. The 6th house emphasizes the practical side of living, reminding us that even the most mundane tasks contribute to our overall well-being. It’s our house of daily habits, organization and personal growth, encouraging us to refine our skills and create a harmonious environment.

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Natural Wheel

In the natural zodiac wheel, the 6th house is represented by Virgo and governed by Mercury. These associations bring a focus on practicality, attention to detail and self-improvement. Virgo’s earthy energy underscores the importance of being grounded and effective in our daily lives, while Mercury’s influence highlights the role of clear communication and mental sharpness in managing our routines.

6th House Themes

Work, Wages and Occupation

The 6th house governs our daily work, jobs, tasks and the contributions we make to society through our skills and efforts. Unlike the 10th house, which is concerned with long-term career goals and public reputation, the 6th house focuses on the everyday grind—the routines, responsibilities and practical efforts that shape our daily lives. This house is also linked to how we earn a living, with workers typically receiving a wage on a more frequent basis, such as weekly, compared to the monthly salary often associated with the 10th house’s career-focused energies. It’s about the work you do day-to-day, the service you provide and the habits that support your livelihood.

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Employees

The 6th house reveals your role as an employee, your work ethic and how you approach your job. It also reflects the employees you manage, such as your vet or your pool guy, showing how you interact with those who serve you. Additionally, the 6th house highlights your relationships with coworkers and subordinates, shedding light on your dynamic within a team and your methods for collaboration and service at work.

Service

People with a prominent 6th house often find fulfillment in being productive, efficient and of service to others. This house highlights not only your own desire to serve, but also your relationship with those who provide services to you such as waiters, Uber drivers, or bellhops. It sheds light on how you interact with those who support you in everyday life and reflects your approach to both giving and receiving service.

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Health and Wellness

The 6th house is closely tied to both physical health and occupational well-being. It plays a crucial role in your self-care routines and how you maintain your body through bathing, diet, exercise and other daily habits. This house also reflects minor illnesses which you can recover from. They are typically short-term or manageable, such as the flu or a broken ankle. The planets in the 6th house can reveal tendencies toward specific health challenges, as well as strengths in recovery and resilience. Overall, it emphasizes the balance you create in taking care of your body and well-being this topic can be explored more in medical astrology.

Routines

The 6th house is all about your daily routines and rituals. It governs the systems and habits you create to manage your life effectively. While these routines may include everyday tasks like cleaning or organizing, they are essential for providing stability and structure. These seemingly mundane activities form the backbone of your day, offering consistency and a sense of order in your life.

Lifestyle Hobbies

The 6th house also reveals your hobbies and daily lifestyle practices, particularly those that contribute to your overall well-being and personal growth. These lifestyle hobbies that you do (not crafty hobbies where you make things, that’s 5th house), will involve routines that nurture both your body and mind, such as meditation, yoga, or tai-chi. They reflect how you choose to spend your time outside of work and offer you a sense of balance and fulfillment. Even if it’s a relaxing activity or something that helps you stay physically fit, these lifestyle hobbies play an important role in maintaining a harmonious and healthy lifestyle. They highlight the ways you incorporate self-care and personal development into your everyday life, grounding you in routines that promote both mental clarity and physical vitality.

Pets and Small Animal Care

The 6th house is connected to your pets and small animals, typically those smaller than a goat. This includes animals like cats, dogs, tropical fish, birds (such as budgies), chickens, ducks, rabbits, hamsters and more. It reflects your natural urge and connection to care for animals, highlighting the nurturing role you play in their lives. This house also emphasizes the therapeutic benefits of having pets, such as their ability to lower stress, enhance emotional well-being and even reduce blood pressure. Your relationship with these animals often brings comfort and balance to your daily routines, fostering a sense of care and responsibility.

Small Plants

The 6th house governs small plants, including houseplants, herbs and medicinal plants. It is the domain of nurturing green life within your home, garden or daily environment, from potted plants to the herbs you use for cooking or healing.

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This house highlights your connection to the natural world on a small scale, focusing on how you care for and cultivate plants that contribute to your well-being, whether for their beauty, practical uses, or therapeutic properties. Having plants in the 6th house often speaks to a person’s desire to bring life and growth into their routine, symbolizing a grounding and restorative connection to nature.

It can also reflect the joy and healing benefits that these plants bring, from the calming effect of tending to them to their role in enhancing your environment and overall health. Medicinal plants, in particular, align with the house’s focus on health and wellness, offering natural remedies that complement your self-care practices.

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Overarching Themes of the 6th House

Busy, Busy

Among all the houses in a birth chart, I believe the 6th house stands out as one of the busiest and most dynamic. It governs so many aspects of life that we encounter daily, such as work, routines, health and service. While not everything your 6th house represents will be significant every year of your life, there are times when its themes will take center stage.

Daily Life

You won’t face a new job or a health challenge every year, but these are common experiences that arise periodically. These moments often serve as life turning points and your clients may seek guidance during such times when some 6th house matters come to the forefront of their lives.

Maintenance

In a way, I think that the best way to use the energy of your 6th house is by maintaining what you already have. If you prioritize your general health with regular exercise, a balanced diet and mental well-being, you can build resilience against life’s ups and downs. The 6th house is an area of life which reminds us that small, intentional efforts (Atomic Habits) in our daily lives lay the foundation for long-term strength and resilience. I’m not saying that this is easy, but if you can navigate the planetary energy represented by your 6th house, I believe that you will prevail.

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Solar Return: Sun House Pattern

Author: Alison Price – Published: December 2024

Solar Return Sun House Pattern

Many of you as astrologers, will be doing predictions and using the direct forecasting technique of solar returns. I’m not going to go into the ins and outs of solar return chart per se, because I’m sure you know how to do that already. However, I do want to discuss how the pattern shift of the solar return Sun unfolds overtime and how it is in a different type of house each year.

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Example Chart

I’ll be using the chart of Taylor Swift as my example throughout. Birth data: 5:17am, December 13th, 1989, Reading, PA, USA. Rodden AA.

Solar Return Sun House Pattern

Solar Return Chart

Let me explain the annual motion of the Solar Return Sun through the houses. The Solar Return is a yearly chart cast for the exact moment when the Sun returns to its natal position.

Due to the difference between the solar year (365.25 days) and calendar year (365 days), this moment shifts approximately 6 hours later each year. This 6-hour shift has a significant impact on house placements because the houses are based on the Earth’s daily rotation. In 6 hours, the Earth rotates about 90 degrees (roughly one-quarter of a full 360° rotation). This means that the solar return Sun moves backwards through the houses by about 3 houses each year.

Movement

Same Place

This pattern will only repeat in sequence if you are in the same place on Earth for every solar return birthday. It will be perfect if you use equal houses and live on the equator, otherwise there is a slight warp to the pattern. And if you move from here to there for each birthday the pattern will not hold.

For Taylor Swift, as she has multiple homes around the world, I chose to use her birthplace for this example, although clearly, she would not necessarily be in Reading PA each year, this is an example. You can do this for your own chart as well. Cast the next 12 solar return charts and see how the Sun moves through the houses for each year.

Example Pattern

This list shows the Sun moving through the houses in Swift’s solar return chart for upcoming years. Also note the solar return Sun usually moves about one quarter of the chart backwards. This means that for any solar return chart which you cast, you can usually guess where in the chart the Sun will be in the subsequent year, without having to cast the actual chart.

2024, 6th House – cadent.

2025, 4th House – angular.

2026, 2nd House – succedent.

2027, 10th House– angular.

2028, 7th House – angular.

2029, 4th House – angular.

2030, 2nd House – succedent.

2031, 11th house – succedent.

2032, 7th House – angular.

2033, 4th House – angular.

2034, 2nd House – succedent.

2035, 3rd House – cadent.

2036, 7th House – angular.

2037, 5th House – succedent.

2038, 2nd House – succedent.

Missing Houses

In this list, please note that she does not have the solar return Sun in the 1st, 8th or 12th houses during this 14-year sample.

Pattern Sort-of

As we can see from this 14-year list sample of her solar return house positions, the movement is not exact.

But what is happening is that we have multiple years in succedent houses, then multiple years in angular houses, and then later, there will be multiple years in cadent houses.

This then shows overarching themes going on for years in her life.

2024

Solar Return for 2024 has the Sun in the 6th house.

2025

Solar Return for 2025 has the Sun in the 4th house.

2026

Solar Return for 2026 has the Sun in the 2nd house.

2027

Solar Return for 2027 has the Sun in the 1oth house.

2028

Solar Return for 2028 has the Sun in the 7th house.

2029

Solar Return for 2029 has the Sun in the 4th house.

2030

Solar Return for 2030 has the Sun in the 2nd house.

2031

Solar Return for 2031 has the Sun in the 11th house.

2032

Solar Return for 2032 has the Sun in the 7th house.

2033

Solar Return for 2033 has the Sun in the 4th house.

2034

Solar Return for 2034 has the Sun in the 2nd house.

2035

Solar Return for 2035 has the Sun in the 3rd house.

2036

Solar Return for 2036 has the Sun in the 7th house.

2037

Solar Return for 2037 has the Sun in the 5th house.

2038

Solar Return for 2038 has the Sun in the 2nd house.

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The Midheaven

Author: Alison Price – Updated: February 2025

The Midheaven

The Midheaven, also called the Medium Coeli (MC), is one of the most important points in an astrological natal chart. Positioned at the cusp of the 10th house in the Placidus house system, it represents the peak of your public and professional life. This pivotal point symbolizes your career, social standing, aspirations, and the legacy you aim to leave behind.

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Midheaven Themes

High Point

The Midheaven marks the highest point the Sun reached in the sky on the day of your birth. It is an angular point in your chart, directly linked to your outward persona, reputation and role in society. It reflects your public face and the image you project in civilization. It highlights your potential achievements and long-term ambitions.

Public Persona

Unlike the Ascendant, which reflects your personality and how others perceive you on first impressions, the Midheaven focuses on your public life, long-term goals and how you contribute to the world. It captures the essence of your ambitions, showing where and how you are likely to shine on the world stage. This point is about the role you play in the public sphere, contrasting with your private self. The Midheaven focuses on your external contributions and achievements, as opposed to personal or familial matters.

Career and Public Life

The Midheaven’s sign, along with any planets near it, provides insight into your ideal career path and professional strengths. It also influences how you present yourself in the career workplace and what drives your ambitions.

Reputation and Legacy

This point symbolizes the mark you wish to leave on the world. It reflects your achievements and how society views your contributions. A strong Midheaven placement often correlates with a prominent public image or a significant professional impact.

Life Goals

The Midheaven acts as a compass, guiding you toward your life’s purpose and what you are striving to accomplish. It highlights your desire for recognition, leadership and fulfillment in your chosen path.

Midheaven Signs

Each different zodiac sign, when on the Midheaven, brings a unique flavor to the way you approach your career and public image. Here are some ideas of how the Midheaven will present depending on the sign.

Aries Midheaven

Bold, independent and pioneering. You thrive in roles that allow leadership and self-expression.

Taurus Midheaven

Steady, practical and determined. You prefer careers that provide stability and tangible results.

Gemini Midheaven

Adaptable, communicative and curious. You excel in fields involving writing, teaching, or media.

Cancer Midheaven

Caring, nurturing and protective. You may find success in roles related to caregiving, home, or hospitality.

Leo Midheaven

Charismatic, creative and confident. You shine in positions where you can be seen and appreciated.

Virgo Midheaven

Detail-oriented, analytical and service-driven. You thrive in professions requiring precision and problem-solving.

Libra Midheaven

Diplomatic, charming and cooperative. Careers in law, art, or relationship management suit you well.

Scorpio Midheaven

Intense, transformative and resourceful. You excel in roles involving investigation, healing, or research.

Sagittarius Midheaven

Optimistic, adventurous and philosophical. You are drawn to careers in travel, education, or publishing.

Capricorn Midheaven

Ambitious, disciplined and authoritative. You achieve success through hard work and perseverance.

Aquarius Midheaven

Innovative, humanitarian and unconventional. You flourish in careers involving technology, social reform, or science.

Pisces Midheaven

Imaginative, compassionate and artistic. You may excel in creative fields or roles involving healing and spirituality.

Planets Conjunct the Midheaven

When planets are near the Midheaven, they significantly influence your public image and career path:

Sun

You seek recognition and authority in your professional life.

Moon

Your career may involve nurturing others or fluctuating experiences.

Mercury

Communication and intellect play central roles in your vocation.

Venus

Your charm and sense of beauty influence your public persona.

Mars

You approach your career with energy and determination.

Jupiter

You pursue expansive, optimistic and growth-oriented career goals.

Saturn

Hard work, responsibility and discipline define your public achievements.

Uranus

You desire freedom and innovation in your career.

Neptune

Creativity and intuition guide your professional life.

Pluto

Power and transformation are themes in your public role.

Interpreting the Midheaven

To fully understand the influence of your Midheaven, consider the sign it occupies, any aspects formed by other planets and the ruler of the Midheaven sign. These elements together provide a comprehensive picture of your aspirations and public expression.

Points

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Extend Yourself

Natal Chart

Let’s, explore your Midheaven’s complex. With your natal chart and astrology journal at hand please do the following:

On a new page, write the title “Midheaven.”
State your Midheaven sign.
Note every aspect to the Midheaven degree itself and start with the Ptolemaic aspects.
List all 10th house planets in order from the Midheaven.
List all 10th house points (lunar nodes, Part of Fortune).
Note the most elevated planet.
List a few keywords for the Midheaven.

Extend Yourself Further

Midheaven Complex

Decide to invest a few hours this month in studying your Midheaven. In your astrology journal, please do the following:

Write an interpretation of your Midheaven complex. Consider the sign, the Midheaven ruler and any aspects to the Midheaven degree, include any planets in the 10th house (500 words).

Overarch

The Midheaven in your natal chart serves as a guiding point, illuminating your highest aspirations and professional journey. It provides insight into how you can align your career and ambitions with your natural talents and inner purpose. Whether it points to a leadership role, creative pursuits, or working behind the scenes, the Midheaven is a vital key to understanding your path to success and the legacy you are meant to create.

By exploring its placement and influences, you can gain clarity on how to harmonize your outer life with your deeper sense of purpose. Whether your path leads to recognition, personal fulfillment, or meaningful service, the Midheaven offers profound insight into your potential and the mark you are destined to leave on the world.

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If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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25 Tips to Polish Your Readings

Author: Alison Price – Published: January 2025

25 Tips to Polish Your Readings

Lean In

As a boost for the New Year, I’m providing you with 25 ways that you can get better at astrology this year. You don’t have to do them all but you will be a far better astrologer if you do. For each of my 25 points. I’ve provided either a link through to a book about the subject or to a website that goes into the topic deeper.

Encouragement

I want to encourage you that as soon as you get past the four cornerstones of astrology, which are signs, planets, houses and aspects that as you start to develop a better understanding of how to read a chart. I would also encourage you to get some other literature surrounding astrology which you can lean on. I love astrology books.

When I was a beginner astrologer, I bought every book that was available at the time. All my spare cash went into astrology books and of course this was before the internet. But even today, my bookshelves sag under the weight of all the astrology books I have.

Within my astrology library I probably have 400 books. I’ve read every single word in every single book, and some of the books more often than others. I’ve segmented my astrology bookshelves into three – cold, warm and hot.

My cold astrology books, which are books that I’ve read once and thought ho hum.
My warm astrology bookshelf where there are books that I would look for every now and perhaps once a month or so.
My hot astrology bookshelf contains the books that I reach for at least once a week if not every day.

Cold Bookshelf

My cold bookshelf, in the back room, contains all the astrology books which I have purchased, read once and thought ho hum. This bookshelf also has the books that I feel do not interest me, even if they may be well written and of value to others.

Books on my cold bookshelf are what I call thin volumes, repetitive concepts with no new ideas type of books. Additionally on the cold shelf are the astrology practices which I no longer do, which are rectification, Uranian and health related chart readings.

Warm Bookshelf

On my warm bookshelf, which is in the other room, are the books which I reach for less frequently and perhaps once a month. These are ones on interesting topics like secondary progression solar arc directions, the planet specific books, (Pluto, Neptune Mercury etc.) the sign and houses specific books.

Additionally, anything that I feel it was valuable when I bought it and which I constantly refer back to.

Hot Bookshelf

The type of books that are on my hot bookshelf are multiple ephemerides (noon and midnight), Tables of Houses, both Placidus and Koch. There are all my own astrology books which I’ve written, obviously.

I have the copies of all the physical magazine editions and journals in which I had an astrology article printed. I also have copy of Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos and Sue Tompkins’s The Contemporary Astrologer’s Handbook.

3rd and 9th House

The point really is that you don’t know if an astrology book is going to appeal to you until you read it yourself because your chart is different to my chart and what I find interesting, you may not. However, if you have the time and the resources, I urge you to broaden your bookshelf. Build your astrology bookshelf from whatever it is today.

So say you’ve got 10 books on your astrology bookshelf, so by the end of the year, I’d like you to have 20 books on that bookshelf, at least. Another way of looking at this is to say to yourself that if you bought one astrology book a month, that would be 12 books for the year.

Then you will have purchased, read and either loved or thought ho hum. But if you’ve loved them, they end up on your nightstand and you read them at bedtime. Because let me tell you, even after thirty years of doing astrology, I still have an astrology book on my bedside which I dip into at night.

What I’m Reading

My current book that I’m reading is A History of Western Astrology, volume 2 by Nicholas Campion. And to be quite clear, this is not the first time I’ve read this book. I purchased it two years ago and I read it then. Now I’m rereading it because I’m trying to take notes from the book specifically about the chapters in it which interest me and that I wish to explore further.

My Wishes for You This Year

As a valued reader I wish for you:

That you will find one or two books that you find interesting, and you need to read again.
That these books would be ones that, after you’ve read them, you’re thinking about the topic constantly when you’re driving, when you’re on the bus, in the doctor’s waiting room and you think, “I need to go back and explore this part of astrology further.”
That you get inspired to dig deeper into this fascinating subject.
That by doing reading more, you improve your astrology interpretations for your clients.
That you make meaningful contributions in your client’s lives through your greater knowledge.

Here are my 25 Tips for You

Chart Precision

Software

You need to be able to cast charts correctly and this is done through professional programs like Solar Fire and apps like Astrogold. If you use something else, you need software that offers real-time chart calculation. In 2025, technology has made chart construction more accessible and precise than ever before.

Hypotheticals

Inform yourself about Uranian astrology and the energy points which uses hypothetical planets like Hades, Cupido and Apollon.

The Language of Uranian Astrology by Roger A. Jacobson

Multicultural

This year expand your understanding beyond Western astrology by studying other astrological traditions. Suggestions are Vedic, Chinese and Indigenous astrological systems to create more holistic readings.

The New Chinese Astrology by Suzanne White
Day Signs: Native American Astrology by Bruce Scofield

Archetypes

Emphasize Psychological Archetypes

Move beyond surface-level planetary positions and explore psychological archetypes represented in each planetary combination, transit and aspect.

Study Guide of the Archetypes by Renn Butler

Intuition

Cultivate a balanced emotional state during your readings. Allow intuitive insights to flow without personal bias or preconceived notions interfering with your interpretations.

Intuitive Astrology by Elizabeth Rose Campbell

Self-Awareness

Train yourself to recognize spiritual and transformative potentials within chart configurations and not just predictive elements.

An Astrological Guide to Self-awareness by Donna Cunningham

Technical Skill Enhancement

Master Advanced Aspects

Go beyond standard aspects of longitude like the conjunctions, squares and trines. Learn to read more nuanced aspects like the parallels and contra-parallels.

Declination: The Other Dimension by Kt Boehrer

Midpoints

Incorporate midpoint techniques to uncover hidden dynamics and subtle interactions between planetary energies that might not be immediately apparent.

Working with Midpoints: Your key to predictive precision and astrological insights by Kathy Allen

Forecasting

Eclipses

Make sure you know how to combine transits and secondary progressions with the direct forecasting methods and eclipses. Understand Saros charts.

Predictive Astrology by Bernadette Brady

Solar Return Techniques

Develop your methods for interpreting solar return charts and dig into a 12-year forecast. Look for intricate life pattern developments over subsequent solar returns.

Planets in Solar Returns by Mary Fortier Shea

Broaden

Evolutionary

Why not shift from general predictive models to evolutionary perspectives which focus on soul growth, karmic lessons and personal transformation? This branch of astrology will stretch your thinking.

Measuring the Night: Evolutionary Astrology by Steven Forest

Generational

Look at the bigger picture and analyze how generational planetary placements (like outer planet transits) create collective consciousness shifts and individual life trajectories.

The Hermit, the Minotaur, and the Shadow of Evil: Generational Influences Over the Next Three Decades and Beyond by Claudia McLaren Lainson

Global Trends

Learn to read your client’s individual charts against a broader societal and global astrological pattern. Aim to understand your client’s personal journeys within larger national and international perspectives.

Book of World Horoscopes by Nicholas Campion

Technological and Research Integration

Research Communities

Participate in online and offline research groups that push the boundaries of astrological understanding and methodological rigor. Your own astrological research can make a difference. Join the top astrological research community – the NCGR.

National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR)

Organization

Maintain detailed records of your readings and track accuracy. Keep good astrology chart archives and have happy clients.

Managing Client Expectations by Standolyn Robertson

Deeper and Better

Psychology

Design readings that focus on your client’s potential and growth rather than deterministic predictions. Help your clients to understand their agency and co-creative potential and avoid being a part of the co-dependency problem.

The Psychology of Executive Coaching by Bruce Peltier

Develop Cultural Sensitivity

Recognize and respect diverse cultural backgrounds when interpreting charts. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach through the lens of your own world view.

Cultural Sensitivity Training by Susann Kowalski

Business

Create a clear business plan for your thriving astrology practice. Make sure to align your astrology passion with profit.

Astrology as Business by Charles Johnson

Relationships

Synastry

Make sure you know about reading relationship dynamics through composite midpoint, Davison relationship charts and synastry techniques.

Synastry by Rod Suskin

Heliocentric and Selenocentric Perspectives

Stretch your mind with heliocentric (solar based) and selenocentric (lunar based) chart interpretations. Gain additional insights beyond traditional geocentric (Earth based) models.

Sparks of Olympus: A New Heliocentric Model of Astrology by Tony Whitman

Understand Astronomical Nuances

Stay updated with this year’s astronomical discoveries and their potential astrological implications. Bridge scientific and metaphysical understanding to make you a more rounded astrologer.

NASA News

Professional Development

Commit to Continuous Learning

Attend astrology workshops, webinars and conferences which challenge and expand your astrological knowledge base. To my mind, the Faculty’s Summer School is the pinnacle of astrological conferences. I have attended twice and the experience changed the trajectory of my life.

Faculty of Astrological Studies Summer School – Oxford, UK in August 2025

Self-Reflection

Regularly analyze your own chart to understand your personal biases and growth areas in your astrological practice. Make self-reflection a part of your day (6th house).

Soul Therapy: A 365 day journal for self-exploration by Positive Soul

Develop Interdisciplinary Knowledge

Study psychology, planet mythology, numerology and other related fields to enrich your astrological interpretations.

The Stories Behind Astrology: Discover the mythology of the zodiac and stars by Alison Davies

Solar System

Asteroids

Educate yourself on the mythical goddesses buried in the asteroid archetypes. Learn about Jupiter’s female family and its importance in our gender blended world.

Asteroid Goddesses by Demetra George

Luminaries

Try to create a harmonious approach that equally values both personal research and intuitive insights in your astrological practice. Thoroughly lean into your luminaries’ placements in your chart.

The Luminaries by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas

Overarch

Remember, astrology is a journey of continuous learning and personal evolution. These tips are guides to help you develop a more nuanced, compassionate and sophisticated approach to chart reading in 2025 and beyond.

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If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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Example Chart: Maxie

Author: Alison Price – Updated: January 2025

Example Chart Reading

I have so many requests from my readers for example chart readings and wanting more about how to get going with chart readings, where to start, what to look at first and what’s important. There are also many questions about what to ignore and move forward. I do think because there are so many moving parts with chart reading that it can be overwhelming to start with.

This week I’m going to go over again the basic approach I take to natal chart reading. I’m going to show what I pull forward initially and what I consider to be important in the natal chart and also how I would approach a 12-month forecast for an individual chart.

Information Overload

As I can only spend so much time doing this reading for our listener Maxie, in some instances I’ve just listed highlights about what I would be looking for, but without filling all the details out. But then further down I have explained in more detail about the two questions she had really, which were about forecasting in 2025 for love and career. While the natal chart is not fully fleshed out in this chart, I would normally explore all the full natal chart if she was an actual client.

Podcast Episode

You can listen to the podcast that Arwynne and I did on our example chart for Maxie who has given permission to have her chart shown publicly.

Birth Data

Maxie’s birth date is 8:20am, November 12th, 2003, in Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

Natal Chart

When I’m looking at a natal chart, there are 5 main points that I pull out to start with, and they are in order.

Balances
The Ascendant
The chart ruler
Luminaries
Major aspect patterns

Let’s have a look at these 5 main chart points in greater detail.

Strong Balances

With balances. I’m looking for a broad overview of the chart before I get into the nitty gritty of the planets. Also note, when I’m considering balances, I’m only looking at the visible planets. The seven visible planets are the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Balances Overview

Polarity: Balanced.

Element: Water.

Mode: Mutable.

Hemisphere: Southern and the Moon rules.

Quadrants: Balanced.

Triple Division: 3rd, ruler is the Sun.

Emphasis: Sign – none.

Emphasis: House – none

Unaspected Planets: none.

Intercepted Signs: Aries and Libra.

Chinese: Yin – Water Ram.

Part 2: Ascendant Complex

With the ascendant complex I’m looking at. The sign of the ascendant, the ascendant degree, any aspects to the ascendant degree, and any first house tenants.

Ascendant Sign: Capricorn.

Ascendant Degree: 07°29′.

1st House Tenants: Chiron

Ascendant Aspects Neutral: Ascendant conjoined Chiron.

Ascendant Aspects Hard: Ascendant opposition Saturn.

Ascendant Aspects Soft: Ascendant trine Jupiter.

Part 3: Chart Ruler Complex

With the chart ruler complex, I’m looking to find the ruler of the Ascendant, the specific planet. I want to know which sign is it in, which house is it in and what is its condition by the aspects it has flowing towards it and whether or not it has position within the chart. If there are two chart rulers, each one has its own sheet.

Planet: Saturn

Direction: Retrograde

Sign: Cancer

Essential Dignity: Detriment

House: 3rd, cadent.

Rules: Chart, Northern hemisphere, 1st quadrant, 1st triple division, and 1st, 2nd and 3rd houses.

Position in Dispositor Tree: Gateway planet.

Hard Aspects

Saturn opposition Chiron.

Saturn opposition Ascendant.

Saturn square Pluto.

Saturn sesquiquadrate Mercury.

Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus.

Soft Aspects

Saturn trine the Sun.

Saturn trine Mars.

Saturn sextile Jupiter.

Flex Aspects

Saturn quincunx Venus.

Major Aspect Patterns

Saturn in Mystic rectangle with Mars, Jupiter and Chiron.

Saturn in a water Grand Trine with the Sun and Mars.

Saturn in Finger of the World (or Thor’s Hammer) as the focal planet with Mercury and Uranus.

Part 4: Luminaries: The Sun

The luminaries are the Sun and the Moon. With the Sun, I want to know what sign is it in, what house is it in, what aspects it has and whether or not it has positioned within the chart.

Sign: Scorpio.

House: 11th house succedent. Has accidental detriment.

Rules: 9th house.

Sun Aspects

Neutral Aspects

List all conjunctions to the Sun and what that means.

Hard

No hard aspects.

Soft

Sun trine Mars (Grand Trine).

Sun trine Saturn (Grand Trine).

Flex

Sun semi-sextile Pluto (minor).

Pre-Natal Eclipse

Her prenatal solar eclipse was on the 31st, May 2003 at 9°19′ Gemini in her 6th house.

Major Aspect Pattern

The Sun is in a water grand trine with Mars and Saturn. Note Mars disposes the Sun.

Part 4: The Luminaries: The Moon

Turning our attention now to the Moon, I’m looking at the sign the moon is in, the house the moon is in, whether or not it has positioned within the chart. I want to know what aspects the Moon has. At this point I will also be considering the lunar phase. Depending on the chart, I may at this point look into the lunar nodes as well.

Sign: Gemini.

House: 6th, cadent.

Rules: Southern hemisphere, 3rd quadrant and the 7th house.

Speed: Slow.

Declination: Out of bounds at N26°15′.

Lunar phase: Full Moon Phase.

Aspects Neutral: None

Aspects Hard

Moon opposition Pluto.

Moon square Midheaven.

Aspects Soft

Moon trine Uranus.

Major aspect pattern: None.

Major Aspect Patterns

Next, I turn my attention to any major aspect patterns within the chart. So that would include stelliums grand crosses, grand trines, T-squares and the like. I would consider the major aspect patterns in sequence of important as well. I’m also paying attention to whether or not the chart ruler, or the Sun, or the Moon is part of these major aspect patterns.

Maxie has an astonishing five major aspect patterns, a mystic rectangle, a water grand trine, a Venus mutable T-square, a Pluto mutable T-square and a Saturn Thor’s Hammer or Finger of the World.

Mystic Rectangle

The passive Mystic Rectangle is between Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Chiron.

Water Grand Trine

The water grand trine is between the Sun, Mars and Saturn (chart ruler).

Venus Mutable T-square

Her mutable Venus T-square has Venus square Mars and Jupiter and Jupiter and Mars are in opposition.

Note that Venus and Pluto are conjoined, so really these two T-squares could be interpreted as one.

Pluto T square

Her mutable Pluto T square has Pluto square Mars and Jupiter, and Mars and Jupiter are in opposition.

Saturn Thors Hammer or Finger of the World

Her Saturn Thor’s Hammer has Saturn sesquiquadrate to Mercury and Uranus, and Mercury and Uranus are square each other.

Committee Dispositor Tree

She has a 3-planet committee dispositor tree Mercury, Jupiter and Mars in the committee. Also note that Saturn, which is the chart ruler, is actually gateway planet above Chiron, Neptune and Uranus.

Maxie’s Forecasting 2025

Special Focus

Maxie’s special focus request was “Romantic relationships and Work within the next year.”

Career

Regarding her first question about career, I looked at the 10th, 6th, and 2nd house and I considered Saturn and Mercury as the ruler of the Midheaven.

The solar return chart contains a very obvious pointer towards her career this year.

There were quite a few transits that will influence her career this year and I don’t want to go into them in great detail in this newsletter, but you can read full story on the main blog post.

Romance

The other part of her question was about romantic relationships. For her love life I looked at her 5th and 7th houses and Venus in greater detail. There are several significant transits coming up for her this year. Additionally, her progressed Venus has made a recent shift that is significant too. Furthermore, I picked up on things such as her Part of Marriage position and considered some aspects to the vertex.

Career

For career related questions we look at the 10th, 6th and 2nd houses and at Saturn’s complex.

10th House

10th Cusp Virgo ruled by Mercury

6th House

6th Cusp Gemini ruled by Mercury

Moon in 6th

Transiting Jupiter 6th

Transiting Jupiter in 6th until July 13th.

2nd House

2nd Cusp Aquarius ruled by Saturn (chart ruler) and Uranus

Neptune in 2nd

Transiting Pluto

Pluto just entered 2nd house

Saturn Complex

Saturn in 7th, chart ruler, retrograde and in detriment in Cancer.

Affairs of the Heart

5th House

Romance (5th)

For romance and love life questions we look at the 5th house complex.

5th cusp is Taurus so Venus rules 5th house.

The 5th house is where love blossoms. The 5th house represents dating, romances, flirting and looking for romantic partner. It is where you can fall in love.

North Node in 5th

Destiny is in your love life. Anytime a transiting planet conjoins your north node in the 5th house, you’re likely to feel that you are destined to love this person and they were destined to love you. Make sure that you have engage your mind as well, and I’m not just following your heart.

Vertex in 5th

The Vertex in the 5th house is a classic indicator of where people come and go within your life. This natal placement typically suggests that you cycle back around to people you knew and loved before. The Vertex in the 5th house is often an indication that people whom you knew in your past will remain in your heart, often for the rest of your life.

When any transiting planet conjoins your natal Vertex, at 16° Taurus, you are likely to feel the urge to rekindle an old flame. Additionally, any person who has their natal Sun conjoined your Vertex is likely to be seen as a romantic interest for you. These would be people whose birthday is on the 7th, 8th, or 9th of May of any year.

Committed Partnerships (7th)

7th house complex

7th house tenants: Saturn.

The 7th house ruler is the Moon in Gemini in the 6th.

Part of Marriage is at 3° 21′ Leo.

Intimacy (8th)

8th house ruler is the Sun.

Consider Mars for the chase and intimacy.

Consider Pluto for intimacy.

Venus

Venus for love. Veuns is in Sagittarius in the 12th house. Venus is the focal plant of one T-square.

2025 Inner Transits

The Sun, Mercury and Venus, travel close together and will bring their energies to bear on your romance for a varied time this year.

Transiting Sun

The transiting Sun will stimulate your love life from April 21st until May 26th. If you are single, this is a great time to meet somebody who touches your heart. If you are in a relationship, you may find that it becomes more significant the longer you spend the time with them.

Transiting Mercury

Mercury enters your 5th house on May the 10th until. May the 26th. For a short two weeks planet Mercury will stimulate your romantic sector as well. But this energy is more likely to be expressed through communications, new contacts you meet and anyone you meet face-to-face, or you exchange emails with or phone numbers who may be more important for you later on. In general, this is a great time to connect with people who you really enjoy being with, but not necessarily romantically although they certainly can be.

Transiting Venus

Transiting Venus when enter your 5th house on June the 7th until July 8th. As Venus passes through your 5th House of romance and love affairs, it is an ideal time to fall in love. Although you have to realize that Venus does this every single year of your life and it’s not every year you’re falling in love. However, if you are open to it, you are likely to meet somebody whom you find valuable, someone who you find worthwhile, and someone who you can appreciate on a deeper level, when Venus transits your 5th house.

7th House

7th cusp is Cancer so the Moon rules 7th

The 7th house represents all serious relationships such as marriage and long-term common-law relationships. In includes commitments like betrothals, engagements, dowries and prenuptial contracts. With Cancer on the cusp of 7th house and therefore the Moon ruling is likely that you will find your life-partner through family connections or via someone within your heritage.

Natal Saturn in 7th

Saturn is the chart ruler and retrograde and in detriment. Saturn in the 7th house typically indicates that you will marry an older, more established person or someone with a solid reputation. This placement suggests that you will marry later in life and usually after age 30 past your first Saturn return. Saturn in the 7th house (as the ruler of time) also indicates longevity and staying power with people who are in it for the long haul, in all your committed relationships.

2025 Superior Transits

Transiting Mars

Transiting Mars is currently in your 7th house retrograding back. It will go direct on February the 24th (this is a turning point) and then Mars will continue through the rest of your 7th house until it finally leaves on April the 20th.

So between now and mid-April there is likely to be a lot of activity in your relationship area. Mars is the planet that creates heat, friction and get you off the couch and urges you towards activities that help you seek out a partner.

While Mars is still retrograding, so up until February the 24th, things will not be clear.

It is only from February 25th onwards to April 20th, that you are likely to be able to clearly see a viable guy who can be a partner for you.

Remember too that Mars will come through your 7th house every two years. While you are not likely to get married every two years, nobody does, you are likely to have a more active partnership where you do things together. Perhaps you get outside, maybe with a sport activity or you both go hiking or something like that where you’re actually spending time together, doing something, with somebody.

Even people who’ve been married for 20 years will decide to do something with their spouse during the time that Mars stimulates their 7th house.

Transiting Jupiter

Jupiter enters your 7th house for almost a year from July 13th, 2025, until June 2026.

When Jupiter enters your 7th house, there is likely to be opportunity for a serious relationship. What once started out as fun and laughter may finally expand into a partnership where you feel you could go far in life with the person. You are likely to have known someone for a while (since Jupiter was in your 5th) and then suddenly you see them with fresh eyes.

The only downside to this transit is that you may be presented with more than one opportunity to cinch the deal. The danger here is that you may let someone special slip away while you’re off dallying elsewhere.

The Graphic Ephemeris

Forecast Time Frame

I’ve created a graphic ephemeris spanning two years beginning six months ago in July 2024. This graphic ephemeris only shows the aspects of the 8th harmonic, the conjunctions, oppositions, squares, semi-squares and sesquiquadrates.

I’m also only displaying the planets from Jupiter outwards.

Y-axis

Maxie’s natal positions are on the far-right column going down and each of her natal planets has a horizontal dotted line going across the page. As the transiting planets make aspects to the natal planets, the aspect glyph is placed at the intersection.

You can note that not every aspect is as relevant as others.

Transiting Jupiter in the GE

Jupiter opposition Venus and Jupiter square Mars

Because Max is Venus and Mars are in a tight square, anytime when a transiting planet makes an aspect to either one, they will also make the aspect to the other. When back in July 2024, as Jupiter came by, it made the opposition to Venus and then the square to Mars. That was the first pass.

Jupiter then continued on direct and eventually retrograded back.

We see that now during January, February and March, Jupiter is peaking at the top in going to be making its station as well. This gives an extended period of January, February and half of March where Jupiter is is opposition her Venus and Jupiter is square Mars at the same time.

Both of these planets have to do with relationships, so we would be interested to looking at that as well.

Jupiter enters 7th House

Moving on to July 2025, you can clearly see where Jupiter is opposing the Ascendant, which really means that it’s entering the 7th House of serious partnerships.

Saturn Opposition Midheaven

During April 2025, Saturn will opposer Midheaven. That is the first pass. It then retrogrades back and once again opposes her Midheaven, retrograde, in October 2025, and then finally makes the final and 3rd pass in January 2026 when Saturn once more opposes her Midheaven.

1st Pass

Typically, with a three hit transit. The first connection. Opens up the situation. So what happens in April career wise for her will be important to pay attention to. It could be people she meets or contacts you mates. Or even some training that she does.

2nd Pass

The second pass. Which in this case will be in October. Will bring more focus to. The situation that began to unfold during April and things can get firmed up at this point. However, because it is retrograde, she will still not have all the full details of how things are going to unfold. This could be a time of scrambling too. Established parameters or perhaps? Decide which company she might want to work with, or with bosses you may want to work with. But at this point, the fight nothing has been finalized. It is still under discussion during the retrograde.

3rd Pass

At the 3rd and final, direct part of Saturn opposing her Midheaven that’s occurs in January 2026, this is likely to be the month where things are finalized. Where perhaps she gets a job in the company she wants to work for, or perhaps she creates her own business that she’s been working on for over 8 months. As always at the third pass, it shows the finality of the situation which Saturn has created, established and maintained for her which began back in April 2025.

These three contact points where Saturn opposes the Midheaven on the three separate months will be highlighted. These are months where a lot more activity and achievements can be made career wise, but it is only as Saturn finally clears the last opposition that we will be able to see the outcome of her plans that have unfolded.

Interpretation

Saturn is the chart ruler, so any transits from Saturn are always important for her.

As Saturn moves into the 4th house and opposes her Midheaven is suggests there will be challenges with logistics to do with the home life and the career. Saturn in the 4th house is a very patriotic placement where people like to stay close to home.

However, it can also be a time when she establish a firm base from which to launch her life, because the IC see indicates the foundations of your life. She will want to create this firm base (perhaps buy a home) where she can launch her career from as she ventures out in the public domain.

It will be important for Maxie to make sure her home base is secure as she lines up career prospects that are calling her in her work life.

Transiting Uranus in the Graphic Ephemeris

Transiting Uranus will oppose Mercury during 2025 / 2026. The first pass will occur towards the last week at the end of June into July. The second pass will be at the early weeks of November and the third pass will be the last half of April 2026 moving into May.

Interpretation.

In Maxie’s natal chart, Mercury rules the Midheaven, so anytime planets contact Mercury, it will have a knock-on effect towards her career.

1st Pass

The first pass in June / July 2025 will set the stage and open up negotiations. Uranus opposing Mercury is likely to bring her unexpected connections and contacts that will benefit her later. This really means that she might be meeting people who can be influential in her future.

2nd Pass

Moving on to the second retrograde pass in November 2025. Again, this is likely to be a time where she continues to find new and innovative ways of communication or language skills or even considers doing more writing.

The second pass is always where you’re still in the midst of the situation, you are still in the weeds wading through. At this point you have to remember that you still do not have all the information, but you have enough to go on to start making plans.

3rd Pass

The 3rd and final pass of Uranus opposing Mercury will be in April and May 2026.

For example, this could be a time where she changes of designation in her career or where she perhaps does some writing, language, communication or editing or reviewing because it’s Mercury as the MC ruler it can be anything that has to do with her career.

One other thing that comes to mind is that her resume, CV or even her LinkedIn profile at this point will be established in the world the exact way she wants it to be.

From this point onwards, she could reflect back to June 2025 to how she thought things were going to unfold in her future (because the future is represented by Uranus).

Alternatively, it can be that she embraces new technology or something modern and fashionable which then becomes the main thing that she is talking about and thinking about in her day-to-day career.

Transiting Chiron semisquare Venus in the GE

Transiting Chiron on will make a semi-square to her Venus for an extended period from June to September 2025. It will then reappear in April 2026.

Interpretation

During this time, she could anticipate that Chiron and her love life represented by Venus will be a focus for her. Chiron is the gift in your chart, and it brings potential for good things once you have overcome any wounds you may have. Because it is opposing Venus, we would look to this as affairs of the heart and the love life where perhaps past hurts can finally be healed.

Clearly, everyone’s love life is a complex thing, but during the mid-year of 2025, Maxie will need to give herself some time to work through and heal any issues that there may be in her, in her love life. This may not be easy.

For example, if she has been hurt romantically, this will need to be worked through before she can start another romantic relationship and not take the baggage (Chiron) with her into her new love life. Chiron will make the final opposition to Venus in April 2026, when once more these issues could come forward.

This Chiron opposition is unlikely to supersede the Jupiter going through her 7th house, bringing optimism and luck in serious and meaningful partnerships.

Venus

Progressed Venus enters your 1st house

On September the 8th, 2024 (basically four months ago) her progressed Venus crossed the Ascendant and entered your 1st house for personality.

Venus is likely to stay in your first house for around 30 years, although the main potency of this energy shift will only last until September 2025, whilst Venus is in orb of the conjunction to the Ascendant. Symbolically, this is Venus coming out of the darkness and entering the light. It can be an indication that love, and finances become more clear to you at this time and that the focus is on what youwant, rather than what you feel society is imposing on you.

The reason that we are looking at Venus, not only because Venus is the planet of love, but also because Venus rules your 5th house for romance. Your progressed Venus entering the 1st house, brings a sharp focus to you as a person. It lets you show your femininity, who you are as a young woman and what you would like to attract and what are looking for in love.

Progressed Sun conjoined Venus

In October 2025, your progressed Sun will exactly conjoin your natal Venus in the 12th house. This will be a highly auspicious time and even the two months leading up to it (before and after when the Sun is in orb of Venus) will be times that vibrate with this positive energy. Anytime the Sun comes through, it’s usually a good thing.

Solar Return

Solar Return November 2024

Your solar return chart is calculated every year at your birthday in November and will last for 12 months until your next birthday in November 2025. In this particular solar return chart for 2024, the Sun is in your 10th house.

This is a dynamic position bringing a bright spotlight onto your career. If you were thinking of moving up the corporate ladder or if you were thinking of opening your own business, this would be a brilliant time to do so, before November this year.

Solar Return: Sun Aspect Pattern

Sun Yod

Your current solar return’s Sun is at is the focal point in a yod pattern. This is highly significant. The Sun is both quincunx to Jupiter and Chiron. Jupiter and Chiron are sextile to each other this creates the yod major aspect pattern.

Yods are typically spiritual in nature and the planet that is being pointed at, and in this case, it is the Sun in the 10th house, is the main feature for the pattern. This yod in your solar return chart is the main indicator.

Interpretation

This Sun yod shows that your growth potential and optimism (Jupiter) and your teaching or healing powers (Chiron), are flowing towards you, yourself, personally, (the Sun). It is a period when you have to step into the limelight. Remember, the Sun is your identity, it is who you are, your beating heart and life force. The Sun in a chart shows where you can stand up authentically as yourself without bending to the whims of others.

More Example Chart Interpretations

Below are a few more of our example chart interpretations. Each one explains the process of interpretation and of filtering out what is important in each individual chart.

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Author: Alison Price – Published: December 2024

New Year Energy Reset

As we start the New Year, I want to talk about your content creation efforts within your astrology business and where you expend your precious time and energy. There are only 24 hours in a day and even less time to tend to your astrology business. If you are a full-time astrologer, you can certainly put in thirty-five hours a week into your business. However, if you’re a part time astrologer, perhaps you have a day job and you’re just doing astrology on the side, or as a hobby, you still need to invest at least seven hours a week to build, nurture and grow your astrology presence.

Energy

My personal energy has become more important over the years which means what I choose to focus my efforts on. This year, 2025, I want to tighten my energy attention on creating new things for my astrology business.

Mars

You can check out your energy potential by looking at your Mars complex. When you consider Mars, contemplate the sign, the house, the major aspects connecting to it, and its position in the chart itself. Not everybody has the same amount of energy available, but to consider your Mars complex is a great first step.

For example, my Mars complex is as follows:

Sign: Virgo
House: 3rd
Aspects: Conjoined Venus and sextile Moon
Position: None
Rules: EH, Q4, 10th house and 5th house.

I have a very quiet Mars in my chart and I really am particular about conserving my energy during the day.

Overload

The purpose of this newsletter is not to add to your load or overwhelm, but rather to give you an opportunity to reassess where you are expending your energy. Please do not feel pressure to be everywhere all the time. I certainly am not. However, on a day when you can carve out some time to work on your astrology business content creation, (horoscopes or blog posts) I suggest you start with the relationship platforms that you own first. There are two things you need to get in place and those are your website and your e-mail list. All the rest can be done later.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

Your Digital Presence in 2025

2025

Your digital presence is where you are online as an astrologer. Note: Your personal online presence is something else. You need to separate your digital presence into two buckets.

Relationship Platforms help you nurture your existing audience through direct, reliable communication channels which you control.
Discovery Platforms excel at helping you find and attract new audiences through their built-in discovery features.

With only so much vitality available to you every day, you need to give attention more to your relationship platform efforts than to your discovery platform efforts. Personally, I suggest 75% to relationship and 25% to discovery. So, if you have one hour a day to give to your astrology business, you will spend 45 minutes on relationship platform creation and 15 minutes on discovery platform creation. This percentage split further, see below.

Content Creation

Content creation includes activities like writing horoscopes, blogs, articles, creating videos, recording podcasts, newsletters (like this one) and anything else that you create yourself. Content creation is not client consultations. As an astrologer, your content creation is likely to be a priority if you are producing horoscopes, because typically each month you will write a new horoscope.

Relationship Platforms 75%

You Own Relationship Platforms

Relationship platforms are those that you own yourself. These are the platforms in which you have invested energy, money and time. People will have a closer relationship with you, and you with them, on your relationship platforms.

Website

You need an astrology website that you own. I run my website on WordPress and I’ve have been using Dreamhost as my website host since 2002. Your website is the mothership for everything you do in your astrology business. Every other piece of content that you ever create needs to link back to your website.

Email List

The second thing you need to do after you’ve created your website is to set up an e-mail list. You own your email list and the people’s contact details on your list. Your email list needs to be initiated sooner rather than later. If you still do not own an e-mail list, do yourself a favor and start one in January 2025. I personally use Kit.com as my email provider and you are welcome to check them out. Even if you don’t see yourself sending out emails right now, it is still important to capture the e-mail addresses of your astrology clients and people with whom you come into contact through your astrology practice.

Podcast

You don’t need a podcast, but if you do have one, you own it. You can check out my podcast here. You pay for monthly podcast hosting and your host pushes all your episodes out to Apple podcasts, Spotify and the rest of the gang almost magically. They also offer other bells and whistles to make life easier. I use Buzzsprout as my podcast host and I have done since April 2023. I’m extending you an invitation if you would like to be a guest on my podcast, please let me know.

Online Course

If you teach astrology, you can create an online course which you own. Personally, building an online course has been on my to-do list for a while now, but I never seem to get it done.

Discovery Platforms 25% (split 15% and 10%)

You Do NOT Own

Discovery platforms are the places on the internet where you might find yourself, but you do not own them. Discovery platforms are typically Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and others. The way to differentiate a discovery platform from a relationship platform is that if the owner of the discovery platform decides to close its business, there’s nothing you can do about it. All of your friends, followers, data, photos, videos and contacts on a discovery platform can disappear overnight.

There are two types of discovery platforms:

Search-engines
Post-and-go

Search Engine Discovery Platforms 15%

Searchable Content

People find you through search discovery platforms because they are searchable. Any content that you wrote last month, last year or five years ago can still be searched and discovered on a search engine discovery platform. I suggest you put 15% of your energy, time and effort into creating search engine discovery platform content.

Pinterest

Pinterest may not be a platform that you’re on or have thought about, but if you do anything which is visual or artistic or if you do “how to” types of work you will benefit by being on Pinterest. On Pinterest you pin a “pin” which is an image and some text, but it links back to your website. For example, if you did a pin about say, “Best fragrances for Pisces” you could link it straight back to your website to your Pisces perfume article where you sell your soaps, lotions, potions and beauty products. The consumer on Pinterest would probably search for something like, “Pisces perfume birthday gift ideas” and your pin will be served up to them. It makes sense to have a presence on Pinterest. Pins live forever and can be searched. You can check out my Pinterest here. Pinterest is mainly used by women.

YouTube

Another way to grow your astrology practice in 2025 is through creating videos on YouTube. YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google. This means that millions of people go to YouTube every day and search for what they’re looking for.

For example, if someone searches for “How to Draw a Dispositor Tree” and you have a video which you created 5, 10 or 15 years ago, YouTube will find the video and serve it up to the seeker.

Videos live forever and can be searched. Creating videos has quite a steep learning curve.

Social Media Discovery Platforms 10%

Post-and-Go Content

People will find you on post-and-go discovery platforms if they follow you already and if they happen to be on the platform when you post. Any content you upload to a post-and-go social platform will be buried down in the feed after a week. Social media post-and-go discovery platforms require relentless feeding to remain at the top of people’s feeds. Constant nurturing means posting something new at least every day.

Social Media Platforms

Social media includes platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X and LinkedIn. Growing a following on a social media platform can be an awareness arm of your astrology business. You need to encourage your followers on social media platforms to join your email list so you can continue to serve them in the future when the platform itself is long gone. Personally, I have a love hate relationship with IG and FB, I don’t do X or TikTok and I find that LinkedIn is a massive y-a-w-n. I do have a presence, but my efforts are expended elsewhere on creating content for my blog, newsletters and podcast.

Here are some ideas of exactly who-is-where on social platforms from Amy Porterfield’s brilliant biz book Two Weeks’ Notice:

TikTok is mainly used by Gen Alpha and Gen Z.
IG is mainly used by millennials and Gen X.
FB is now used chiefly by boomers.
LinkedIn is mostly used by businessmen and women.
X is mainly used by men.

Dead Social Media Platforms

Although everyone might be on Instagram at the moment, it wasn’t always the case. Social media platforms do not live forever. Do you remember Friends Reunited, My Space or Clubhouse? These dead social media platforms are all long gone and forgotten. They had their moment in the Sun and at the height of their popularity, they were the biggest, brightest and shiniest platforms to be had. No doubt you and I spent many hours immersed in these platforms which are no more.

Final Thoughts

Invest in Yourself

In a perfect world, we’d all be everywhere online at once, but this is not the case.

Starting Out

If you are just starting out, I suggest you begin slowly. Step one = website. Step 2 = e-mail and then choose one discovery platform to start with.

Started Already

If you find that you are already everywhere online and you are feeling stretched thin, this is the time to reconsider your content creation efforts. It’s time to think about what you can practically and at a level which you can maintain for the long haul and so that you don’t spend your life running on the hamster wheel.

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Planetary Complexes

Planetary Complexes

When you start learning how to read a chart, there are four main things that you have to consider. These are the cornerstones of chart reading, which are signs, planets, houses and aspects and although you have to learn them to all to start with. Even if you’re an experienced astrologer, you will go back to the basics and continuously refer back to these four cornerstones. Over the years you will no doubt research, read and pay attention to the four cornerstone concepts. Every year that you practice astrology, you will know a little bit more about the signs, planets, houses and aspects and this knowledge adds to your skills as an astrologer.

Planetary Basics

Planets

Planets are considered one of the cornerstones of chart reading. Typically, there are 10 to 12 planets in each chart they are the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Chiron. Additionally, some of you may add the dwarf planet Ceres into your planetary mix. The point is that every chart contains planets, but not all the planets will be as effective in one person’s chart as they are in another.

Planetary Weightings

Planet in Sign

Back in the day much consideration was given to planetary weightings which does key into planetary complexes, but the complexes go a few steps further. With planetary weightings, you consider the essential dignity of the planets and whether that planet can function well in that sign or not. For example, planets with essential dignity will get a score of:

Rulership +5
Exaltation +4
Fall -4
Detriment -5

Essential dignity is a simple way to look at planetary weightings.

Planetary Complexes

Consideration

Planetary complexes, on the other hand, don’t just consider the sign the planet is in. When you look at planetary weightings, you will look at the:

Chart Ruler
Sign
House
Aspects
Position
Chart shape
Dispositor tree
Direction
Antiscia
And maybe more

When considering planetary complexes, sometimes it is obvious which planet is more important. In cases like this you don’t have to dig into the weeds with planetary complexes for every single chart you do. It may be quite apparent, as you work through the list, which planet is rising to the top and is the most influential planet for that person.

I’ve created this list of planetary complex considerations in order of importance, as I see them. As you work your way down the list, use your intuition and discretion to determine which planet is stepping forward. Let’s look at all these planetary complex considerations in greater detail, so you know what you’re looking for.

Chart Ruler

Rising Sign

Whichever planet rules the sign on the Ascendant is the chart ruler. The signs on the Ascendant with their associated chart rulers are as follows:

Aries: Mars
Taurus: Venus
Gemini: Mercury
Cancer: The Moon
Leo: The Sun
Virgo: Mercury
Libra: Venus
Scorpio: Mars and Pluto
Sagittarius: Jupiter
Capricorn: Saturn
Aquarius: Saturn and Uranus
Pisces: Jupiter and Neptune

Two Rulers

Some charts will have two chart rulers, such as those with Scorpio, Aquarius or Pisces rising. In charts with two rulers, always consider both planets as equally important at this point in your deliberations. The chart ruling planet gains supreme strength. Very often the chart ruler is the strongest planet in the chart and although other planets can usurp it, it doesn’t happen that often.

Sign

Essential Dignity

The first thing to do would be to consider the planet in its sign and whether or not it can be effective there. This is measured by essential dignity.

Rulership

Planets in rulership are in their own sign. They are also said to be in dignity. In general, planets and rulership get a score of +5.

Exaltation

Planets in exaltation are in a sign where they are welcomed. In general, exalted planets get a score of +4.

Fall

Planets in fall are in a sign where they cannot effectively express their energies. Planets in fall generally get a score of -4.

Detriment

Planets in detriment are in signs, where they cannot function well at all. Planets in detriment generally get a score of -5.

Term

Planets and term are well placed and get a score of +3.

Face

Planets with face are well positioned and get a score of +2.

House

Accidental Dignity

When looking at planetary complexes and the house, you would consider whether the planet has accidental dignity or not. A planet has accidental dignity when it is in the natural house of its sign of dignity. For example, the Sun in the 5th house is in accidental dignity because in the natural wheel Leo is in the 5th house position. I generally give accidental dignity planets a score of +1. Also note that planets could be an accidental exaltation, fall and detriment and that needs to be considered as well.

Type of House

A planet will be either in an angular, succedent or cadent house. You need to consider which type of house the planet is in as planets in each of these types of houses are able to express themselves in different ways. The scoring I give to planets in types of houses as follows:

Angular +1
Succeeded 0
Cadent -1

But to be quite clear. I only consider type-of-house scoring when I’m trying to break a deadlock.

Aspects

In most charts, every planet has some aspects, but a few are more important than others. Aspects to consider highly are:

Conjunctions and parallels
Oppositions and contra-parallels
Squares
Aspects to the chart ruler, the Sun or the Moon.

Applying or Separating

All aspects which are applying are more important than aspects that are separating.

Opening or Closing

All aspects will be either opening or closing except the conjunction and the opposition. Aspects which are opening are more important than aspects which are closing.

Chart Position

Where

The position a planet holds within a chart is important. It may not have any essential dignity to speak of, or be well aspected or in a good house, but if a planet has position, you need to pay attention.

Most Elevated

Only one planet will be the most elevated planet. The most elevated planet gains strength by its position in the chart.

Gauquelin Sector

There are two main Gauquelin sectors, the Ascendant and the Midheaven. Any planets in these sectors gain strength.

Cazimi

Planets will be cazimi if they are within 0°17’ of a conjunction to the Sun. The cazimi orb is often debated by astrologers, but moving on… Cazimi gives the planet supreme position in the heart of the Sun.

Influence in Chart Shape

Cutting Planet

Some chart shapes will have a cutting planet which leads the pack. Chart shapes which contain a cutting planet are:

Bowl
Bucket
Bundle
Fan
Locomotion

If a planet is the cutting planet within a chart shape, it gains strength.

Handle Planet

Some chart shapes contain a handle planet. The chart shapes with handle planets are:

Bucket
Fan

If a planet is a handle planet, it gains strength.

Dispositor Tree

Final Dispositor

If a chart has a final dispositor tree, and the planet in question is the final dispositor, it gains supreme strength.

Gateway Planet

In any type of dispositor to tree, if the planet in question is a gateway planet, it gains a modicum of strength.

Direction

Direct

In general, planets which are direct are stronger than planets which are retrograde.

Stationary

Always check for stationary planets which are those planets within 0°10’ of the exact turning point of the station. If a planet is stationary direct it is stronger than any planet which is stationary retrograde.

Antiscia

Antiscia and Contra-antiscia

If a planet is antiscia to another planet within the chart, it gains a modicum of strength. Planets in contra-antiscia are moot.

Overarch

Why Bother

Determining planetary complexities is a is an interesting thing about charts. I work through each chart and analyze the planets within it by their complexes. I generally find that one planet has a far greater complex than the others and these planets are important to the person. And not only that, if you are then considering specifics within a birth chart, such as, financial or love life questions where you need to consider the Venus complex, if you have already extrapolated the full complex out before you get to do the interpretation, you’re on a better footing with your analysis for that person. In general, most charts have one and sometimes two planets which are strong. The strong planet is the one that you can lean into as an astrologer, because the person who’s chart it is will know about this planet’s energy already as they will be working with it on a daily basis.

Calculate

Every time I cast a chart for a client, I calculate all the planetary complexes, so I can fully understand what’s going on in a chart.

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Author: Alison Price – Published: December 2024

Self-Care for Astrologers

Personal Well-being

Why self-care is Crucial

This week I want to talk about some self-care topics that relate directly to astrologers. As a practicing astrologer, you are like a conduit, navigating the emotional lives of your clients while at the same time processing their planetary energies. Your work in astrology requires you to make a deep empathetic attunement. You’re not just interpreting charts, but you are also holding space for their personal transformations, soul revelations and possible existential inquiries.

Unlike many other professions, astrology needs you to be simultaneously a counselor, spiritual guide, psychological interpreter and energetic translator. You end up absorbing the hopes, fears, vulnerabilities and transformative potentials of your clients. This intense emotional and spiritual vibe can quickly drain your own energy reserves, possibly leading to compassion fatigue, emotional exhaustion and potential burnout if not carefully managed. Self-care isn’t just a wellness trend for astrologers, it’s an essential professional practice that protects your intuitive gifts and maintains your spiritual clarity. Self-care for astrologers makes sure that you can continue to offer meaningful, kindhearted guidance without becoming energetically overwhelmed or losing the connection to your own inner alignment.

Emotional Resilience Techniques

Boundary Setting

When you work with clients, it is important to recognize the delicate line between compassionate support and emotional absorption and this requires profound self-awareness and discernment.

Compassionate Support

As an astrologer, compassionate support means creating and holding a space where your clients can feel heard and validated and at the same time keeping an energetic boundary that prevents you from unconsciously taking on their emotional baggage.

Emotional Absorption

Emotional absorption occurs when you begin to internalize your client’s pain, hate, fears, or challenges as if they were your own. You can easily begin to experience their struggles with such intensity that you lose your objective perspective and you may become emotionally entangled. This differs from true compassion, which allows you to witness suffering with an open heart while maintaining a clear, centered energetic state.

Signs of Emotional Absorption

Signs of emotional absorption in yourself include:

Feeling physically depleted or having a headache after a session.
Facing persistent mood shifts days later the session which mirror your client’s emotional state.
Carrying your customer’s unresolved emotions long after the consultation ends.
Finding yourself ruminating on their personal challenges.

Signs of Compassionate Support

On the other hand, compassionate support involves:

Being fully present and actively listening.
Offering insightful guidance.
Holding space for transformation.
Consciously releasing the energetic connection at the end.
Trusting that your client has the inner resources to navigate their own journey.

Energy Sovereignty

The key here is to cultivate a practice of energetic sovereignty. This is where you can be deeply empathetic without becoming emotionally enmeshed. You recognize that true healing comes from empowering your clients to access their own inner wisdom rather than you absorbing their emotional baggage. They must develop their own coping mechanism and you can’t take their pain away to add to your own load.

Emotional Processing Strategies

I have a few ideas about what you can do to protect yourself from taking on the energy of your clients. Note: Honestly it works for all toxic people and not just astrology clients, I’m thinking mother-in-law here and perhaps you know they type of person I mean.

Reset Rituals: at Home

If you meet your clients face-to-face at your home, you will need to cleanse the space after they have gone. You can create a post-consultation emotional reset ritual which could involve some simple steps like:

Opening the window and letting in fresh air.
Light a candle to cleanse the area.
Use sage, palo santo, or other clearing herbs if you’re comfortable with them.
Ring a small bell or chime to reset the room’s energy.
You may wish to shake your hands and arms to shift any vibes from the consultation with your client off through your fingertips.
Practice a brief grounding meditation.
Take a few deep, intentional breaths to center yourself.
Wash your hands with the intention of cleansing any energetic attachments.

Reset Rituals: Online

With online Zoom clients it’s a bit different and after each session:

Always reboot your computer because this action clears the cache and closes all the open screens.
Get up from your desk. I usually walk through to the other room and probably make myself a fresh cup of tea.

Client Notes

In both cases (in person and online), I will take the hardcopy files that I have for my client with their charts, graphic ephemeris, forecast notes and whatever I wrote and place them in a manila folder and put them away. I never leave past client’s charts out on my desk, because these pages also carry the client’s own energy.

Visualization

You can use some visualization techniques to cleanse absorbed emotional energy from your body. One idea is to imagine standing in a shower or, even better, a waterfall where the water washes away emotional residue off you down the drain or down the river. Another idea is to picture a shielding white light within in your own aura which surrounds you for psychic protection.

Emotional Temperature Check

A good way to manage emotional overload from your clients is to develop a personal emotional check-in practice. This can also be called a daily emotional temperature check with yourself where you can try to identify and acknowledge your current emotional state without judgment.

Monthly Self-astrological Review

As astrologers, when we talk about “monthly” things the Moon immediately comes to mind. The transiting Moon, in its orbit, will conjoin and oppose every item in your chart each month.

Growth: Jupiter

You can use some reflection techniques to understanding personal growth through your chart by leaning into the planet Jupiter in your birth chart and:

See when the transiting Moon conjoined and opposed it during the month.
Note any hard transits to Jupiter from the other planets.

Transformation: Pluto

You can also employ some techniques for transformational astrological insights into your own personal development.

Consider your natal Pluto and the transits from the Moon during the month.
Focus on the lunar conjunction and the opposition first.
Finally, note any hard transits (oppositions and squares) from the other planets.

You can consider any other planets as well. This is just a guide.

Journaling for Self-care

Morning Pages: Daily Journaling

I am a huge fan of self-reflection through journaling. I enjoy morning pages which is the writing of a consciousness stream of all the thoughts buzzing in your mind that you clear out of your head first thing. You can see more on my ideas about how to do morning pages from my art blog Let’s consider how to lean into your chart for some astrologically informed journaling.

Reflection Journals: Monthly Journaling

The lunations are the New and Full Moons. Typically, there is one New and one Full Moon each month but not always. New and Full Moon suggest times for either starting something new (New Moon) and seeing what is working or not (Full Moon). Writing a reflection journal in line with the lunations is a good way to start journaling because you only have two entries to make each month. If you feel that constant journaling is too much, then start with lunations and see how you go.

Retrogrades: Quarterly Journaling

This can either be done in your main astrological journal, your journal for the year or in a small retrogrades workbook to track the main retrograde cycles and how they will impact you each year. I always add the retrogrades, along with other stuff, into my yearly astrological journal. So already I’m setting up the 2025 journal that I will use for the whole year.

Transits: Yearly Journaling

You can also monitor the transits, by planet or month, to see how they impact you. This ongoing transit information gets better the longer you do it as you become aware of which planets create more energy surges for you.

Your Choice

All of these journaling practices can be used for your own self-awareness. You do not have to do everything. Pick what will work for you.

Writing Techniques

Mercury Complex

Additionally, you could stretch yourself by leaning into your Mercury complex for some reflective writing techniques. Your Mercury complex is everything to do with Mercury within your chart, such as the sign, essential dignity, direction, house, chart position and aspects.

Archetypal Storytelling

If the myths of the planets interest you, then the archetypes can be another way of exploring each planet within your chart. Dig into the folklore of the planets as a starting point.

Creating Personal Ritual and Reset Routines

Daily Reset Practices

Here are some more ideas on resetting your life and astrology practice so you can better serve your clients without them swallowing you whole.

Morning intention setting aligned with current astrological energy.
Evening gratitude and release rituals.
Seasonal personal ceremony design.

Energetic Maintenance Routines

Stepping slightly out of the pure astrological realm, there are other New Age practices that can be brought in to support your astrology practice. Some of the examples I have for you are as follows:

Personal altar creation and maintenance.
Crystal and sound healing integration.
Nature journaling and connection rituals.

Perhaps not everything will appeal to you, but I do find that many astrologers are familiar with related New Age practices such as crystal healing, tuning into nature (forest bathing) and grounding. It’s up to you.

Birth Chart Self-care

Personalized Self-Care

When you have time, you can study your own birth chart to find some specific personalized, self-care needs, or practices that you may be able to bring into you life. Some ideas to start you off are:

Understand your chart’s self-care needs (Moon and 6th house).
Tailored wellness practices to your unique astrological makeup (1st house complex).
A seasonal self-care regime that aligns with the transits.

Overarching

Integrating holistic self-care into your astrological practice is a great way to support youself as a professional astrologer. A commitment to your own personal wellness as a professional astrologer can be helpful. Consider your own self-care practices as a way to support your own ongoing learning and growth.

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Author: Alison Price – Published: December 2024

Astro Biz End of Year Reflection

As we come to the end of the year, I think it’s valuable to give an end-of-year reflection on how things went. This is not something I’ve always done, but in the recent years I certainly have. I also find that December can be quite a hectic month with Christmas, holiday social events and family commitments. I prefer to consider my end-of-year reflection in early December. This week I just want to share with you some ideas I have about looking back at 2024 to see how you and I did. The idea is not to beat yourself up about what went down, but rather to acknowledge the highs and lows which happened during the year.

End-ofYear Looking Back

Best Transit

During the course of a year, you will have many transits and of course the ones from the superior and outer planets are more significant, mainly because they linger longer. I like to consider which transit was the best one for me and by best, I mean the one that helped me get things done or brought me some further insights or changed my life in some way.

Jupiter 11th House

Jupiter is a great planet to pay attention to because in general it will spend one year in one of your houses. This does depend on how wide these houses are to start with, but this year I was fortunate to have Jupiter entering my 11th house. This happened back in March when it conjoined Uranus right at the beginning of my 11th house.

Interestingly, my 11th house is the largest one (coupled with its opposite, the 5th) with Placidus house cusps it is 43° wide. I don’t have any planets in my 11th house, but when transits come through, I pay attention. I was particularly interested when Uranus entered there at the tail end of 2023. Then when Jupiter ingressed, that was the actual time when I relaunched the publication of The Starzologer newsletter.

Groups

I am taking the 11th house to represent groups which it does. So from the Jupiter Uranus conjunction right at the beginning of my 11th house it occurred to me that my newsletter subscribers, that’s you {{ subscriber.first_name }}, are my group. Thus far, I’ve been able to publish this newsletter every Sunday and then I stepped up to the additional Thursday edition in August.

This does beg the question, “When Jupiter leaves my 11th house will I continue creating newsletters?” Well, I would hope so because it has allowed me to put into place and grow through the medium of newsletters.

Previously I had, as you know, taught basic astrology classes for over 15 years. At the end of last year, I felt I needed to change and my revitalized newsletter has become that change. It became my way of almost providing a mini lesson every week to my subscribers. The good thing about an e-mail list is that if people don’t want to read it, they simply unsubscribe. But if they do want to consume it and find value, they continue to read and interact with my astrology offerings.

This creates a tight community of attentive people rather than a massive bucket full of random folks who have no interest in astrology, or specifically the astrology I like. I have the North Node in my 3rd house, and I do believe that my destiny is to communicate and teach what I know. I’m not saying I know everything; I sadly don’t know everything about astrology, but I do have some experience and many fresh ideas that I like to share with anyone who is attracted.

Best New Moon

We usually get thirteen New Moons each year and a couple of solar eclipses thrown into the mix. On reflection, I like to see if I can find one New Moon that was more important than all the others. For me it was the solar eclipse on October 2nd as it conjoined my IC and therefore opposed my Midheaven. As we speak, we’re still working our way through the vibrant energies expressed at this solar eclipse and I’ll have more for you later next year about that.

Seasons of Life

Projects

I try to find and reflect upon creative projects which I worked on during that period.

Winter

The winter solar season contains the signs Capricorn. Aquarius. Pisces. As 2024 began, I was highly engrossed on search engine optimization (SEO) and attending to my blog. I spent the first couple of months dumping old articles from 2011 about New Moons from that year which nobody’s ever going to read again. I purged horoscopes written for 2018 that were clogging up my website and making the system slower. I did spend quite a bit of time purging the bulk of old stuff on my website to make the load times faster for you.

Spring

The solar spring season contains the signs of Aries, Taurus and Gemini. My 2024 spring project was actually relaunching this newsletter. Back then I called it The Starzologer and as you may know, we’ve renamed it to Starzlife, which I feels fits better. This took a huge amount of time and energy to get off the ground and to fully understand how to work my newsletter e-mail provider Kit. And to be honest, I’m still learning something new every day. I’m not really using the full features in this program and the learning curve is pretty steep to start with, so a lot of time and energy was poured into that.

Summer

The solar summer season includes the signs of Cancer, Leo and Virgo. I didn’t really have a main business summer project as I had multiple family commitments that popped up.

This season I was fortunate to spend a period in Mexico with my youngest daughter. I also managed to get away for a break and presentation with some good friends nearby here on the Sunshine Coast in BC, Canada. And I also flew to Toronto for a week for my middle daughter’s second graduation. Additionally, I caught up with my other grown-up children who live there. Cool.

I’ve got to tell you, normally I don’t travel anywhere, but this summer it seemed to be non-stop. I was coming home, unpacking my suitcase, doing the laundry, repacking it and going back out and at the end of the summer season I was absolutely exhausted, but it was all great fun.

Autumn

Then we get into the autumn projects, which is really where we are still now at the moment. Autumn runs through Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius these are the three signs which the Sun passes through during autumn.

If you are teaching astrology, autumn can be quite busy because you’ve got the back-to-school brigade coming through eager for new lessons. This year, because for the first time this decade I did not teach any classes, it wasn’t an issue for me.

Earlier in Autumn, I launched the paid version of this newsletter, which is with the one you’re reading now that comes out on a Thursday. So far so good. I spend many hours drafting, preparing, writing and researching the content of these newsletters. I do enjoy drawing all the images and diagrams that I pop into each of the editions. I’m using my bold flat colour palette and all the primary colours, red, yellow and blue, which I love.

People First

In life, you don’t spend as much time and energy with everyone you meet. Because you have limited time and energy every day, it’s important that those whom you do focus on are the significant people in your life. This often works itself out quite naturally, if you have children, you attend to them or if you have a partner, you focus to them as well. But some reflection may indicate that perhaps you are spending too much time with some people and not enough time with others.

Example

One instance for this would be if you have a friend who has become a habit to see every week. Perhaps you’re not getting anything from the relationship anymore, but you hang on. Here the value has passed, and it can become draining, or even toxic, on your precious time and energy. Reflection may help.

Ideas

I just want to go through a few of my ideas about making sure that you are sharing your life with the people you’re supposed to be sharing it with and not wasting time with those who do not matter as much.

You

You need to be number one on your priority list. In your chart, you are represented by your first house. If you can’t look after yourself, you can’t look after anybody else. It’s like when you’re in an aeroplane and the oxygen masks drop down and you need to put yours on first before you can turn and help the person in the seat next to you. I believe some time has to be taken on inner work for your mental (air), physical (earth), inspirational (fire) and emotional (water) sides of life. I’m not saying this is easy, but you could use your birth chart and the recent transits as a guide.

In Your Home

The next people you need to care about are those people who live under your roof, those who are in your home, who we see every single day. These are 4th house people, even if they’re not blood relatives. If you have a family, like your kids and your partner, you may have parents living with you or roommates or whoever, but those who live under the same roof you have a very close relationship with. Even in your end-of-year review, it’s a good idea to consider how your interactions are with these people, and maybe even, how can you improve these connections?

Close Family

The next people are your close family. In general, your family is shown through the 4th house. Family tends to be people who you have known since the day you were born, or since the day they were born. These are the people who probably live nearby who you possibly see now and again. For me, I have a daughter who lives 10km from me and I see her every weekend. We like to chat and keep in touch. I don’t know absolutely everything about her life, but we are very close. Every week I text and zoom with my other kids in Toronto, and my sister who lives in Johannesburg. We tend to natter and keep up with what’s going on.

Friends

Friends are shown in the 11th house. If you have a friend, you are fortunate indeed. If you can count your friends on one hand, again, you are fortunate. My definition of friends are anyone who’s seen you in your bare feet because they’ve been around a long time. They’re the ones you’ve been on a picnic with, you’ve had sleepovers with and you’ve seen them at their worst and at their best. These are your friends. Everyone else is an acquaintance.

Acquaintances

Let’s have a look at who are our acquaintances and they’re still 11th house people. To my mind, acquaintances are people who you maybe work with (sometimes they are 6th house people). You see them all the time, you know something about them, you know their name. This also includes, in my case, the doorman at my building, the woman at the local coffee shop who serves me all the time and even my hairdresser (sometimes). They are people whom I know and am on a nodding familiarity with. I know their name, but I really don’t know anything about them. These are 11th house acquaintances.

Clients

Where do your clients fit in? If you’re a practicing astrologer, you will have clients. Astrologically clients are shown through your 7th house of other people. A client is somebody whom you didn’t know by any connection until they approached you one day and said, “Can you do me a reading?” They may have come through via your friends, family or work colleagues, but you haven’t known them forever. Clients go from being someone whom you didn’t know, to someone you do know, as your customer. They are a different level of person, but still 7th house.

Biz Finances

Income

Your business income is any money that you received from sales, sponsors, clients, customers or donations. Any income that you get through your astrology practice is business income and it is shown in the 11th house.

Expenditure

Your business expenditures are everything you have to pay for to be in business. If you’re an astrology practitioner this generally would be things like your website. E-mail, cellphone, stationery and office supplies. Any professional development training you may have taken like astrology conferences or courses, books, software etc. is business expenditure.

Profit/Loss

To calculate your business profit and loss you add up all your income, you minus all your expenditure and you get a number. If it is a positive number, you made of profit and if it is a negative number, you have made a business loss. Simple. On a side note, it seems the tax man is ok for you to have a loss for three years running, but after that, not.

Personal Finances

I’m not a personal finance expert. There are many out there.

One of the first books I read on this topic was Robert Kiyosaki’s, Rich Dad, Poor Dad which really boils personal finances down to – money in and money out. His take on personal finances is very simple.

Assets feed you and liabilities eat you.

Once you get your head around that concept, personal finances are much simpler.

Assets Feed You

Your assets feed you and bring money in. Assets are shown in your 2nd house, and they are things that bring in money, such as real estate, stocks and businesses. Astrologically we include income from a job, money in the bank, royalties, dividends, tips, bonuses and grants.

Liabilities Eat You

Your liabilities eat you and flow money out. Liabilities are shown in your 8th house and they drain money like mortgages, car loans, credit card debt and more. Astrologically we include anything you owe to banks or others.

Net Worth

I like to calculate my net worth at the end of each year it gives me one master number that tells me everything I need to know about each year.

Net worth = Assets – Liabilities

To find your net worth, you add up all your assets, then you add up all your liabilities, now minus the liabilities from the assets and you will get one number. That tells you your net worth.

Example:

Assets + $10000

Liabilities – $9000

Net worth = $1000

Personal Development

Reflect on how each planet may have contributed sto your business success this year.

Sun

The Sun, as a representation of your identity, may be considered in your personal development. Let’s face it, it’s not every year that we’re changing into something else. Many years are very often repeats of the year before and sometimes even decades can be repeats of the decade before, but any individual drive for personal development is likely to come through your Sun.

Moon

The Moon rules reflection and how convenient it is that we are doing an end-of-year reflection today. Consider another theme related to the Moon that of habits, which can be a good way to tap into lunar influences during the course of the year. You may have new habits that you want to develop. For myself it was walking 10,000 steps a day, eating whole foods or cutting out plastics in my home. Ongoing…

There may be some bad habits that you want to get rid of. One of the modern behaviours that comes to mind is this death scrolling on social media. If ever there was a habit that needed shifting, I think this might be it.

The point is that you can look to your Moon to see, and reflect, about how perchance your habits have changed during this year. Perhaps what you were doing as a knee jerk reaction back in January is not what you’re automatically doing now in December.

Mercury

In your end-of-year reflection, Mercury could suggest which books you’ve been reading or journals, you’ve been writing. More generally, it may show how much time you carved out to keep in touch with others.

Venus

Venus is likely to represent the things you’ve invested in this year. It could be both time and money and definitely any major purchases which you made. Clearly, Venus will also suggest your love life and marriage.

Mars

Mars is the action planet in your chart. It is likely show where you’ve actually got off the couch to go and do something. Back this year when Mars was stimulated by transit or progression, are the times when you were perhaps keener to compete or go for gold, in some area of your life.

Jupiter

In your end-of-year review, Jupiter will be the planet that shows where growth has occurred. The Greater Benefic indicates times when you had a vision, and when you raised your eyes to the horizon and speculated about what was over the mountains to wonder if dragons be there. It shows where you have ventured forth, taken the first step and struck out on new paths in your life.

Saturn

Our old friend Saturn, if triggered by transit or progression, can be the planet that stops you in your tracks to authentically stonewall you. If you have faced severe restrictions or hardships somehow this year, it is possible that the ringed planet Saturn was somehow involved.

Overview: Awareness

Astrology, chart reading and forecasting is all about awareness. Self-awareness can be supported by doing an end-of-year review. I mean, let’s face it, some years are just better than others. For myself, 2024 has had some challenges, but it contained some high points as well. I do think it’s important to finish up with one year before we start looking towards the next year, which we will do in a couple of weeks.

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Author: Alison Price – Published: December 2024

The Nodes

Definition

Lunar nodes are not physical objects, but mathematical points created by the intersection of two orbital planes. Specifically, they represent the points where the Moon’s orbit crosses the ecliptic (the apparent path of the Sun around the Earth).

Planetary Nodes

All planets have nodes.

Celestial Mechanics

The Moon orbits the Earth at a slight angle (about 5.145°) to the Plane of the Ecliptic
As the Moon travels around the Earth, its orbital path intersects the ecliptic at two points
These intersection points are called the North Node (where the Moon crosses from south to north) and the South Node (where it crosses from north to south)

Points

So just to be clear, the nodes are not planets, they’re actually just points. When I started out with astrology, I was never really into the lunar nodes. I tend to lean towards solar astrology more, but as the years have gone up, I have gained an appreciation for these subtle changes whcih occur from the node placements and certainly in my client’s charts.

The Wobble (Nodal Precession)

The lunar nodes don’t remain stationary but undergo a fascinating wobbling motion called nodal precession. This occurs because:

The Earth is not a perfect sphere
Gravitational pulls from the Sun and other planets create a gravitational torque
This causes the Moon’s orbital plane to slowly rotate
A complete cycle of this precession takes approximately 18.6 years
The true nodes can be retrograde, direct or stationary

Characteristics

Key Characteristics of Nodal Precession:

The nodes move backwards through the zodiac (retrograde motion)
They complete a full cycle every 18.6 years
This creates a slowly shifting point of intersection between the Moon’s orbit and the ecliptic

In astronomical terms, this wobble is called the “precession of the lunar nodes” and is an important calculation in celestial mechanics and orbital dynamics.

Lunar Node Meaning

In astrology, the lunar nodes are points of significant karmic and spiritual development. When the North Node moves into Pisces and the South Node into Virgo, it marks an important evolutionary shift in collective and individual consciousness.

Sign Changes

The lunar nodes typically change zodiac signs approximately every 18.5 months. Based on current astrological calculations, the North Node is set to move from Aries into Pisces and the South Node from Libra into Virgo on January 11, 2025.

18.5 Months

This ingress is significant because it marks a new 18.5-month cycle of karmic and spiritual development. During this period, the collective energy will shift from the Aries-Libra axis to the Pisces-Virgo axis, bringing with it new themes of spiritual growth, service, intuition, and personal transformation.

Key Dates

Key dates to remember:

January 11, 2025: Nodes enter Pisces (North Node) and Virgo (South Node)
The next nodal shift will occur around mid-2026

This change of signs represents an important energetic transition, inviting individuals and collective consciousness to explore new spiritual and practical dimensions of personal growth and understanding.

The North Node in Pisces

The North Node in Pisces represents a collective journey towards spiritual growth, compassion and intuitive understanding.

This transit invites people to:

Let go of rigid analytical thinking (Virgo South Node) and embrace more fluid, empathetic ways of perceiving the world
Develop greater emotional intelligence and spiritual sensitivity
Learn to trust intuition over pure logic
Practice unconditional love and compassion
Dissolve unnecessary boundaries and connect more deeply with universal experiences

More on PISCES
More on VIRGO

South Node in Virgo

South Node in Virgo suggests a release from overly critical, perfectionistic tendencies. This placement encourages:

Moving away from excessive detail-orientation and micromanagement
Letting go of harsh self-criticism and judgmental attitudes
Shifting from being overly concerned with practical details to understanding broader, more holistic perspectives
Healing through surrender rather than constant improvement
Recognizing that not everything can be controlled or fixed through pure effort

Nodal Axis

The Pisces-Virgo nodal axis emphasizes the balance between spiritual surrender and practical service. It’s about learning to flow with life’s mysteries while maintaining a grounded, helpful approach to personal and collective challenges.

Timing

This nodal shift typically occurs approximately every 18.5 years, which represents a significant period of potential spiritual and personal transformation for people and communities.

Book Recommendations

Here are some node books which may interest you.

The Astrologer’s Node Book by Donna Van Toen

Lunar Nodes: Discover your soul’s karmic mission by Celeste Teal

The Lunar Nodes: Your key to excellent chart interpretation by Judith A. Hill

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Money Houses

Author: Alison Price – Published: November 2024

Money Houses

Introduction

In my view and I’ve said this before, there really only ever are two questions about astrology from your clients when they come to you. There’re either questions about love and relationships or money and income. Interesting enough, of course, both of these topics are covered by Venus, but I’m not going down the beautiful planet route this time.

Today I want to explore some ideas which I have about the financial houses within the chart. Traditionally, we look to the 2nd house for income which is correct, but I do believe there are other places where income can show up a chart and I want to chat about these other areas now. I’m going to share with you some of my thoughts about how you can genuinely explore financial situations as shown in a chart.

Four Money Planets

In astrology you may be a Virgo Ascendant and therefore be ruled by Mercury in general, but within that there are different planets which rule various areas of your life or rule the houses. Your money planets cover one area in particular. Each chart has different money planets depending on where the money comes from or where it is going as seen by the houses.

Your four special money planets are:

Your income planet
Your payback planet
Your risk planet
Your entrepreneurial planet

Financial Levels of Life

These four planets can be seen as levels of your financial life. They go deeper as you go from the first one to the fourth one.

Income Planet: 2nd House Ruler

Your income planet is always used. We all have and need money to pay the rent and buy food and this money comes from somewhere.

Payback Planet: 8th House Ruler

Your payback planet can be managed over time. Most people will use and or struggle with this planet and some folks will even master it.

Risk Planet: 5th House Ruler

Your risk planet may or may not be stimulated. It is clear that only some people will use this planet. Each person’s appetite to take a chance with money will be shown by their risk planet.

Entrepreneurial Planet: 11th House Ruler

Your entrepreneurial planet may never be used, but for those of you who do feel the urge to go it alone and start a business, this planet is waiting for you in the wings.

Levels

You do not have to use all your money planets. Most people only work with the first two money planets of basic earning and owing, or money in and money out. You may have the same planet for two of your money planets (sometimes Mercury or Jupiter) and this is fine as it reinforces that particular planet in your financial life.

In a case like this you can pay special attention to any money planet that covers two areas. These money planets are associated with the four broad types of income and expenditure which you can experience. In total they express your full financial life and the urges and fears that you may experience surrounding money.

2nd House Ruler: Income Planet

Income

Your income planet covers the usual form of income for most people which is a job. It shows the nature of your earnings from regular work whether part-time or full time and for which you are paid regularly. You can have more than one job at a time. All regular and aboveboard income, including bonuses, tips and gratuities earned at work, will come through your main income planet.

Spending

This planet shows what you spend your money on and what you invest in. It suggests how you look after money.

For example

Is your cash neatly tucked into your wallet with all the bills facing upright or are they scrunched up and scattered on the bedside table with screwed-up banknotes and random coins on the floor?
Do you accept or reject torn and dirty currency, and do you respect your money?

Credit

Your income planet suggests what your credit rating and FICO score is. It indicates the credit you can raise and how much you can potentially borrow. It does not show the money owed only the potential funds you can raise because people and banks feel comfortable lending to you and wish to invest in you.

Wealth Potential

It shows pledges you can raise on sites like Kickstarter and the like. This planet indicates any collateral you have available to finance more money. It indicates your wealth potential. Your income planet shows your net worth when it is positive.

8th House Ruler: Payback Planet

Debts

Your debts and money that you owe to others like your credit cards, mortgages, student loans, lines of credit or that $50 you borrowed from your brother last night is shown by your payback planet. If you live debt free and pay everything on time you have reached and successfully navigated the second money planet. Your payback planet covers all scholarships and bursaries for education or housing received that you have to pay back.

Payouts

Your payback planet covers all insurances for which you have been paid out. It rules all annuities being forwarded to you. Insurances and annuities were originally paid for by you, or someone else, but when you are paid out, they come back to you as income. You never receive an insurance payout unless someone paid something up front.

Donations

Your payback planet indicates where you give contributions and donate to others for leverage. It shows where you spend money to buy influence over other people as in political donations.

Taxes

It indicates your relationship with the tax man, tax audits and all monies you owe and receive from him. Again, if you did not originally receive income from your day job, or received interest or win the lottery, you would not owe tax on said income.

Pressure

Your payback planet indicates any graft, bribes or backhanders that you accept. It shows income from illegal and under-the-table activities. Your payback planet shows your net worth when it is negative.

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5th House Ruler: Your Risk Planet

Vulnerability

Your third money planet is your risk planet. This may not be used much if you do not like risk and is shown by the planet that rules risk in your chart. Some people will never gamble, play the stock exchange, buy a lottery ticket or bet at the tote and therefore they may never use their risk planet.

Stock Exchange

Any speculative income from stocks or bonds or other financial instruments on the stock exchange including futures, indices and foreign exchange trading comes under your risk planet.

Gambling

This planet also rules gambling and lottery wins and all casino and gaming wins or losses. It covers any gains in an office draw, sweepstake or competition you entered. All games of chance and where you place bets like horse racing, dog racing and sports bets come under the auspices of your risk planet. Your nighttime online poker game is suggested by your risk planet.

11th House Ruler: Entrepreneur Planet

Empire-building

Your entrepreneur planet is the least used money planet. Many folks never use this planet because they do not ever have their own business. But if you do create a business and you have a vison of building your empire through world domination, whatever that means to you, this is when your entrepreneur planet will come into its own.

Business Income

Your entrepreneur planet rules all income from a business that you started yourself. This includes any nano, micro or small business which you began alone or with partners. In general, as the ruler of the 2nd (income) from the 10th house (what you do in the world), this planet probably does not show income from a commercial venture which you just acquired from someone else. It shows income from any company that you built.

For example:

If you knit hats or make wooden bird houses and sell them at a flea market on a Saturday morning, that income is shown by your entrepreneur planet.

Honors Income

It also indicates income from honors you have received like the cash you got from your Nobel Prize or grants or gifts from the government that do not need to be repaid.

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Overview

Step1: Financial House Rulers

When considering finances in a client’s chart, one way of doing it is looking at the financial house rulers. As we have seen these are the rulers of the 2nd, the 8th, the 5th and the 11th houses.

Step 2: Planets as a Financial House Ruler

This is about the time when you start to realize that you need to consider each planet when it is one of the financial houses ruler.

Step 3: Financial House Tenants

You also have to consider any planets within these houses as they will definitely influence the way money is approached within somebody’s life.

Step 4: Venus and Pluto

It would be remiss of me not to mention the two planets that generally rule the natural 2nd and 8th houses, which are of course Venus and Pluto. As a broad stroke, Venus will rule earned money coming in, and Pluto will rule money committed and going out. To understand Venus and Pluto you have to do a full planetary complex of both of these planets.

Step 5: Start Here

But for a starting point, explore at the four money house planetary rulers for a broad overview of the financial landscape in someone’s chart.

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Mars Retrograde

Author: Alison Price – Published: November 2024

Mars Retrograde

During late 2024 and early 2025 the red planet, Mars, is having its retrograde cycle. Mars only retrogrades every second year or around every twenty-six months. This time, Mars will be retrograding across the sign cusp between Cancer and Leo. It will spend 23 weeks in Cancer, and it will spend 16 weeks in Leo in total. These two periods in the signs are broken into two parts. Bearing in mind that typically, Mars will spend six and a half weeks in each sign, but this is when it is moving fast and direct. What this all means is that for most of the time Mars dashes through a sign in around six to seven weeks, but during its retrograde phase, it spends almost four times as much time in one sign or another.

Superior Planet Retrogrades

Sun Aspects

All superior planets start their retrograde periods from around their trine aspect to the Sun. As the Sun moves through the zodiac, about one third of the year later, the retrograde period ends at around the second trine of the planet to the Sun. It is not just the two trines, but also the opposition to the Sun that happens during the retrograde period. All planets past the Earth are retrograde when in opposition to the Sun.

Read more on retrograde cycles in general.

Mars Retrograde Cycles

General

Each Mars retrograde period typically lasts about 60-80 days (roughly 2 to 2.5 months). The time between the start of one Mars retrograde and the next is, on average, 780 days or about 2 years and 50 days. The exact timing can vary slightly due to the elliptical nature of Mars’ orbit. Because of the regularity of planetary orbits, we can predict Mars retrograde periods far into the future and of course you can see this in your ephemeris. Mars takes about 15-17 years to make a complete retrograde cycle through all the signs.

Comparison Cycles

Mercury – every 4 months.
Venus – every 18 months.
Mars – every 26 months.
Outer planets – annually.

This relatively infrequent occurrence of Mars retrograde makes each instance super interesting for astrologers.

Mars Retrograde Visibility

Perihelion

Mars will be particularly bright during this period, as it retrogrades when it is closest to the Earth in its orbit. Mars will be prominently visible in the night sky in this position and you can see Mars, as it will be at its brightest and largest now. This means that now you can see Mars at night after the Sun has set and it is showing its face to us as a full-on disk which is great for photography.

Mars Retrograde Themes

Reassessing Actions

This period encourages you to prompt introspection about your choices and behaviors. It’s viewed as a time to step back and evaluate whether current actions align with long-term goals and values.

Rerouting Drives

Mars is often associated with ambition and motivation. During retrograde, there may be a shift in what drives you, potentially leading to new directions in public or personal pursuits.

Reenergizing Projects

Stalled initiatives might gain new life during this time. It is an period to approach ongoing projects with fresh perspectives and renewed enthusiasm.

Recommitting to Actions

This theme suggests a stage of reaffirming commitments. After reassessment, you might find yourself more deeply invested in chosen paths or causes.

Reviewing Competitions

Mars is linked to competitiveness. The retrograde period might prompt a reevaluation of rivalries, competitive strategies, or your approach to challenges.

Releasing Anger

Mars is also associated with aggression and conflict. This time is often seen as a moment to address and let go of pent-up frustrations or resentments.

Replenishing Physical Energy

Given Mars’ association with vitality and physical energy, its retrograde period is sometimes viewed as a time to focus on rest, recovery and rebuilding strength.

Rewarding Winners

This could be interpreted as a time of recognition, where past efforts and achievements are acknowledged and celebrated.

Revising Strategies

It is a good time to reconsider your approach to problem-solving and any long-term planning.

Rekindling Passion

Mars is associated with passion and desire, so this can be seen as a time to reignite enthusiasm in various aspects of life.

Resolving Conflicts

This period is often be viewed as conducive to addressing long-standing disputes or misunderstandings.

Redefining Courage

It could be seen as a time to reassess what bravery means to you on a personal level and how you can embody it.

Revisiting Past Decisions

The retrograde period of Mars might prompt you to review significant choices you have made in areas associated with Mars, such as in your sex life or other relationship decisions.

Retrograde Cycle Unfolding

Transits

Each retrograde cycle has the same parts but the planet and the signs the planet transits make all the difference. Let’s have a closer look at this years’ Mars retrograde period.

Mars Enters Pre-shadow

October 7th, 2024

Mars is in Cancer and entered the pre-shadow on October the 7th 2024. You also want to note that Mars is in fall in the sign of cancer. Which is not a very good sign for Mars to be effective in.

Interpretation

As Mars enters the pre shadow, it sets the stage at the first pass of any planet or point from now on. As Mercury makes contact by aspect with planets in your chart, situations will unfold that will then be further explored on the other two passes during the retrograde cycle. Make sure you know exactly which planets Mars is going to contact in your chart and pay close attention to what unfolds on those days.

Mars enters Leo 1st time

November 5th, 2024

Mars will leave Cancer and enter Leo on November the 5th, 2024. The sign of The Lion fits better with Mars than Cancer did not only because it was in fall in Cancer, but because Leo is a fire sign and Mars rules the fire sign of Aries.

Interpretation

As Mars enters the sign Leo, things start to heat up. In general, you can anticipate higher levels of drama and sometimes loud and pushy behavior for most people. If you are a creative person, you are likely to make some wonderful work at this time.

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Mars Stations Retrograde

December 6th, 2024

Mars Leaves the After Shadow

May 3rd, 2025

Finally, on May 3rd, 2025, Mars will leave the after-shadow of this retrograde periodand it’s all over bar the shouting.

Phew!

Who This Will Affect

Birthdays

This Mars retrograde period will affect anyone whose birthday is from July 10th to July 30th.

Conjunctions

This particular Mars retrograde period will affect anybody, by conjunction, who has planets or points between 17° Cancer and 6° Leo. With the conjunction, transiting Mars will energize the planet or point and galvanize it into action.

Oppositions

It will give a triple hit opposition to any person with planets or points between 17° Capricorn and 6° Aquarius. With the opposition, transiting Mars will generate outward challenges and competition with the planet or point.

Squares

It will give a triple hit square aspect to anyone with planets or points from 17° Aries to 6° Taurus or between 17° Libra and 6° Scorpio. With the square, transiting Mars will create inner tension or frustration with the planet or point.

My Chart

For myself, this Mars retrograde will crossover my Ascendant at 4° Leo for a 3-hit conjunction. I’m kind of looking forward to it as I’m hoping that transiting Mars is going to spur me into more activity in my exercise regime plan to tone, strengthen and energize my body.

Retrograde Extras

Articles

Here are a few more articles on retrograde planets.

Overview

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Mode Compatibility

Author: Alison Price – Published: November 2024

Mode Compatability

Today we’re going to get into the nitty gritty of mode compatibility. I’m of the belief that when dealing with clients, they really are only two questions in astrology. “Where is the love? And “Where is the money?” Interesting these are both Venus related questions, but as a practicing astrologer and someone who’s trying to understand and read charts, you do need to know about love relationships, personal relationships and how people get on with each other. Or in other words, how people’s charts mesh. This usually unfolds by someone saying, “I’m a Virgo, she’s an Aquarius, how do we get on?” And yes, certainly there is a place for that type of astrology, but here I’m digging deeper into the background themes in a chart.

Background Noise

The broadest possible interpretation of a chart comes through in the polarity (a topic for another day) but check out this post on Ascendant, Sun and Moon polarity). The second broadest interpretation comes through in the three modes. So today we’re going to take a closer look at mode compatibility as a background theme for relationships between two people. This is part of the love and relationships category that I like to chat about a lot.

All Relationships

Of course, chart comparison can be used for every relationship you have with everyone you meet. You will have a relationship with your clients, your parents, your kids, your friends and your life-partner. You don’t always have to dig super deep into a chart to get some insights, here of course you can and many do, but if you are looking for some broad strokes, then mode is one way of doing it.

Mode Signs

There are three modes in astrology, the Cardinal mode, the Fixed mode and the Mutable mode. Each of the 12 Zodiac signs belongs to one mode. Each mode has four signs in it. The modes can also be referred to as qualities or modalities.

The Cardinal Signs

The cardinal signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. Any planets in these signs will be counted as cardinal. The cardinal signs are ruled by Mars (Aries), the Moon (Cancer), Venus (Libra) and Saturn (Capricorn).

The Fixed Signs

The fixed signs are Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. Any planets in these signs will be counted in the fixed mode count. The fixed signs are ruled by Venus (Taurus), the Sun (Leo), Mars and Pluto (Scorpio) and Saturn and Uranus (Aquarius).

The Mutable Signs

The mutable signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. Any planets and these signs will be counted as mutable. The mutable signs are ruled by Mercury (Gemini and Virgo), Jupiter (Sagittarius and Pisces) and Neptune (Pisces).

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Which Planets to Count

Back in the Day

When I first started to learn astrology, we would count every planet from the Sun to Pluto, we weren’t using Chiron back then. Additionally, we would give two points to the Ascendant and the Midheaven sign. In this way you ended up with a count of fourteen. And while this method may work for some people, over the years I found that it was just too diluted to give a firm count.

Visible Planets

Years ago, I came across a system of only using the visible planets because you then have a seven count. For the seven visible planets, which are the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and from that point on I only do a count for seven because you are focusing in on the main planets in a chart straight away. Of course, you could do the full count to fourteen and even add in the nodes and whatnot if you want to, but I don’t. By only counting the seven visible planets in a chart you end up with a quality count as opposed to a quantity count.

Determining Mode Emphasis

Two More

In general. For a mode be emphasized, and only using the seven visible planets, the mode must contain two more planets than the next best mode. If you were writing in astrology exam, this would definitely be the case. However, this is the real world, and if you have a mode count that is perhaps four, three and zero, you could say that the mode with four planets is emphasized as well even though it was only one more than the three-planet mode. Additionally, you could have a count where there was two, three and two, and then technically the mode with three planets would then be the emphasized mode.

Past Seven

If you choose to ignore the visible planets only rule and you decide to count all the planets and some of the points as well, you will get different results for your mode emphasis count. At this point, we’re trying to find the emphasized mode for somebody’s chart, so that we can use it in our relationship analysis between two people. The choice is up to you.

Example Chart: Whoopi Goldberg

Birth Data

Whoopi Goldberg’s birth details are: 12:48 PM, November 13th, 1955, New York City, USA. In this chart below I’ve only displayed the seven visible planets to keep things simple.

Mode Count: 7 Planets

In the Cardinal sign of Libra, she has one planet, Mars. In the Fixed sign of Scorpio, she has four planets, and in the fixed sign of Leo, she has one planet, Jupiter. Then her one and only mutable planet is Venus in Sagittarius.

Cardinal = 1, Fixed = 5 and Mutable = 1.

She is strongly in the Fixed mode. If you recall, to have an emphasis in a mode you need to have two more planets than the next best mode which is certainly the case with Fixed at five which is four more than the next best mode, either Cardinal or Mutable at one planet each.

Mode Count: 12 Planets plus 4 Points

When you add in 12 planets plus 4 points (Ascendant, Midheaven, Nodes) the mode count is slightly different. She has Cardinal = 3, Fixed = 9, and Mutable = 4. In her case Fixed remains her strongest mode, but it wouldn’t always be the case.

Representing Modes

Terminology

Mode counts are always represented in their order from Aries (the first sign) as in Cardinal, then Fixed, then Mutable or as C-F-M.

My Chart

My personal mode count is shown as 1-4-3 (7 count) or 5-7-3 (16 count). This shows that Fixed is my strongest mode either way. You can check your own chart.

Same Mode Dynamic

Same Modes in a Pair

Cardinal and Fixed Dynamic

A Force to be Reconned With

When Cardinal and Fixed get together, it’s like an irresistible force encountering an immovable object. Despite their differences, they often synergize for mutual advantage. In this combination, the Cardinal partner drives progress and initiates change and the Fixed partner provides stability and maintains course. This blending of modes allows for both forward momentum and necessary grounding, creating a potentially powerful and complementary partnership.

Cardinal and Mutable Dynamic

Adaptability

This partnership combines initiative with adaptability, creating a flexible and dynamic relationship. This pair is highly adaptable in navigating life’s various directions. Here the Cardinal partner typically takes the lead and the Mutable partner readily follows and supports. Mutable often inspires and persuades Cardinal into action.

The Cardinal’s drive to initiate blends well with the Mutable’s ability to adjust and flow with changes. This combination can result in a partnership that is both proactive and versatile, capable of handling various life situations with ease.

Fixed and Mutable Dynamic

Contrasts

This partnership brings together stability and flexibility, often resulting in a relationship of contrasts. The Mutable partner seeks variety and change and the Fixed partner prefers consistency and routine. This leads to the potential for misunderstanding due to differing approaches. Fixed may view Mutable as overly talkative or scattered and Mutable might perceive Fixed as too rigid or unexciting. While their differences can create friction, this pairing also offers the potential for balance. The Mutable partner can help the Fixed partner adapt to necessary changes, while the Fixed person can provide the stability and focus the Mutable person may lack.

Summary

With astrology, awareness is key and as an aspiring astrologer, if you have an awareness about what your mode count is and how you’re going to interact with other people, it gives you a broader insight immediately about how you’re going to connect with somebody including your clients. Certainly, you can go into the finer details of her Venus is on his Mars or situations like that, but always bear in mind that in your astrological toolbox you need to understand the general themes within a chart before you go into the nitty-gritty. Additionally, if you start paying attention to the background noise of a chart, that comes through the polarity, mode and element count, it gives you another feature to lean on when you are in consultation with your clients and you are drawing a blank.

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Author: Alison Price – Published: December 2024

Gifts for Each Sign

The December and end-of-year holiday season is the perfect time to show the special people in your life how much you care. And as the good astrologer that you are, when it comes to finding the perfect gift, if you consider the recipient’s zodiac sign it is a thoughtful way to make your special present extra meaningful.

Experiences

In recent years, I’ve tried to move my gift giving away from just general stuff onto experiences. Experiences can be tickets to concerts, vouchers for art galleries, the gift of a painting, pottery or photography class or some other activity which is creative. The idea with experiences is that the memory lasts forever whereas with stuff, its forgotten.

Stuff

I question, “Do we need more stuff?” I didn’t always think this way, but I certainly do these days. I went from the point of typically giving a toaster to somebody, to giving a store gift card, so they could buy what they wanted. Now I prefer to give an experience which will create a memory that they can enjoy, probably well in the New Year. It then becomes the gift that keeps on giving.

For example, instead of more stuff, this year my daughter and I will enjoy the experience of riding the Holiday Train together in Stanley Park here in Vancouver.

Conspicuous Consumption

There have been times in the past where I have probably bought too many gifts for people who possibly didn’t even want them, and likely regifted them onto someone else at the first opportunity! Maybe you can relate? But it was habit (Moon) and somewhat of a tradition (Saturn). Shifting gears on habits and traditions is not easy. But since the covid years, and my heightened awareness of, not really minimalism, but rather, essentialism, I’m taking a second look at my gift giving approach.

Essentialism

Essentialism is about having the essentials you need for life without amassing excess. It’s about having what you need and using what you have. For example, you might only ever need three coffee cups in your cupboard, but somehow you end up with two dozen.

Plastic

This year, 2024, I am quite rigorous about not allowing plastic into my home. With plastic, I mean, plastic garbage bags, plastic Tupperware like containers, plastic bags in general, plastic take out containers, plastic pen containers for on my desk and things like that. This year I have tried to move over to paper, bamboo, glass, wood and more natural materials for day-to-day objects. To be honest, plastic still does creep in, but when I get the choice of say buying an umbrella with a plastic handle or a brolly with a wooden handle, now I’ll choose the one with the wooden handle.

Gift Wrapping Waste

In the Western world, gift giving is huge, but it’s all the paraphernalia that goes with gift giving that also adds to the burden.

You’ve got:

Wrapping paper sold in multi rolls packs.
Tissue paper usually colored and printed.
Gift tags with fancy strings and glitter.
Ribbons and rosettes on top of these gifts which are frequently made of plastic.
A huge gift bag to put the lot in.

All of these gift-wrapping trappings end up just being waste products. I’ve spent a lot of time this season considering how to recycle gift wrapping itself to relieve the surplus. Having said all that, there are still people you’re going to be buying gifts for and probably I will too, but my gift list of stuff, junk and trimmings is nothing like what it was ten years ago.

Seasonal Cards

I use my very own original art designs for my seasonal cards which are printed on recycled paper and come in a reprocessed envelope. To avoid adding to the constant production, import and carbon footprint impact which is required for many of these things is a personal goal. I know I don’t have all the answers to this problem, but I’m just giving you some of my thoughts on how to lessen the waste and the conspicuous consumption of the modern world and yet still celebrate and give appreciation at the end of the year.

Act Local

There was a great slogan back in the day that said, “Think global, act local” which I think applies here. Hopefully I won’t create too much waste over this December period which I generate myself by thoughtless gift giving. And with that, let’s get onto some sign appropriate gift ideas.

Sign Appropriate Gifts

Being an astrologer, at this time of the year when you say, “Gosh, I don’t know what to get Alex” if you know Alex’s Ascendant sign or Sun sign, it helps you to tune into what I’m calling sign appropriate gifting. If you know the person’s Ascendant sign, go with that, but if not, then use their Sun sign. Below I have some fun gift ideas for to each astrological sign. I have some thoughts on experiences, practical things for daily living and some mod cons in this digital world.

Gifts for Aries

A sleek, high-tech fitness tracker to fuel their competitive nature.
Tickets to a thrilling experience like a race car driving course or skydiving.
Artisanal knives or cooking tools to fuel their fiery passion for the kitchen.

Gifts for Taurus

Sumptuous bedding or luxury bath products for ultimate relaxation.
An indoor herb garden or stylish planter to nurture their green fingers.
Gourmet food gifts like fine cheeses, charcuterie or decadent chocolate.

Gifts for Gemini

Wireless earbuds or a premium streaming subscription for their media habit.
Puzzles, brain teasers or tabletop games to stimulate their curious mind.
A premium fountain pen and fine stationery set for their love of the written word.

Gifts for Cancer

Cozy throw blankets, plush robes or scented candles for a peaceful home.
Sentimental photo albums or framed family portraits.
Gift cards for pampering experiences like a massage, mani/pedi or spa day.

Gifts for Leo

Stylish designer sunglasses or a luxurious leather (lasts forever) tote bag.
Tickets to see their favorite performer or musical act live.
An elegant decanter set or high-end barware for hosting.

Gifts for Virgo

Thoughtfully curated office supplies or a specialized organization tool.
A personalized recipe book or titanium cookware.
Donations to a charitable cause they’re passionate about.

Gifts for Libra

Fashionable jewelry or a statement accessory.
Tickets to the opera, ballet or an art exhibit.
A beautifully bound journal or quality stationery set.

Gifts for Scorpio

Intriguing books on esoteric or psychological topics.
Luxurious body care products or fine fragrance.
A premium camera or photography equipment.

Gifts for Sagittarius

Outdoor gear for adventure like a rugged backpack or camping equipment.
Plane tickets or gift cards for a bucket list travel experience.
Educational courses or language-learning software.

Gifts for Capricorn

Professional business accessories like a sleek portfolio or luxury pen.
Membership to a prestigious club or fine dining establishment.
A financial planning session or investment-themed gift.

Gifts for Aquarius

Cutting-edge tech gadgets or smart home devices.
Quirky, one-of-a-kind art pieces or home décor.
Gift cards for charitable donations or humanitarian causes.

Gifts for Pisces

Mindfulness tools like a meditation cushion or crystal collection.
Tickets to a spiritual retreat or holistic wellness experience.
Cozy, ethereal bedding or relaxing ambient lighting.

No matter which zodiac sign you’re shopping for, to focus on their unique personality traits and interests is the key to finding a truly thoughtful and meaningful seasonal gift. With a little astrological insight, you can discover the perfect present to delight the special people in your life.

Gifts for Your Astrologer

Giving Back

The end-of-year season is a time for giving. If you’re fortunate enough to have your very own personal astrologer, you may be wondering what kind of gifts would be most appreciated by him or her. As an astrology enthusiast myself, I’ve put together a list of thoughtful gift ideas that I myself, or any astrologer, is sure to love. Check out my Gift Ideas for Your Astrologer for some inspiration.

Extend Yourself

Thinking about gift giving and in your astrology journal please do the following:

Products

Make a list of any hand-crafted gifts can you create this year such as:

Baked cookies.
Knitted pullovers.
Crafted wooden bird houses.
Handmade soaps.

Services

Make a list of any personal services which you can offer this year for example:

Provide a maths class to your neighbor’s kid.
Gift a free astrology reading.
Babysit your brother’s newborn baby so they can get a night out.
Help the teen next door to drive with a few driving lessons in your car.
Offer to sing some seasonal carols at your local seniors home.
Donate an evening to serve in a soup kitchen nearby.
Collect money for the charity of your choice and get it to them by December 31st.
Host a free art and craft evening in your home for interested people.
On a snowy day, offer to walk an elderly person’s sprightly dog.
Listen, truly listen, when a friend calls.
Present a free astrology class.

Extend Yourself Further

Looking forward to your potential gift giving birthdays and whatnot in 2025, decide how will you adjust your gift giving to more closely align it to your personal beliefs, habits and traditions. Here you could lean into your Moon, Saturn and 2nd house complex for more ideas. (300 words).

A Pretty Good Year

We can look back and say, “Well, we had a pretty good year” and to be clear, if you’re reading this, on your smart phone or computer, with a roof over your head, with the heating on, having eaten a hot meal yesterday, you did have a pretty good year.

Charity Donations

Where you give your money and support is your business. I’ve just got some ideas for charitable contributions which speak to me.

Here are my five suggestions for charitable causes which I believe in, and am donating cash to this year.

United Nations Crisis Relief: Gaza

Greenpeace International

Indspire: First Nations, Inuit and Métis upliftment

St Paul’s Hospital Foundation: Vancouver

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Author Bio

Alison Price: Professional Astrologer

Alison helps you uncover your individual creativity and lead a fulfilling life using your own astrology. She shares her wisdom from the heart with a touch of humor. She offers Consultations for everyone and Coaching for Aspiring Astrologers.

If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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In astrology, planets in your 3rd HOUSE influence how you think, express yourself and connect with those around you.

10th House

Author: Alison Price – Published: December 2024

10th House Main Themes

How the World Knows You

The 10th house is one of the most significant houses in astrology, associated with career, public reputation, social status and life’s calling. It shows how the world knows you as opposed to the Ascendant which shows how you are known by people whom you meet face-to-face. After the 1st house, I consider the 10th house as next most influential house in someone’s birth chart.

Career and Professional Life

This house reveals your career path, professional ambitions and your relationship with authority figures. It indicates your approach to achieving professional goals.

Note on the 6th house: Back in the day, professionals (doctors, lawyers and civil engineers), were paid a salary monthly as opposed to artisanal workers (butchers, bakers and candlestick makers) who were paid a wage weekly which is a main differentiator between the 6th and the 10th house when it comes to making a living.

Your Public Image

The 10th house shows how others perceive you in the public domain, particularly in your professional life. This includes your reputation, fame, notoriety and your public persona and business brand.

Authority and Leadership

It suggests your relationship with authority figures and how you wield influence yourself. Things like your management style and your natural ability to take charge are indicated here.

Achievement and Recognition

The rewards and acknowledgment you receive for your efforts and contributions to the world, including honors, awards and social status are shown by your tenth house. This is where you accept the Nobel Peace prize.

Life’s Purpose

In some houses systems, like Placidus which I use, the Midheaven is the cusp of the 10th house. This sensitive point represents your lofty aspirations and your legacy which you wish to leave behind.

Astrological Influences

Sign, Ruler, Tenants and Saturn

The sign on the cusp of your 10th house influences how you approach your career and public life. The 10th house ruler, and its condition, suggest your approach to 10th house natters. Planets tenanting the 10th house can strongly impact your professional path and public standing. Saturn as the ruler of the natural 10th house has an affinity here, as it rules structure, responsibility and authority

Angular

The 10th house is one of the four angular houses. This makes it a particularly powerful and influential house in a birth chart. Its position at the very top of the chart (the highest point) symbolizes its connection to visible achievements and public recognition.

Cusp

Always look for aspects to the Midheaven, or the 10th house cusp degree, as they will influence the 10th house as a whole.

Planets in the 10th House

Dynamic Impact

The impact of any planet in the 10th house is particularly strong because:

The 10th house is an angular house, making planetary energies more prominent
Planets here are at the highest point in the chart, making their influence more visible and may be the most elevated planet.
Planet here can be in the Midheaven Gauquelin sector.
Career and public life become important channels for expressing the planet’s energy

Let’s take a look at how each planet expresses itself when placed in the 10th house of career, public image and achievement.

Sun in 10th House

The Sun here creates a natural leader who often achieves significant public recognition and fame. You are drawn to positions of authority and tend to shine brightest in your career. You may strongly identify with your professional role and often have leadership positions thrust upon you. There’s a strong drive for you to make your mark on the world and be recognized for your unique contributions.

Moon in 10th House

This placement often indicates a career which involves caring for or nurturing others. Your public image may wax and wane with moods and emotional sensitivity playing a significant role in your professional life. With the Moon in the 10th house you might work in fields related to food, family, women’s issues or emotional support. Your reputation often centers around your emotional intelligence and ability to express understanding.

Mercury in 10th House

Communication becomes central to career success if you have this placement. You excel in professions requiring writing, speaking, teaching or analytical thinking. You perhaps will become known for your intellectual abilities or communication skills. Careers in journalism, education or technology appeal to you when Mercury is placed here. It is likely that your public image will center around your intelligence and ability to convey information.

Venus in 10th House

This placement suggests you may flourish in a career involving beauty, art, harmony or relationships. You will probably excel in creative fields, diplomacy or positions that require charm and social grace. With Venus in the 10th house your public image tends to be pleasant and attractive. You may become known for your taste, style or ability to create beautiful things. Success for you often comes by maintaining good relationships.

Mars in 10th House

Mars here creates ambitious people who pursue their goals with tremendous energy and drive. You are a natural entrepreneur and leader who isn’t afraid to take the initiative in your career. This placement may indicate success in competitive fields, sports, or positions which require courage and decisive action. Your public image often centers around your boldness and ability to get things done.

Jupiter in 10th House

This is considered a fortunate placement for career and social status. You often experience significant professional expansion and opportunities for growth. You may work in fields related to education, law, religion or international affairs. Your public image tends to be positive and expansive. With Jupiter in the 10th house, you often achieve recognition in your chosen field.

Saturn in 10th House

Saturn here indicates a serious approach to your career and reputation. Success comes through hard work, patience and by building solid foundations over time. You often face early career challenges but can achieve lasting recognition with persistence. You are likely to become an authority figure in your field and you are usually highly responsible and reliable in your professional role.

Uranus in 10th House

This placement suggests you have an unconventional career path or an innovative approach to your professional life. You often break with tradition and may change careers suddenly or work in cutting-edge industries. Your public image might be seen as eccentric or revolutionary and you often bring new ideas or methods to your profession when Uranus is here.

Neptune in 10th House

Neptune here can indicate a career involving creativity, spirituality, healing or the arts. There might be some confusion or uncertainty about your career direction, but also the potential for inspiration and intuitive understanding in professional matters. Your public image might be somewhat elusive or idealized. You often work in areas that require imagination or compassion.

Pluto in 10th House

This placement suggests you will experience profound transformations through career and public life. You often have significant power or influence in your profession and may work in fields involving research, psychology or transformation. When Pluto is in the 10^th house your public image can be intense or mysterious. You frequently experience major changes in your professional life that lead to personal evolution.

Chiron in 10th House

Chiron’s placement here often indicates restoration through your career and professional life. You might work in a healing profession or help others overcome professional wounds such as being laid off. Your own business challenges often become sources of wisdom which you can share with others.

Eris in 10th House

Eris in the 10th house suggests a professional path marked by disruption and one which challenges the status quo. You find yourself drawn to careers where you can expose injustice or inequality. There may be a tendency to create discord in your professional setting, but this usually stems from a deep-seated drive to reveal uncomfortable truths. Your public reputation might be controversial, as you are not afraid to stand up against established power structures. Success comes through embracing your role as a professional provocateur or whistleblower.

Vacant 10th House

An empty 10th house in a birth chart doesn’t mean your career and public life are insignificant or non-existent, but rather that this area of life may be less complex or dramatic. The sign on the 10th house cusp (and its ruling planet) become especially important in interpreting your career matters.

An unoccupied 10th house suggests that you are more flexible in your professional path being unburdened by any planetary urges in this area of life. You may naturally integrate various life experiences into your career journey without feeling overly defined by your profession. Consider at the Midheaven’s ruling planet’s house (the planet that rules the sign on the Midheaven) and aspects for additional insights into how career themes will manifest in charts with a vacant 10th house.

Book Recommendations

Here are some books on houses which may interest you.

The Twelve Houses by Howard Sasportas

Planets in Houses by Robert Pelletier

The Houses: Temples of the Sky by Deborah Houlding

The Book of Houses by Robert Cole and Paul Williams

Extend Yourself

Natal

To start to get to grips with the 10th house, open your astrology journal to new a double page spread and on the right-hand page please do the following:

Write “10th House” at the top.
List as many keywords as you can which are related to the 10th house.

Extend Yourself Further

10th House Complex

On the left-hand page begin to interpret your 10th house in your own birth chart by considering:

The sign on the cusp.
Any aspects to the cusp degree.
Any tenants.
Any points.
Any planets in the Midheaven Gauquelin sector.
Any 10th house most elevated planet
Write an interpretation of your personal 10th house complex (500 words).

Final Thoughts

As an astrologer, it is always useful to have a feeling about the energy being expressed through the 10th house in any chart. People are concerned about career and what they do in life, and this is a great place to start.

Author Bio

Alison Price: Professional Astrologer

Alison helps you uncover your individual creativity and lead a fulfilling life using your own astrology. She shares her wisdom from the heart with a touch of humor. She offers Consultations for everyone and Coaching for Aspiring Astrologers.

If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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2025 Astrology Events

Author: Alison Price – Published: December 2024

2025 Astrology Events

Annual Lookahead

Can you believe that we are nearing the end of the year already? Each December, or earlier in the year, I like to prepare my annual look-ahead, or horoscope if you wish, for the upcoming year. I imagine most astrologers do this. If you don’t make your own, then I urge you to consider creating a brief listing for all the astrology events that we will be talking about in 2025. You will use it for all the charts you cast in 2025 anyway. When I write horoscopes, I zoom in on three astrological indicators and they are, ingresses, stations and eclipses. And on a side note, in my own mind, I call this look ahead my ISE list or “ice” for short. It’s nice to say ice.

Ingresses

Sign Changes

When a planet changes from one sign to another it is called a sign ingress. Ingresses signify a shift in the planetary energy being expressed. I like to list all the ingresses for each year. However, all the superior planet’s ingresses are more momentous.

Cardinal

Four heavy hitting planets will ingress this year and they are Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter. This year Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter will enter cardinal signs (Aries and Cancer) and Uranus is entering the air sign Gemini. These ingresses bring the mode of cardinality to the fore.

Aspects

This also means that there will be square aspects from Aries and Cancer which unfold over time. When the Sun, Mercury and Venus pass through any cardinal sign all three will form T-squares and sometimes grand crosses because the outer planets are in position. Additionally, Thor’s Hammer’s with their squares and sesquiquadrates will feature frequently too when the other planets, and the Sun’s entourage of the inferior planets, trot through Scorpio later in October.

Stations

Change

I list the stations and retrograde periods, although not all of them are important. In 2025 every planet, including Venus (not like last year), but excluding the Sun and the Moon, will be retrograde at some point.

Direction

Stations are the days when a planet changes direction. Planets move direct then slow down and stop, the station, then move retrograde and vice versa. There are two stations, either station retrograde (SRx) or station direct (SD). Stations herald high focus days and bring a concentrated energy to particular degrees of the zodiac. If you have planets or points on a station degree, you will experience that specific station far more intensely than if you don’t have a planet or point on the station degree.

Eclipses

Eclipses are super important days in any year, and I pay special attention to the eclipses. I’m certainly going to mention each of the eclipses that are coming along. We will consider solar eclipses and lunar eclipses for 2025.

Syzygy

In 2025, they will be four eclipses, so it’s just a normal year for eclipses. For each Solar Eclipse which occurs, there is a Lunar Eclipse a fortnight beforehand.

Eclipse Seasons

This year has two eclipse seasons, the first eclipse season is in March and the second eclipse season is in September. In 2025, all four eclipses are passive either in Virgo or Pisces.

Solar Eclipses

There are two Solar Eclipses in 2025.

Lunar Eclipses

There are two Lunar Eclipses in 2025.

New Moons

In general, New Moons suggest beginnings.

Full Moons

In general, Full Moons indicate fruition.

January Events

January 3rd: Venus enters Pisces

This is a wonderful time to find meaningful romance. Even longstanding couples can renew their spark acquisitions on purchases may have more meaning than you originally thought. Be generous this week and it will pay off later. Finances might be a mystery during this transit, so take care to check all your payments due so as not to miss anything.

January 6th: Mars retrogrades back into Cancer from Leo

Your emotional vulnerability will once more becomes a source of strength. Mars encourages you to actively reconnect during family activities.

January 8th: Mercury enters Capricorn

Now the focus shifts to communications of a serious nature. Choose to say what must be said but be kind. There is no point in upsetting people who are not yet ready for the real truth.

January 11th: North Node enters Pisces

As the North Node enters Pisces, there will be a profound spiritual and or karmic shift of energy. This ingress may incline you tap into the compassion, intuition and emotional healing side of life. For the next 18 months, you may be called to dissolve any rigid boundaries and embrace empathy to connect with a deeper universal energy. You may find yourself more sensitive to the collective suffering of mankind. You could be drawn towards spiritual practices and feel your destiny is to rise above any ego-driven outlooks that you harbor. The Pisces North Node suggest you can now surrender control, practice forgiveness and open yourself up to more mystical experiences.

January 19th: The Sun enters Aquarius

The life-giving Sun enters its opposite sign of Aquarius. This is not a favorable placement for the Sun. Expect issues of thwarted independence and the urge to breakout from the herd. Individuals will require support to go it alone now. The truth will be more readily seen and appreciated.

January 28th: Mercury enters Aquarius

Now good news will arrive quickly through social channels. Conversations will be heightened as information flows. In fact, here could be so much data coming at you that you miss the vital ingredients in amongst the inundation of facts. Some people may try to slip an untruth or something shady past you now.

January 30th: Uranus stations direct at 23° Taurus

Uranus has been in Taurus for a few years now and will remain so until later in the year. This brings some relief to social issues and abstract problems. This placement has a lot to say about the highly volatile global crypto market.

February Events

February 4th: Venus enters Aries

Love and money affairs become somewhat subdued, although a little rash. This is the time to hold onto your investing and wait for next month when economic activities will improve in general. Romantically, you could be attracted to more dangerous types as the temptation for hot and lusty fling is genuine.

February 4th: Jupiter stations direct at 11° Gemini

The Greater Benefic will once again move off forwards to dispense optimism and opportunity again.

February 14th: Mercury enters Pisces

Messages can be confusing so be as clear as possible. Misunderstanding may plague your days. Avoid making pronunciations that are wide reaching. You do not have all the facts clear yet. Deals that seem certain may drift apart or collapse. A picture is worth a thousand words now.

February 18th: The Sun enters Pisces

As the solar light begins to illuminate Pisces, there is an urge towards sacrifice and doing things to help others. Most Fish will be happy and contented for the next four weeks. Everyone will warm towards art and music as entertainment. Practice meditation and inner work.

February 24th: Mars stations direct in Cancer at 17° Cancer

The Red Planet now gears up for the charge forwards and the retrograde period ends. Get ready to get things done.

March Events

March 2nd: Venus stations retrograde at 10° Aries

Venus pauses and begins to go backwards in Aries where she is now doubly suppressed, once in detriment in Aries and second because she is retrograde. Love and money may become elusive now.

March 3rd: Mercury enters Aries

As Mercury enters Aries it ignites an urge for direct and often impulsive communication. Your thoughts may become rapid-fire with much verbal gushing. This transit will energize your intellectual pursuits to spark bold ideas and hot debates. You may experience increased mental agility, quick decision-making and have a tendency to speak without carefully measuring your words.

March 14th: Lunar Eclipse 23° Virgo at the South Node

Take a pause in your headlong rush of life. The lunar eclipse in Virgo urges you to see the culmination of the details of your life.

March 15th: Mercury Stations Retrograde at 9° Aries

Avoid rash decisions now. You are likely to revisit conversations that you thought were over and done with. Anything that comes up from the last few weeks needs careful consideration.

March 20th: The Sun enters Aries

This day is the beginning of the astrological year. It heralds the start of Spring in the northern hemisphere and the start of Autumn in the southern hemisphere. Potential is high and your life-force is robust now. Initiate independent activity to best serve yourself. Choose to get out and about in the sunshine daily.

March 27th: Venus Retrogrades back into Pisces from Aries

Now there is some relief from the harsh reality of your love life.

March 29th: Solar eclipse at 9° Aries at the North Node

The solar Eclipse is at 9° Aries and will affect people birthdays this week as it will form a part of their Solar Return chart for the next year. For the rest of us, the energy of the eclipse will last for around three months. Pay close attention to anything that unfolds on eclipse day as it is likely to be a personal theme for you.

March 30th: Mercury retrogrades back into Pisces from Aries

Now your thoughts will calm down and you have the chance to apologise left, right and center.

March 30th: Neptune enters Aries

Neptune entering Aries heralds a transformative period of spiritual awakening and radical imagination. This powerful transit dissolves traditional boundaries, infusing collective consciousness with visionary energy and revolutionary potential. Idealism becomes a catalyst for profound social change, inspiring you to challenge existing systems and dream boldly. Spiritual pursuits merge with activist impulses, creating unprecedented opportunities for transformative action. Mystical insights blend with courageous innovation, encouraging humanity to reimagine reality through a lens of compassionate, transformative vision.

April Events

April 7th: Mercury stations direct at 26° Pisces

Mercury again moves forward.

April 13th: Venus stations direct at 24° Pisces

Venus again moves forward.

April 16th: Mercury enters Aries

Good ideas will probably pop into your head as Mercury enters Aries. The knack will be to assess and filter the good concepts from the not so good. Give yourself time to pause before taking. Action. Anticipate that the urge to make snap decisions may get you in hot water. If in doubt, sleep on it. This is the time to talk things through ahead of time.

April 18th: Mars enters Leo

Mars enters Leo for the second time and now lots of energy will be put toeards creating practices.

April 19th: The Sun enters Taurus

As the Sun enters the sign of the Bull, situations and relationships begin to stabilize. The excessive energy of previous weeks now gives way to a steadier and sustainable pace. Make sure your heart is in everything you do. If you need more time, slow things down and do not allow yourself to be rushed as sure and steady wins the race.

April 30th: Venus enters Aries

Love and money affairs become somewhat subdued, although a little rash. This is the time to hold onto your investing and wait for next month when economic activities will improve in general. Romantically, you could be attracted to more dangerous types as the temptation for hot and lusty fling is genuine.

May

May 4th: Pluto stations retrograde at 3° Aquarius

This station will affect anyone with a birthday between 21st to 25th of January as Pluto will be conjunct your Sun. This will tap into your Solar Return forecast and will probably be the biggest transit for the year for you as it overshadows everything else. Powerful transformative energy is available now.

May 10th: Mercury enters Taurus

Start the conversation around you are paying hourly rates now cut back on your overheads and find a place where you can. To live with a lower financial footprint. Broker deals for high ticket possessions that you want. Be ready to pay what things are worth. Avoid bargaining the life out of every purchase. Tip others and those who serve you well.

May 20th: The Sun enters Gemini

The solar light beams from the sign of the Twins for four weeks to illuminate all duality in life. The concept of good and evil and night and day will be in people’s hearts. We cannot be one thing without containing seeds of the opposite. Acknowledge that there are multiple features to situations and various faces to people.

May 25th: Saturn enters Aries

Saturn entering Aries marks a profound restructuring of your personal boundaries, ambition, and self-determination. This transit challenges people to build disciplined foundations for long-term goals, demanding strategic planning and mature self-leadership. Structured transformation becomes important as it pushes you to confront your limitations, develop resilience and create some sustainability. Now collective structures, like governments, will be tested and compel us to restructure any long-term institutional frameworks which have been in place for ages.

May 26th: Mercury enters Gemini

Now conversations really heat up. Discuss everything. Explore your ideas and opinions with others. This is the time to gather information, make sales and purchase important goods and services. You can do the numbers to confidently sign on the dotted line. Share your views.

June

June 6th: Venus enters Taurus

Loving Venus goes home to Taurus this month. Now is the moment to establish your financial future. Budgets and spending plans will be of benefit now. This is a suitable time to evaluate your life and the people with whom you invest your time and energy. Enjoying meaningful moments with special loved ones in this period.

June 8th Mercury enters Cancer

There will be much a conversation surrounding important things that really. Matter. Big decisions about your residents can be aired now. This is the moment for clear discussions. You will do well to listen closely to everyone who lives in your home, fears and concerns. Avoid assuming you know how they feel.

June 9th: Jupiter enters Cancer

Jupiter entering Cancer on June 9, 2025, signals a profound emotional renaissance. This transit amplifies nurturing energies, expanding familial connections and emotional intelligence. Collective consciousness shifts toward compassionate understanding, healing intergenerational wounds, and creating deeper emotional safety. Your intuitive wisdom will flourish, transforming both your personal and collective approaches to vulnerability, your home and intimate relationships. Emotional abundance becomes a powerful catalyst for personal and spiritual growth.

June 17th: Mars enters Virgo

When Mars enters Virgo on June 17th it ignites a precision-driven surge of productive energy. This ingress will channel martial force into methodical action, to emphasize your detailed problem-solving, practical improvements and systematic approach to your personal and professional goals. Analytical capabilities are likely to sharpen and transforming any raw ambition into strategic, carefully executed plans. Efficiency becomes paramount, with people driven to refine skills, optimize processes and pursue perfectionist ideals with clinical determination.

June 21st: Sun enters Cancer

The summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern is a turning point in the year. Themes of circling the wagons and preservation of family will be strong. Focus on your foundations and thank those who really support you. There is an air of quiet confidence now.

June 26th: Mercury enters Leo

Open your mind for some fun conversation as you meet interesting people. You do not have to be bosom buddies with everyone. Now you will be discerning about with whom you choose to associate. Try to be one of the team as there is a mutually creative theme to group dynamics.

July

July 4th: Venus enters Gemini

Now you can see two sides to your loved ones, and you may not enjoy both. People are likely to show another face of their personality, especially to loving partners. Double check all financial accounting as you might suppose your credit limit unknowingly.

July 4th: Neptune stations retrograde at 2 Aries

This is a time for a pause. You may do well to rest and reflect but don’t spend too much time swinging in a hammock sipping a pina colada without getting anything done. Your muse may arrive at any time and the best ideas need to be captured either as sketches or words in your dream book.

July 7th: Uranus enters Gemini

As Uranus enters Gemini it unleashes a revolutionary communication revolution. This transit disrupts traditional information networks, sparking radical technological innovations, unconventional learning paradigms and transformative intellectual exchanges. Mental boundaries dissolve as collective consciousness embraces unprecedented connectivity, algorithmic breakthroughs and dynamic communication systems. Intellectual rebellion flourishes, challenging established knowledge structures and catalyzing explosive creative thinking across global platforms.

July 13th: Saturn stations retrograde at 1° Aries

This indicates there is a new way of looking at what you are trying to achieve in life. Take time to pause and think about your next strategic move. The plan you had before may need tweaking as you move forwards. Use this moment to seriously review things which you are trying to realize.

July 18th: Mercury stations retrograde at 15° Leo

Avoid dramatic decisions now. You are likely to revisit conversations that you thought were over and done with. Anything that comes up from the last few weeks needs careful consideration.

July 22nd: The Sun enters Leo

Get ready for some creative fun and play. Take time for leisure activities and focus on what makes you happy. Use this dynamic celestial energy of the Sun in Leo to do something that warms your heart and the souls of others. Be generous of spirit and you will experience contentment. Now you can easily find joy in ordinary tasks.

July 31st: Venus enters Cancer

As Venus enters the sign of the Crab many people’s financial situations can be helped by a more frugal approach. Romance will be closer to home now. Look to people you live with and those who visit your place for amorous encounters.

August Events

August 8th: Mars enters Libra

Mars is in detriment in Libra which this slows the energy drive of the Red Plane down. Anticipate a lack of vigor in the relationship department and some lack lustre action in general.

August 11th: Mercury stations direct at 4° Leo.

You can anticipate clearer thinking and solutions to creative problems will come easier than before. Decisions can be made now if you are honest about your motives. In general, this is a positive time.

August 22nd: The Sun enters Virgo

This is a time when the little things in life can become big deals. Pay attention to all details and this month will be smooth for you. If you choose to be kind and considerate the world will serve you well. Modesty is everything now.

August 25th: Venus enters Leo

Now there is a shift of energy as you look for creative solutions around your love affairs. If you are single, you will be more open to a romantic encounter. It may not get heavy immediately as this is the time to play it cool. If you are in a meaningful relationship, this. Will bring more heart to the affair. You can now engage yourself wholeheartedly with your fun-loving partner.

September Events

September 2nd Mercury enters Virgo

Now you can focus on the nitty gritty of life. All the little things will have great emphasis. Now your mind will burst with innumerable ideas. You may wish to start a journal to capture every brilliant thought.

September 6th Uranus stations retrograde at 1° Gemini.

This annual station of Uranus indicates a time to pause for a moment with innovation and originality. If you are launching something new or fashionable than take the time for consideration before pushing forward with your plans or chucking in the towel before you have fully explored all your options.

September 7th Lunar Eclipse at 15° Pisces at the North Node

The mid-month Lunar Eclipse occurs at the North Node indicating there are things being brought in towards us. This signals a time when you can see the fruits of your labours either good or bad it depends on what you have been working towards earlier in the year. Intuition is at an all-time high so tune in to what is going on and don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

September 18th Mercury enters Libra

You will hear some positive news this period. All collaborative partnerships are favored for the next few weeks. The act of affiliating with others in different ways will be the best use of this planetary energy. Pay attention to all messages from your life partner and make sure you give them enough time to say what has to be said.

September 19th: Venus enters Virgo

This is not the best placement for Venus, the last planet, as there can be a tendency to pick on your love interest. Although you can clearly see their imperfections, you must ask yourself if nitpicking and complaining is worth straining your relationship for.

September 21st: Solar Eclipse 29° Virgo at the South Node

This is a time for initiating work of all kinds. There is a window of around three months where this eclipse has influence. Pay close attention to what unfolds on the day of the eclipse as this will set the tone for the next quarter. If your birthday is within the week of this eclipse this influence will stay with you longer than for other people.

September 22nd Mars enters Scorpio

Mars entering Scorpio unleashes intense, transformative energy. This ingress awakens primal passion, diving deep into emotional landscapes with surgical precision. Your psychological barriers crumble as your raw desire meets strategic power. People will experience heightened intuition, profound emotional intelligence and the capacity to navigate complex interpersonal dynamics with extraordinary depth. Sexual and creative energies are likely to merge and reveal hidden motivations to push for personal alteration.

September 22nd: The Sun enters Libra

At the equinox equilibrium returns if only for a short while. There is an urge to find win-win situations and most people will be happy with some negotiations up to a degree. Avoid trying to please everyone as you never can. Focus on appeasing those folks who are near and dear to you.

October

October 6th Mercury enters Scorpio

Expect to be discussing private matters. Others are likely to tell you excruciatingly intimate information that you wish you had never heard. Watch out about giving your powers away through providing too much information to all and sundry.

October 13th Venus enters Libra

Love is in the air. If you are single, there is a good chance you will meet a potential partner now. If you are already in a committed relationship, you can expect meaningful connections with your partner. Offer stylish and elegant gifts to your loved ones as they will appreciate the gesture.

October 14th Pluto stations direct. At 1° Aquarius

Pluto moves off the station in a forward motion again. This will bring some relief for Scorpio Ascendant people as their chart ruler is moving in a positive way again. Not much will occur now as the big shift of energy will be next month. Look to put old issues and situations to rest.

October 23rd the Sun and to Scorpio

This is the time of the year for intense connections. You want to reach people on a deeper level. This can expose some old bones which can either be raked over once more or reburied to chew over on another day. The choice is yours. Pick you battles carefully as there is limited emotional energy around now.

October 29th Mercury enters Sagittarius

Keep up-to-date with emails and make sure everyone knows what is going on. You could meet potentially a life-changing person who perhaps will be as a guru, coach or guide for you. Always maintain an open mind as you navigate multiple conversations which spark your curiosity.

November

November 4th: Mars enters Sagittarius

The month starts with a bang as Mars enters Sagittarius. This ingress electrifies action with expansive adventure. It may unleashe bold, philosophical energy, propelling people toward grand explorations, intellectual conquests and transformative experiences. Restless enthusiasm drives dynamic risk-taking, to challenge your personal limitations and expand your horizons. Philosophical passion is likely to merge with any courageous impetus to inspire a thoughtful journey and the possibility of your further spiritual discovery.

November 6th Venus enters Scorpio

Get ready for some deep and even dangerous romantic liaisons. Temptation will be around every corner and your faithfulness can be challenged now. New romances will begin deep and daring. Avoid adding more unwanted debt to your credit cards. Pay back financial commitments now.

November 9th. Mercury stations retrograde at 5° Sagittarius

Mercury is strong now and will create the urge to revisit, return and replace people, situations and stuff.

November 11th Jupiter stations retrograde at 25° Cancer

This suggests a time for scaling back on your most outrageous plans and getting realistic about what you can and cannot achieve. If you have over committed yourself in the past now you may have to rescind offers to do things or help others. This time can be a reality check.

November 19th: Mercury retrogrades back into Scorpio from Sagittarius

Again, expect to be discussing private matters. Others are likely to tell you excruciatingly intimate information that you wish you had never heard. Watch out about giving your powers away by providing too much personal information to all and sundry.

November 22nd: the Sun enters Sagittarius

The urge to be free and explore the world is strong now. All travel is favored. Educate yourself about something interesting, so you will in turn, be more fascinating this month.

November 28th: Saturn stations direct at 25° Pisces

Now you are more likely to hatch a plot. However, you need to be a little constrained in your vision to find something that is both achievable and practical. Have a dream by all means, but add a dash of reality to all projects which you launch now.

November 29th Mercury stations direct at 20° Scorpio

Ideas released and can develop to their full potential. They may not be acted upon just yet, but the concepts can be thrashed out and firmed up. Discuss opinions and listen more than you speak

November 30th Venus enters Sagittarius

You could find yourself blowing through your budget in a simply spectacular way. Impulse purchases will be tempting. In the last two weeks of October expect some larger expenses to pop up, which you can probably cope with if you curbed any unnecessary splurging earlier in the month.

December

December the 10th Neptune stations direct at 29 Pisces

Neptune is flowing in the right direction. Anticipate a clearer impression of life and some transparency and insights about things left unsaid. Atmospheres will be easier to interpret now.

December 11th Mercury enters Sagittarius

Keep up-to-date with emails and make sure everyone knows what is going on. You could meet potentially a life-changing person who perhaps will be as a guru, coach or guide for you. Always maintain an open mind as you navigate multiple conversations which spark your curiosity.

December 15th Mars enters Capricorn

The Red Planet’s energies mesh well in the sign of the Sea-goat as the principles of drive (Mars) and ambition (Capricorn) combine in a supportive manner. We also note that Mars is exalted here. If you have a Capricorn Sun or Ascendant, you will get a burst of energy as Mars rolls through.

December 21st Sun enters Capricorn

As the Sun enters Capricorn it is the solstice. This day is called Saturnalia after Saturn the ruler of Capricorn. You need to get all outside festivities over with so you can concentrate on those special people who are your closest allies. Assess this year’s achievements and plot your strategy for 2026.

December 24th Venus enters Capricorn

Expressions of love will be in shorter supply now. The urge o splurge has well and truly gone. Conserve your money at all costs.

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Pluto Transits Change Lives

Author: Alison Price – Published: November 2024

Pluto Transits Change Lives

Often astrology jogs along with not much happening. Moons come and go, the Sun trots thorough the signs in a predictable manner and Mercury and Venus follow suit. But now and then big things happen. This week we will witness the most important shift of planetary energy for a while. The biggest ingress this year is the final move of Pluto into Aquarius on November 19, 2024. Pluto has recently dallied in and out of the sign of the Water Bearer for many months. Pluto will be in Aquarius until 2043. It leaves Capricorn for Aquarius not to return to this sign for about 240 years. Let’s just get a refresh about the themes that Pluto brings to our charts.

How Pluto Transits Change Lives

Transformation and Rebirth

In astrology, Pluto is associated with several significant themes many of which are life changing and deeply personal. Pluto is linked to profound, sometimes difficult life transitions that lead to personal growth or renewal for us mere mortals. I like to use the analogy of the caterpillar to a butterfly to express Pluto’s effect on people’s lives.

Sequence of Transformation

Butterfly

Here are some of my ideas on the sequence of events which unfolds as transiting Pluto makes an aspect to a natal planet. The conjunction is the strongest, but oppositions and squares (especially to the natal Sun or the chart ruler) can wreak havoc for some people as their whole life faces upheaval.

Step 1: Initiation

Enters Pre-shadow: First contact (direct)

The caterpillar, content in its current form, represents our initial state. Plutonian energy comes into play. This is the first indication of the transit of Pluto. Things that begin to unfold now are indicators of what will be transformed by the full transit of Pluto.

Step 2: Dissolution

Station Retrograde

The caterpillar enters the chrysalis and begins to break down. This mirrors Pluto’s association with endings and letting go of old forms. It can be uncomfortable or even feel like a “death” of sorts. This is a turning point and things begin to decay.

Step 3: Unseen Transformation

Retrograde Period: Second Exact Contact (Rx)

Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar undergoes a profound change. This hidden process reflects Pluto’s connection to the unconscious and unseen forces at work beneath the surface. This reversed energy suggests the time needed to break down old patterns, relationships and attitudes before something new can spark.

Step 4: The Struggle

Station Direct

The butterfly must struggle to emerge from the chrysalis, building strength for its new life. This point, the station, parallels the challenges often associated with Plutonian transformations. Now is the first peek of the potential outcome of the transit, but things can still change.

Step 5: Emergence

Third Contact (Direct)

Finally, the butterfly emerges as a completely new form with new capabilities. This represents the rebirth and renewal aspect of Pluto. The final direct pass is the time when what has changed over the period gone before, can be seen. There is likely to be a new order. Transformations that occurred recently are likely to be completed now.

Step 6: New Perspective

Clears the After-shadow

The butterfly can now fly, to see the world from a whole new vantage point. This symbolizes the profound shift in perspective that often accompanies Plutonian experiences. Just as the caterpillar could never imagine its future as a butterfly, Plutonian transformations are often seen as taking us beyond what we thought possible, through a process that may be challenging, but it ultimately leads to growth and a new way of being.

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I use this caterpillar/butterfly analogy to help illustrate why Pluto, despite its association with difficult experiences, is not seen as wholly negative, but rather it can be a catalyst for necessary and beneficial change.

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5-Hit Transits

Note that Pluto will make a 3-hit transit direct-retrograde-direct. However, it frequently makes a 5-hit transit to any point in the natal chart, direct-retrograde-direct-retrograde-direct. If this is the case, the transformation takes longer. The highs and lows can be expected at the third and fourth exact contacts. If this is your client’s chart, you need to carefully speak about the roller-coaster ride that they are on if Pluto is closely transiting their chart.

Pluto Keywords

Power

This planet is associated with issues of power dynamics, manipulation and the struggle for control both internal and external.

Hidden

Pluto represents hidden aspects of your psyche, repressed memories and deep-seated psychological patterns.

Intensity and Depth

Pluto’s energy is intense, passionate and focused on getting to the core of matters.

Death and Regeneration

Symbolically, Pluto represents the cycle of ending and new beginnings, both literally and metaphorically.

Sexuality and Intimacy

Pluto is linked to the more primal aspects of sexuality and deep emotional connections.

Healing and Catharsis

The process of confronting and overcoming deep-seated issues is often attributed to Plutonian influence.

Obsession and Compulsion

Pluto is sometimes associated with obsessive behaviors and the drive to pursue something at all costs.

Collective Movements

On a larger time scale, Pluto is often interpreted as influencing generational shifts and societal transformations.

In natal charts, Pluto’s position by house indicates areas of life where you might experience intense focus, transformative experiences, or power struggles.

Reclassification

Dwarf Planet

Pluto was discovered in 1930 and was considered the ninth planet until 2006 when Pluto was demoted from being a main solar system planet to being reclassified as a dwarf planet. At the same time Ceres, an asteroid, was upgraded to dwarf planet status alongside Pluto. This was a time when many conventional astrologers started to work with Ceres into their charts. The unusual orbit was one factor that led to its reclassification as a dwarf planet. This reclassification sparked debates about the definition of a planet that continue to this day.

Orbit

Distance

Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion km), though this varies significantly due to its elliptical orbit.

Orbital Period

Pluto takes approximately 248 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

Elliptical Shape

Pluto’s orbit is highly elliptical compared to the planets. At its closest approach (perihelion), back in the 1980s it was actually nearer to the Sun than Neptune.

Inclination

The orbit is tilted about 17° relative to the plane of the ecliptic.

Pluto’s Moons

Charon

Pluto’s largest moon is called Charon and was discovered in 1978. Named after the mythological ferryman who carried souls across the river Styx to the underworld. Pluto has four other minor moons Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx, which are all much smaller than Charon.

Resonance

Orbital resonance is a gravitational phenomenon where two orbiting bodies exert periodic gravitational influence on each other. In the case of Pluto and Neptune, their 2:3 resonance is a fascinating example of celestial mechanics at work.

Resonance Ratio

The 2:3 ratio means that for every two orbits Pluto completes around the Sun, Neptune completes three orbits. This creates a repeating pattern of gravitational interactions and we astrologers love a pattern.

Orbital periods

Neptune’s orbital period is approximately 164.8 Earth years. Pluto’s orbital period is approximately 248.1 Earth years. The ratio of these periods is very close to 2:3 (248.1 / 164.8 ≈ 1.5).

Stability

This resonance helps stabilize Pluto’s orbit over long periods. Despite crossing Neptune’s orbit, the resonance ensures they’re never in the same place at the same time, preventing potential collisions.

Libration

Pluto’s orbit “librates” or oscillates around a mean position relative to Neptune. This means the exact point where Pluto crosses Neptune’s orbit shifts over time, but in a predictable pattern.

Historical Significance

The discovery of this resonance in 1964 by Cohen and Hubbard helped explain why Pluto, despite its irregular orbit, hadn’t been gravitationally disrupted by Neptune over billions of years.

Myth

Summary

The myth of Pluto primarily refers to the ancient Roman god of the underworld, who was known as Hades in Greek mythology.

Origin

Pluto was one of the children of Saturn (Cronus in Greek mythology) and Ops (Rhea). He was brother to Jupiter (Zeus) and Neptune (Poseidon).

Role

After the defeat of the Titans, the world was divided among the three brothers Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. Pluto received dominion over the underworld, the realm of the dead.

Characteristics

He is often depicted as a strict, bearded man holding a scepter or cornucopia. Pluto is associated with wealth, as precious metals like gold and platinum come from beneath the earth. This figure is usually portrayed as cold and stern, but not inherently evil.

The Abduction of Persephone

Pluto’s most famous myth involves his abduction of Persephone, daughter of Ceres (Demeter), to be his wife. This led to the creation of the seasons in mythology.

Orpheus and Eurydice

In this tale, the musician Orpheus descends to the underworld to retrieve his wife. Pluto is moved by Orpheus’s music and allows Eurydice to return under certain conditions.

Impact

Your Clients

As an astrologer in 2024, you need to understand what Pluto represents and where is will be over the next few years as it creeps forward through Aquarius. Anyone with planets or points in the first five degrees of Aquarius will get a conjunction from Pluto. Anyone with planets or points in the first five degrees of Leo will get an opposition from Pluto. Anyone with planets in the early degrees of Taurus and Scorpio will get a square from Pluto.

My Chart

For me, Pluto will oppose my Ascendant shortly. I can’t say I’m looking forward to this aspect. But what I can do is prepare myself for the inevitable transformations that will no doubt occur in my appearance and personal presentation.

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Every chart contains planets, but not all the planets will be as effective in one person’s chart as they are in another. Working with planetary complexes is an effective way to determine which planets step forward and have a lot to say in a chart, and which planets do not. Analyzing planetary complexes is a method of interpreting a chart that every aspiring astrologer needs to know.

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Managing Client Expectations

Author: Alison Price – Published: November 2024

Client Expectations

When starting or running your astrology business, one of the most crucial skills you can develop is managing your client expectations. Clients often come to us seeking definitive answers about their future or quick fixes to life’s problems. As astrologers, we walk a delicate line between illuminating potential paths and avoiding overpromising. In this week’s newsletter I want to share my thoughts on the challenge of client expectation management and offer you some practical tips that have worked for me in the past.

Jupiter vs Saturn

Great expectations are shown by Jupiter in your chart and what you actually get is shown by Saturn. We all know that these two planets play a role and have their place, but in the realm of client expectations your customer wants Jupiter and you have to tell them they’re getting Saturn.

Expectation 1

People want fame, fortune, clever kids, beauty, hope, longevity and the perfect mate – Jupiter. The astrologer sees stress, oppositions, constraints and a natal promise that suggests otherwise – Saturn.

Expectation 2

People want a five-hour reading covering everything in their life and constant phone follow up calls for months – Jupiter. The astrologer provides a one-hour session within certain parameters with a focused topic approach and limited follow up – Saturn.

Expectation 3

People want good news – Jupiter. The astrologer carefully explains about the transiting Pluto square their natal Sun which they have in orb for the next 12 months – Saturn.

Reality

I’m not saying give bad news, what I am saying is you need to control your client’s expectations before the session so they are ready for what you have to say. Tell them you possibly can’t see pots of money, a vigorous lover, a new job, or (God help us) their death. Rather tell them that you can see potential energy, opportunities, trends, support and openings which suggest certain situations, people, emotions and attitudes that are indicated to unfold for them. Always avoid specifics.

Services

What You Offer

Not every astrologer will offer the same services and by services, I mean types of consultations. The options for astrological services are varied here are some examples:

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Natal chart reading
Printed written natal report
Transit reading
Relocation reading
Trauma reading
Solar return reading
Love reading for two people
Children’s reading
Parent child reading
Rectification service
Career counselling
Party style group readings
Mid-life crisis reading
20-minute on-the-spot reading
Health and wellbeing reading

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The list goes on. What you can offer will depend on what you know most about and feel comfortable doing. In my time as an astrologer over the years, I’ve offered all the above at different times, but that’s changed now. I’ll explain in a moment.

Multiple Choice

The problem with offering too many things is that it becomes confusing for your potential clients to choose. Studies have shown that we struggle to decide when offered too many choices through overchoice.

Astrologese

Astrologese refers to the specialized language and terminology that we use in astrology. It’s the inside words we use like transit, antiscia, solar return and retrograde. It’s the jargon of our craft. While you can happily talk astrology at your local astrology group or an online astrology forum, the general public can quickly be turned off or confused with too much astrologese especially at the beginning. Many astrological concepts sound complex or mystical to those people (your potential clients) who are unfamiliar with then.

Keep it Simple

Say you offer forecasting and have two different services one called “Transit Reading” and other “Solar Return Reading.” Mrs. Average does not know the difference between transits and solar returns and so she can’t choose. But that’s not the worst part, she doesn’t know that it means forecasting or predicting the future in the first place. The worst part is, she passes on you and moves to the next astrology website that is simpler and speaks to her.

Solution

Option 1: General

Only offer three choices. For example, if you do general astrology:

Birth Chart Reading
12-month Forecast Reading
Love Life for Couples Reading

This list is quite clear and everyone can understand what they are signing up for.

Option 2: Specialized

Your specialized area if you have one. For example, if you do health care related astrology:

General Health and Vitality Reading for Peak Wellbeing.
Mental Health and Dependency Recovery Strategy Reading.
Optimal Exercise and Diet Reading for Your Health.

Here you are reinforcing your hard-won advanced astrology skills in a certain area – health. You are setting yourself apart from the generalist astrologers out there in the wild.

Option 3: Time

Here you offer options for a quick in-and-out reading. Your potential customer can choose a short to the point reading. For example, if you only do natal chart work.

Mini Reading for everyone (15 minutes).
Midi Reading for everyone (30-minutes).
Maxi reading for everyone (60-minutes).

This is a brilliant way to get them into your ecosystem before they have to invest more time and money than they feel comfortable doing.

Ask Questions

Why Ask Questions?

You wouldn’t go to a doctor with a headache and say, “Give me a general examination and see if you can find the problem.” Your doc wouldn’t have a chance and you’d think she was no good and worst, you’d tell everyone you met about how Dr. Doolittle was useless. It’s the same for astrologers and their clients. You need to ask questions of your client before you cast the chart.

General

If my potential client says, “Tell me about my chart!” I tend to refuse to do the reading and suggest they ask a Facebook group. Ny them answering your questions it makes them think about what they really want to know. You can be on thin ice if you cover everything that the chart shows you, all in the space of one hour.

Expectations

If you don’t know what they expect, you can’t deliver a worthwhile reading for them. The goal is to have happy customers who sing your praises afterwards. You don’t want clients who say you were not much good because they were worried about their dying mother or their floundering marriage and you didn’t speak about it to them.

What to Ask

What is your full name?

What is your birth time?

What is your birth date?

What is your birthplace?

Where did you get this birth time?

Where do you live now?

What is the focus of your consultation?

How do you think I can help you?

What are you looking for in this reading?

Have you been to an astrologer before?

Did someone refer you to me?

How to Ask Questions

I think there are three ways to ask question of your clients.

Verbally

Verbally ask them if you see them face-to-face when they book a session with you. This is dangerous because they can change their mind and forget what they said. This also is a problem with getting the birth data because they can easily say April and you write down August. Or they say 6/7/1975 which can be seen as 6th of July 1975 or 7th of June 1975 depending on where they live. In the USA the month comes before the day and in the UK the day comes before the month. Tricky, tricky. It happens.

Email

You can email them a page with all your questions on it that they have to fill in before the session. The issue here is that they never actually complete the form and the booked consultation date looms large and you still don’t have a focus for the session.

Calendly

Ask the question at the time of booking. I use the Calendly booking system where I can pre ask the questions I want to before they can make the booking. They can’t book a session unless they’ve answered the questions. You can see my bookings page here. There are other online booking programs and I urge you to check them out.

Privacy

Friends and Family

You need to be quite clear on your privacy and by privacy, I mean that you’re going to keep their chart confidential, and your mouth shut. This often comes up if you do charts for clients and then they refer their sister in for reading. They’re worried that you’re going to tell their sister what went on in their own session with you.

Astrological Community

Many of your clients will actually come from the astrological community. They are often hobbyists or junior astrologers and may find you at the local astrology group. And they need to know that when you are doing their chart, you’re not going to start discussing it at the dinner table afterwards. You have to be incredibly clear in your privacy policy that you do not discuss their chart with anybody. Not with their husband or wife. Not with their mother. Not with your friends. Not with your mutual friends. Not with anybody.

Privacy Statement.

You need to have a privacy statement already written out on your website that you can link to if anybody wants to know. I never discuss charts I have worked on with anybody. None of their family, none of my friends, no one in the astrological community, I don’t even discuss it with people in my house. It is absolutely confidential what is spoken about in my astrological consultation room. Don’t do it. Don’t discuss other people’s charts with other people. It’s a total no no.

Afterwards

Follow-up

Early in my astrological career, I was doing consultations and I casually said to my clients, well if you got any questions, you can give me a ring. This worked fine for quite a long time because nobody really gave me a ring. But then one day I had a client who did call me. She called me on the telephone at home early on a Sunday morning and woke up my whole family. In the following week, she called me three times in the evenings just as we were sitting down to dinner. I took the call. What could I do?

The final straw was when she knocked at my front door one Saturday morning, just as my husband and four young kids and I we’re going to go out on a picnic. It was at this point that I told her I could no longer support her in this manner. I suggested she make another appointment for a consultation so we can discuss all her fears. Now this is a particularly extreme example, but it does happen.

Solution

The way to handle too much after contact is to be quite clear about how your clients can contact you after a consultation or even if they can at all. You need to tell them which methods you are happy to accept.

For example, I’m happy to respond to emails from clients that I’ve had within thirty days after the reading. I give this period because people need time to think about what was said and mull it over as maybe there were bits that weren’t quite clear. After the thirty days have passed, I really can’t remember the birth chart. So, I have to go back to my records, dig the chart out, look it up, read my notes and get back into the feel of what the chart was all about and this all then becomes work for me.

I only return emails during business days. So, if I get an e-mail from you on a Friday evening (within the 30-day period), I’m not going to get to it till Monday morning. But this is quite clear, I’ve spelt it out ahead of time and in this way, I have managed my client expectations.

What I Offer

Overwhelm

In the past I have offered a myriad of astrological services. You name it and I’ve offered it. But what I’ve found is that people really only want two things from me, to get their chart read and to learn more astrology. I also taught formal classes for beginner, intermediate and advanced students for years and years. So last year I trimmed down my offerings to only two. Yes, I know I said 3 offerings earlier on for you, but I’ve tightened it up for my clients.

Consultations

For Everyone

I offer a one-hour comprehensive consultation which covers natal and forecast. This is for anyone in the general public and people who are new to astrology. In the consultation I don’t use astrologese. They get to choose the main focus of the reading and we go from there.

I prepare all the charts I’ll use like the natal chart, solar return chart, secondary progressed chart, solar arc directed chart, bi-wheels, eclipses and graphic ephemeris. I immerse myself in their chart beforehand and make sure I’m ready. I give my attention on their chosen focus and double check everything, birth time, birth date, transit times and stations. No waffle.

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Coaching

For Astrologers

I also offer one-hour astrological coaching sessions for aspiring astrologers. People who use this service are individuals just like you reading this email. They are astrology students and professionals who want some help tweaking their own readings, filling in knowledge gaps, focusing in on specific parts of interpretation like the dispositor tree or antiscia or how to read a graphic ephemeris, or managing their astrology business. My coaching service has superseded the formal classes I used to teach. I changed this because people just don’t have the time to sit through months of classes as they want to get going.

Additionally, people were coming to me and saying I just want the transit class and not the solar arc directions class, or I just want the lunar nodes class and not the Mayan long count calendar class. These classes being referred to were built into my main courses of 16 classes purchased in a bundle. It just made sense to offer spot learning for my clients which is now available in the coaching I offer where they can get to pick and choose what they want to focus on. Now it may be different for you.

Peer Review

Most people who come to me for coaching can already read a chart and they are frequently starting to read charts for others. These good folks want me to go over their interpretations and analysis and offer some advice on what they missed or what is important. To get peer review, they send me the already calculated charts, natal and forecast notes and we go from there. It’s like having someone looking over your shoulder to help you along. I give my ideas and insights on what to focus on and answer their specific questions regarding their client’s charts to help them provide the best astrology consultation they can.

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Thrive

Gossip

Managing your client expectations can help your astrology business thrive as you provide a better service and your clients think you are great. We like to complain, it’s a human condition (thank you Mercury). Studies have shown that a happy customer will promote you and your services to five people, but a dissatisfied customer will bad mouth you nine people. We all make mistakes, I certainly have in the past, but with some forethought you can minimize unfavorable client reviews and impressions. These are just a few ideas I have about managing client expectations which I believe you will find helpful.

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Alison Price: Professional Astrologer

Alison helps you uncover your individual creativity and lead a fulfilling life using your own astrology. She shares her wisdom from the heart with a touch of humor. She offers Consultations for everyone and Coaching for Aspiring Astrologers.

If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

How to Give an Astrological Referral

Author: Alison Price - Updated: February 2025 How to Give an Astrological Referral Introduction In one of the Dirty Harry movies, Clint Eastwood famously said, "An expert knows when it's time to call in the experts." This principle applies directly to astrological...

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