Are you friends or in love with someone who seems more of a competitor? If your answer is yes, set aside those roses and chocolates. You may be experiencing the wrath of the Pluto-Saturn Quarrelers in the form of toxic friends. 

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If you are approaching turning thirty and finding it hard going, take heart! I have come across many people amongst my counselling clients, students and astrology clients for whom the period of 28-30 was very, very tough. They were certainly hard years for me. But most of us can look back and say “well, that was when I really began to grow up – life is much better now!”

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My Dearest Friend,I’ve just careened through another crazy-busy week. Just a few items on the to-do list: incorporate the Astrological Society of Austin, launch an astrology news website called Astroluxx, and plan the Living La Vida Luna astrology class. There’s been a flurry of meetings, paperwork, lawyers, emails, marketing reports, phone calls, text and IM [...]

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My Dearest Friend,In a near-universal suburban ritual, my husband and I leave the house in the morning to our various destinations – he the commute to work, me to drop off our daughter at school then back home to my office.One morning last week, we left the house at the same time. As we drove [...]

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My Dearest Friend,A few days ago I was winding down a Skype conversation, when suddenly the windows on my computer disappeared. The screen went black, and the machine powered down. Silence.I touched the back of my laptop. It radiated heat. I decided it would be best if I left the machine off for a while, [...]

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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin

The Wizard of Oz is one of the most beloved movies of all time. I won't summarize the whole plot (who hasn't seen it?) as I'm sure you'll remember from the movie that Dorothy has three companions- the scarecrow, the tin man, and the cowardly lion. The four of them make their way along the yellow brick road, defeat the wicked witch, and are rewarded by the great and mighty wizard.

It's a wonderful tale, a great example of the hero's journey, and can be analyzed from many different angles. We could say that Dorothy's three companions represent the pieces of her own psyche (or the collective psyche, i.e. Dorothy as everyman) that need to be healed - ignorance, apathy, and fear.

This month the full moon is in Aries- the sign of courage, taking risks, and proving oneself. It sounds a lot like what the cowardly lion was searching for. The cowardly lion believe

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Considering culture in astrological consulting.

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The constant dance between order and chaos, form and formlessness, being and non-being, seems to occur in all epochs and at all levels. Humans have created a range of paradigms and metaphors, from ancient myths through the world’s great religions to modern cosmology, within which to explore this dialectic.....

Astrology has its own name for this inchoate territory where everything, tiny or vast, which has ever had form dissolves back into the primal waters of the Source. It is called the Twelfth House....

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Last month I talked about  leadership and encouraged you think about how to cultivate those qualities in your own life. This month will present us with a few challenges to help us practice what we learned. Leadership implies a destination, moving from one state towards another. The biggest threat to effective leadership is clinging to the past and the inability to move forward. At this full moon the South Node (aka the past) is at 29 degrees of Cancer- the exact degree of the July solar eclipse. It will be easy to get bogged down in the past this month but I’d like to suggest four ways to leave it behind and keep moving forward.

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Liz Greene once wryly observed in one of her seminars that, if you wanted a relatively quiet and peaceful life, you should arrange to be born when the outer planets were as far away from the personal planets and Angles as possible. 'I wish!'....say many of you reading this, as indeed does the writer, who has all the outer planets bolted onto all the personal planets and has had anything BUT a quiet life....however, to encourage the similarily challenged, I am still hale and here....more or less!

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