Astro Feng Shui: Making Magic in Your Home

Feng Shui is the art of placement – purposefully arranging one’s environment to produce beneficial results. The traditional Chinese system uses Chinese astrology and compass directions to determine optimal placements. Western Feng Shui emphasizes the Bagua, an octagonal map that correlates with one’s living space. The nine basic guas, or aspects of life – Career, Knowledge, Family, Prosperity, Fame, Love, Creativity, Helpful People, and Health – fall into different parts of the home. ... Read more

Natural Building Pioneers

Building the house was a stressful process that tested their marriage, Wanda admits. But the result of the couple’s persistence is a home that feels like a temple.”It has a wonderful energy, different from a normal house,” explains Wanda, an outgoing woman in her 50s. “It’s very quiet and serene. It feels soft, because sound is muffled.” ... Read more

What’s Your Medicine?

Your opposite sign represents the medicine that makes you whole. Each sign has its natural polarity-an axis that works best when you’re “working” both ends. For example, I’m a Cancer by Sun sign-emotional, domestic, a bit shy. My natural polarity is Capricorn-a sign that’s business-like, practical and grounded. When I hang out with Capricorns, I feel more balanced. They have a lot to teach me about the “outer world,” while I have a direct line to the “inner world” that they find stimulating. ... Read more

Jupiter-Neptune: Magician or Fool?

Another friend, with Neptune right on his natal Ascendant, planned a showcase for his music during the time when Jupiter crossed that point (I was green at astrology then and told him this could be a really lucky transit). He rented a 2,000-seat auditorium and invited everyone he knew-200 showed up. It was a huge financial loss to him, and caused a rift in our friendship. In this case, Jupiter-Neptune symbolized the delusions of grandeur that led him to believe he could pack a large auditorium. (Be careful when you make predictions for friends!) ... Read more

Taj Mahal: Monument to Love

Mahal is a Taurus with his Sun trine musical Neptune – he claims to hear music in his head on a constant basis. That earthy Sun has kept him going for 30 years as a music professional, with 35 albums to his credit. His Sun is conjunct both Saturn and Uranus, giving him stability and a fierce determination to make it on his own terms. Born Henry St. Clair Fredericks and raised in a culturally sophisticated home in Springfield, Massachusetts, he was eleven when his father died as the result of standing up to racial prejudice on the job. Henry determined then and there that he would never be dependent on anybody else for his income. “It’s last hired, first fired. So fire me from playing the guitar!” he chuckles. ... Read more

Sun/Uranus Sirens

We have some inspirational Sun-Uranus role models, like Taurus Shirley MacLaine, who famously went “Out on a Limb” in the 80s as the first celebrity to actively embrace Aquarian concepts like past lives and astrology. Cancer Meryl Streep has made a career of playing unconventional characters so masterfully that she’s won two Oscars and been nominated 13 times. Her character in The French Lieutenant’s Woman was a classic Siren. Yet Streep has sustained a happy marriage since 1978, probably because she channels her Uranian nature into her work. ... Read more