Category: Astro Basics
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DIY New Moon
Here at Jo Tracey Astrology we have a mission- to bring astrology out of the textbooks and into real life. Intrinsic in this is helping you to help yourself. To that end, here’s my handy how to guide to the New Moon. Oh, and although I talk in the royal “we,” Jo Tracey Astrology really…
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A different point of view…
This post is part of my semi regular semi series on aspect patterns…it comes with a technical post warning for non astro bods. So anyways, I should have posted this piece on yods yonks ago…boy, I don’t want to say that too quickly…but I didn’t. Why? Because, well, it all seemed so hard. And, if…
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The Return of Venus…
With Venus moving into Sagittarius, judging by the comments on FB, there are a few of you having Venus Returns. What does this mean? Essentially it’s a reboot of everything Venusian in your life as it relates to your chart. How do you interpret it? It just so happens I’ve already thought of that… check…
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Let’s talk about it…
I was asked a great question on the Facebook page the other day: How many Venus aspects are there in the average chart? Not only is it a great question, but it’s a question there’s no easy answer for…in fact there is no answer. Why? Because there’s no such thing as an average chart. Planets…
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star…
This is a little story about a star- a very special sort of star, a rare sort of star, the sort of star that turns up in a birth chart…the “Star of David”…or Grand Sextile. A few weeks I had a call out for people to send me birth details if they had this configuration…
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Something about Grand Trines, potential and modern art…
I don’t know about you, but I’ve often found myself in an art gallery gazing at a piece that apparently has some sort of subconscious yet existential meaning. These days I look for a title- I find that helpful. Anyways, if you’re in a modern art space, it won’t be long before someone stands next…
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Let’s go fly a kite…
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at challenging aspect patterns in the chart. Today we’ll look at an easy one, a harmonious one. Today we’ll look at the Grand Trine…and the Kite. These guys even sound more fun, don’t they? The Grand Trine This comprises 3 planets in trine aspect to each…
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At the crossroads…
Last week we looked at T squares. We talked about looking to the empty leg as the way through the tension. But what happens when that empty leg is taken up with another planet- effectively forming two t-squares, or a Grand Cross. The Grand Cross consists of four planets, 2 sets of oppositions at right…
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Teeing the square…
The t-square. If I had a dollar for every person who said something like: My t-square is holding me back I’d do it if it weren’t for my t-square I hate my t-square I’d be a very rich astrologer. The thing is, t-squares, as frustrating and troublesome as they are when they appear in your…
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Synchronicity…
The thing about chaos is if you look really really closely at the randomness patterns appear. Sam Seaborn said that on The West Wing. Just lately, I’m seeing these patterns clearly. I’m more aware of, and I hate this word, the synchronicity, of seemingly random phrases, words and occurrences. I’ve always been fairly well attuned…