Category: Featured Stars

  • Hello Hello

    Ruler: Mercury Exalted:  Detriment: Jupiter Fall:  Polarity: Masculine/ Positive Modality: Mutable Element: Air Body Parts: hands, fingers, lungs, nerves. In the body Gemini represents connection and dispersal of energy. Nature: hot, moist, quick and nervous Motivation:To communicate, to learn, to connect. The Gemini end point is perception. The Sun has now been in Gemini for a few days now and I…

  • Morning of the Earth

    Ruler: Venus Exalted: the Moon Detriment: Mars Fall:  Polarity: Feminine/ Negative Modality: Fixed Element: Earth Body Parts: metabolic system, thyroid, storage systems, neck, throat, tonsils, ears, vocal chords Nature: dry, cold, enduring Motivation: To store, to make solid, to manifest, to build, to make the most of every moment. The Taurus endpoint is to be. Sydney doesn’t really have an Autumn as…

  • Pandemonium

    Ruler: Mars Exalted: Sun Detriment: Venus Fall: Saturn Polarity: Masculine/ Positive Modality: Cardinal Element: Fire Body Parts: head, adrenal glands, blood (as the vitaliser and energizer) Nature: hot, dry, inflammatory Aries represents activation and direct, thrusting, forward motion….yep, sounds a tad phallic. Like mothers, us astrologers are supposed to love all signs equally and not have favourites. Deep down, though, most of us…

  • This is what dreams are made of…

    Ruler: Jupiter (traditional), Neptune (modern) Exalted: Venus Detriment: Mercury Fall: Mercury Polarity: Feminine/ Negative Modality: Mutable Element: Water Body Parts: immune system, lymphatic system, feet, invaders such as bacteria, viruses, yeast, fungus, movement across the cells Nature: moist, cold, passive, receptive, psychic, adjusting, attuning Pisces represents diffusion.. This post was first published last year…it’s been slightly updated… The Sun is now in Pisces.…

  • My Way…

    Ruler: Saturn (traditional), Uranus (modern) Exalted:  Detriment: the Sun Fall:  Polarity: Masculine/ Positive Modality: Fixed Element: Air Body Parts: nerve impulses, lower leg, calves, ankles, blood & circulation, parathyroid, energy flow of the meridian system, auras & chakras Nature: hot, moist, nervous, quick, impulsive, electrical Aquarius represents patterns of energy flow and circulation. This post was first published a few years…

  • The Climb…

    Ruler: Saturn Exalted:  Mars Detriment: Moon Fall: Jupiter Polarity: Feminine/ Negative Modality: Cardinal Element: Earth Body Parts: skin, joints, structure & form, skeletal system, hair, nails, teeth Nature: cold, dry, with little internal heat Capricorn represents structure, achievement and the efficient use of resources. As kids, we’d play Monopoly on Christmas Day or rainy days on holidays. My Cap Moon Dad would…

  • Drops of Jupiter…

    Ruler: Jupiter Exalted:  NA Detriment: Mercury Fall: NA Polarity: Masculine/ Positive Modality: Mutable Element: Fire Body Parts: thighs, motor muscles of the hips & thighs, sacrum, coordination of muscles, sciatic nerve, liver, pancreas Nature: hot, dry, energetic and expansive. The questing flame. There’s this town on the North Coast of NSW called Byron Bay. It’s famous lighthouse sits at the most easterly…

  • Power and the Passion…

    Sun in Scorpio Ruler: Mars, Pluto (modern ruler) Exalted: Mars Detriment: Venus Fall: Moon Polarity: Feminine/Negative Modality: Fixed Element: Water Body Parts: functions necessary for the survival of the species ie reproduction, genetic coding, hormones, ovaries, testes, purification & elimination systems eg bowel, bladder, urethra, sweat, sinuses, colon, anus & internal & external genitalia Nature: moist, cold, magnetic There’s this scene in the…

  • Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps…

    Libra Ruler: Venus Exalted: Saturn Detriment: the Sun Fall: Mars Polarity: Masculine/ Positive Modality: Cardinal Element: Air Body Parts: all hormone secreting glands, kidneys, adrenals, physical balance mechanisms, blood pressure balance, and any other regulatory system, bladder, ovaries & testes (from a hormonal viewpoint), ureters Nature: hot, moist, mental and refined This post originally appeared a few years ago and has been updated.…

  • Less than Perfect

    Virgo Ruler: Mercury Exalted: Mercury Detriment: Jupiter Fall: Venus Polarity: Feminine/ Negative Modality: Mutable Element: Earth Body Parts: Small intestines, abdomen, pancreas…plus other functions controlling digestion and absorption of nutrients Nature: cold, dry, analytic Just lately I’ve been having these strange fantasies. Don’t get excited- not that sort of fantasies…. My fantasies involve dirt and plants and landscaping. My fantasies involve expanding my…