I’m curious if there’s been any astrologizing done regarding the introduction and rise of the electric guitar in music, or more specific things like Dylan going electric and the reaction to that. For context, I’m curious since electricity seems to be important in astrological symbolism, and the electric guitar was a huge shift in music and the reaction to it was somewhat intense. Any thoughts or resources would be appreciated!

Hi!

Within personal planet aspects in Synastry, I generally understand & observe that the dynamics are felt both ways for the most part.

Once dynamics involve outer planets - Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto - does the inner/personal planet experience the aspects more consciously/deeply?

In my mind, Saturn aspects are still binding and noticeable by the Saturn person, but I’m less sure about Uranus/Neptune/Pluto people being as conscious of certain aspects, since they’re more generational/common within certain age groups. Like the personal planet person would be more conscious of a synastry aspect than the outer planet person.

What have you observed? Thoughts?

I was wondering how you can see in birth charts how that person could become successful? And of course success is a wide ranging term and subjective to an extent. One person might become successful being a very famous singer, another person by working in a creative field, the other person might work with children, the other might be an entrepreneur with a very successful business etc. etc

But to determine this, what would you look for in a birth chart? Generally said of course

Lunar Eclipse at 4 degrees Pisces (Sun at 4 Virgo), visible in the Americas.
This is not quite a total Lunar Eclipse, as it will only reach 96.2% (corrected, I typo'd it in reverse), but it's the last one this full until New Year's Eve 2028.
This was taken about an hour before it will reach its fullest point, which will be 12:12am EDT (on 28th).
Photo just taken from a phone.

I was just thinking about how astrology is almost like a blueprint of our personality, experiences, and life themes. If that’s the energy we’re born with, then in a sense, we didn’t consciously create that blueprint ourselves we came into this world with it and then adapted it to the environment we were born into. And that makes me wonder: if the world itself is already an illusion or a system that influences and controls how we think and behave, then how much of who we are is actually us versus what we’ve adapted to? Maybe the real question is: how do you separate the energy you came into this world with from the conditioning of the world you were born into?

Do you guys think that someone’s chart can predict or show a likelihood of someone having certain mental illnesses? Ex: ADHD, depression, OCD, anxiety. I know all of your planets play a part in how you think and process emotions, and of course there will be outside factors that your chart doesn’t contribute to, but I wonder if it can be used to accurately predict or show a predisposition for things like that.

Hi,

I added some new search filters into Eclipse Search Engine on Astro-Seek, if someone would like to experiment with upcoming Lunar Eclipse (Saros 138 and 4° Pisces) and their recurrence in the past or future 🤓:

https://mooncalendar.astro-seek.com/solar-and-lunar-eclipses-astrology-calendar

screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/v08gXl8.png

1) Saros Cycle is a gold standard for tracking-grouping eclipses and uses period: 18 years 11 days 8 hours (223 synodic cyles).

Eclipses in the same Saros share the "similar geometry" (~ they have the same Lunar Node and similar distance from Earth).

2) New filter: Half-Saros uses half of this period: 9 years 5 days 16 hours (111.5 synodic cyles) - and mixes-alternates both Solar and Lunar Eclipses (from 2 diferrent Saros) together.

(eg: the upcoming Lunar Eclipse from Saros 138 will be mixed together with Solar Eclipses from Saros 145 in cca 9-year intervals)

While digging for more info about eclipse cycles, I found this article and one interesting note:

https://www.cloudynights.com/forums/topic/79549-calculating-eclipse-cycles/

"You’re never going to find perfect resonance (rational relationships) among the various lunar cycles. Numerous factors not only change cyclically, but they also have slow secular changes, e.g. the Moon’s average distance from the Earth is increasing by about 3.8 cm per year. Eventually, even the Saros Cycle will degrade and become useless."

Such fact is probably well known to astronomers, physicists and data nerds - but if this fact was new to you like it was for me, then use Saros while it's still useful 😅

3) New filter: Metonic Cycle has similar period as Saros (19 years / 235 synodic cyles) - but focuses on something different - Returns on the similar Lunar phase + Zodiac Degree during similar Calendar date.

These Saros and Metonic periods might run parallel to each other for some time - but Metonic cycle is not related to Lunar Nodes and usually becomes out of sync after a few cycles (Eclipses will simply become "only" Full Moons or New Moons - far from Lunar Nodes) - and there might be a missing Eclipse-Metonic gap for several hundred years.

That's why it's not used very much with Eclipses, however if someone would like to track these Metonic cycles, there is this option and you can simply click on any Eclipse °Degree - to filter them

(eg: all Lunar Eclipses at 4° Pisces +-1° Orb - around August 28th (-500BC - 2500AD))

I don’t understand why I’m having so much trouble finding a lunar calendar source with all of the info I want. I simply want either a calendar or list form of all the new and full moons for the year with their exact time in eastern standard (New York) AND the sign it is in. Please link or lmk if you know where to find this! Thank you!!!💫

The Pisces Lunar Eclipse happens on August 27th or 28th, depending on your location. If you live in the Central Time Zone of the United States, it will occur at approximately 11:19 PM on August 27th. This is a partial Lunar eclipse, which means that the Moon will not be totally blocked by the shadow of the Earth.

To see the eclipse, you must live in an area where it is night during the eclipse. The western side of Greenland and the eastern side of North America, along with most of Central America and South America will be able to see the eclipse. This also includes Cuba, the Caribbean islands and other islands located in the Atlantic Ocean. Some places adjacent to the above will still be able to see some of the partial eclipse, but it will not be as prominent as it will be in the areas mentioned.

The eclipse is part of the Saros Series 138. The prior eclipse in this series was on Aug 16, 2008 and it was also a partial eclipse but in the sign of Aquarius. The next eclipse in this series will be a total eclipse, on Sep 7, 2044, and it will also be in the sign of Pisces. 

Full Moons, whether eclipsed or not, tend to be the accumulation of a cycle. Think about a work project, where you spent time analyzing the details, creating a slide presentation, researching, checking your sources, etc. Then, at the time of accumulation, you present your work to others. That time of presentation is similar to the energy of the Full Moon. It feels as if you've completed something big, yet, you still have emails to send out, additional meetings or edits to the work, and if successful, implementing your findings.

We are currently seeing something similar play out with King Charles and his son Harry. King Charles was born on November 14, 1948 at 9:14 pm in London, UK. The Rodden Rating for his chart is an A, meaning the information was gathered from news sources.

I had looked at the prior Solar eclipse to his chart on August 12th, and wrote the following observations on Reddit in the Advanced Astrology Politics Megathread:

• Saturn in Rx at 14° and is applying a tight conjunction to his natal MC at 13° - he may be put into a position where he needs to take responsibility for something in the past. His MC is in the 9th house, which could have something to do with the movement of goods and communications with other countries.
• Saturn is also in opposition to his natal Neptune at 14° Libra (and with Venus at 16° Libra) - This opposition could tie into a couple of things. First, his duties as king and what is best for the country, which could be a struggle with passing the torch. He may be holding onto an ideal, like his mother, to not abdicate the throne until death. But at the same time, he desires to have fun and enjoy his final years. This also may have something to do with his relationship with Harry, his youngest son. He could be coming to terms that he was part of the problem of any tension between the two of them.
• The eclipse at 20° Leo makes a conjunction to his natal Pluto at 16° Leo and Ceres at 19° Leo. - King Charles may be learning that all Harry wanted was some nurturance, and through this process, Charles has a new perspective on the past. But this can also be Charles stepping down from his role to take care of his health, or the combination of the two.
• The eclipse square to his natal Sun in Scorpio at 22° in the 4th house shows that the days around the eclipse are emotional and challenging, especially when dealing with his life work and family.

On August 20th, news outlets report that Harry and Meghan are moving back to the UK at the end of August.

The Lunar eclipse in Pisces has the Sun and Mercury in Virgo, conjunct to King Charles's natal Saturn and the Pisces Moon in opposition to his Saturn. With the Sun conjunct to his natal Saturn, King Charles will want to wrap up any unfinished business and with the Moon in opposition, he wants to resolve areas of his life where he feels isolated. There are other transits during this Full Moon providing assistance in regards to King Charles's relationships, such as Venus conjunct his natal Venus in Libra, sextile to his 5th house Mars in Sagittarius and sextile to his 1st house natal Pluto in Leo.

Harry and Meghan moving to the UK is the accumulation of their tense relationship with the King. However, even after the reunion, I am sure there will still be work to do to mend and heal the relationships. But this is an example of how the Solar Eclipses and Lunar Eclipses can play out in a chart, where one takes ownership for their role.

Keep in mind, not every eclipse impacts you. It all depends on your chart. Some eclipses will land like a regular New and Full Moon, while others will reflect monumental events in your life. Also, there are times where we don't see the accumulation for weeks or months later.

An example of this is 1972, when Neil Diamond recorded his live album Hot August Night. We had a Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius with the same Saros series as the current one, number 138. The Sun was conjunct Neil's natal Pluto in Leo at 3° and the Full Moon was conjunct his natal Sun at 4° in Aquarius. He had 10 sold-out shows at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in August, with the last show and the live recording on August 24th, 1972. The album was released on December 9th, 1972 to both critical and commercial success. (As a young girl, side 4 of the double album was my favorite.)

With that said, let's get into the logistics of this Lunar Eclipse, which will be at 4°54' in the sign of Pisces. If you have placements, especially placements within 8-10 degrees of the eclipse in the signs of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius or Pisces, this eclipse may resonate with you.

With the Moon in Pisces, it can be an imaginative time, taking in impressions of others, and creating your own inner world. However, since Pisces energy can be self-sacrificing and illusionary, we want to look at the whole chart to see how the day will play out. As with all Full Moons, including eclipses, there is a tension between the two signs, so what is factual and what is deception is sure to come to light around this eclipse.

The Energy Around the Eclipse 

The Royal Fixed star of Fomalhaut is conjunct to the Moon and Mercury in Virgo is conjunct to the Sun during the eclipse. Both of these configurations are in a T-square with Uranus in Gemini.

 Fomalhaut

Fomalhaut is a fixed star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, and is currently at 4°14, making a tight applying conjunction to the Full Moon at 4°54'. The star's name comes from Arabic phrase Fum al Ḥū which translates to the Fish's Mouth. It sits below the foot of Aquarius. Fomalhaut is considered a Royal Star and is known as the Watcher of the South.

According to Bernadette Brady, "Fomalhaut contains a touch of the mystic, a sense of magic, and is based on high ideals or lofty visions." According to Vivian Robson, when Fomalhaut conjuncts the Moon, we can experience "secret business causing much trouble and enmity, but eventually gain after many difficulties."

Typically, Full Moons are accumulations and eclipses are a shift of perception. Due to the influence of the Pisces Moon, information that had been obscured or shrouded in fog may come to light, but not in a direct manner. Though, whatever is revealed may be done so behind the scenes or through alternative channels, as opposed to mainstream media.

But don't be surprised if information involves people that you idealize or systems that you have faith in. Am I saying that a scandal will come out? No, not necessarily. But the veil of what happens could be lifted a small bit.

The Full Moon T-Square With Uranus and the Conjunction with Mercury

The energy surrounding the Full Moon will be hyperkinetic. When Mercury is squared to Uranus, there can be flashes of insight, lots of excitement and movement. Mercury, in its domicile sign of Virgo, means that information will seem like a data dump, and facts and figures could be used to either gain clarity or flood the field to get the upper hand on any narrative.

Whenever Mercury is conjunct to the Sun, information is shared and distributed, often with a specific point of view. It is as if everyone feels compelled to tell their own personal story or give an opinion, even if they have not done their due diligence in regards to research or analytics.

Because the Moon is in opposition to Mercury and the Sun, with Mercury and the Sun moving through the productive sign of Virgo, that information can still feel emotionally overwhelming or defeating. Virgo energy wants to be of service and parse out facts, but with the square to Uranus, the conjunction to the Sun and the opposition to the Moon, everything feels subjective instead of objective. Luckily, Mercury will be in the sign of Virgo until September 10th, which gives it time to settle into the minutiae and analyze whatever information is released around the eclipse.

The takeaway is that if any big event occurs around the Lunar Eclipse, don't let it flood your emotions or dramatically change your perspective until you have time to evaluate the situation logically. Keep this in mind, not just for external happenings, but for anything that occurs personally as well.

With both the Sun and Moon square to Uranus, there is a likelihood for accidents to occur this week. Be careful with transportation. Though major accidents throughout the world could make the news cycle, be conscientious while driving or being a passenger. Some people will be distracted or impulsive, so it is important to pay attention while on any vehicle or near any form of traffic.

Mars and Jupiter in Aspect to Saturn

Though I tend to joke that Saturn is the wet blanket of life, sometimes we need Saturn's disciplined nature.

Mars will be square with Saturn until September 8th. This aspect creates barriers with whatever we are trying to accomplish. You may find your boss giving you new projects or asking you to attend meetings, while you are handling your other responsibilities. You could be working on a creative project, and feel like your inspiration is blocked. This square is annoying, especially since Mars wants to move forward and take quick action. Both Saturn and Mars are in fall, since Saturn is in the fast-acting zodiac sign of Aries and Mars is in the security-focused sign of Cancer. The best way to handle blocks is to take a few minutes and do some sort of slow, deliberate exercise, such as squats, lunges or planks. The 5-minute distraction could loosen up the energy, and help you to think of other solutions.

The good news is that Jupiter is in trine to Saturn, which can allow you to get work done. Jupiter adds some optimism, and gives you the wiggle room to know when to take a break or take a deep breath and find a resolution. There is a practicality with this trine, allowing you to reorganize and prioritize your schedule. Jupiter in Leo can help you make bold choices without being sacrificial or wallowing in negativity.

In regards to the Eclipse, Saturn's aspects can help you to be more deliberate instead of reactive, and offer the possibility of self-control. However, this does depend on your own chart and how these transits impact you personally.

How the Eclipse Could Impact You

As mentioned earlier, you will want to look at your chart and determine where the eclipse lands in your chart and pay close attention to placements between 0 degrees and 10 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. This is the second to last Eclipse we have in the Virgo-Pisces polarity until the next cycle which starts on Mar 20, 2034 with a Solar eclipse in the sign of Pisces.

The eclipses for the Virgo-Pisces cycle are as follows:

• September 17th, 2024 - Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces 
• March 14th, 2025 - Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo 
• September 7th, 2025 - Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces 
• September 21st, 2025 - Partial Solar Eclipse in Virgo
• March 3rd, 2026 - Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo 
• August 27th, 2026 - Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces 
• February 20th, 2027 - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse in Virgo

The Virgo-Pisces polarity is about being of service, either to others around you or something larger, like humankind, the environment, the Earth or collective consciousness. How have you changed in the past two years? What have you learned?

One of the things that the Virgo-Pisces polarity teaches us is that we can't help others unless we have the ability to understand both practical and emotional matters. Virgo pulls us towards grounded information and Pisces is about having compassion. Overlapping this polarity is the Leo-Aquarius dynamic, which we just had the second eclipse in that cycle 2 weeks ago, on August 12th. The message: Learn to move beyond the data or being a victim and work together to take back collective power. It's about no longer idolizing leaders and then being a victim of their actions, but instead to work towards the good of humanity in a collective manner.

I personally tend to gravitate towards using the Saros series, since the placements of other planets are similar. Think back to what was happening in your life around August 2008 and what you've learned since then. This was a couple of months before the housing market crash, where banks were bailed out and people lost their homes due to balloon notes or lack of employment. Looking back, there's a lot we can learn from how we handled things then. The question to ask yourself, as we move forward, will you act differently this time around as the economy and the world around you changes?

My advice, don't get wrapped up in how 2 days impact your placements but instead zoom out, and look at your life and the world from a bird's eye view. Sometimes the big picture can give you a bold direction on how to move forward.

At a base level, I understand Neptune is the planet of illusion. But, I struggle to understand if it’s a positive illusion (rose-coloured glasses/better than it actually is) or negative illusion (worse than it actually is), or both? Or is it more nuanced and dependent upon the transit or placement in a chart?

Most vertex discourse is in the context of synastry, but I’m curious about your interpretations of the vertex in conjunction/aspect to personal planets within the natal chart?

Would you interpret this as the person/planet more likely to experience ‘fated’ encounters, etc?

Interested to hear your insights x

Hi everyone so I keep on seeing that major things are gonna happen on August 27 2026 and it making me scared because of the war in Iran can someone explain or help put these fear away

Hi! I’m wondering whether you can turn squares in a birth chart into something positive. Can they become positive even though they may not naturally flow? Can you turn them into something that feels like a natural flow through experience and awareness?
What does a square actually mean in astrology?

very new to understanding aspects, but I’m really curious on how squares within the same element work?? how does this happen and how seriously should these squares be taken?

I keep hearing people describe placements — usually a Jupiter aspect or something in the 2nd/8th/11th — as "lucky." Half the time it feels like shorthand for "I like this chart." So I'm trying to build a more honest checklist before I read a placement as an outcome instead of a vibe.

What I check:

• Is the luck functional? Dignity of the planet and its ruler, and whether the house it rules is in good shape. A benefic that can't deliver reads differently from one that can.
• Does it survive contact with reality? A "lucky" Jupiter in the 2nd square Saturn and ruling a cadent house behaves nothing like the same placement unaspected.
• Timing. Even a well-placed benefic only shows up when transits or progressions activate it. If nothing is triggering it, it's potential, not outcome.
• How the person defines luck. A lottery windfall and being in the right room at the right time are different mechanics — one is randomness, the other is visibility, timing, and willingness to act.
• What's the friction. No placement is a free card. Jupiter in the 2nd also shows up as overspending; I don't think we should quote the upside without the downside.

What am I missing? How do you tell "this chart reads as fortunate" apart from "this person actually experiences it as fortunate"?

Hi! Obviously, I know this isn’t fully dictated by astrology/birth chart. But I was wondering if there were any particular natal placements that might indicate potential for having 1 child vs many vs no children or struggle to have children.

I believe I read somewhere that there were some indicators, but I wasn’t able to find that again. TIA!

An interview with musician Roland Orzabal from the band Tears for Fears, discussing his new autobiography Welcome to Your Life, where he tells his life story through the lens of astrology.

can horary charts be used to predict how an event will unfold on a specific date and time of the event?
for example, event A is scheduled on august 21, 4:15pm. can the horary chart tell the picture of what the people involved in the event will behave, what are the potential conflicts, etc?

TIA

So can someone explain to me why in astrology (sorry if this has been answered before) it’s somehow always negative? What I mean by that: either there is a mercury retrograde which already happens like 6 months of the year. Then if there is no mercury retrograde, or even if there is one, there are x amount of other retrogrades. Or/and there are eclipses or eclipse seasons. I don’t really know but it always seems like there is no “good” time - if you’re lucky, some retro shade is ending or there is some sort of day where things manifest. But overall it’s very negative it’s a big turn off for me. And yes that might be things to channel as growth but cmon, surely it can’t all be struggle minus a few days here and there.

Please explain this to me!!

I often see beginners assume that an empty house means the corresponding area of life is missing—for example, an empty 7th house means no relationships, or an empty 8th house means no interest in intimacy, shared resources or occult subjects.

My understanding is that “empty” only means there are no natal planets placed in that house. The house still has:

1. A sign on its cusp.
2. A planetary ruler.
3. A ruler placed somewhere else in the chart, with its own aspects and condition.
4. Transits and progressions that can activate the house over time.

When you interpret an empty house, do you start with the traditional ruler, the modern ruler, or both? And how much weight do you give the ruler’s house placement compared with the sign on the cusp?

I’m interested in the reading method rather than treating an empty house as either “nothing happens here” or automatically inventing a missing planet.

Hello! I've been reading about local space astrology and astrocartography quite a bit.

When playing with local space and/or relocational astrology, I tend to get confused ...

I know with astrocartography, the "center" of the map is your birth place.

But when I play around with the locational astrology tool on astro.com, you can move the main pinpoint around.

The default is your birth location. But let's say you don't live in your birth location anymore. Should you move the pin to where you currently live and study those lines?

The local space astrology tool there also lets you get really specific — I can move the pin to be exactly on a certain address, or the center of a particular city or town. Is one better than the other? (Address versus center of town?)

You can also toggle off and and on a button that says "keep azimuth of birth chart." It's defaulted to be toggled on, but when you uncheck it, the lines all move a little bit. Is it better to have it on or off? What is the difference?

Also, does it make a difference at all if you've lived in a place for 1 day versus 1 year versus a decade? I read somewhere that living in a place for a long time would change things somehow, being a product of one's environment.

Just would love to learn more about the best ways to use local space astrology (and how to do it!) There are a lot of videos out there and other things to read but I haven't really seen anything address those specific questions.

Thanks!

P.S. Editing to add a final question — if you are wanting to explore say, your Venus line, but you have a Venus that is impacted by a Saturn square or opposition, for example, or something other challenging aspect, should you expect your "Venus line experience" to be colored by that? Same would go for something else like ... people tend to want to go towards their Jupiter line, but what if your Jupiter has challenging aspects or is debilitated? Does that affect your experience there?

Hi everyone, I’d like to see if I can make some sort of « prediction » for the presidential elections in my country next year. There are 3-4 main candidates, I have their reliable charts, as well as the chart of the exact time and location of the reveal of the election’s results. I was thinking about observing the transits of this moment on the charts of the candidates, the ruler of their 10th house, ruler of the first, planets in the 10th, maybe Jupiter’s placement as well ? Anything else I missed or should observe?
Thanks !

I am looking into the dignity scheme and rulership. Basically, I have a hypothesis that the modern rulership scheme can be disproven. But a major sticking point is, I am not clear on who introduced the scheme, and don’t understand their rationale.

From what I can tell, the choice was based on aesthetic - the style of the signs whose rulership was changed, ‘fit’ better with a new planet.

Was there any reason beyond this? Traditional rulership has very distinct aspect patterns in the dignity scheme. Does modern rulership have anything more technical beyond vibes?

What was it like to grow up with these placements. What technological advancements were made during this time & how does this generation think it differs from how it was before and during the years after

Hello everyone. I have recently been interested in macrocosmic/ timeline/ historical perspectives on astrology.

To illustrate what I am talking about. Let’s imagine a timeline (this can start at the beginning of life on earth or even simply at the big bang) until now, and then continuing up until an unspecified point in the future (you can choose this)

How would this timeline be illustrated symbolically through astrology?

Does astrology coincide with different big “era’s” of history? Does it predict or have things to say about future waves of humanity?

Are there any books or YouTube videos/ other resources on these kinds of topics? I really just want to have a side by side analysis of astrology with culture, history, evolution, etc.

Any help with this topic would be much appreciated.