Making Love Last: Mercury–It’s Our Story and We’re Sticking to It

ercury is generally not thought of as a “relationship” planet. The planet of our thinking processes, business, commerce and communications, it just doesn’t fit in our notion of romance. At best it gets a glancing blow in composite and synastry chart readings. But we may have to revise our thinking on the importance of Mercury [...]

Weekly Forecast: What Do We Do? What Do We Do?

Witty Mars in Gemini challenges stuck in the mud Saturn in Virgo to do something, ANYTHING, as long as it’s fast, and smart. Saturn in stress aspect (inconjunct) to Jupiter in Aquarius feels the pressure, but feels that
things are out of hand
as it is anyway. The result is a fair amount of wailing and [...]

Relationship Astrology: Making Love Last, Part 1–Your Relationship Style

n a country where well over 50% of marriages end in divorce, researchers have been looking into what makes love and marriages last.
One researcher interviewed in depth over fifty couples that regarded their marriage as happy. Through this interview process she identified 4 relationship styles and 9 essential psychological tasks to creating a happy relationship. [...]

August 16, 2009 ASC New Age Fair!

Mark the date! The Astrological Society of Connecticut New Age Fair will not disappoint. There will be lectures, vendors, and of course, readers of all kinds, from astrology to tarot cards. And this fair, yours truly will be among the readers.
Because the readers are such popular feature, tickets to sign up for a reader are [...]

Lift Your Spirit at the New Age Fair

Writer’s note: The newspaper who prints my astrology column Shoreview sent me to cover this story, then cut it for “space”. Not wanting to waste anything, including an afternoon of research and writing, I’m sharing it with you.
Once a quarter, the Astrological Society of Connecticut gathers together vendors, astrologers, intuitive readers and body workers in [...]

Astrological Analysis: A Psych Out of Shawn Spencer

blockquote>Shaw Spencer hails from a family of cops, and was fully expected to carry the torch by his father, Henry, who meticulously schooled his son from a very young age in the finer points of detective work. But while Henry made him a detective, he can’t make Shawn be a detective.
It soon becomes clear that [...]

Astrology for Today: Verbal Fireworks!

The Sun, Moon and Venus in Cancer huddle together in tension aspect to Jupiter in Capricorn. Jupiter in Capricorn calls us to pay attention in a major way to our duties and responsibilities, and here the Cancer gang just wants to have fun, by virtue of a nice trine to Uranus in Pisces that just [...]

Relationship Question: A Yang to Her Yin

Question: Can you see anything in my chart indicating a relationship commitment? Trying to figure out whether it’s time to be all about me…or it really is time for ME to be in a relationship.
Answer: With Saturn and Mars in the sky right now in tension aspect to your natal Sun and Moon in [...]

Do It Again, Baby: A Lesson in Twos

In my personal life, the number two is a recurrent theme. I was born on the second day of the second month extremely close to a birth time of 11:11 a.m. My name, Beth, (no, not Elizabeth, on the BC it is Beth) is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. I grew up [...]

What’s Goin’ On With Beth?

Monica over at Astrology Mundo proposes that my server problems over at 451 Press, my blogging “home” is the result of the Uranus station at 22 degrees Pisces. Hmmm, what do you think? Well, there is lots more going on with me than just a few annoying server problems, and I decided to make a [...]