The intensification of a person’s self-awareness: in astrology, that is all that matters.

The horizon divides the chart into an upper hemisphere, representing objectivity, and a lower one, representing subjectivity. When a majority of planets lies above the horizon, the focus of the person’s life is in the objective realm: he or she grows through the crafting of a series of events through which the evolving individuality is publicly and

And if people stare, he must whistle louder. To perform for the world is to trust it. That unquestioning trust of life is Leo’s holy grail. All the creativity, all the warmth, all the playfulness and drama of this sign are simply methods used to attain that goal. Anything inside should appear on the outside.

Taurus is the most taciturn of the signs. People animated by its energy find speaking a frustrating affair. Their essence is opposed to words, untranslatable into language. Silence breeds simplicity and simplicity breeds peace. Taurus knows this and intuitively rebels against too much talking. Outer silence is not easy to attain. Inner silence, the

What we are getting at is this: In comparing the south node of the moon to the birthchart as a whole, we determine what particular tensions exist between all that the person “has done before” and what he or she is attempting to accomplish with the present chart.

But today, my body works, my spirits are high, and I’ve got twenty bucks. Let’s dance.

In broad terms, signs are identity, while houses are the arena within which identity operates. Signs provide the psychological framework, the needs and fears, the attitudes and biases, with which we attack the houses. Houses indicate problems and issues. They represent tasks we must face. Signs symbolize processes that take place within the mind,

To celebrate one’s self.

Pick either paradigm. Our work remains the same.