If you’re on social media that has any hint of astrological insight content streaming into your brain, you’ve probably already had someone fear-screaming about Mercury Retrograde and how bad this next one is gonna be (woe, woe, fear, dismay, poor communication skills and emotional regulation skills run amuck amuck amuck). Big deep breaths, Mercury isn’t…
Category: Astrology
Custom Astrology Charts
I’m now offering custom astrology charts for sale. That’s right, you can have your very own birth chart painted just for you. How about a gift for a loved one? Or, immortalize an important moment in time with a picture of the placement of the planets and luminaries right at the precise moment of your…
Refining my Astrology Practice
In my quest to refine how I use atrobot for my astrology practice, I’ve explored the ‘strict’ orbs setting, and decided i really like it. Precision and very tight allowances in the degrees mean no massive clutter of lines that’s hard to read, yet I can still have the sorts of aspects I want to…
Look at the Stars
We can see that for the slow moving placements, not much has changed in the last week. But what has changed is the Moon, and a couple of interesting things going on with the Pisces/Aries group. Moon square the Sun, which means it’s First Quarter baby! Observe, however, those red lines. Moon opposite Saturn, and…
Conjunctions, Orbs, Astrology
Let’s talk about orbs for a hot minute. The “orb” is the allowable margin for aspects. If a conjunction is two placements in the same spot, what we mean isn’t just when they’re literally on top of one another, but when there’s a little give and room between them, too. For a conjunction, most sources…
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