Astrologers often seek to put a positive spin on our interpretations in order to help our clients feel better about themselves. But as we all know, everything in the birth chart also has its shadow side, and how willing we are to face and transmute the shadow will often determine what the ultimate expression of our astrological potential will be.
Jung considered the shadow to be the guardian of the threshold to the process of self-actualization, so it will be important to make friends with all those aspects of ourselves that we have rejected, projected onto others, or simply been unable or unwilling to explore. In this lecture, we identify where in the birthchart our shadows are most likely to show up, and we talk about how to work with these shadow aspects of our personality in order to grow into our wholeness.
Ixion and Pluto both orbit at an angle to the ecliptic in relation to all the other planets, spending half their time in the underworld. And the myth of Ixion tells us that this new dwarf planet energy in our chart knows no boundaries and is passionately focused on his own lawless goals. Why we n...
The key significators that suggest a person may be successful in life, what field they may be attracted to, and when it may be triggered. The astrology of success is another field of interest that derives from this. Noel draws upon the charts of successful business people, sports people, religiou...
The Moon is the archetype of flow and projection. We explore these concepts as the positive and negative movements of the Moon in our life by studying the houses opposite the natal Moon. It is toward these houses that the activity hive of our life flows and seeks resolution and final rest. These ...