Thank you for this! It was very well-timed -- after listening to the Astrology Podcast about Uranus in Gemini, I was quite literally transit tripping about a few Uranus in Gemini transits, both in my chart and in the U.S. Sibley chart. Thanks for bringing some much-needed perspective, and for the book recs. I'm so sorry for your loss. <3
Having experienced a significant loss while Saturn was transiting my 8th house, I found myself — quite synchronistically — drawn to two powerful books: A Death in the Family by James Agee and Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley. Both appeared in two different bookshops in Seattle — a city where my Pluto line runs very close, according to my astrocartography. Spooky, but not random. Once I began reading, it became deeply clear why those books had shown up for me at exactly that moment.
I also found great comfort in Inward by Yung Pueblo, which lives on my bedside shelf. I open it almost every night, letting the pages choose me. Its quiet wisdom has become part of my healing ritual.
Most recently, I finished Astrology and Reincarnation by Manly Palmer Hall, and I was fascinated by the techniques it explores to understand past lives — far beyond the traditional reading of the South Node. Hall considers the luminaries more dignified, uses the Chaldean order of planetary rulership, and treats the decan as a significator of the estate and condition of the previous life. One approach that especially struck me was his emphasis on the sign on the 12th house cusp, which ancient astrologers, he claims, believed could point to the cities where one had lived in a past incarnation. I had never come across that before. Have you?
And knowing you're also a fan of Stephen Arroyo — I loved noticing how often he references Edgar Cayce in his discussions on reincarnation. The Edgar Cayce Handbook has also been incredibly insightful to me, especially in helping me understand planetary cycles from a soul-based, non-astrological lens.
Thank you for this! It was very well-timed -- after listening to the Astrology Podcast about Uranus in Gemini, I was quite literally transit tripping about a few Uranus in Gemini transits, both in my chart and in the U.S. Sibley chart. Thanks for bringing some much-needed perspective, and for the book recs. I'm so sorry for your loss. <3
I haven’t dived in yet, but this article sounds like a goodie! What perfect timing for something like this haha
Having experienced a significant loss while Saturn was transiting my 8th house, I found myself — quite synchronistically — drawn to two powerful books: A Death in the Family by James Agee and Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley. Both appeared in two different bookshops in Seattle — a city where my Pluto line runs very close, according to my astrocartography. Spooky, but not random. Once I began reading, it became deeply clear why those books had shown up for me at exactly that moment.
I also found great comfort in Inward by Yung Pueblo, which lives on my bedside shelf. I open it almost every night, letting the pages choose me. Its quiet wisdom has become part of my healing ritual.
Most recently, I finished Astrology and Reincarnation by Manly Palmer Hall, and I was fascinated by the techniques it explores to understand past lives — far beyond the traditional reading of the South Node. Hall considers the luminaries more dignified, uses the Chaldean order of planetary rulership, and treats the decan as a significator of the estate and condition of the previous life. One approach that especially struck me was his emphasis on the sign on the 12th house cusp, which ancient astrologers, he claims, believed could point to the cities where one had lived in a past incarnation. I had never come across that before. Have you?
And knowing you're also a fan of Stephen Arroyo — I loved noticing how often he references Edgar Cayce in his discussions on reincarnation. The Edgar Cayce Handbook has also been incredibly insightful to me, especially in helping me understand planetary cycles from a soul-based, non-astrological lens.