Conversation with Ernst Wilhelm

Lunar Nodes, Blue Fire, and the Vessels of Fate and Destiny

This essay follows on “Outer Planets, Inner Patterns”, in which I explored the archetypal meanings of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto as context for my examination here of Pluto’s current ingress in Aquarius.

This essay was written in anticipation of the upcoming transit of Pluto in Aquarius, in order to build a broader context for understanding outer planets. A detailed examination of the Pluto-Aquarius cycle can be found in “Pluto in Aquarius”.

A consideration of the descriptive, rather than predictive, function of astrology and the restoration of agency in the individual.

Exploring the deeper meanings of the Rabbit as an energetic archetype, in honor of the new Year of the Water Rabbit.

An examination of the sidereal vs. tropical zodiac debate and how an essential work of Indian Astrology preserved in Tibet (Kalacakra Tantra) asserts the use of a tropical zodiac.

How I became interested in astrology and what it reveals about the nature of traditional medicine.

Toward a dynamic view of the constitution in the context of natal astrology.

The significance and interpretation of comets in Indian and Tibetan astrology.