Geng Metal is principled, steadfast, and focused. They do what needs to be done when it counts, not a moment sooner and not a moment too late.
Don’t look down on the soil. Ji Earth is a complex personality. This is the thinker archetype.
Wu Earth is the old man of the ten heavenly stems. A mountain is an old man. They are completely trustworthy, a bit opaque, but completely predictable.
Ding Fire people are lovers. They’re impossibly good at flirting. They set the gold standard on that one. They are charismatic and fun with the neighbors when they want to be.
No matter what, Bing Fire people will just go their own way. They can’t help it. They might not be loud about it but they will go their own way. They can’t be influenced.
So, Yi Wood is flexible—yes. They’re sometimes described as “soft” because they are flexible. But are they soft as in pliant? No.
Jia Wood is big brother energy. Jia Wood day stem people are usually found starting school clubs about their various interests because they just love bringing people together.
I believe firmly that astrology isn’t a system built to diagnose all of the things that are wrong with you.
While the stems show you a theory of self, the animal branches actually show your behaviors. Every animal type has a different set of survival strategies and habits.
Here’s a bit of information about each of the Ten Heavenly Stems. You can even take a look at the one that is your day stem and see if you relate to it at all.
Let’s look at different arrangements of the trigrams, mythologies behind these arrangements, and applications of the arrangements.
Chinese genders are really invested in family systems. Being female or male is one thing, but being an older or younger sibling is a whole other thing.
The world that Chinese divination describes is a world that is lit by sunlight and moonlight.
Astrological rejection happens when two planets find debility in the signs that the other are in.
Following ghosts does not result in professional success, Gordon writes, but as failure. Following ghosts means that you sit in a room and quietly call attention to the fact that “There’s something in the room with us.”
The eleventh house opposes the fifth house, which is the house of the erotic. It’s both these houses, this axis of the fifth and eleventh, I think, that refers to love.
I’m going to show you five techniques from Abu Mashar for assessing aspects in a chart. Feel free to use a chart that you are familiar with, like your own natal chart, to try them out.
Most astrologers describe the midheaven as having the largest influence on a person out of all of the angles.
There’s a lot of good things in the ninth house—dreams of the future, self belief, and recognition. When you work with the ninth house, the best way to start is to ask yourself about your relationship to these things.
There is a sense of lack of control with the eighth house. What do we tend to do when we anticipate lack of control? We tend to hang onto things tighter. That’s the eighth house.
Firmicus calls the seventh house Dysis, who was goddess of the sunset. The seventh house is a deeply yellow house where all things come to rest.
