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An Index of over 650 of Donna’s Blog Articles

About Astrology and Metaphysics

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An Index of Articles on Donna Cunningham’s Astrology blog,

Sky Writer, as of 4/1/14

About Skywriter: Since going online in 2008, Skywriter has published over 650 articles on a wide variety of astrological, metaphysical, and self-help topics. This index has been created for the convenience of new readers and astrology students who want to focus on particular topics and see what’s available here. If you save it on your hard drive rather than printing it out, the links are active so that you can access the articles directly.

Skywriter’s readers are an intelligent and lively bunch. Many of the articles on this list set off an informative exchange of experiences and opinions in the comment section. If a topic stimulates you, scroll down past the article to see what others had to say—and add your own take on it! I hope you enjoy your visit! Donna Cunningham, MSW

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Readers’ Favorites: Here are the top 10 Skywriter posts of 2014.

|7 Secrets You May not Know about the 12th House | |

|Planetary Tests (for how strong your planets are) | |

|The Midheaven in Synastry—Meaningful Career Connections | |

|How to Bond with an Aquarian Woman | |

|Things You May Not Know about The 5th House and Children | |

|How Strong is your Pluto? Here’s the Score! | |

|Four Big Things You May Not Know about Stelliums | |

|Why Mercury Retrograde is a Good Thing–Its Helpful Uses | |

|Why Cancer Isn’t a Popular Sign | |

|Venus-Saturn Aspects—Waiting for Love | |

Topics you’ll find in this Index:

PART 1: Posts about the 12 houses………………………………………p.4

PART 2: Articles about the Zodiac Signs……………………………..…p.6

PART 3A: Articles about the Inner Planets………………………………p.7

PART 3B: Posts about the Outer Planets…………………………………p.10

PART 4: Chart Interpretation (Elements, Aspects, etc.)……………….…p.12

PART 5: Astrology Applications (Career, Family, Etc.)………………....p.14

PART 6: Articles for Professional Astrologers…………………………...p.17

PART 7: Strictly for Fun: Celebrities, Humor…………………………….p.19

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Skywriter’s Article Collection

PART 1--Posts about the 12 houses:

Readers Ask Series about the 12 houses: (Readers’ questions and my answers are in the Comment Sections)

• Readers Ask: Basic Questions about the 12 Houses

• Readers Ask: Q&A about the 1st House and Ascendant

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 2nd House

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 3rd House, Mercury, and Gemini

• The Best of Readers’ Q & A about the 3rd House and Mercury

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 4th House

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 5th House

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 6th House

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 7th House

• Best Insights from the Q& A Session about the 7th House

• Readers Ask: Q&A about the 8th House

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 9th House

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 10th House

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the Midheaven

• Readers Ask: Q&A about the 11th House

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 12th House

• New Insights into the 12th House from our Q&A Session

Other posts about the 12 houses:

• Download a chapter on the houses here: AGSA ch13-houses

• Download a chart blank here:  Blank chart with house meanings.

• New Moon Projects for Houses 1-6

• New Moon Projects for Houses 7-12

• How Do House System Choices Affect Your Chart?

• Full Houses vs. Empty Houses in your Chart—What to Expect

• Readers Ask: Basic Questions about the 12 Houses

• A Who’s Who of your Horoscope–the Players in all 12 Houses

• The Houses–12 Different Ways to Heal from Stress and Trauma

• The Cosmic Piñata, Part 1 — Saturn Transits and Insights into the Houses

• How Does your First House Give the Wrong Impression?

• Viewing the 3rd House through Neptune’s Lens

• Things You May Not Know about the 5th House and Children

• Highlights of Our Discussion on the 5th House and Children

• Saturn Transits the 7th House—a Rare Interview with Father Time Himself

• Everything You Ever Wondered about the 8th House…

• Pluto in the Career Houses–The Power to Manifest or Fail for Spite

• Uranus in the Career Houses—“You’re Not the Boss of Me!”

• Neptune’s in your Career House? It’s not a Transit, It’s an Epoch!

• Use Jupiter Transits to the Vocational Houses for a Career Boost

• Transits to the Vocational Houses–Temp Job or Career Departure?

• The 11th House—an Unsuspected Resource in a Woman’s Chart

• Neptune in the 11th House–Setting Boundaries in Friendship

• 11th House Transits—New Departures in Friendship

• Things You May Not Know about the 3rd and 12th Houses

• House Positions of the Nodes—Insights from Our Q&A Series

• See articles about the 2nd and 8th houses under Vocational Astrology

The Stellium Series:

• Finally, The Stellium Handbook is Here!

• Skywriter’s Impact Test for Stelliums and Multiple Conjunctions–Version 2.0

• (Download a printable version here: Stellium Test 1 page.)

• My Podcast on the Capricorn Stellium Generation

• Readers Ask: Question and Answer Session on Stelliums by House

• Four Big Things You May Not Know about Stelliums

• How to Identify Your Alpha Dog Planet

• The Incredible Vulnerability a Stellium Creates

• Doomed by a 12th House Stellium? Think Again!

• Royal Baby Boy Born as Mercury turns Direct — Stelliums Rule!

• John Edwards’ Rise and Fall–a Stellium Meltdown

• Ryan and Tatum O’Neal – Stelliums and Symbiosis

• Q&A Session: Transits to Stelliums

• Readers’ Insights into their own Stelliums

• A Few Last Insights into Stelliums from Readers

The Midheaven Series:

• Midheaven 101—What the 10th House Cusp Shows about You

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the Midheaven

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 10th House

• The Midheaven/IC Axis: Who Wore the Pants in your Family?

• The Midheaven in Synastry—Meaningful Career Connections

• Inner Planets Conjunct the Midheaven—Are You Larger than Life?

• Neptune Squaring the Midheaven—How It Affects your Career

• Research Question—What did You Want to Be when You Grew Up?

The Complete Miniseries on the 12th house:

• 12th House People as Introverts: the Power of Solitude

• A Sensitive Guide to Planets in the 12th House—Guest Blog

• A Tool for Analyzing Your 12th House Sign

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 12th House

• New Insights into the 12th House from our Q&A Session

• Interceptions, Progressions and Other Buried 12th House Treasure from the Comment Section

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the 12th House—but Were Afraid to Ask

• A Book about the 12th House that will Help You Love Yourself

• The 12th House—Comparing Ancient and Modern Views

• 7 Secrets You May not Know about the 12th House

• Daybreak and the 12th House Sun

• 12 Famous People with 12th House Suns

• Doomed by a 12th House Stellium? Think Again!

• Some Pitfalls of 12th House-Based Relationships

• 80 Qualities of Venus in the 12th or other Venus-Neptune Combinations

• Jupiter in the 12th—When Does Good Luck Turn Bad?

• Transits from the 12th House to the 1st–Like Night and Day

PART 2-- Articles about the Zodiac Signs:

• An Improbable Best-Seller List: Self-Help Books for all 12 Signs

• Personal Ads for all 12 Moon Signs

• What’s So Rare as a Day in June? You tell me!

• Gemini—Can You Hear Me Now?

• Why Cancer Isn’t a Popular Sign

• Spotlight on Leo—a Tale of three Queens

• AstroDebate—What’s the Ruler of Virgo?

• The AstroDebate about Virgo’s Ruler: An Opinion Sampler

• WHAT IF….Virgos Ruled the World?

• Why It’s Hell Being a Libra any More!!

• Put Yourself in Scorpio’s Shoes

• Scorpios in Service Careers—Dealing with Life and Death

• How to Bond with an Aquarian Woman

• How to Survive Your Pisces Sweetheart

• How to Survive a Pisces Dad—and How I Survived Mine

• New Moon in Pisces ~ Out of the Formless

Part 3--Articles about the Planets:

In case you missed them, here are the popular planetary tests:

• How Strong is your Sun? Here’s the Score!

• How Strong is your Moon? Here’s the Score?

• How Strong is your Mercury? Here’s the Score!

• How Strong is Your Venus? Here’s the Score!

• How Strong is your Mars? Here’s the Score!

• How Strong is your Jupiter? Here’s the Score!

• How Strong is your Saturn? Here’s the Score!

• How Strong is your Uranus? Here’s the Score!

• How Strong is your Neptune? Here’s the Score! 

• How Strong is your Pluto? Here’s the Score! 

• From Joyce Mason: Chiron Quiz: How Strong is Your Chiron? and The Chiron Resonance Quiz: What’s Your Chi-Res Score?

• Skywriter’s Impact Test for Stelliums and Multiple Conjunctions–Version 2.0

And here, on one page, are links to all of Skywriter's popular series of  Planetary Tests.

Retrograde Planets:

• A Q&A Session on Retrograde Natal Planets by Erin Sullivan

• The Retrograde Planet as Maverick

• Making Retrogrades Work for You

Part 3A—the Inner Planets

Posts about the Sun and Leo:

• How Strong is your Sun? Here’s the Score!

• Spotlight on Leo—a Tale of three Queens

• Aspects to the Sun—What They Show about Self-Esteem and Confidence

• Understanding Narcissism–New Insights into Ryan O’Neal

• The Planet ahead of your Sun—and What It Says about You

• 12 Famous People with 12th House Suns

• Daybreak and the 12th House Sun

• 10 Things You May Not Know about Solar Returns

• 10 Good Articles about Solar Returns

• The Dance of the Primal Lights –How the Sun and Moon Light Up the Personality

Posts about the Moon and Cancer:

• How Strong is your Moon? Here’s the Score?

• Why Transits to the Birth Moon are so Challenging

• How Outer Planet Transits to the Moon Affect Family Life

• Why Cancer Isn’t a Popular Sign

• Cancerians, Memory and Emotion

• Personal Ads for all 12 Moon Signs

• The Dance of the Primal Lights –How the Sun and Moon Light Up the Personality

• The Moon Signs and their Emotional Habits

• Outtake from a Moon-Pluto Life

• Understanding Mercury Aspects to the Moon

• Cosmic Piñata #6—a Moon Miscellany

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 4th House

• The Moon’s Nodes–An Expert’s View

• Readers Ask: Q&A about the Moon’s Nodes by Donna Van Toen

Posts about the Moon’s Cycles and Transits:

• Eclipses–How do They Affect You?

• Eclipses: Moving Beyond the Four Walls of the Known

• How to View an Eclipse

• Using the Daily Moon Sign to your Advantage

• A Guide to Gardening by the Moon

• How To Use The Moon For A Daily Emotional Weather Report

• New Moon Projects for Houses 1-6

• New Moon Projects for Houses 7-12

• The Void of Course Moon–A Lunar Sabbath?

• Why Transits to the Birth Moon are so Challenging

• How Outer Planet Transits to the Moon Affect Family Life

• The Progressed Moon through the 12 Houses

• A Question and Answer Session on the Progressed Moon by Gretchen Lawlor

Posts about Mercury and the 3rd House on this Blog:

• How Strong is your Mercury? Here’s the Score!

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mercury and the 3rd House (links)

• Four Kinds of Smart–Which One Are You?

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 3rd House, Mercury, and Gemini

• The Best of Readers’ Q & A about the 3rd House and Mercury

• Things You May Not Know about the 3rd and 12th Houses

• Viewing the 3rd House through Neptune’s Lens

• The Astrology of Sibling Relationships—and How They Affect Us as Adults

• Readers Ask—Q&A about Sibling Relationships by Brian Clark

• A New Look at the Astrology of Twins

• Compare your Life to your Famous Astrotwin—Is there a Parallel?

• Understanding Mercury Aspects to the Moon

• Understanding Mercury-Saturn Combinations

• Understanding Mercury-Uranus Combinations—It’s DIY Time!

• Understanding Mercury-Pluto Combinations

• The Mercury-Pluto Conjunction—Grievances, Grudges, Gripes and Grinches 

• If It Weren’t for that transiting Mercury Conjunction to Pluto….

• Enough with the Mercury Retrograde Hysteria!

• Why Mercury Retrograde is a Good Thing–Its Helpful Uses

• Readers’ Comments and Questions on Mercury Retrograde

• Mercury Advisory—Keep your Eyes Open and your Mouth Shut! (t-square during Rx)

• Mercury’s Pre-retrograde Shadow and Post-retrograde Shadow Periods

• Obama’s Flubbed Oath–Perfect Mercury Retrograde Story?

• Funny Quotes and Cartoons about Uranus, Venus, & Mercury

• Puzzle Lover? I’ll Bet your Mercury is Strong!

• English for Astrologers–No Astrobabble Please

• Cosmic Piñata #5—Mercurial Morsels

Posts about Venus and Relationships:

• AstroDebate—Which Sign does Venus Really Rule?

• How Strong is Your Venus? Here’s the Score!

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 7th House

• Venus-Saturn Aspects—Waiting for Love

• Venus-Saturn Aspects—Good Qualities You Wouldn’t Suspect

• Chart Clues to Marriage—Will You or Won’t You?

• Why It’s Hell Being a Libra any More!!

• Why It’s Hell Being a Libra

• Venus-Uranus Aspects among the Glitterati

• Venus-Uranus Aspects: Two-Minute Friends and other Modern Relationships

• Saturn in Libra: How to Set Healthy Boundaries

• Saturn Transits the 7th House—a Rare Interview with Father Time Himself

• Relationship Patterns of Venus-Neptune Aspects

• 80 Qualities of Venus in the 12th or other Venus-Neptune Combinations

• How to Survive Your Pisces Sweetheart

• Difficult Neptune Aspects in Chart Comparison

• What your Astrology Chart Says about your Boundary Issues (7-OP)

• The Steamy Side of Venus-Pluto Aspects—A Photo Gallery

• High Maintenance–a Venus-Pluto Vignette

• Venus in the Elements: Fire, Earth, Air, & Water

• Missing Elements and How They Affect Your Relationships (CH2)

• Libra Alert: Personal Power & What It Looks Like in a Friendship

• Libra Alert: How to Stop Being a People Pleaser

Posts about Mars:

• How Strong is your Mars? Here’s the Score!

• Mars and Conflict—Road Block or Productive Detour?

• Mars Mission 2: Anger—the Guard Dog of Denial

• Risk Assessment: Observations on Mars Conjunct the Ascendant and Danger

• Anger Management Tips for Home and Work

• Teasing—Is It Ruled by Mercury or Mars?

• Mars Alert—Code Red!

• Mars Retrograde 101—Answering your Questions

• Understanding Mars in the Fixed Signs

• Risk Assessment: Observations on Mars Conjunct the Ascendant and Danger

• Mars-Pluto Aspects? Use your Manifestation Mojo!

• The Mars-Uranus Conjunction in Pisces and Children Born with it

• The Law of Progressive Annoyance—Mars or Jupiter?

• Mars—What Great Minds say about Its Functions

• Depp’s Darker Roles—Where Do They Show in his Chart?

Posts about Jupiter:

• How Strong is your Jupiter? Here’s the Score!

• Hyperactive Jupiter Syndrome—The Down Side of an Upbeat Planet

• What Jupiterians DON’T Know–but Think They Do

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 9th House

• Use Jupiter Transits to the Vocational Houses for a Career Boost

• Jupiter in the 12th—When Does Good Luck Turn Bad?

• Why Saturn has as much to do with Luck as Jupiter

• Jupiter and the Astrology of Self-Justification

• The Law of Progressive Annoyance—Mars or Jupiter?

• Crises of Faith–Journeys to Jupiter’s Red Spot

Posts about Saturn:

• How Strong is your Saturn? Here’s the Score!

• Saturn’s Delays and Why We Should Embrace Them

• Venus-Saturn Aspects—Waiting for Love

• Venus-Saturn Aspects—Good Qualities You Wouldn’t Suspect

• Saturn’s Cycles – The Seven-Year Itch and the Saturn Return

• Saturn Transits the 7th House—a Rare Interview with Father Time Himself

• Saturn Retrograde in Libra: Relationship Revision Time

• Astrology and Conscious Parenting: Saturn in Synastry

• Why Saturn has as much to do with Luck as Jupiter

• What Planet Rules Mentorship? Saturn or Chiron?

• Getting a Grip on Saturn-Neptune Aspects

• Blending without Drowning: How Saturn Saved a Neptune Type

• Life Patterns of People Born with Uranus-Saturn Aspects

• The Cosmic Piñata, Part 1 — Saturn Transits and Insights into the Houses

• Saturn Transits—What do They Mean to your Career?

• Saturn in Scorpio—Your Guide through the Dark

• Saturn in Scorpio—Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?

• How Have You Grown from Saturn in Scorpio’s Transits?

• Transiting Saturn in Scorpio Takes Skating Champ to Olympic Gold

• Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself

• Quotes about Saturn’s Issues—Wise Counsel from our Elders

• The Saturn-Neptune Quincunx and its Part in our Economic Woes

Posts about Chiron:

• From Joyce Mason: Chiron Quiz: How Strong is Your Chiron? and The Chiron Resonance Quiz: What’s Your Chi-Res Score?

• Chiron Potpourri—a Q&A Session with Joyce Mason

• Chiron and Vocation: Do What You Love and Wholeness Will Follow

• Chiron Cycles and Life’s Purpose

• Chiron Transits—a Q&A Session by Joyce Mason

• Chiron in Pisces: Integration and Integrity

• What Planet Rules Mentorship? Saturn or Chiron?

• Chiron and Humour: Wounded Clowns that Heal Us

• AstroDebate—What’s the Ruler of Virgo?

• Clowning Around with Chiron, Robin Williams, and an Eclipse

Part 3B: Posts about the Outer Planets

Posts about Uranus:

• How Strong is your Uranus? Here’s the Score!

• 10 Things You May not Know about Uranus

• Uranus In The Career Houses—“You’re Not The Boss Of Me!”

• Career Challenges for the Pluto-Uranus in Virgo Generation

• Venus-Uranus Aspects among the Glitterati

• Venus-Uranus Aspects: Two-Minute Friends and other Modern Relationships

• The Mars-Uranus Conjunction in Pisces and Children Born with it

• Understanding Uranus Transits—Bits from my Books

• Uranus Transits—A Question and Answer Session

• Three Things I’ve Loved about Uranus in Pisces

• Celebrating the Last–and Future–Uranus in Pisces Generation

• Crossover Coming—Uranus moves from Pisces to Aries

• Uranus in Aries and the Cosmic Soup

• Grabbing Some Insight into Uranus in Aries

• More Observations about Uranus in Aries

• What Positive Effects of Uranus in Aries do You See?

• Uranus in Aries—a Heads Up for the Accident Prone

• Uranus in Aries & Flower Essences–8 Years of Significant Change Ahead

• Relocating under Fire? Help from Astrology and Essences

• Career Challenges for the Pluto-Uranus in Virgo Generation

• Life Patterns of People Born with Uranus-Saturn Aspects

• Best Interpretations of the Uranus-Neptune Conjunction—Contest Results

• Neptune & Uranus in Mutual Reception

• Uranian Ideas—Exceptional Thoughts about an Exceptional Planet

Posts about Neptune:

• How Strong is your Neptune? Here’s the Score!

• 22 Articles about Neptune on Skywriter

• Neptune Squaring the Midheaven—How It Affects your Career

• Neptune and the Cosmic Soup

• Relationship Patterns of Venus-Neptune Aspects

• 80 Qualities of Venus in the 12th or other Venus-Neptune Combinations

• Neptune’s Role in Giving and Receiving

• Difficult Neptune Aspects in Chart Comparison

• Addicted to Anguish–a Sketch of one Neptunian Type

• Viewing the 3rd House through Neptune’s Lens

• Getting a Grip on Saturn-Neptune Aspects

• Taylor Swift, John F. Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe—a Neptune-Saturn Trio

• Blending without Drowning: How Saturn Saved a Neptune Type

• Neptune in the 11th House–Setting Boundaries in Friendship

• Fog in the Workplace—Neptune or Pisces in the Career Houses

• Neptune’s in your Career House? It’s not a Transit, It’s an Epoch!

• Skywriter’s Readers share their own Neptunian Career Tales

• Neptunian Musings—Mysterious but Strangely Apt Quotations

Posts about Pluto:

• How Strong is your Pluto? Here’s the Score!

• PlutoPaloozas, Here’s Plenty of Pluto Posts!

• 6 Things You May Not Know about Pluto

• Cosmic Piñata #3: A Plutonian Potpourri

• Pluto in the Career Houses–The Power to Manifest or Fail for Spite

• Career Challenges for the Pluto-Uranus in Virgo Generation

• Outtake from a Moon-Pluto Life

• Pluto Problems Got You Perplexed? Here’s What Helps!

• And You Thought Pluto Wasn’t Funny!

• Pluto in Capricorn: A Laugh and a Half

• Pluto in Capricorn–Perfectionism and Rushing to Judgment

• Transiting Pluto in Capricorn—Is Pernicious Perfectionism Holding You Back?

• Positive Perfectionism versus Pernicious Perfectionism

• The Pluto-Uranus Square: Go Big or Go Home

• What’s the Best Thing that ever Happened to You under a Pluto transit?

• What to Tell Astrology Clients about Pluto in Capricorn

• The Steamy Side of Venus-Pluto Aspects—A Photo Gallery

• High Maintenance–a Venus-Pluto Vignette

• Mars-Pluto Aspects? Use your Manifestation Mojo!

• Healing Tools For Plutonians: Transforming The Self And Others

• The Houses–12 Different Ways to Heal from Stress and Trauma

• Pluto and Bullying: How to Recognize and Deal with It

• Battling the Bully – Standing Up For Yourself With Confidence and Assertiveness

• Purge Yourself of Pluto’s Negativity—Get Free of Bitterness

• Pluto and the transiting Antiscia–not Over ’til It’s Over

• Planet or Not—Pluto IS Something!

• Pluto’s a Planet Again! Now We Can Breathe Easy!

LINKS TO THE BLOGATHON ARTICLES COLLECTIONS ABOUT THE CARDINAL T-SQUARE:  The International Astrology Day Blogathon of 2010 was dedicated to helping people understand and work with the Cardinal T-square and included collections of more than 70 articles about transits by Pluto, Uranus, and Saturn. Go directly to the individual collections here:   

• Pluto Problems Got You Perplexed? Here’s What Helps!

•  Look After Saturn and Saturn Will Look After You

•  Uranus in Aries: Claiming a Self-Reliant Future 

•  Passing the Tests and Trials of Saturn to Build Better Relationships

• A Collection of Articles about Combining Essences and Astrology

Part 4—Building Blocks of Chart Interpretation

Posts about the Elements and Modes:

• How Cardinal are You? Here’s the Score!

• How Mutable are You? Here’s the Score!

• How Fixed are You? Here’s the Score!

• Understanding Mars in the Fixed Signs

• Bringing Balance to the 4 Elements–a Useful Collection of Articles

• Cardinal T-Square Articles

• The Dance of the Primal Lights –How the Sun and Moon Light Up the Personality

• Are You a Fire Type? Here’s the Score!

• Are You an Air Type? Here’s the Score!

• Are You a Water Type? Here’s the Score!

• A Terribly Tentative Test for the Earth Element in your Chart

• Healing With Fire, Earth, Air and Water

• Flower Essences for Difficult Patterns of Water and Air Signs

• Flower Essences for Difficult Patterns of the Fire and Earth Signs

• Missing Elements and How They Affect Your Relationships

• Creativity and Element Imbalances in the Chart

• Get to Know the Water in your Chart–a Wetting Reception

• Bailing out the Water Signs–The Emotional Hangover Remedy

• Ways to Use Water to Heal Yourself and Others

• Much, Much More about your Watery Signs, Planets, and Houses!

• Our Precious Water Supply and How We Can Preserve It

• How You Know You’re a Water Sign

• A Water Sign, in her Element at Last—Writing Wet, not Dry

• Venus in the Elements: Fire, Earth, Air, & Water

• Four Kinds of Smart—Air, Earth, Fire, and Water

• Cosmic Piñata #4: Astrological Oddities—or Not?

Articles from the Series about Aspects:

• Aspects 101: Major Astrological Aspects and What They Mean

• Learning to Interpret Aspects—A Major Boost for Astrology Students

• A Promise Fulfilled: When Transits Echo Natal Aspects

• Readers Ask—Q&A about Conjunctions

• How to Analyze a Conjunction

• Things You May Not Know about Conjunctions

• Out of Sign Conjunctions: Your Input Needed

• Excellent Examples: Readers Examine their own Out of Sign Conjunctions

• Challenge: Interpret the Uranus-Neptune Conjunction of the 1980s-90s

• Best Interpretations of the Uranus-Neptune Conjunction—Contest Results

• The Square—Resolving Inherent Conflicts

• Got Trines? You Must Be Living Right!

• The Least Aspected Planet—What Role Does It Play in your Life?

• The Not so Minor Aspects—Results of Our Research

• Understanding Semisquares—Your Input Needed

• Understanding the Sesquiquadrate—Your Input Needed

• Understanding Semisquares—Your Input Needed

• Understanding the Sesquiquadrate—Your Input Needed

• Understanding Septiles–Your Input Needed

• Understanding the BiQuintile—Your Input Needed

• Quincunx vs. BiQuintile–an Answer from Numerology?

• Planets in Mutual Reception—Join our Online Research

• Understanding Quintiles—What’s YOUR Talent?

• Readers’ Observations about Quintiles and other Aspects

• Understanding the BiQuintile—Your Input Needed

• Quincunx vs. BiQuintile–an Answer from Numerology?

• Heinous Hybrids—Why the Quincunx is No Minor Aspect

• Part 2—the Transiting Quincunx

• Part 3: Steps in Analyzing a Quincunx plus More New Insights

• Part 4: How to Harmonize the Tensions of a Quincunx

• Part 5: The Royal Family: A Quincunx Coincidence—or a Yod Occurrence?

• Understanding the Mundane Square—Your Input Needed

• Mundane square case study: Outtake from a Moon-Pluto Life

• Breathing Refined Air: The Esoteric Aspects

• Is the Semi-Sextile a Good Aspect or a Bad One?

• Neptune & Uranus in Mutual Reception

• Pluto and the transiting Antiscia–not Over ’til It’s Over

• The Antiscia are Coming! The Antiscia are Coming!

Part 5—Astrology Applications (Career, Family, Etc.)

Posts about Family Life: (Link post: Astrological Insights into Family Life)

• How Outer Planet Transits to the Moon Affect Family Life

• Why Transits to the Birth Moon are so Challenging

• The Midheaven/IC Axis: Who Wore the Pants in your Family?

• How to Survive a Pisces Dad—and How I Survived Mine

• Outtake from a Moon-Pluto Life

• How Strong is your Moon? Here’s the Score?

• Ryan and Tatum O’Neal – Stelliums and Symbiosis

• Astrology and Conscious Parenting: Saturn in Synastry

• Getting a Grip on Saturn-Neptune Aspects

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 4th House

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 5th House

• Things You May Not Know about the 5th House and Children

• Highlights of Our Discussion on the 5th House and Children

• The Mars-Uranus Conjunction in Pisces and Children Born with it

• A New Look at the Astrology of Twins

• Tips for Working with Teenagers’ Charts

• 4 Great Articles on How to Introduce Astrology to Teenagers

• The Astrology of Sibling Relationships—and How They Affect Us as Adults

• Readers Ask—Q&A about Sibling Relationships by Brian Clark

• Viewing the 3rd House through Neptune’s Lens

Posts about Vocational Astrology: 

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 2nd House

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 6th House

• The Sixth House and Working Relationships

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 10th House

• Saturn Transiting the 6th: Tests and Lessons at Work

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the Midheaven

• Midheaven 101—What the 10th House Cusp Shows about You

• The Midheaven/IC Axis: Who Wore the Pants in your Family?

• The Midheaven in Synastry—Meaningful Career Connections

• Career Differences between the 10th, 2nd, and 6th House

• Career Quiz—Guess the Chart Placements

• Research Question—What did You Want to Be when You Grew Up?

• Uranus In The Career Houses—“You’re Not The Boss Of Me!”

• Neptune Square the Midheaven—How It Affects your Career

• Pluto in the Career Houses–The Power to Manifest or Fail for Spite

• Scorpios in Service Careers—Dealing with Life and Death

• Fog in the Workplace—Neptune or Pisces in the Career Houses

• Use Jupiter Transits to the Vocational Houses for a Career Boost

• Neptune’s in your Career House? It’s not a Transit, It’s an Epoch!

• Skywriter’s Readers share their own Neptunian Career Tales

• Chiron and Vocation: Do What You Love and Wholeness Will Follow

• Career Challenges for the Pluto-Uranus in Virgo Generation

• Life Patterns of People Born with Uranus-Saturn Aspects

• Saturn Transits—What do They Mean to your Career?

• Transits to the Vocational Houses–Temp Job or Career Departure?

Posts in the Astrology and Personal Finances series:

• Astrologers’ Hang-ups about Money—How they Hurt our Clients

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 2nd House

• The 2nd House and Money Management Patterns

• Your 2nd House—A Clue to Extra Income

• Everything You Ever Wondered about the 8th House…

• Living Off the Books—an 8th House Quicksand

• Uranus in the 2nd—Freedom & Individuality, vs. Financial Stability

• Saturn and Uranus Transits to the 2nd/8th House Axis

• Neptune in the 2nd—Money, Boundaries, & Codependency

• Neptune Transits to the 2nd-8th Axis—Time to Get Real about Money

• Money and Pluto in the 2nd House—The Haves vs. the Have Nots

• Pluto Transits to the 2nd or 8th —Money Issues Get Murky

• Thought Forms–How They Add to Money Blocks  

• More Help for Money Blocks—Clearing Past Life Barriers

Relocation and Astro*Carto*Graphy Articles:

• Cosmic Piñata #7: Astro*Carto*Graphy Stories

• Chart Patterns for Relocation—What’s Yours?

• "Am I Gonna Move?" (At )

• Can Relocation Help the Outer Planet Person?

• Relocating under Fire? Help from Astrology and Essences

Posts Related to Boundaries:

What your Astrology Chart Says about your Boundary Issues

Boundaries 101 ~ A Course for Neptunians

Boundaries 201–Ten More Tips for Neptunians

Boundaries 301: How to Deal With a Moocher

Boundaries and Friendship — Are You and Your Friend Codependent?

Libra Alert: Personal Power & What It Looks Like in a Friendship

Neptune in the 11th House–Setting Boundaries in Friendship

6 Common Misconceptions about Boundaries in a Relationship

The 3 Major Ways of Setting Boundaries—Which Type are You?

Neptune and the Cosmic Soup–How Psychic Contagion Depletes Us

Feeling Drained by a Relationship? Cut those Psychic Cords!

Setting Healthy Boundaries in Astrology Sessions

Issues that Come Up in Astrological Consulting: Practicing Healthy Boundaries

Ryan and Tatum O’Neal – Stelliums and Symbiosis

Blending without Drowning: How Saturn Saved a Neptune Type

How to Recognize and Deal with an Abusive Person

Pluto and Bullying: How to Recognize and Deal with It

Battling the Bully – Standing Up For Yourself With Confidence and Assertiveness

FREE DOWNLOAD: One of the chapters of my ebook, Counseling Principles for Astrologers goes into codependency and its implications for practicing astrologers in depth.  Download it here: 2014 Ch7 CPA.

Series on Resentment, Bitterness, and Forgiveness:

• Purge Yourself of Pluto’s Negativity—Get Free of Bitterness

• Stuck For What Seems Like Forever? Maybe Areas of Unforgiveness are the Cause

• How to Handle Chronic Complainers

•  Forgiveness–the Final Frontier

• Healing Tools For Plutonians: Transforming The Self And Others

• Articles about Flower Essences on Skywriter:  

• Flower Essences for Difficult Patterns of Water and Air Signs

• Flower Essences for Difficult Patterns of the Fire and Earth Signs

• (Donna’s podcast on essences) . 

Essences to Harmonize the Tensions of a Quincunx

• In a Crisis? Rescue Remedy Can Help You through It

• Hope for Those in the Dark Night of the Soul

• Uranus in Aries & Flower Essences–8 Years of Significant Change Ahead

• Relocating under Fire? Help from Astrology and Essences

• Common Issues of Pluto and Saturn—and Flower Essences that Help

• Space Clearing, Flower Essences, and the Art of Sacred Space

• Saturn Remedies–Flower Essences for Overcoming Fear and Worry

• Ways to Use Water to Heal Yourself and Others

• Red Clover Essence–A Gentle Antidote to Mass Hysteria, by Sheryl Karas

• Blogathon Collection: A Collection of Articles about Combining Essences and Astrology

• 30 Articles about Essences and Astrology from Vibration’s Archives

For those of you who aren’t familiar with flower essences, download the introductory chapter of my ebook, Flower Remedies—How Plants’ Energies Can Heal Us: flower essence information-ch1. (You can order the book itself here:  .)

A huge collection of over 400 articles about flower essences is available at Vibration Magazine, a free on-line educational journal about these healing tools. It’s no longer being published, but their collected articles are still available on line at the link above. To find articles about specific essences or healing concerns, use their whole site search engine or Back Articles Index.

Excerpts from Donna’s Books:

•  Full Houses vs. Empty Houses in your Chart—What to Expect

• Career Differences between the 10th, 2nd, and 6th House

• Uranus In The Career Houses—“You’re Not The Boss Of Me!”

• Career Challenges for the Pluto-Uranus in Virgo Generation

• Four Kinds of Smart–Which One Are You?

• “The Sky Is Falling!”–Looking ahead at Tough Transits

• A Promise Fulfilled: When Transits Echo Natal Aspects

• Enough with the Mercury Retrograde Hysteria!

• Donna Cunningham Introduces The Stellium Tool Kit

• English for Astrologers–No Astrobabble Please

• Hyperactive Jupiter Syndrome—The Down Side of an Upbeat Planet

• Getting a Grip on Saturn-Neptune Aspects

• Anger—the Guard Dog of Denial

• How Do House System Choices Affect Your Chart?

• Career Differences between the 10th, 2nd, and 6th House

• Fog in the Workplace—Neptune or Pisces in the Career Houses

• Neptune Squaring the Midheaven—How It Affects your Career

• Uranus In The Career Houses—“You’re Not The Boss Of Me!”

• Four Kinds of Smart–Which One Are You?

• Donna Cunningham Introduces The Stellium Tool Kit

• English for Astrologers–No Astrobabble Please

• Hyperactive Jupiter Syndrome—The Down Side of an Upbeat Planet

• Neptune’s in your Career House? It’s not a Transit, It’s an Epoch!

• Understanding Uranus Transits—Bits from my Books

• Facing the Difficult Potentials of a Transit

• Getting a Grip on Saturn-Neptune Aspects

• Mars Mission 2: Anger—the Guard Dog of Denial

• Got Trines? You Must Be Living Right!

• Here’s a 9-page download from  Counseling Principles for Astrologers:  Considerations in doing astrology consultations for teens1

Part 6: Articles for Professional Astrologers

• Q&A: What Professional Astrologers Want to Know

• English For Astrologers–No Astrologese Please

• Astrologers’ Hang-ups about Money—How they Hurt our Clients

• Awful Things Astrologers Say to Clients

• Real World Astrology—Continuing Ed for Professionals

• Tips for Working with Teenagers’ Charts

• Chart Clues to Marriage—Will You or Won’t You?

• Risk Assessment: Observations on Mars Conjunct the Ascendant and Danger

• More Insights into Healing Grief and Loss

• Horary Happenings—Why I’m a Believer, Not a Practitioner

• Career Quiz—Guess the Chart Placements

• What Planet Rules Mentorship? Saturn or Chiron?

• Living Off the Books—an 8th House Quicksand

• Avoiding Potholes on the Professional Path (Link post)

• Why I Don’t Believe Scary Predictions

Working with Difficult Transits in a Client’s Chart:

• Facing the Difficult Potentials of a Transit

• Talking to Clients about Difficult Transits–Readers Have Their Say

• Tough Transits: Best Case/Worst Case Scenarios

• Has Knowing your Astrology Chart Ever Kept You out of Trouble?

• Why I Don’t Believe those Scary Predictions

• A Promise Fulfilled: When Transits Echo Natal Aspects

• Spotting Themes in a Birth Chart: the Rule of Three

• In the Eye of the Storm—How Outer Planet Transits Work

• Why Transits to the Birth Moon are so Challenging

• How Outer Planet Transits to the Moon Affect Family Life

• Risk Assessment: Observations on Mars Conjunct the Ascendant and Danger

• Transits to the Vocational Houses–Temp Job or Career Departure?

• John Edwards’ Rise and Fall–a Stellium Meltdown

• Catastrophobia: What Causes it and How to Heal it

• What to Tell Astrology Clients about Pluto in Capricorn

• Pluto Problems Got You Perplexed? Here’s What Helps!

• Transit Tracker:  This one-page reference summarizes the transits of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto from 1990-2020. Print it out and use it to look back on past transits and to look forward for the next few years. Download it here: HO-transit trackingtable-1990-2020.

Doing Astrology Charts for Young People:

• Tips for Working with Teenagers’ Charts

• 9-page download from  Counseling Principles for Astrologers:  Considerations in doing astrology consultations for teens1

• Bringing Hogwarts to American Teens—the Curriculum for my Class

• I Was a Teenage Astrologer: An Astrology Reference Guide for Teens 

• Uranus Aries for Teens: Young Fool at the Edge

• The Importance of Astrology’s Vocabulary

 Common Concerns of Practicing Astrologers:

• Q&A Session: Tips for Building an Astrology Practice

• Neptune and the Cosmic Soup–How Psychic Contagion Depletes Us

• Shields Up! Fight Second-hand Fear and Despair!

• Space Clearing, Flower Essences, and the Art of Sacred Space

• Boundaries 201–Ten More Tips for Neptunians

• Living Off the Books—an 8th House Quicksand

• Healing Tools For Plutonians: Transforming The Self And Others

• How to Make Sure a Birth Chart is Accurate

• Getting the Birth Time Right—Polaris Software Makes It Possible

• Avoiding Potholes on the Professional Astrologer’s Path (Link post)

• Why I Don’t Believe Scary Predictions

• 9-page download from  Counseling Principles for Astrologers:  Considerations in doing astrology consultations for teens1

If you’re a professional astrologer or studying to become one, I haven’t run out of things to say by a long sight! The book I’m proudest of is Counseling Principles for Astrologers:  Becoming an Effective Change Agent, a text for the consulting astrologer. It takes my background of a Master’s degree in Social Work and translates it to the framework of the astrology session.  There are chapters on:

• how begin, focus, and end a session effectively

• communicating clearly and initiating a dialogue

• vocational astrology sessions

• working with the charts of children and teens

• ethical issues that arise in the course of a session

• referring clients to other professionals for further work

• building a practice

Add this e-book to your professional library for $15 here: My Books.   

Tips about Promoting Yourself:

• Q&A Session: Building an Astrology Practice

• Free Advertising—How to Create Email Signatures

• The Best Marketing Tool for your Astrology Blog–An Effective “About Me” Page

• Can U Blog? What to Look for in the Birth Chart 

• How to Add Impact to Your Site with Pictures

• Tips for Bloggers 1—Retooling your Astrology Posts to Keep them Fresh

• Tips for Bloggers 2—Backlinks and other Tactics

• Tips for Bloggers 3–A Promising Anthology on Blogging

• Testimonials that Work: Promote Yourself with Integrity, Credibility—and Class!

Writing Tips–10 Dos and Don’ts for Astrology Blogs

Part 7: Strictly for Fun

Celebrity Charts:

• Compare your Life to your Famous Astrotwin—Is there a Parallel?

• Obama’s Birth Certificate Released

• Part 5: The Royal Family: A Quincunx Coincidence—or a Yod Occurrence?

• Royal Baby Boy Born as Mercury turns Direct — Stelliums Rule!

• Depp’s Darker Roles—Where Do They Show in his Chart?

• Bruce Willis–the Man Who Has Everything Now Has a Second Wife

• Craig Ferguson Marries a Cunningham!

• Clowning Around with Chiron, Robin Williams, and an Eclipse

• Robin William’s Two Astrology Charts—Only One Makes Sense

• Morgan Freeman and Nelson Mandela—Are their Charts Alike?

• 12 Famous People with 12th House Suns

• Robin William’s Two Astrology Charts—Only One Makes Sense

• Nelson Mandela’s Astrology Chart, Died 12/5/2013

• A Farewell to Medium, Psychic, and Best-Selling Author, Sylvia Browne

• John Edwards’ Rise and Fall–a Stellium Meltdown

• Ryan and Tatum O’Neal – Stelliums and Symbiosis

• Understanding Narcissism–New Insights into Ryan O’Neal

• Things You May Not Know about the 3rd and 12th Houses (Jack Nicholson)

• Venus-Uranus Aspects among the Glitterati

• Betty White—the Very Essence of Uranus in Pisces

• Celebrating the Last–and Future–Uranus in Pisces Generation

• Taylor Swift, John F. Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe—a Neptune-Saturn Trio

• See Donald Trump’s Official Birth Certificate and Chart

• I See Dead People’s Charts–Amelia Earhart

• Amelia Earhart Fans: A Closer Birth Time and New Evidence about Her Crash

• Whoopi Goldberg’s Sun, Moon, and Ascendant: A Perfect Storm

• Transiting Saturn in Scorpio Takes Skating Champ to Olympic Gold

• Spend Time on Memory Lane—Visit the Astrologers’ Memorial

Links to Sites featured as Internet Find of the Week:

• Internet Find of the Week—Research into Affirmations, Jealousy, and other Psychological Issues

• Internet Find of the Week: New Resources for Healing Grief and Loss 

• The Planet ahead of your Sun—and What It Says about You

• Internet Find of the Week—the Arabian Parts Calculator

• Secret Moon Art–Jude Cowell’s Visionary Work

• 5 Funny Astrology Blogs to Visit

• The Cosmic Piñata #2: Treats from other Astrology Blogs

• A Multimedia Zodiac—Look, Listen and Enjoy!

• Hear Donna Cunningham on Web Radio 

Humor Posts:

• Clients Say the Darndest Things!

• An Improbable Best-Seller List: Self-Help Books for all 12 Signs

• Personal Ads for all 12 Moon Signs

• Spotlight on Leo—a Tale of three Queens

• The Astrologer with a Magic Lamp

• Put Yourself in Scorpio’s Shoes

• What’s So Rare as a Day in June? You tell me!

• Funny Quotes and Cartoons about Uranus, Venus, & Mercury

• The Law of Progressive Annoyance—Mars or Jupiter?

• Hyperactive Jupiter Syndrome—The Down Side of an Upbeat Planet

• Chiron: Send in the (Wounded) Clowns

• Mayan Calendar Jokes: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the End of the World

• 10 Impossible Things—Do You Believe?

• Beam Me Up? I don’t THINK so!!

EBOOKS BY DONNA CUNNINGHAM, MSW

About Donna Cunningham: For 45 years, Donna’s background in astrology, social work, and healing has made her an internationally respected author of many books, articles, and advice columns. Order her ebooks here: My Books.

NEW: The Stellium Handbook: an Owner’s Manual for People with Stelliums or Triple Conjunctions. $20. Read a Sampler here: Finally, The Stellium Handbook is Here!

3-Book special: All $15 ebooks are 3 for $35.

An Astrological Guide to Self-Awareness: This revised and updated 2014 edition of Donna’s classic text for beginning and intermediate students contains chapters on each of the planets, the houses, aspects, transits and more. It blends astrology and psychology in everyday language. $15

Astrological Analysis—Select Topics in Chart Interpretation: In-depth essays on chart factors include planets, houses, aspects, transits, relocation, and more. $15

Astrological Aspects—The Building Blocks of Chart Interpretation:

This ebooklet teaches you to analyze a variety of major and minor aspects, including the conjunction, square, trine, opposition, sextile, semisextile, and quincunx. It’s the equivalent of an 8-lesson course on aspects for just $8.

The Outer Planet Trilogy of Ebooks—Three Volumes

This popular trio condenses Donna’s 45 years of observing how clients use and misuse the outer planets into wisdom we all can apply. Each in the newly-released 2014 Editions. $15 each/ 3 for $35.

The Outer Planets and Inner Life, v.1: The Outer Planets as Vocational Indicators

The Outer Planets and Inner Life, v. 2: Outer Planet Aspects to Venus and Mars

The Outer Planets and Inner Life, v.3: Aspects between the Outer Planets.

Ebooks for Professionals:

The Consulting Astrologer’s Guidebook: How to Become an Effective Change Agent. A mentor in ebook form, this manual draws on Donna’s social work background to help you resolve common consulting room dilemmas. $15

Flower Remedies: How Plants’ Energies Can Heal Us: A great tool to add to your practice. These gentle catalysts can help clients move through blockages in the natal chart and make the most of transits. Includes a chapter on combining them with astrology. $15

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