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

Sky Writer, As of July 1, 2011, with active links

In its 2 years of existence, Skywriter has published 530 articles on a wide variety of astrological and self-help topics. This index has been created for the convenience of new readers and astrology students who may 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

PART 1--Posts about the 12 houses…p.1

PART 2-- Articles about the Zodiac Signs…p.3

PART 3A--Articles about the Inner Planets…p.3

PART 3B--Posts about the Outer Planets…p.6

PART 4—Building Blocks of Chart Interpretation (Elements, Aspects, etc.)…p.8

PART 5—Astrology Applications (Career, Family, Etc.)…p.10

PART 6: Articles for Professional Astrologers...p.12

PART 7: Strictly for Fun…p.14

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

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

• 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.

• Download: Shovel-Ready Projects for the 12 Astrological Houses

• 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

• Pluto-Saturn Preparedness Kit #1—Houses & Areas of Life Affected

• 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 more articles on the 12 houses in the category Houses of the Horoscope.

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

The Stellium Series:

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

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

• 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

• Ryan and Tatum O’Neal – Stelliums and Symbiosis

• John Edwards’ Rise and Fall–a Stellium Meltdown

• The Incredible Vulnerability a Stellium Creates

• 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:

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

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

• 12 Famous People with 12th House Suns

• John Edwards’ Rise and Fall–a Stellium Meltdown

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

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

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

• Daybreak and the 12th House Sun

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

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

• The 12th House—Comparing Ancient and Modern Views

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

• 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

• Fool’s Gold—the Slippery Slope of the South Node

Posts about the Moon and its Cycles:

• 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

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

• New Moon in Pisces ~ Out of the Formless

• 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

• Understanding Mercury Aspects to the Moon

• Understanding Mercury-Saturn Combinations

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

• Understanding Mercury-Pluto Combinations

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

• Cosmic Piñata #5—Mercurial Morsels

• Enough with the Mercury Retrograde Hysteria!

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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Jumpin’ Jehosephat—Jupiterian Wisdom and Wisecracks

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

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

• Saturn Retrograde in Libra: Relationship Revision Time

• Saturn in Libra: How to Set Healthy Boundaries

• Born 1951-3? Join the Second Saturn Return Project

• 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

• How the Pluto-Saturn Square may Affect People born with that Aspect

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

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

• Taming Transiting Saturn

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• What to Tell Astrology Clients about Pluto in Capricorn

• How the Pluto-Saturn Square may Affect People born with that Aspect

• 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!

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

• Readers Ask—Q&A about Conjunctions

• How to Analyze a Conjunction

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

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

• 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 Septiles–Your Input Needed

• Understanding Quintiles—What’s YOUR Talent?

• Cosmic Piñata #7: 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

• 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

• 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?

Feeling Drained by a Relationship? Cut those Psychic Cords!

Libra Alert: How to Stop Being a People Pleaser

Saturn in Libra: How to Set 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: ch7 – codependency.

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) . 

Part 4: How 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

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:  .)

Q&A Series on a Variety of Topics, including Guest Bloggers:

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

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

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

• Q&A: What Professional Astrologers Want to Know

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

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?

• 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?

• 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

• Why I Don’t Believe those Scary Predictions

• A Promise Fulfilled: When Transits Echo Natal Aspects

• 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!

• See a series of 25 articles here: A Pluto-Saturn Preparedness Kit

• FREE TRANSIT TRACKER:  This handy one-page reference summarizes the transits of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto from 1990-2012. Use it to look back on past transits to your chart or your clients' and to look forward for the next few years.  Download it here: Transit Tracking Table for 1990-2012.

Doing Astrology Charts for Young People:

• Tips for Working with Teenagers’ Charts

• 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

• Contest—Interpret the Uranus-Neptune Conjunction of the 1980s-90s

• 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

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 book to your professional library for $15 at Moon Maven Publications.   

More 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:

• Obama’s Birth Certificate Released

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

• 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

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

• 12 Famous People with 12th House Suns

• 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

• See Donald Trump’s Official Birth Certificate and Chart

• I See Dead People’s Charts–Amelia Earhart

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

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

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

• 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 

• How to Add Impact to Your Site with Pictures

Other Editions of the Cosmic Piñata Column:

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

The Cosmic Piñata #2: Treats from other Astrology Blogs

Cosmic Piñata #3: A Plutonian Potpourri

Cosmic Piñata #4: Astrological Oddities—or Not?

Cosmic Piñata #5—Mercurial Morsels

Cosmic Piñata #6—a Moon Miscellany

Cosmic Piñata #7: Astro*Carto*Graphy Stories

Cosmic Piñata #8: Readers’ Observations about Quintiles and other Aspects

More Things You May Not Know:

10 Things You May not Know about Uranus

6 Things You May Not Know about Pluto

10 Things You May Not Know about Solar Returns

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

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

Everything You Ever Wondered about the 8th House…

7 Secrets You May not Know about the 12th House

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

Cosmic Piñata #4: Astrological Oddities—or Not?

Cosmic Piñata #7: Astro*Carto*Graphy Stories

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

And You Thought Pluto Wasn’t Funny!

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!!

INDEX OF SKYWRITER'S 500+ POSTS by category. Excellent resource for students. Save it to your hard drive rather than print it, and then all the links are live.  (Download it here: 1-Articles Index Skywriter 3-2011.)

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Past Q&A Sessions by Guest Bloggers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Emergency Preparedness—A Q&A Session by Dr. Deborah Bier

(If you’ve never participated in a Question and Answer session on Skywriter before, read this: Q&A–How to Participate. )

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