Weekly Love Forecast: 6/2 to 6/8, 2025. Overall this is shaping up to be a pretty nice week. There will be good opportunities for communication, socializing, and your sex life and social life will be pretty active. Summertime vibes abound. If you've been having a tough time in your relationship recently, this will be a good week to think about what's on your mind, and talk about it with your partner - there's a good chance you'll be able to get your point across easily and be understood.

In Taurus, Venus blooms like the archetypal Empress - at home in beautiful surroundings, with beautiful people, material comfort, luxury and beautiful objects.

To have a Venus in Pisces (or harshly aspected by Neptune) is to be forever in love with what cannot exist in physical reality.

Venus/Pluto. What a combo. The synastry contact that everyone loves to hate. It's a little scary, a little obsessive, a little dangerous, very intense. It has all that spice we really want in a relationship, however taboo it might be to admit.

Is your partner acting cold or distant? Keeping secrets? Do you suspect things are not as they seem? Get ready, because on Tuesday May 27, you'll be able to find out.

Celebrating the beginning of Gemini season, let's look at how the Gemini ruling planet Mercury functions in synastry!

Why synastry—an ancient technique dating back to Neoplatonist times—is more reliable for relationship analysis, offering clear insights through permanent interaspects, much like ongoing transits. Discover how both partners feel the connection differently depending on chart prominence, planetary themes, and aspects. Composite charts, on the other hand, are newer (developed in the 1920s) and hypothetical—best used only after a relationship is well-established. Explore how to read love and compatibility astrologically with nuance and depth.

I am often asked whether reincarnation is real or possible. I assume this is because the the Hindu concept of Samsara is often nebulously applied in modern astrology, which, by now, seem almost inexorable from astrological interpretation. Any contacts to the south node, the imum coeli, Chiron, Pluto and so on are commonly explained with the simultaneously dismissive and weighty pronouncement: "it's a past life connection" or "it's karmic". Never mind the fact that "karmic" in these contexts is shorthand for "bad, toxic and abusive" while "past lives" can be translated to "twin flames". It's a mess.

Put simply, Neptune can be described as the "longing for spirit" - a longing for spiritual ecstasy, for transcendence, for peace and spiritual redemption; a longing to merge with everything, the way a water droplet merges into the ocean.

In astrology, Venus doesn't only rule love... Far from it. Venus rules everything you value, from creature comforts and money to the things you find beautiful and pleasing... Including potential partners.

In astrology, Venus doesn't only rule love... Far from it. Venus rules everything you value, from creature comforts and money to the things you find beautiful and pleasing... Including potential partners.

Moon is the most important celestial body in synastry, in my view. The Moon is a part of us that never changes, even though its effect on us may make us more changeable. Think about it: the Moon is connected to some of the most primordial aspects of our personality.

Some harsh aspects are actually quite good in relationship astrology. Venus in aspect to Saturn - a dreaded aspect in synastry, but one of my personal favorites.

Eclipses are historically an omen of bad news, and yes, even doomed marriages: Princess Diana was married to Prince Charles during an eclipse period

Asteroids and fixed stars in synastry - how to use them?

For a long time I was skeptical of Chiron's popularity. But over the years I've changed my mind, and I now share the opinion that Chiron is the modern ruler of Virgo, alongside its traditional ruler, Mercury.

Psalm 18:2-5: The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.

A few of my pet peeves after 20+ years of practice. Are you guilty of any? Here they are…