North Node and South Node: Meaning in Your Chart
The lunar nodes are not bodies but the two points where the Moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic. The north node is the ascending crossing, the south node the...
Saturn Return: Ages, Timing and What It Really Is
Saturn's 29.46-year orbit sets three returns in a lifetime. When yours falls, why it lasts years, and which parts of the story are ancient and which are modern.
Scorpio Season 2026: Dates, Meaning and a New Moon Ritual
Scorpio season 2026 opens at 5:38 a.m. Eastern on Friday, October 23 and closes on November 22. It is an unusually loaded four weeks: Venus is already retrograde,...
The 12 Houses in Astrology, Explained
The most demanding training course in modern Western magic Franz Bardon wrote step-by-step instructions where almost everyone else in his tradition wrote hints. This is what his system...
Tzolkin: The 260-Day Maya Calendar, Explained
Quick answer The Tzolk'in is a 260-day sacred count made of twenty day signs turning against thirteen numbers. It is still kept without a break by Maya day-keepers...
Vedic Astrology (Jyotish): A Beginner's Guide
Quick answer Jyotish, the astrology of the Indian subcontinent, uses the sidereal zodiac rather than the seasonal one Western astrology uses. The two have drifted about 24 degrees...
Hunter's Moon 2026: Date, Time and Taurus Ritual
The Hunter's Moon of 2026 is the full moon of October, and for most of the United States it falls on the night of Sunday, 25 October rather...
Eclipse Spiritual Meaning: What to Do and Not Do
Eclipses are the one sky event where the spiritual tradition and the astronomers agree on the instruction, for completely different reasons: don't try to make anything happen. This...
Venus Retrograde 2026: Dates and What It Means
Roughly every eighteen months Venus appears to reverse for about six weeks. She is the rarest of the classical retrogrades and the one almost nobody sees coming. In...
Libra Season 2026: Dates, Meaning & What to Expect
In American time zones, Libra season starts on the evening of Tuesday, September 22, 2026 — not the 23rd, which is the date most calendars print. This is...
Full Moon Calendar 2027: Every Date, Time and Name
Twelve full moons fall in 2027, and two of them land on a different calendar date in the United States than the date most moon calendars print. This...
Colin Bedell: The Astrologer Who Treats a Birth Chart as Permission, Not Prediction
Colin Bedell writes Cosmopolitan's weekly horoscopes and cofounded QueerCosmos. What he actually claims a birth chart does -- and where the evidence stops.