Tag: Moon
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The Birth Chart as a Map of the Psyche
When most people think of a birth chart, they imagine something that describes personality traits or predicts future events. But in Astrological Psychology, the birth chart serves a far more profound purpose. It becomes a map of the psyche — a symbolic image of how our inner energies, motivations, and developmental patterns interrelate.
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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor
This brief look at the chart of the ex-Prince Andrew was first published on Joyce Hopewell’s blog.
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My Second Time Around Experience
Linda Tinsley reflects on her own experience the second time around her chart, September 2025.
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Bittersweet
This post first appeared on Joyce Hopewell’s Astrological Psychology blog. In the book Bittersweet – how sorrow and longing make us whole by Susan Cain, the author explores something you might recognise immediately, just by reading the title, especially if you’re the kind of person who’s drawn to what is poignant in life. This set…
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Oh Israel, when will you learn?
The chart for the formation of the State of Israel shows remarkable correlation with current events in Israel/Palestine, and points the way to the necessary resolution.
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The Zero Point of the Zodiac – the Cosmic Fissure
At the turning point of the zodiac year, we republish this article by Louise Huber on the ‘zero point’ of the zodiac, extracted from the book AstroLog I: Life and Meaning. Many years of observation have shown that a certain place in the zodiac has something special about it – the border area between Pisces…
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Are you Nice or are you Kind?
I was inspired to explore the theme of “nice and kind” having read a blog post by Jane Fritz on this topic. I left a comment on her blog, having pondered on the differences between being nice and being kind. Using my understanding of psychosynthesis, which underpins the astrological psychology which I use and am…
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Moon and Feelings
In this extract from her book The Living Birth Chart: Astrological Psychology in Practice, Joyce Hopewell considers the relationship of the Moon with our feeling self, which often proves to highlight key issues in astrological psychology consultation. At the end she suggests one of the exercises from the book for you to reflect on this…
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The Ego as Threefold Personality
This look at the three Personality or Ego Planets is from Bruno Huber’s book ‘Astrological Psychosynthesis’, first published in German in 1981. In all of us the ego will experience itself in three different modes, on three levels, in the threefold personality structure. We have a physical, corporeal self, an emotional, feeling self, and a…
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Just Imagine!
One of the exciting things about Huber astrology is the charts themselves, they are so visually striking. They are always drawn using bold colours and clear graphics. This is to enable the astrologer to very quickly grasp the psychological makeup of the person as a whole, rather than spending time darting all over the…
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Cats are solar, dogs are lunar
Cats, dogs and astrology. How do they go together? Cats – if you own one, you’ll know about this – are not biddable. They come when you call only when they want to and not before. They are independent, sometimes aloof, and are definitely their “own person”. They call the shots. Their sense of self…
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