Synastry is the art of comparing the birth charts of two people to see how they click. It’s useful for all sorts of relationships in our life - love partnerships, friendships, workplace relationships, family relationships, and more.

Sometimes people say that there is no such thing as a coincidence, that everything is meaningful and being directed by some kind of mysterious guiding principle. This is an idea that I like to entertain, when the mood takes me. Today I want to share a little experience I had that reinforced this belief for me.

The client’s cat, Emily, had been missing for over two weeks. It was the dead of winter, the area was shrouded in snow, and the client feared the worst. Worse still, Emily was an indoor cat; other than trips to the vet in the carrier, she had never been out of the house before.

When I first viewed Rossetti’s paintings I was struck by just how Venusian they seemed. Portrait after portrait of women, invariably beautiful but also somehow distant and alien, in either a powerful or at least pivotal position, dripping in Venusian symbolism. So when I looked up his nativity, I was expecting a lot of Venus - but what I saw really surprised me!