Find Your Nova

Picture a moment when someone, or something, helped you see the world with sharper focus: a favorite professor sketching formulas on a board, a grandmother showing you how to knead bread, a line in a novel that changed your mind about love, a sudden dream in which an elder offered timely advice. Each instance belongs to the enduring pattern we call the Teacher. The Teacher archetype is far more than a professional role. It is a living current that moves between ignorance and understanding, chaos and coherence, yearning and discovery. Across ages and cultures—whether in Socrates’ agora, the forests where the Buddha walked, or modern online classrooms—this motif reminds us that every fresh insight is born in relationship. In the pages that follow we will explore the Teacher’s many guises in myth, ritual, and art, then trace its reflections in astrological symbolism. Working with a whole-sign framework, we will focus on planets, houses, and cycles that echo the Teacher–student dance: Jupi...

How do we find our footing when the ground seems to shift beneath us? This question rises from the astrological landscape surrounding the Full Moon in Sagittarius in June 2025. This bright Full Moon arrives late on Tuesday, June 10th, spilling into the early hours of Wednesday, June 11th, 2025, depending on your spot on the globe. For those on the Pacific coast, it lights up the sky at 12:43 AM on June 11th. This period presents a complex dance of energies, urging us to bring together opposing drives within ourselves and the world around us. By looking at key planetary arrangements and what they might mean, we can gain insight into how to move through this dynamic lunar cycle. Illumination and Opposition: The Full Moon as a Mirror The Full Moon, with the Sun in adaptable Gemini facing the Moon in expansive Sagittarius, sheds light on a core tension between thought and feeling, data and insight. Both sit near the 21st degree of their zodiac signs, pulling us to find a balance point. Gem...

If you’ve ever had a chart reading and someone pointed at your 12th house and said, “That means you have enemies,” you might’ve left the conversation feeling anxious or misunderstood. It’s a line that shows up a lot in traditional astrology circles—and while it’s not baseless, it is often oversimplified or taken out of context. So let’s take a step back. What does the 12th house actually represent? And why do astrologers keep bringing up this idea of enemies? The 12th House Is Not the Enemy—It’s What You Don’t See In classical astrology, the 12th house is referred to as the place of the Bad Daimon (kakos daimon). That title has led to a lot of spooky interpretations, but in practice, it’s much more about visibility and relationship to the Ascendant than about anything inherently ominous. The 12th house is in aversion to the 1st—it doesn't make any of the major classical aspects (sextile, square, trine, or opposition) to the Ascendant, which represents the self, embodiment, and agen...