Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Amy Herring, author of Astrology of the Moon. You know the feeling: you’ve been studying astrology for months or even years, and you can’t stop talking about it to anyone who will listen, collecting everyone’s birth data and poring over charts. Then someone asks you what it all means and you freeze. You’ve been studying this stuff, why then do you suddenly feel like you don’t know what you’re talking about? Most of the time it’s not that the chart isn’t speaking to you, it’s that it’s speaking too loudly. Every planet has a message, and that message gets more complex when you put it through the sign, then the house,