“Understanding the metaphors, symbolism, and archetypes in our charts-our personal mythology-is a way to understand ourselves.”
-Gwyneth Bryan
Universal Themes, Personal Experiences:
A Contemporary Perspective on Astrological Houses
Blending astrology, psychology, and metaphor, this entertaining and easy-to-read guidebook can help you gain a deeper understanding of the themes associated with each of the twelve astrological houses and four angles. Gwyneth Bryan brings to life the essentials of house-based astrology with humor, personal anecdotes, and a hip sensibility. Houses: A Contemporary Guide provides a succinct summary of the meaning of each planet in each house, so you can begin to explore the themes revealed in your own chart. Understanding your birth chart's houses and angles is fundamental to understanding yourself-your talents and gifts, challenges and opportunities.
The birth charts of Bruce Springsteen, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Madonna, Martha Stewart, Jerry Garcia, and other cultural icons provide colorful examples of how the house placements of each planet can reveal childhood experiences, physical appearance, personality, career, relationships, spiritual growth, and other aspects of life.
This article is about the nodal axis from the perspective of evolutionary astrology. A central teaching within Evolutionary Astrology is that the Soul contains within it two antithetical, yet co-equal, desires: one to return to source, and one to separate away. Evolution occurs as the Soul progressively purges and exhausts separating desires from... read this article
