Depending on its use, your home office should be either close to the front door or in a secluded area of your home. If you receive clients or customers, the best place for your office is close to the front door. Because a home-based business that receives clients and customers, or traffic, is yang by nature, it should be located in the most yang area of your home, namely, in a front room. Also, a home-based business that receives clients should be kept completely separate from the more private areas of your home. If your work requires quiet concentration—if you are a writer, artist, or researcher—your office should be in a secluded area of your home. Read the rest of this entry »

Sha is a destructive form of chi that is generated by various configurations of objects, roads, buildings, and so on. Sha, sometimes called secret arrows, literally meaning “killing force,” undermines luck and causes losses of money. In feng shui, sha is one of the most important things to look out for. If the main door to your workplace opens directly to the outside of the building, stand in the doorway looking out, and search for any of the following causes of sha. Read the rest of this entry »

Easy position. Be self-possessed and cooperative to achieve success. You may be promoted to a high position.

Easy position. If you are adaptable and broad-minded, you will find many good opportunities for advancing.

Difficult position. Unless you exercise self-restraint and courtesy in the face of opposition, you could be unduly discredited and suffer losses. Beware of envious colleagues. Read the rest of this entry »

Uncertain position. If you overreach your limits and go to extremes, you will run into trouble and suffer losses. If you calmly persevere while remaining flexible, you will have success.

Easy position. You may benefit through seemingly unfortunate or difficult circumstances. Be cooperative and sincere.

Easy position. You will make significant progress, gain recognition for your good efforts, and win the favor of your superiors. Read the rest of this entry »

A space with the east area indented discourages growth and expansion. Ventures led by the inexperienced working here will result in financial loss.

• Use green and/or light blue around the indented area. For example, paint the walls green or light blue, use green or light blue window dressings, or hang pictures with lots of greens and light blues on the walls.

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There are two remedies for each indented area. You can apply one remedy alone or both in combination.

A space with the north area indented invites accidents. Ventures led by the inexperienced working here are likely to fail. Read the rest of this entry »

Your furniture arrangement should allow the chi to flow as smoothly as possible. Always place your furniture and decorative objects in simple, balanced configurations. It is best to position your furniture parallel to the walls. If your room is very large, however, you can position some pieces of furniture diagonally in the corners to create a feeling of roundness.

Avoid creating obstacles by putting too much furniture in a room or by using furniture that is too large for the space. Also, avoid arranging your furniture in ways that interfere with, or complicate, normal routines. Use common sense. Read the rest of this entry »

Overall Arrangement

The most important points to consider in arranging the workplace are the position of the main office, or CEO’s office, and the ease of movement of personnel and operations. Once the location of the main office is determined, it will be relatively simple to figure out where everything else should go.

Short of considering compass directions, the ideal locations for the CEO’s office are at the power and money points of the overall space. Read the rest of this entry »

If you happen to fall under the spell of Libra, don’t surrender too quickly. Let them flirt with you for a while. Even if they push towards a relationship, imagine that it’s just the scales tipping to compensate for your cooler attitude. Libra has so much fun pursuing relationships that they will love you for dragging out the anticipation. Read the rest of this entry »

Rabbit Husband + Rat Wife

The Rat is sociable, active and crafty. The Rabbit has a mild disposition and is not inclined to strenuous activity and involvement like his gregarious and entertaining wife. But both love home life and are realistic about their goals. She can be devoted and outgoing enough to brighten up his moods. A responsible and good match. Read the rest of this entry »

Tiger Husband + Rat Wife

Not much togetherness in this marriage. He is too hotheaded and imperious for the domesticated and sentimental Rat. She can be considerate and thoughtful only when appreciated and he is too impatient and involved with himself. He finds her petty and too possessive and demanding. Both parties will be dissatisfied with the other’s performance. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Venus: As per Pluto. Venus transits last for up to a month, but take note of those times when Venus is retrograde, because this can lengthen and intensify its effects.
2. Mercury: As per Pluto. Mercury’s transits last for a couple of weeks; however, watch out for retrograde times.
3. Chiron: This planetoid has an eccentric orbit, but it usually spends a couple of years in a sign. Its transits can therefore last for several months, especially when it turns retrograde and back again.
4. The nodes of the Moon: These take about a year or so to work through each sign, and their effect can last for a few months when aspecting a particularly sensitive spot.
5. The Moon: The Moon takes two and a half days to work through each sign, so its transits are very short lived. However a new Moon, a full Moon and especially an eclipse will have a powerful effect on anything that it aspects. An eclipse which conjuncts a subject’s Sun, Moon or ascendant is bound to be strongly felt.

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The best way to interpret a chart is to do it logically. Find a routine that suits you and stick to it and, unless you are already an accomplished astrologer, keep things very simple. Use only the normal and very obvious planets and features on a chart and deal with only the major aspects. In time you will find a system that suits you, but, in case you really don’t know where to start, I shall show you mine.

Stage 1

First of all make up a natal chart and then work out a set of day-for-a-year progressions. Place the progressions around the natal chart (using a different coloured ink, if working by hand) and also make a separate list of them to refer to. Keep a notebook handy for your findings. Read the rest of this entry »

Solar returns

Solar returns are also sometimes known as solar return directions, and they are a form of transit, so they can be read in much the same way as any other list of transits. I think these are easiest to interpret when they are read as a stand-alone chart, rather than being put against a natal chart. Please try both methods for yourself before you make up your mind.

A solar return is arrived at by taking the Sun back to the exact spot that it occupied at the time of a subject’s birth. This usually happens on the subject’s birthday but it can occur a day before or afterwards. In plain English, it shows where the planets actually are in the sky at the time of the Sun’s return, and this is, of course, a picture of the transits at the moment that the Sun returns to its natal position. Read the rest of this entry »

If you take a look at the sky just before dawn on a cloudless morning, you will notice two or three stars that seem to hang about after the others have gone. Alternatively, wait for a cloudless night just after the Sun has set, and you will notice two or three stars glittering brightly in the dark blue heavens. These ’stars’ are actually planets, and the chances are that, if you look towards the area where the Sun is rising or setting, you will spot bright and beautiful Venus and the smaller and duller Mercury. Elsewhere in the sky, depending upon the time of year, you may find another very bright planet, Jupiter, and perhaps the smaller and slightly reddish Mars or the similarly small but slightly yellowish Saturn. You will need an astronomer’s telescope to see Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. Read the rest of this entry »

I can’t go into natal charting in any depth in this post, but, just as a reminder to those of you who are moving into real astrology, here are the steps that you will need to take.

Either buy a computer program that will work out the figures for a natal chart, progress it, produce a list of transits and put everything together in chart form, and then teach yourself to use this. Or teach yourself how to do it by hand. If you are serious about astrology, do both! Read the rest of this entry »

You will have come across the terms natal chart and birthchart at various times, and before we move on any further we ought to take a very brief look at this. A natal chart is a map of the heavens at the moment of the birth of a subject, an enterprise, a country or anything else that comes into manifestation. The very word horoscope means `map of the hour’. The natal chart describes the character of the person or enterprise in question. Read the rest of this entry »

Scorpio’s constellation is impressive in that it actually resemblances its sign, the Scorpio, whereas other constellations are obscure. Probably for this reason, the scorpion is often used to explain the concepts of Scorpio, with a sting in its tail. Scorpio also has two other symbols (it is the only sign with three), the eagle and the phoenix, and these have some interesting connotations.

All three signs are able to conquer their difficult environments with a combination of stealth and intelligence. The phoenix is the Greek name for a mythological bird offered in sacrifice to Ra, God of the Sun, in the ancient Egypt. This bird was similar to an eagle, and possessed golden-red feathers like flames. Read the rest of this entry »

Scorpios are drawn to the religious and austere professions. Many ministers, priests and nuns have a great deal of Scorpio influence in their chart. However, they can also use these professions to cloak their deeply passionate and sexual natures which they sometimes find disturbing. Passion and anger can be all-too-comfortable bedfellows with guilt and self-loathing — watch that you don’t curl that sting back on yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

If you go to a party together, you need to master the art of letting your Scorpio go and reeling him in. Scorpios generally feel a bit on edge in a social situation with a partner, as they can see too much danger in flirtatious situations.

They are very quick to jealousy but they don’t want you to stick to them like a lap dog.

Make sure you have a proprietary hand on the small of their back when you are introducing them to people. Meet their eyes across the room, and if you see they need a drink, get them one. Read the rest of this entry »