Good morning, friends!
Usually, I don’t post on the weekend, right, but I wanted to hop on today to say THANK YOU!!! The AstroMommy Newsletter hit a really cool milestone in the last couple of days: 100 subscribers! Woo Hoo!! It’s time to celebrate!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! And a special shout-out goes to my long-time friend, Summer Brennan, who recommended AstroMommy and started the flood of newcomers, bringing us over the 100-subscriber threshold!
Summer is an amazing published writer and her Substack publication, A Writer’s Notebook, is phenomenal. Her words inspire me every day and I guarantee, that if you read her work, they will inspire you too! Below are three of my favorite pieces by Summer. Check them out; they may become your favorites too:
Also, since we have so many new “faces” (profiles, really, LOL) I would like to invite you all to read/listen to last week’s Weekly Forecast where I go over what to expect this weekend (scroll down to the Weekend section, or go to YouTube and use the TIMESTAMPS to navigate to the Weekend section) because today is a BIG DAY, with the Sun and Mars’ official Cazimi!
Weekly Forecast For Tuesday, November 14—Monday, November 20, 2023
And, if you’d like to read a little bit about me and my Astrological journey, you can read:
Which is an introduction post that I update from time to time as my astrological practice evolves.
I would love to get to know you, too! If you feel comfortable, let us know in the comments what your big three are: Sun, Moon, and Rising signs! I will open up the comments for this post to all tier levels, so we can get to know each other!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Until Monday,
AstroMommy
Congratulations on reaching 100 subscribers! Your incredibly hard work, and all of your educational pursuits, are paying off beautifully! I'm glad you're pursuing this path! ❤️🌞🌛⭐☕
Welp: I have zero family connection to astrology. 🙃 My mother is not even an atheist, just an utter non-believer in anything, excepting a short attempt at Judaism. (I get flack for the astrology, also anything else along those lines.) Your boy here was big on astronomy from a young age (and still is), and picked up astrology along the way, not least because of historical interest in the Bronze age and the Classical Era (which is part of the long-standing interest in history, acquired not long after picking up astronomy). There´s also the long-standing interest in what you could call comparative religion, together with the interest in history, which amounts to a very long, very deep dive into the question of, ´Why did they do that?' (Specifically the Holocaust, but also lots & lots of other things.)
At any rate, I messed with the Greek stuff back in the oughts and then moved on to other stuff. I took a break for some years in the teens, then went through a massive expansion study of a) asteroids and b) midpoints - c) I had picked up fixed stars much earlier. So basically I do mid-century modern astrology, with a little Lilly, a lot of Greek (mythology), and a heavy, heavy influence from the Bronze Age stuff. Plus that very modern (post-modern, I suppose) stuff like, again, midpoints and asteroids. ´I know this well enough now, throw all that stuff in there,´ sums it up pretty well. (It might be taken that I have a big head like a lot of pompous jerk astrologers I have known - nah. I am just an amateur who reads charts. I also believe you can learn something new from anyone you meet, specifically astrology, sure, but in the general sense. Even if the thing you learn is that someone has nothing to offer or maybe has just chosen to suck.)
I didn´t know about the YT channel. Now I am subbed up! Might I suggest Chloe Margherita at Recent Bedroom: https://recentbedroom.substack.com/ Chloe´s awesome and she is heavy into Greek astrology. Also my friend Cosmic Kinks on YT: https://www.youtube.com/@cosmickinks YT is hard on her because she talks about sexuality and astrology.
As for my chart - since I use Prophyry uses (pin the ASC, pin the MC, divide by three): I have Venus/Libra/12 ruling the 12th and the Ascendent in the anaretic degree. Mercury rising in Sco, plus Sun/Sco/1. Moon in Taurus/7. (The Venus position is why I don´t use Whole houses - I could nudge it forward half a degree into 0° Scorpio, which sorta works, or I can kick it all the way back to 0° Libra. Venus rising in Libra would be nice, but that also doesn´t quite fit, I am sorry to say.)
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you asked, so there you go!