Reflections about Meaning, Purpose, and Growth
REFLECTIONS
Seeking Wisdom Under Heaven
Astrology’s Purpose: Dialoguing with Meaning
Astrology is once again having a cultural moment. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that nearly three in ten American adults consult astrology, horoscopes, tarot cards, or fortune tellers at least occasionally. Most say they do so for entertainment, but a substantial minority look to these practices for genuine insight. Younger adults, women, and LGBTQ+ people are particularly likely to engage with them.
The Sun: A Radiant Centre Beyond Personality
Each morning, the Sun restores the visible world. Things emerge from darkness. Distances become perceptible. Paths appear. What had been hidden acquires shape, colour, and direction. The Sun does not merely illuminate the landscape; it makes orientation possible. Astrologically, the Sun performs a similar function within the horoscope. It is the centralizing principle: the power through which a life gradually becomes coherent, intentional, and distinctly its own.
A Town Full of Churches: Where Many Paths Became One
As I prepare to attend the 14th Anniversary Mass of All Inclusive Ministries, I find myself reflecting on a path no one could have predicted—and on all the churches that helped shape it. If someone had told the boy I once was that he would one day become a Catholic, help establish an LGBTQ Catholic ministry, and spend decades as a professional astrologer, I would have found it utterly improbable.
The Birth Climate: Temperament & the Atmosphere of Your Horoscope
Astrology has more than one way of describing what a person is “like.” Modern readers are often familiar with the elements — Fire, Earth, Air, and Water — and the balance of the elements do tell us something important. They suggest the kinds of things a person is inclined to notice, what captures attention, and how that perception becomes motivation.
The Moon: The Ground of Feeling, Belonging, and Habit
The Moon is the first heavenly body most of us love. Before we know the names of planets, before we understand the zodiac, before we ever think of the sky as meaningful, we know the Moon. She follows us down dark roads. She appears at the bedroom window. She grows, fades, disappears, and returns. The Sun may dazzle. The Moon keeps company.
