Webinar - The 5th House - Love & Other Many-Splendored Things

MISPA Webinar | 14 March 2021 | The 5th House - Love & Other Many-Splendored Things

As the house in which Venus finds her joy, many of the significations of the Fifth House stay true to the goddess’ character: pleasure, fun, fertility, love. Yet, within the Fifth House also reside complex mysteries, suggested by the presence of another goddess: Fortuna. In Hellenistic astrology, the Fifth House was known as Bona Fortuna, or Good Fortune, bringing us the beneficent side of the capricious Fortuna.

Additionally, the location of the Fifth House in the night sect of the chart offers the psyche a vast playground for the creative impulses of the imagination. Planets located within this house reflect styles of play, creativity, fortune, and love. This webinar will explore each of these aspects of the Fifth House via myth, culture, the arts, and numerous chart examples.

Webinar - Mars & the Outer Planets - Fifty Shades of Red

MISPA Webinar | 15 November 2020 | Mars & the Outer Planets - Fifty Shades of Red

In Hellenistic astrology, the planet Mars finds his Joy in the 6th House, the house of twilight, suggesting that, as the Sun sets and twilight time emerges - a time that blends shadow and light together to various degrees - Mars engages many shades of his own hue, red, regardless of house placement.

Red is anger, passion, blood, strength, and inflammation. Red is also the beauty of a rose, with its thorns never far away. Red flags indicate warnings. Red evokes the "rubedo" stage of alchemy, the stage where success lies within reach - the engagement of one's own will. In myth, Mars births Victory. In astrology, the discovery of the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, have brought many more shades to Mars’ palette.

This webinar explores the nature of the red planet and the powerful dynamics that occur when Mars, considered a “personal” or “inner” planet, must contend with the outer planets in the natal chart and by transit.

Podcast - Guest on The Basement Astrologers

Recently, I was a guest on Kipp Dubow’s podcast called “The Basement Astrologers.” We talked about Saturn in Aquarius, the “bookend” conjunctions of 2020, and the U.S. Pluto Return. You can listen here:

Saturn in Aquarius with Shawn Nygaard

We recorded the podcast a couple of weeks after the death of George Floyd and the resulting protests and riots in Minneapolis, the United States, and around the world. Civil rights and social justice come to call when Saturn moves through Aquarius, yet so does the kind of oppression that makes protests necessary. Saturn in Aquarius draws our attention to the margins of societies and, in 2020, 2021, and beyond, demands that we acknowledge that Black Lives Matter.