An Index of Articles on Donna Cunningham’s Astrology blog,

Sky Writer, As of March 1, 2011, with active links

In its 2 years of existence, Skywriter has published 470 articles on a wide variety of
astrological and self-help topics. This index has been created for the convenience of new
readers and astrology students who may want to focus on particular topics and see what’s
available here. If you save it on your hard drive rather than printing it out, the links are active
so that you can access the articles directly.

Skywriter’s readers are an intelligent and lively bunch. Many of the articles on this list set off
an informative exchange of experiences and opinions in the comment section. If a topic
stimulates you, scroll down past the article to see what others had to say—and add your own
take on it! I hope you enjoy your visit! Donna Cunningham, MSW

PART 1--Posts about the 12 houses…p.1

PART 2-- Articles about the Zodiac Signs…p.3
PART 3A--Articles about the Inner Planets…p.3
PART 3B--Posts about the Outer Planets…p.6
PART 4—Building Blocks of Chart Interpretation (Elements, Aspects, etc.)…p.8
PART 5—Astrology Applications (Career, Family, Etc.)…p.10
PART 6: Articles for Professional Astrologers...p.12
PART 7: Strictly for Fun…p.14

PART 1--Posts about the 12 houses:

Readers Ask Series about the 12 houses: (Readers’ questions and my Answers are
in the Comment Sections)

• Readers Ask: Basic Questions about the 12 Houses

• Readers Ask: Q&A about the 1st House and Ascendant
• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 2nd House
• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 3rd House, Mercury, and Gemini
• The Best of Readers’ Q & A about the 3rd House and Mercury
• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 4th House
• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 5th House
• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 6th House
• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 7th House
• Best Insights from the Q& A Session about the 7th House
• Readers Ask: Q&A about the 8th House
• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 9th House
• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 10th House
• Readers Ask—Q & A about the Midheaven
• Readers Ask: Q&A about the 11th House
• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 12th House
 • New Insights into the 12th House from our Q&A Session

Other posts about the 12 houses:

• Download a chapter on the houses here: AGSA ch13-houses

• Download a chart blank here: Blank chart with house meanings.
• Download: Shovel-Ready Projects for the 12 Astrological Houses
• Readers Ask: Basic Questions about the 12 Houses
• A Who’s Who of your Horoscope–the Players in all 12 Houses
• Pluto-Saturn Preparedness Kit #1—Houses & Areas of Life Affected
• The Houses–12 Different Ways to Heal from Stress and Trauma
• The Cosmic Piñata, Part 1 — Saturn Transits and Insights into the Houses
• How Does your First House Give the Wrong Impression?
• Viewing the 3rd House through Neptune’s Lens
Things You May Not Know about the 5th House and Children
• Saturn Transits the 7th House—a Rare Interview with Father Time Himself
• Everything You Ever Wondered about the 8th House…
• Pluto in the Career Houses–The Power to Manifest or Fail for Spite
• Uranus in the Career Houses—“You’re Not the Boss of Me!”
• Neptune’s in your Career House? It’s not a Transit, It’s an Epoch!
• Use Jupiter Transits to the Vocational Houses for a Career Boost
• Transits to the Vocational Houses–Temp Job or Career Departure?
• The 11th House—an Unsuspected Resource in a Woman’s Chart
• Neptune in the 11th House–Setting Boundaries in Friendship
• 11th House Transits—New Departures in Friendship
• Things You May Not Know about the 3rd and 12th Houses
• The Incredible Vulnerability a Stellium Creates
• Readers’ Insights into their own Stelliums
• A Few Last Insights into Stelliums from Readers
• House Positions of the Nodes—Insights from Our Q&A Series
• See more articles on the 12 houses in the category Houses of the Horoscope.
• See articles about the 2nd and 8th houses under Vocational Astrology

The Midheaven Series:

• Midheaven 101—What the 10th House Cusp Shows about You

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the Midheaven
• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 10th House
• The Midheaven/IC Axis: Who Wore the Pants in your Family?
• The Midheaven in Synastry—Meaningful Career Connections
• Neptune Squaring the Midheaven—How It Affects your Career
• Research Question—What did You Want to Be when You Grew Up?

The Complete Miniseries on the 12th house:

 • Readers Ask: Q & A about the 12th House
• New Insights into the 12th House from our Q&A Session
• 12 Famous People with 12th House Suns
• 7 Secrets You May not Know about the 12th House
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the 12th House—but Were Afraid to Ask
• 80 Qualities of Venus in the 12th or other Venus-Neptune Combinations
• Daybreak and the 12th House Sun
• Jupiter in the 12th—When Does Good Luck Turn Bad?
• Transits from the 12th House to the 1st–Like Night and Day
• The 12th House—Comparing Ancient and Modern Views

PART 2-- Articles about the Zodiac Signs:

• Why Cancer Isn’t a Popular Sign

• Spotlight on Leo—a Tale of three Queens
• AstroDebate—What’s the Ruler of Virgo?
• The AstroDebate about Virgo’s Ruler: An Opinion Sampler
• WHAT IF….Virgos Ruled the World?
• An Improbable Best-Seller List: Self-Help Books for all 12 Signs
• What’s So Rare as a Day in June? You tell me!
• Why It’s Hell Being a Libra any More!!
• Put Yourself in Scorpio’s Shoes
• How to Survive Your Pisces Sweetheart
• How to Survive a Pisces Dad—and How I Survived Mine

Part 3--Articles about the Planets:

In case you missed them, here are the popular planetary tests:

• How Strong is your Sun? Here’s the Score!

• How Strong is your Moon? Here’s the Score?
• How Strong is your Mercury? Here’s the Score!
• How Strong is Your Venus? Here’s the Score!
• How Strong is your Mars? Here’s the Score!
• How Strong is your Jupiter? Here’s the Score!
• How Strong is your Saturn? Here’s the Score!
• How Strong is your Uranus? Here’s the Score!
• How Strong is your Neptune? Here’s the Score!
• How Strong is your Pluto? Here’s the Score!
• From Joyce Mason: Chiron Quiz: How Strong is Your Chiron? and The Chiron
Resonance Quiz: What’s Your Chi-Res Score?
And here, on one page, are links to all of Skywriter's popular series
of Planetary Tests.

Part 3A—the Inner Planets

Posts about the Sun and Leo:

12 Famous People with 12th House Suns

Daybreak and the 12th House Sun
10 Things You May Not Know about Solar Returns
10 Good Articles about Solar Returns
Spotlight on Leo—a Tale of three Queens
The Dance of the Primal Lights –How the Sun and Moon Light Up the Personality

Posts about the Moon and Cancer:

• How Strong is your Moon? Here’s the Score?

• Why Transits to the Birth Moon are so Challenging
• How Outer Planet Transits to the Moon Affect Family Life
• Why Cancer Isn’t a Popular Sign
• Cancerians, Memory and Emotion
• The Dance of the Primal Lights –How the Sun and Moon Light Up
the Personality
• The Moon Signs and their Emotional Habits
• Outtake from a Moon-Pluto Life
• Understanding Mercury Aspects to the Moon
• Cosmic Piñata #6—a Moon Miscellany
• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 4th House
• The Moon’s Nodes–An Expert’s View
• Readers Ask: Q&A about the Moon’s Nodes by Donna Van Toen
• Fool’s Gold—the Slippery Slope of the South Node

Posts about the Moon and its Cycles:

• 2010 Eclipses–How do They Affect You?

• Eclipses: Moving Beyond the Four Walls of the Known
• Using the Daily Moon Sign to your Advantage
• How To Use The Moon For A Daily Emotional Weather Report
• The Void of Course Moon–A Lunar Sabbath?
• Why Transits to the Birth Moon are so Challenging
• How Outer Planet Transits to the Moon Affect Family Life
• The Progressed Moon through the 12 Houses
• A Question and Answer Session on the Progressed Moon by Gretchen Lawlor

Posts about Mercury and the 3rd House on this Blog:

 • How Strong is your Mercury? Here’s the Score!
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mercury and the 3rd House (links)
• Four Kinds of Smart–Which One Are You?
• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 3rd House, Mercury, and Gemini
• The Best of Readers’ Q & A about the 3rd House and Mercury
• Things You May Not Know about the 3rd and 12th Houses
• Viewing the 3rd House through Neptune’s Lens
• Understanding Mercury Aspects to the Moon
• Understanding Mercury-Saturn Combinations
• Understanding Mercury-Uranus Combinations—It’s DIY Time!
• Understanding Mercury-Pluto Combinations
• If It Weren’t for that Mercury Conjunction to Pluto….
• Cosmic Piñata #5—Mercurial Morsels
• Enough with the Mercury Retrograde Hysteria!
• Why Mercury Retrograde is a Good Thing–Its Helpful Uses
• Obama’s Flubbed Oath–Perfect Mercury Retrograde Story?
• Funny Quotes and Cartoons about Uranus, Venus, & Mercury
• Puzzle Lover? I’ll Bet your Mercury is Strong!
• A New Look at the Astrology of Twins
• English for Astrologers–No Astrobabble Please

Posts about Venus and Relationships:

• AstroDebate—Which Sign does Venus Really Rule?

• How Strong is Your Venus? Here’s the Score!
• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 7th House
• Venus-Saturn Aspects—Waiting for Love
• Chart Clues to Marriage—Will You or Won’t You?
• Why It’s Hell Being a Libra any More!!
• Why It’s Hell Being a Libra
• Venus-Uranus Aspects among the Glitterati
• Venus-Uranus Aspects: Two-Minute Friends and other Modern Relationships
• Saturn in Libra: How to Set Healthy Boundaries
• Saturn Transits the 7th House—a Rare Interview with Father Time Himself
• Relationship Patterns of Venus-Neptune Aspects
• 80 Qualities of Venus in the 12th or other Venus-Neptune Combinations
• How to Survive Your Pisces Sweetheart
• Difficult Neptune Aspects in Chart Comparison
• What your Astrology Chart Says about your Boundary Issues
• The Steamy Side of Venus-Pluto Aspects—A Photo Gallery
• High Maintenance–a Venus-Pluto Vignette
• Venus in the Elements: Fire, Earth, Air, & Water
• Missing Elements and How They Affect Your Relationships
 • Libra Alert: Personal Power & What It Looks Like in a Friendship
• Libra Alert: How to Stop Being a People Pleaser

Posts about Mars:

• How Strong is your Mars? Here’s the Score!

• Mars and Conflict—Road Block or Productive Detour?
• Mars Mission 2: Anger—the Guard Dog of Denial
• Mars Alert—Code Red!
• Mars Retrograde 101—Answering your Questions
• Understanding Mars in the Fixed Signs
• Mars-Pluto Aspects? Use your Manifestation Mojo!
• The Mars-Uranus Conjunction in Pisces and Children Born with it
• The Law of Progressive Annoyance—Mars or Jupiter?
• Mars—What Great Minds say about Its Functions
• Depp’s Darker Roles—Where Do They Show in his Chart?

Posts about Jupiter:

• How Strong is your Jupiter? Here’s the Score!
• Hyperactive Jupiter Syndrome—The Down Side of an Upbeat Planet
• What Jupiterians DON’T Know–but Think They Do
• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 9th House
• Use Jupiter Transits to the Vocational Houses for a Career Boost
• Jupiter in the 12th—When Does Good Luck Turn Bad?
• Why Saturn has as much to do with Luck as Jupiter
• Jupiter and the Astrology of Self-Justification
• The Law of Progressive Annoyance—Mars or Jupiter?
• Jumpin’ Jehosephat—Jupiterian Wisdom and Wisecracks

Posts about Saturn:

• How Strong is your Saturn? Here’s the Score!
• Saturn’s Delays and Why We Should Embrace Them
• Venus-Saturn Aspects—Waiting for Love
• Saturn Transits the 7th House—a Rare Interview with Father Time Himself
• Saturn Retrograde in Libra: Relationship Revision Time
• Saturn in Libra: How to Set Healthy Boundaries
• Astrology and Conscious Parenting: Saturn in Synastry
• Why Saturn has as much to do with Luck as Jupiter
• What Planet Rules Mentorship? Saturn or Chiron?
• Life Patterns of People Born with Uranus-Saturn Aspects
• How the Pluto-Saturn Square may Affect People born with that Aspect
• The Cosmic Piñata, Part 1 — Saturn Transits and Insights into the Houses
• Saturn Transits—What do They Mean to your Career?
 • Taming Transiting Saturn
• Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
• Quotes about Saturn’s Issues—Wise Counsel from our Elders
• The Saturn-Neptune Quincunx and its Part in our Economic Woes

Posts about Chiron:

• From Joyce Mason: Chiron Quiz: How Strong is Your Chiron? and The Chiron
Resonance Quiz: What’s Your Chi-Res Score?
• Chiron Potpourri—a Q&A Session with Joyce Mason
• Chiron and Vocation: Do What You Love and Wholeness Will Follow
• Chiron Cycles and Life’s Purpose
• Chiron Transits—a Q&A Session by Joyce Mason
• What Planet Rules Mentorship? Saturn or Chiron?
• Chiron and Humour: Wounded Clowns that Heal Us
• AstroDebate—What’s the Ruler of Virgo?
• Clowning Around with Chiron, Robin Williams, and an Eclipse

Part 3B: Posts about the Outer Planets

Posts about Uranus:

• How Strong is your Uranus? Here’s the Score!
• 10 Things You May not Know about Uranus
• Uranus In The Career Houses—“You’re Not The Boss Of Me!”
• Career Challenges for the Pluto-Uranus in Virgo Generation
• Venus-Uranus Aspects among the Glitterati
• Venus-Uranus Aspects: Two-Minute Friends and other Modern Relationships
• The Mars-Uranus Conjunction in Pisces and Children Born with it
• Three Things I’ve Loved about Uranus in Pisces
• Celebrating the Last–and Future–Uranus in Pisces Generation
• Uranus in Aries and the Cosmic Soup
• Uranus in Aries—a Heads Up for the Accident Prone
• Uranus in Aries & Flower Essences–8 Years of Significant Change Ahead
• Relocating under Fire? Help from Astrology and Essences
• Career Challenges for the Pluto-Uranus in Virgo Generation
• Life Patterns of People Born with Uranus-Saturn Aspects
• Challenge: Interpret the Uranus-Neptune Conjunction of the 1980s-90s
• Best Interpretations of the Uranus-Neptune Conjunction—Contest Results
• Neptune & Uranus in Mutual Reception
• Uranian Ideas—Exceptional Thoughts about an Exceptional Planet

Posts about Neptune:

How Strong is your Neptune? Here’s the Score!
22 Articles about Neptune on Skywriter
Neptune Squaring the Midheaven—How It Affects your Career
Neptune and the Cosmic Soup
Relationship Patterns of Venus-Neptune Aspects
80 Qualities of Venus in the 12th or other Venus-Neptune Combinations
Neptune’s Role in Giving and Receiving
Difficult Neptune Aspects in Chart Comparison
Addicted to Anguish–a Sketch of one Neptunian Type
Viewing the 3rd House through Neptune’s Lens
Neptune in the 11th House–Setting Boundaries in Friendship
Fog in the Workplace—Neptune or Pisces in the Career Houses
Neptune’s in your Career House? It’s not a Transit, It’s an Epoch!
Skywriter’s Readers share their own Neptunian Career Tales
Neptunian Musings—Mysterious but Strangely Apt Quotations

Posts about Pluto:

• How Strong is your Pluto? Here’s the Score!
• PlutoPaloozas, Here’s Plenty of Pluto Posts!
• 6 Things You May Not Know about Pluto
• Cosmic Piñata #3: A Plutonian Potpourri
• Pluto in the Career Houses–The Power to Manifest or Fail for Spite
• Career Challenges for the Pluto-Uranus in Virgo Generation
• Outtake from a Moon-Pluto Life\
• Pluto Problems Got You Perplexed? Here’s What Helps!
• And You Thought Pluto Wasn’t Funny!
• Pluto in Capricorn: A Laugh and a Half
• What to Tell Astrology Clients about Pluto in Capricorn
• How the Pluto-Saturn Square may Affect People born with that Aspect
• The Steamy Side of Venus-Pluto Aspects—A Photo Gallery
• High Maintenance–a Venus-Pluto Vignette
• Mars-Pluto Aspects? Use your Manifestation Mojo!
• Healing Tools For Plutonians: Transforming The Self And Others
• The Houses–12 Different Ways to Heal from Stress and Trauma
• Pluto and Bullying: How to Recognize and Deal with It
• Battling the Bully – Standing Up For Yourself With Confidence
and Assertiveness
• Purge Yourself of Pluto’s Negativity—Get Free of Bitterness
• Pluto and the transiting Antiscia–not Over ’til It’s Over
• Planet or Not—Pluto IS Something!

LINKS TO THE BLOGATHON ARTICLES COLLECTIONS ABOUT THE

CARDINAL T-SQUARE: The International Astrology Day Blogathon of 2010 was
dedicated to helping people understand and work with the Cardinal T-square and
included collections of more than 70 articles about transits by Pluto, Uranus, and Saturn.
Go directly to the individual collections here:
 • Pluto Problems Got You Perplexed? Here’s What Helps!
• Look After Saturn and Saturn Will Look After You
• Uranus in Aries: Claiming a Self-Reliant Future
• Passing the Tests and Trials of Saturn to Build Better Relationships
• A Collection of Articles about Combining Essences and Astrology

Part 4—Building Blocks of Chart Interpretation

Posts about the Elements and Modes:

• How Cardinal are You? Here’s the Score!

• How Mutable are You? Here’s the Score!
• How Fixed are You? Here’s the Score!
• Understanding Mars in the Fixed Signs
• Cardinal T-Square Articles
• The Dance of the Primal Lights –How the Sun and Moon Light Up
the Personality
• Are You a Fire Type? Here’s the Score!
• Are You an Air Type? Here’s the Score!
• Are You a Water Type? Here’s the Score!
• A Terribly Tentative Test for the Earth Element in your Chart
• Healing With Fire, Earth, Air and Water
• Flower Essences for Difficult Patterns of Water and Air Signs
• Flower Essences for Difficult Patterns of the Fire and Earth Signs
• Missing Elements and How They Affect Your Relationships
• Get to Know the Water in your Chart–a Wetting Reception
• Bailing out the Water Signs–The Emotional Hangover Remedy
• Ways to Use Water to Heal Yourself and Others
• Much, Much More about your Watery Signs, Planets, and Houses!
• Our Precious Water Supply and How We Can Preserve It
• How You Know You’re a Water Sign
• A Water Sign, in her Element at Last—Writing Wet, not Dry
• Venus in the Elements: Fire, Earth, Air, & Water
• Four Kinds of Smart—Air, Earth, Fire, and Water
• Cosmic Piñata #4: Astrological Oddities—or Not?

Articles from the Series about Aspects:

• Aspects 101: Major Astrological Aspects and What They Mean

• Readers Ask—Q&A about Conjunctions
• How to Analyze a Conjunction
• Challenge: Interpret the Uranus-Neptune Conjunction of the 1980s-90s
• Best Interpretations of the Uranus-Neptune Conjunction—Contest Results
 • I See Dead People’s Charts–Amelia Earhart
• The Least Aspected Planet—What Role Does It Play in your Life?
• The Not so Minor Aspects—Results of Our Research
• Understanding Semisquares—Your Input Needed
• Understanding the Sesquiquadrate—Your Input Needed
• Understanding Septiles–Your Input Needed
• Understanding Quintiles—What’s YOUR Talent?
• Understanding the BiQuintile—Your Input Needed
• Quincunx vs. BiQuintile–an Answer from Numerology?
• Understanding the Mundane Square—Your Input Needed
• Mundane square case study: Outtake from a Moon-Pluto Life
• Breathing Refined Air: The Esoteric Aspects
• Is the Semi-Sextile a Good Aspect or a Bad One?
• Neptune & Uranus in Mutual Reception
• Pluto and the transiting Antiscia–not Over ’til It’s Over
• The Antiscia are Coming! The Antiscia are Coming!

Part 5—Astrology Applications (Career, Family, Etc.)

Posts about Family Life:

• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 5th House

• Things You May Not Know about the 5th House and Children
• Highlights of Our Discussion on the 5th House and Children
• A New Look at the Astrology of Twins
• Astrology and Conscious Parenting: Saturn in Synastry
• Tips for Working with Teenagers’ Charts
• The Mars-Uranus Conjunction in Pisces and Children Born with it
• Pluto and Bullying: How to Recognize and Deal with It
• How Outer Planet Transits to the Moon Affect Family Life

Posts about Vocational Astrology:

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 2nd House

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 6th House
• Readers Ask—Q & A about the 10th House
• Readers Ask—Q & A about the Midheaven
• Midheaven 101—What the 10th House Cusp Shows about You
• The Midheaven/IC Axis: Who Wore the Pants in your Family?
• The Midheaven in Synastry—Meaningful Career Connections
• Research Question—What did You Want to Be when You Grew Up?
• Uranus In The Career Houses—“You’re Not The Boss Of Me!”
• Neptune Square the Midheaven—How It Affects your Career
• Pluto in the Career Houses–The Power to Manifest or Fail for Spite
 • Fog in the Workplace—Neptune or Pisces in the Career Houses
• Use Jupiter Transits to the Vocational Houses for a Career Boost
• Neptune’s in your Career House? It’s not a Transit, It’s an Epoch!
• Skywriter’s Readers share their own Neptunian Career Tales
• Chiron and Vocation: Do What You Love and Wholeness Will Follow
• Career Challenges for the Pluto-Uranus in Virgo Generation
• Life Patterns of People Born with Uranus-Saturn Aspects
• Saturn Transits—What do They Mean to your Career?
• Transits to the Vocational Houses–Temp Job or Career Departure?

Posts in the Astrology and Personal Finances series:

• Astrologers’ Hang-ups about Money—How they Hurt our Clients

• Readers Ask: Q & A about the 2nd House
• The 2nd House and Money Management Patterns
• Your 2nd House—A Clue to Extra Income
• Everything You Ever Wondered about the 8th House…
• Living Off the Books—an 8th House Quicksand
• Uranus in the 2nd—Freedom & Individuality, vs. Financial Stability
• Saturn and Uranus Transits to the 2nd/8th House Axis
• Neptune in the 2nd—Money, Boundaries, & Codependency
• Neptune Transits to the 2nd-8th Axis—Time to Get Real about Money
• Money and Pluto in the 2nd House—The Haves vs. the Have Nots
• Pluto Transits to the 2nd or 8th —Money Issues Get Murky
• Thought Forms–How They Add to Money Blocks
• More Help for Money Blocks—Clearing Past Life Barriers

Relocation and Astro*Carto*Graphy Articles:

• Cosmic Piñata #7: Astro*Carto*Graphy Stories

• Chart Patterns for Relocation—What’s Yours?
• "Am I Gonna Move?" (At Continuum.net)
• Can Relocation Help the Outer Planet Person?
• Relocating under Fire? Help from Astrology and Essences

Posts Related to Boundaries:

What your Astrology Chart Says about your Boundary Issues
Boundaries 101 ~ A Course for Neptunians
Boundaries 201–Ten More Tips for Neptunians
Boundaries 301: How to Deal With a Moocher
Neptune in the 11th House–Setting Boundaries in Friendship
6 Common Misconceptions about Boundaries in a Relationship
The 3 Major Ways of Setting Boundaries—Which Type are You?
Feeling Drained by a Relationship? Cut those Psychic Cords!
Libra Alert: How to Stop Being a People Pleaser
Libra Alert: Personal Power & What It Looks Like in a Friendship
Saturn in Libra: How to Set Healthy Boundaries
How to Recognize and Deal with an Abusive Person
Pluto and Bullying: How to Recognize and Deal with It
Battling the Bully – Standing Up For Yourself With Confidence and Assertiveness

FREE DOWNLOAD: One of the chapters of my ebook, Counseling Principles for

Astrologers goes into codependency and its implications for practicing astrologers in
depth. Download it here: ch7 – codependency.

Series on Resentment, Bitterness, and Forgiveness:

• Purge Yourself of Pluto’s Negativity—Get Free of Bitterness

• Stuck For What Seems Like Forever? Maybe Areas of Unforgiveness are the Cause
• How to Handle Chronic Complainers
• Forgiveness–the Final Frontier
• Healing Tools For Plutonians: Transforming The Self And Others

Articles about Flower Essences on Skywriter:

• Flower Essences for Difficult Patterns of Water and Air Signs

• Flower Essences for Difficult Patterns of the Fire and Earth Signs
• (Donna’s podcast on essences) http://chrisflisher.com/radio_000.htm.
• In a Crisis? Rescue Remedy Can Help You through It
• Hope for Those in the Dark Night of the Soul
• Uranus in Aries & Flower Essences–8 Years of Significant Change Ahead
• Relocating under Fire? Help from Astrology and Essences
• Common Issues of Pluto and Saturn—and Flower Essences that Help
• Space Clearing, Flower Essences, and the Art of Sacred Space
• Saturn Remedies–Flower Essences for Overcoming Fear and Worry
• Ways to Use Water to Heal Yourself and Others
• Red Clover Essence–A Gentle Antidote to Mass Hysteria, by Sheryl Karas

For those of you who aren’t familiar with flower essences, download the introductory
chapter of my ebook, Flower Remedies—How Plants’ Energies Can Heal Us: flower
essence information-ch1. (You can order the book itself here:
http://www.moonmavenpublications.com/mysteries.html.)

Q&A Series on a Variety of Topics, including Guest Bloggers:

• A Question and Answer Session on the Progressed Moon by Gretchen Lawlor

• Readers Ask: Q&A about the Moon’s Nodes by Donna Van Toen
• Chiron Potpourri—a Q&A Session with Joyce Mason
• Q&A: What Professional Astrologers Want to Know
 • Q&A Session: Tips for Building an Astrology Practice

Part 6: Articles for Professional Astrologers

• Q&A: What Professional Astrologers Want to Know

• English For Astrologers–No Astrologese Please
• Astrologers’ Hang-ups about Money—How they Hurt our Clients
• Awful Things Astrologers Say to Clients
• Real World Astrology—Continuing Ed for Professionals
• Tips for Working with Teenagers’ Charts
• Chart Clues to Marriage—Will You or Won’t You?
• More Insights into Healing Grief and Loss
• What Planet Rules Mentorship? Saturn or Chiron?
• Avoiding Potholes on the Professional Path (Link post)

Working with Difficult Transits in a Client’s Chart:

• Facing the Difficult Potentials of a Transit

• Talking to Clients about Difficult Transits–Readers Have Their Say
• A Promise Fulfilled: When Transits Echo Natal Aspects
• In the Eye of the Storm—How Outer Planet Transits Work
• Why Transits to the Birth Moon are so Challenging
• How Outer Planet Transits to the Moon Affect Family Life
• Transits to the Vocational Houses–Temp Job or Career Departure?
• Catastrophobia: What Causes it and How to Heal it
• What to Tell Astrology Clients about Pluto in Capricorn
• Pluto Problems Got You Perplexed? Here’s What Helps!
• Pluto-Saturn Preparedness 2: Best Case/Worst Case Scenarios
• See a series of 25 articles here: A Pluto-Saturn Preparedness Kit
• FREE TRANSIT TRACKER: This handy one-page reference summarizes the
transits of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto from 1990-2012. Use it to look
back on past transits to your chart or your clients' and to look forward for the next
few years. Download it here: Transit Tracking Table for 1990-2012.

Doing Astrology Charts for Young People:

• Tips for Working with Teenagers’ Charts

• Bringing Hogwarts to American Teens—the Curriculum for my Class
• I Was a Teenage Astrologer: An Astrology Reference Guide for Teens
• Uranus Aries for Teens: Young Fool at the Edge
• Contest—Interpret the Uranus-Neptune Conjunction of the 1980s-90s
• The Importance of Astrology’s Vocabulary

Common Concerns of Practicing Astrologers:

 • Q&A Session: Tips for Building an Astrology Practice
• Neptune and the Cosmic Soup–How Psychic Contagion Depletes Us
• Shields Up! Fight Second-hand Fear and Despair!
• Space Clearing, Flower Essences, and the Art of Sacred Space
• Boundaries 201–Ten More Tips for Neptunians
• Living Off the Books—an 8th House Quicksand
• Healing Tools For Plutonians: Transforming The Self And Others
• How to Make Sure a Birth Chart is Accurate
• Getting the Birth Time Right—Polaris Software Makes It Possible
• Avoiding Potholes on the Professional Astrologer’s Path (Link post)

If you’re a professional astrologer or studying to become one, I

haven’t run out of things to say by a long sight! The book I’m
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an Effective Change Agent, a text for the consulting astrologer. It
takes my background of a Master’s degree in Social Work and
translates it to the framework of the astrology session. There are
chapters on:

• how begin, focus, and end a session effectively

• communicating clearly and initiating a dialogue
• vocational astrology sessions
• working with the charts of children and teens
• ethical issues that arise in the course of a session
• referring clients to other professionals for further work
• building a practice

Add this book to your professional library for $15 at Moon Maven Publications.

More Tips about Promoting Yourself:

• Q&A Session: Building an Astrology Practice

• Free Advertising—How to Create Email Signatures
• The Best Marketing Tool for your Astrology Blog–An Effective “About
Me” Page
• Can U Blog? What to Look for in the Birth Chart
• How to Add Impact to Your Site with Pictures
• Tips for Bloggers 1—Retooling your Astrology Posts to Keep them Fresh
• Tips for Bloggers 2—Backlinks and other Tactics
• Tips for Bloggers 3–A Promising Anthology on Blogging
• Testimonials that Work: Promote Yourself with Integrity, Credibility—
and Class!
Writing Tips–10 Dos and Don’ts for Astrology Blogs

Part 7: Strictly for Fun

Celebrity Charts:

• Depp’s Darker Roles—Where Do They Show in his Chart?

• Bruce Willis–the Man Who Has Everything Now Has a Second Wife
• Craig Ferguson Marries a Cunningham!
• Clowning Around with Chiron, Robin Williams, and an Eclipse
• Morgan Freeman and Nelson Mandela—Are their Charts Alike?
• 12 Famous People with 12th House Suns
• Things You May Not Know about the 3rd and 12th Houses (Jack Nicholson)
• Venus-Uranus Aspects among the Glitterati
• Betty White—the Very Essence of Uranus in Pisces
• Celebrating the Last–and Future–Uranus in Pisces Generation
• I See Dead People’s Charts–Amelia Earhart
• Whoopi Goldberg’s Sun, Moon, and Ascendant: A Perfect Storm

Links to Sites featured as Internet Find of the Week:

• Internet Find of the Week—Research into Affirmations, Jealousy, and other

Psychological Issues
• Internet Find of the Week: New Resources for Healing Grief and Loss
• The Planet ahead of your Sun—and What It Says about You
• Internet Find of the Week—the Arabian Parts Calculator
• Spend Time on Memory Lane—Visit the Astrologers’ Memorial
• Secret Moon Art–Jude Cowell’s Visionary Work
• 5 Funny Astrology Blogs to Visit
• The Cosmic Piñata #2: Treats from other Astrology Blogs
• A Multimedia Zodiac—Look, Listen and Enjoy!
• Hear Donna Cunningham on Web Radio
• How to Add Impact to Your Site with Pictures

Other Editions of the Cosmic Piñata Column:

The Cosmic Piñata, Part 1 — Saturn Transits and Insights into the Houses
The Cosmic Piñata #2: Treats from other Astrology Blogs
Cosmic Piñata #3: A Plutonian Potpourri
Cosmic Piñata #4: Astrological Oddities—or Not?
Cosmic Piñata #5—Mercurial Morsels
Cosmic Piñata #6—a Moon Miscellany

Humor Posts:
Clients Say the Darndest Things!
An Improbable Best-Seller List: Self-Help Books for all 12 Signs
Spotlight on Leo—a Tale of three Queens
The Astrologer with a Magic Lamp
And You Thought Pluto Wasn’t Funny!
Put Yourself in Scorpio’s Shoes
What’s So Rare as a Day in June? You tell me!
Funny Quotes and Cartoons about Uranus, Venus, & Mercury
The Law of Progressive Annoyance—Mars or Jupiter?
Hyperactive Jupiter Syndrome—The Down Side of an Upbeat Planet
Chiron: Send in the (Wounded) Clowns
Mayan Calendar Jokes: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the End of the World
10 Impossible Things—Do You Believe?
Beam Me Up? I don’t THINK so!!

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