Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄

Writer, astrologer, synesthetic symbol lover.

[kirah 🌎 @kirahworld]

Somethings to look forward to I suppose

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

While his luminaries are ruled by a fallen Saturn in Aries, perhaps this is mirrored beautifully by his seminal 1995 album ‘Maxinquaye’ — a brooding, purgative record with a reputation for being sonically rule-defying…

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

… and, of course, the hair (where applicable).

As astrological physiognomy goes, for me, Leo Moon shows up a bit more in the dimples perhaps, and the aura surrounding one’s face. ♌︎

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

Luna in the Sun’s sign isn’t particularly obscure, it’s just that the Sun in Leo shows up so much in the person’s totality to the eye, particularly in the profile — and Leo Rising such remarkable valence, often seen most around the cheekbones, lips, teeth, smile…

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

Was pleased with myself for guessing that comedian Shane Gillis is a Leo Moon, as I find the valence of Leo Rising and overall aura of Leo Sun considerably easier to see than the Moon in Leo.

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

Is there anything more New Moon in Capricorn in my 3rd House, not unlike the one I was born just a day and some change after — the luminaries now very nearly conjunct my natal Moon-Mercury as well — than taking the Avanti West Coast train from London to Manchester? ♄ 🚉

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

Kanye posting pictures of Bianca Censori in a Burzum shirt just a couple weeks after apologizing for his, uh, reign-ending remarks is some truly next level edgelord publicity stunt shit 😂 ~ yeesh

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

That Mars-Saturn square was harder on the Scorpio Risings than I anticipated… it’s been nice to feel a visceral sense of ease return as the gridlock has faded. ♂ ♄

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

Ari Aster and Alex Wolff made no secret of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ being a big influence on ‘Hereditary’, but after seeing this movie I feel I’ve found another that may have shaped Aster’s filmmaking there. Solid recommend!

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

Recently got around to watching ‘The Babadook’… fantastic psychological horror film, imo. Beautiful use of blues and greys in the cinematic color palette, which for me helped emphasize the mix of ‘literal’ and symbolic in representing demons and unintegrated family trauma.

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

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[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

… if not with a touch of push-and-pull. Having my natal Mars in that 2nd/8th ‘Gates of Hades’ sitch, I feel greatly at ease in the eyes of these little deaths, with all their purification and refocusing ~

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

That Mars cazimi and the moments undulating from it have brought such a manifold clarifty… as someone with a Mars-ruled Ascendant, and the red planet in the 2nd averse to both this and a 3H Sun, the calcination of this transit has been a pleasant purge…

[Alexander Baker | Reverie Astrology ♄ @AlexBakerAstro]

@danwastro Very astute. And yet, all these depictions are oft spoken of, and equally true in the imaginal… as for me, I feel the Age of Air begs mastery of much more fundamental psychological building blocks: ending the constant abstraction of subject (Air) from object (Earth) for profit.

[Chris Brennan @chrisbrennan7]

I'm surprised and sad to hear that an astrologer named Chet Zdrowski passed away on June 6. Back in 2017 Chet and I collaborated on a detailed podcast episode on the life and work of the famous 20th century astrologer Dane Rudhyar.

[Carlos Fenollosa @cfenollosa]

After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel 😩

Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality.

[Scott Baker @bakerlink]

When I worked in newsrooms I kept a sign near my keyboard that said:

Avoid cliches like the plague.

Now I'm gonna need space for 50 more fantastic ideas...

[Gavi Begtrup @GaviBegtrup]

A 10-year-old girl is raped. The State forces her to remain pregnant and tells her to consider it an “opportunity.”

This isn’t Iran. This isn’t Gilead. This isn’t hypothetical.

This happened today in Ohio.

[☀️patrickwatsonastrology.com🌙 @pwatsonastro]

Mercury retrograde, take a bow