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Off Orbit Club · The Archive
Field notes from the edge of the chart.
Essays and slow reads where psychology and astrology actually talk to each other.
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Saturn walks into Aries, and suddenly everyone has homework.
There's a version of this transit that gets written every cycle — all discipline and drill-sergeant metaphors. Here's the version I find more honest.
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The eclipses are coming. Here's what they actually do.
Cutting through the doom framing to name what a Leo–Aquarius eclipse cycle is genuinely about — and what it isn't.
Jul 07, 2026
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On reading your chart without ruining it.
A working guide for the chart-curious skeptic — what to look for, what to ignore, what to sit with.
Jun 23, 2026
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What Jung got right about symbols — and what he didn't.
Reading through Man and His Symbols with a working astrologer's eye. Where the framework holds, and where it strains.
May 26, 2026
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Venus retrograde, without the melodrama.
Every eighteen months, the internet loses its mind. Here's what's actually on the table when Venus turns backward.
May 12, 2026