For those of you curious about the deeper distinction between tropical and sidereal astrology, I wanted to offer a little more context here. This post is not an attack on tropical astrology. I believe tropical astrology is a profound symbolic and psychological system that has helped many people cultivate meaning, self-awareness, and connection to archetypal cycles. But the reason I personally practice through the sidereal zodiac is because I am deeply interested in astrology as an observational relationship with the actual sky. Sidereal astrology is used across many ancient astrological traditions and calculates the zodiac according to the visible constellations themselves. This means that when a sidereal astrologer says the Moon is in Scorpio, they are referring to the Moon’s observable placement against the stellar backdrop of Scorpio in the night sky. Due to the gradual shifting of the equinoxes over long periods of time, the tropical and sidereal zodiacs are currently separated...