Blame it on Yod
Not exactly a traffic jam, the yod configuration in a natal or transiting chart still causes chaos and confusion. After reading The Yod Book by Karen Hamaker-Zondag, an astrologer from the Netherlands, I know I felt perplexed. How, I wondered am I going to find these little devils in client's charts. However, with practice, perhaps spotting yods, also known as "the hand of God" in a chart will feel like a cake walk. According to Hamaker-Zondag, you can look for signs in your client's life such as feelings of restlessness, feeling pulled in three directions, or getting tossed into an event that is out of the client's control and just something he or she must endure until an endpoint with a transiting yod or until middle age, when the client learns how to handle the three-way energies of the yod. Some times more than three planets involve themselves with the yod and it's no longer a menage a trois affair. For instance, (and I'm getting ahead of mys