On the Ninth House

The "House of Theos" and chafing against the edge of the known

I had been quietly studying astrology for years by the time I was pregnant, by the time we decided to name our son Theodore, gift from god. Nickname Theo, “god” himself, (oh no). The thing about gifts from the gods is that they wreak havoc and chaos as much as they inspire love and adulation, I’d joke with friends, Kiernan, myself in my journals. The na…