ASTROLOGY & TAROT WITH ALICE
WONDERLAND CHART INTERPRETATION
A Wonderland Chart Interpretation is not just a reading, it’s a story. A living, symbolic journey through your birth chart, guided by the characters and archetypes of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There.
Alice is the protagonist in Wonderland. In the birth chart she is the Sun. Whist the Sun is not at the centre of the chart, it is the central point of focus. The Sun is your quest, the part of you seeking to live fully, to shine with authenticity, and to express the energy of your star sign in a conscious and integrated way. The Sun’s journey is your soul’s unfolding through life.
In a Wonderland reading you take the place of Alice in the story and it is your personal journey through Wonderland. Your chart becomes your Wonderland, a dreamlike, symbolic landscape filled with meaning and transformation.
The other planetary bodies in your chart, like the Queen of Hearts (Eris), the White Rabbit (Mercury), the Mad Hatter (Uranus), are parts of you. Each character you meet represents an inner figure, an aspect of your psyche, a voice in your story. Some offer guidance. Some bring challenge. All are longing to be acknowledged, engaged with, and integrated.
This reading is for seekers, storytellers, and dreamers. For anyone who believes that self-understanding can be imaginative, and that the path to healing sometimes begins by following the White Rabbit.
The Sun: Alice
The Sun represents the core of who we are, our identity, vitality, and the light we radiate into the world. It symbolises our conscious self, the part of us that seeks purpose, clarity, and authentic expression. Like the Sun in the solar system, it is central in the birth chart, anchoring and illuminating all the other planetary energies. The Sun’s placement by sign and house reveals where we shine most naturally, and what kind of journey we’re on toward self-realisation and inner sovereignty.
In Wonderland, Alice herself beautifully embodies the essence of the Sun. She is curious, bright, and centred in her own experience as she navigates a world that constantly changes around her. No matter how strange or chaotic Wonderland becomes, Alice keeps returning to herself, questioning, observing, and choosing her next steps with growing awareness. Like the Sun she is the steady centre of the story, illuminating meaning in the madness and bringing warmth and presence to every scene. Her journey is not just one through a fantastical world, but through the unfolding of her own identity. She shows us how the Sun shines not through certainty, but through the courage to keep asking, “Who am I?”
The Moon: The White Queen
The Moon represents our inner world, our instincts, emotions, and the subtle tides of feeling that move beneath the surface. It governs memory, intuition, and the mysterious realm of the unconscious. The Moon doesn’t shine its own light but reflects, absorbs, and responds. It is changeable and cyclical, yet deeply attuned. It's placement in the chart reveals how we feel safe, how we nurture and are nurtured, and what lies hidden beneath our visible self.
In Wonderland, the White Queen embodies the Moons softness, intuition, and emotional tides. She is gentle yet changeable, reflecting the Moon’s shifting phases and moods. Like the Moon, she governs the hidden rhythms of care, memory, and protection. Her dreamy, whimsical nature mirrors lunar imagination, where reason yields to feeling. She soothes, nurtures, and guides through compassion rather than authority. In Wonderland’s chaos, she is the reflective light, uncertain yet essential, revealing how tenderness and receptivity shape the ebb and flow of our inner lives.
South Node & North Node: The Red Queen & The Girl with the Golden Crown
The lunar nodes are not planets but invisible points of fate charting the arc of our evolution. They’re thresholds, not things, like mirrors in the sky. In, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, we meet the Red Queen and the Girl with the Golden Crown. Like the nodes themselves they belong to a liminal world beyond logic, through transformation. They belong through the looking glass.
☋ South Node: The Red Queen
Brisk and commanding, the Red Queen insists on rules and relentless motion. “It takes all the running you can do to stay in the same place,” she tells Alice. This is a perfect echo of the karmic treadmill of the South Node. She is control without peace, effort without arrival. She is where you’ve been.
☊ North Node: The Girl with the Golden Crown
Serene and luminous, she arrives at the end of Alice’s journey. She doesn’t strive, she becomes. “I can’t go any faster… for I must be Queen by myself.” The North Node is this inner becoming: graceful, sovereign, and whole. She is where you’re going.
Mercury: The White Rabbit
Mercury is the planet of perception, governing thought, communication, and the swift movement of ideas. It rules over language, logic, timing, and the way we connect dots between worlds inner and outer. Mercury is both messenger and trickster, slipping between opposites, darting between realms, and forever seeking. Where Mercury lies in a chart reveals how we process, speak, learn, and navigate the here and now with wit and adaptability.
In Wonderland, the White Rabbit is Mercury in motion. Always in a rush, checking his pocket watch, fretting over lateness, he is time-awareness incarnate. Yet he also opens thresholds. It is by chasing him that Alice begins her descent into a new reality. He is the signal, the question, the spark of curiosity that sets the journey in motion. Like Mercury, he moves between dimensions, unknowingly guiding others through thresholds of thought. He reminds us, one odd detail can change everything.
Venus: The Garden of Talking Flowers
Venus is the planet of harmony ruling love, beauty, magnetism, and values. Her placement in our chart provides insight into how we relate and what we may find beautiful. She governs our aesthetic senses, and the gentle rhythms of relational grace. Her placement shows how we attract, seduce, and what we hold dear in the dance of give and take. She reveals to us how our values emerge within our relationships and within society.
In Wonderland, the Garden of Talking Flowers reflects Venus
through beauty, charm, and social interplay. Each flower, vibrant and unique, represents the diversity of values, preferences, and desires that shape how we connect. Their voices show that relationships are never silent, they are full of opinions, exchanges, and subtle power dynamics. Just as Venus rules attraction and harmony, the flowers embody how society mirrors back our own worth, demanding we define what we value in love and belonging. In this garden our values become a living ecosystem, where individuality of expression blooms, and like any healthy relationship, growth depends on
cooperation and respect
Mars: The Gryphon
Mars is the planet of force of directness, willpower, and drive. He governs action and force, the sharp-edged will that cuts through delay. At his best, Mars is the commander, focused and unyielding, pushing forward through hesitation and noise.
In Wonderland, the Gryphon is Mars in action. He is brash and commanding, He is interested in adventure, not explanation. He is less emotional and more practical, gruff and dutiful, and urges Alice to hurry up, to keep moving, to listen, learn, and act. He is cutting, his words edged with steel. His presence demands action, not introspection. Like Mars, he leads by doing. He reminds us that courage is perseverance. It’s showing up, pressing on, and refusing to drown in emotion when the battle calls. He is Mars in form, sharp, action-orientated, and unrelenting.
Lilith: The Dutchess
Lilith is the point of raw, untamed instinct, the place where we refuse to be domesticated, diminished, or made palatable. She rules the exiled parts of the self, the ones deemed too loud, too sensual, too strange, or too defiant to be welcome at the table. Lilith is the wound of rejection turned into a banner of self-possession. Where she resides, shame is burned away and replaced with an unapologetic truth. She does not seek permission to exist she simply exists, and in doing so, challenges the order that would prefer her absence.
In Wonderland, the Duchess is Lilith’s perfect mirror. She is brash, unfiltered, and unbothered by the niceties that keep Wonderland’s chaos polite. She rocks the cradle while spouting sharp truths, a baby-turned-pig squealing in her arms. Her manners are outrageous, her commentary cutting, her presence impossible to ignore. She is the inconvenient guest who brings the shadow into the parlour. Her behaviour is equal parts grotesque and honest. Like Lilith, the Duchess refuses to smooth her edges for anyone’s comfort. She is the reminder that truth is often ugly, and that the most unsettling voices are sometimes the ones that cannot be silenced.
Jupiter: The Caterpillar
Jupiter is the planet of expansion, growth, wisdom, perspective, and the quest for truth. It governs philosophy, higher learning, and the teacher within. Jupiter doesn’t force, it invites. It asks questions that open worlds. Where it appears, it seeks meaning and evolution through lived experience.
In Wonderland, the Caterpillar is Jupiter cloaked in smoke and questions. Perched on a mushroom, he asks not what Alice knows, but who she is, a question vast enough to launch a lifetime of seeking. He doesn’t instruct, he provokes. His calm detachment conceals a quiet mastery, nudging Alice to think beyond her current form. With his cryptic counsel and transformative potential, he acts like guru, the philosopher, an invitation to meaningful introspection. Like Jupiter, he does not hand over truth, he expands the path toward it. The Caterpillar reminds us, wisdom isn’t given, it’s grown into, one strange question at a time.
Saturn: The Dodo
Saturn is the planet of structure, responsibility, time, and consequence. It rules boundaries, rules, tradition, and the long arc of maturity. Often feared as the great restrictor, Saturn is also the wise teacher offering discipline, integrity, endurance and connects us to understanding how we feel safe. Where Saturn resides, we are tested, but also given the tools to build something lasting.
In Wonderland, the Dodo embodies Saturn’s dry logic and ceremonial formality. He creates order from absurdity, leading the Caucus Race where everyone runs in circles and still receives a prize because rules must be followed, even when they make no sense. He is ritualistic, procedural, and oddly dignified. The Dodo reflects Saturn’s love of systems, even flawed ones, and Saturns tendency to respond to uncertainty with process and structure. He reminds us that structure is a comfort when reality becomes surreal. Through his orderly nonsense, Saturn urges us to create form. In confusion, stand upright. In every race, find resolution.
Chariklo: Dinah
Chariklo is the asteroid of sacred presence, quiet healing, and energetic holding. She does not intervene or fix, she simply is, radiating a stillness that allows transformation to unfold. Chariklo is the calm beyond words, the sanctuary where the soul can exhale. Her gift is presence without pressure, love without condition. She nurtures through energy and light, offering space to remember who we are beneath the noise.
Dinah, Alice’s cat, is the essence of Chariklo. She is not a guide or a provocateur, she is home. Her presence is quiet, grounding, and deeply tender. Time spent curled up with a cat offers the opportunity to reset the nervous system. Dinah symbolises this sacred pause, the soft touch of unconditional safety. She reminds us that stillness is medicine. That in the stillness of the gentle now, something whole begins to return.
Chiron: The Mock Turtle
Chiron is the planet of sacred wounding, soul memory, and the long path to healing. It marks a place within us where pain becomes a teacher, not all at once, but through time, reflection, and often deeply private endurance. He is a guide back to ourselves through owning our story. In early life, Chiron’s presence is often hidden beneath confusion or longing. But as we near the Chiron return, something begins to shift. The wound becomes a doorway. What once ached begins to glow with meaning. This is not a fix, but a soft initiation into wisdom.
The Mock Turtle lives in this Chironic space. Slow, sorrowful, and full of memory, he speaks from the tender edge between grief and light. He carries the soft afterglow of sorrow, the ache of something lost, and the beauty of what remains. His story brings meaning to suffering, a spectrum of feeling, melancholy, gentleness and longing.
Uranus: The Mad Hatter
Uranus is the planet of awakening, disruption, and innovation. It breaks apart what no longer serves the soul to realign us with our truest intention. Where Saturn builds, Uranus liberates, shaking loose the structures that confine, while energising the structures that support the authentic self. When aligned with soul purpose, Uranus accelerates growth. It is not chaos for chaos’ sake, it is change for the sake of truth.
In Wonderland, the Mad Hatter embodies Uranus’ electric genius and irreverent clarity. Unbound by time, he questions the logic of the known world and turns routine on its head. Yet beneath the madness is insight, the soul cannot thrive in convention that dulls its light. Through riddles and rebellion he creates commotion and propels the world around him into a new structure.
Neptune: The Cheshire Cat
Neptune is the planet of dreams, intuition, and transcendence. It dissolves the hard lines of reality, inviting us into the imaginal, the symbolic, the sacred unknown that is constantly trying to emerge. Yet Neptune’s gifts are double-edged, its dreamscape can awaken us to divinity and peace, or pull us into fog and illusion. It calls us to listen with our hearts to our inner knowing and bring our imaginings to life. Neptune warns of the cost of evasion. When ignored or distorted, Neptune becomes escapism, addiction, confusion, and entrapment in delusion and institutions.
In Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat embodies Neptunes mystical qualities. He is a dream within the dream, appearing and vanishing at will. He speaks in riddles that contain a deep wisdom, and highlights the abstract nature of the world in which Alice has found herself, leaving Alice asking herself what is real. He symbolises that truth can not always be grasped logically, it must be sensed, surrendered to, and navigated through faith in the unseen.
Ixion & Sisyphus: Tweedledee & Tweedledum
Ixion and Sisyphus are not a mythic pair, but in the symbolic language of astrology, they move as warnings, two forces bound by punishment and motion. Ixion spins endlessly, punished for betraying divine trust, caught in the wheel of repetition. Sisyphus is in constant motion, pushing uphill. His efforts offer no progress, he is cleverness, cunning and deceit. They meet in cycles that bring no resolution, deeds of betrayal and subversive strategies that consume our psyche.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum are the essence of this pairing. They quarrel endlessly, mirror each other’s nonsense, and never truly change. Together they are the compulsion to engage in deceit, the endless cycle of reliving an injustice in our mind, the rush of victory through subertfuge, a drama ignited, and the self saboteur. They are the inability or unwillingness to forgive or forget. They descend into disorder where meaning making is both absurd and damaging. Their dance is futile, looping and strangely familiar. There is potential in their prose, yet it goes nowhere. They long to pull Alice, or anyone into their story, as together their need for an audience is paramount. This endless cycle does not seek resolution but perpetuation.
However, within the nonsense, a deeper pattern waits to be seen.
Pholus: The King of Hearts
Pholus is a centaur with an elliptical orbit that stretches from Jupiter and Saturn reaching towards the obit of Pluto. It is the spark that ignites transformation, a small act that opens a floodgate. His gift is catalytic, often quiet, but far-reaching. Pholus doesn’t roar he clears his throat, or rather pops the cork. His realm is the moment before the moment everything changes, when a subtle gesture shifts the entire field. He speaks to cause and effect, to the unseen potency of seemingly minor choices, especially within complex systems of power, lineage, or pressure.
The King of Hearts is the essence of Pholus. Overshadowed by the Queen, soft-spoken, and easily dismissed, he seems irrelevant until he acts. His murmured pardons at the croquet game, his trembling interjections in a violent court between the condemning shrills of the Queen of Hearts, are Pholus in motion, modest, yet laced with consequence. He is the quiet voice of karma and reckoning.
Medusa: The Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts in Wonderland is best understood through asteroid, Medusa. Medusa was once a maiden, transformed into a Gorgon whose gaze could turn men to stone. She became the embodiment of rage, terror, and the monstrous feminine, power made unapproachable, uncontrollable, and feared. In the Queen of Hearts, we see the same archetype, a figure whose very presence freezes others in dread, her cry of “Off with their heads!” acting like a petrifying spell. She is not reasoned with, only obeyed, her wrath spilling outward without proportion. In this way, the Queen of Hearts is Medusa in regal form, ruling through fear and shadow.
This archetype is also mirrored in the fixed star Algol, the Head of Medusa, one of the most feared and potent stars in the sky. Algol has long symbolized the intensity of uncontrollable passion and destructive fury. It is both terrifying and magnetic, a reminder of what happens when emotional power overwhelms its container. The Queen of Hearts, like Algol, embodies this raw force, chaotic, unrestrained, yet utterly commanding. Together, Medusa and Algol provide the perfect astrological mirror for the Queen of Hearts, the monstrous feminine enthroned, both absurd and absolute.
Pluto: The Jabberwocky
Pluto is the planet of transformation, power, death, and rebirth. It rules the underworld of the psyche, what is buried, hidden, taboo, or feared. Pluto does not ask politely, it strips away illusion, compels surrender, and demands truth from the depths. It is the evolutionary force that destroys what has decayed, so that something raw and essential can emerge. Where Pluto moves, we are never left unchanged. It is the force of the soul’s becoming, through the crucible of descent.
In Wonderland, the Jabberwocky embodies Pluto’s shadowed power and mythic intensity. It is the monster that must be faced, the part of the psyche we dread, deny, and yet are drawn toward. The Queen of Hearts holds its chains, but cannot tame its nature. Through confrontation with the Jabberwocky, Alice must summon the courage to meet what terrifies her most. Pluto speaks through this encounter, the only way out is through. Face the dark. Reclaim your power. Slay the false self to reveal the soul beneath.