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Jupiter Pisces: We All Hurt, We all Love
The planet of journeys, Jupiter, is back in empathic, imaginative Pisces. Jupiter Pisces brings growth spurts, and a sense of awe, as what we've taken as fixed reality looks shimmery and changeable.
...about.com | 09-Sep-2010 16:07
New Moon Virgo: What's Getting You Through the Day?
It's the New Moon in Virgo today (6:30 am EDT), with its potent effects lasting for the next few days. How are you really doing these days? With Mercury in Retrograde, this question is up for many. It's a review of how we fill our days, and how we coped in times past, and now. Yesterday I saw a post from Evolver, that many on this social network are reporting things like "body aches and scary dreams" lately.
...about.com | 08-Sep-2010 14:33
Sacred Days
The Moon is in Virgo, in its holy time of the lights going out -- at the Dark Moon. Last night, in this very rural place, I turned off my flashlight, and it was pitch black. I couldn't even see the dirt road. That kind of dark is vast and disorienting. At the Dark Moon, we enter that open psychic terrain.
...about.com | 07-Sep-2010 10:44
New Moon in Virgo
The next few days is the Dark Moon phase, when less is more....and we are rewarded bigtime, when we go within. If you were born at the Dark Moon, or Balsamic Moon phase, you have a contemplative nature, at home in the chaotic cauldron where endings overlap with beginnings.
...about.com | 05-Sep-2010 13:40
Redemption from Dirty Business with Everyday Choices
"The hour is ours. It is time for each and every one of us to ask the important questions, to search our souls for our own answers, and to take action." These are the words of John Perkins, author of the bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. He's the ultimate insider who spent decades in what his corporate groomer warned him would be a dirty business. After helping corporations plunger entire countries and enslave them to debt, he's a man seeking redemption and a better world for his grandson.
...about.com | 03-Sep-2010 17:28
September: Libra and the Colors Within
Writing of the crisper air in Vermont, Mark Borax' September report makes me wistful for one of nature's most artful displays -- New England autumn colors. His Cosmic Weather Report, is a rich read, especially for Libras and those with Libra challenges. That means everyone, since we're all under Saturn's...
about.com | 02-Sep-2010 14:57
Half Moon: What's Essential?
The Moon is waning, creating the sense of lunar descent. From now until the New Moon in Virgo (on the 8th), the energy is on the wane, and we release what's non-essential, to be ready to plant seeds of the new.
...about.com | 01-Sep-2010 10:01
Wake Up Chaos
This morning, I came across an article written one year ago on 2010 predictions, that I think rings true. What caught my eye is the phrase wake-up chaos ...
about.com | 31-Aug-2010 14:19
Virgo Wellness Rx
Living with a Virgo, I'm familiar with the ace traits of Virgo -- like close observation, constant striving, and self-critique. And how this pressure to do good and be good can itself become a source of stress. In her Virgo Wellness Prescription this month, Stephanie Gailing of Planetary Apothecary reminds us that the Virgoan striving can inspire, but that "perfection" is not a human reality.
...about.com | 30-Aug-2010 14:52
An Urgent Call of the Land
A series of serendipities led me to the work of astrologer/agrarian Steven McFadden, with his powerful message, "The land is calling loudly, urgently. Time to respond." He's written three books on farming, the latest is The Call of the Land. And in a late July radio interview, he talked about the summer's intense astrology, "the industrial oil catastrophe" in the Gulf, and the need to listen for "What is the Land asking of me?"
...about.com | 29-Aug-2010 13:30
Clearing the Fog Friday
Some psychic gates opened for me at this Full Moon in Pisces, one that Art Gianfermo of Aquarian Solutions called, A Full Moon of Conspiracy, Paranoia and Craziness. That's what got me thinking about the need for psychic boundaries, and discipline about what I'm personally exposed to. There's a lot of indiscriminate emoting, and reactionary behavior lately that instinctively makes me self-protective. After all, I've got my own mad woman to dance with.
...about.com | 27-Aug-2010 11:07
The Gulf and the Depth of Illusion
With Virgo-Pisces in the house yesterday, Robert Phoenix honored the feminine on his show, the Daily Farcast -- standing up for the Great Feminine, the ocean of consciousness, the sea as conductor of life. He said, "Without the sea and without the attendant currents, both in the water and in the air, our planet is a dead planet."
...about.com | 25-Aug-2010 16:20
Full Moon: Lost to the World
It's been swampy wet and humid here, and that puts most everyone in a late summer stupor. Add the mystic's Moon, and it's a recipe for zoning out (in a good way). I did a few things yesterday that were very Pisces-Virgo: identified mushrooms (looking for the magic ones); dried out some books that got wet in the rain (page by page); did some research on lost worlds of the pre-Indian Moundbuilders.
...about.com | 25-Aug-2010 11:27
Sun in Virgo
Yay, the Sun is in Virgo and I for one welcome the busy bee energies. It's still the dog days here in the humid South, but there are subtle hints of the changing season. The Sun Virgo is a time of solar waning, with shorter days. And that kicks us into gear, to get more done, and prepare for the winter months of darkness. Traditionally, it's a time of preparation -- getting ducks in a row.
...about.com | 23-Aug-2010 14:49
Surrendering Moon
Give it a rest this Full Moon. Go within and listen to your own interior, as a way of finding security in a crazy time. It's an auspicious Moon for a healing crisis, when you've worked up enough faith to go ahead and fall apart a little or a lot. The Full Moon is in Pisces, engaging the mutable Virgo-Pisces line, with its instinct for taking the pieces and working healing magic to reshape the form.
...about.com | 22-Aug-2010 11:55
Mercury Rx Kicks Off Today
For this retrograde of the messenger Mercury, he's speedily cycling back in Virgo. It's worth slowing down, and leaving yourself more time to get places. Virgo is a physically jittery sign, so watch the anxiety levels, if the mind starts going 'round and 'round, thinking of all the things you have to do. Your mind may be elsewhere -- that's why little details can slip by that turn out to be big deals either in the moment, or later. Missing a turn off on the highway, for example, could disrupt your whole day.
...about.com | 20-Aug-2010 14:51
All Online Astrology Conference: Free Preview August 29th
The Jetsons' technology we all enjoy makes it possible to take part in video conferences with other participants from around the world. And a venture called Forum on Astrology is offering a conference this Fall, October 1st, 2nd and 3rd, with both live lectures and archives to listen to later.
...about.com | 19-Aug-2010 12:53
Wordless Wednesday: Ophiuchus
I saw this snake in the tree this morning, when I went to open the hen house door. This type of non-venomous snake is known as a chicken snake because it hangs around hen houses.
...about.com | 18-Aug-2010 10:09
The Starchild Skull: When Bones Tell a Radically Different Story
Capricorn rules bones, skeletons, teeth -- and some digging into their mysteries shows how a story can change in a radical way. For example, it was accepted history that 57 Irish immigrants working on the railroad in 1832 died of cholera. But a recent research dig of their bones, shows evidence of violence. This mirrors the Cardinal T-Square, for revolutionary discoveries (Uranus-Jupiter Aries) that alter the whole narrative (Saturn Libra) of human history or origins (Pluto Capricorn).
...about.com | 17-Aug-2010 13:24
Busting Out and Shaping Up: Jupiter Opposite Saturn
Jupiter and Saturn are often talked about as a duo. Jupiter is the thrill of learning and expanding, while Saturn is the sense of structure we need to feel that our lives have stability. They are expansion (Jupiter) and consolidation (Saturn) and we need both. Today, Jupiter is in its second of three oppositions to Saturn, putting that delicate balance to the test. The first was May 22nd, and the third is on March 28th, 2011.
...about.com | 16-Aug-2010 14:04
Astrology Radio
There are some great self-produced radio shows out there these days, on Blog Talk and other audio stream sites. Here's a list of Internet-based Astrology Radio Shows started that will be continually updated. If you are an astrologer with a radio show, let readers know about it by Uploading Info on what you cover. If you have a favorite online radio show, let me know at astrology.guide@about.com.
...about.com | 15-Aug-2010 17:41
Astrology Podcasts
I've got a List of Podcasts started that I know are favorites on the 'net. But it's a big astroblogosphere, so I'm inviting astrologers to Upload Info about your Podcast. What fascinates you lately? What's your podcast all about?
...about.com | 14-Aug-2010 14:44
Uranus Pisces: Wild Waters
The revolutionary planet Uranus goes back into Pisces, to submerge us in the deep end once again. Uranus is the one big cosmic body beyond Saturn, and so, is often seen as the one that breaks up forms, so humanity doesn't get stuck. This retrograde back into Uranus Pisces takes us back into the unfathomable depths of what's collectively held from across oceans of time.
...about.com | 13-Aug-2010 10:58
Moon Void-of-Course Today
I've got jittery hands that I'll blame on my Gemini Moon. Those with lots of Gemini may relate -- it's one reason why smoking is a hard habit to break for those born under the sign of the Twins.
...about.com | 12-Aug-2010 13:29
Coming Back From Overwhelm: Moon Virgo Day
At the grocery check out the other day, I noticed that the cashier didn't make eye contact with me. How overwhelming it must be to greet and smile at so many people every day. How many of us, I thought to myself, are way beyond what we can handle energetically. This is what causes us to check out of our bodies.
...about.com | 11-Aug-2010 14:42
Does the Earth Talk to Us Through Our Feet?
I've been walking barefoot more this summer, reminded by what Regina Meredith of Conscious Media Network said recently on her monthly show, The Fifth Element. That the Earth is constantly sending us messages through our feet. It makes me realize more profoundly, too, how paving over our Earth is so symbolic of our disconnect from the home planet. I wonder if all these earth quakes are in part, the Earth trying to free herself from all this suffocating asphalt.
...about.com | 10-Aug-2010 11:34
New Moon Leo: Be the Star You're Born to Be
Just when we could all use some Leo magic and self-love, comes the New Moon on Monday (Tuesday UT). The Sun and Moon glow apart from the Cardinal T-Square, and it's a SuperMoon -- a word used by Richard Nolle for when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth.
...about.com | 08-Aug-2010 15:55
A Grand Day: The Cardinal Cross
As the Moon moves into Cancer, the cardinal grand cross is turned ON with all four corners lit. To get a visual, look at the current chart. I know there's trauma out there, and many of us -- and the Earth itself -- are deep in Pluto's cauldron of change.
...about.com | 06-Aug-2010 14:10
Michael Erlewine on Solar Eruptions and the Self
The last of four solar flares, or CME's (coronal mass ejections) was early this morning (at 3 am EDT). Some places have seen the aurorae -- often called the Northern Lights -- that are the resulting geomagnetic storms from these solar flares.
...about.com | 05-Aug-2010 10:59
Uranus Aries: Waking Up to the Divine Spark
Though many of us feel pulled apart lately on the cosmic stretching machine, there is a Uranian silver lining. It's freeing us to have a more direct perception of life - the kind that animals, children and passionate mystics have.
...about.com | 04-Aug-2010 14:07
Geomagnetic Storms: Related to Purification?
Prepare yourselves, Earthlings -- we are about to experience some geomagnetic storms. Spaceweather.com has info on the Sun's outburst on August 1st -- a C3-class solar flare, solar tsunami and magnetic filaments -- expected to engage with the Earth's atmosphere on August 3/4th.
...about.com | 03-Aug-2010 15:27
Dancing with the Stars: Extra Points for Degree of Difficulty
The cardinal "climax" is here, a time of unprecedented high pressure that's complete now with Saturn's recent move (for good) into Libra. Mars is about to join Saturn (exact 7/31), to assert the power of passionate words and ideas. But civilized speech -- spoken with great control and power (Saturn-Mars) -- could erupt into frustrated rants and even physical aggression as it opposes Uranus-Jupiter in Aries. Be watchful for outbursts -- in yourself and others -- since they could escalate to shocking proportions.
...about.com | 30-Jul-2010 17:11
Tunnel of Transformation: Mars Joins In!
The tensions of the cardinal t-square are heightened over the next few days. Mars joins Saturn in Libra, and becomes the Law n' Order planet's smooth talking and insistent bouncer. With Mars Libra,...
about.com | 29-Jul-2010 11:17
Wonder Wednesday
In the book Heart Yoga, mystic Andrew Harvey describes how he once met the Dalai Lama and had the courage to ask him spontaneously, "What is the meaning of Life?" The Dalai Lama replied, "The meaning of life is to embody the Transcendent."
...about.com | 28-Jul-2010 10:47
Mercury Virgo: Thinking Things Through
Mercury goes into Virgo today, to join Venus-Mars, and discern what's going on in this time of seriously foggy conditions. This sharpens the focus, so we can make rational decisions based on boots on the ground information. For some, especially those living close to the Gulf, getting a handle on precisely what's going is critical for health and to keep daily life going.
...about.com | 27-Jul-2010 12:29
Saturn-Uranus: Free to be Me in the We?
Today's a big day on a few fronts, but let's look at Saturn-Uranus, exactly opposing again, but in cardinal signs this time. Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) are turning point signs, each impacting its environment through its element. Aries is the fire sign of knowing the Self through direct experience. Uranus Aries heralds a collective waking up to the joy of personal discovery. It's the cultivation of your own perspective, and learning who you are by following an inner directive, not repressing that to conform to the demands of others.
...about.com | 26-Jul-2010 13:32
Aquarius Full Moon: A Cosmic Tune-Up!
Yesterday, my husband and I were so wound up, that we decided to make dinner early -- to settle into a rhythm of preparation and eating together that's calming. It's one of the Ten Tips for Intense Times that may be helpful as we do our best to ride through these freak waves and high pressure zones. Slow down, do something rhythmic, stretch, knit, shell black-eyed peas (like I'm about to do).
...about.com | 25-Jul-2010 19:25
Jupiter-Pluto Square: Round One
There's an outrageous square coming up between Jupiter (Aries) and Pluto (Capricorn), at 4:18 am UT, early tomorrow. Grrrrrr.....the friction of the square rouses us out of complacency. It's invigorating, and fuel for our ambition. We are willing to do what it takes to birth the new, no matter what the costs.
...about.com | 24-Jul-2010 17:56
Full Moon Wakey Wakey
On top of it being a Full Moon in wired Aquarius weekend, many of the charged points of the cardinal grand cross hit exactness in the next few days. I know quite a few people feeling restless and having trouble sleeping. And there's a Jupiter-Pluto square tomorrow to rachet up the tension.
...about.com | 23-Jul-2010 19:22
Sun in Leo!
The Sun is at its most radiant in the sign it rules, Leo! Today's transition is the settling in of summer (in the No. Hem), in the fixed sign of pool parties, flings, flashy color, lazy days, kid-fun and living large. It's OK to squeeze the juicy pleasure out of what you love. In such anxious times, diversions of play and amusement help you keep your spirits up.
...about.com | 22-Jul-2010 13:10
Saturn's First Day in Libra
Saturn takes its exalted place in Libra today, and being Venus-ruled, it's like having a morally upright -- and elegant -- judge presiding. Saturn is less the heavy here, since Libra is an air sign with a built-in fairness detector. But its power is potent, with Libra being a cardinal sign that asserts itself dynamically -- always guided by the instinct for peace, love and harmony....not to mention high style and artful living. Saturn in Libra ...
about.com | 21-Jul-2010 12:44
Saturn's Last Day in Virgo
I'm hearing sighs of relief that Saturn is nearly out of Virgo. Since Sept. 2nd, 2007, Saturn has brought its maturing pressure to bear in a sign (Virgo) that's already relentless in its quest for discipline, health and order. It's Saturn's last day in Virgo, a time to reflect on what's been gained. Some good news -- chances are, any lifestyle changes you've made are permanent, as part of a new structure in place.
...about.com | 20-Jul-2010 14:02
Tough Talk from a Mystic and "Man on Fire"
In a talk with astrologer Robert Phoenix, the scholar-mystic Andrew Harvey comes down with a fury on the idea that we can visualize the Gulf back to its pristine state. We're not going to get off that easy, and this type of thinking, he says, is denial, and a narcissistic idea of what the divine is. His words remind me of Pluto transits, and how we try to bargain our way out of a loss, but only by surrendering to it, do we transform.
He's describing so well the rigorous initiation of Pluto in Capricorn when he says, "Do we think we have total control of the Earth and we can use intentional prayer to clean up our ca-ca? Or do we start to realize that we're in the hands of a divine that loves us but is also having to heal us because we're desperate addicts of power and domination -- by a desperately difficult bottoming out, which through miraculous grace, is also going to be a birth."
Andrew Harvey has a new book out called, Heart Yoga and has written another one called, The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism. In the talk, he gives listeners an idea of what he thinks is required of us, in this period of crisis, with practices like yoga, shadow work (of the collective and personal) and more.
At one point in the Interview,...
about.com | 20-Jul-2010 11:03
Despair and Hopelessness: Huge Changes Begin in Small Ways
I came across that song, I'd Love to Change the World over the weekend. It's a song that's always haunted me. The intensity of those times feels imprinted on my soul, having been born in the late sixties. And it's a hit for today's chaos -- the urgency many feel with all these drastic events happening, and the melancholy about being seemingly powerless to do anything about it.
...about.com | 19-Jul-2010 14:00
Lilou Mace: A Leo's One-Woman Show Inspires Others
I get a rush when I find a site that's deep into the quickening of our times. I'm bursting to share this one -- Lilou Mace Web TV.
...about.com | 17-Jul-2010 14:14
Young Seekers and the Ancient Ones
I've always thought that this era of Pluto in Capricorn will restore things Ancient and profound that have been buried. There's a lineage back in time to traditions that were powerfully aligned with Earth.
...about.com | 16-Jul-2010 10:50