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Relax With A Cuppa, and ECLIPSE! New Issue Out Now!

14 Thursday Jun 2012

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Mucha’s ‘Seated Woman with Coffee Cup’ is all golden-y and Venus-like, don’t you think? pre-1939 {{PD-Art}}

So sorry, I’ve been MIA getting the new ECLIPSE together: this week an article on finding traits brought from past lives in the horoscope; Venus’ Direction and a Little on Uranus/ Pluto’s perfection, both coming up later this month; plus the Weekly Aspect and Lunar Forecast, and the New Moon! Subscribe and get it fresh in your email, at around 6:30 PM Pacific time tonight, the 14th, and every Thursday.

Here’s a peek, from ‘The Direction of Venus’:

Venus goes direct on 27 June at 8:06:49 AM Pacific time at 7 Gemini 29. Is all this down-to-the-second precision necessary? Not always, but this time she’ll be catching up with the Sun by semi-sextile less than 24 hours after her direction (and of course quincunxing the Earth), and is within  aspect of Pallas/ Uranus (sextile), a sesquiquadrate of Saturn, a square to Chiron, and a quincunx to Pluto, which is less than one degree from exact conjunct Earth. That’s not even counting aspects at more than 2.5 degrees, because we don’t get all sloppy and invite everybody to the party, do we? Of course not; we only want those who will be intimately bound up with (or at least fencing with) our goddess of Love. How else would we know what she’ll have her eye on?

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Just a Little Lunar Essence for Today 13 June 2012: ‘Hot and Windy, with a Chance of Aggression’

13 Wednesday Jun 2012

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From the current ECLIPSE (Get it Here!):

12:30 PM PDT the Aries Moon quincunxes Mars in Virgo; is it dry in here, or is it just me? So much naked assertive energy armed with facts and details and a hot breath of intuition makes getting in touch with emotions nearly impossible; either we think we’re ‘Feeling Whisperers’ but end up beating everyone with the broad side of our Arian sword (or maybe with a big heavy accounting ledger!) trying to get to the emotion, or we try to straightforwardly talk it out only to find actions and exchanges devolving into criticism spoken or acted out. This is best used as an opportunity to adjust our emotional need to assert, and to become more aware of the ways in which we may judge when the situation doesn’t really call for our opinion.

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Just a Little Lunar Essence for Today 12 June 2012: ‘Shush’

12 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Just a little something from ECLIPSE Weekly Aspect Digest; for the whole picture, click here

We have a 5:30 PM PDT square of the Aries Moon to Mercury in Cardinal signs. Uncomfortable emotions may push us to tell way too much about what we care about/ for (Merc in Cancer). Sharing our feelings isn’t a bad thing, but it does give far too much information to those who either don’t want it or who might be tempted to misuse it. The key is to share only with those who care for us–that way our loving concern and outright adoration can’t be used against us. Just before 7 PM PDT the Moon sextiles Venus, who is still retro. If we’ve shared too much, this could be the time when we realize we should’ve kept it to ourselves–everyone else may be shown the emotional drawbacks of already extant relationships or financial situations.

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Just a Little Astro Essence for Today 11 June 2012: ‘Heavy With Symbolisms’

11 Monday Jun 2012

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From this week’s ECLIPSE Weekly Aspect Digest:

Today Mercury creates a T-square by opposing Pluto and squaring Uranus, though the two slow movers in the equation haven’t once again perfected their square (that happens on the 24th of June). Though we might think this would be a great time for understanding the square and its impact on us, Merc’s semi-square to Sedna effectively nixes our awareness of it. So, the dynamic is of Pluto/ Uranus effects on our thoughts and communications, but without our ability to see that! Eek! I would bet this will be a day heavy with symbolisms and synchronicities–look for these, and they will be loaded with information about Uranus/ Pluto for you.

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Your Weekend 8-10 June 2012: ‘Confusion and Creativity’

08 Friday Jun 2012

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We really are all traveling in the same boat. ‘The Ferry’ by Fox 1910 {{PD-Art}}

On the 8th:

10 PM PDT the Moon trines Saturn and is sneaking up on a square to Sedna; we either rein ourselves in, or we come up against external stops or restrictions, and in either case, we don’t recognize the cause! This may be perfectly visible to others, so you might want to ask around 🙂

For the 9th:

Just before 6 PM PDT the Moon conjuncts Neptune in his own sign; the tension of the past few days can be released in a huge burst of creative activity fueled by emotional release–or, the intuition can seriously mislead or delude, as can the emotions if they are not directed into a distinct creative outlet. Be ‘on purpose’ in what you choose, or have it chosen for you, with havoc or unintended consequences as a result.

And for the 10th:

On the 10th Juno and Ceres perfect their opposition, and Mercury squares Pallas–what an unfortunate combination of influences! Just at the time when we need to draw on our wisdom in communications and in relation to others who are in the same Self-interested boat as we, we find our minds are reacting and formulating contrary to wisdom and our own best interests.

The above snippets are all from ECLIPSE Weekly Aspect Digest, available by subscription here. The June Special gives you both recent issues on the Solar and Lunar eclipses just past, along with the current and subsequent issues–get the whys and wherefores, as well as articles on theory and practice, and the detailed day-to-day, hour-to-hour planetary and Lunar aspects, every week. This week: ‘A Question of History: Erzsebet Bathory ‘Blood Countess’ or Political Victim?’ + the forecast!

After the eclipse: What Now?

04 Monday Jun 2012

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‘Winter Illumination at Nabana-No-Sato’ source panoramio author cyber0515 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Did you feel it? The answer is probably yes and no–this eclipse is both particularly stimulating and elusive to conscious perception–and so we enter this eclipse period (active through to the next eclipse set, in six months) both excited (in a way I would almost describe as occurring at the molecular level!) and harboring a distinct sense of mystery about what’s to come (and what’s happening right now), a near-mystic state wherein each of us mentally and perceptually rests somewhere on a continuum between unconscious and confused all the way to centered and enlightened. This enlightenment is of a very specific kind, a knowing that does not involve words or concepts, but that is more of an emotional feeling and sensory feeling experience. It surrounds us, it is us, it envelopes us, and our ability to be at peace with this, a kind of inspiration (almost literally in the ancient sense of ‘to breathe in’) that is like standing deep in the Cosmic flow. Our comfort with this atmosphere is what’s in question over the next half-year, and we will need to ask ourselves, what will we do with this, what will we make of it?

What we see in the present, though, at least in terms of what it suggests about our future, is in one way or another misleading; this we must grapple with on our own. Some advice from ECLIPSE Weekly Aspect Digest:

With the Gemini/ Sagittarius axis energized at this time, it becomes especially important to sort what’s ‘real’ from the mass of information and possibilities included in what we think, what we’re told, what we believe, what Faith tells us is so, and what we learn or experience from our naturally limited, first-person viewpoint. This eclipse brings that challenge into focus, and requires only that we know who we are, in order to handle what comes successfully. To see ourselves as a Warrior for our own Will (which usually causes us so much trouble!) is precisely what is needed in order to remember who we are in the face of projections about where we’re headed that are misleading, that we misunderstand or misinterpret, or that we don’t experience at all (not seeing the shadow of the Lunar Sabian image).

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Your Weekend 1-3 June 2012: ‘Healing Possibilities’

01 Friday Jun 2012

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‘Healing Simon Peter’s mother-in-law’ from the Codex Egberti 10th century {{PD}}

For Friday the 1st of June:

4:30 PM brings the Scorpio Moon quincunx Uranus and soon thereafter sextile Pluto. Emotions may be radicalized by what we experience; feelings run deep, and soon are launched on a trajectory toward transformation or destruction. Make sure you are the one taking aim and guiding the Plutonian effort. By 8-ish PM PDT we see whether that choice healed or hurt (Moon trine Chiron).

For Saturday the 2nd:

The 2nd is a sparse aspect day, with the only new one formed a quincunx of Saturn to Sedna. This suggests we will sense a need for adjustment to our physical environment, but will be lost as to just what these changes should be! However, Chiron is still within sesquiquadrate of Saturn, and tells us that anything done to heal our surroundings (especially to aid Mother Nature, with Ceres so close to conjunction with Sedna) or to foster positive interaction between authorities and those in their charge, or between mother and child, is a good thing to do, especially if it involves accommodating a relationship by tailoring the physical realm to it.

And for the 3rd of June:

The 3rd sees Mercury trine Saturn and the Sun trine Zeus; agreements become solid, contracts materialize, words hold real weight, and we may find it easy to suppress ourselves or others, or be suppressed ourselves–and at the same time we are oh-so-aware of our ambitions and desires. It’s almost a given that our communications will shine with these wants, and so what we may see are a thousand permutations of those desires as they materialize or are taken away.

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The ECLIPSE Eclipse Issue! ‘Looking for a Sign’

31 Thursday May 2012

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Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s Moons–thanks, NASA! {{PD}}

The new issue of ECLIPSE is out, featuring detailed analysis on the upcoming Lunar eclipse (the only place you’ll see eclipse info by me), commentary, and an aspect-by-aspect guide to your week starring all the usual players, plus Chiron, Sedna, Ceres, Juno, Pallas, Vesta, and Zeus! Order now, and get in on the May special, extended until 2 June. Missing ECLIPSE? Re-subscribe! Think you’re subscribed but didn’t receive yours? Contact me right away! And a big Thank You to all who’ve so generously supported ECLIPSE and this blog!

A little taste of ECLIPSE:

June begins with a meeting of Mercury and Venus at 18 Gemini. This is a situation that may bring a flow of beautiful words, jealous talk, relationship gossip, or reward from contracts or communications. Coming in the midst of Venus retro, we may find the Venusian part of the meeting topsy-turvy; reward may be delayed, flow in an unexpected direction, relationships may yield surprising thoughts or exchanges, and contracts will likely not follow what’s written–with the possibility of litigation to follow.

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A Little Something About Pluto and Finding Your Passion

31 Thursday May 2012

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Finding your passions in life might be a little like drinking from this fountain, according to this allegory of Love as a mystic and all-consuming experience. By Fragonard ‘The Fountain of Love’ c1785 {{PD-Art}}

This is from the most recent ECLIPSE (the new issue arrives in your email tonight Pacific time) and talks about the role of Pluto in understanding the nature of, and where to find, your passions in the natal chart:

Pluto: is the star in the passion universe simply because of his character; the intensity and depth inherent to the lord of the Underworld make him the essence of passion no matter what his contacts or sign placement. In the natal chart Pluto carries the part of us that is deadly serious, indeed, that registers life and death in our primal consciousness, that lets us know immediately when danger, or the need to walk the life-death-life line, comes into play. In Pluto we are all linked through those passions that are common to all human beings, the ones that drive our major choices, relationships, and that are similar to the life energy dedication of Vesta, but with a twist: where Vesta calls us to dedicate energy in a pure and Selfless way to a cause greater than ourselves, Pluto calls forward that life energy in fulfillment of personal, and often rather primitive, passions. We touch the greater Collective through the Plutonian similarities all humans share and, unlike with the other energies, all manifestations of Pluto are charged with passion, making it a consistent indicator of passion in the natal chart.

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Just a Little Astro Essence from ECLIPSE! 29-30 May 2012: ‘Guiding Intentions’

29 Tuesday May 2012

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The Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem Lantern slide taken between 1898 and 1946 photographer unknown {{PD}}

This is an excerpt from ECLIPSE Weekly Aspect Digest, your place for daily forecasts with all the planets and lights (you too, Pluto!) asteroids Chiron, Vesta, Juno, Pallas, Ceres, Sedna, and Zeus, and all the Lunar contacts–if you’re here daily, even a couple times a week, subscribe now! and get it delivered to your email every Thursday. Thank you, and have a great mid-week!

For the 29th: 4 PM PDT the Virgo Moon trines Sedna. It’s easy to forget our troubles; take the vacation any way you can get it. 10:30 PM PDT the Moon trines Jupiter and sextiles Juno. For some reason it’s much easier to identify with the powerful philanderer than it is to sympathize with the one who’s been wronged.  If you feel like this, just try not to express it, as you know it’s a terrible contradiction to decent (and by that I mean your) values–and nobody needs a shame hangover in the morning.

Void begins at 10:51 PM PDT; Moon enters Libra at 3:46 AM PDT of the 30th.

The 30th is the day we see Mercury trine Zeus and square Mars. Yikes! Ambition and desire will drive interaction and communication, and we won’t be reluctant to wield a hammer (or spear, or tongs, or tweezers, or stapler, or fork, or any other metal instrument) in our quest to get what we want. If very carefully guided, this could give a tremendous boost forward–but most of us are just not that good as drivers. 😦