It’s a totally rad Saggo Moon – for reasons I have banged on about in the Scopes – but it’s on the eve of an Eclipse & so thus is imbued with all the usual sportif Sagg gregarious optimism & restlessness. If you can hack it, it would also be a fantastic time, albeit cathartic, for a bit of this:
Yet you’d have to get it out of the way before Venus goes whizzing into game-playing Gemini…Brad Blanton is a Virgo, btw.
I love that Rick Owens has hair extensions and stack boots & says he’s inspired by things such as “fog” “Barbara Streisand” and “K.I.S.S.” And he’s quotable too:
“Working out is the the modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothes and go to the gym instead. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggressive….Isn’t it more chic to be free?”
But what sign is the guy? All i can find online is that he is born in 1962…He vibes very Air so maybe a Libra, Aqua or Gemini – he could be a Scorpio with Aqua Rising? There was actually a whole lot of multiple conjunct Aquarians born in 1962. Maybe he is one of them?? And any thoughts on his philosophy?
I thought the whole Inner Child seemed to erupt in the 90s but apparently it emerged in the 70s. I think i did one session with someone re it once & it was surprisingly healing, although v.easy to wallow, I imagine, if you wanted to. It was to do with something traumatic & the therapist got me to go back and talk to myself as a five year old etc etc. Comfortingly. Not just nattering. Not-The-Typical-Virgo was doing Self-Parenting Workshops at the same time & we hung a lot at the pub in Bondi, discussing our findings.
The concept may have slunk from favour now but I thought it interesting that Carl Jung (a multiple Leo) thought of it as the Divine Child & like this amazing golden creature within, whom we could access to be more creative and spontaneous. A sort of invincible summer vibe. But John Brawshaw – a Cancerian and arguably the most prolific/best known of all the Inner Childish authors – thought it nearly always “wounded” and in need of rescue. Etc. Yes, I KNOW that is a massive generalised summary.
I know Louise Hay (a Libran!) is totally into it but that Dr Phil – a Virgo – does not apparently believe in Inner Child work. With the obvious disclaimer, that anyone with a mental illness should seek professional help and not be stuffing around on this site, can we please do Moon in Scorp amateur shrinking & Inner Child theory? Is it still valid, was it ever & do any of you have this consciousness.
BTW, i only watch it at the gym but i think Dr Phil is sooo Virgo and he should go head-to-head with Louise Hay in all her flowery uber-euphemistic ‘everything i eat turns to health & beauty’ glory. I love her but seriously, wouldn’t a debate between those two be FUN television. The person with the prob could sit between them as they fight it out for the best “solution.”
Today is the birthday of M.F.K. Fisher – to call her a food writer is an understatement. She was fabulosity incarnate, amazingly talented and inspirational.
“You can still live with grace and wisdom, if you rely on your own innate sense of what you must do with the resources you have to keep the wolf from sniffing too hungrily through the keyhole.”
This is from a book she wrote during the wartime food shortages in 1942, called How To Cook A Wolf , that apparently saved many a woman from utter insanity & desperation.
Her Wiki
Beautiful and sensual – with a fascinating love life – she was an idiosyncratic writer who would come up with little gems such as:
“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.”
“Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.”
“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures . . .”
Her practical tips are still excellent AND she wrote Not Now But Now – a weird but utterly absorbing book about a time-travelling, utterly amoral femme fatale sort of gourmet nympho who managed to cross into other dimensions via some kind of cosmic warp she disovered on a particular express train.
Her chart:
Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune and the North Node all clustered together in Cancer! Opposed by Uranus in Capricorn. And then a Moon-Jupiter in Leo…But all that Cancer & to be so interested in elegant forms of nourishment & the lives of the emotions…If you are not familiar with her works, do look at some of these links…
I DO think Cancerians are often the best cooks, btw.
Pic by Jim Burns
Peeps! I am re-posting this as Uranus-Venus transits already going on – see below – are now HOT for two reasons: Venus is quincunx Uranus, setting them off AND Uranus is retrograding way back to where it was lurking in Feb 2008 and then forward again…So from now till May 2010 is the Hot Zone for your Uranus-Venus transit. Also, Saturn gets involved from now through until September – yay! – So some of us could even have a, gulp, meaningful and enduring Uranian romance. As Uranus heads back to exact conjunct my Piscean Venus, i am totally going to be in the club, hanging out in the comments. Pls read the post and comments to determine your eligibility to join my club.
Last year’s transit of Uranus conjunct my natal Venus bought The Uranian & it wasn’t even exact. It’s exact in mid-March & then again in Nov & December. There is already the Leo-Rising Aquarian Rugger Stud & an Ariean so bats & Uranian i can barely begin to explain it/him. Uranus-Venus transits are fun but weird. All the peeps you attract or whom zig into your life seem to be ultra-attractive & individuated but really bats. As an example, even my Celebrity Crush – Joaquin Phoenix – has apparently gone totally apeshit bats. That is the awesome power of this astro-passage. Unbelievable.
None of my friends are doing Uranus-Venus transits. So, in the spirit of support, I am offering u the chance to join the Uranus-Venus club. All you have to do to join is have a Venus between 21 and 28 degrees of Pisces, Virgo, Sagittarius or Gemini. Also considered Venus in those degrees of Scorpio or Cancer and Capricorn-Taurus. How do you know your Venus degree? Again, look it up on Astrodienst You all know the Venus glyph & just check out the list of planets in the little box down the left…Look at the number next to the Venus…
If you are eligible to join the club OR you have interesting Uranus-Venus transit info to share, please comment. It’s a fascinating transit.
This is not me in the country. South Node in Sagittarius, you understand. Which means North Node in Gemini, which equates to loving the urban vibe. But seriously, i have no real data on this other than vague astro-cliches re Taureans being naturally bucolic. But, really? Earth Signs should probably naturally adore the country. Then again, Liz Hurley, whom is a raving Gemini, recently wrote a paeon to heavenly rural life; it’s sexier, it’s cleaner & fabulous service at darling little country delis. I go bats in the country. I need dinky little cafes, cinemas, gyms, bookshops and a sense of urbane tolerance all around me. A poll – please & don’t hold back…Do you love or loathe the country?Maybe it is a Moon thing?
Liz Hurley, farming, from Tatler.
The fabulously named Nux Vomica is the homeopathic hangover remedy. It is actually (heavily diluted) strychnine which sounds slightly bats unless you grok homeopathy. I mean my constitutional remedy is diluted snake venom; Lachesis. Which always perks me up real fast.
Okay, I am NOT a homeopath & only use the Nux for really grotty morning-afters but the Nux Vomica personality type – as you will see from the links - is a shocker. Still, short of never doing anything over-indulgent again, Nux Vom is an essential bathroom cupboard standby. A classically trained English homeopath once told me it was stockpiled by the Royal Family.
There is a v.easy to peruse article on it here. The above link is way more thorough & scary to read, as the full-on homeopathic materia medicias tend to be. Also, I don’t know how exactly it does it but it seems to alleviate the psych0-mental symptoms of a hangover as well.
The 2nd house of your chart is known as the House of Earned Income – as opposed to the 8th house which can be money that just sorta comes to you…The 2nd House is your Money Box, your Wealth Sector and is symbolic of your attitude toward toward lucre, material possessions and – deeper – your sense of self-adequacy.
Look first to the sign on the cusp of the House. And guys, the point of D.I.Y. Astro is that you glomp your chart off Astrodienst & have fun figuring it out here. There are always peeps to help or me, if you spring for an Astro-Query. Anyway, look to the sign on the cusp of the 2nd house. This is FUN. That sign is how you are with $$$.
So even though YOU may be a super-cautious & canny Capricorn, if you’ve got Leo lurking on the cusp of your 2nd – LOL. You will LIKE the sensation of having “proper” champagne in your fridge and you do not give a shit about what some wine wanker says about how some shit-house cheap sparkling wine is superior. No-no-no. You feel soothed by the registered orange hue of the Veuve label. Soothed.
Pisces on the cusp of the 2nd? You are so prone to giving stuff away. Things come to you when you need them as if by osmosis. Things go with ease. You’re like a walking installation of The Secret. Scorpio/Cancer on the cusp of the 2nd? You’re likely to be one of those peeps who just have the investment knack. You leapt in at the start of the tech boom and nipped out again quick smart. You can turn $5 into $500 and to you it’s as sensual and pleasurable as growing something in the garden.
But it’s not just the signs on the cusp of the 2nd. It’s also what’s in there! The classic challenged-by-money placement is our ye olde friend Saturn. Yet remember that your Saturn area gets buffed and buffed via loads of work and angsting till finally it becomes your shiniest area? Saturn in the 2nd house gets clobbered in early youth by seeming to lose money, be ripped off, just feeling always stuggling but by Jove, when this lot get self-reliant, they are a force. Healthy, wealthy & wise indeed.
Venus & Jupiter there – the benefics of trad astro – bless the person with the ability to sort of drum it up from nowhere, walk out the door and get offered the gig they need & even be fairly fortunate in just finding the stuff. Venus/Jupiter in the 2nd trots into garage sales & comes out clutching the actual valuable antique. Or gets a massive crush on some artist at uni who gives her his/her etchings & voila, they’re worth heaps at a later date.
Think also that you can make money via following the attributes of whatever sign/planet is plonked there. And don’t worry if no planet there – it just means it’s not that important to you. Uranus in 2nd; money off the net, via inventions & television. Neptune; film, acting, science fantasy. You could even have the gift of literally dreaming up profitable ideas. Pluto is like mogul-land. People who literally go from having zilch to being officially selfmade millionaires often have Pluto (or Scorp) in the 2nd.
Mercury & the Moon in the 2nd – you’re able to intuit so eerily well what peeps want that you do amazingly well in corporate world/sales & – obviously – writing/self-expression. Retail genius often goes with the Moon in the 2nd. Knowing what peeps want before they know it. Being able to divine trends.
So check out your 2nd house and try to go with it a bit. Oh and another one – Mars/Aries in 2nd house – they will go hard at it and take it as a personal assualt to their ego if you try to come between them and their earning power. They get off on earning & flashing it about a bit. It’s not vulgar – it’s just like someone with another kind of strong Mars doing chin-ups on the door to impress you.
Again, this is why i love astrology, it’s so helpful to get how peeps truly are different. So if one person feels inclined to hoard & hoard whilst another is like carpe-diem, it’s not that either of them are wrong! Go for it – check out your 2nd house, the sign on the cusp, anything in there (South NOde is like you’re over material security and feel stuck by it, North Node is like you GOTTA get it and have it to feel spiritually secure) whether or not you’re working it right AND any big transits through it…
Yes, there are Fixed Squares all over the shop – the trickiest kind as they tend to make one feel irritatingly stuck and then one’s thinking just gets into a stupid rut. And it’s kind of ongoing till apres Eclipse – next Weds. All the old-school advice applies: Stay calm & carry on. Count thy blessings. Semper Fidelis.
Oh I could do some lovely “birth pangs” metaphors but i’ve got my own fuqed squares shite to deal with; you always knew the week leading up this Eclipse would be challenging. Do the old-school stuff and remember I said somewhere or other that as the looming Lunar Eclipse is in Capricorn – and the ruler of Saturn is in flexible Virgo; make plans, do lists, don’t succumb to feeling stick. Keep busy & grizzle-not. And…Uranus is WELL aspected in the next few days so go with trying to work the Saturn-Uranian axis, rather than being stuck in this tres temporary sensation of stuckness, stagnation and irriation.
Having said that i admit to having just wigged out as some idiot put put my sports bras in the dryer & the underwire’s warped so I can’t wear them & haven’t budgeted for new ones…Soo trivial but symbolic. Small things are enough to send peeps bats today and for the next few days…Perspective is a fine thing…
As mentioned in the Scopes & Daily Mystic, certain types of control-freaky people are bound to irk this week. It’s to do with good old fixed squares from Venus in Taurus to the stuff in Aquarius.
And then Mars tromps along next week and does the same thing. All during Eclipse Season and as Uranus stations Retro. It is the latter that’s the most likely to inspire a potentially bats-but-not-in-a-good-way impulse.
So should you suddenly think YES & be on the blower to Acme a la Wile E Coyote, think again please. Wait out the Eclipse Season. That’s till July 22. Or at least till Mars skips into Gemini on July 12.
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