Insomnia – Remedios Varo
A degree of insomnia is always present with Full Moons. This one is in the hi-vibe, sometimes nervy & prone to short-circuit sign of Aquarius + it’s an Eclipse, of course. Add to that the hi-alert Mercury in Virgo – with a penchant for running through every detail in triplicate, doing analysis on every potential prob in the vicinity and straining to hear/analyze every sound in the environment – and you have some Insomnia. Plus, though Mercury in Virgo is nowhere near close enough to square Mars in Gemini yet, Virgo and Gemini are both Mercury-ruled so Mercury is triggering the kinetic Mars in Gemini via some sort of sympathetic magic, adding some physical restlessness to the equation. So, who’s sleeping & who’s not???
Tags: Aquarius, astrology blog, astrology insomnia, August 2009 astrology, Eclipse, Eclipse in Aquarius, Eclipses 2009, Full Moon, Full Moon in Aquarius, Gemini, Mars, Mars in Gemini, Mercury, Mercury in Virgo, Remedios Varo, Virgo
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I didn’t sleep well last night – sooo annoyed! I was exhausted, so I went to bed at 9pm, but I slept horribly and of course woke up really tired today. Ugh!!! I have a sh*tload of stuff to do at work too, so need to be ‘on it’. Oh well, this too shall pass, lol.
The eclipse is exactly conjunct my Midheaven, I am wondering what will come up for me…
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Came home yesterday, ate snack, watched Top Gear and then fell asleep about 8 – woke up at 3, turned everything off and thought well that will be enough sleep I’ll get up early tomorrow and didn’t wake up until 7.
Haven’t had that much sleep before unless I was sick.
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sitting up watching buffy, eating 3 kinds of chocolate. eventually got to sleep ok. awake at 7. Not sure if it is giving up the fags, or just life in general, but i feel miserable….I think it must be the smokes, cos life is pretty dandy… Looking forward to having my home to myself again in a few months.. never sharing again..I think that is having a big effect. urgh, misery ramblings….
I am going to bloody well cheer up dammit!
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Hang in aac re the ciggies – you’ll soon be feeling soo much better for giving them up
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sharing sux AAC – for now – i am going through the same thing. I live with a low-energy cancerian, charming but not my kinda flattie. i’m fully over the ’soldier on’ approach and toleration (to use mystic’s word) and want Out. is not working! want My Space! (not to be confused with Myspace)
maybe saturn into 4th will require a Grip on these things..agh -
ACC – go with ditching the cigs!! initial hump sux, but once you get in the zone its SO much easier. promise. have said this prior here – but divorcing Peter Styvensant be my single greatest life achievement. we were together for 26 years…………my worst nightmare is dreaming I’ve had a drag, & I wake up in fright!
ALSO re sharing:: leo brother arrived 2 weekends ago. love him. dearly. but 3 hours notice for a 2 week stay lacks respect. have discovered his wife does ALL for him as he thinks dishes clean & put themslves away, bench crumbs evaporate, & if you leave a tea bag in a cup long enough, someone will clean it up! it’s been great to have extended sibling company tho, sans spouse / kids. es-pesh off back of extended sister time. xox
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6pm – restless
7pm – dutifully plastered on wine and eating nutella filled crepes
8pm – see above
9pm – see above + cigarette (“I don’t smoke anymore”)
10pm – toddle off to bed to pass out thinking “gosh it’s so early….”This morning
5am – alarm goes off. ignore.
6am – sleeping
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that explains it! Was still wandering around the kitchen at 1am not quite believing it was so late because I felt fine.. well my mind was going overtime… Am now awake as my new massage clinic room is getting painted Wistaria Blue and Sailcloth White today… Oh! and Mystic – I got that cute fireys phone number last night!!!! Am hoping today is a good day to ease my toes back onto the accelerator.
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Hurrah! That’s a very exciting development – fingers crossed for you
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Great news Bluelibra – hope it all goes well!
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Wow. that’s awesome bluelibra! Good luck!!
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1am. Just got up again to eat some melon. gazing at the moon, then switched on computer…
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Actually had a full nights sleep for a change.
The it happens so much it’s almost a regular routine is to wake at 3am as though it’s 6am. Read for an hour. Turn off light. Toss turn, toss some more, get up and get drink etc. Come read mystic in the middle of this. Go back to bed, toss turn and sleep some time around 5.30am.
Last night I went to bed a bit after 11am. Slept through alarm at 7.30am. Fullest nights sleep in ages.
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We’re not sleeping – Cap + me (Cancer).
Thanks for the insight as to why, will this astrophase pass soon? Any tips for best option throughout this phase-get up and work/toss and turn???
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No proper sleeping going on here … can only manage power naps at the weirdest hours, like in the middle of the day, or from 6pm to 11pm. Doesn’t bother me so much as I work from home and I like working late at night/early morning. No noise. Better qi. It’s the witching hour for creatives.
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Oh I envy you honey, I’m an officious Office Troll so after tossing and turning – and this is after having gone to the gym, doing laundry, getting the car washed, gajillion errands, THEN cleaning the house, plus catching up on beauty rituals, I finally fell asleep around 3 AM just so I could wake at 6 AM then snooze on and off till I staggered off to work looking like a zombie.
I LOVE working from home… it’s true, you get to work with your own cycles vs some drone standing behind you going, hmm what do you think? The avocado green or the spruce???
And we’re just talking font color. Gawd.
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Is the leo supervisor still being um more of herself lately?
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Happy Birthday, LL Lovely! May your year be brighter, healthier, wealthier and replete with passionate devotees to your soul!
And YES, she has been AMPLIFIED – this time she actually swung by my office after having returned from the mountains of Banff to tell me (as a semi-accusation) that someone has actually used up her tape and left the dispenser with an inch of the adhesive.
Generally, I would find this amusing if it weren’t for the slightly suspicious look she shot me… moi, a tape burgler? I have bigger game honey…:)
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Up late being a busy bee with house stuff – mowed through a heap of jobs/paperwork and still wide awake at midnight. Read for an hour and drifted off. Mega dreaming last night – made heaps of sense. Up at 6 am feeling energised. Kids off by 8am. Hour and half in the garden then went to mow lawn and bugger the lawnmower won’t start. Will have to sort that out this arvo. Appts and running around now until school pickup. Loving this eclipse/mercury/mars energy. I usually need at least 7 hrs, preferably 8 to feel normal.
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LOVE the new pic FF. It looks like one of those optical illusions. I was trying to work out what the image was, then saw the cat!! Nice!
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Thanks scorpalicious! – the real picture looks way better but you can only get so much in a gravatar. Its the earth on the left and the moon behind the cat’s head. I gotta go now but I’d love to hear more about the new crush later – why is he unavailable?
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I’m so tragic – was staring at pic thinking “what cat?!?!” & finally saw it. I love it!
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hehe… see what i mean. Optical illusion!
FF – crush unavailable because married… i don’t go there – it’s bad karma.
Plus there’s no flirting going on or anything anyway. He’s a lovely person.
I’ve mentioned him before. He barista at cafe close to work. Apparently i’m exactly like his wife – looks, mannerisms, opinions etc. … not fair !
It’s been YEARS since anyone has taken my fancy. It’s nice to have a crush but I’ll just have to keep this one under control until someone else available comes along. *sigh* -
RoboScorp – how fab!!
is kinda like Aries-love-of-life-from last century appears whenever Arian-EX & I blow mega valve. the former imparts ALL qualities lacking in the latter, & that lesson is swiftly applied here dear. so yours seems fabulous ‘open the door’ to ‘it happens’ for new thought paradigms?? can’t wait to hear next installment when prince perfect swoops you off your heels!! xox
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aaah, is that what it is… opening the door to new thought paradigms. Yes, i think you’re right. My heels are ready for a sweeping.
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Scorpalish – how delish to be able to see him every day with a secret crush though. What are the stats on marriage now – half end in divorce and only about 10% of the rest are happily married. You never know what will happen. How to find out his birthdate without him knowing though
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Am the opposite – sleeping 10 hours two nights in a row! Am premenstrual & in a fit of work/body ambivalence, so that doesn’t help. Roll on full moon!
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Do you normally have scattered sleep though TLE? I’m sort of noticing that the people that roam nocturnally normally are sleeping like well behaved babies atm. It’s the sound sleepers that seem to have switched roles.
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LL have switched body clocks to one that feels TOTALLY normal. have to force self to bed 1-3am& alight 8-10 hours or so later. is frigging with my wasp work ethic. waking virgo-esquely doing-head-in for not being on game at start of trad biz play etcs………… superbly well rested tho!!
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See normal is such a dirty word. Glad you’re well rested rLp…fuq the wasp work ethic I say…create your own.
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LL dirty is such a normal word also!
hey re yr not sleeping through morning – does acupuncture etc help?
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oh the dirty comment was meant as a bit of light…um I’m not sure what at the moment, but somehow alluding to all the dirty that often crops up in song titles…and even sayings like down and dirty. Regardless of my sporadic Virgoan cleaning tendancies, dirt, in the correct application can be just the thing…
there is a new guy in town doing acupuncture…something to consider/look into to. have you had good experiences re:sleep and acupuncture rLp?
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Was just saying to co worker that I had my second night of only 4 hours sleep. The past few weeks I’ve been exhausted (obvs a few emotional issues) to the point of not being able to get out of bed in the morning, and not just out of laziness. Or falling back asleep mid morning. Was chatting to Cappy Mum at 1am this morning and she was wide awake and looking for a midnight snack. We’re both night owls, but usually of the sleep-in-late to compensate variety. Not this week!
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Sleep is good…. zzzz
Full on weird dreams & jammed packed so the mind is busy while I zzzz. (It took me about 20 minutes to go through the events of my dream last night).
The body is busy during the day & up early, exercising daily, watching what I eat, drinking lots of water & only. I’m exhausted by bedtime & sleep is uninterrupted for dream marathon. -
I’ve actually had massive sleep with massive dreams. Me? Sleeping solidly for over 8 hrs?
But the dream…the tide had gone out so far, I was wandering around the former ocean floor looking for money that ppl might have dropped. (Hey, I’m a Cap!) Instead, I found a leopard and carried it ashore and proceeded to carry it for the rest of the dream on my right shoulder, looking for some water for it and a leash. It was very calm and pretty. I must have been sleeping badly because my shoulder was killing me when I woke up. Plus there was all sorts of “the FBI is after me” type paranoia going on so I had disguised my face with insane prosthetics. Weeeeiiird dreaming.
Cap Sun, Kataka moon, but nought in Aqu or Gem…
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I had my first sleep thru for weeks last night after working on my ’stuff ‘over the weekend and getting my overflowing rubbish bin of a mind to settle down.
its never as bad as you think is it?and even after the new leo boy has now run away and is hidiing from me I know where he lives ( jsust up the road- my stalking days are over thank god) but I will leave him alone, leaving my mind and heart alone to rest and to sleep. The only cure for insomnia is to let it go!
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Totally agree with you there!
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I have sun conj myanus today..feeling great, but yes, no one in the house is sleeping so well.
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Hey, you’re right DL, thanks for pointing that out as me too…
With trans. sun con. ouranus reminds me of that certain
“Sun outta the butthole thread”…he,he
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I slept like a baby last night…. Sweet piscean dreams.
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is that you david in your avatar ?
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yeah, the one with the really point head on the right.
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Oh and sleeping somewhat…major insomnia 3 nights ago but blame that on my locomotive-like snoring boyfriend. Thank Goddess he only stays over on the weekends….zzzzz
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For the last 18mths haven’t had a night where I slept right through. Toss & turn, no matter what good things I did to assist in getting a good nights sleep. Funny how it’s improving as soon as I started to tackle some really heavy stuff in my life.
Noticed I was very alert after only 2 hours sleep when getting up for sick son last night. Dreams though have been amazing.
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Getting to bed early and rising early just like I like it but then, Mars in Gem on the Ac is normal for me…
Dreamt last night that I was preparing Thanksgiving dinner and sopping up something spilled. Just this a.m, water on the floor….something HAD spilt over and I slipped and went down on one knee…it could have been a disaster..
But then tonight, Mom had ordered pizza….that was the Thanksgiving part I guess… lol
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Lavender oil on pillow cases gives good sleep.
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Dreams anyone? On Sunday morning (Monday in Oz), I had two intense dreams..one was that all I had left of Le Scorp were these three CD’s but they were literally parts of him, I was in Chicago standing inside his flat which had been completely emptied of contents, and him nowhere to be found. He had upped and left, presumably to be with someone else..but nearby though.
So THAT woke me a start.
Then I dreamt I was living in this hidden golden room, had long long hair and was essentially dressed in a sheet – er, I guess like my gravatar now that I think of it. My Dad and brother had kept me there by disguising the room outside with mirrors. Somehow I escaped and ran out into the street clad in that sheet. Then looming over the hill was this character called Dr. Manhattan from the Watchmen, he looks like this:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/03/behold_doctor_manhattans_wang.html
And he’s a creature who does not perceive time in linear measurements. So he looms, takes me away and we go back to the marble building I came from, zip up to the tower where we get something to eat. The dude is glowing…but we decide to play some kind of sport. His is tossing soft oranges back and forth with some other guy, and he stops to graze my hand and smile at me… it made me feel really peaceful.
And yet disturbed at the same time, considering my dream man is a comic book hero who walks around with his genitalia exposed and glows in the dark. He’s supposed to be super smart though..and check out the abs…haha
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You don’t think all that exposure to the Scorp may have leant itself to a um certain acceptance/ predilection of glowing blue dudes with uncircumcised bits being dream guides?
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Le Scorp you knew, or thought you knew, did up and leave with the revelation of his bigamy. Perhaps he put the best parts of himself into the music you made together.
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LL, you think FA slipped that link of the glowing blue dude purely for our entertainment?
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She is good like that…more than likely.
Last night(birthday eve drinks) I ended up with a very small gathering of friends,as sick kids and soccer depleted numbers…but while I was having a wine later…near choked laughing when opened that link.
As a total aside I did up some new organic potatoes from Virgo Dad’s garden, with some chunky sweet potatoes, and a bit of red onion…and aioli. The new potatoes were insanely good. Crispy on the outside and actually fluffy on the inside. Must rave appropriately to Dad today.
When did carbs become so decadent?
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Happy birthday LL. Hope you have a gorgeously decadent day/evening. x
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oh yes happy birthday LL and all the other Lions.
Hey scorpbot, I love your new gravatar … Is it a painting??
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thanks prowlncat. It’s one of my photos.
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Happy Birthday LL – hope you have a peachy day!
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Happy birthday LL xxx
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Uber, PERCEPTIVE as ever…I didn’t think of that. I was in such trauma in the dream that all I could think of were that these CD’s were horcruxes a la the Dark Lord in Potter. And yes, I do get the parallels!
And darlings, WHO can resist a glowing blue Wang? And as my Aunts would say, He a Doctor i.e. Dr. Manhattan, no? I did wake up stunned that he is the one superhero figure who left his wife for his lover. What with the whole life giving/destroyer/creator bit he is well… Scorpionic, sigh.
See what happens when one’s address is #1 Hell Street, The Hades?
LL darling, your potatoes sound sumptious, makes me want to rub it all over myself – you can see I am obviously badly carb deprived. So happy you had a wonderful birthday, Happy Birthday again!
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It’s 5am in Brazil – do you know where your brain is???
Actually I think the pointless attempt at sleep has more to do with the fact that I screwed up at work……
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Disturbed sleep, restless, tired, and wondering in a daze….mmmmm have notice, please ask the planets to move back to the blissful sleep patterns soon…. and very weird dreams all about a job thats surposed to be finishing soon, but feels like it may last long than anyone expects… mmmm.. more day/night dreaming…..
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am sleeping so much, at such odd hours, is problem!!
Ok am not well (head cold) ….. & be firmly wedged mid career metamorphosis (…yawn, ANOTHER) … tho with Truly FAB prospects, & a rapidly evolving self project (with the rockstar),the reality of jagged cash flow is, well, tres dull. but temporary.so with time on my hands – heeded Daily Mystic’s eclipse season advice & indulged body with sleep. lots. solidly, all night every night & half way thru the day. oddly tho – cameo at desk each arvo / evening, be infinitely more productive / effective than prev work/biz M.O so go figure!!
intend honouring alarm clock tomoz.
time to emerge from the love sleep/bed haze!xox
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I wondered why I couldn’t sleep last night. Woke up drenched from some wretched dream and then woke again 4 times to go to the toilet. I have a feeling tonight will not be any different
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For the last 4 nights I’ve woken up somewhere between 3am and 3.30am. When the alarm goes off at 7am I’m exhausted and recalling some absolutely bizarre dream. Will it end with the full moon/eclipse?
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I’ve been waking up around 3.3am too AB, am so tired. Am at work contemplating Red Bull & it’s only 10.40am….maybe I need to sneak under my desk for a nana nap
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I have been in an altered state of total exhaustion. Have been going to bed around 8.30 and sleeping through to 7 am. Think I am ran-down. Am popping multi-vitamins, sipping herbal tea and eating (healthy) comfort food. I am normally a CRAP sleeper. As someone suggested above, I think the sound-sleepers and the insomniacs have swapped for the full moonie acqua eclipse. Weird…
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Sleeping like a baby, but wake early, visit the facilities, then back to bed and deep sleep again with INTENSE dreams, wake to the light, and toddle off to work. Bliss. Since I moved from horrific house scenario, am sleeping gorgeously, managing Neptunian indulgence fine, and skin clearing up magically. The toxicity of some peoples energy is more amazing once you’ve left a scenario and you feel the evil energy leach from your body – thats what I’m finding anyway!
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I have been an insomniac for a couple of days now and it’s extremely unlike me. I go to bed, sleep for a couple of hours if I’m lucky and then get up and do the midnight to morning run. It is driving husband crazy. I don’t even remember the last time I couldn’t sleep. Maybe there wasn’t a last time. I’m definitely feeling this. Strangely enough, it’s not really affecting my functioning ability. Usually if I deliberately stay up, I’m stuffed and dysfunctional. But I’m finding it even easier to tune into my studies and make remarkable progress, keeping many aspects of anything I’m learning about in my head and make lots of connections and critical thinking.
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