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Cancerian Cosmetica

March 22, 2010 in Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 10 comments

No it’s not just because this image references Cancerian Cyndi Lauper from her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun days: Cancerian chicks really do like kooky make-up and to be truly artistic with their cosmetic choices. Rainbow eye shadowing and getting inspired by new season colour stories are totally them. Ditto the cutesie food colouring in le hair look. You’d think Aquarius but no-no-no. Aqua likes subtle and in fact, v.few Aqua girls actually look zany on the outside. You only pick up on her outer-planetary origins once she is mid-way through an anecdote about her polyphasic sleep cycling.

My Bum Post-Saturn

February 15, 2010 in Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 38 comments

This is more or less what my bum is going to look like when my interminable Saturn transit is finally done with in a few months. It feels like it has been going on forever but is actually only a few months. Saturn transits feel all-work and no-play (because they ARE, lol) but Holy Aphrodite, they get results.

There is NO other transit that makes you crave rocket, exercise and the measuring of everything from waist dimensions to unnecessary bank fees. Imagine if we could put Saturn in a bottle. Who wants to design the label?

It has to have the benefits: “Perform squats and lunges with relish, love your greens, loathe crisps, look forward to budgeting” as well as the Saturn side-effects: “irritability, some loss of sense of humour, over-consciousness of time.”

Who else is Saturn transitting? Enough peeps to create a secret password-only section where we can gleefully crap on about our sexy spreadsheeting skills and how much sexier rocket is without any ghastly “gourmet” additives that only cost $ and precious kilojoules? Bona-fide Capricorns get a lifelong membership. Because they’re ALWAYS under the rays of Saturn.

Saturn is also – I think – why so many Capricorns are horny non-stop. It’s because sex is (often) free. And it burns kilojoules.

The Libran Perfumed Garden

January 19, 2010 in Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 24 comments

Night-Flowering Tuberose (Starflower) Under A Full Moon in Anya’s Garden

So I got sent these gorgeous scent samples from Anya of Anya’s Garden Perfumes.  She makes them all from her garden in Miami, Florida & they’re divine. She has the most brilliant astro-signature for a perfumier:  Sun, Venus and Neptune in Libra, all Rising.

“…One reasoning behind the concepts of StarFlower and MoonDance, and it’s a big reasoning, is that white flowers, typically those that look like stars, always bloom on the Full Moon. The gravitational and tidal pulls are the stimulus, I suppose. If you’re in a garden at night, the magic of the scent draws you in, and even if you squint your eyes, you can still see the white flowers, since they’re the only color flowers that are visible at night. under a bower of jasmine, next to the tuberose bed, it’s as if the stars fell out of the sky – and brought their fragrance to earth.

Also, tuberose’s scent is minimal during the day, becoming more intense at night, overwhelming, in fact.

Cool, yin-type scents are associated with the moon, and the mint opening note of MoonDance leads you down a cool, inward-looking path, with tender rose and chamomile. StarFlower is more fiery, and meant for nighttime wear in the winter, quite yang and sultry and carnal in the drydown. The flower that most looks like a star is the single flowered Tuberose, so that was the muse for both perfumes….”

The Aztecs called it Bone Flower and she was sacred to their Venus. Ancient Hindu peeps knew it as Night Mistress and in many cultures it is considered a powerful aphrodisiac. Tuberose keeps producing scent, even after it is picked, making it the main component of Hawaiian leis. Some say that inhaling the oil of Tuberose improves one’s capacity for emotional depth & the most common symbolism of it is “dangerous pleasures.”

More Proof That Scorpios Cannot Do Perfume Ads

January 19, 2010 in Astro-Beauty, Celeb Fluffery by Mystic Medusa | 21 comments

This is Demi Moore spokes-modelling the new Helena Rubinstein juice: All You’ve Ever Wanted. I did not know the brand still existed. Helena Rubinstein herself was a stupendously hard-working, perpetually self-reinventive and wealthy Capricorn. She is probably organising the brand rejuvenation strategy from heaven. Seriously. Caps don’t stop working.

But this ad? Leaving aside the plastic texture of the skin (reminds me of that Libran Fembot from the other day) she looks like she is just eyeing up the target she is going to bash with that bottle. And what…she is sitting on the sofa and the Ashton-clone is hanging from the roof a la BAT? Is this a Twilight reference? Bit dated now, surely? And I am pro-Demi but I don’t like her in this.

See also the analysis of the shocker of the scent ad from the otherwise studly and talented Matthew McConaughey: “He looks constipated and up himself” is not a good brand association, no?

Compare Matthew’s shill for Dolce & Gabbana with this one and one has to come to the conclusion that Scorpio celebrities cannot do good perfume ads.

And the concept behind “All You’ve Ever Wanted” being contained in a bottle?  Focus Group infinity with Demi picked to front as young hubby, sane & healthy kids, $$$, long hair, brilliant skin, pleasant relationship with ex-hubby, tight abs and a million followers on Twitter symbolic of all anyone wants – yes?

Astro-Beauty: A Crab Look?

January 13, 2010 in Astro-Beauty, Astro-Fashion by Mystic Medusa | 35 comments

I am not sure why precisely but i consider BOTH of these looks really Cancerian-Crabby-Kataka.

AND WHAT is the hand thingie above called? Because I think that’s mega-Crab.

I think they would like the medieval vibe of it…no?

And in fact, whilst we’re on this, it is mostly Cancerians and Taureans who like going to/doing anything medieval themed isn’t it?

Like those naff banqueting halls, re-enactments and all. They love how flattering they think the clothes are, the ye olde vibe & that furniture was better made in those days. Perhaps also a world where there was Proper Help and no faddy food allergies.

Help. I am channelling someone.  A batty Cancerian-Taurus relative, clearly.  I did have a BBC Costume drama fetishising relative & I could elaborate but Cancerian-Taurus types are also v.litigious.

See Also: Ladies In Leopardskin & the Followers Of Dionysus

Aries Eyebrows

January 12, 2010 in Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 28 comments

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Aries peeps always get credited with having the most over the top (and sometimes beautiful) eyebrows…Their shape itself being reminiscent of the Aries glyph: the Ram’s Horns…Yasmeen Ghauri & Joan Crawford clearly represent the great Aries beauty end of the spectrum but think also of certain Aries men and how their eyebrows become bristly, shooting out in all directions and redolent with a life force all of their very own.

Oh and apparently the new big trend for 2010 – just in time for Uranus into Aries – rad brow art.

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Pluto In Capricorn Strikes Again

December 23, 2009 in Astro TrendWatch, Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 114 comments

So there is v.serious article in Time Mag about whether or not it’s empowering to keep dying your hair & an article in the Times about how even young girls are adopting a “gunmetal grey” mane to be cool. I was born blonde and I intend to stay blonde so this is not remotely an issue for me.

But it’s an interesting Pluto in Cap style trend & this is going to make me sound mega-bimbonic, I realise, but i don’t think i actually know any woman who don’t dye their hair. At no matter what age – the only question really is whether they’re adept at d.i.y. or hooked on a colourist habit. My son’s female friends cannot even get together sans colouring their hair – applying gunk onto one another’s roots is how they bond. Are any of you intending to let gray hairs show or do you?

And what sign are you?  No, wait, what sign is your Venus…I am wondering if there is a Venus sign that would say ‘fuq it’ and charge around with their silvery mane. I am thinking Saggo…

Also, I suppose Pluto in Capricorn is going to totally revolutionise the way we treat elders in our society. That or the Pluto in Leo baby boomers will demand it. There are already some extraordinary examples of peeps being amazing – fit, functional, vital, ultra-healthy, gorgeous – at any age peeps used to be written off. Life starts at the Uranus Return Lol.

Mars Hair Bats Alert

December 15, 2009 in Astro-Beauty, Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 30 comments

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Yes, my Psychic Gemini Hairdresser just confirmed it.

Psychic Gemini Hairdresser: Is it a Full Moon again? It feels like we just had one.

Me: No,  it’s the Dark Moon so you can feel a bit low…You need to…

Psychic Gemini Hairdresser: I know. Declutter. And you need to stop putting that hippy oil in your hair. It’s too fine.

Me: Why do you think it feels like a Full Moon?

Psychic Gemini Hairdresser: People keep coming and wanting weird shit done to their  hair. Even the beige ones.

Me: Like what?

Psychic Gemini Hairdresser: Extensions, dyed purple, shaved all off, black to platinum blonde in half an hour, you name it…

Me: Well Mars is about to go retrograde in Leo, it’s stationing retrograde right now so I reckon that’s it.

Psychic Gemini Hairdresser: That or they’re all on drugs.

Hair Bats Alert:  Before you indulge your rad hair urge – sleep on it. And/or sober up. At any rate, image decisions made on the very day of the Dark-Darkest Moon are usually regretted by the New Moon.

Astro-Beauty: Can Only Arieans Wear Red?

December 4, 2009 in Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 93 comments

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Arieans do wear more red than the average person, they really do. It’s the colour of Mars. It’s kinda like compulsory for them to wear Red. Whenever I have seen Arieans in a group (i have made the signs sit in groups whenever i have done functions) they are like a beacon of red.

So red is Mars, red is courage and red is guts. Arieans always think of themselves as the Alpha-Peeps in ANY room & all the Leos can go fuq themselves. Red makes this point nicely and it does need trashy bling or stupid, tortured hair. All it needs is simplicity, the red garb and beneath it – the awesomeness of the Aries bod. This is how Aries men and women think. Only the men may not wear full body read. Only Flash does that.

So what other sign than Aries dares wear red? You? And do you agree re Aries? Or does nobody really suit it?

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See Also:   Is Aquarius The Purple Colour? and Can Only Librans Wear Pink?

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Dark Moon In Libra Activity

November 13, 2009 in Astro-Beauty, Good Housewitchery by Mystic Medusa | 48 comments

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Yes, Saturn is squaring Pluto and it is SO unspeakably existential as referred to below but – as with any Dark Moon – some respite is to be found in primordial sifting, sorting and decluttering. Plus, because this is in Libra, think a la swooping on your beauty cabinet.

The bathroom is symbolically the domain of our Lady Venus – is yours a haven of beauty, harmony & order? Do you have a coherent skincare regime? It need not be something ludicrously o.t.t. Even just fresh new face-washers folded & awaiting your diligence can feel divine. That + you editing and discarding.

Venus – ruler of the Dark Moon – is of course in Scorpio and moving to square Mars + everything in Aquarius & probably some stray crazy asteroids just for good effect. So if a savage purge of potentially bacteria-infested mascaras, serums that on second-thought are stupid and the lipstick museum (clutter with purchase anyone?) don’t do it for you – get into some Scorped up Venusian culling of the evidence of ANY ex.

Okay, it’s tricky when you have darling children with them but I am not talking about that. You can do the old writing-them-a-letter ritual & then  you burn it. Note – i said burn, not send. You can cease hanging on to memorabilia or a symbol of hope that he/she/it may one day re-detour back into your lovely orbit. You can fix the Feng Shui, do a spell or see a Shaman to get the ‘cords’ cut. Mugwort smudged is a fantastic Dark Moonie thing to do.

Just remember: Libra is the sign of Balance & Beauty, Relationships and Tranquil Diplomacy. If you are to embody the latter, at least, use the power of the Dark Moon + Venus in Scorpio…And as it is the Dark of the Moon right before a Phoenix Moon in Scorpio – you may want to look at this Hecate post again.

Note: It is not a fantastic time for a first date nor to buy beauty products/have procedures done that are hard to change back. And that is my understatement du jour.

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