Mediatrix

Dorothy Wordsworth & her brother, the poet William said that the brightest star in any sky was always Jupiter. Which is how vague I can be sometimes. So many astrologers, astrologistes et al work whizzery with computers, have their cute snouts in ephemerides but find astronomy tricky.
It's partly that astronomers seem to take an awful lot of interest in constellations that don't "work" from the astrological p.o.v. Anyway, this Visual Astrologyis fascinating for Astro-Fiends.

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Okay, I do, i DO like Aquarius men. One especially.
And am LOVING Mars in Leo.
Yes, I do use that quote below a lot. I think it's beautiful in that it is uplifting and also evokes such a host of mythopoetic references - Sun Chakra and all.
Have noticed a slight zooshing up in the general vibe with Mars in Leo.
Two shallow examples: My Gemini daughter, who is not quite eight, has hatched a whole series of grandiose ambitions. They range from developing her own range of what seem to be Goth-themed dolls to "becoming a scientist and opening up new dimensions of everything."
I love that. Scheme big.
And because Mars in Leo loves a good scene, i got to make up with Aqua-Man at the boxing room in the gym. I feel i am more articulate when i wear pink boxing gloves. It's odd. I just remembered that when I was about nine, Leo was the sign I most wished to be. Okay, it was the 70s - when Leos were most fashionable - but it just seemed so cool to swan about in jumpsuits, aviator glasses, huge flowing hair and always just breathless at the fabulosity of it all.
I still love that about Leos.
Oh and this thing on Collaborating With Fate is brilliant: About how private submarines are trendy now & it's all a manfestation of Pluto in Capricorn.

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"In the depths of Winter I finally learned that there was in me an Invincible Summer."
Albert Camus

Happy Mars into Leo & go Sol Invictus

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"...According to Said, Gustave Flaubert wrote “Inscriptions and birddroppings are the only two things in Egypt that give any indication of life”, which would be damning if true. But, in the original French, what he wrote was “les inscriptions et les merdes d’oiseaux, voilà les deux seules choses sur les ruines d’Égypte qui indiquent la vie”, which is unexceptionable...."

Now that Mars is nearly in Leo, this article is way too brainiac for me. Truly. But i love the comment re bird droppings et al. It reminds me of aquarian men. Or, one in particular.
Neptunian Weirding (Neptune conjunct North Node) continues. Everyone i know or even hear of is either on the piss or meditating their heads off, sitting up incanting affirmations & trying to intelligently analyze their dreams.
Mars in Leo liberates us from months of Pass-Agg and now the best way to greet any challenge is to engage dignity first. You can emote to your shrink. Or cat. Or with one pithy witticism before an elegant exit. No texting. All messages must now arrive via carrier ibis or you waving farewell from a hot air balloon. A quick dash from your limo, lifting your ballgown to avoid the puddles? Oh, I don't know. I am chanelling an alternative Leo dimension.
Anyway: The element of Fire returns to the key cosmic backdrop tomorrow & see if you note the difference in vibe.

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Well, I just looked at my ephemeris and this vibe of hardcore realisations, boundary delineation & yet it's all for our own good in a "Quod me non necat me fortiorem facit" way continues till about May 25. And then it's the 2nd of two Full Moons in Scorp.
Golly.
Saturn is TRINING Pluto so thus helping us strengthen the structures in our lives/psyches...etc. Mars into Leo on the weekend WILL help. Less pining and longing to connect/talk it out/work thru issues - more like good, old-school pride & dignity.
Note that I am utterly serious re the Neptune-Node thingie making people more psychic and impressionable. Good for conscious work with dreams etc but soooo dodgy if you're hanging about with low-vibing folk.

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Neptune is conjunct the North Node in Aquarius: Beautiful lucid dreaming and a shining path to higher consciousness. Fabulous psychic flashes. Not so nice if it's neg-Neptune, a bit like lower-Pisces: denial, furtive, game-playing, druggie etc. But definitely aim for the clairvoyant dreaming over the next week or so. And a lot of people - especially the Aquarians & Pisceans or wherever you have these signs prominent - are achingly sensitive and impressionable.
A Pantheist suggestion to ground your energy, should you feel like you're lurching around processing someone else's bad mood/anxiety - an Epsom Salts bath. Or Dead Sea salts if you want to be poncy about it. Epsom Salts are like magic. Cheap too. Tip the whole packet in.
Come Saturday and the wide-open chakras will be less of a concern. Mars will glide into Leo, with some pomp and there will be a bit more of a snazzy, fiery and flamboyant atmosphere. These last days of Mars in Cancer are a tad trying, non?

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"Thomas Edison filed his first patent, for an automatic vote-recording machine, in 1868. When he set up his laboratory at Menlo Park, in 1876, he promised “a minor invention every ten days and a big thing every six months or so.” He kept that promise, averaging an almost inconceivable forty patents a year—one every nine days—for a lifetime total of more than a thousand. He filed his patent for the incandescent light bulb in 1879, but 1882, the year he lit up New York, marked his personal best of a hundred and seven..."

Aquarius - yes. actually - Mercury, Sun and Neptune conjunct in Aquarius. Uranus in Aries...
Fascinating article here

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Oh well, the scene is set for the Moon into Gemini any sek, ie; a bit bats.
Am still going to give up coffee but have abandoned plans to meditate tonight. Have Aqua-Man coming over with booze. I think some forms of crisis demand old-school sort of attention.
He is exhausted from a weekend of political activism that i gather involved ranting thru a loudhailer and drinking in Chinatown with union stalwarts. Something. I have slight ennui from the demonic barista, work et al & have vowed not to smash capitalism or whatever it is, but to become more of a functioning pantheist/supernaturalist. To work more profoundly with magic.
I am really happy for this glib, batso Gemini Moon after what's felt like days of get-your-shit-together Saturn-Plutonic stuff.
By the way, i am going to go and curl my eyelashes (fun after a two day existential crisis) so have not time to go into comments But FALLEN ANGEL - i thought you were not gonna speak to Scorp again?! He is a Bigamist. He had a whole other life going on!
If you MUST see him, do it in an airport lounge or something. Sweep in looking so ludicrously good that he is nearly sick with desire, say something witty/poignant/unforgettable and then go again. Preferably with Joaquin Phoenix. I love how he is Vegan.
Not that I ever make scenes like this - i just think it would be better for you than some turgid scene.
Speaking of turgid, nearly everyone I know had some sort ofcathartic digestive/existential upset over the weekend. Yes, we were all drinking but apart from that. Very, VERY Saturn in Virgo...Virgo is always digestion. You know - what can you not assimilate into your life, blah blah blah.
eg; My Lovely Aries Ex-Husband had some sort of lucid nightmare from the fish at the local shame-hole of a pub and THAT proved quite cathartic.
Not The Typical Virgo drank some cheap wine that caused a mind malfunction: She googled & e-mailed nearly all her exes. Hubbo was out, but still. A cry for help?

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Saturn Sux: That is inspired by some graffiti my son did outside Religious Education class. His was "Satan Sux." He had calculated (incorrectly) that teachers would be so impressed by the message, they'd pardon the medium. Note For Astro-Fiends: Mars, Mercury & Jupiter in Leo/Third House.
Anyway, I did not particularly enjoy the combo (Sat-Sun-Monday) of a Dark Moon as Saturn stationed. Yick. And as the Saturn trines Pluto right now, it's triggered everyone having a Pluto transit only with a vile Saturnine (oh my god - teeth! death! taxes!) sort of a spin.
Add to that that there are NO planets in FIRE right and voila - Anxiety City. Mine was given added leaden weight by the Bitch Barista. Thanks to her, I am now giving up coffee for the month and perhaps forever. Am meditating 10 minutes a night instead. Coffee was SO vile, i had to dash out to get B Vitamins, Magnesium, Rescue Remedy - the lot. Awful.
I am convinced she is whatever-people-who-persecute-Panetheists are called.
And my poor darling Feng Shui Mistress is ill in Nepal so am doing the May Feng Shui for myself. So no coffee, loads of meditation + have just gone & bunged the windchimes, i-ching coins & bamboo in places they maybe should not be?
I do have a helpful comment re the Saturn thing: If you are feeling stressed right now - though it is bound to have improved with the New Moon - try and get as quickly as you can to how facing whatever-it-is or altering your stance strengthens you. Strength is the only position to try and get to with Saturn Pluto astro-crap. It is supposed to make you stronger...Still. Give me a nice pissy Neptunian Flow experience or Uranian sudden insight or flash crush jag any day.
Also, things will feel very different - way snazzier - when Mars gets into Leo finally this weekend. Has been in Cancer and late Gem since last September...We have not had Mars in a Fire sign even since mid-2007.
Now am going to catch up on e-mails non-replied to when doing book...Back later or tomorrow...
Scary Shit About Coffee if you are interested

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Here we are once again in the dark undertow of the Moon, just before it is New again tomorrow night....Bit grotty. Nigh everyone i know is a bit fragile, chanting affirmations & trying to meditate, tipping lavender oil everywhere...And Saturn stationing Direct is driving home all the Saturn issues...Anyway - this poem is gorgeous antidote:

I Know Nothing But Miracles
Walt Whitman

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love,
Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
What stranger miracles are there?

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