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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.

Aphrodite Rules

January 5, 2010 in Astro-Fiends, Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 34 comments

Aphrodite – Sacred Earth Designs

Goddesses In Every Woman is a really interesting read, blending feminist philosophy with Jungian psych & mythology to essentially help women figure out which archetypes are strong within them. I was really only interested in the Aphrodite (aka Venus, Ishtar, Inanna etc) chapter but made myself read the rest & was SO shocked at the section on Vesta that i really don’t know if i can bring myself to blog about the asteroid again.

It was the bit about how Vestal Virgins in Ancient Rome were punished if they ’strayed’ – seriously awful stuff – there is a bit here.

I mean, really, is the asteroid that important?

Asteroid Sappho

August 28, 2009 in Astro In Books, Astro-Fiends, Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 22 comments

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The other day, I was posting real nice things about Saturn (Saturn Girl) and i only later realised that asteroid Sappho (number 80 if you want to bung her into your chart via Astrodienst) was conjunct Saturn and still is. That so fits!  I still think so many of the asteroids are just named randomly – and there are heaps of them – whereas the naming of the main planets took place over aeons of observation & witching. eg; the planet we call Venus was known as Ishtar by the Ancient Babylonians & they figured out her weird pentagram-shaped orbit way before (obviously) modern telescopes etc.

See Venus – Are You A Morning Star Or An Evening Star Venus? for more on that.

But asteroid relevancy aside, i loved that an asteroid called after one of the greatest ever poets – Sappho – was on Saturn as i tried to reinterpret the entity. I love it when Sappho shows up in charts. She was a genius, a poet and gay, though she had a daughter, Cleis, for whom she wrote a poem…“I have a fair daughter….her form is that of a golden flower…”

Most of her work was burned by rabid Christians & so only bits of it survive. There were Papal edicts instructing peeps to destroy her work – because she was gay? Because she began and managed schools to educate women? Because heaps of her poems were in frank praise of Aphrodite? The Greeks considered her on a par with Homer and she surely influenced Ovid?  Anyway, in a chart,  I think she signifies poetry, wit, sheer feminine genius and the will to eloquently assert your right to do as you sensually please.

My friend Kim Falconer thinks asteroid Sappho shows up as tactile, indulgent, luscious, heady & yet extraordinarily smart – Asteroid 80 is a totally fun asteroid to research AND if your Sappho is on the love interest’s Venus or Moon you SO mess with his/her mind. Just by showing up. If you don’t know much about Sappho, do go to some of these links…I like to think that book burnings do NOT work! Oh and yes, she was born on the isle of Lesbos, some time around 600 BC.

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Taurus – The Holy Celestial Cow

August 12, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 29 comments

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Every now and then a Taurus e-mails to complain how annoyed they are that their emblem is a Cow but this is SO sacred! Taurus is aligned with the divine Hathor, an ancient forerunner of Isis, Inanna, Aphrodite, Astarte and all.  Pre-patriarchally (yes, it IS that time of the month again) the symbol for Taurus was not the Bull but the Cow. And not just any old cow but the original Holy Cow herself – Hathor…

From her Wikipedia;

“A hymn to Hathor says:

Thou art the Mistress of Jubilation, the Queen of the Dance, the Mistress of Music, the Queen of the Harp Playing, the Lady of the Choral Dance, the Queen of Wreath Weaving, the Mistress of Inebriety Without End.

Essentially, Hathor had become a goddess of joy, and so she was deeply loved by the general population, and truly revered by women, who aspired to embody her multifaceted role as wife, mother, and lover. In this capacity, she gained the titles of Lady of the House of Jubilation, and The One Who Fills the Sanctuary with Joy. The worship of Hathor was so popular that a lot of festivals were dedicated to her honor than any other Egyptian deity, and more children were named after this goddess than any other deity. Even Hathor’s priesthood was unusual, in that both women and men became her priests.

In recent years, the theory of matriarchal cultures existing in profusion before 3,000 B.C.E. has taken root and bring into question the interpretation of Hathor as only wife or only mother. Hathor wears the head-dress of 18 serpents (traditionally associated with wisdom and women), the cows horns (horns were associated with the crescent moon and thus, a woman’s menstrual cycles). Hathor may have, quite possibly, been the original Mother God of the Egyptian citizens….”

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Blessed Bee

July 23, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 43 comments

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Bee symbolism is sensational. Run a search on bee symbolism or goddess & see how weird & beautiful they are: I have found an ancient Minoan bee goddess, that they are linked to Aphrodite as hives are hexagonal (like a pentagram, the orbit of Venus) on the inside, the esoteric origins of the Queen Bee…

Oh and Napoleon was bee-mad, had bees on his scent flagons, embroidered on his silk dressing gowns & some say the Fleur de Lys is linked to bee symbolism.

Bee crop circles. Bee everything. Some say bees navigate via tiny crystals embedded (naturally) in their brain. Is this true or did I dream it?
This freemason article starts out quite dry and then gets fascinating.

This one is less scholarly, blatantly wiccan

And, a brief scientific fact, the promiscuity of the Queen Bee ensures the safety and health of the whole hive.

I think maybe Virgo could benefit from the Bee as their symbol…?

And – I really have to stop researching bee-ology soon – the names Melissa and Deborah are linked to ancient bee priestesses. Melissa means Queen Bee…I am also taking bee pollen as apparently is like super-food of nature. It is totally the nicest supplement i have ever tasted.

And this quick-to-read New Yorker piece by Noah Baumbach is absolutely hilarious:  Buzzed

LOL Cosmic Consciousness

July 17, 2009 in Astro Gaga by Mystic Medusa | 101 comments

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“…A consciousness of the cosmos, knowing the life and order of the universe. It is considered a higher, yet at present an exceptional peak in human evolution which the race is expected to reach in a distant future.

According to Dr. Richard M. Bucke (1837-1902), a friend of Walt Whitman, some individuals, mostly of the male sex, between 30 and 40, and who are highly developed with good intellect, high morals, a superior physique, and an earnest religious feeling can acquire this consciousness.

Dr. Bucke considered thirteen individuals to have possessed such a consciousness: Gautama, Jesus, Paul, Platinus, Mohammed, Dante, Las Casas, John Ypes, Francis Bacon, Jacob Behmen, William Blake, Balzac and Walt Whitman.

The experience comes suddenly without warning with a sensation of being immersed in a flame or rose-colored cloud and is accompanied by a feeling of ecstasy, moral and intellectual illumination in which, like a flash, a clear conception in outline is presented to the mind of the meaning and drift of the universe.

The man or woman going through this experience knows that the universe is a living presence, that life is eternal, the soul of man is immortal, the foundation principle of life is love, and the happiness of every individual in the long run is absolutely certain. All fear of death, all sense of sin is lost, and the personality gains added charm and is transfigured. In a few moments of the experience the individual will learn more than in years or months of study and will learn much that no study will teach.

Walt Whitman described cosmic consciousness as “ineffable light, light rare, untellable, light beyond all signs, descriptions and languages.”…From HERE.

Holy Aphrodite, blame the Eclipse but i am feeling super-New Agie tonight. Superior male physiques, no fear, no sin, added charm – this sounds fuqing awesome. I wagged kundalini yoga for some convoluted reasons but I am SO signing up for this course.

Tree-Hugging With The Taurus Moon

July 16, 2009 in Astro-Beauty, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 40 comments

anonymous-cow-grazing-1054655Holy Aphrodite! It’s the Taurus Moon and THAT time of the month. I am totally grazing and it ain’t grass.  Still, the Taurus Moon, other than increasing all of our appetites is so Sensual & Grounded, the ideal opportunity to earth oneself. Seriously, get near some ground, lie on the lawn, do some gardening, go a bit herbal…this is your tranquility zone before the Eclipse. The Gemini Moon kicks in for the weekend & Saturday has an insane amount of aspects.

It may be my Ceres transit (it and Saturn are opposing my Chiron) but i am going ape about toxic showercurtains and poisonous nail varnish. I got a new shower curtain & just freaked at the smell.

Yet a damp hemp thing hanging in the bathroom would fuq my Feng Shui for sure. And I saw the podiatrist the other day – a plain spoken Aries lady – and she said something akin to ‘wear toenail polish for a special occasion if you are wearing open-toed shoes and take it off the moment you get home.’

I have The Uranian lurking around again & so if i get home in open-toed shoes etc etc, there is no way i am going to be skulking in the bathroom inhaling also-toxic nail varnish remover removing it the moment I get home. I thought the whole point was that you get to wiggle red toes attractively in your sheets etc.  There is simply no such thing as an organic nail polish – it’s basically car paint for people. Alternatives; hippy henna or haute hippy neem oiled and buffed by podiatrist. Nail salons these days are as common as McDonalds. Maybe it’s a saturation thing. But is there a non-poisonous shower curtain anyone knows about?

And anyway, the Taurean Moon is always truly fabulous for Tree-Hugging…Let’s do it.

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Venus in Gemini!

July 6, 2009 in Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 9 comments

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Also over the weekend – Venus glided into Gemini. Let the games begin! Venus in Gemini definitely aerates the romantic atmosphere a bit. It’s been yonks since we have had Venus in an Air sign. Not since September 2008. So enjoy the lightening of vibe.

Between July 22 and 29, the love goddess makes a series of sensational aspects; a square to Saturn, trines to the Auspicious Aqua-Weirding that is ongoing till Feb 2010 and a square to Uranus. This ought to trigger all sorts of interesting carry-on. It will be an interesting “tell” of the Saturn-Uranus opposition exact in Sept. And Mars  – in Gemini  from July 12 – follows hard on the heels of Venus…

This is one of the reasons why it’s worth going hardcore with all the Capricorny-Saturn in Virgo pragmatic stuff now…because the last week of July is SO Venusian and will be such fun, especially hyped by a big Solar Eclipse.

Are You A Morning Star Or An Evening Star?

May 25, 2009 in Astro-Fiends, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 51 comments

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Venus is, as you know, a planet & f.y.i. all the mountains & lakes on Venus are named after her pseudonyms; Ishtar, Cybele, Aphrodite et al. But Venus is also known as the Morning Star and the Evening Star. Her cycle is complex & intricate. She is for a while the brightest star in the evening sky & then disappears (in parallel to many a myth) for several days and then reappearing on the other side of the sky as the Morning Star a.k.a. Venus Lucifer. Lucifer being Latin for light-bearer. Venus Hesperus (spelling varies) is the Evening Star…

Some say that Morning Star Venus peeps are more passionate & impulsive whilst Evening Star Venus types are more likely to be sedate and strategic. If your Venus is at a degree earlier than your Sun, you’re a Morning Star Venus. After your Sun, you’re an Evening Star Venus. For example, if your Sun is at 25 degrees Capricorn and your Venus is 16 degrees Aquarius then you were born under Venus as the Evening Star. If your Sun is at 25 degrees Capricorn and your Venus is 5 degrees Capricorn, then you’re a Morning Star Venus & thus more Warrior-goddessy in your love & sex nature.

And yes, the cycle of Venus really DOES create a pentagram shape in the sky. Much like the Apple, when sliced in half & redolent also of the Rose.

This site here has the most exhaustive info on Venusian cycles that I think i have ever seen. They’re fascinating. A brand new Venus cycle starts in January 2010, linking back into romantic astro-weirding from Dec 2005/Jan 2006…

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Aphrodite/Venus/Osun/Ishtar Out Of Shadow

May 18, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 8 comments

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Other than a few little Retro-Mercury glitches, you should definitely be in fresh territory by now. Venus/Ishtar/Aphrodite/Osun is totally out of the retrograde Shadow-Zone now.  So, having maybe wallowed a bit in ancient angsty stuff and had thoughts of past loves rise unbidden to the surface of your mind,  you now glide forward with a bold pioneering vibe. I actually just did a Freudian typo; “glide force” – nice, as Venus is still in Aries the avatar. Where is that line “I love your pilgrim soul” from?  I think i have already said this but Venus is now chasing after Mars and the two form a fantastic conjunction in Venusian Taurus in June; So sensual. A lot brewing.

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