Venus is in Sagittarius! I LOVE how the vibe seems already a lot less fraught. Venus in Saggo is take-it-or-leave-it so far as love goes. She values experience, the journey, the moment. There is a lover-in-every-port quality to Venus in Sagittarius. You can use this cycle to be a bit more breezy & candid in a relationship or about your love life in general. Relish freedom and/or honesty.

For her next act, Venus in Sagg is going to sextile Saturn

Venus To Saturn: Okay, Sagacious Hermit Dude, so you reckon me having an actual budget would enable me to better pursue my bliss, liberty and oh-my-god this amazingly insightful and YES, okay HOT guy who I’ve been e-mailing with about his raw food body building commune that you can only reach by speedboat and…Sorry Mr Saturn, WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY??”

It’s Venus and Saturn but a Sextile…so helpful…That’s later this week but active now. Slightly austere but good insights re love, beauty et al.

Then, later, there is the awesome Venus trine to Mars in Leo – this is mid-December’s opportunity for exhibitionists, pole-dancers and those nursing secret crushes to be more overt. A fab tonique for jaded couples as well.  My friend Aqua-Girl has been doing alarming stream of consciousness bitcherel re “monotonous monogamy” on her Facebook. Mars is going to be bang on her Moon for the Venus trine. She is seeking an occasion suitably risque enough.

Moving on, Venus in Saggo squares Uranus & sextiles the Auspicious Aqua Weirding. Around about then and with the Eclipse looming, it’s all gonna get a bit “if you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with’ ish.

And a bit of a cosmic catalyst for moribund couplings.   I am just getting everyone massage or colonic (lol) vouchers this year so I don’t have to be oozing around department stores/malls with Mars retrograde and toxic couples going completely cuckoo at one another under the tinsel and with beady-eyed, hung-over Santas everywhere.

I nearly typed Saturns there. Not that Saturn would ever be at all beady-eyed or hungover. But it’s a good idea. Why can’t we – instead of out-dated Santas peddling sugar laden naff shit, have Saturns sitting around looking sleek and giving life-coaching tips? The Sun is in Capricorn from Dec 22 for fuq’s sake. SO apt.

Here is one for travel-one-upping Sagittarians!  The Galactic Suites will be open for guests in 2012. IF they can keep their funding flowing in. Space hotels are v.expensive, as you can imagine. It will cost about $4 million a week or something to stay there. So, no backpackers.There is some anonymous billionaire space travel enthusiast who has already tipped in $3 billion.

And, okay, I may be wrong about the Sagittarians…I should not astro-cliche them such. But, okay, apart from Richard Branson (Pluto in Leo Rising, Jupiter in Pisces trine his Cancerian Uranus, interesting) I cannot see Cancerians stampeding to stay at a Space Hotel. Or anyone sensitive. I mean, wouldn’t it sort of revoltingly combine agoraphobia AND a bit of claustro? If some mysterious trillionaire shouted you a week at Galactic Suites, would you go? I wouldn’t. But I have Jupiter in Taurus/4th House. Tres earthed.

I reckon Fire Signs would totally go. Leo would send the space shuttle pilots mental by carrying on with his space travel tips. Libra would go if there was a the-Zero-gravity-of-space-has-sensational-complexion-refining-benefits. Gemini? Yes. And then they would attempt to become the first person (?) to have sex in space or something. A Virgo in space is an AMAZING thought. I swear, even in totally sterile, airlocked conditions, the Virgo would find a scuff mark and try to send off a helpful memo about altering the style of space boots used.

Scorpio -it would depend on the variety of Scorp. If it did not trigger any violent aversions,  yes. Capricorn – absolutely, think of the status, the opportunities for advancement and the networking. O.m.g. the NAME dropping. “Yah, well when I was at the Galactic Suites, the other day, Bill and I agreed that there was really nothing like the view of Arkansas from space…”

So I am thinking El Toro, Kataka and Pisces – absolutely not.  Aquarius??? Naturally.  Aqua-Girl is BOUND to be already working her contacts. She is probably hooking herself up with a job there.

When Saturn is in Libra, from the end of this month, we are all going to vibe very even and perfectly balanced. Ideally. The Saturn-Pluto square may skitz up the perfect balance ideal a bit. But these watches from Gavari Design are SO perfect for Saturn in Libra. And imagine the quiet one-up-manship corporate peeps could perform by it being actually official that they’re not at all fussed/phased by whatever is going on. I was actually about to send the guff on this to the gadget loving, polyphasic sleeping Aqua-Girl but then it occurred to me she probably already has one but it’s probably a stress detecting bra or something.

“…The Stress Watch is a special stress releasing device. In addition to keeping the time, reports the Biofeedback of several body functions.
The real-time data will be transformed to guidelines for relaxation, which are the well-being waves, the stress line, as well as the heart rate and the body`s temperature. If the display shows sprinted waves kept in warm colors, and the stress line is completely full, you need to change your breathing and your focus. As you slow down your breathing and find your optimal breathing rate, you will literally see a change of the graphic chart. So the alarming well-being waves transform into smooth one with cool colors and the stress line decreases back to the relaxing indication.
Wearing the StressWatch guarantees you to become a cool relaxed person in every situation!…”

My friend Aqua-Girl was really amazed the other night (and she is reasonably  unshockable) when i said i did not have scales. SHE has a full body scan fat monitor device that measures bone density, fat percentage, metabolic age, weight and a whole pile of other things. It is basically a computer in her bathroom and the technology is such that it would have been impossible a few years ago. It can wirelessly send info to her scheduler online, instruct her in how many kilojoules she requires that day & talk to her heart  monitor wristwatch.

I asked, for a joke, if it could connect with her Lucid Dreaming REM Goggles & she looked instantly alert & then made several notes in her iPhone (which also connects with the Heart Monitor & bathroom bone scanner) which i presume have something to do with her intent to somehow hot-wire the lucid dreaming goggles up to the other Personal Wellness Devices.

Oh and while we are on gadgets, she also has some brand of Swedish personal massager (am not going to see V word in case get blocked by some peeps with work browser thingies) that is so technologically advanced that it bought her to tears (of joy) the first time she used it. Aqua-Girl IS a multiple-Conjunct Aquarius – Sun, Mercury, Venus and Ascendent all trined by Pluto in Libra. But still…is this an Aquarian thing?

You know the Libran Moon drill – diplomacy.

See no, hear no, speak no E.

And it’s worth doing the groundwork toward a more peaceful existence now, as once the Moon gets into Scorpio it kicks off the Mars-Pluto opposition now-building but exact later in the week. Full lecture re this in the Daily Mystic but essentially, keep thy temper, don’t go picking fights unless you’re totally armed & ready and find  positive uses for this potentially rad/regenerative astro vibe.

Love the Libran Moon in the meantime – be moisturised, hydrated, even of temper and deflect all idiots with good manners where poss. Monthly Horoscopes updated tonight. And – this is ridiculous – i was thinking of the astrology for a month ahead so forgot that Venus was trine Uranus this weekend; I got the Uranian turning up and a sudden outbreak of extreme flirting with the Organic Piscean. The U tried every trick in the book but i realised i was over him – thankfully, with Venus aspecting Uranus, such realisations bear not even a tint of melancholy.

And my friend Aqua-Girl actually went and ordered The Singularity guy’s book that was on the blog back in June. Apparently the actual diet (life extension etc) will “re-programme” your DNA. So fairly extreme. We were discussing it whilst eating strawberry shortcake and drinking wine at a pub bistro, as you do. She’s off the polyphasic sleep cycling & her Venus-Uranus moment du jour was discovering her quite-a-bit-younger nanophysicist student lover is actually immensely wealthy. Plus the Scorpio Sex Academic met a hot fireman named Trevor, Cancerian.

Maybe it’s my Moon Progressed into Gemini OR the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction trining my natal Moon in Libra – always an excuse for being bats – but I am increasingly intrigued by the Polyphasic Sleep Cycling. I mean, so far Aqua-Girl still seems sane. Serene even. It may be all the make-up.

But so as not to turn into something scary a la the above picture I think i need a High Tech Cosmovoide Luxury Bed. It would be an investment.  It’s practical and would aid productivity. It starts at $61,000 USD. For a BED. It’s not the kind of thing the company would just Fed-Ex out to a blogger to test and post about.

THEY SAY:

“…the Cosmovoïde Bed, where you can hover on the brink of falling into a deep healing sleep, before awakening relaxed and refreshed, with optimal physical and psychic potential. This high-tech luxury
bed is characterized by its individual springs suspended from the structure by self-suspension, the same principle as used for hammocks. This absolute design touts the elements of a luxurious four-poster
bed. The side view, which mimics the shape of an egg derived from golden number geometry, gives the
bed its relaxing properties. The user will find the wave shape and the symbolism of an egg, reminiscent of the “cosmic egg,” from which its name ‘Cosmovoïde’ is drawn. Made by craftsmen in the North of France, the high-tech Cosmovoïde
bed features 2 electric relaxation
bed frames, 7 LED lamps in the colors of the rainbow, a television integrated at the foot of the
bed, a DVD player, high-definition home cinema set up, 6 power sockets, and a telephone…”

I think that, for that price, they could get WAY more cosmic. I mean if someone cares enough to manufacture – soz, CRAFT in the North of France – a bed that evokes Sacred Geometry, the Cosmic Egg and the Golden Mean etc etc then surely we can do a little better than “led lamps in the colours of the rainbow”?  I would expect built in Lucid Dreaming Goggles as a very basic feature here. Is some aromatherapy diffusion too much to ask? Surely.

If $$$ were no object would you purchase the High Tech Cosmovoide Luxury Bed???

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Despite the Eclipse, my friend Aqua-Girl is loving her Polyphasic Sleep Cycling.  Appropriately, for a Full Moon in Capricorn, she says sleeping just a few hours a day has made her way more productive but with a few unexpected side effects.

(1) She only likes Raw Food now. (2) She has become obsessed with make-up in a way that she has never experienced in her life before. In one week of raw foods and polyphasic sleep cycling, she is like a devotee of extreme cosmetics, avidly seeking the advice of cosmetics professionals & trying on complicated but genius LOOKS.

Re the Raw Food thing – whenever i try it, i HATE it as I have genetics (German) that predispose me to potatoes & bread but i LOOK amazing on it. It’s unreal and a scene unto itself. Just like polyphasic sleep cycling.I got a raw food cookbook once that enslaved me with its evolutionary zeal and claims until i realised that to make half the stuff in there, i needed some sort of $1000 magic zilcher thing.

Raw Food does seem very Aqua & though it has been around since the 1930s – at least – when a Taurean nutritionist named Gaylord Hauser had Hollywood stars in thrall to  his eating, exercise & skincare regimes. Okay, so my theory is that Aquarius/11th House/Uranian types are way more likely to experiment with their food & sleep cycles. My Aquarius father was constantly tinkering with time and nutritional concepts.

Next to Aquarius would be Scorpio? Scorps are big into the macrobiotic, Tantric and kundalini end of things, which they then compensate with the occasional Neptunian binge-up of low-Qi toxins. And then, I think, Virgo. They’re not so bats or free-form as Aquarius or Aqua Types though. Virgo will pick one dictate – one nutritional school and follow it for a bit. Whereas Aqua alters the thing according to whim. Scorp wins for sheer bravery – nobody out-does Scorp at purgings, detoxings & committment.

Gemini + Sagg will eat weird & ethnic food but A.D.D. doesn’t allow for strange regimes. Aries thinks they’re inane. Taureans, Leo & Cancerians are too gourmet to give anything up. Librans & Pisceans will go on a regime for the sake of love or beauty but their heart is  not really in it & they’re far more likely to be devoted to some skin-care ritual though they DO become vitamin-addicts IF there is an anti-aging or sex angle.

Your thoughts?

How was your weekend?!  Mine was excellent though to back to back socialising did in my Sunday & I totally Zen-Slothed.

In my Sunday evening trackies & with my daughter in the suddenly torrential rain, we schlepped past an impromptu Michael Jackson Tribute Street Party – was gorgeous. About 50 people all dancing to really well-mixed MJ. And they were good dancers.  What interested me most is that there were teens through to 60-ish year olds, people who were clearly professional dancers & others who were just picking up on the moves they did at their school formal once upon a time. And the kids krumped.

Uranus is in utter sl0-mo, practically at a standstill, getting set to turn Retro on Weds, just as Venus squares everything in sight. I know I said this last week but – again – it is not a good time to try and control other peeps. Especially Aquarians & Pisceans, also Taurus & Libra…They’re individuating to the max.

It IS a brilliant time to be your own unique yourself, live & let be. Vary your routine. Ditch the obligatory shit – where you can – whilst also honouring the Eclipse-Season Get Real vibe.  The Eclipse (15 Capricorn) is in my 12th  house so my practical resolution is to meditate properly. But remember that the Uranian vibe adds a zany zing to the atmosphere & that not everyone channels Uranian Qi as well as – say -  you or I might.

Don’t bait the crazies. Stay serene & nourish thy nervous system.

My friend Aqua-Girl – who is probably the ultimate Aquarian female in many ways – has announced she is going into “poly-phasic sleep cycling” in the next month. Hence her social availability will be limited and she is totally off coffee and sugar. “A lot of big people do it,” she said breezily. “Richard Branson, Buckminster Fuller…”  I can’t remember the other names.

What it is: you sleep for only two hours a day so that you have 22 hours a day of total productivity. How you do it; You train yourself to sleep – zapping straight into REM – for 20 minutes every two hours. She may or may not use her lucid dreaming goggles during this time. Aqua-Girl sends men crazy. I see it all the time. She has waist length blue black hair and has that sort of archetypal delicate Asian lotus flower look.

But she is a multiple conjunct Aquarian and completely bats. She does nude hiking and surfing, djs, goes straight from a ten day Silence Retreat to clubbing, is an excellent mother to her two daughters & is currently dating a much younger nanophysicist whom she made go to relationship counselling two weeks after they met. Just to tweak a few things.

I think i would go ravingly nuts if I tried polyphasis sleep cycling. I did it by default when my children were babies and it did  not seem to produce the sharpened mind and sudden ability to become an awesomely productive mogul & guru.