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Astro-Poll: Which Sign Would You Really Rather NOT Go Camping With?

June 4, 2010 in Astro-Poll by Mystic Medusa | 143 comments

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I think Sagg would be the BEST sign to go camping with…Perpetually cheery, fab sense of direction and hard to phase.

Aries is also upbeat but wrecks it by wanting to pitch the tent on the highest peak visible and screaming ‘come on slackers’ at the fellow campers. But Aries will erect a sodding tent in the middle of a cyclone and heaven help any wild animal who gets between an Aries and a barbecue.

Taurus brings along one of those structured tents with carpets, ovens and a bar fridge. Which is great except it means Taurus requires staff and or “helpers.” There is also the risk of a fight when peeps with less salubrious facilities because they’re keeping-it-real try to sneak into Tent-Taurus for a quick toblerone cocktail. No-no-no.

Gemini & Pisces will have sat-nav, i-Pod and an internet connection for keeping in touch with where it’s at. They’ll talk a good game about being At One with nature and foraging for strange berries that they intend to make into ‘bush tucker’ but go totally off the whole idea about a third of the way into it. They need their fellow campers to be either great conversationalists or someone they fancy. They quite like it if they can hear the comforting sound of a busy road in the distance but will totally get out of any camping chores so that they can talk shit and go skinny-dipping.

Cancerians & Scorps will either not go at ALL or they will go in hardcore, with Swiss survival knives, special sleeping bags, manuals, a determination to actually hunt something/find treasure/walk 1000k in one day and probably some psych issues to work through. There will be deep chats around the fire at night and sensual appreciation of the stars, night-time noise etc. That’s even as Gem & Pisces lie gibbering in their tents, screaming at every squawk from an animal.

Leo & Libra will set out in the latest camping fashion, outdoorsy scents and with a muslin tent, thinking of Out Of Africa scenarios. Silver backed hairbrushes, 800 thread count organic sheets and bush-wattle body lotions are hard to lug around on long treks to camping grounds but they will do it. There may be a dramatic scene once either of them realises that the hard-core Scorp running the show is actually arcing up for a fistfight with the Aries, that there is a Pisces or Aquarius bitching because their tentmate won’t point the tent in the right direction for Feng Shui, due to the blizzard AND that there are no special dietary requirements taken into account.

Aquarius would want to to whacked out rituals, wildcrafting, nude bushwalking and maybe add the mental mushrooms they foraged into the Arieans barbecue. Virgo and Capricorn would not even GO on this trip without the perameters being carefully delineated and agreed on (legally binding) beforehand. It’s too unstructured…

poll by twiigs.com

Sun Sign Survey: What Sign Was Your Weirdest Flatmate?!

May 29, 2010 in Aquarius, Aries, Sagittarius, Sun Sign Survey by Mystic Medusa | 139 comments

AM sorting out the archives and this is SO FUN I think I am going to bung it right here, right now – Because not all of us have shared…YET.

YOUR WEIRDEST FLATMATE WAS WHAT SIGN?! Or housemate/roomate, whatever?

I have three contenders for this…And, to be fair, I am sure that i was someone’s weirdest flatmate myself. I think it is always worth acknowledging that point.But these flatmates were all joyously raving astro-cliches…By which i mean SO true to the most trite traits of their Sun Sign that it was – at best – archetypal.

* Flatmate One: Female – Sagg.

Alarmingly athletic, leggy, toothy, tanned and super-candid to a point that stunned people. She spent all her spare money on sports equipment that she was totally thrilled about. So my friends and I blew $ we didn’t have on booze, shoes, poetry and perfume – hers went on kayaks, mountain bikes, new running shoes, skis – fresh sports socks if she really broke. Had a banker boyfriend whom, she candidly admitted, was to “facilitate” international snowboarding excursions. Also prone to fleeting but very-intense-whilst-they-lasted-lust-crush-fixations on men whom she would blatantly stalk. Slept nude. Opened door in the nude. Studied in the nude. Rarely drank due to usually having to be up at 4.30 am for some kind of run or kayaking event but when she did get On It, Sagg-Flatmate would quickly go from ‘one glass of wine after tutorial’ to debating law with bouncers trying to eject her for dancing topless on the table.

* Flatmate Two: Male – Aquarius.

Much older bearded Gestalt therapist and frequenter of workshops. Recently divorced and the part-time parent of two daughters, he populated his house with teenage student flatmates a la the incentive: ‘live here, close to uni, I am so cool with you bringing all your fabulous friends around and partying day and night…Truly relaxed living, no hassles etc.’ It did not occur to me until years later that this may have been the source of his frequent day-long domestics with his ex-wife on the verandah. Fave Saying: ‘that’s your shit…’ Morphed between being quite fascinating a la discussing mythology et al to pompous and ostentatious meditating in the middle of the living room with Nag Champa burning and his horrid white belly freaking out his cute-teenage-flatmates + their lovers and then again to cannabis-inspired creepy investigative candour and flaccid passes.

* Flatmate Three – THE WINNER OF MY PERSONAL WEIRD FLATMATE COMP: Male – Aries...

V.short and muscular. Had huge pile of smut in the living room, not really looked at and just magazines but there to make the point that he could. He constantly denounced feminism, in really bonkers ways. And would get visibly thrilled if you argued with him about it. Like visibly. Beads of sweat on brow, unbuttoning his shirt a bit and let’s open another bottle of wine. Read endless tracts of stuff such as Shere Hite and Germaine Greer to get his “ammo.” Slept between sheep and goat skins as did not approve of sheets. Had v.expensive stereo etc but always kept doors/windows unlocked because – he said – his karma was so fantastic. Could not go three sentences in any conversation without doing pull-ups on the nearest door frame. Opinionated to the point that he was constantly getting into fights with people, which he enjoyed. Aries Flatmate had no formal martial arts training but genuinely loved fighting, especially if he could keep mouthing off whilst doing it. Blamed his frequent turnover of woman friends on Feminism.

My Bed – Tracey Emin 1998

Back Soon

April 5, 2010 in Administrivia by Mystic Medusa | 48 comments

Just back from an exercise-sauna session to steam all the chocolate & chardie out from me pores, sigh.

And now I am gently beguilted by the Capricorn Moon (yes) and thinking more in terms of rocket, green tea and the Tao of Self-Control.

BIG week ahead of us. Big month, actually. Okay, well, big whole April to August, really. But i will be back v.soon with hopefully helpful info to aid us all. Saturn, Pluto…Eclipses. Feng up and arm yourself with accurate astro-info. We are going to need every bit of magick we can stir up.

On a lighter note, here is a classic Aries male ancedote. My daughter’s friend’s dad is Aries with Aries Rising and Moon in Aries. So he’s like a triple Aries. So he blats about the place at warp speed and is involved in about ten different sports teams. Anyway, i told him that i had to ge my gutters cleaned out but that they’re so high the roof guy gave me this insane quote. Triple-Aries responds immediately: “bull shit, give me a bit of rope to use as a harness and some rubbish bags, I’ll be up there in five minutes.”

And he was. Did the whole lot, no fear, leaping about like sort of alien goat species. This is mega-Aries-male as it combines helping out a damsel in ‘distress’, showing off and ousting another male. Even just an invisible roofer too sissy to go up on a steep roof sans s-loads of $$$ and a cherry picker. The cutest thing about Aries men is that when he finally jumped down, ten bags of disgusting gutter gunk later – Feng Shui lady is going to be thrilled – he truly did not want thanks or recompense. Praise, yes.

Carbophilia aside, how was your Easter?

Happy April Fool’s Day!

April 1, 2010 in Uncategorized by Mystic Medusa | 50 comments

the-fool

“You are the heart, the raven, the coyote, the monkey king of China, the Hermes of Classical Greece. You are the agent provocateur, the liar, the cheat, the thief, the gambler, the eroticist, the f**k-it-all malcontent that makes it all happen.”

I re-posted this from last year because I love it so much. I can’t even find the source of the quote now…Does anyone any idea…?

Happy April Fool’s Day. As I am sure you know by now, The Fool is not so foolish at ALL.

When The Fool pops up in a Tarot reading – if not surrounded by contradictory or tricky cards – to take a grand leap of faith. It’s the start-over card.

The Taurus Concept Vehicle

March 31, 2010 in Uncategorized by Mystic Medusa | 39 comments

This new self-balancing, zero-emission vehicle (from the peeps who bought us the Segway) is called The Taurus.

LOVE the concept and as you know, I think Uranus in Aries is going to lead to all sorts of fascinating new transportation options – jetpacks etc – but who the fuq decided to call it the Taurus???!!!!

When I think of something called Taurus I think of an awesome couch. Or of a chain of restaurants that served only gourmet comfort food (baked potatoes, macaroni cheese) done beautifully and with open fireplaces and ten litre jugs of mulled wine. Not this.

The Taurus thingie should have been called…what…The Aries Speedwhiz? I’d call it the Saggmobile and be done with it. Although…the Saggos I know all have long legs (as they do) and they need to exercise them a lot or else they get mysterious ‘growing pains’.

Let’s come up with a new name for The Taurus…Oh, and Taureans, if someone gave you one of these things, would you use it? If so where would you go to on it?

Martian Mercurial

March 18, 2010 in Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 67 comments

Mercury is now in action-Aries and trining mega-Mars in Leo. Some ideas:

* Faster talking.

* Impatience.

* Men are more daring.

* Ideas zip from the subliminal mind at the speed of light.

* Suffer fools? They should all be interned for the duration of Mercury in Aries.

* Brash ideas cranked out and whizzed off to about 1000 peeps at once, who all run the risk of being struck off the Mercury-in-Aries contact list should they not respond within more or less nano-seks.

* Big-noting.

* Winking. Seriously, monitor winkage. It’s always about more when Mercury is in Aries.

* Gutsy mission statements.

* Interrupting.

* Batting out of your league but w.t.f.

Think about it. Mars just back from that retrograde a.w.o.l. trip really needs a bit of a pep talk. And whom better to deliver that than Mars in Aries. Mercury stays in Aries till early April and then goes into Taurus just as Saturn goes back into Virgo. April will feel quite diff to now. Live it up.

Soon

March 17, 2010 in Uncategorized by Mystic Medusa | 65 comments

Soon the Sun will be in Aries again – this weekend – and Arieans will be as little Spring lambs, leaping about with joie de vivre and fresh ideas sparking out of their charged up aura fields.

It’s also like a little preview (this next week) of themes emerging mid-year…when Uranus and Jupiter get to Zero degrees of Aries. Loads of endings and new beginnings around in the next few months…The less you cling to the old stuff, the easier it is for the awesome new stuff to manifest.

And it is new. Very new.

Grouched Up Aries

March 17, 2010 in Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 51 comments

Tiffany Bozic

So I note some Aries peeps grouching it up in the comments.

I’m sure I said this before, maybe only in the Daily Scopes but anyway here it is again.

Last week Venus in Aries squared Pluto, this week Mercury in Aries squares Pluto and next week the Sun in Aries squares Pluto. These are all harbingers of the squares from Uranus in Aries (major) to Pluto that are key themes of the next few years.

So it’s not supposed to induce angst but they are subtle omens of impending change which can feel a bit unsettling for sure. It’s actually stirring all the Cardinal Signs; Aries, Kataka, Capricorn and Libra. Libra has Saturn in their sign and Capricorn Pluto.

If you are any of these signs, you kind of need to be reading the Astro-Confidentials featuring Saturn, Uranus and Pluto…because they’re all over your sign from mid-year and beyond. Especially if you’re born in the early degrees of your sign. Phoenixing to the Max.

Remember, another way of thinking about Cardinal signs is that you’re like a Boss sign. You get shit happening.

Your Astro-Signature

March 9, 2010 in D.I.Y. Astro by Mystic Medusa | 241 comments

Heidi and Erika Anderson

Your “astro-signature” is your Ascendent (aka Rising Sign) Sun Sign and Moon Sign. This is totally arguable but they are the three most dominant points in your chart. And what’s fun is seeing how well they all get along.

For instance, you can see that having – say – Moon in Leo with Sagittarius Rising would be like a party. Moon in Leo would love the Sagg Risings ability to scare up a good time & Saggo Rising would love the take-anywhere nature of Moon in Leo. Add in the Sun in Libra for some smooth elegance and voila…a harmonious astro-signature. No discordance.

A Taurus-Pisces-Virgo blend? Easy.

But what if you’re an Aries Sun hiding behind a sultry Scorpio Ascendent? More tricky.

So thinking about the potential relations between your Sun, Rising and Moon signs is an interesting way to think about your chart. Plus it’s easy as well. You can turn them into characters & imagine their dialogue.

I DID this once ages ago, with planets, at some sort of astro-gestalt thing. It was sort of interesting but ghastly. People had to act out someone’s chart and you should have seen how horrid the person playing Saturn immediately let himself get. Venus just whined about her needs not being met and the character playing Mars got the shits and stalked off to smoke furiously outside.

I have Sun in Pisces, Libra Moon and Aquarius Rising so am fairly easy-breezy most of the time but with sudden eruptions of Piscean psycho-dramatic passions & emotions that really embarrass the terribly rational Moon & Rising…

Even Though…

March 5, 2010 in Uncategorized by Mystic Medusa | 26 comments

Even though the Mars situation could be technically stressy for Leos (Mars Retrograde in their sign) and Capricorns (Mars is Exalted in Capricorn) and Arieans (Mars Rules their sign), they are all signs that are still healthily capable of Self-Love.

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