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The Transit Lounge: Transits To The Ascendent

August 28, 2009 in Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 36 comments

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Your Ascendent is the same as your Rising Sign. If you do  not know it – and you do know the time of your birth – you can check it out via Astrodienst.

Transits to the Ascendent are MAJOR. Especially when featuring one of the Outer Planets: Uranus, Neptune & Pluto. They have profound, overt, life-altering and enduring effects. Your Ascendent is how you relate to the world, your appearance & stance in relationships.  Let’s just do Outer Planets for now. These planets have such long retrogrades that the phase in which  you can consider your Ascendent as being affected by the transit can go for as long as two years.

These are the times when someone walks into your life and changes it, your appearance morphs and/or you reorient yourself radically. An Outer Planet transit to the Ascendent is like having someone hit the ‘restore to factory settings’ buttons on you. Non-you habits, ideas and attitudes that have kind of stuck to you over the years just fall away. It’s amazing  how often a relationship is the catharthis for such a transformation.

All transitting aspects to the Ascendent are interesting but the conjunction is the most powerful. If you have your Ascendent at 20 to 24 degrees of Pisces, then you’ve got Uranus on your Ascendent all year – this is the ‘give me freedom or else’ astro-passage. If you’re not doing it enough, people come into your life who either disrupt it (not so good) or whom inspire you toward emancipation. You’re flip, intellectual and very easily bored.

If your Ascendent is Zero to Four of Capricorn, think Pluto.  This is a super-intense makeover moment going for a couple of years: Ye olde ancient angst surfaces to be burned away by your new-found superstrength. You’re volatile, Phoenixing and unable to tolerate inauthentic situations. If your Ascendent is 23 to 24 degrees of Aquarius, you’re doing Neptune. You’ll be mysteriously alluring, very creative and given to prophetic/lucid dreaming but also amazingly sensitive to drugs and WATCH the ‘redemption’ style relationships.

Any outer planet transit to your Ascendent is a fab time to reorient yourself, be whom you truly are & alter your personal appearance. The Pluto transits in particular are associated with incredible metamorphosis. Strength training and/or martial arts & anything that works with Qi such as reiki or acupuncture is always fantastic during these kinds of transits as they do affect the physical body & you’re trying to channel a whole new you.

Astro-Fitness: Who Does The Gadgets?

August 27, 2009 in Astro-Fitness by Mystic Medusa | 54 comments

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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?

The Transit Lounge; The Astrology Of Break-Ups

June 10, 2009 in Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 22 comments

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Whether it’s your chart, the chart of your lover and/or the so-called Composite Chart (you and your lovers chart blended together into what is essentially a chart of your relationship) the points to watch are the Ascendent, Descendent, Sun & Moon.  And then you don’t just look for a silly little bit of Full Moon nonsense.

You are looking at Saturn Out. By which i mean, the relatively rare transits of Saturn, Neptune, Uranus & Pluto.  All these astro-passages seem to test a relationships validity, authenticity and relevance. Sighhhh. But please don’t flip if one of these planetary heavy-hitters is approaching a significant point; they can also indicate expansion & emancipation – an evolution of the existing relationship.

Yet whenever i have a client with one of these nearing his/her Descendent – the cusp of the House of Love/Relationship sector, I have but to say the R word and they wince. Uranus is more like the person hasn’t even bothered to consult an astrologer because they’re outta there & they’ll fix up the details later. Saturn is a more sombre & let’s-do-this-right mature decision kind of an energy.

Uranian break-ups are more w.t.f? If Neptune is the culprit, there can be confusion, yearning and maybe even one of the parties just sort of drifts off into lala land. There may not be closure! Less said about Plutonic break-ups the better; they’re the stormy ones. Having said that, as we always say in ‘buck up’ mode when discussing Pluto, there will be a vast degree of self-knowledge and personal growth that  you can gain from this enriching experience.

Eclipses – such as the ones we are entering into at 15 Capricorn, 29 degrees of Cancer/Kataka & then (less strong) 13 degrees of Aqua – can also be linked with major turning points if they hit on of the aforementioned important points. But pls don’t go and squiz at your chart or composite, whatever & then diagnose something vile if you don’t know what you’re doing…!!!!

If you’re smarting from a bust-up or something that didn’t work out as you would have wished, try to see it as part of some grander plan, fix the Feng Shui, exfoliate, get therapy if you think you need it, Reiki, massage, mates & this is something i read yonks ago in a magazine article about divorce. It’s apt.  You have to look after the Five Fs. Fitness – because it’s good for your health & self-esteem. Finances – because you’ve got to be independent and loving it. Friends – expect to lose a LOT of them & make some new ones but the ones you keep are for real. Family – if you have kids, you become closer to them & they sort of get to know you better. Fuqing – because you can & will have sex again.

Astro-Beauty: Do You Embody Your Rising Sign?

May 26, 2009 in Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 69 comments

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“If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a pekingese,” enquired the acerbic Virgoan Edith Sitwell – a biography of her was called A Unicorn Among Lions and there are natural echoes of The Ugly Duckling.

But the interesting astro idea is that your Rising and/or Ascendent sign really IS your best look.  If you do not know your Rising/Ascendent sign, you can figure it out via Astrodienst or via an astrologer. Once you have it, read that along with your Sun sign in any scope…See how it feels…

Do you embody your Rising Sign astrologically? It makes fashion/image a LOT easier once you accept it and – for astro-fiends only, look at the house placement of your ruling planet (ruler of the ascendent) for the BASE energy of your Look…I swear it makes AMAZING sense upon pondering. You can also have fun looking to fashion/image choices at 7 year intervals – 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42 etc – as these are all strong Saturn-Uranian flashpoints.

And of course if you have any BIG outer planet (Uranus, Pluto, Neptune) sitting on our Ascendent (such transits take at least 18 months) then  will perform a spectacular makeover, ready or NOT.  Ascendent astro WORKS. If you need to buy new clothes, wait until Venus is hovering nearby your Asc. Anyway, I am interested in the query – does your look embody your rising sign?

Aries Rising would need bold, primary colours – especially red. Taurus old world luxe & texture v.important. Gemini – trend fiend. Kataka would SO slink around in vintage. Leo, like a Versace look & blinged  up with golden aura. Virgo; precise, layered and with some thought behind it. Libra; classic bombshell. Scorpio; black leather, Sagg; boho & gear from their travels. Cap; austere, power. Aqua; prob the same thing ALL the time but it works? Pisces; crystally yoga wear & aura enhancing hues…

The Asteroid Muses

May 20, 2009 in Astro-Fiends by Mystic Medusa | 49 comments

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Astro-Fiends & those of you looking for a more expansive view of their career scopes should check out whether they’ve got any of the Muse Asteroids strongly aspected. ie; conjunct Sun, Moon, Ascendent or a major planet. Within two degrees, please. A.k.a. a narrow orb. I have Urania in my creative sector trining the Midheaven (major career point) and Thalia + Sappho conjunct my South Node…The South Node pertains to your past and/or path of least resistance but is most often used as referring to your past lives.

All you do is go Astrodienst and the Extended Chart Options link. At the bottom there, you enter the reference  number (see below) of whichever asteroids you want included. The Muses are Goddesses who inspire excellence in mortals – from them we get the words “amuse” “bemuse” and museum. There are more I am sure. And Sappho – often called the 10th Muse is number 80.

Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry. 22,  Clio, the Muse of History. 84,   Erato, the Muse of Love Poetry and Mimicry. 62,  Urania, the Muse of Astronomy & Astrology. 30,  Thalia, the Muse of Comedy. 23,  Terpsichore, the Muse of Dancing. 81, Polyhymnia, the Muse of Mime, Meditation, Agriculture and Rhetoric. 33,  Melpomene, the Muse of Tragic Storytelling. 18,  Euterpe, the Muse of Music. 27

As an experiment, I just looked up the position of Terpsichore, the Muse of Dancing for Isadora Duncan & it is exact conjunct her North Node. The North Node is what draws you into your most desirable future…your destiny. It is where you ought to be tracking toward even though you are naturally good at the South Node stuff. Anyway, this is about the Muses, not Nodes. Darcey Bussell has Terpsichore square her Node and trine her Saturn exact. Annoyingly, i have no birthtimes for these two.

Asteroid-Muse-Tracking would totallly be a fun project for my imaginary intern.