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A Sagittarius Off To See Her Accountant…? No? Where do you think the Saggo is going? I swear, i.r.l. those legs may or may not belong to a Sagittarius but they ALWAYS have the best legs. It’s weird. How does having the Centaur as a symbol manifest that? Or is it all the jagging around?
Whenever I read something about Tom Ford - and there has been heaps lately because of his apparently brilliant directorial debut, The Single Man – I always think that he truly is the Ultimate Virgo. His attention to detail, control-freakiness and self-confessed Virgoanness are all part of his legend.
Along with Carine Roitfeld, he is one of my favourite Virgoans Of Fashion – that’s the thing, there are UNTOLD Virgos working in the fashion industry. It totally makes sense. A Virgo needs to work in an industry where ability to spot a dodgy hemline or fake Hermes handbag from three blocks away is an asset. Where everyone has diet bipolarity, alternating between champagne, chocolate and detoxes.
Tom Ford, they say, is obsessed with hygiene & goes through a bottle of eye drops a week as he requires that his eyes look always bright, sparkling and alert. Is this enough to afford him Ultimate Virgo status? Do you know any Ultimate Virgos? My vision of Ultimate Virgo is that he/she is go into the clean-thing (like Ingrid Bergman) that there would be weekly colonics. For the flat tummy and because once glimpsed, the ideal of the clean colon is hard for Ultimate Virgo to let go of.
Ultimate Virgo would also get bi-weekly hair trims, enjoy vigorous exfoliations & sometimes spend up to an hour comparing the mineral analysis of various spring waters in the supermarket. If Ultimate Virgo had a shrink, the shrink would themselves be in therapy just to gather stamina for the relentless questioning of Ultimate Virgo. Thoughts?
Night-Flowering Tuberose (Starflower) Under A Full Moon in Anya’s Garden
So I got sent these gorgeous scent samples from Anya of Anya’s Garden Perfumes. She makes them all from her garden in Miami, Florida & they’re divine. She has the most brilliant astro-signature for a perfumier: Sun, Venus and Neptune in Libra, all Rising.
“…One reasoning behind the concepts of StarFlower and MoonDance, and it’s a big reasoning, is that white flowers, typically those that look like stars, always bloom on the Full Moon. The gravitational and tidal pulls are the stimulus, I suppose. If you’re in a garden at night, the magic of the scent draws you in, and even if you squint your eyes, you can still see the white flowers, since they’re the only color flowers that are visible at night. under a bower of jasmine, next to the tuberose bed, it’s as if the stars fell out of the sky – and brought their fragrance to earth.
Also, tuberose’s scent is minimal during the day, becoming more intense at night, overwhelming, in fact.
Cool, yin-type scents are associated with the moon, and the mint opening note of MoonDance leads you down a cool, inward-looking path, with tender rose and chamomile. StarFlower is more fiery, and meant for nighttime wear in the winter, quite yang and sultry and carnal in the drydown. The flower that most looks like a star is the single flowered Tuberose, so that was the muse for both perfumes….”
The Aztecs called it Bone Flower and she was sacred to their Venus. Ancient Hindu peeps knew it as Night Mistress and in many cultures it is considered a powerful aphrodisiac. Tuberose keeps producing scent, even after it is picked, making it the main component of Hawaiian leis. Some say that inhaling the oil of Tuberose improves one’s capacity for emotional depth & the most common symbolism of it is “dangerous pleasures.”
I am not sure why precisely but i consider BOTH of these looks really Cancerian-Crabby-Kataka.
AND WHAT is the hand thingie above called? Because I think that’s mega-Crab.
I think they would like the medieval vibe of it…no?
And in fact, whilst we’re on this, it is mostly Cancerians and Taureans who like going to/doing anything medieval themed isn’t it?
Like those naff banqueting halls, re-enactments and all. They love how flattering they think the clothes are, the ye olde vibe & that furniture was better made in those days. Perhaps also a world where there was Proper Help and no faddy food allergies.
Help. I am channelling someone. A batty Cancerian-Taurus relative, clearly. I did have a BBC Costume drama fetishising relative & I could elaborate but Cancerian-Taurus types are also v.litigious.
Aries peeps always get credited with having the most over the top (and sometimes beautiful) eyebrows…Their shape itself being reminiscent of the Aries glyph: the Ram’s Horns…Yasmeen Ghauri & Joan Crawford clearly represent the great Aries beauty end of the spectrum but think also of certain Aries men and how their eyebrows become bristly, shooting out in all directions and redolent with a life force all of their very own.
Oh and apparently the new big trend for 2010 – just in time for Uranus into Aries – rad brow art.
So there is v.serious article in Time Mag about whether or not it’s empowering to keep dying your hair & an article in the Times about how even young girls are adopting a “gunmetal grey” mane to be cool. I was born blonde and I intend to stay blonde so this is not remotely an issue for me.
But it’s an interesting Pluto in Cap style trend & this is going to make me sound mega-bimbonic, I realise, but i don’t think i actually know any woman who don’t dye their hair. At no matter what age – the only question really is whether they’re adept at d.i.y. or hooked on a colourist habit. My son’s female friends cannot even get together sans colouring their hair – applying gunk onto one another’s roots is how they bond. Are any of you intending to let gray hairs show or do you?
And what sign are you? No, wait, what sign is your Venus…I am wondering if there is a Venus sign that would say ‘fuq it’ and charge around with their silvery mane. I am thinking Saggo…
Also, I suppose Pluto in Capricorn is going to totally revolutionise the way we treat elders in our society. That or the Pluto in Leo baby boomers will demand it. There are already some extraordinary examples of peeps being amazing – fit, functional, vital, ultra-healthy, gorgeous – at any age peeps used to be written off. Life starts at the Uranus Return Lol.
It’s the Dark Moon & so even though I crazily need new sunnies, I ain’t going to get them. Because I would emerge with something like the above – the new, NEW sunglasses a la mode shape du jour: Bad Wasp. Or something. But whilst i bide my time until after the New Moon, genius sunglasses suggestions are most welcome. And don’t go shopping on the Dark Moon.
Yes, Saturn is squaring Pluto and it is SO unspeakably existential as referred to below but – as with any Dark Moon – some respite is to be found in primordial sifting, sorting and decluttering. Plus, because this is in Libra, think a la swooping on your beauty cabinet.
The bathroom is symbolically the domain of our Lady Venus – is yours a haven of beauty, harmony & order? Do you have a coherent skincare regime? It need not be something ludicrously o.t.t. Even just fresh new face-washers folded & awaiting your diligence can feel divine. That + you editing and discarding.
Venus – ruler of the Dark Moon – is of course in Scorpio and moving to square Mars + everything in Aquarius & probably some stray crazy asteroids just for good effect. So if a savage purge of potentially bacteria-infested mascaras, serums that on second-thought are stupid and the lipstick museum (clutter with purchase anyone?) don’t do it for you – get into some Scorped up Venusian culling of the evidence of ANY ex.
Okay, it’s tricky when you have darling children with them but I am not talking about that. You can do the old writing-them-a-letter ritual & then you burn it. Note – i said burn, not send. You can cease hanging on to memorabilia or a symbol of hope that he/she/it may one day re-detour back into your lovely orbit. You can fix the Feng Shui, do a spell or see a Shaman to get the ‘cords’ cut. Mugwort smudged is a fantastic Dark Moonie thing to do.
Just remember: Libra is the sign of Balance & Beauty, Relationships and Tranquil Diplomacy. If you are to embody the latter, at least, use the power of the Dark Moon + Venus in Scorpio…And as it is the Dark of the Moon right before a Phoenix Moon in Scorpio – you may want to look at this Hecate post again.
Note: It is not a fantastic time for a first date nor to buy beauty products/have procedures done that are hard to change back. And that is my understatement du jour.
Ever since i was a CHILD, i have been seeing hype about this thing: Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. To the extent that i dashed out and spent my newspaper run money on it (and that WAS v.hard-earned money guys, even for a girl with Mars in Virgo). But i was fuelled with desire for the gunk, having read that it has a cult following, the most effective shit ever used by professional beauties, renowned beauties, society beauties, famous beauties, beautiful beauties, beauties on Mars, whatever.
Even then though – as a teenager & a bit gullible – i was amazed to find out that it seemd to be made up of mostly petro-jelly-like vaseliny stuff, whatever it’s called. And it made me break out + i could not see the point as i though petro thingies not so crash-hot for complexion AND if i wanted vaseline, it’s always there, albeit cheaper. So the other day, in a mag at a cafe, i see my 70000th reference to the cream being cult-like et al. I have Venus in Pisces and Moon in Libra – is that why this is not working for me?
Oh and if you don’t believe me about it being made up of at least 50% petro-thingie, click on the link above for ingredients.
Libra is classically the sign of beauty, beauty-care and beauty rituals…It’s interesting that a photo-shopping debate is emerging as Saturn goes into Libra. Lunar-Libra that I am, I can see both p.o.vs. Yes to the unreal expectations such heavy altering of images creates. I felt so sad a while ago when I found my completely pretty & fit 16 year old neighbour with tears welling up in her eyes as she gazed at some swimsuit feature in a woman’s mag.
At the same time, if i was going to have my fizzog plastered all over the place, i’d love some digital magic to Neptune me up into an other-worldly version of myself.
Anyway, Saturn into Libra naturally requires new beauty rituals and definitely a purge of one’s vanity cupboard. The lipstick museum, hair products that don’t actually work but are being hoarded for their talismanic value, skin cream that makes you break out but cannot be thrown out due to cost of purchase, ye olde bacteria harbouring mascara & all – turfed as your celebration of Saturn into Libra.
Imagine. The cold-hard logic of Saturn Girl and her 22nd Century level telepathic powers applied to your skincare regime etc. Bliss. At the behest of my Aries beautician – she fled the Pinochet Regime in the 70s and had only time to grab her children + make-up, that’s it – I have just ordered a silk pillowcase. Apparently cotton, which feels go gorgeous and cool to lay ones face upon at night, does dastardly things to the face and hair – creating frazzle & crinkles.
This SO fits Saturn into Libra…It is totally cost-effective, practical and yet sort of princessy and elegant. What else could be a rational response to Saturn in Libra so far as one’s beauty ritual is concerned? It has to be frugal because let’s face it, Pluto is just warming up in Capricorn. And it can’t be all Zen-Hippy mixing up henna and egg shit as that’s more Saggo than Libra.
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