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Saturn As My Life Coach

March 13, 2010 in Planets by Mystic Medusa | 24 comments

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Saturn, my new life coach, has now seen to it that i have given up coffee – often intended and sort of tried but now essential as coffee apparently spazzes out Saturn Neck to a ludicrous degree.  So, no coffee. And no lurking around eating chips, drinking wine and discussing Jung either. Too many painkillers in system.

I am thinking that the point is to do the Saturn bit right (i should have had a proper chair for sitting at my desk typing but thought that a bit beneath me but now realize, thanks to the life coach, that it is GOOD to honour oneself and one’s work with a proper chair) and then you get to the cooler Uranus bit.

Yes, the Saturn-Uranus opposition is biting. It’s not exact until the end of April but I am calling it now.

The ideal: Uranian energy blasts away at frozen, Saturnine Status-Quo…Uranus vibes always come in sudden oh-my-godding moments of three…Saturnine energy creates a better base for the genius to thrive…Lots of change and endings all around – some exciting new beginnings too.

And THANK YOU For all the beautiful comments and posts re my Saturn Neck!  I hate whinging but it was such a help to read them all, truly…

Celestial Fitness & Efficiency Resolutions For The New Moon

January 15, 2010 in New Moons by Mystic Medusa | 92 comments

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Just a few more hours to go until the New Moon Eclipse – and yes, this is the REAL New Year so time to get cracking on some Fitness & Efficiency Resolutions to honour the Capricorn vibe. The altruistic stuff can come later. For now, help one another out with motivational, self-control and discipline tips because – when Mars is Retrograde – it can be hard to rev up the requisite qi to give a damn about all this. But with Uranus heading into Aries, everyone needs to be On Form.

My contribution: You can’t out-train a bad diet. Annoyingly.

Actually, this is a year of non-stop fresh starts. New beginnings breaking out all over the place. But whether it’s saving Gaia, resolving ancient psycho shit or being a good role model for our children – whatever it is – the fitness & efficiency will help. Flake no more. The first fresh start is now. Motivational tips for Fitness and Efficiency please.

So, Like, What Happened To Your Hair?

August 26, 2009 in Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 45 comments

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“Dear Mystic,

Is there an astro for bad hair karma? I’ve just had the fourth crap hair cut this year:
1. Nervous, shaky apprentice fries my hair (and himself!) by over-straightening to get a more precise cut. My hair is straight!
2. What was to be a ‘long bob’ to the shoulders (to clean up fried ends) ended up as an Austrian mullet!!! I’m beginning to suspect ‘Bruno’ is a documentary.
3. Ok, Three did an decent job but it didn’t improve the ‘look’ much.
4. Now, who says ‘Ok, you’re trying to grow it long. That’s difficult’ and then goes an cuts three months growth off???!?!?!?

Have Venus in Leo. Also wondering if Mercury owns scissors……

Cheers,

The Bad-Haired Virgo “

Dear Bad-Haired Virgo,

Oh how I sympathise. Especially hell for Venus in Leo. First of all, in  my Astroscape Books (the 2009 one and the 2010 one which is on sale from next Tues – see link to the left) I detail the GOOD Hair Moons and the BAD Hair Moons. You basically only get it trimmed during a waxing Moon if you want it to grow and get yourself waxed during the moonwane to discourage hair growth. I had a hell hair year a few years ago when this idiot both razor cut it (my hair is totally fine like a babies) and then bleached the shit out of it. I actually got really used to people asking what had happened to my hair and so now, when  people say NICE things about my hair, my eyes well up with tears. I know. This sounds really trivial but still.

Anyway, if you are in Sydney, e-mail me for my hairdressers details – she not only listens – she is psychic and affordable too. Obey the Hair Moon rules & maybe your Venus in Leo is being squared by Neptune so you need to be extra careful that you are not deceived in Venusian matters. And nobody should ever say “difficult” for things like hair growth. It’s annoying and negative. I have a client who does things like cardio-thoracic surgery in war zones and she deliberately uses words such as “tricky” or “a bit challenging for the moment.”

Oh and I don’t care what anyone says, hair SO responds to nutrition so consider seeing my psychic hairdresser or a simple barber (they listen and if you say trim 1/4 millimetre off the ends – they’ll do it, no patronising) AND a professional to zoosh up nutrition…fishy oils & quality protein, silica etc. Don’t you think???

Astro-Housewitchery: Nux Vomica

July 2, 2009 in Good Housewitchery by Mystic Medusa | 8 comments

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The fabulously named Nux Vomica is the homeopathic hangover remedy. It is actually (heavily diluted)  strychnine which sounds slightly bats unless you grok homeopathy. I mean my constitutional remedy is diluted snake venom; Lachesis. Which always perks me up real fast.

Okay, I am NOT a homeopath & only use the Nux for really grotty morning-afters but the Nux Vomica personality type – as you will see from the links -  is a shocker. Still, short of never doing anything over-indulgent again, Nux Vom is an essential bathroom cupboard standby. A classically trained English homeopath once told me it was stockpiled by the Royal Family.

There is a v.easy to peruse article on it here.  The above link is way more thorough & scary to read, as the full-on homeopathic materia medicias tend to be. Also, I don’t know how exactly it does it but it seems to alleviate the psych0-mental symptoms of a hangover as well.

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Go The Singularity!

June 17, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 13 comments

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Well, I love that the Ancient Mayans aced the Venus cycles absolutely yonks ago – without telescopes et al, they figured that the Morning Star & the Evening Star – Venus a.k.a. Xolotl – were the same planet, even though appearing on different sides of the sky.

But so far as the future goes, I’m  backing Ray Kurzweil,  a futurist, entrepeneur & mathmatician who says we are about to experience a fabulous & mind-boggling event known as The Singularity.  I was reading a profile of the gent this morning & I knew within nanoseks that he is an Aquarius.  Even apart from The Singularity, all the Aqua indicators were there…

* He invented a program called FatKat – Financial Accelerating Transactions from Kurzweil Adaptive Technologies – that plays the stockmarket for him so that he has more time for other projects. He also invented an automatic poetry generator called the Cybernetic Poet. He has a part-time employee purely to manage his vitamins and nutritional supplements. He is currently working on nanobots that will be injected inside the body to extend human lifespan. Has not consumed sugar for decades but drinks red wine daily, for the reservaterol.

And yah! He is Aquarius – Feb 12 1948 so also with Saturn-Pluto in Leo & Uranus trining his Aqua Sun.

I can’t quite grok what The Singularity is all about…only that amazing technology will be harnessed for the good of ALL – ie; feed the whole world & revolutionise all that ails us now. This would, of course, be a wonderful manifestation of innovative Uranus in gung-ho, pioneering Aries, Pluto in Capricorn & Neptune in Pisces….All of which is upon us soon.

So, next time someone grizzles to me about the Mayans, 2012 movie et al – I shall say ‘but what about The Singularity?’ and be done with it.

Astro-Housewitchery: Scare-Devil

April 21, 2009 in Good Housewitchery by Mystic Medusa | 15 comments

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Obviously I am not a mental health professional & nor do i prescribe things…But i love St Johns Wort – and any naturopath/herbalist/up-to-date doctor could tell you all about it.  It has been renowned as a cure for melancholy since ancient times & there is loads of info on the Wiki…

I think it works like mad. There is a really cool tea of it that can take me from frumpy-sloth to radiant euphoric within about 2o mins of ingestion and I don’t really know what St John’s Wort is FOR exactly but it feels like magic potion; protective and with a cool red tinge like something a hero in a fairy tale would carry in a small emerald vial for when one needed courage to face some dark lord.

I send my herbalist mental by just demanding it without a consultation. And then i just tip the tincture into water and glug it. I feel  like i know when i need it. BUT – I am clearly bats & it IS actually really good to take it under supervision.

And – this is NOT on Wikipedia but it’s SO cool;  The older name for St John’s Wort (which comes from Christians trotting about, loving the flower so much and honouring it with the name of their fave protective saint) is Fuga Daemonum – Scare Devil. And the generic name; Hypericum comes from “hyper” which is Greek for “over” and “eiken” which means ghosts.

Astrologically, the great medieval astrologer & herbalist Nicholas Culpepper had Fuga Daemonum as being of the Sun/Apollo/Sol.

Does Saturn In Virgo Make For Wagonistas?

February 6, 2009 in Astro-Fitness, Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 43 comments

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Hygieia, the Greek Goddess of Health – hence “hygiene” – as seen by Gustav Klimt

Saturn is the planet of boundaries, self-control & brute pragmatism. Virgo is the sign of Health & Efficiency, amongst many other things. But for the sake of this post, let’s just see Virgo as abstinent and wanting to be in control, orderly. I’ve totally noticed the Wagonista trend taking off lately. The word was first coined, I think, in this Times article back in 2004 but anecdotally, I think it’s upping.

There was last year’s Dry July charity abstinence bender (I tried but that July turned out to be the wettest on record – I blame The Uranian, a bit) and then now FebFast.  My Piscean Actress friend and I are abstaining for reasons of vanity & then there is the revolting anti-alcohol ad targetting women who don’t usually cane it but definitely like to relax via guzzling several dozen glasses of chardonnay or whatever. Yick.

So, I don’t know – has anyone else noticed Saturn in Virgo coinciding with more sober attitudes toward food, diet, drinking, smoking etc???  Or is G.F.C. angst having peeps turning to good old reliable sources of relaxation & misery drowning? I read somewhere that MacDonalds fast food and co is 40 % up for the quarter…?  And I don’t know if i even officially think this but do people trust authorities who are anti-beer/wine etc (excessive consumption, whatever) when it’s apparently fine to dish out potentially problematic anti-depressants et al???

Note: Every article I have ever read on health does say skin-brushing is always fantastic, so is water and hot chips are bad. Just to simplify.

The First Sexologist, For Astro-Fiends

January 25, 2009 in Astro-Fiends, Astro-History, Metaphysical Quirks, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 5 comments

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Was reading this fascinating review of Doctor Of Love – James Graham & His Celestial Bed in the Literary Review

“…Flushed with success, (James) Graham returned to England where he gained an unlikely supporter in the celebrated historian, Catherine Macaulay. The press could not believe their luck: the bluestocking and the charlatan had joined forces, and while Macaulay’s reputation sank, Graham’s soared. When Catherine, in her late forties, married his 21-year-old brother, Graham had all the proof he needed that he was able to rejuvenate the sexuality of older women….

“…Graham’s great emporium, the Temple of Health, which stood next door to David Garrick’s house on the Thames, was a hotch-potch of swirling smells and scientific paraphernalia like electrometers, lodestones, rods, tubes and magnets. Soon he was making enough money to open the Temple of Prolific Hymen in which he could house his ‘medico, magnetico, musico, electrical bed’, guaranteed to ‘insure the removal of barrenness … but likewise to improve, exalt, and invigorate the bodily, and through them, the mental faculties of the human species’. For £50 a night, couples lay on a mattress stuffed, in true Graham style, with wild oats and hair from the tails of stallions, gazing up at a vast dome containing the figures of Cupid and Psyche. Odours and essences, which may have contained ether or nitrous oxide (laughing gas), were exuded while mechanical music was piped out of the pillars from an organ incorporated in the bed’s head….”

Sooooo our Love Doctor Graham was born on June 23 1745 – no time i can find – which makes him a Cancerian with Pluto currently opposing his Sun…(the astro keeps working). Sans time, there is no way to figure out exciting midheaven/ascendant/exact moon stuff but he did have a really cool Mars in Libra trine Mercury-Venus in Gemini trine Uranus in Aquarius Grand Air Trine.  Moon conjunct North Node in Aries and Mars in Libra on the South Node.

Interesting astro for a pioneering, original and apparently intensely charismatic celebrity-medical entrepeneur. And I love the sound of that bed – why are more mattresses not filled with wild oats???