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Hands up whom has been having the most intense psychological realisations and major eureka flashes in the last few days? Thank planet Pluto, in total slo-mo and getting set to turn direct in 12 days. Don’t duck the growth passage insights! And, as Pluto has retrograded back to where he was in Feb 2008, that whole phase is now up for analysis. Within a few days, i am posting a subscriber-only Pluto Direct rave – the Weekly Scopes password will open it to read…
The first incarnation of Pluto A La Mode was monochromatic make-up & austere chic – now of course, the shredded thing is everywhere. Is it Plutonic? A kind of homage to making-do? A dignified acknowledgement that whilst you may be in designer clobber, you totally get it? And with warpaint? Like, rejecting trad make-up & going straight for a tribal marking? And, assuming this is not an outfit for a job interview – as such, though the nipple poking through would probably work in some industries – where would one wear it?
Today is the birthday of M.F.K. Fisher – to call her a food writer is an understatement. She was fabulosity incarnate, amazingly talented and inspirational.
“You can still live with grace and wisdom, if you rely on your own innate sense of what you must do with the resources you have to keep the wolf from sniffing too hungrily through the keyhole.”
This is from a book she wrote during the wartime food shortages in 1942, called How To Cook A Wolf , that apparently saved many a woman from utter insanity & desperation.
Her Wiki
Beautiful and sensual – with a fascinating love life – she was an idiosyncratic writer who would come up with little gems such as:
“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.”
“Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.”
“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures . . .”
Her practical tips are still excellent AND she wrote Not Now But Now – a weird but utterly absorbing book about a time-travelling, utterly amoral femme fatale sort of gourmet nympho who managed to cross into other dimensions via some kind of cosmic warp she disovered on a particular express train.
Her chart:
Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune and the North Node all clustered together in Cancer! Opposed by Uranus in Capricorn. And then a Moon-Jupiter in Leo…But all that Cancer & to be so interested in elegant forms of nourishment & the lives of the emotions…If you are not familiar with her works, do look at some of these links…
I DO think Cancerians are often the best cooks, btw.
Usually I am quite good at attributing trends to cosmic cycles but honestly, the hair thing has me stumped…Does anyone have any ideas? Venus Retro and in Aries for so long? A cave-manny response to Pluto in Cap/GFC stress? The Saturn-Uranus opposition? None of the current main astro-themes seem to fit.
Thank heavens the Mars-Pluto Square passed or even THIS most trivial of subjects would have become heated…
There is an old astro-cliche (well, I read it once) that Fire & Air signs prefer Dogs whilst the Earth & Water signs are more Cat People. Leaving aside the obvious goes one could have at both creatures/their owners, are you a Cat, Dog or neither-of-the-above person. Or are you thinking that the G.F.C/Pluto in Cap might take out the pet economy to some degree? And which sign is most likely to get inappropriately drippy/obsessive over their animal?
Personally, I have a fantasy border collie or wolf in grandiose moments but i.r.l. Moon-in-Libra does non hang around picking up dog shit & Mars in Virgo does not leave it on the street EVER. So, cats & some fairly individuated looking goldfish in a pond for the Feng Shui. If Yeats is correct the cat is the visible soul of the household, then we are so bats. I find it weird when these apparently kindly people are shown on tv or whatevs, crooning at their beloved budgie but they have it in a CAGE.
So, you?
From US Stocks & Bond certificate of Foote, Cone & Belding 1970
It’s kinda interesting that the Swine Fever news breaks just as Mercury is in slo-mo to go Retrograde. It’s not till next week but we are in the zone. Mercury nips into Gemini (sign of his rulership) and then goes retrograde back through Taurus & thus squaring Neptune, Chiron & Jupiter several times in May. The very same signs lining up in an glorious & rare Age-Of-Aquarius style astro-weirding for late May. Mercury in dodgy aspect to Jupiter means things go O.T.T. real fast. To Neptune – it reeks of deceit & shadowy motives. Chiron…A lesson? A healing?
My first really cynical thought re this was that there’s a buck to be made here. And if everyone is inside glugging echinachea & spraying lemongrass around, doing “i am in vibrant health” affirmations there’s less likely to be a middle-class riot as the late Scorpionic novelist J.G. Ballard predicted. And then i thought, how weird that there is that old phrase ‘capitalist pig’ – i heard it a bit when dating the Uranian last year – and now there is apparently a potential pandemic of Swine Flu.
Anyway, Mercury goes retro soon & with all the weird squares from Taurus to Aquarius so lots more warps and tangents in this tale yet. Eric Francis on Planet Waves is doing a really detailed analysis of the Pig Fever if you are interested.
Mercury is a fascinating planet/god. He is a psychopomp – a fantastic word meaning guide of the souls or soul conductor; This character who goes between worlds with ease. He is the messenger of the Gods & in astrology, the planet Mercury signifies how you think/talk etc. But Mercury is also the God of Commerce! And so Mercury going Bats (retro) in mostly the sign of Taurus this time is going to be quite interesting, non? Lots of interesting info coming to light. And maybe some really fresh ideas.
These amazing pics are from old US Stocks & Bonds – they often loved to depict Mercury due to his reign over commerce. There are a whole lot more cool illos on the site itself.
And, in the spirit of wonderful Mercury, what are your thoughts on the Piggy Fever? Are you freaking out, really over the news of late or cynically waving it aside as yet another ‘construct’ from the Matrix or something.
This is so NOT, btw, to belittle the vileness and pain of what has actually occurred in Mexico, obviously.
I may be totally wrong on this as the astrology of shit-happening is so not my thing, but i don’t think Pluto in Capricorn has much to do with pandemics…Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces is more like it. So, if that were the key signature, as opposed to a Mercurial Bats square Neptune Wag The Dog scenario, then it’s looking more like a crisis/opportunity to massively reform a whole pile of things from factory farming to the ease with which peeps flit around the globe as disease vectors & this is without even going into eco issues.
UPDATE: Okay, it IS kinda Pluto in Capricorny – big biz cost-cutting & creating hellishly revolting pig abbatoir etc in place where labours costs/laws soooo low & all here.
Even Capricorns take breaks, it’s true.
But with Sun & Mercury in Taurus, Saturn + Ceres in Virgo + Pluto in Capricorn – there is a ferocious work ethic out there right now & good thing too, as Pluto in Capricorn kicks in…the G.F.C. and all. Mars in Aries also does not want to sit still or shut t.f. up. And note that Mars is moving toward a square with Pluto exact early next week. That’s incendiary but most likely nothing that wasn’t already seeded or established as a potential flashpoint in Dec 08…
My point; Today is the Darkest Day of the Dark Moon before it is New in Taurus. Even amidst all you have to do, take some time for some form of a mini-bunk off. Long sabbaticals are out. Entire weekends are most likely out for the time being. That’ll change when Uranus gets into Taurus…2018. I’m thinking more that you enjoy a whole sandwich & a bit of a sit-down. Some form of power-relaxation.
Venus is just getting back into Aries again. Direct but retracing the retrograde path. So, as it’s a Dark Moon, don’t be amazed if some churlish or less-than-the-Higher-Self style feelings emerge. Don’t act on them. Remember; rests & rejuvenations during the Dark Moon have several times their usual power. If someone goes you chez work, don’t react. Wait it out, look weak now – come back and go them back way harder, when the cosmos is onside. ie; after the New Moon.
I don’t know who this designer is but he/she/it is totally grokking my Winter wardrobe “statement”. As an Aquarius Rising, i LOVE the classic gray trackpant. Informal. Egalitarian. Add my Venus in Pisces appreciation of deshabille & perfect; the ideal outfit for a premenstrual trot up to the local. Or straight from the gym to the pub. An update of ‘resort wear’ for the Pluto In Capricorn era.
ANYWAY, i was actually wanting to give an example of astrology in action. The day before yesterday I had transitting Mars on my Sun & Psyche. All the good-Mars stuff happened; heightened determination & strong ideas for moving forward etc. But there were two other things. And, btw, I had not even bothered to notice Mars whizzing over my Sun/Psyche. I looked later. Mars AND Venus right there. The Venusification was prob my saviour. Mars can be a Malefic (ie; shitty) but Venus is always a Benefic. (ie; Fab)
You see, when you have Uranus conjunct Venus going on, you’re too busy with your whacko love life & Aquarian men to think about flitty little Mars transits. Thing One; Was late to get my daughter from sports camp so jumped in taxi even though it was only a short way away. Did not bother with seatbelt as traffic at crawl. Smelt weirdly strong alcohol smell. Assumed that was prob some synthetic crap the guy had cleaned his cab with. Thought surely would not be actual booze. Heard voice – literally – that said to put seatbelt on. Ignored. Was in back seat. Going one kilometre up road at nano-crawl. Heard it again. Put on stupid seat belt.
Soooo suddenly we’re going fast, making some illegal left turn and screeching down road as twerp taxi drive tries to run a red light OUTSIDE the hospital A & E department. We narrrowly miss colliding with the van turning left legally and there is huge screech of brakes and both cars spinning off, stunt-car style. The van is a police van driven by two enraged young female constables. I am fine. But would prob not have been sans seatbelt. The Venusian aspect of all this is that had something happened, i would have been v.close to medical help and the the cops were -obviously – right there on the scene.
So an hour later walking home and Thing Two; I get into a fight with a guy on the street. He looks slimey, asks me something or rather and I decide to ignore him with Anglican hauteur. So he starts hassling this girl behind me. Asks her three times to go to the pub with him and then kind of wheedling but threatening ‘oh why not?’ and all t his other stuff. So finally I wheel around and go him. Not hysterically and not unreasonably. But definitely with a sort of Martian white-hot fury. Totally told him off (leave her along, no means no etc) and he arced up and argued back. Could tell he longing to hit me and i was absolutely ready for him to give it a go as would have used right elbow, left hook, right upper cut and a knee in his groin. But he took off.
And no i don’t normally get into fights with guys in streets or relish a punch up. It’s worth keeping an eye on where Mars is. It definitely energises. A Mars conjunction is the strongest. Mars on your Venus is always an excellent pulling transit. Mars-Moon means you’re SO tetchy but can be quite insightful. Mars-Saturn is ruthlessly sorting admin and structural details of your life and/or confronting power. Mars-Jupiter is usually at the races, lol.
Okay, given that there are only a FEW more hours – okay, DAYS – of Retro-Venus to go until 2010 (retro in slithery Scorp) i will do one more nostalgic post & be done with it. Knucklebones; game of the gods or what? Plato says Thoth (Egyptian Mercury/Hermes) invented it. It’s SO appropriate for children during the G.F.C. They are amazingly cheap, low-tech (no stupid batteries) co-ordination enhancing & absorbing. I just ordered some for my daughter – $3.99 AUD…At the risk of sounding totally ancient, I used to LOVE Knucklebones, though my very same friend who was expert at drawing horses was also brilliant at Knucklebones. Does anyone else recall the thrill of of mastering Horses in the Stable or is just a highly suss personal flash of nostalgia???
Actually, Knucklebones are very Mercurial/Thothy/Gemini in that they require agility & yet you can chat whilst you’re doing them – it’s v.easy to imagine ancient Roman soldiers (as they did) playing Knucklebones whilst exchanging seditious goss. It’s the kind of conversation you can have without HAVING to maintain eye contact, so more is often transmitted.
Birds love Ylang-Ylang & so do I. Depending upon whom you ask, the name means Flower Of Flowers, Rare or Wilderness. In trad herb lore, it is a flower of Venus & the essential oil is officially recognised for langour & euphoria inducing qualities, along with the ability to help cure various ailments from motion sickness to high blood pressure. Margaret Mead noted that the South Pacific island dwellers used it liberally as an aphrodisiac, sprinkling it on beds & what-not.
Personally, i love the reek of it so much that i bung it everywhere; into big bottles of sweet almond oil to make body oil, into the sheets wash, floor wash, in an atomiser bottle to spray around as room freshener…Would cook with it if i could. The Wiki for it has this fabulous line re the scent; “The fragrance of ylang-ylang is rich and deep with notes of rubber and custard, and bright with hints of jasmine and neroli.”
And, a la the G.F.C. situation AND increasing concerns re toxic ingredients in perfumes, why not create your own concoctions with actual ingredients proven to enhance mood et al? Anyway, if you don’t have any in the house, try to snort some essential oil of Ylang-Ylang before the Full Moon & see if you do not notice the effect.
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