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Astro-Baby: The Leo Baby

August 12, 2009 in Astro-Baby by Mystic Medusa | 18 comments

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The Leo Baby has an extremely sophisticated grasp of music and, from an early age will respond with alacrity to Brahms lullabies & al those classical compositions set at a certain tempo to help babies relax. They may diss standard nursery jingles in fabour of a far more complicated tunes. As soon as they can hold – say – a rattle, they would love a drum set or any other kind of instrument. As they move into toddler-hood le petit Leos love also photography, film & dancing. It is totally their thing…

Astro-Baby: Indigo, Crystal & Rainbow Children

July 22, 2009 in Astro-Baby by Mystic Medusa | 48 comments

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The other day I was meandering around & decided to go in to see a psychic. It feels a bit silly as i can do my own divination but it’s fab to have someone ELSE doing it for one. In fact, I saw three psychics in three days. I blame the Eclipse and the Scorpio Sex Academic. Actually, it was fascinating. Although, i was disturbed to hear that the Uranian has apparently had his soul snatched.

For one of them, my Gemini daughter and i wound up in front of this lovely lady who said – unprompted, this was excellent, that i was bringing the “old ways” to a new audience via a new medium. That’s what raving on about mugwort & Venus will get you. People can smell it. But this Glebe psychic was staring at my daughter and saying “she’s a crystal child…” I used to get this all the time with my son – “he’s an indigo” and i sort of see it as de rigeur in New Age circles.

So as we’re leaving the shop, i turn to my Gemini and ask how she feels re being a “crystal child” et al. She glared at me with all the scorn a nine year old can muster and said “You paid her money, she wasn’t exactly going to say I am a cockroach child, was she?” I thought that was quite amusing.

But, parents, do you think the Indigo, Crystal & Rainbow child New Agie stuff is genius or a load of drivel?  I don’t know enough about it to totally diss it, though the theories re autism seem a bit suss. The idea of a new master race of highly evolved spirits IS quite appealing, I suppose…But still…

Ceres-Watch 2

July 20, 2009 in Astro-Baby, Astro-Fiends, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 8 comments

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You ideally need to please go read Ceres-Watch 1 for this to resonate BUT essentially, I go on and off observing this asteroid-turned- planet. So, as she has been in Virgo since November 2008 and is about to cross into Libra on August 4, this is a fab chance to collect some findings.

Note that ideas of what she represents vary widely. Ceres SO often ends up just sounding like the Moon. She is obviously linked with agriculture (the word cereal comes from her name) and as she is a.k.a.Demeter there is a link to her as that mythological mother…having to share custody of her daughter with Hades himself. Yah, Pluto…the demoted planet. Hmm. Some say Ceres is about the menses cycle & others call feminism.  Others say she signifies the eco warrior aspect of the Great Goddess.  Like Gaia.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see why wimmyn notice when Ceres goes into Libra – I think a shift from Virgo to Libra usually feels quite profound when any planet does it.

Also, if you are a mother, please compare your Moon and Ceres signs here along with which one you feel would most aptly signify your mothering style…I have Ceres in Pisces & the Moon in Libra & I think i’m more Libran Moonie at mothering with occasional veer-offs into Ceres-style. In fact, I think my Ceres only pops up when i feel absolutely absorbed by parenting to the exclusion of all else.  Could that be the key to Ceres?

Astro-Baby: Elemental Parenting

July 4, 2009 in Astro-Baby by Mystic Medusa | 12 comments

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This is a way simplistic but interesting way to think a la astro & parenting. Everyone has a more or less dominant element in their astrological charts. You can see a nifty little table that shows where planets et al are concentrated usually at the bottom of that charts. F for Fire, Air for Air, E for Earth and W for Water.

Fire Signs are Aries, Leo, Sagittarius. Earth Signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. Air Signs; Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. Water: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces.

Find the dominant element & realise that that simply is your childs temperament. eg; Fire kids need to compete, shine and show off. Water kids want to be left alone in reverie a lot and thrive on music/art style pursuits. But they won’t have remotely the same desire that the Fire sign has to get in there and prove themselves via team work. Earth kids need & benefit from routine, regular eating & sleeping habits + they’re fussy about their stuff. Physical exercise grounds them but it’s not the O.T.T. variety Fire loves. Air children are amazingly easily bored & enjoy loads of mental stimulation, factoids, jokes & quizzes.

These are all obviously generalisations but it’s also fascinating how true they are and how they help peeps understand one another. A Water child WOULD enjoy meditation but it would be fairly fruitless to impose it on an Air child. Fire kids relish a challenge & can put up with the most relentless ‘motivation’ of a batso sporting parent. Air kids will be thrilled at irregular hours and spontaneity but it would make an Earth child morose.

Something to think about?

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Astro-Baby: Stork Theory 101

June 19, 2009 in Astro-Baby by Mystic Medusa | 18 comments

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So given that children tend to enquire from whence they came way before one has an explanation prepped, what do you tell them?

I got my son to watch the DVD of Where Did I Come From? when he was four and then asked if he had any questions. I think i was chanelling my Mars in Virgo. “Only one,” he said. “Did you have to do that to get me?” He’s Cancerian and they tend to be a bit funny about their mothers.

And when I airily explained the biology of it to my daughter, she sighed with total Gemini cynicism and rolled her big blue eyes. “I know all that boring stuff. I’m more interested in where i was before that.”

Of course, it’s way later when you get the tricky questions: “So, have you ever had a threesome?”  “Why did you leave X?” “Would you consider yourself hot?” “What is a fetish?” “Why do people dress up as the opposite sex?”  “What is an X rated movie?” “Is it true that the Dad of Jesus is a Ghost?” “How long were you a virgin for?”

SO what is the answer? Virgoan precision? Absolute Saggo candour?  Leo-Libra Social Engineering? Gemini-Piscean fibbing-procrastination?

See Also: Your Moon Sign – Your Mothering Style

Astro-Baby…

June 8, 2009 in Astro-Baby by Mystic Medusa | 72 comments

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By popular demand-nagging-guilting-wheedling, I am introducing a new feature – Astro-Baby!  I do find astrology a fascinating way to help understand your children. I have retrieved from the archives an old anecdote re my son – who is Kataka but with a multiple Leo conjunction – to illustrate & as I think it’s funny.  It’s below…I don’t do charts for children generally as it is nice to let them blossom and see how they manifest their astro. But they work really well…It’s good to look at some key points of their chart. eg; Having been fine at swimming as a toddler, my boy suddenly developed this extreme water phobia, which nothing would cure. Then one day at the swimming  pool, when he was about seven, he noticed two “older” girls staring at him and he dove straight in the deep end. Phobia cured.  That’s your multiple-Leo in action.

So is this;

He’s a teenager now. Mars, Mercury Jupiter all in Leo…Anyway, he went to the doctor, suspecting that he had picked up some vile gastric thing from his trip to Thailand…

Comes home, saying the doctor said he’s fine…

Me: Really?

Multi-Leo: Yeah. She was really attactive and she said i had amazing abs.

Me: What about the gastric thing?

Multi-Leo: Oh fine. But I said no to having diarrhea or flatulence because I didn’t want to ruin the image she so clearly had of me being really fit and all.

Me: Are you for real?

Multi-Leo: She thinks it might be something to do with our furniture…

Me: Furniture?  Did you actually go to see a DOCTOR? Or just chat up someone at the gym?

Multi-Leo: Yeah, she wants a stool sample. Do we even have any stools?

And with my daughter, she has Sun-Mars-Venus in Gemini/in the 5th house so absolutely craves creativity, art, knowledge & goss. But also Neptune Rising so slack at admin to a stupendous degree…She would rather draw or listen to music. Neptune Rising is beautiful, charismatic & artistic but can be hopeless re “reality.” But the Multi-Gemini means she has an astonishingly quick mind & encylopediac knowledge of about 100 people and their biz. She just knows things – every bit of info is processed, filed appropriately & stored.

So, without projecting a whole lot onto them, have a look at just your childs Sun, Rising and Moon sign – see if you can see how they’re operating…Nurture the Moon, respect the Rising & let the Sun just shine…And if they’re contradictory influences, see how you can help them work together a bit more. eg; Leo Rising is a show-off & will respond to music like you wouldn’t believe but if the Moon is in Scorpio, they need a locked box, secret diary sort of a thing and the absolute assurance of privacy.

Another example; My son’s Moon is in Virgo conjunct Venus so that’s innately health-conscious. He saw Supersize Me & totally altered his eating habits that very day. He invents his own little health rituals such as eating an entire garlic & fancy kinds of push-ups. So a Moon in Virgo child feels secure with healthy rituals & would love – for example-  his/her own diary or scheduler. A Moon in Libra child would be more likely to respond to aromatherapy than other Moons – maybe even tidy a room if they get to spritz a little something around later. Aries anything needs to compete & will go psycho-bats if give the kind of well-meaning goo-goo that they can’t. Taurus hates having their stuff moved around.

So I will do more along these lines in future Astro-Baby…

The Astrology Of Octo-Mum – For Astro-Fiends

February 17, 2009 in Astro-Fiends, Astro-Weird, Astro-Women, Celeb Fluffery, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 87 comments

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Oh yah, HER again.

I totally want to do her chart.  And i found this, in an American Dateline interview:

It’s all about how she already had six children & this & that – Then, in June of 2008, just a month shy of her 33rd birthday, she tried a third time with the last embryos she had left, hoping, she says, for just one more child.

No date…But Angelina Jolie – whom Octo-Mum apparently idolises and attempts to resemble via hell knows what techniques – was born on June 4 1975. And you know  how peeps often have a kinda cute yet naff faux identification with slebs born around the same time??? But Octo-Mum is presumably a Cancerian. And one born in 1975. Early July 1975, I am guessing from the “just a month shy” phrasing.

Nothing suitably whacko leaps to mind as i gaze intently at my tatty ephemeris…Mid July would give her a Sun-Saturn conjunction in Cancer SQUARE Jupiter in Aries AND Uranus in Libra. So a Cardinal T-Square. Soz this is so astro-fiendish. But still…And July 16ish would also give her Moon in Libra and let’s just take punt that Madame Octo-Mum has Moon in Libra conjunct that Uranus. So Cancerian Sun-Saturn square Moon-Uranus and Jupiter.  I don’t want to go and crap on about this particular aspect here as will then get peeps worrying i think THEIR Moon T-square or whatevs means they are mental.

So – my guess – she’s born mid-July 1975 with all that astro-guff a la the above and WHAT ascendent (rising sign) would give her such a look? It’s not Sun-Saturn rising elst she would have cheekbones and be way less inclined to to alter her appearance to resemble Angelina. AND whilst trying to find a pic of Madame Octo-Mum, i read she injected her own lips with cooking oil. HERSELF. That does it. Jupiter in Aries rising but rendered utterly bonkers by the T-Square.

Cancerian Mood Swings Vs Gemini Mood Blats

January 19, 2009 in Astro-Baby, Astro-Cliches, Moons, Planets by Mystic Medusa | No comments

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As I have a Cancerian son & a Gemini daughter, I can confirm both signs are as moody as their reputation. But they’re different. Cancerians moods really do swing…one mood fades out and another fades in. It’s almost graceful – when their good mood swings around, it’s like the sun shining through clouds and there is (almost) a logical rythym to it…Like the tides. Or the Moon herself.

Gemini moods blat in and out with no discernable logic whatsoever. There is no segue nor even a cue. My Gemini blats from mild spite to being suffused with loving bliss in the bling of a millisecond. Like a lightening flash. That’s the difference between Moon & Mercury, I guess.  Cancerians are ruled by the Moon and Geminis by Mercury.

Like that beautiful old word,
“caprice.”

“Eymology: French, from Italian capriccio caprice, shudder, perhaps from capo head (from Latin caput) + riccio hedgehog, from Latin ericius more at head, urchin
Date:
1667
1 a: a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action b: a sudden usually unpredictable condition, change, or series of changes 2: a disposition to do things impulsively…”
From Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary