Astro-Cliche or not, Crab-Peeps are the WORST clutterers and hoarders. They cling tenaciously to even the most naff bit of memorabilia, clearly inappropriate clothing from centuries ago and non-needed administrivia. And I ADORE Cancerians but this trait irks my Mars in Virgo. So now it seems that Lindsay Lohan is to get her apparently hideously cluttered home uncluttered on American television.
Despite all the allegations, craziness, non-knickers-wearing, dionysian revels, flake stuff, I still love LL. Okay, mostly because of Mean Girls, which was a long time ago. But wouldn’t it be unreal if the big clean-out helped to fix her life up? That image above, btw, is of her bedroom. Lindsay has a hardcore Mars in Capricorn with Pluto gliding up to conjoin it in a few years time. There ain’t nothing like a Pluto-Mars transit for streamlining your life and getting thy merde together.
“…The ‘Protector Collection’ has been meticulously created with Asprey by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to benefit a charity close to their hearts. The limited collection of fine jewels and silver objects was inspired by Angelina’s reflection on the snake as an iconic guardian, a cultural symbol of family protection. All net proceeds will be donated to the Education Partnership For Children of Conflict (EPCC).
The individual pieces in The Protector Collection are limited editions, handcrafted at the Asprey London flagship store, 167 New Bond Street. Each silver piece carries the 5 quality hallmarks applied by the London Assay Office…”
I LOVE Snakes even though i don’t usually wear jewellery and I checked this out: Price On Application. But fab cause, yes?
What I REALLY LOVE about this is the name of the collection: The Protector is like a really ancient name for Lilith, the original She-Devil and ye olde Serpent Snake-Goddess, Temptress etc. She protects Pagan knowledge that the Christians and others have tried to destroy forever. Angelina Jolie is Pluto-Moon woman par excellence and she has Venus in Cancer Rising- v.apt energy for a highly emotive & seductive aspiring global nurturer I think.
But still, the very name The Protector – regardless of the design or the greatness of the cause (clearly amazing and humbling) in conjunction with a Snake motif is cheeky…Especially in certain parts of the world (like Mesopotamia and Persia) where they banished deities such as Ishtar and her male God-lover Tammuz (think Venus and Mars for easier reference) in favour of more monolithic, patriarchal Gods.
“Why this ongoing attention to a French theatrical star of the distant past? You can ascribe it to Sarah’s rich and notorious private life, always ripe for retelling; to the central role she played in the history of the theater in particular and the culture of the time in general; to the unique way she grew into legend morphing from a tarty little actress into the most famous French person of her century after Napoleon and the most admired Frenchwoman in history after Joan of Arc (whom she played twice she didn’t manage Napoleon, but one of her greatest triumphs was as his doomed son L’Aiglon)
Her undying celebrity would not have surprised her: from her earliest years she was determined to be noticed, to conquer the world, and to do it her own way. When at the age of nine she was dared to jump a ditch and broke her wrist falling into it, she cried out in rage, “Yes, yes, and I’ll try it again if I’m dared to! I’m going to do exactly what I want all my life!” That’s when she decided on “Quand meme” as her motto, and she never relinquished it. She decorated her stationery, her dishes, her silver with it; it was inscribed on the flag she flew over the little fort she bought and summered in on Belle-Isle, off the Brittany coast; it was as much a part of her legend as her scrawniness, her legion of lovers, the coffin she sometimes liked to sleep in. But how to translate it? “Even so”? “No matter what”? “All the same”? “Despite everything”? “Nevertheless”? “Against all odds”? “Whatever”?…”
I always thought she was Libran and indeed, she could be. Just. Would depend on the time of birth.
She was most likely born with her Sun at Zero Scorp, squared by Saturn in Aquarius…And, her Moon was in early Aries, conjunct Uranus and both opposed by Mars…The Mars trining the Saturn. Her birthtime is oft estimated at 8pm – not sure why but it puts her Moon-Uranus on the Midheaven.
And, I love this, given her blissfully intense and creative love life – Venus conjunct Chiron in Virgo…Do read the article, linked in above, it is full of the most fabulous anecdotes…I LOVE the idea of having a motto that you inscribe everywhere.
And surely, she had Leo rising? She looks feline, as Leo Risings so often do. Note also that the women actually had a lot of aspects traditionally described as “bad” – Sun square Saturn, Moon opposite Mars etc but so many of the most celebrated peeps do have technically “bad” charts. Something to fight against? Miserable childhood worth rising high to get away from? The school of ’surthrival’ as revenge?
“Her admirers? To name a few: Mark Twain (“There are five kinds of actresses: bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses and then there is Sarah Bernhardt”); Freud (“After the first words of her lovely, vibrant voice I felt I had known her for years”); D.H. Lawrence (“She represents the primeval passion of woman, and she is fascinating to an extraordinary degree”). “
“Exactly. Although a different astrology than we know today.”
A hand went up. “You mean our Founding Fathers believed in astrology.”
Langdon grinned. “Big-time. What would you say if I told you the city of Washing D.C. has more astrological signs in its architecture than any other city in the world – zodiacs, star charts, cornerstones laid at precise astrological dates and times? More than half of the framers of our Constitution were Masons, men who strongly believed that the stars and fate wee intertwined, men who paid close attention to the layout of the heavens as they structured their new world.”
“But that whole thing about Capitol cornerstone being laid while Caput Draconis was in Virgo – who cares? Can’t that just be coincidence?”
“An impressive coincidence considering that the cornerstones of the three structures that make up Federal Triangle – the Capitol, the White House, the Washington Monument – were all laid in different years but were carefully timed to occur under the exact same astrological condition.”
From The Lost Symbol – The new book by Dan ‘DaVinci Code’ Brown.
I remember distinctly when The DaVinci Code came out because everyone kept crapping on about it…from taxi drivers to the lady waxing my leg, friends, peeps e-mailing me oh-my-godding. I found it infuriating as when I crapped on about freemasons, astrological links to the timing of the Constitution being signed (timed so that America has a mega-strong Jupiter), the Divine Feminine, Venus cycles, apple cores being a pentagram blah blah blah peeps politely said i was bats. Suddenly every 2nd person was trying to out weird me. So I read it & it’s kinda gripping. I just saw The Lost Symbol in the book shop, opened it up and there was the above passage. So naturally i got the book.
BTW, this may be just me but i could not bear to see the DaVinci movie as I find that whenever Tom Hanks is on screen, my eyes sort of glide away and so before I know it, i’m really interested in the kind of curtains they have surrounding the screen & wondering if i can see in the dark enough to sketch out some sort of a to-do list. Would the snack bar have licorice allsorts? If Joaquin Phoenix (pre beardie-weirdie thing he doing now) had been playing a pagan professor of mysticism believer in the Goddess kind of a guy caught up in a tight thriller plot, i would have been there on day one.
Oh and I don’t know if it’s in the book or not but i really love the theory that the Statue of Liberty is in fact the Sun Goddess. And whilst we are on all this, has anyone read the Gospel Of Mary Magdalene?
So i was in a cafe, reading a puff piece on Cameron Diaz in US Vogue & this is her make-up artist & close friend Gucci Westman describing one aspect of their dynamic:
“She’s a Virgo, I’m a Libran. We have a funny relationship. When we are working together she will try to tell me what to do, but I don’t listen to her. She’s the kind of person who will do the dishes in a hotel. She’s incredibly capable and she’s very good at multi-tasking. If there’s something she doesn’t know how to do, she will make it her project to learn it and learn it really well. She just pushes herself and doesn’t believe anything can stop her.”
Okay, some of that is mega-Virgo. In fact, it all is apart from the last six words. Virgos drive themselves and are often SO successful because they DO believe in stuff that can stop them, they worry themselves into a lather but by Mercury, if something comes up, Virgo will have a plan ready to deal with it. Virgos are perpetual boy-girl scouts in the “be prepared” sense of things.
Years ago i knew a Virgo who had to have an operation she deemed life-threatening and she put a Christian crucifix in one side of her bra and a Pagan pentagram in the other. Just in case. She was SO prepared. And she survived, btw.
Actually, I hate looking at the charts of peeps who have just passed. It feels ghoulish. And then what happens is that if I say anything about – say – his Saturn square, i got panicked e-mails every time Saturn squares a THING in someone’s chart. Suffice to say what I said before; his chart is totally mutable with loads of mutable stuff squaring other mutable stuff – troubled genius & in trouble for a bit – the WHOLE of Pluto in Sagg? – but set off by Saturn-Uranus. Am sure there is other stuff there you could google…
But is not the above clip so poignant? And I have a Michael Jackson anecdote from the 90s that kinda reveals where he was at with the prescription drugs even then. I hate the idea of these amazing people (thinking of Heath Ledger more than Anna Nicole Smith here but maybe even her if she could have pulled out & done an interesting talk show or something) being hopped up by non-ethical doctors.
Okay, a friend of mine was working for a newspaper in Sydney at the time, v.senior, and got to be in the entourage traipsing around after Michael Jackson as he visited the Zoo. I think he’d left his then new fiancee (?) back at the hotel and he + several local boys rounded up for the junket were all meandering around this terribly scenic place.
As they entered the reptile enclosure (very dark, just tunnel with lit-up tanks all through it, containing snakes…you know the drill) my journo friend realised that he’d gotten way behind the main party, whilst taking notes or whatevs. He could hear them chattering far ahead. So striding faster, he rounded a corner and staight into Michael Jackson – this was his mid-90s look, so already v.pale and different looking – who was like ‘no man, it’s fine’ about my friend walking into him.
He was fine as he was completely transfixed and amazed, blissing out by what he was looking at in the tank. He was swaying back and forth, mesmerised, saying repeatedly “it’s so special, it’s so special, it’s soooo special.”
Notepad out, my friend turns to look at what’s in the tank, thinking it would be like a boa constrictor or fancy python…a chameleon maybe – great copy – but it was a tank that had its reptile vacated so it could be cleaned. And what Michael Jackson was rocking back and forward grooving off on was a cleaning rag and bottle of Ajax with a bright red light shining down upon it.
WHICH I can sort of get in a mod-art installation why-not way. But it could also mean he way whacked up on whatever it is, was and may be proven to be. And okay, i try to keep way off such subjects on this blog as it is not a rant-blog BUT has anyone else noticed the seeming increasing amount of vile crimes involving “prescription drugs”..that ought to presumably be better managed & regulated, given that they are legal and all?
I often think this should be the lesson that the mutual reception of Uranus & Neptune are bringing us but maybe not yet. Mutual Reception: Uranus is in Pisces, the sign that Neptune rules. Neptune is in Aquarius, the sign the Uranus rules. Neptune-Pisces have to do with transcendence, compassion & sometimes – drugs, of all ilk. Uranus-Aquarius is radical innovation & sudden flash-forward eureka moments out of a crap old paradigm.
And – yes, Eclipses do seem to have a way about them; i remember most clearly the Eclipse Seasons of September 1997 (Princess Diana, Mother Theresa…the latter a controversial figure i.m.o. but totally a Virgo in that she modest enough to pass in the week of the Diana and so thus not so much fuss made), July 1999 – John Kennedy Jr…and those poor sisters with him, September 2006…Steve Irwin…
Now – a mega-naff thought: how pleasant for Farrah & Michael Jackson to be perhaps able to commune/chat as they move on? He was more famous & accomplished, she was an icon & important figure of female emancipation – especially emerging out of the 70s, both suffered. I remember the last time i had a really strong Farrah Fawcett consciousness was seeing some story in which both her son and her on-off lover Ryan O’Neal were arrested for ice possession.
And I thought something along the lines of ‘you poor woman’ – VERY difficult to keep your kid off the shit if…
Years ago, a young woman got me to a relationship consult comparing her chart & that of her boyfriend. I kept thinking there was something really familiar about the boyfriend’s chart & birth details. Anyway it was Brad Pitt & she was not Jennifer A. Nor had she met Brad. Relationships with slebs can be tricky. There are the gorgeous teenage crushes that do the marvellous job of allowing one to experience a variety of yearnings and emotions but leave one lots of space & time to oneself.
There are the delusional identifications with slebs we feel are “like us.” There are the ones whose work and glimpses of their actual life gleaned via media/twitter/whatever we admire. And then there are the madly irrational loathings of some celebrities. So much so that there is an involuntary shudder at his/her face on a magazine cover, instant credibility afforded to even the most insane rumours (she is a man, he is an undead), a sense of simpatico upon meeting someone who agrees with your conspiracy theory of X being over-rated and pure rage if a book you like is turned into a movie starting vile X.
Is it astrological? I mean, is a Sleb you loathe actually of a sign you do not get along with? I don’t really believe in Sun Sign compatibility as there are SO many different astro-factors, but for the sake of this question, I think we can go there.What is you Sun Sign, whom is the Sleb you irrationally loathe, what is his/her Sun Sign and why the loathing? Or is it just SOOOOO irrational you could never reveal?
“I’m very organised and controlled and need to go to bed at night knowing just what i’m going to wear the next morning…”
“…I have to have everything in a straight line or everything has to be in pairs… I’ll put my Pepsi cans in the fridge and if there’s one too many then I’ll put it in another cupboard somewhere. I’ll go into a hotel room. Before I can relax I have to move all the leaflets and all the books and put them in a drawer. Everything has to be perfect…”
“…Beckham reportedly spends hours straightening the furniture, apparently buys exactly 20 packets of Super Noodles on each visit to the supermarket and wears a new pair of football boots for every match….”
“…In our house in Spain we used to have this big rug that when you hoovered it, you could do it in lines like Wembley. Victoria used to catch me after the kids had gone to bed doing the hoovering and it would all be in perfect lines…”
Oh well, one naturally first suspects Virgo, non? But David Beckham’s astro is more complicated than that. He DOES have Eros in Virgo, which is interesting – i would love to know if anyone else has Eros (asteroid 433) in Virgo & gets off on a bit of O.C.D? Not that I am trivialising the condition – someone in my family had it & thank heavens it resolved by itself but you could sense how it had them in its grip. And I don’t know if DB is an official sufferer or just has his ways…
He’s got Mercury Rising in Taurus so super-quick-minded & with a vibe of the Trickster to him & a nice Mercurial lightening of all his Taurus energy but his Moon in Capricorn is exact square Uranus in Libra. That can, this is mildly phrased, make it hard to relax and one would totally develop idiosyncratic rituals to feel at ease. Okay, maybe I am reading way too much into this as he is rather easy on the eye, but from his chart, he would be a fantastic writer. True!
And I actually think he looks far better in motion than in still photography.
Florence Nightingale had SIXTY cats, including Persians named Disreaeli, Bismarck and Gladstone – politicians of her day. For over a decade, she travelled with a little white owl named Athene constantly nestled in her breast, released to fly around and hunt from time to time. I love that – Athene being the goddess of wisdom and the white owl her symbol.
Florence Nightingale Astro-Fiend Notes: Virgo rising with the South node, Mars conjunct Ceres in Leo & Sun-Moon-Vesta in Taurus/8th House.
I don’t know what it is but something just clicked and I like Madonna again. And I haven’t for a long time. It’s not her poncing about with Jesus Luz & it’s not any particular music of late. I think it’s her unabashed Leonic persona and never give uppity-ness. And she’s modern. Madonna really is modern. She’s got a loaded 12th house – Mercury, Pluto, Sun & Uranus & totally has the mystical leanings…trotting into the Kabbalah temple even with her face still lasered red or whatever it was. The Pluto squaring her Midheaven; that much-mentioned drive to reinvent herself…Moon rising in Virgo square Saturn in Saggo in the 4th house, early loss of her mother poor thing…
South Node in Aries – Karmic Astrologers would have her as a warrior reincarnating & yet amazingly, her North Node (future) is Jupiter-Neptune-North Node in Libra. She is So Guided. Don’t roll your eyes. Jupiter-Neptune – if it does not degenerate into druggy faux transcendental haze – is super-spiritual. This woman is just getting going. Okay, getting a divorce and doing a sexy photo shoot with/dating a Brazilian undies model decades your junior is a novel way to celebrate the navel-gazing Chiron Return but why not?
But think about this: Soon she has Pluto in Cap trining her natal Pluto, Mercury, Moon, Virgo Rising etc. And then trining her Mars in truculent Taurus. That’ll be years long and it will totally awaken her 12th house spiritual leanings. Saturn will cross her North Node, Neptune et al at about the same time and Uranus + Jupiter in Aries trine her Venus at Zero degrees of Leo next year. These are fantastic transits for someone who’s basically got her shit together & she’s got fabulous hair…still.
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