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Bjork, Plutonian

November 12, 2009 in Astro-Fiends, Celeb Fluffery by Mystic Medusa | 56 comments

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“JON SAVAGE: When were you born?

BJORK: November 21, 1965.

JS: On the cusp of Scorpio and Sagittarius.

B: My mum is heavily into these things, and apparently I’m as much Scorpio as one can be. To me, whether it means something or not – fuck that, I just love the symbolism of it. It’s pretty, like Greek and Nordic mythologies. I’m supposed to be run by Pluto. It’s like a fairy tale, it simplifies things.

JS: Is Nordic mythology similar to Greek?

B: It isn’t a copy, but it’s got the same characters. In mythology wherever you go, you’ve got the strong guy, the wise woman, the winners and the losers, the travelers and the domestic people. I always like the animals in mythology, like the ravens on Odin’s shoulders.

JS: Scorpio is all about life, death, and sex.

B: That doesn’t surprise me. My three fucking obsessions.

JS: Have you ever had your chart done?

B: My mum did it. I think she took me to all the occult creatures of Iceland, from the age of zero until I was eighteen, when I became a rebel anti-hippie. I got my fortune told and everything. I think I probably believe most of it, actually. I’ve got Pluto in a very important place, and that’s what I’m about. I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up. And kill it in the evening, which is a bit outrageous, but there you go.

JS: Hard work.

B: Heee! Well, maybe not every morning, but maybe twice a year I have to destroy everything. I’ve also got my moon in the twelfth house, in Scorpio, and my sun in Scorpio in the first house, and also Neptune. Then on my other half, my generational picture, I’ve got Pluto and Uranus in Virgo, and my midheaven is in conjunct with those two. Virgo is the sign of the nurse, so this means I was born to nurse my generation. I’m still fifty-fifty about whether this is true, but I was breast-fed on it.”

Why Am I No Longer An Aquarius?

January 14, 2009 in Astro-Query by Mystic Medusa | 11 comments

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Dear Mystic,

I was born at  4.30am in England, on Feb 18th.1947  Although not normally too thick, I  still cannot understand why, after some fifty-odd years being quite happy as  an Aquarian, I am now – sometimes, but not always – listed as a Piscean.   Not that I have anything against Pisceans, but it has left me puzzled.  Do you have the time to explain, please?

The Now Extinct Aquarian.

Dear Now Extinct Aquarian,

You are born on the cusp of a sign. ie; right near the very end or beginning. Your Sun is in Aquarius but the reason some scopes list you as Pisces is thus. Every year the Sun changes signs at slightly different times. eg; people born on March 20 one year are a Pisces but the  same birthday the next year would render them an Aries Sun sign individual. Newspapers/scopes et al cannot obviously run an ephemeris to clarify this so they tend to either go for the most likely day the Sun is changing sign OR simply use the dates current that year.

It’s an issue guaranteed to elicit a few outraged e-mails a year. The worst I ever received was from a Scorpio furious that she had “become a Sagittarius without my consent.”  She loathed Saggos, found them really feckless and unsubtle, could not bear their candour and apparent refusal to face up to their responsibilities, fervent desire to be stoned on a great beach someplace rather than shopping with her and alleged inability to not hit on her already ridiculously up herself Aries sister. Yes, there was one particular Sagg gentleman who inspired her wrath.

And a friend of mine who discovered she was not a Capricorn, as she had always thought, but a Sagg said she found that more weird than realising she was gay. Her whole career strategy had been based around being an alpha-Cap, organisation woman.  Does this answer your question???