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girl_on_the_porchDavid Trulli

“I used to have this, this idea, that I was sort of like, part of, like, this alien race that were part Venus and part American Indian. Now this sounds kind of funny now, but I was very serious about it as a child. [Laugh.] I had a whole cosmology and a whole universe, formed around these thoughts. But, I definitely didn’t feel at home on the planet. I felt much more at home when I’d read books about the Aztecs, or about, or if I’d read stories about aliens on other planets. Or I just, I didn’t really feel like I belonged… Those private thoughts I had, were part of my creative energy, or the complexity of my mind, but I wasn’t a disturbed child, I was just, a little off-beat, I guess.”

Patti Smith – Sun-Mars in Capricorn, Saggo Rising, Moon in Pisces, Neptune Conjunct Midheaven & Saturn conjunct Pluto in Leo. The latter two aspects bring her (astrologically) in line with John Lennon as a collective muse for the Pluto in Leo generation, carrier of many projections. Sun-Mars in 2nd house SUCH a grounding gift for her.

I think that your childhood DreamScape is perhaps the most intensely personal & amazing part of yourself – it comes before the earthy intimacies of sex & money and exists devoid of functional/dysfunctional families, class et al. And Mars in Cancer/Kataka + Mercury Retrograde for most of September is a fab time to resurrect your childhood DreamScape, with productive and loving intent. I sound woo-woo, like i need to order some henna and a lilac kaftan – but it’s so true.

Sometime in the next few weeks, ponder your childhood DreamScape & profit…

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God I SO wanted to be part of the No Poo movement – it totally fits my uncluttering ethos and everything i’ve ever read about sodium lauryl sulphate & associated foaming agents is actually quite scary. When you research the idea of going without shampoo & obviously conditioner online, most people are just raving about it.

After an initial phase of “transition” in which the hair “adjusts” to its new more healthy & untramelled state by being itchy, greasy or whatever, one’s hair is meant to look stupendously fantastic. In the meantime you deal with it by washing with just bicarbonate of soda & vinegar.

I am soz to say that i could not last out the transition – it immediately induced a situation of celibacy, Not-The-Typical-Virgo thought it was a neurotic manifestion…something to do with not being grateful for modernity and my Cancerian son with multiple planets in Leo agreed only he was more rude: “When are you going to stop doing this dark ages shit and get a fuqing grip and just go to the hairdresser?”

It honestly looked kind of like the above hair only not so orange and with way greasier roots. Awful. Also, i can see the point of going sans shampoo (and the organic ones don’t really work so well anyway, so you may as well just ditch the whole concept) but then you may as well go with no hair dye. So I gave up & subjected my hair to some industrial size vat of Delva at the hair artistes – felt fantastic. Invented new theory that skin responds marvellously to organic products but that hair craves chemicals.

Now I have Venus in Pisces & Moon in Libra – i truly don’t mind a bit of artifice. And my Gemini Hairdresser is also psychic and a friend of mine so I am happy to see her but i’m interested -

Are there peeps out there who are Off the Grid so far as hair is concerned??? No shampoo. No conditioner. No product. No hair-dyes. And you just sort of comb through some bicarb from time to time? The only results I have ever had worse than the no-shampoo phase was when i made my own “nettle shampoo” and oh hell, HENNA.

I realise this is going to be controversial but i think in many cases henna operates as sort of a chastity belt.

SO which sign has the most Au Naturel hair and whom would literally rather visit hell than be without their G.H.D. and/or hair-molecular restructuring potions? Naturally, I nominate Leo as Haute Hair Obsessive, followed by Pisces & Libra with maybe Aquarius.

Most likely to do pioneering No Poor hair: Scorpios & Arieans. Gemini in theory but could not resist fiddling. Also, is massaging your hair with bi-carb that sensual? Or do you just keep bunging oil into it? Please don’t anyone moralise me because I could not hack it.

2532_head_nails1Nylon mag

The nail polish is named Nude Chic, from Dior & as you can gather from ‘the emperor’s new nails’ tag, nobody can tell you’re wearing it.  It totally fits the Pluto A La Mode vibe.

Monochromatic, non-flashy & no need for upkeep. And so Capricornian as in it’s private. Where-as when Pluto was in Leo, we got the popularity of henna body art, body bling, big wild hair & expressive make-up. Pluto in Libra – the next most beauty-obsessed & exhibitionist sign – bought us injectible fillers. Don’t start me on Pluto in Scorp…

Oh & yes, I already have e-mails from people worried re Friday 13 next week. Don’t! It’s good i.m.o & so are black cats zooming across the path in front of you. Previous reassuring rants re Friday 13 are all here.