The Moon means One thing…at least this Moon does – it is in Libra, waxing to be Full (an Eclipse on july 7) and making a mysterious aspect to Venus – the Love Goddess – in Taurus, the sign she rules along with Libra…Flowers for you, flowers for your loved one, flowers for a friend rewarded and random flowers to another who would least expect them bring manifest Venusian Blessings…Venusian type peeps are also SUPER scent-aware at the moment – heaven for flowers, perfume and essential oils..being sensual, whatevs – vile for if you have to inhale noxious toxic air ‘freshener’ shit. One more thing that’s awesome with this Moon-Venusian synergy: Psychic hits via smell. Try it & see. SMELL & see. Pheromones signal the brain’s intention, don’t they?

Uranus is in slo-mo, getting set to turn Retrograde on July 1, next Wednesday. Thus, the next week or so can operate like a sort of mega-bats Mercury-Retrograde, compleat with sensational synchronicities and the chance for some truly Freudian mixed messaging.

Triple-check your e-mails, especially the ones with goss, innuendo, sultry secrets & sordid intentions writ large with CAPS and unique but batty turns of phrase!!!!! Because you could so easily zip them off to Mr/Ms Wrong. Remember that Uranus is the Magician, the Trickster & the Life-Quaker. I don’t mean Quaker as in Puritan sort of dude, I mean ‘quake’ as in shake up.

So this is some Wild Energy swirling about at the moment, what with the Eclipse Season starting as well. It’s Uranian so could be Sudden Growth & innovation but it’s also Cancerian so think a la shitloads of intuitive awareness and insights.

There is a total tempation to go sink into Lower Crab with a spot of pass-agg-guilting and self-pity re whom  you cannot rely on. It’s prob best to rise above it – without being gimped – and think in terms of Capricornian capability, keeping the Crabby stuff for emotional wisdom and using the Uranian qi to work out how anything can emancipate you from crap.

Yes, that’s it. Emo emancipation, capability and fuq all those who’ve ever villified you. Conduct your own orchestra. Innovate. Do YOUR thing. But still be careful as Uranus stations retro…And, spesh alert; the following signs are totally prepped and happy to DROP you 4-eva should you annoy them, try to control them or make even a TWITCH toward an intellectual stance that could remotely be construed as you judging them; Cancer, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces. They will either go you or you will never hear from them again in many a lifetime.

Happy New Moon but…remember, though it’s a Cancerian New Moon and a LOT to do with finding new sources of nourishment (friends, creatively, sexually, food-wise, what-EVER) don’t be naive or naff re what constitutes nourishment.

Pluto lurks opposite this New Moon – prepped to electro-prong you forward should you linger in toxic realms that no longer sustain anything valid 4 u.

“At this moment my cousin Helen came sailing up, like the long-necked swan she fancied herself to be. She had a distinctive swaying walk and she was exaggerating it. Although mine was the marriage in question, she wanted all the attention for herself. She was as beautiful as usual, indeed more so: she was intolerably beautiful. She was dressed to perfection. Menelaus, her husband, always made sure of that, and he was rich as stink so he could afford it. She tilted her face towards me, looking at me whimsically as if she were flirting. I suspect she used to flirt with her dog, with her mirror, with her comb, with her bedpost. She needed to keep in practice.”

The Penelopiad

VENUS in TAURUS, the sign of her dignity!  That is, she is in one of the signs she rules & thus stronger. Certainly stronger than in Aries where she has tarried since February.  And now the planet of love, money and sexual rapture  moves toward a sensual mid-month conjunction with Mars, her eternal lover. See if over-scorched love scenarios now become more green & organic, with this earth-angelic influence. More Zen? Venus is now in Taurus till early July. It is totally a different atmosphere from all those months of a more martial Venus.

La Luna in Scorpio, Venus Void and a Saturn squared Full Moon situation…It’s all sooo insight inducing but wow will Friday Night Work Drinks and/or dating sure be weirding in and out. There’s an element of wanting to be out there, poncing it about & a waxing Moon in Scorp will always flush out desires but the Saturn square keeps the awareness of limitations high. This could be really cool; fun tempered by sanity. Or it may manifest as something manic (skittish mutable squares) that warps into an over-pragmatic freak out and then back again. Unstable, nympho & spooky yet fantastic for divination & hi-Qi established love/lust.

Moon in Scorpio AND Mars in Taurus trine Pluto in Cap; this is savagely earthing, grounded, sensual, primal and yet ever so bats as the Moon belts toward being Full in Set-Me-Free Saggo…Positive power tripping and optimistic, non-defensive borders can work in the before-math of this moon.

Or read She for an astro-appropriate,  super-Goth, feminist & cultural trip & a half…Venus now chases Mars & she catches him on June 21, with Saturn in fave aspect. A lot of love/lust stories achieve a satisfying conclusion around then;

“She was written in the flush of success following the publication of King Solomon’s Mines (1886) and was published in its wake in 1887. Again Haggard drew on his substantial knowledge of Africa and ancient legends but now he worked with darker material. She is narrated by a man seemingly without family called Ludwig Horace Holly. A beautiful and powerful white queen of an African tribe (“She who must be obeyed”) is the centre of attention here as she falls in love with the English explorer. Even her name, Ayesha, indicates magic and mystery. She is more sophisticated but also much more disturbing that King Solomon’s Mines, even in its raising up of the concept of “Truth” in a nightmarish world where we see pits filled with skeletons and the like. She spawned a number of much lesser sequels, including Ayesha: The Return of She (1905) and the risible She and Allan (1921). She’s admirers included Jung who used it as an example of his “anima” concept…”

Biblomania

Mercury is direct, the Moon is in Virgo & Mars has just nipped into Taurus. This is super-productive – enjoy!

For the edification of all of us, please post your Timeless Virgoan Lifestyle Tips; they must be one sentence long & more or less practical/detailed. But they can be about anything.

eg;

* Red is the only chic nail varnish hue for toenails.

* Co-Q-10 is a brilliant supplement to strengthen gums & stop them bleeding.

* Your fridge should smell of vanilla and vanilla fridge wipe is also food-friendly, non toxic.

* Crush the fresh herb of rosemary in your palms, cup hands and inhale for an instant upper and mental clarifier.

It’s Dark Moon time again! That is, the Moonwane phase which goes from now right through until the fabulous New Moon on Sunday which kicks off the Auspicious Aqua-Weirding of late May/early June.  Now, one is supposed to rest during the Dark Moon. Not slack off a la our lovely Sloth- above – but it is the best time to do restorative things.

Countering that is Saturn in Virgo – Saturn in Virgo does not take days off. A Saturn in Virgo “day off” is time taken away from the core work to scour some pots, savagely unclutter (the best Dark Moon activity apart from Epsom Salts baths) and sort one’s financial records. And Mars in Aries self-actualises 24-7; a blur of activity & chutzpah + “I love you, I forgive you” affirmations into the bathroom mirror.

The solution is to see your relative rest phase of the Dark Moon as performance enhancing. And obviously one can’t take the whole thing OFF nor even any of it, most likely – I haven’t even mentioned Pluto in Capricorn here – but pull back a bit on the socialising & non-essential junkets. Schedule a massage or try to bung one of those ten minute meditation tracks on your iPod & fit that in. The Epsom Salts baths, the uncluttering, the mega-nourishing macrobiotic food style situation.

And the Auspicious Aqua-Weirding means that something amazing is brewing in the late Aquarius sector of your chart even as I type this.