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Snake Dreaming

September 29, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 100 comments

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Okay guys – the Moon is in Aquarius and nearing Jupiter + Neptune.  This is like Lucid Dreaming Central. I am going to try an old thing i read and i CANNOT recall where it comes from…ancient, i suppose.  They say you get a picture of a Snake and ask it a question just before you go to bed. You put the Snake picture under your pillow and voila – the answer by morning or early the next day.  No i don’t know the origin but the Snake has always been credited with wisdom and in some traditions, knowing every secret in the world.  So who is IN???  We do it tonight, check back in the morning.

And this is cool:

“…It was in Crete that the snake aspect of the Mother Goddess religion reached its highest development and there the beautiful remains of a great civilisation have been unearthed. The snake in Cretan society represented the wisdom of the goddess and was associated with life, death and regeneration. Venerated as a protector of the household, the snake was considered the reincarnation of a dead family member. Special rooms equipped with snake tubes (which enabled snakes to travel through the house) were found in many homes…”

The Dinner Party – Judy Chicago. If you are interested in goddessy, feminista, witchy-poo art stuff & are not aware of the installation, check it out a.s.a.p.

Wave Dreaming

July 31, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 70 comments

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It is a tenet of psychological theory that Water in dreams signifies your emotions, is it not???  So a placid rockpool lit by the sunrise would be totally different psycho reality than dreaming about great big crashing tsunamis, yes?  I dreamed of tsunamis nearly every night during 2004 and thought it t’was emotional, to do with my turbulent subconscious etc. Then the 2004 Great Tsunami occurred & I thought again. The dreams were always totally realistic, as in seeing the wave and then looking around for something to cling onto or wondering if i could run up the hill sort of thing. The last one I had  was ridiculous; i was standing in an island resort room about three stories high, looking at a hotel bill and freaking  out. Only it wasn’t really me. It was like i was looking over this woman’s shoulder.  And the woman was saying to a man “we can’t possibly pay this” and annoyed as he seemed not be listening. Then the woman looks up and sees him agape at a huge wave offshore & he says “if we survive this we won’t have to…”

So i woke  up thinking how stupid, went downstairs & there was that Boxing Day Tsunami, on television. But, I also have them (eg; this year) with nothing like that happening.  Does anyone else have big wave dreams??  Or care to spout forth with interpretations & dream sharing. I think in general the idea of  – say – turbulent water = turbulent emotions rings true…My intention is to try and lucidly dream the answer by zapping up my mugwort.  Mercury opposite Neptune should also max out the dreams for the next few days…fab for liars too!

Weekend Mash-Up, Uranus Retro & Aqua Girl

June 29, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Metaphysical Quirks, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 20 comments

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How was your weekend?!  Mine was excellent though to back to back socialising did in my Sunday & I totally Zen-Slothed.

In my Sunday evening trackies & with my daughter in the suddenly torrential rain, we schlepped past an impromptu Michael Jackson Tribute Street Party – was gorgeous. About 50 people all dancing to really well-mixed MJ. And they were good dancers.  What interested me most is that there were teens through to 60-ish year olds, people who were clearly professional dancers & others who were just picking up on the moves they did at their school formal once upon a time. And the kids krumped.

Uranus is in utter sl0-mo, practically at a standstill, getting set to turn Retro on Weds, just as Venus squares everything in sight. I know I said this last week but – again – it is not a good time to try and control other peeps. Especially Aquarians & Pisceans, also Taurus & Libra…They’re individuating to the max.

It IS a brilliant time to be your own unique yourself, live & let be. Vary your routine. Ditch the obligatory shit – where you can – whilst also honouring the Eclipse-Season Get Real vibe.  The Eclipse (15 Capricorn) is in my 12th  house so my practical resolution is to meditate properly. But remember that the Uranian vibe adds a zany zing to the atmosphere & that not everyone channels Uranian Qi as well as – say -  you or I might.

Don’t bait the crazies. Stay serene & nourish thy nervous system.

My friend Aqua-Girl – who is probably the ultimate Aquarian female in many ways – has announced she is going into “poly-phasic sleep cycling” in the next month. Hence her social availability will be limited and she is totally off coffee and sugar. “A lot of big people do it,” she said breezily. “Richard Branson, Buckminster Fuller…”  I can’t remember the other names.

What it is: you sleep for only two hours a day so that you have 22 hours a day of total productivity. How you do it; You train yourself to sleep – zapping straight into REM – for 20 minutes every two hours. She may or may not use her lucid dreaming goggles during this time. Aqua-Girl sends men crazy. I see it all the time. She has waist length blue black hair and has that sort of archetypal delicate Asian lotus flower look.

But she is a multiple conjunct Aquarian and completely bats. She does nude hiking and surfing, djs, goes straight from a ten day Silence Retreat to clubbing, is an excellent mother to her two daughters & is currently dating a much younger nanophysicist whom she made go to relationship counselling two weeks after they met. Just to tweak a few things.

I think i would go ravingly nuts if I tried polyphasis sleep cycling. I did it by default when my children were babies and it did  not seem to produce the sharpened mind and sudden ability to become an awesomely productive mogul & guru.

Astro-Housewitchery: Mugwort

May 5, 2009 in Good Housewitchery, Metaphysical Quirks, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 22 comments

herb_mugwort1Mugwort pic from here where you can also buy fabulous mugwort smudge sticks online!

Mugwort is amazingly brilliant.  I know i say that about every herb i am in the mood to enthuse about but really…It is magic & protective to the nth degree. The Latin name for this herb is Artemisia Vulgaris – herb of Artemis, the Moon Goddess. Even a teensy bit of the fresh or dried mugwort in between the pillow case & the pillow will induce the most intense dreams – I try it occasionally, when I am feeling daring enough. AND i am trying to grow it.

Some say it was the herb used in flying ointment, to make the brooms witches flew on. It’s sooo powerful that you’d only want to touch it in a blend made by a qualified herbalist.

Mugwort is revered in Chinese Medicine, where they all it Ai-Ye & it’s used in moxibustion, done by acupuncturists for all sort of things but most commonly to move breech babies though i had it this morning to raise Qi. The word “moxy” comes from “moxa” which is the medicinal application of Mugwort to the Chinese meridians et al.

Mostly what i use it for is as a smudge stick – most smudge sticks are sage & mugwort IS actually a variety of sage. So when you want to cleanse the atmosphere of your space & it need something super-heavy-duty, beyond normal white sage smudging, you reach for the Mugwort. I haven’t done a posting on smudging  yet; short version – clean your house, throw shit out & then light the smudge stick & waft it about, as if cleansing the air. It is instantly effective.

You can get smudge sticks from any good new agie shops,  the peeps i linked to above or google them…

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April 30 -The Eve Of May Day

April 30, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Metaphysical Quirks, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 9 comments

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No matter where you are in the world, the night of April 30 is deep magic, ten degrees of Taurus & sacred to many different deities. As the veils between worlds are said to thin tonight, you ought to be able to dream lucidly & with some element of prophecy or divine inspiration granted to you by morning. That there is a Cancerian/Kataka Moon waxing & in thrall to Promethean Uranus just helps the whole process.

More Neptunian Dreaming

March 30, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 17 comments

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And the Moon has gone Void on Neptune so another weird dreaming night. As Neptune, Jupiter and Chiron form a beautiful mystical conjunction in Aquarius – exact late May – expect dreams to take on an increasingly other-worldly quality. Lucid dreamers grok even more alternative realities. Even those peeps who claim never to dream a single thing will wake up going ‘woah’…It’s profound & a fascinating counterpoint to the relentless grind of Saturn-in-Virgo & Pluto-in-Capricorn, magical new dimensions of consciousness are opening. God, i’ll be channelling next.

Moon in Virgo Therapy

February 11, 2009 in Moons by Mystic Medusa | 67 comments

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Spick Monster by Rory O’Neill

An unencumbered waning Moon in Virgo & cleaning truly  is therapeutic. Ditto organising, culling, sorting & editing.  The Sun in Aquarius draws near to Neptune: For brilliantly lucid dreaming, drink mint tea (spearmint, peppermint, anymint) before bed tonight & dab essential oil of lavender on temples as you to sleep. The really High-Functioning Flakes can whack a crystal in between the pillow-slip and their pillow.

Am writing weekly scopes for mid-March but seeking reassurance that there are actually men in my world who might like me other than the ludicrously handsome but chemically insane Uranian and the maybe-married Leo-Rising-Aquarian-Rugger-Stud, I was skimming a dating site. There’s men all right. And I clicked on the profile of one – hilarious. It said something to the tune of “if you are a woman sitting alone in a house with three cats and a pile of self-development books move right along, I am not for you.”  Mortifying. Not only was I alone in the house with three cats hanging around, I had a pile of books about things like Aura-Reading, Feng Shui For Dummies, Why Sugar Is The Devil, my esoteric symbols dictionary,  Exploring Jupiter, The Art Of Seduction, Memories, Dreams & Reflections by Jung & Why Men Love Bitches. I was like this guy’s Nightmare Girl!

BTW: I have a feeling that Uranus into Aries (it will be next year!) is going to translate into a massive spike in the amount of people doing D.I.Y. I don’t mean just the obvious things like D.I.Y. tiling your own bathroom, I mean D.I.Y. everything. Uranus in Aries is also heaps of records being broken, a whole new level of sports genius. Cloned athletes?