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The Mercury Retrograde Bookclub: Men Are From Mars-Women Are From Venus

January 11, 2010 in Mercury Retrograde by Mystic Medusa | 30 comments

Dudes, some of you may be too young (or sophisticated) to know that this thing was one of the best-selling self-helpy books of the 90s. And there were a LOT then.

At least four peeps pressed this book upon me, insisting that i read it…It’s infuriatingly simple & it’s copped heaps of criticism for limited gender roles. Leave men the fuq alone because they are like rubber bands who need to stretch out and be in their cave before they twang right back into your loving arms again. Men should remember that women like goo-goo compliments and that they cannot be aroused if he has not put the rubbish out as asked. I forget the metaphors but there were definitely rubber bands and a cave.

Some pertinent points for discussion, other than did this book do it for you style ponderings:

* It was apparently the book Princess Diana was reading just before her accident. They found it on her bedside table. Poignant, non?

* The author John Gray is a triple Capricorn (Sun, Moon, Mercury) and he extrapolated the Men Are From Mars concept into not only more than a dozen books but even a Colon Cleanse.  I am not joking. His website is selling a Men Are From Mars Colonic Cleansing Powder There was some controversy over whether his qualifications were bogus or not. He was a monk for nine years and is divorced from Barbara De Angelis, another self-help author & relationship expert.

* He has a new one coming out called Venus On Fire – Mars On Ice.  I am not kidding.  It makes me think of a women furious because her lover has become a crystal meth-head but it is actually about safely increasing hormones “of desire”.

Transit Lounge: Mars

August 3, 2009 in Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 4 comments

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The transits of Mars never passed un-noticed. They’re manifest & in your face.  The other day, when i dinged my head, I was having a Mars transit, for instance. The very same week coincided with the “outing” of open “enemies.”  But BECAUSE I was having a Mars transit, I thought ‘great.’  Better overt than covert. Yes, it all sounds a bit dramatic but fairly classic for any astro-passage involving Mars.  Ditto a short-tolerance for lack of respect, limitations and obstacles.

The upside of Mars???  A LOT of energy that if you channel it effectively can be amazingly productive. The guts to stick up for what is right & to take incisive strategic action, sans waffle or sentiment.

There are two different types of Mars transits – Mars zooms around the place & aspects – say – your Mercury or your Venus. So your talking or your love nature gets ‘Mars-ified’ for a few days. Mars on your Venus is excellent if you’re up for flirtation & new lust opportunities. Mars-Mercury is when you send off a trillion new biz pitches in a day.  And most likely tell someone or other to get effed.

The other type of Mars transit is when your natal Mars is triggered by a passing planet. If this is any planet past Jupiter, it can last for months, maybe years. These are the ones that it is totally worth keeping an eye on. Right now, for instance, anyone with Mars at Zero to five degrees of a Cardinal sign (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) or in the same degrees of Taurus/Virgo is having their Mars affected by Pluto; an awesome unleashing of power: ruthless self-regenerative powers.

Mars is in Gemini and moving to square Saturn (sigh) and then Uranus (yay) over the next few weeks. It will stress out les Mutables the most (Gemini, Virgo, Saggo, Pisces) but everyone gets it a bit…As Saturn and Uranus oppose one another in mid-Sept, Mars triggering both now is actually a really useful prequel of September tensions. No, they need not be tensions. An opposition can also be delightful balance…

Again, it’s about trying to find the ideal state between  honouring Saturn (tradition, work ethic, discipline, corporations, security) and Uranus (innovation, excitement, freedom) without overdoing it either end. Too much Saturn and you’re a moribund drudge. Too much Uranus and  you’re a flake adrift.

Soooo Mars, as is his wont, is basically getting in there early and starting a fight between Saturn & Uranus way before it is even due. The square to Saturn perfects by August 11 and the one to Uranus by the 19th. There are friendly aspects to Mars from the Auspicious Aqua-Weirding so being grounded/sensible (to keep Saturn at bay, stay frugal, organised and humble) even as you self-actualise and do the rad Uranian thing is the way to go…

And of course, once Saturn has opposed Uranus in mid-September, our Mars heads into Leo for nearly nine months. And what does Mars do in Leo?  Acts out & shows off. Bigtime. Unreal if you’re a performer though…

Astro-Courtney Love

July 8, 2009 in Celeb Fluffery by Mystic Medusa | 33 comments

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Have TOTALLY lost track of Courtney Love.

She’s a Cancerian – it’s her birthday on Saturday and she has Libra Rising. Hence her amazing ability to Scrub Up sensationally well when she wants to. But the reason i’ve lost track ain’t her astro.

She’s currently got Saturn opposing her Chiron and squaring her Mars-Venus in Gemini AND Lilith in Sagg so that buzzy charisma & self-belief would be a bit harder to come by. But Saturn DOES actually move, thank fuq, and she  has a while to get her shit together before Pluto opposes her Sun. Although, Pluto is presently hanging around her South Node so the Past comes up in Plutonic ways …maybe even more info re Nirvana/Kurt Cobain and by Feb.

What I have lost track of is what she represents: Grunge Icon? Ex Riot Grrrl Still Manifesting Feminist/Iconic Music Artiste? Homicidal Ho? Genius? Victim Of Plastic Surgery-N.P.D./Drugs Et Al?  Rock Goddess? Icon of Clean Living Personified? Exhibitionist wannabe?

At the hairdressers the other day I read in one mag that she was on some hideous drug/dangerously thing and in another mag that she has embraced Kundalini Yoga to the point that she has been initiated, is becoming an instructor and altering her name. The Scorpio Sex Academic has such disdain for the woman that she cancelled her Kundalini Yoga teacher training. There were other factors, such as the celibacy, but still.

Courtney Love has a beautiful Cancerian Sun-Moon conjunction in the visionary 9th House and Eros/Mercury on her Leo Midheaven so if she moves half-way to courting her public, they will be there for her. But the last “news” on her actual website is from 2007 – her clean, sober & a Givenchy muse. I thought the Nick Broomfield doco fascinating but also that she could act in that Larry Flynt bio movie…Has she done any music of note lately? Ever?

Astro-Housewitchery: Book Of Shadows & The Solstice

June 19, 2009 in Good Housewitchery by Mystic Medusa | 17 comments

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Zero Degrees of Cancer is the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere & the Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. The former is Litha and the latter Yule. The shortest and the longest nights of the year respectively.

Los Angeles: Saturday 20th Summer Solstice at 22.46

New York: Sunday 21st Summer Solstice at 1.46 am

London: Sunday 21st Summer Solstice at 6.46 am

Sydney: Sunday 21st Winter Solstice at 15.46

They are great Pagan turning-points & the time when the veils between the worlds thin so that your perceptions are amped right up. Ghosts too, obviously.  But this post is actually about the Book of the Shadows – an old name given to the book that YOU write, entirely for yourself about any occult interests you may have.

Basically it is a journal in which you record dreams, your thoughts re dreams, psychic flashes, the results of Tarot card readings & then later – a follow up analysis, astrological ideas and predictions, Feng Shui notes, mensturation dates if you like, your moods, essential oil & herbal potion recipes…all things magic. It is a fantastic aid in learning astrology as you can note down events & emotions around certain astrological events (such as your Venus Return or this weekend’s Mars-Venus conjunction) and compare it with what you predicted would occur.

It’s a good idea, i.m.o. to get a beautiful & ornate book – unless you are worried it will be read by another, in which case disguise/hide it. It’s most fascinating to read through a few months later & realise just how stunningly accurate dreams et al can be, even though the message may seem too esoteric or just irrelevant at the time. By realising and better understanding how the cosmos/your subliminal mind talks to you, you develop a beautiful style of magical thinking.

Personally, i destroy my old ones, once i have grokked the info within but other peeps keep theirs & make them more like recipe/spell/wisdom books…perhaps to pass on later.

BTW: the Pentagram/Pentacle is just an ancient symbol of Venus/Aphrodite/Ishtar/Oshun

Dissing The Disbelievers

May 26, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 27 comments

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“I don’t believe in astrology. I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” Arthur C Clarke.

I never get bored but an emotion close to it, i think, infuses me whenever I am faced with an old-school sceptic. It’s not that they haven’t the right to think/believe w.t.f. THEY want but they so often seem determined, smug & pass-agg-insistent on dialogue with me. My fave retaliation is the George Santayana quote that “skepticism is the chastity of the intellect” but rather than responding to that, they just sort of dirge on. I think it’s actually Taurus (men, soz) who are the most pompous about it. Aquarius too – they’re either super-logical & will cheerily crap on with all sorts of spurious shit or else they’ll try to out-weird one with a harmony-0f-the-spheres rant.

But just as I was about to launch forward on a dissing the disbelievers rant, i thought isn’t it fabulous that many of us live in a time when we can express all these things & share them openly? And how much would many of our ancestors (especially those who lived in darker times) would have ADORED modern freedom of speech, being able to bung up charts on the internet, sharing stories about Mugwort on one’s blog…And i felt amazingly grateful that it’s just the occasional dullard grumbling…”Surely, you cannot possibly believe in xyz…”

The weird thing is that I DON’T know how astrology works. And yes, I have read Cosmos & Psyche.

I just know that it DOES work and it seems to work better the more you do it. It works backwards, it works forwards, it works shallow (when Mars is on your Venus, you will meet hot guys sorta thing) and it works deep…a la Jungian astro et al. Or a Pluto transit. So if it works and it does, then how weird & intricate & MAGIC is our world? Our universe?

And it is all around us, so yes I believe in magic and then i get onto the Dark Matter situation. 90% of our universe is made up of this mysterious substance and scientists have no idea what it is. It sounds so satisfyingly witchy. I went through a stage a few years ago (when Neptune was on my Ascendent by transit) when I became obsessed with Dark Matter. Now I’ve calmed down but if I have had a few drinks & a skeptic is annoying me, i can download all my Dark Matter info (blended ad lib with some alchemy, surrealism, Ancient mythology and obviously astrology) into one Mercury-in-Aries rant enough to scare off any Skeptic.

Dark Moonie Astro-Action

April 23, 2009 in Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 201 comments

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I don’t know who this designer is but he/she/it is totally grokking my Winter wardrobe “statement”. As an Aquarius Rising, i LOVE the classic gray trackpant. Informal. Egalitarian. Add my Venus in Pisces appreciation of deshabille & perfect; the ideal outfit for a premenstrual trot up to the local. Or straight from the gym to the pub. An update of ‘resort wear’ for the Pluto In Capricorn era.

ANYWAY, i was actually wanting to give an example of astrology in action. The day before yesterday I had transitting Mars on my Sun & Psyche. All the good-Mars stuff happened; heightened determination & strong ideas for moving forward etc. But there were two other things. And, btw, I had not even bothered to  notice Mars whizzing over my Sun/Psyche. I looked later. Mars AND Venus right there. The Venusification was prob my saviour. Mars can be a Malefic (ie; shitty) but Venus is always a Benefic. (ie; Fab)

You see, when you have Uranus conjunct Venus going on, you’re too busy with your whacko love life & Aquarian men to think about flitty little Mars transits. Thing One; Was late to get my daughter from sports camp so jumped in taxi even though it was only a short way away. Did not bother with seatbelt as traffic at crawl. Smelt weirdly strong alcohol smell. Assumed that was prob some synthetic crap the guy had cleaned his cab with. Thought surely would not be actual booze. Heard voice – literally – that said to put seatbelt on. Ignored. Was in back seat. Going one kilometre up road at nano-crawl. Heard it again. Put on stupid seat belt.

Soooo suddenly we’re going fast, making some illegal left turn and screeching down road as twerp taxi drive tries to run a red light OUTSIDE the hospital A & E department. We narrrowly miss colliding with the van turning left legally and there is huge screech of brakes and both cars spinning off, stunt-car style. The van is a police van driven by two enraged young female constables. I am fine. But would prob not have been sans seatbelt. The Venusian aspect of all this is that had something happened, i would have been v.close to medical help and the the cops were -obviously – right there on the scene.

So an hour later walking home and Thing Two;  I get into a fight with a guy on the street. He looks slimey, asks me something or rather and I decide to ignore  him with Anglican hauteur. So he starts hassling this girl behind me. Asks her three times to go to the  pub with  him and then kind of wheedling but threatening ‘oh why not?’ and all t his other stuff. So finally I wheel around and go him. Not hysterically and not unreasonably. But definitely with a sort of Martian white-hot fury. Totally told him off (leave her along,  no means no etc) and he arced up and argued back. Could tell he longing to hit me and i was absolutely ready for him to give it a go as would have used right elbow, left hook, right upper cut and a knee in his groin. But he took off.

And no i don’t normally get into fights with guys in streets or relish a punch up. It’s worth keeping an eye on where Mars is. It definitely energises. A Mars conjunction is the strongest. Mars on your Venus is always an excellent pulling transit. Mars-Moon means you’re SO tetchy but can be quite insightful. Mars-Saturn is ruthlessly sorting admin and structural details of your life and/or confronting power. Mars-Jupiter is usually at the races, lol.

Bitched Up!

April 9, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Full Moons by Mystic Medusa | 65 comments

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Lol!  I noted how the Astro-Beauty Nostalgia Post went OFF & so here are some gratuitious Retro-Venus nostalgia hits for you guys.

And…the ferocity of this Full Moon has surprised me…I was so primed to let rip at some peeps (the Full Moon involves my Mercury in Aries & Mars is advancing toward my natal Venus which is already being stimulated by Uranus) that i had to turn my phone off &g go distract my self with a long advanced-Libran-Moon exfoliating ritual. Yes, I do have work to do but was too irritated.

So, once you are done with the Nostalgia Hit – please feel free to indulge bitcherel in the comments. No names. In fact EVERYONE who is the subject of the bitcherel should be given the SAME name…But what would it be? Also, note that is always very easy to feel overwhelmed with a Full Moon. It’s okay…Semper Fi guys!

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Saturn Opposite Uranus…Again

March 12, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 13 comments

Mars can skulk off into Pisces & Venus will rage on in Aries – women fume & men evade. Or if you’re in a same-sex love affair, just watch how the next six weeks clarify gender roles, lol. Pluto will be in Capricorn until 2024 and we all going to have to get used to it.

Do you think even one of those idiot peeps who voted to demote Pluto to an asteroid now occasionally glances at the economy news and thinks ‘jeez, maybe those astrologers had a point, huh? This Pluto bit of space junk seems to have an effect…’  Then again, astronomers got their first gigs helping astrologers in Ancient Babylon and the like figure out the movements of the stars/planets. They won’t even admit that.  It’s like chickens denying the existence of the Egg.

But Saturn opposite Uranus from Virgo to Pisces is the theme of the year & I find it the most consistently satisfying to ‘work’ with. The more you see it at play in your own psyche/life, the easier these weird times feel. An example:

Take any issue – work/love/your body, for instance – of the moment and accept that re this perfectly staight-forward issue you will one second feel like…

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AND THE NEXT MOMENT LIKE…

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It is considered normal under such stars and the pressure of trying to score a consistent stance sends some peeps stumbling into the past, cults, firm-seeming cults, diets or religions. Others struggle to evolve and thrive. You’re not chez Gulag. Nor are in a state fit to dance joyously naked with just the string of bananas between you and your own glee.

As you oscillate between the Gulag and the Free-World-Dancer in your own mind, you end up wobbly for a bit yet eventually turning onto your own Jesus/Isis style Muse. The Stupidest Thing: To go too Saturn/Virgo or too Uranus/Pisces. Overly freak out one way and you freeze. Freak the other way & you are…what? Anti-the-world-you-love because of one little recession? The world needs Saturn Peeps and Uranians to get along right now – and that includes within your own pysche.