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Lucid Moon Dreaming

October 18, 2009 in New Moons, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 72 comments

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Sunday night & no matter where you in the multiverse – there is still enough of the Neptune enhancement happening to have a fabulously High Functioning Flake Neptunian style night, a slightly lower Neptunian dipsomaniac episode or both!  Haute Neptune is you leaping into bed with the mugwort,  some crystals, sleep balm, lavender, head of bed freshly bunged in the right direction (but not North, not this year), Soul Restoration Serum bunged on your fizzog, some sexy whale music, those scary-in-the-morning Japanese detoxifying footsie pads & a Shamanic determination to journey through your past lives/astral travel or SOMETHING…

But, of course, the fresh feisty vibe of Mars arcing up in Leo and the New Moon in free-loving Libra could send some peeps out on a spontaneous primordial lower-Neptunian sex-ego-honouring binge. Not me. I’m doing the crystals etc. But I am sensing the vibe and it’s a good thing by utterly new mobile fone does not feature deets for any of the Aquarians. Mars in Leo with Moon-Venus in Libra could look in the mirror, wow him/herself out with how hot the hair looks, be amazed at how eloquent their skim-read of the newspaper has made them and decide to go trotting out for a quick go-see.

Note also; Saturn still in Virgo – till the 30th, those irksome details and your high-faluting scheme to deal with them won’t just drizzle away AND Mars is quincunxing Leo…sex & power-tripping behind the scenes for some.

SO YOU GET THE IDEA…You could be feeling a bit like this:

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OR LIKE THIS…

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Pluto Direct…

September 8, 2009 in Planets by Mystic Medusa | 38 comments

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Ready or not, Pluto is stationing Direct & over the next few days, even the most minute of bickerings or realisations reminds you that you are in a new era now.  Any unfinished biz from the past emerges – either for real or in your psyche – so it would be Pluto-prudent to try to fix that a.s.a.p. and sans fuss…especially toxic ex-merde.

As always, artemesia vulgaris (the amazing mugwort) is your friend, should you be trying to housewitch or lucid dream your way out of this.  And – yes – Pluto Juice…the incredible Bach Flower Walnut Essence.

Tarot, Astro-Fiends & House Systems

August 22, 2009 in Astro-Fiends, Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 38 comments

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So i get told heaps that it is “unlucky” to buy your own Tarot deck. Or else i get asked if this is true. I don’t believe this for a moment, though anyone who wants to gift me a Thoth Tarot is more than welcome.

The reason it’s considered an ill-omen to buy your own comes from the Burning Times – in an age of oppression and council (!) driven atrocities & theocide against those considered not with the Christian program, it was essential to be able to say someone else gave you the ‘devil’s playing cards.’  Same reason so many powerful witchy herbs achieved such popular culinary usage…And  the mega-powerful & magic Artemesia (Flower of Artemis) was re-named as the dull-sounding Mugwort…

Currently I have the Waite Deck & i love it but the Thoth deck is something else; it always feels modern and the images translate more directly into one’s subliminal mind than do the medieval ones of the Waite. Obviously, the accuracy of any form of divination depends upon a variety of factors & keeping a journal is vital to understanding. So that you know what a card or a dream image means to YOU. It’s always personal.

I still totally recall throwing my first and only Thoth deck into a fire as Pluto was about to conjoin my Midheaven. I was too new to astrology to get the Pluto thing but i was sitting squat-legged on shagpile rug in front of a blazing late winter fire doing my tarot and it kept coming up with the same stuff – no matter how i shuffled…The Tower, Death, Nine of Swords…blah blah blah, the shit-fest from hell…I didn’t feel freaked out getting the cards -the vibe in the room was benevolent – i felt relaxed and connected with a good force.

But the cards – i blamed them & chucked the whole lot in the fire, went to get a glass of wine, called a guy to come around and assuage the tension…SO the cards i destroyed were right! The very next week the newspaper i was a journalist on closed down so I was unemployed and in the same day the man i was in love with told me he’d just gotten his ex pregnant as he “owed” her a baby + my flatmates took off, leaving me with what then felt like an insurmountable bill to pay. My point: the cards were right.

This is a point for astro-fiends & wiccan types only but it’s like how in astrology the Koch house system seems to work right down to the minute when it comes to timing transits but be a bit dodgy for natal charts – with Tarot, it’s like the Waite deck is sensational at glomping onto the mood/vibe but Thoth seems to be – like the Koch house system- super accurate if  you’re working with receptive peeps.

Thoth is the Egyptian Mercury-Hermes…BTW

Note: I don’t think ‘theocide’ is a word – what do you call a ‘genocide’ purely against pagans, witches or people you suspect have a belief system different to yours?

Astro-Housewitchery; Thyme

June 25, 2009 in Good Housewitchery by Mystic Medusa | 6 comments

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Thyme is antiseptic, antibiotic & apparently the main ingredient in Listerine. You can make your own really cool mouthwash by bunging Thyme essential oil in some water…Not too much as it is insanely strong. The Ancient Romans & Greeks said it bestowed Courage.

It’s a herb of Mercury & Venus so good for clarity in love. They say that, in dream pillows, it wards off nightmares but I have not tried that yet. Maybe as an adjunct to the mugwort?

It’s Za’atar in Arabic & i think they ground it up with nuts as sort of an aromatic between courses thingie?

It’s obviously a major culinary herb all over the place but what i really like about Thyme is that it is said to attract fairies to your garden. Titania, the Fairy Queen, sleeps on a bed of Wild Thyme. I know it is Thyme not Time but i love the concept of ‘wild time’ too. Also, if you drink Thyme tea, it apparently means you can see fairies all of a sudden. Plus, like sage, it would  help a sore throat.

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Astro-Beauty; Legs & Your Past Lives

June 22, 2009 in Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 25 comments

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Sagittarians, i.m.o. always seem to have the best legs of the Zodiac & infuriatingly effortlessly so. Though maybe it’s because they are so active & stride around the world doing athletic things. Not so effortless after all.

Geminis come 2nd as they tend to be able to keep a kind of gamine thing going on…Librans do well with legs too though that’s more of a diligence a la Pilates, massage & cream.

Virgoans are third-equal tie with Libra by dint of being able to bloody well stick with those no-caffeine-no-wheat-no-diary gorgeous legs reccies.

Legs tips please…I think probably the only thing i ever feel nostalgic about being really super-young is that spontaneously casually slithering into a mini-skirt and strutting out the door sensation. It’s heaven.

Leg tips; It totally hurts but doing the ’stretching out the ilio-tibial muscle on a roller’ seems to iron out dimples on the side of the legs & it’s like a good pain + amazing for suppleness.

I would adore to be convinced otherwise but i think cellulite creams don’t particularly work (?) apart from the aromatherapy oils with ingredients such as juniper & cypress.

Acupuncturists can get rid of little capillary-vein things & their cupping is amazing for “stagnant” qi in the legs. Rolfing, Myo-Fascial massage and other deep tissue stuff are all good…

And – i once read this in a (I think) Denise Linn book – any stubborn fat or cellulite on the thighs is stored anger re relationships in past lives.

O.m.g. So there is a really good batso mugwort-dreaming target for a quiet night. You go into your dreamworld, totally willing to confront and work through past life lovers who gave you the shits & you wake up with smooth thighs.

Yes! I am thinking that processed foods such as pastries are prob also a bit to blame.

Overdoing Artemsia?

June 18, 2009 in Astro-Passages, D.I.Y. Astro, Good Housewitchery, Metaphysical Quirks, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 17 comments

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Holy hell, maybe I am overdoing the Artemesia Vulgaris (Mugwort aka Moxa, see my post on it here) …The psychic insights evoked by my dreams are just SO intense. I mean, useful, for sure. But one wakes up with a w.t.f smirk of bewilderment in the morning, post dreaming.

I seriously lucid-dreamed that i was flying at night over dark green bushland and into a headwind. I was totally trying to make for some lights in the distance where i felt it would be safe to land & not let the winds force me down into this forest in a storm. Even though it was stressy, i was thinking ‘wow, isn’t flying by broomstick SO simple & convenient…’

Yes, On a Broomstick. I hardly ever have lucid flying dreams but they are incredible…How common ARE they? I mean the ones where it feels like you totally are out there, flying about & you have to concentrate when you come swooping to land on a tree or something?  A few years ago, when I had Neptune on my Ascendant, I had then all the time & fantastical visions too. There is nothing so strong as a Neptune transit to hype your dreams, psychic powers and other-worldly awareness.

If you are BORN with Neptune conjoined to the Sun, Moon, personal planet or Ascendent you’ve got a headstart so far as telepathy et al is concerned. You have only to discover your personal gift and not piss it away, lol.

Anyway, my latest lucid dreaming was with just my Mugwort, Lavender & Hops dream pillow – $4 from eBay, awesome bargain here.  Okay and a pinch of mugwort in my mint tea. Anyway, dream pillows are easy to buy online – just get one with organic herbs from someone who seems to love what they are doing.

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Aqua-Moon Transcendence

June 11, 2009 in Moons, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 66 comments

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An Aqua Moonwane applies now & through till early A.M. Sunday in the Southern Hemisphere/Saturday in the Northern World. It’s right this moment conjoining the North Node in Aquarius & then later, Neptune, Chiron & Jupiter. Intense hi-Qi meditation & awareness possibilities – fab for any kind of energy work from acupuncture to Feng Shui, Reiki, Homeopathy…Stupendous for dreaming. I’m going in hardcore with some Mugwort tea to enhance my nocturnal journeyings. Note; never ever do Mugwort if you have been drinking wine or similar substance. You can’t do High & Low Neptune at the same time!

And note that the Moon in Aquarius contacting Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune also sets off the Auspicious Aqua-Weirding which intensifies in July (as a counterpoint to the Eclipse Madness) and climaxes in Feb 2010 as Chiron & Neptune make a relatively rare conjunction. Again, where-ever you have Aquarius in your chart is where you’ve just gotta be ultra-New-Age re everything; it will work beautifully if you can pull if off. And where-ever you have Virgo, you embrace a sort of insane work and details ethic, for best results.

Try-try TRY to do some dream-meditation style trip in the next few days…Epsom salts bath, lavender oil, mugwort or mint tea and a big pad or your Book of Shadows beside the bed to record the lurid/lucid resulting insights & images!

In fact, let’s have a dream comp – Thursday Night, no matter where you are  in the world, is SO powerful for dreamwork…

Casa El Scorp

June 4, 2009 in Astro Gaga by Mystic Medusa | 20 comments

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The other day I got an e-mail with the subject heading “Seduced By A Scorpio” and whilst I cannot divulge details, the gentleman in question (it was a male Scorp) had a house with dark burgundy & red velvet furnishings, Gothic candelabras, massive big porno-arty pics & a waterbed with a control panel. And so I am just wondering – as the Moon is in Scorpio & Mars trine Pluto – the ruler of Scorpio – if all Scorpios have such gloriously astro-cliched decor???

My friend the Scorpio Sex Academic doesn’t although her house is right next to a renowned coffee shop AND a Chinese massage place so it reeks (pleasantly) of coffee & mugwort. But super-intense. I went to the house of a male Scorp yonks ago and he actually did have parchment that was scribbled on with Kabbalah stuff, taxidermy (yick) and conspiracy books. Plus a sort of Slacker-Goth decor. Casa El Scorp but never cleaned.

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.

Astro-Weirding Alert

May 11, 2009 in Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 10 comments

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Scheduled in my diary for next weekend: Kickboxing class, Relationship Exorcist, Kundalini Yoga, Buy mugwort seedlings.

The Relationship Exorcist was recommended by my Piscean Actress friend. She doesn’t have any contact details. I am to walk up the main street of Leichhardt (the Italian quarter of Sydney) and look to the lefthand side. The Relationship Exorcist is named Caterina and she may or may not have a pink sign. Apparently she is very good.

The Kundalini  Yoga freaks me as everyone I know who has been doing it has visions & major releases/insights. Jung thought it too powerful & that it could send some people completely cuckoo. So next week I may be chanelling well-intended but hard-to-decipher alternative dimension gibberish for you. Or writing in Sanskrit as the only lingo pure enough for my wide-open chakras.

Until May 22 – when the Sun skips into Gemini & the Auspicious Aqua-Weirding (Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron in tight orb together) begins – there are shitloads of fixed squares. Fixed squares are tricky to deal with – lots of tension but it seems harder to resolve than the more action producing mutable & cardinal squares. Truculence & power-tripping is rife + they seem to trigger already angry/resentful people. It’s only a few days but just be aware of it…Stay safe & of the light. Try to dance around/ glide away from control dramas or at least be aware when they’re going on. Take the haute road.

I did an extended rave re this in the Daily Mystic but you work this astro-vibe best by using it to make powerful internal shifts of attitude yourself & think Dignity/Resilience.

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