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Surrealist Angel – Salvador Dali
“The Angel is that which unceasingly passes through the envelope or containers, goes from one side to the other, reworking every deadline, changing every decision, thwarting all repetition…” Luce Irigaray Angels Of Anarchy, Women & Surrealism
Sometimes I think that the Chiron-Neptune Conjunction – exact in Feb – flirted with at the moment via Jupiter connecting Chiron and then Neptune – could be just all about the intellectual acceptance of the Feminine Divine.
Mia is a 23 year old pop-surrealist based in L.A. I love her work so was not at all surprised to find she’s being avidly collected and is considered majorly cool.
MYSTIC: Your work resonated with me instantly as it has all these astonishing themes that I love, such as astrology, alchemy, myth, surrealism and so on – yet it is also so beautiful and evocative to look at. How did you hit upon such a unique style?
MIA: It’s a mystery even to me! I’ve recently gotten into tarot and in turn astrology, alchemy, and hermeticism, so I’ve come to learn a bit about myself as someone who tends to mythologize everything and wants to infuse everything with magic. I have an intense love for all of these things and for history, oftentimes feeling that I belong in a different era. I’m also surprised about how aquatic all of my work tends to be, whether there are water themes in it or not.
MYSTIC: You are a quadruple Cancerian and Cancer (I prefer to call it Kataka which is the Ancient Sanskrit name for the sign, it means Scarab) is the sign most linked with artists. An unusual number of renowned artists are born under your sign. You have Sun, Moon, the Vertex and Psyche in this sign. Did you feel you were an artist from a v.early age?
MIA: I’ve been drawing ever since I could hold a crayon, and as soon as I learned to read and write, I became interested in writing. So my answer to the ‘what do you want to be when you grow up’ question was always ‘an artist.’ I still want to be one when I grow up. 
MYSTIC: Saturn is just finishing up a tour of duty in your career sector – it began back in late Sept 2007- would you say the time between then and now has coincided with a phase of intense hard work but recognition and growth as well?
MIA: Yes, absolutely. Sept. 2007 is around the time that I began working on my first 2 featured shows that led to wider opportunities, and in turn my current bout of relative success and recognition.
MYSTIC: You have Sappho and Neptune in your $$$ sector, so apt for someone who makes her living via art but Mars is there too, in Capricorn. So that is like a fierce businesswoman vibe – would you agree? Also, Sappho is writing and Neptune is art, so clearly you are also a gifted writer…They say she is the Tenth Muse…
MIA: I’m really big on self-promotion and getting my work out there. I’m also deeply interested in learning as much as I can about business, probably because I’m so bad at it. I’m equally interested in writing and art. Even though I don’t write professionally, I tend to fill more journals than sketchbooks, so it balances out in importance. I hope to someday make a living off of both, preferably together (as in children’s books, or illustrated fantastical stories for older audiences).
MYSTIC: How do you prefer to work? Is it spontaneous, sort of channeled or do you plan your artworks carefully? And do you do much research into the symbols that you use? Do you paint in great big binges or short bursts?
MIA: I need to do a detailed drawing before I paint, but the drawing is created purely spontaneously, aided with photo reference. I paint in long stretches, and I surface-research my symbols, because of time constraints, so most of my symbols make their way into a piece via spontaneity.
MYSTIC: You’ve got Jupiter in the home sector, lucky in real estate and domestic matters…How do you live? What is your domestic style?
MIA: I live with my parents and sister– I’m extremely lucky to have a loving family that is willing to support me financially, because I’m a bit of a hermit, and prefer to stay at home rather than go out. My studio is also at home and I love it.
MYSTIC: Your works seem supernaturally sagacious for someone so young – 23-and it is clearly selling heaps so you’re commercially successful too… I was quite surprised when you told me your birthdate…are you conscious of that at all?
MIA: I’m not usually conscious of that, even though you’re not the first person to tell me…probably because I’m my worst critic and am very self-demanding. I feel that I know so little in comparison to all that’s out there, and that I’ve got a lot to learn. But I guess that’s what most people feel like when they’re at the start of a career. 
Does Marilyn Monroe ever go away? She is my prime example of the enduring allure & mystique of Neptunians. As in, she had Neptune Rising in Leo.
And now, of course, she’s back again. This time in a home movie of her apparently smoking pot or whatever.
Neptune RULES film, glamour and the collective public consciousness. Peeps who have a prominent Neptune are v.good at tapping into that. It’s also an astro-indicator that you should lay off the hooch. There are addictive tendencies in there with the glamour & mystique. .
I have not thought of Monroe in ages but naturally i went through that teenage phase of being obsessed with her. I read all her biographies, from the reverential Gloria Steinem one to Norman Mailer’s “factoidal” work & all those things about scandals, Kennedies etc. It’s bimbonic but my knowledge of 60s politics and culture comes entirely from reading Marilyn bios.
If she had lived on, she would have been about to have her Uranus Return now!
She was Sun + Mercury in Gemini (wits!) with Neptune in Leo Rising – like i said, Moon-Jupiter in Aquarius, Mars-Uranus in Pisces and PLUTO conjunct the North Node in Kataka/12th House. Pluto-North Node is powerful destiny & i don’t think what happened to her in the end was her fate. Although you could argue that the 12th house has themes of self-destruction/oblivion. I think she could also have become someone else.
Hmm. This is interesting. I just realized that Princess Diana also had Pluto conjunct North Node. There is a Pluto-North Node conjunction happening later this year but they’re not so common you know.
Neptune is nearly Direct & for the next few days this means Neptune RULES: You could be drunk all the time but in kind of a happy, nebulous, creative and Neptunian way. Drunk writing poetry as opposed to drunk sending shitty texts to your ex or google-stalking or watching crap tv.
Dreams will be SO intense & lucid. I am sure you are all sick of me carrying on and ON about this but i am convinced – still – that keeping a dream diary is the most cost-effective and amazing form of psychic awareness possible. And that the more you consciously try to work with dreams, the more they communicate with you. Did I tell you my incredible Bast dream already?
Neptune energy may also be a bit vague so take care & realise that you may be super-sensitive & it’s Okay…Moon in Gemini, Saturn in Libra square Pluto makes for an interesting backdrop. I am going to do an extended Saturn-Pluto rant in the Daily Mystic for subscribers…
Sooo, an ex-lover of baseball champion Alex Rodriguez (A.k.a. A-Rod and the gentleman linked to Madonna for a bit) has come forth and told the NY Daily News that “his vanity is of mythic proportions.”
My god, the gentleman is a LEO and an wealthy, sports superstar Leo at that. I mean, what’s not to indulge there. But the Ex then claims that the gigantic pics of himself above the athlete’s bed are of him as a Centaur.
That’s interesting. It makes me think that someone has done his chart and that he’s got Saggo Rising & thus he’s sort of working that. Because, some astrologers WOULD say that. I mean, to work the Sagittarius Rising angle, for extra luck. No birthtime online for him but he’s got Neptune in Saggo at 9 degrees. Saggo Rising would fit as he is (a) obviously into sports and (b) he has a certain goo-goo eyed Neptunian charisma along with the Leonic stuff.
Or maybe he does not give a damn for his astro and he’s just really, really into Centaurs?
Or perhaps the ex-lover was a bit dim and the mythological creatures that A-Rod had himself painted into as gigantic portraits hanging above the bed (I would never do that but so totally admire the chutzpah) were something else…like Minotaurs? He has got Mars in Taurus.
Never mind Saturn…Well, it never pays to set Saturnine reality TOO aside but think about this!!!!
Neptune is in total slo-mo, prepping to turn Direct next week. Now and the next seven days feature super-lucid-dream-imagery and messaging. Are your dreams just a neural dump? Shift your bed, clean under it, smudge, change bed direction…do something. And let this post be where we interpret our dreams! Some of you are damn good at it! I still remember how wowed i was with your interps on Pimp My Dream! I’ll bung my latest extravaganza in the comments stream later.
But,please, keep a pad or a dream diary beside your place of sleep. Neptune Direct may space out everyday life a bit (not so much as usual with Saturn all spruced up in a new sign and EXALTED!) but the Neptunian weirding really comes into its own during one’s REM. Neptunian types are more psychic too…
Downside? The Usual Lower Neptunian issues; drugs, grifting, no boundaries, mad sensitivity to even normal drugs such as coffee, dental gas, self-pitying martyr act.
“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.”
Socrates
Dark Mooned out??? It is SUCH a powerful fresh start vibe on the weekend; Mars Into Leo for over eight months and a Neptune enhanced New Moon in Libra…That alone makes the Dark Moon more of a drag AND more empowering if you go with it. Think also this: Saturn is tromping over the last degrees of Virgo…
Yes, he comes back and goes over these last few degrees again next year but it will be a repeat. So admin hell is a hint to make deeper shifts in your systems & life arrangements – go with that. And a phase that began late Sept 2007 is now coming to an end. In just 16 days: Saturn in Libra!!!
Will post later on about Neptunian New Moon enhancements…
So this was how I felt when I woke up this morning. I didn’t get distinct answers to my questions but the dreams certainly intensified. And there is probably an answer there if i think more about it. My Snake Guide seems to be quite cryptic. I think also that the practice of writing a question before bed is an aid to the subliminal mind and it directs your dreams??? How did you guys go? It’s another big dreaming night tonight so I’m giving it a go again.
And, btw, I am busy doing scopes but Holy Aphrodite! The weeks from October 10 onward are so astro-packed. Until then, my little diary i create for each year with all the aspects etc, has whole pages that are practically blank. Oct 10 and through to Saturn going into Libra: Full On. For example, in the week starting October 10, Venus opposes Uranus, quincunxes Neptune, trines the North Node, conjoins Saturn, sextiles Mars and squares Pluto. That’s a LOT of Venusian activity. It’s heaps!
The Moon loves to be in the sign of Cancer, sign of her rulership…Despite all the Full Moonie merde the next few days one can be productively emo, sooky goo-goo with loved ones/loyal confidantes and deeply aware. Think also herbal Zen Hippy as way to cope with the intensifying of the Saturn-Uranus opposition. Actually, i just thought of this; the combo of Mars conjunct Neptune and the Cancerian Moon and Venus going retrograde etc make this the ideal weekend to practice Haute Meditation…Yes.
Download something haute-hippy and Zen Noire from Sequoia & see how far you can ramp up your meditation et al. Saggos will naturally astral travel the furtherest whilst Leos will be upgraded to connecting with a supreme being the most quickly, because the SB feels Leo can relate to the vagaries of Supreme Beinghood. The Cancerian Moon is also always heaven for sharing fave fairy tales and myths with children…
Moonflower (or how the Moonhorses came to Japan)…is the sweetest little fairy tale…
“Hundreds of years before the Europeans developed rubber, the Aztecs mixed the juice of moonflower with tree latex to produce an elastic they made into rubber bands, hammers, and balls for a ritual game. A relative of the morning glory, moonflowert has its cousin’s heart-shaped leaves and vining habit, but instead of greeting the Sun, like the morning glory does, the flowers of this Moon plant open in late afternoon and stay open for one night, which makes them wonderful in Moon gardens. They are pollinated by moths drawn to their scent, which humans can smell too, if they have the genes for it (not everyone can perceive the scent of some white flowers). The presence of moths in turn can attract bats, Hekate’s friends. Try inhaling the scent of moonflowers before doing divination or before going to bed in order to produce prophetic dreams…” From here…
Fascinating re how some peeps don’t have the genes to smell some white flowers??? But i would be wary re even copping a whiff of Moonflower now, having read this…from here
“…Highly toxic! WARNING! These are some of the names for Datura: Jimson Weed, Moonflower, Devil’s Weed, Hell’s Bells. Devil’s Cucumber, Thorn-Apple, Devil’s Trumpet, Pricklyburr…”
Does anyone know about this stuff??
It would be so anti-Saturn-in-Virgo/Pluto in Cap to addle one’s brains sniffing Moonflower scent in the garden under the nearly-Full Cancerian Moon…BUT then again, you can buy Moonflower body wash (?!) on Amazon…“…Used as a psychedelic in nordic traditions, the moonflower helps you find refuge. It is a blue escape, in the cold clear waters. with notes of boronia, freesia, apple blossom and birch, moonflower lit in the background will cause a welcome moment of recluse….”
But I am serious about the meditation though; most amazing weekend for it in yonks & may even help with the retro-Venus romantic nostalgia, if it strikes.
And another ancient Moon myth; the Babylon Moon God – Sin.
The Dream – Henri Rousseau 1910
It’s Dark Moon Dreaming night…In the hours before the New Moon in Pisces, the Moon is still near Neptune -ruler 0f dreams…And Pisceans. Precognition too. This is such a powerful dreaming Moon, you can do lots of psych-work even whilst your cells renew themselves and fresh synapses sprout in your lovely brain. Slather on some moisturising gunk, drink some mint tea, whack some lavender on your sheets & happy astral travels. Ensure you have notepaper by the bed to capture your incredible nocturnal insights.
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