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The Scented Salamander

November 24, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 45 comments

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Opium was MASSIVE in the 80s. To me, it’s practically like the scent of the Eighties. Every sophisticated but slightly batso older woman i knew in that decade seemed to favour it. It’s distinct.

So now, here we go with the relaunch & it is a la the D & G Tarot Fragrances in that Y.S.L. is giving the juice an Occult spin.  I mean, the “scented salamander?” Would love to know the thinking behind this. Is it is emphasise the mystical, Oriental style as opposed to something linked to smack?

Mythologically, the Salamander is fabulous, in the real sense of the word. Reputedly a powerful poisonous creature, it’s colder than ice and thus immune to fire. So it’s a bit like a less noble Phoenix and most often depicted as perfectly happy, basking amidst flames. Some ancient pics of Adam and Eve have a Salamander,  not the Snake/Lilith tempting Eve with the apple.

So a Scented Salamander translated into being a woman would be cold & icy of persona but happiest in dramatic surroundings, poisonous and cool…? Okay, she’s a redhead so there is another Fire reference and what is she doing with the bottle. It looks like she’s about to chuck it at someone.

See Also: Matthew McConaughey’s perfume ad.

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The Republic Of Plutonia

September 8, 2009 in Astro-Fiends, Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 56 comments

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PLUTO IS STATIONING DIRECT! AND TURNING DIRECT AT THE SAME POINT IT/HE WAS AT IN FEB 2008…SO EXPECT TO GROK SOME SORT OF SUBTLE OMEN RE CHANGES THAT BEGAN THEN OR A FLASHPOINT RE SUCH…

“If you are feeling unstable, freaked out or extra nuts, Pluto is probably acting on you. If you are also feeling excited, passionate or like change is imminent and that is beautiful, then you are probably acting on it. As Steve Forrest says of Pluto in his excellent work, The Book of Pluto, we can take the high or low roads, and both are usually available. It is possible to seize new energy and new opportunities, or be reduced to bitterness and a sense of failure by refusing to embrace the moment. “The high road is always there, but will we travel it?”
“How can we live kindly and gracefully while sitting on the hormonal powder keg?” he asks. “It boils down to one fundamental theme: truthfulness beats goodness. Wholeness in oneself is a greater virtue, and a more stable one, than all the conventional expressions of saintliness rolled up into one glorious greeting card.”

Eric Francis, also quoting Steve Forrest, on Pluto transits. This is one of my all-time fave succinct Pluto rants.

HOW to tell if you are having a Pluto transit?

You will be suffused with yearning etc & a new sensation of being ‘alive’ yet also mentally tormented and stressed by coping with all the changes in your life…many astrologers liken a Pluto transit to being ‘cooked’ so that the flavours emerge.

BUT IN THE NEXT WEEK  OR SO, AS PLUTO STATIONS, EVERYONE FEELS IT – SOME MORE THAN OTHERS, RAVENS COMING HOME TO ROOST & ALL…

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Great, huh?

You will basically go insane but everyone will keep telling you how great you look.

If you think you might be having a Pluto transit, keep going (!) and maybe consult an astrologer.

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Alchemical

August 26, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 9 comments

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“Magic rites, primitive civilizations, alchemy, the language of flowers, fire, or sleepless nights, are so many stages on the way to unity and the philosophers’ stone.”  Albert Camus


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Dark-New Moonie

June 22, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Moons, New Moons, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 15 comments

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As youse all know, t’is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Or even the Dark Moon. Up until the New Moon, this is your chance to do some practical alchemy – turn merde moods into useful sombre reflection. But don’t be disheartened. If you try to do too much during the Dark Moon, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or less than capable…

Disclaimer; i do a great job preaching all the Zen-Sloth stuff but i’ve currently got Mars in Taurus trining my Mars in Virgo which already has Saturn sitting on it. Yick. I feel guilty, like a horrid slacker if i stop work and get to bed before 1am at the moment. However, it IS ideal…

This New Moon is conjunct Vesta - go the Sacred Flame!  – and opposite Pluto…As is the Sun a few hours after the New Moon, thus extending out the whole shebang. As I always think of the Phoenix whenever Pluto is anywhere NEAR a New Moon & Vesta is the hearth/fire goddess/sacred flame et al, this really does have a vibe to it of having to burn up what is by now ravingly obviously not in your best interests…so as to free up Qi/energy/focus for what IS.

And Zero Degrees of Cancer/Kataka & Capricorn squares the ultra-powerful Aries Point – yet another omen of beginning anew AND it’s just the start of Eclipse Season. What’s not to like??? Cherchez Le Grip & get ready to ditch the Tolerations.

A Blessing Of Unicorns

June 16, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 18 comments

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Beloved in Pagan & Christian mythology alike, the Unicorn classically is a beautiful & mysterious loner. The collective noun for a group of Unicorns is “a blessing.” A blessing of Unicorns sounds absolutely divine, especially when you compare it to – say – the collective noun for a group of Cranes or Herons: A “skulk.”

It is one of the four Sacred Creatures of the Ancient Chinese, along with the Dragon, Phoenix and Tortoise. Unicorns are sometimes linked to the Moon and thus to the Moon-Huntress Goddesses Artemis & Diana. They are said to be particularly protective of young girls and to only be able to be “tamed” by the pure of heart. Their horns were often attributed with the power of being able to antidote any poison in the whole world.

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Pimp My Dream…

May 11, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 54 comments

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I had the best & most amazing dream!

It was that I could hear this scuffling in the ceiling & opened a previously unseen trapdoor thing – in some trepidation, expecting something vile to skitter out – and it was this gorgeous red fox with big green eyes & he could talk to me!  I can’t recall the details of the conversation except that this was an exceptionally benevolent & astute foxly presence & he (it was a he) said he had come from “the boat”.

Any interps so welcome!  And, i hadn’t been thinking of foxes & normally i don’t really have a fox thing. My most profound animal totem style dreams have usually involved ravens, phoenixes & lionesses.  BTW – as I think i have said – normal communication may be bats and/or infested with control dramas in the next 12 days but dream messaging works just fine. Way more lucid/lurid than usual.

UPDATE; THE COLLECTIVE NOUN FOR A GROUP OF FOXES IS ‘SKULK’ – A SKULK OF FOXES! SO COOL!

Apres The Scorping…

May 10, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Full Moons by Mystic Medusa | 47 comments

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DUDES THIS IS ME!  After the Full Moon in Scorpio.  Okay, it’s not but I feel like the Scorpion-Phoenix thingie is sure inked on somewhere, only invisibly.

I think i deserve an award for so authentically manifesting that Full Moon in Scorpio…It’s always a goodie but i did this one like an astrological textbook. Scorpio energy is sex, death, the occult & areas of life that are super-powerful but usually kept hidden. It’s also endings, beginnings & the metaphysical idea of Phoenixing & that death is but a night between two days. And it’s the guts to not only survive a hideous little something, but thrive. Many a mystery.

So my Friday afternoon (eve of the Full Moon, last night before it was actually exact) starts out tres innocently. Going to see the Piscean Beauty Fanatic before meeting the Leo-Rising-Rugger-Stud for dinner…Only HE had infuriated me earlier in the week by rocking up sans notice & when i trying to analyze someone’s Uranian transits & basically putting it upon me. Not until the Full Moon in Scorp did i realise how angry i was about it. THAT is so Scorp & Pluto…When you are sitting there having a manicure or something and suddenly it’s like ’shit, that was wrong & I’m right’ kinda feeling.

Anyway, the taxi driver I got was an Aries and SO angry that I had to ask the Piscean Beauty Fanatic for Emergency Reiki. Luckily, she is very good it and she whacked in some other stuff as well. Deep witchery & re-aligning the subtle etheric bodies sort of thing. So feeling heaps better we then discuss Scorp subjects – not on purpose. We just suddenly realised that we were talking about terminations, prostitution & hymen restoration. As she’d gone to the hairdresser that day and suddenly realising that the teenage apprentice doing her hair was hitting on her for validation & guilt release over an operation she just had. Then this poor girl started asking about hymen restoration operations and/or opportunities to ‘work’. So…a very Scorpy chat from that.

As I was saying bye to the Piscean Beauty Fanatic, I start getting urgent texts from Leo-Rising-Rugger-Stud to the tune of “where are you?” and strident question marks…Each time i try to call him, he engaged calling me. So I finally get hold of him & it’s part Retro-Mercury/part him being a prick as in he hadn’t listened when i said that i would not be at my house at whatever time. Then i said well, I am going to meet the Scorpio Sex Academic as she just bk from Bali & has interesting tales to tell – come along or i can meet you in an hour. He hit the roof & sulked bigtime, so it ended.

Then I met the Scorpio Sex Academic &  i told her about the Leo-Rising-Rugger-Stud & she airily referred to it as an “uncluttering” but then said what about the Uranian – my other Aquarian? I said that I’d made a scene at the gym as he talking to some floozie that he may have (?) been seeing last year when i was seeing just him but that a bonkers blind date had sent me stampeding bk into the arms of the Uranian. It turns out that Scorpio Sex Academic KNEW of the Floozie & was able to text a Virgo Sexual Assualt Counsellor friend who knew EVERYTHING I would ever need to know AND was lovely AND she arrived in 15 minutes to brief me. How often do you get the info you need so quickly & with such heavenly synchronicity? And then of course the conversation dived real deep. The Scorpio Sex Academic had done ten days of Kundalini Yoga in a row so was (a) chanelling and (b) longing for several litres of chardonnay.

Sitting at this bar with the Full Moon shining down being briefed by my spy made me feel like Lucretia Borgia – it was excellent but the whole thing felt super crisp, clear & lucid. It was a combination of intrigue, confessional deep dialogue, dramatic endings & the metaphysical end of spirituality where it’s all about qi & energy.

My question; Is this how Scorpios exist ALL the time? And did anyone else have a similar Full Moon in Scorp?  Oh and I dumped the Uranian too. And ended the evening talking to a 55 year old punk-rocker and his Goth son. My phone broke so could not text the U – which is a lovely little blessing from Merc Retro…

UPDATE: AND – i forgot to mention another Scorp theme of that night – the eve of the Full Moon – We ran into an Aries Hypnotherapist acquaintance of mine who was about to meet her RSVP date for the night, a Gemini psychologist. So this poor guy arrives to find his blind date totally crashed by a bunch of women in deep convo mode.

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I Want A Pavo

May 7, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Full Moons, Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 50 comments

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Am fending off two urges that are very much of the Full Moon in Scorp/Retro-Mercury ilk. Urge One; To contact The Uranian & lecture-rant or send a snippy text. This is not good timing wise nor sense-wise. Everyone knows that men – especially Aqua men – respond best to No Contact. ie; one being off-planet or even actively disdainful.

Urge Two is even worse. I have been googling peacocks as pets. Apparently i could buy a young peacock for just $75 + delivery and some vet costs etc. But their loud mating cry is said to be a deterrent for urban areas. Honestly i doubt that my peacock’s loud mating cry would be as loud as that of the stoned yobs who conduct their mating ritual on the street outside my house.

Peacocks are amazing. It’s crap that their feathers bring bad luck though i would only have a feather in my house if i FOUND it. Of any bird. The peacock is like a Phoenix in its mythology. Bird of Hera/Juno, the Queen of Heaven and also associated with Isis + the Buddhist star goddess Tara. “The pride of the peacock is the glory of God,” wrote William Blake.  The peacock used to symbolise luxury, beauty and immortality. It was a puritan idea to twist that into pride & arrogance.

Far from being up itself, the peacock is actually endearingly modest & eccentric. It’s Latin name is “pavo” from the Sanskrit “pavana” which means purity. Peacocks hate gold – it’s like garlic is to vampires – and they are terribly restless right before it rains. Probably because of what it would do to those glorious feathers. They have an ability to consume poison and be completely unaffected by it. In fact, they prefer it. Their favourite food – I read – is Himalayan Wolfsbane and they are said to hate their legs as they are not nearly so beautiful as the rest of them. Some peacocks peck at their own legs in disgust.

O.m.g I STILL want a pet Peacock and I STILL want to call the stupid U. Am going to do obsessive Scorpionic style cleaning jag to stir Qi…

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How To Scorp

March 15, 2009 in Moons by Mystic Medusa | 27 comments

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The Scorpio Moon is fantastique if you use it to Phoenix yourself, raise Qi & enjoy a bit of intrigue or scheming. Passion too. You can stir up some of that Plutonic primordial strength. But you’re not Scorping properly should you find yourself writing shit-lists of your enemies, cyber-stalking & sending off snarky texts to mark the first leg of your power-trip. Enjoy feeling strong. Relish your secrets, sins & mystery.