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Astro Query: How Stubborn Are Taureans, Truly?

August 19, 2009 in Astro-Query by Mystic Medusa | 45 comments

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Oh there are many fine things about Our Cow and just the other day i was pontificating about their sacred nature and all but let’s admit they are also truculent as hell – seriously incapable of grasping a nuance if it strips off and pole dances in front of them. Taureans like to do things properly – that is THEIR way & in slo-mo lest the awful discovery that someone else might know more de-man them or cast doubt on the Taurean METHOD or system. And yes i said ‘de-man’ because i think Taurus men ARE trickier than the ladies. I think it has to do with Taurus being ruled by Venus…But why should this make them so pompous??? So stuff-oriented…? Or have I just been jaded by contact with a few low-dude Taureans???

The Paper Clip: A Taurean Invention?

July 29, 2009 in Astro-Cliches, Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 13 comments

33585Yonks ago i was shopping for stationery with Not-The-Typical-Virgo and she baulked at the coloured paper clips. Only the classic variety – featured above – would fit her paperclip paradigm. There was something suss about the coloured ones or (snobby shudder) the ‘novelty’ shaped ones. The jumbos? Not appropriate. If a larger paper clip was seemingly required then it was time to move up to a bull-clip or other more suitable solution.

So, thinking of that, i wanted to go looking to see if a Virgo invented the Paper Clip. It would seem likely. But no, it was most likely a Taurean by the name of Herbert Spencer and he also coined the term “survival of the fittest.”

BTW,  it is Geminis who are most likely to twist paper clips into neurotic little wire sculptures and yet not bother to use them for their intended purpose.

See also: Virgoan Stapler Fetish

Astro-Query; Your Dream Voice?

July 24, 2009 in Astro-Query by Mystic Medusa | 31 comments

This Donald Duck clip is SO poignant, truly.

Am not going to name any particular signs here, but I am wondering if there is a particular Sun Sign – or Mercury sign, for clever-clogs – that is more prone to getting elocution lessons, trying to move beyond the natural accent of their background, bung on a totally different voice or try to speak more proper, like. That was ironic crap grammar.

Geminis & Aquarians have a shocking propensity to automatically mimic whatever accent is around them. Around rah-rah types, they’ll ponce it up to become braying horray Henry/Henriettas and at the local Indian, they’ll suddenly sound authentically Bombay born-and-bred. Libra & Capricorn are usually credited with the social climbing evolution of accent whilst I have watched female Pisceans be crapping onto their friends in a high-pitched rave and suddenly switch into sexy breathy goo-goo all-purpose come hithery tones upon the  arrival of a potential ‘mate.’  Taureans – I think – have beautiful voices & tend to be the most melodious speakers…

Thoughts???

Bernie Madoff – Tres Taurean?

July 22, 2009 in Astro-Cliches, Celeb Fluffery by Mystic Medusa | 24 comments

lgbrz06animal1323Please don’t take offence if you are one of the many Taureans whose avarice and mendacity has not rendered thousands of people suddenly broke and all. But even though I did the Astrology Of Bernie Madoff a while ago, there is more. He’s SO Taurean. I was reading a thing about him in July Tatler mag and they’d gotten hold of his former P.A.

These are some of the tres Taurean traits that emerged…

…He had an obsessive vision re interior decor. It was all to be black and white with absolutely no colour. (This makes me think of how Hitler wanted to have abstract artists sterilized and that was even before he got cracking on the rest of it). Madoff’s staff had to constantly use tape measures to ensure that all the desks were the same height & the pictures an absolutely even distance apart. They were also given black marker pens to do touch-ups between paint jobs on the black skirting boards…

His P.A never once saw him studying any documents, using a computer or a mobile phone. Yet he had cameras installed to monitor the conduct of his staff when he was not there. He always ate precisely the same thing every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.   All of his properties were full of sculptures and BULL pictures. When he was a child, his brothers used to wind him up terribly by mixing up his sock drawer…

Tree-Hugging With The Taurus Moon

July 16, 2009 in Astro-Beauty, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 40 comments

anonymous-cow-grazing-1054655Holy Aphrodite! It’s the Taurus Moon and THAT time of the month. I am totally grazing and it ain’t grass.  Still, the Taurus Moon, other than increasing all of our appetites is so Sensual & Grounded, the ideal opportunity to earth oneself. Seriously, get near some ground, lie on the lawn, do some gardening, go a bit herbal…this is your tranquility zone before the Eclipse. The Gemini Moon kicks in for the weekend & Saturday has an insane amount of aspects.

It may be my Ceres transit (it and Saturn are opposing my Chiron) but i am going ape about toxic showercurtains and poisonous nail varnish. I got a new shower curtain & just freaked at the smell.

Yet a damp hemp thing hanging in the bathroom would fuq my Feng Shui for sure. And I saw the podiatrist the other day – a plain spoken Aries lady – and she said something akin to ‘wear toenail polish for a special occasion if you are wearing open-toed shoes and take it off the moment you get home.’

I have The Uranian lurking around again & so if i get home in open-toed shoes etc etc, there is no way i am going to be skulking in the bathroom inhaling also-toxic nail varnish remover removing it the moment I get home. I thought the whole point was that you get to wiggle red toes attractively in your sheets etc.  There is simply no such thing as an organic nail polish – it’s basically car paint for people. Alternatives; hippy henna or haute hippy neem oiled and buffed by podiatrist. Nail salons these days are as common as McDonalds. Maybe it’s a saturation thing. But is there a non-poisonous shower curtain anyone knows about?

And anyway, the Taurean Moon is always truly fabulous for Tree-Hugging…Let’s do it.

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The High Priestess

July 10, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 65 comments

trump_02_thepriestessThe High Priestess in the Thoth Deck

In a Tarot reading, the High Priestess popping up means there is a secret, a mystery behind the query and/or a karmic situation that you cannot understand yet. It can mean that something clandestine is about to emerge. Of course there are way more esoteric interps for the High Priestess. I am tres simple with my Tarot readings. But it’s always bliss to see  her. It may also be a sign to be comfortable not knowing the meaning or outcome of a scenario but trusting that there is a cosmic intent behind it.

If you see The Empress as the sensual aspect of the Feminine Divine, then the High Priestess is her more mystical aspect. A.k.a La Papesse, the Lady Pope…this links her to the fascinating myth (?) of Pope Joan. In the classic Waite pic of her, below, there are pomegranates which link her to Persephone & the headgear a la the Egyptian Isis.

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There is a statue of her in a Welsh village called Portmeirion

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And even though he’s apparently gone bust,  Christian Lacroix managed to send a homage to her down the runway the other day; Nice as, actually, he is a Taurus & this is the astro correspondence most oft linked with the High Priestess.

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Astro-Beauty: Raw Food & Polyphasics

July 7, 2009 in Astro-Beauty, Astro-Cliches, Astro-Fitness by Mystic Medusa | 29 comments

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Despite the Eclipse, my friend Aqua-Girl is loving her Polyphasic Sleep Cycling.  Appropriately, for a Full Moon in Capricorn, she says sleeping just a few hours a day has made her way more productive but with a few unexpected side effects.

(1) She only likes Raw Food now. (2) She has become obsessed with make-up in a way that she has never experienced in her life before. In one week of raw foods and polyphasic sleep cycling, she is like a devotee of extreme cosmetics, avidly seeking the advice of cosmetics professionals & trying on complicated but genius LOOKS.

Re the Raw Food thing – whenever i try it, i HATE it as I have genetics (German) that predispose me to potatoes & bread but i LOOK amazing on it. It’s unreal and a scene unto itself. Just like polyphasic sleep cycling.I got a raw food cookbook once that enslaved me with its evolutionary zeal and claims until i realised that to make half the stuff in there, i needed some sort of $1000 magic zilcher thing.

Raw Food does seem very Aqua & though it has been around since the 1930s – at least – when a Taurean nutritionist named Gaylord Hauser had Hollywood stars in thrall to  his eating, exercise & skincare regimes. Okay, so my theory is that Aquarius/11th House/Uranian types are way more likely to experiment with their food & sleep cycles. My Aquarius father was constantly tinkering with time and nutritional concepts.

Next to Aquarius would be Scorpio? Scorps are big into the macrobiotic, Tantric and kundalini end of things, which they then compensate with the occasional Neptunian binge-up of low-Qi toxins. And then, I think, Virgo. They’re not so bats or free-form as Aquarius or Aqua Types though. Virgo will pick one dictate – one nutritional school and follow it for a bit. Whereas Aqua alters the thing according to whim. Scorp wins for sheer bravery – nobody out-does Scorp at purgings, detoxings & committment.

Gemini + Sagg will eat weird & ethnic food but A.D.D. doesn’t allow for strange regimes. Aries thinks they’re inane. Taureans, Leo & Cancerians are too gourmet to give anything up. Librans & Pisceans will go on a regime for the sake of love or beauty but their heart is  not really in it & they’re far more likely to be devoted to some skin-care ritual though they DO become vitamin-addicts IF there is an anti-aging or sex angle.

Your thoughts?

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Mars-Venusian Weekend

June 19, 2009 in Astro-Passages, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 55 comments

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Have a FUN Mars-Venusian style kinda weekend, what with the conjunction enlivening the Dark Moon in Taurus & all….

I am popping up the road to see a Moon-in-Scorpio Rising client of mine, Abbe May,  perform. This clip below is Eclipse themed, given that the Solar Eclipse on July 22 (the longest and most intense in yonks) is bang on her Cancerian Sun. Again, 29 degrees of Cancer/Kataka is the bit of your chart to be looking at with a major fresh start in mind…Plan to revolutionise there…

Maya, Venus & Mars

June 15, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 21 comments

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“Now the Indian term for ‘illusion’, maya -from the verbal root ma, ‘to measure out, to form, to create, construct, exhibit or display’ – refers to both the power that creates an illusion and the false display itself.

The art of a magician, for example, is maya; so too the illusion he creates. The arts of the military strategist, the merchant, actor and thief: these also are maya. Maya is experienced as fascination, charm, specifically, feminine charm. And to this point there is a Buddhist saying: “Of all the forms of maya, that of woman is supreme.” ”

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Especially when Venus in the sign of her Dignity – Taurus – meets Mars in his Detriment. Ie: Mars is a co-ruler of Scorpio and so in the opposite sign to Scorp he not so well placed. But Venus a.k.a. the feminine force is powerful. Big seduction weekend if you’re up for it.  Arty too. Major primal lust-for-life force & super hi-Qi despite the Dark Moon.

Mars El Toro

June 2, 2009 in Astro In Books, Astro-Passages, Planets by Mystic Medusa | 21 comments

7569Damien Hirst – The Golden Calf

You know what…? In July – just in time for Eclipse Season – Mars in Taurus will square Jupiter, Chiron & Neptune. And that is when you will be happy that you worked like a dogged bull (lol) in June & got everything lined up. Mars in Taurus is a worker. You plod away, pulling the plough and employing stamina along with the magical thinking. More on this in the Nightly Scopes & Daily Mystic but essentially, don’t waste your powers of truculence resisting change or in pointless disputes. Use them to never-ever-give in. But if you’re some tight-lipped stoic grimly battling on to be the last person chez neighourhood to uphold some (do admit) had-it status quo, you’ll loathe the next few months.

Whichever area/sector/house of your chart has Taurus is where you’re grounded, sensual and beautiful but also capable of being SUCH A STUBBORN SOD & heaven help anyone who messes with your ’stuff’ in that area of life.

BTW re the image above – i see the art in it and as a vegetarian since the age of 5, i see also the poignant horror. The golden horns are artistically and alchemically significant and there is a massively interesting artistic statement behind the work.

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