How was your weekend?!  Mine was excellent though to back to back socialising did in my Sunday & I totally Zen-Slothed.

In my Sunday evening trackies & with my daughter in the suddenly torrential rain, we schlepped past an impromptu Michael Jackson Tribute Street Party – was gorgeous. About 50 people all dancing to really well-mixed MJ. And they were good dancers.  What interested me most is that there were teens through to 60-ish year olds, people who were clearly professional dancers & others who were just picking up on the moves they did at their school formal once upon a time. And the kids krumped.

Uranus is in utter sl0-mo, practically at a standstill, getting set to turn Retro on Weds, just as Venus squares everything in sight. I know I said this last week but – again – it is not a good time to try and control other peeps. Especially Aquarians & Pisceans, also Taurus & Libra…They’re individuating to the max.

It IS a brilliant time to be your own unique yourself, live & let be. Vary your routine. Ditch the obligatory shit – where you can – whilst also honouring the Eclipse-Season Get Real vibe.  The Eclipse (15 Capricorn) is in my 12th  house so my practical resolution is to meditate properly. But remember that the Uranian vibe adds a zany zing to the atmosphere & that not everyone channels Uranian Qi as well as – say -  you or I might.

Don’t bait the crazies. Stay serene & nourish thy nervous system.

My friend Aqua-Girl – who is probably the ultimate Aquarian female in many ways – has announced she is going into “poly-phasic sleep cycling” in the next month. Hence her social availability will be limited and she is totally off coffee and sugar. “A lot of big people do it,” she said breezily. “Richard Branson, Buckminster Fuller…”  I can’t remember the other names.

What it is: you sleep for only two hours a day so that you have 22 hours a day of total productivity. How you do it; You train yourself to sleep – zapping straight into REM – for 20 minutes every two hours. She may or may not use her lucid dreaming goggles during this time. Aqua-Girl sends men crazy. I see it all the time. She has waist length blue black hair and has that sort of archetypal delicate Asian lotus flower look.

But she is a multiple conjunct Aquarian and completely bats. She does nude hiking and surfing, djs, goes straight from a ten day Silence Retreat to clubbing, is an excellent mother to her two daughters & is currently dating a much younger nanophysicist whom she made go to relationship counselling two weeks after they met. Just to tweak a few things.

I think i would go ravingly nuts if I tried polyphasis sleep cycling. I did it by default when my children were babies and it did  not seem to produce the sharpened mind and sudden ability to become an awesomely productive mogul & guru.

“I lost the house, the wife, the credibility, the entourage. I lost my soul. I was alone … I’m sort of OK with it now, but the first time I’m in there, pushing a f***ing cart, getting my supper. I used to go to the 24-hour place in gay town, so no one would recognize me. The only thing I could afford was a shrink, so that’s where my money went. Three times a week for the first two years. The year after that, twice a week and now I’m down to once a week. I’ve only missed two appointments in six years.”

Mickey Rourke has always been one of those Virgoans (a la Charlie Sheen) who make peeps go “w.t.f. – he is a Virgo???”  You know, aren’t they meant to be vaguely together?

Considered an immensely gifted young actor at his debut, he managed a quite spectacular slide into hideocrity: madness, poverty, a domestic abuse charge & blah de blah. Kim Basinger called him ‘the human ashtray.’ And now he’s back – apparently an Oscar contender for his iconic performance in The Wrestler…His astro??

I can’t find a birthtime so no ascendant (he looks like Gemini Rising)  or Midheaven which is a pity. But how funny is this? He’s Sun/Jupiter in Virgo and with Moon in Aquarius – so bats but brilliant. He’s got Venus conjunct Uranus in Leo so would be hopelessly attracted to women who were hot, charismatic & theatrical live-out-louders but they’d make his elegant & detached Moon/Sun feel claustro and repulsed.

Interesting.  And he’s always got another career thing going on other than acting. You know, he tried boxing. He once owned a little magazine/ice cream stall thing. So to me he just reeks of Gemini…And so my theory is Gemini Rising & Pluto opposing in Sagg kinda correlates with his time out in the cold & doing therapy. Tres Pluto, non???

And now he is playing this character in The Wrestler who sounds v.individuated & Plutonic. Right now, Rourke’s got Saturn hovering between his Sun & his Jupiter; some tangible, official Saturn-style success & official recognition would be apt for such a transit. But note that Uranus (ruler of his Moon) is opposing his Sun & applying hard over March/April. Part of him is yearning for the validation & another bit must be already kicking up.