Synchronous video under Venus in Pisces sq. Saturn in Sagittarius, then Venus conjunct Neptune in Pisces. Watch and read on. Loving someone the Gods need to take away. A lover possessed by the daimon of his passions. What happens when we wrest from the gods their rightful conduit? He runs from her. Does he willingly sacrifice…
Archives for January 2015
Mars conjunct Chiron in Pisces, a Meditation on Instinct
As Mars draws nearer to Chiron it is a good time to consider this symbolism of the conjunction more deeply. Mars: Fear, anger, instinctual response, instinct to protect from danger, hostility, sex, courage Chiron: skilled trade, deep learning, teaching and being taught, the instinctual and the refined, where the wound is medicine in equal and varying measure…
Happy Birthday Angela Davis
Angela Davis is an activist, writer, and advocate for the oppressed. As a young woman she studied extensively in the United States and Europe, becoming a formidable scholar and prominent figure in the black liberation movement. Today she is Professor emerita at University of California, Santa Cruz. Let’s take a walk around her birth chart…
Sunday, Church
Rejoice, the cleansing of my lips – rejoice, salvation of my soul! But I still have a thousand half-loves mewithoutYou ~ Seven Sisters For when you feel your sins make you a vastly more interesting, multi-dimensional, well rounded person. And you know what? Maybe you like them there, fking you all up. Maybe you didn’t…
The care and keeping of the soul in a world that needs it bared
Today in Moon in Pisces square Saturn in Sagittarius goings on: Marina Abramović on the complex relationship between the artist’s wellspring of creativity (Moon conjunct Neptune), public demand (Saturn in Sagittarius — broadcasting, the public), and the necessity and structure of self care (Moon and Saturn themes)— “Abramovic herself is as eager as ever, however,…
Joyce, an Aquarian’s reflections on Moon
What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman? Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate…
E.A. Poe fodder for Pisces-Sagittarius times
Edgar Allan Poe has a prominent Sagittarius – Pisces square in his chart, while his Sun and Mercury occupy the 29th degree of our Capricorn sky. As the Moon completes its void in Capricorn, entering Aquarius tomorrow to join the Sun, we can meditate on Poe. Increasing melancholia broached by sifting through his work. Conjuring the…
Believe Nothing, Entertain Possibilities
As I’m sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head (may be happening right now). Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually…
Using Spirituality as a Coping Mechanism
I would like to offer the following consideration for you, on using spirituality as a coping mechanism. Please add your thoughts in the comments section if the Spirit moves you. Here are my thoughts: Be careful that you don’t get so caught up in reflexively falling back on love of god or spiritual thinking or…
Frida Kahlo, fractured and a whole country, a chart study
Frida, always her own favorite model, was not about preserving youthful beauty so much as identifying herself with Mexico, her beloved homeland. Frida’s “acquired birth year” just so happens to coincide with the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution (1910) and the overthrow of President Porfirio Diaz. If her glaring lie seems jarring and incongruous –…