Here in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. ~Ingmar Bergman, Images: My Life in Film After an extended traversal in Capricorn, Mercury has entered Aquarius. Due to the retrograde motion, and the presence of Pluto in Capricorn, Mercury’s travels there were especially heavy. If you are feeling the lightness…
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New Moon in Aquarius 2016
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to do. It’s best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking. Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the…
Farewell Mercury in Aquarius – Notes on the 11th House
“A truth once seen, even by a single mind, always ends by imposing itself on the totality of human consciousness.” Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin After an extended stint in Aquarius, Mercury finally plunges into the soothing waters of Pisces tonight for the first time in 4+ weeks. To see it off, let’s take…
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…
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…
Notes on the Leo-Aquarius Axis
The Moon enters Leo today and applies an opposition to the Venus Mercury conjunction in Aquarius, a good time to consider Leo-Aquarius axis, or 5th-11th house opposition. Leo is the fearless and shining leader. Leo is warm, courageous, supportive, heartening, artistic, proud, to name some positive (not a value statement) expressions. Spend some length of time around…