Monthly Archives: February 2015

All things great & small

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Explorations into the combined retrogrades of Aquarius Mercury/Jupiter Leo.
Mercury is direct, (out of shadow March 4).
Jupiter direct at 12 Leo on April 8.
What can be gleaned from these thinking, communication retrogrades ?

Evaluation.
Sevens are mysterious, different, intellectual and metaphysical.  Ruled by Uranus (Aquarius) seven represents freedom, change and inventive eccentricity.  Seven of pents represents contemplation of action, patience and being at a crossroads.

I am feeling this one.  No longer waiting for Bloom, it’s done.  Hallelujah !  Orli’s chart was one of my most read posts here.  I completed a major undertaking recently, was left wondering …”now what ?”  Actually I do know my next few steps, but with the giant project over, I had to re-form another big picture, brainstorm another lofty goal.

I had lost what, over time, had become my refuge, or so I thought.
This card points to re-evaluation for all of us.

Uranian/Seven rant:
No one is alone, truly alone – for we are all on this rock/boat together in a vast sea of space.  Not only are we physically (via the elements) and psychically connected, but know also other dimensions are present as well.  We have guides, angels (Uranus rules angels and Aquarius) and messenger friends in the animal world as well.  We are loved and supported though we may at times have felt abandoned, that is not the case.
This one in particular is for all you single folks out there…keep going…if I can keep going through hell, so can you – just keep going.  I’ll see you on the other side.

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Now for Jupiter which is still retrograde for several weeks…
What have we to glean from this transit ?

Frustration.
Not growing fast enough, creative misses, skillcraft fumbles, uncontrolled waste, scattering energies.  Oh yeah…Jupiter does love to explore new vistas, and the seemingly relentless navel-gazing may be getting a bit old.  Believe me I get it, my 8th/12th solar, just call me swamp thing.

Fives are ruled by Mercury – flexible, full of surprises and opportunity.

This retrograde is here to teach us creative patience, control and stillness.  See the irony and laugh at distractions for they are great teachers.  Goats, gators, elephants and birds are totem messengers, but so are flies and mosquitoes.
All things great and small.

peace & acorns
Gneiss Moon

Power of Attraction

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Venus and Mars meet up soon…
They are within 3 degrees of separation on the 14th (USA) – though they will not reach exact until the hop into Aries on the 21st.

Power behind Venus in the sign of her exaltation ?
Divinely inspired art, love, music, film, dance swim in lush emotional waters.  Ideals, shared spiritual sympathies, divination and romance are at high tide.

Body language, shared glances, speak volumes.
Breath deepens, pupils enlarge, and the blood warms, gets pumping.
Mars conjunct Venus is the power of attraction.

Peace & LOVE
Gneiss Moon

Playstorm

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I’ve been doing something uncharacteristic – watching Hannibal.  I know from experience I have to be selective with what I let in my brain/body/vibration/field.  I have strong boundaries, yet still unconsciously tune into what is around me, for better or worse.  (Giant Neptuning fork in 11 square 8th, can’t hardly keep from it.)

I went in with curiosity, and found it very stylish, well done.  Thought processes are filmed in dream-like sequences, it’s rife with psychological twists and turns: predator, prey, psychiatrists and police.  Plenty to satisfy my high 8th Leo creative heart that keeps me around even through the low 8th murderous creepfest.

So last night I cleaned my house, watched several episodes, thought of Hannibal eating people.  Pinkies out gourmet meals, fine wine, angelic opera and eating flesh.  Akin to how a heart transplant patient begins to feel the traits of the former owner, Hannibal  and killers like him seek spiritual communion by material means.  In some fashion they seek to take on the spiritual strength of that being through their flesh.
I know, creepy – but fascinating.  I also know the photo above is incongruous with the ramble above, but bear with me, here comes the Pisces stuff…

What am I getting at here ?
Pisces stellium soaks up as much as it disperses.  It is private, prophetic, represents secrets or that which is hard to verbalize.

There is a time for material work, a time for spiritual work.
A time for talk, also for silence.
Proper balance enhances function of both.

We have a plethora of Pisces with Mercury Rx (direct on the 11th) and Jupiter Rx.
These retrograde planets rule the signs Pisces squares (inner obstacles).  Gemini and Sagittarius (and Virgo opposite/others) are mutable, malleable, more easily re-wired. Use this time to rethink . . . see how you feel about your path.
You know yourself and your destiny better than anyone – if you are on the right path, you will feel it.  You will know it.

Lasting change is easier under these adaptable (signs/retrogrades) aspects.  Right now forming new neural nets is center stage. Taking a break to think/feel get centered is exactly what the universe is supporting.

Play, create, dream, brainstorm.
Go with your flow . . . .

Peace
Gneiss Moon

Weaving Worlds

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Three degrees out on Venus conjunct Chiron in Pisces.

Quick question before work to apply to everyone re: what hidden insights re: this aspect will help us reach our collective highest manifestations.

Strength of God is evident in the artistic representation of Archangel Gabriel.  Saint Gabriel who rules Moon (currently in Virgo), is the patron saint of messengers and all communications workers.  Gabriel helped the prophet Daniel interpret dreams, and is often associated with blowing the horn of judgement.

Gabriel is pictured with a white lily which represents Mary receiving the news of her  blessed pregnancy.  S/he delivers sacred texts, is associated with making seemingly simple messages drop onto our path at the precisely right time resulting in profound perspective shifts.

This is the final marriage of the two trees of life – good & evil, knowledge of both; the wedding of soul & body; time and eternity. Gabriel harmonizes opposites, integrates spirit with manifestation, delivers divine gifts.

This card also exemplifies freedom of spirit consciousness; the heights of sexual flame (genie lamp) known as the little death, heavenly ecstasy on earth.  Divine messages in tandem with working heart, mind and soul results in humanity skillfully executing physical manifestation of higher realms of spirit consciousness here on Earth.

Note Chiron is closely tied to the hero’s journey because he trained heroes.
Everyone is the star of their own Monomyth.  I love the hero’s revelatory journey.
We each have several in one lifetime running concurrently.  Where are You ?
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In closing, find your balance between your wound and your healing.
Go on your own s/hero’s journey whatever that means to you.
Merge opposites.
Write, communicate, watch and listen closely, speak your mind with a loving heart.
Note your dreams and visions.
Childbirth.  Orgasm.
See what is right in front of you with new eyes. 
Experience profound shifts in perspective.

Follow your Bliss.
See Joseph Campbell’s interp here.

peace
Gneiss Moon

Resiliency

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It is the “try” that is the more often counted as righteousness, and NOT the success or failure. 
Failure to anyone should be as a stepping-stone and not as a millstone.

‎Edgar Cayce‬ 
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This quote has previously appeared here on a post about mistakes.
Virgos are not fond of them, but as far as my mistakes go – a typo or error once and awhile does not send me into a melt-down like it did when I first arrived here.  My mistakes are elevated, I see them, you see them, everybody sees them.
Big deal.
So I make mistakes, who doesn’t ?

Get back up + keep going is the only sensible option.  
Earth signs are sensible.

I have been giving Uranus square Pluto a great deal of thought.
(I am a Virgo Sun conjunct Uranus/Pluto in 9)
Finally I distilled what this square has taught me into one word.
Resilience.
As you can imagine I was thrilled when I later heard Elrond specifically say “I’ve heard that Hobbits are very resilient.” (I share Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday)
So yeah, the last Ura/Plu square is getting tighter and we have a plethora of Pisces.

Mars, Chiron, Venus, Neptune (ruling)

My query today: What do we most need to know to work this passage of Pisces prior to the incoming square ?

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62 Dream: precognition, unconsciousness, limitless soul journeying
now we absorb information from the multi-verses.  Linear rules are out the window, we form straight from heart/thought/soul space – not/space.  Making your dreams reality.

45 Mars: power, courage, conquest, passion and energy outgoing/pouring, normally dominance and lust, Mars in Pisces is concerned with others.
Mars in Pisces: Hang Loose

67 Empathy:  Hearts joined in a clover shape, radiating green heart chakra energy into the cosmos.  Open hearted understanding of another’s journey.  Emotional sensitivity.

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Mars powers the hearts, see..?
All One.

Peace
GMA

The Voice.

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If you want to study the astrology of singing look to Mercury and Taurus.  Mercury is air in the (Gemini) lungs, Taurus rules the throat.  Scorpio (opposite Taurus) is also worth noting as it is power (ruled by Pluto) opposite, therefore a give and take/unit.

Voice aspects have always been a subject of interest, as I have Moon in Taurus, a Virgo stellium and Libra Mercury at Midheaven.  I love to sing, and sounds directly influence my state/peace of mind.  The most intelligent, interesting lecture in the world would have trouble sinking in if I had to listen to a whiney, grating voice throughout.
It is what it is…just one of my quirks. 
Now onto the astrology of voice.

Clear voice: Sun, Mercury, Venus well aspected, on the angles
Deep voice: Saturn highly aspected (esp in women) afflictions to Mercury, Venus
Fluency: expressive dexterity corresponds with 7 degrees Capricorn/Pisces
Rumbling, course voice: afflictions to Scorpio; Saturn in hard aspect to Taurus/Libra or Venus, also in hard aspect to Mercury
Gifted: Venus or Mercury in Taurus, 2nd house; Air signs on cusp of 2nd
Melodious: Venus (Taurus/Libra) on the angles (esp with Mercury) and well aspected
Vocal control/tone: strongest at 16 degrees Taurus/Scorpio; 17 degrees Aries/Libra
Voice strain: Uranus or Saturn in hard aspect to Mercury, Venus, Taurus or Air signs

Factoids:
The larynx is said to build its power from the sexual nature of the Scorpio axis – the sex drive kicks in with the deepening of the male voice in puberty.  For this reason hard aspects (restriction) of Taurus/Scorpio will manifest in a high pitched voice in men; a low voice in women. 
Venus and Mercury strong with benefics can compensate for hard aspects to Taurus.

It is wise to remember that any contact is an exchange of energy a square or opposition can be stronger than a trine when solved – aka worked properly, honed to your highest expression of it.

:::I’ll toss a few names & deets:::

Thom Yorke: Libra Sun and Scorpio Mercury Rx opposite Aries Saturn (8 degree orb)  Thom’s interp here. 
Joe Elliott: Leo Mercury tightly conjunct Uranus – once on weeks of strict silence due to vocal strain
Tom Waits: Mercury rising bang on ASC in Sagittarius square Saturn in Virgo; Venus conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius
Demi Moore: Scorpio Venus, Sun, Mercury opposite Taurus Moon (exalted); Mercury square Saturn in Aquarius
Richard Armitage: Sun tightly conjunct Venus; Mercury w/in 7 degrees in hard aspect – but Gemini Saturn in good aspect to Uranus in Libra.  Richard’s interp here.
Ann Wilson: Venus in Taurus  conj DC trine Saturn in Virgo; Mercury 7th well aspected to Libra; Venus quintile Jupiter in Pisces
Nat King Cole: Aries Mercury and Venus, both trine Saturn in Leo
Ian Gillian: Sun tightly conjunct Mercury in Leo trine Moon rising; Venus conjunct Saturn in Cancer; Venus exact quintile Jupiter Virgo

Also see asteroid Melpomene.

Peace
GMA

Quicksilver

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Quicksilver retrograde runaround:
Mercury into Aquarius Jan 4, (in shadow 6th) retrograde at 17 degrees on the 21, direct on Feb 11 at 1 degree Aquarius (out of shadow March 4)

Quicksilver was fathered by Magneto – brill, yeah ?  
Mercury is the lower octave of Uranus aka magnetics.  

Mercury retrograde in Aquarius is particularly weird because perceptions of space-time are skewed – shifting and changing like prismatic flashes in a crystal prism.  Thoughts emerge from odd spectrums.  Waves and vibrations flare – deliver clarity – then fade, for another idea has already taken its place.

Accept the intuitive leaps and inventions your synapses are firing across the chasms.
The greek root of synapse means join together. 

Track patterns, note insights !
Full Leo Moon opposite Aquarius Sun is delivering heaps of creative brainstorms with Jupiter Rx in tow.  Mercury Rx in Aquarius is ahead of its time & ahead of your time.  Messages incoming may not make sense at this moment – but do not idly dismiss them – they will make perfect sense in the future.

File your Mercury/Jupiter Retrograde (lower/higher mind) insights for analysis downstream.  Right now, just let your consciousness flow.

Peace Out
Gneiss Moon