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Supernova Sam transit

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May I introduce the incredible the Sam Bush.

Sam started playing mandolin at the age of 11, as a teenager, he took first place  three times in the National Oldtime Fiddler’s Contest. The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) has named him Mandolin Player of the Year four times, and, the AMA (Americana Music Association) has presented Sam with a Lifetime Achievement Award. 

In 1971 when Sam was 19, New Grass Revival formed from the ashes of Bluegrass Alliance.  With a nod to tradition, New Grass took a wild turn into in a fresh patch – rowdy and raising the bar – weaving genres into improv reggae, soul (ck John Cowan in comments – voice that’ll make you see the god/goddess) jazz, (ck Bela’s banjo brilliance here) and blues into a gumbo of bluegrass boogie.


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Sam is packing a 4 planet Aries stellium punch of head ’em up an move ’em out. Sun (spirit self) conjunct Jupiter (philosophy of expansion) – Mercury Rx (communications tamed inwardly, streamlined – then expressed outwardly) conjunct Venus (art and balance).

Jupiter trine Pluto Rx (metamorph) in willful Leo (needs fun, creativity benders) is expressive power with a bent towards c’mon let’s GO.  Fire planets or where fire lands in your chart is where you cheerlead others to excel, to REACH HIGHER.
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Aries Mercury Rx (conjunct artistic Venus) trine Pluto Rx in Leo is a full-tilt creative vibe that  blooms communications spectacularly, sporadically…fully nailing the outbound vibe consistently later in life, as spirit time calls it. Cardinals are outgoing – they ARE what is going on, Sam fits this bill and then some with at least 6+ planets (without exact birth deets) in Cardinal signs.

Sam has Mars Rx, which only happens around every two years and two months. Mars is the personal energy that drives the spirit expression forward and outward – while in retrograde (seemingly re-tracing steps from the vantage point of earth) energy is gunning on idle, introverted, perfecting itself before expression outwardly.
This is in addition to Sam’s other 4 retrogrades: Mercury, thought/perception; Saturn,  work/restriction; Neptune, spiritual/healing/music;  Pluto, research/transmutation.
All point to a life of studied practice, honing the craft of transformative communicative arts – a Life of Focused, Channeled Expression.

Attention must be paid to houses Scorpio and Leo re: energy flow or lack thereof. (Mars Rx square Pluto Rx) Same hold true of Mercury Rx in Aries and Uranus in Cancer. These signs/planets are stress points that call for understanding – they are fixed, so also calling for a bit of compromise and much bending of personal willpower.
(See dropdown menu for more on each)

Focus on compromise may SEEM irrelevant, but it is far from it – a life centered around relationships and peace talks with others while also remaining true to self  brings the most satisfying growth. Particularly artistic/competitive agreements centered around family and / or the public spectrum.
Cancer Uranus (unusual family ties) as focal in an Aries/Libra T- Square is La Familia, the path of balance between self, sharing, creative expression in relationships.

The heart (Sun, exalted in Aries stellium) sees possibilities, perceptions, practicalities (Aries Mercury) and promise (Jupiter) – Sun (rules Leo Pluto), expect intense growth regarding all of these.  Outward bound action may be intensely focused and honed to a razors edge by midlife via Mars Rx.
Also keep in mind everything outgoing in (Mars – ruled Aries) has Jupiter (good fortune and expansion) conjunct Sun [both benefics] with Sun exalted. These are aspects of a kind man, who is well-loved with many friends and allies (Venus).

Energy outgoing (Mars Rx) is a matter of deep Scorpio focus – researching personal power, nurturing growth in unusual ways (trine Uranus), from a perspective of depth, quiet, and revolutionary power born from still waters.  Uranus in Cancer feels the love of safety mixed with freedom to rebel and hang loose at home – yet the urge (T-square) to get out there in public, compete & meet and greet  (Aries opp Libra axis) also calls.

Mars Rx trine Uranus in Cancer loves having friends over for home games – Mars Rx square Pluto Rx in Leo craves the metamorphosis of going for it at away games.

I love to think Jupiter is the ruling planet philosophy of festival.  Mercury rules names – Sam has Mercury Rx trine Moon (loose or tight depends on exacts) in Sagittarius – home away from home – Telluride.  Jupiter rules Sag, is conjunct Sun (fame, spirit) in trine to Pluto Rx (transform via creativity) in Leo, which rules Colorado.

Aka: present and picking at 39 out of 40 bluegrass festivals in the San Juans – Sam has the tested & approved, well-worn and much deserved moniker, King of Telluride.

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Sam forever changed my perceptions – his Libra Neptune (string instruments) conjuncts my Mercury; his Aries Mercury conjuncts my Saturn; plus all the fire popping around in trine between us – fun ass firecrackers !
He knocked my socks into  S  p  a c e  first time I heard him play, I had a supernova Neptune (music/dance) transit quite a few years back with Sam at the helm.
One of my TBF top 5 – and now that is saying somethin’.

(Deep Bow)
 Peace Love & Mercurious Alchemy !
WOooOoHoOooOo !
gneissmoonastrology.net

ring…ring…it’s for YOU

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Hi all !

Zombie Tarot
Mary-El Tarot
 Soulcards

What’s UP for us during Pisces Moon…what to keep an eye on ?
Intent: insight, highest good, most benevolent outcome for all of my readers.

Just FYI:
These public reads are always activated WHEN you read them, so if it comes up for you, the reader for the FIRST time, 10 months (or whenever) from the date posted – it is Activated At That Time.  If you read it today, stumble upon it again next year, it is activated AGAIN At That Time.
Personal Experience, so pitching it out there for y’all.
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Page of Wands – Very positive message on the way – leading to new growth and independence.  Fired up with enthusiasm & encouragement, this page is Flash here to fill you UP with fire.  Take a bite out of life !

Ace of Cups – Lunar Angel, YIN and Pure with Love coming back around in cycles like the tides of the seas and the phases of the moon.  Deep intuition, subconscious meanderings, the reservoir of all your relations are yours to tap into with this Full Moon.
One of Cups is purity – loving freely without expectation.

Second message is present in this card – angels are sending it down through another, your dreams or intuition, or perhaps a totem.  Heads UP !

Love bonds and contracts: Saturn conjunct Venus and North Node of Destiny all rolled into ONE.

Soulcard – This one is yours to interpret !

Peace
GMA

outta here

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Quick note to those with
a mind / heart bent towards
leaving a bad habit
behind.

Primarily I am meaning substances
 but it can be anything
you believe you are too emotionally
(water moon)
attached to.

After Full Pisces Moon
(see time below)
is the best time to do a 
ceremony of endings.

Waning Moon indicates
energies are withering, on the decrease.

Thursday 19
Pisces Full Moon
6:13am CST, USA

Friday 20
Pluto stations direct
in Capricorn 10:29am

This time is doubly good as North Node of Destiny
(what we need to do now)
 in Scorpio is ruled by Pluto – planet of
transformation, rebirth and metamorphosis.

N Node is conjunct Saturn both at 8 degrees
Eight is strength / regeneration.

Saturn binds.
Pisces is the 12th house sign.
Pluto stationing direct : outward bound rebirth.
Endings.

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Energy Clearing HERE
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Peace
GMA

plenty

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Thursday 19
Pisces Full Moon
6:13am CST, USA

Friday 20
Pluto stations direct in Capricorn
10:29am

Sunday 22
Mabon (Fall equinox Northern Hemisphere)
Sun into Libra
3:44pm

Pisces Full Moon at 26 degrees (opposing Sun in Virgo) brings illumination to house Pisces and the matters that house rules in your natal.
Balance between feeling higher spiritual awareness, the deep cosmic seas, and how to improve the manifestation of them on the material plane.
Spiritual made practical.
The mundane and the transcendent reached by the simple daily chores, routines.

Before enlightenment, chop wood carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood carry water.
Breathe in, breathe out.

Neptune Rx (ruler of Pisces) conjunct Chiron Rx in Pisces are both in harmonious aspect to North Node, Saturn (both 8 degrees) and Venus (9 degrees) in Scorpio.
Balance between Future/Past is found by delving deep into the psyche, recognizing what is efficient (Virgo) and working, and what is restrictive (Saturn) without purpose and needs to go.

Pluto direct will jettison the feldercarb.
Bumpy ride for house Capricorn with stationing direct, certainly near +/- 8 degrees.

Foundations of house Scorpio and Capricorn have been in a phase of mutual metamorphosis for many moons.  Understanding and support via mutual reception – aka: culling the outdated, outworn; building stronger new foundations from the wreckage.

Pisces Full Moon is a call to awareness of service to others, as well as service to self – care of the physical vehicle. (Saturn)  This includes mental, emotional and spiritual health as well. (Of course [mistyped curse] the day I wrote this, I was laid horizontal with illness.) 

How rocky are the tides of emotion we drift upon ?
How well do we analyze (Sun Virgo) balance of our life’s work – with our work life ?
Moon reaches full across the ASC/DC axis –
Self / competition vs. Other / teamwork are in peace talks

Venus conjunct Saturn and North Node of Destiny turns the restriction screws to love, money, women, relationships – all are feeling weighty, serious and they are meant to teach hard lessons, pushing us into our future.  
Karma is in the air revolving around all these things.

Libra Mercury square Cancer Jupiter – Communication breakdown ?! – whoa.
THINK about what you are hearing that flips your emo triggers off the deep end.

eg.  Racial slurs will set me right off – as will sending me news of a birth with deets to “practice on’.  Fair Warning.  When Moon in Toro patience finally pops, you’re gonna get it and good – obviously, I don’t need a lot of provocation to step on my Sag soapbox.

Squares mean finding the tension inside and working to release the pressure.
Find balance between teaching and learning; speaking and listening, traveling and staying close to your hood.  

Do you need to Raise your thought bar HIGHER ?
I think about it often. (Saturn Rx in 3rd.)
I turn my other cheek plenty . . . then one day I don’t.
Human.

Consider Toro South Node what we are collectively moving away from.
Interesting as that puts Venus, Saturn and North Node of Destiny in Scorpio opposite Toro and South Node in a Venus-ruled sign.

Transformation of POWER via Love, Money, Balance

peace out
GMA

I bounce.

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“in the house of the undying” Daniel Danger
Daniel Danger – In the House of the Undying

“Be a light unto yourself; betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.”
– Buddha’s final words

Venus into Scorpio is coming to conjunct :: Saturn/North Node both at 8 degrees ::
(note: eight is regeneration, strength) while in trine to Neptune  – full tilt dream manifestation, walking in a waking dream, artistic urges off the scale, healing through creation.

The big picture is just that – A BIG MENTAL PICTURE – Mercury opposes Uranus Rx (lower and higher octaves of though/ comms, respectively) with regenerative, metamorphic Pluto Rx as the focal planet holding down the fort in ambitious Capricorn.

Funneling the higher realms of spirit/messages/etheric realms into and onto the material plane is requiring INTENSE FOCUS.
It is a STRUGGLE to EMERGE with both POWER and BALANCE.
Uranus and Pluto are retrograde – meaning these inward seeking missives are hard to give words to – they are flashes of KNOWING, insight and complete comprehension followed by detachment and freedom to roam to the next genius idea.

Thoughts are coming in quickly and picking UP warp speed – keep a writing utensil handy, grab the genius as it flies by before you lose it !

Tension with others lies between houses Aries and Libra.
SELF and OTHERS – how do we relate to one another ?
We juggle and share via COMMUNICATION.

Inner tension lies within house Capricorn as it relates to the former on a personal level.
How do we USE what we have to move FORWARD into our BEST FUTURE (Pluto sextile [opportunity] Saturn, NNode, Neptune) into more a spiritually enlightened space ?

Houses Pisces and Scorpio will open new doors for you.
Navel gazing (Venus) with Neptune (day and night dreams) and uncovering all possibilities via deep psyche probes – with particular attention to metamorphosis of perceptions of authority, justice and the past – brilliant !
Work it.

Venus and Capricorn energy is fairness, responsibility, love across time, the architecture of love and creativity, karma and the grace of simplicity – add this to North Node of Destiny and we are acutely aware of the paths laid before us.

The choice is rebirth.
Bounce. (Neptune rules)
Be it Light !

peace
GMA

fly by

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110105intx5cyThough I have a great internal compass and sense of direction – I have a love of maps. (Mercury rules, is my MC planet)  Astrology is made of maps, and not only the natal map, but also what happens as the big wheel turns.

The sky when we were born kept right on moving and soon tossed us into another set of circumstances such as the first Mars return (every 2-21/2 years) around what is known as the terrible twos.
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When my progressed Moon (feels) and Mars (action) were pulling the plow together in Capricorn (career, work, public) – I was filled with focused energy, I was seriously DRIVEN and THRIVING on WORK, writing, java, more work and maybe 4 hours sleep a night, and doing it well.  Friends were across the globe were saying  I can’t believe the hours I find you online up and writing.

Note: for those of you who think I am a little  O u t   T h e r e. . . my progressed Moon is zapping into Aqua soon, so I may go around fully around the bend at that time . . . we’ll see… HA !
Fair warning.
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Progressions

Outer planets move so slowly, they rarely progress into the next sign unless they are at 28-29 degrees of a sign in natal.  See Elijah Wood.
I only look at the outer progs as they relate to the personals.

When looking at progs, look to Sun and Moon, whatever sign they land in – you are learning and exploring the ENERGY of THAT SIGN now.

Inner planets Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars – look at them all – your planets are vacationing in those energies, learning the dialect, customs, digging in with the locals and hanging out. 

With Mars trine Saturn Rx ruler in natal, I work plenty with two jobs, but while prog Mars and Moon were tag teaming in Cap I was A MACHINE.

Look to MC, ASC – apply the same.
What natal house is brought to the MC ?

eg.  My MC is now in Sagittarius, (my natal 12 is brought to prog MC)  so I am revealing much of what has been hidden – though I am still cryptic because my progressed Sun and Mercury are in Scorpio.

Look to how your progressed planets are interacting with your natal planets.
When progressed planets are in aspect to natals, choices revolving around those planetary energies come to fruition – growth and change is highlighted.

Drop progs into your natal and watch the transits spearheading growth as they fly by.

We have a choice.
Always a choice…
Respond high qi or low qi.
Bend or break.
Adaptation, improvisation.
Rise UP

Peace out
GMA 

healthy competition

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Yuko Shimizu

Leo Mars 8 trine Aries Uranus Rx 11

New creative beginnings
boldly expressing the heart
Courage to heal via healthy competition
with your former self

Opportunities await in houses
of intellect and sociability
give & take
balance
right thought followed by right action

BRAINSTORMS
channeled from the divine higher realms

You will take a chance on something in the near future.

Distillation of Trine on left
Crux or spirit card on right.
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The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and expression in Action is like the hoarding of precious metals – a vain and foolish thing. 
Knowledge, like Wealth, is intended for Use. – Kybalion

Interesting…the quote speaks to intellectual Uranus Rx trine action Mars square (inner tension) Saturn (use) in Scorpio (transformation) in mutual reception (understanding)with Pluto (struggle) in Capricorn (material world).

Angel bears the sigil of Archangel Michael
flaming sword of truth
slaying – I prefer training your personal dragons
acknowledgement, integration, marriage
of both the light and dark within
She who would train dragons must first learn their habits.
choose to illuminate darkness
with light and right
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Darkness works with might alone.
Darkness chooses power control over others
rather than self-control.
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Crux, spirit is
The World.
The WHOLE, The ALL ONE
Life as we know it on earth
birth, growth, withering, death

Your world beginning with yourself
your neighbors, your country
your earth, your universe
M U L T I V E R S E

Actions spiral
ever
inward & outward
know this – be of light

peace
GMA

penetrate, bend, follow

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Elektra by Bill Sienkiewicz

Scorpio Moon conjunct Saturn, North Node of Destiny
sextile Pluto and trine Neptune Rx, Chiron Rx
later, trine Jupiter in Cancer

Path to inner healing & metamorphosis
GOALS are in sight
Stay focused, work hard
You will reach your peak experience.

Scorpio Moon squares Mars in Leo
creativity is keen to penetrate
deep mysteries
what makes people tick
that takes time

Pluto is the higher octave of Mars
the blade
tap the wellsprings of your inner power
your divine will
bend it, shape it
think mind over matter
:: structure & foundations ::

Mercury just into Libra begins to
square Pluto Rx in Capricorn
Thinkspeak is solid and transformative
on the inner plane to the outer.

Say what you mean & mean what you say.
The universe will follow.

Peace & Love
GMA