Oceans of Time


Bram Stoker, Irish novelist, was best known for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.
A quick look reveals a very interesting chart, that dead on nails his most popular work.
(Solar chart without exact birth time)

This is the cool thing about astrology – once I learned it, I realized everyone instinctually gravitates towards work that is aligned with their natal chart vibration.  We do our best work in our highest natal groove – we know it inside and out – what we create is natural and free-flowing because we have lived itOur work rings like a bell of truth.
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Scorpio Sun and Moon trine Jupiter in Cancer, exalted. 
Lunar longing rising from a deep well of feeling a need to be protective of and nurture women – opposing marriage (Juno) – squaring  (inner obstacle course) freedom (Uranus) and the untamed feminine (Lilith).  

Dracula is an epistolary novel, told partly in letters between the characters of the book – it is fittingly Cancerian: old – fashioned and sentimental – family letters are a familiar safe haven.  Yet, it is also the perfect foil – peeping into someone’s mail or secret sex diary and hitting pay dirt.

Bram was cracking the repression code on the prim and proper Victorian era – obviously they loved their sex, but it was whispered in secret behind the parlor door. Dracula, and all he stood for, was repressed and forbidden – so of course the women swooned.

Juno (traditional woman / marriage) and Jupiter (ceremonial marriage) form a T-Square with Pluto (death, sex, rebirth) as focal planet.  Jupiter opposite Juno in Capricorn: time, lineage, being the Big Blood Baron with a trio of brides bound (Saturn) to the master of bites through blood.

Blood is Jupiter ruled.

Bram also had an amazingly strong Venus – in Libra (rules, strong) conjunct North Node of Destiny – and Lilith the Bitch Goddess (non traditional rebel wife demanding equality) – all sextile Mercury in Sagittarius (visionary publishing); and all opposing Uranus Rx in Aries.  Animal natures is the common root that binds all earthkind, flight or fight is primal, instinctual, as is the desire to survive in whatever form we find ourselves.
Uranus in Aries: unusual biting proclivities and wearing a mask to hide an ancient evil.  Uranus in Aries opposite Venus in Libra: curious attractions and shocking love surprises.

Scorpio Chiron (wounded healer, teacher) opposite Mars in Taurus, Pluto in late Aries
I do not want to bite you.

Chiron trine Saturn in Pisces and Neptune in Aquarius
I must bite you !

Mars in Toro = LoOove bite on the pulse of the throat

The Sexual Healing aspects, so interesting – the need to possess and control followed by the bite followed by complete surrender to the instincts (Moon) that overwhelm the body (Saturn).

The kicker I saved for last.
Asteroid Lucifer 1930 in Leo forms a Grand Fire Trine with Mercury in Sagittarius and Uranus in Aries.  Damage control : do not freak over the Lucifer asteroid –  it is the representation of the fight between good and evil within all of us.

Obviously passion and impulse reigns in fire signs.  Leo is creative romance, willpower and gambling with both.  The willing, passionate exchange of power in moments of intimacy is not only mutually revitalizing, but also mutually healing.

Bram had Scorpio Sun / Moon trine Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces – bonds of love that cannot be broken by time or space.

Bram’s kite puts a sextile between his life path of creative writing (Libra Venus, bohemian Lilith) and his visionary ideas revolving around the light and dark in all of us.

Instincts are huge (Jupiter in Moon ruled Cancer, Moon conjunct Sun in Scorpio) players in his chart, as are making intuitive connections, as Mercury (lower octave of Uranus) is trine Uranus retrograde in Aries.

Bram brilliantly depicts through Dracula the polarities of impulse and restraint; control and surrender; inner demons that create and destroy.
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I want some more.
Claudia, Interview with a Vampire
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true.

Charles Vess

Venus in Libra = comparison contrast.
My mind is on how love feels through my Neptunian lens of the zodiac

I have made time with Uranian types…every time I was in the vicinity of one in particular it felt like I was holding onto a LIVE WIRE.   Good I suppose if you are into thrills and chills, but if you don’t like it you’re in for a ride until the current passes through you :: it lets go of you, you don’t let go of it. :: Uranus Venus contacts in the natal can be shocking, jolting, and begin / end in a hot firecracker lightning flash.  

Venus / Uranus contacts in synastry will be the spark and undercurrent needed to keep the relationship blood thumping and pumping – the heart is electrical, after all.

How does love flow for Venus Neptune people ?

I have an 8th house Leo Venus square Scorpio Neptune.  

My particular Venus Neptune aspect equals immersion, illusion and often delusion in love.  Upsets, shocks and surprises (Neptuner on 11) followed by faerie tale glamour, and what I call the fishie flip / flop: crystal clear insight / inability to see clearly – and who knows which one it actually is …?

Slipping through the net, evasion / persuasion is all part of my love life, or former love life that is.  I am the happily single mystical hermit jedi chick.  

Through years of suffering the low side of Neptuner, I am now acutely aware of how I need to use Scorpio power to metamorph inwardly, rather than wring the life out of someone in my clutches.
Scorpio desires. Venus attracts.  I stopped craving the illusion, and instead found reality through Saturn – metaphysical research and this work in progress you read here at GMA.
The love I seek is solid, dependable and true.

From every power that holds the world in chains, humans free themselves when self-control they gain.

namaste
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mercurious myst

Mercury into Sagittarius
Monday October 29
1:18am CST, USA

Mercury into mutable Sagittarius fire, folks.  Duality and change-ups naturally associated with Mercury will be kicked up a notch or two in a mutable sign.

Mutable signs indicate changes, adaptability ::: they are the go-betweens, the social set ::: passing the baton from the outgoing Cardinals to the stable Fixed signs.

This is worth noting as Mercury stations retrograde on Election Day in the US.

Mercury Stations Retrograde 
Tuesday November 6
5:04pm CST, USA

Purchases of large ticket items, signing contracts, making deals are all ill-advised during Mercury retrograde, and most certainly on the days surrounding station when the energetic shift in trickster Mercurial energies is more strongly felt.

Mercury rules counting, calculations, perception and logic
Neptune rules voting (secret ballots), fraud, deception and mysterious events.

The rockstar politico circus is coming to town – and the Trickster is Ringmaster.

Two communication signs, Gemini (Mercury rules) and Sagittarius are juggling compromise.

Virgo (Mercury rules) and Pisces are the lucky signs ripping up the Mercurial obstacle course, making hard decisions.

Virgos require abacus perfection.
Pisces, well the slippery fishes are …ummm a bit nebulous on a good day.

This is going to be an interesting election – I’ll guarantee you that.
Is The Count still on the Sesame St. payroll – may wanna fetch ‘im.
We may need his fingers, toes and little number friends.

A silent prayer for our nation, if you please.
Our election is not the only reason why, either…

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Neptune Stations Direct
0 22′ Pisces
November 11
1:52am CST, USA

Stations of slow moving outer planets are felt for weeks in advance – particularly if that planet is prominent in your natal chart.  In the US Sibley chart, 9th house Virgo Neptune is at 22 degrees (trine 2nd house Capricorn Pluto Rx) putting it in a sextile (opportunity) to the upcoming solar eclipse in Scorpio 21 56′.

Fixed houses are building.
Long-term values and ideas meet the material (Toro), emotional (Scorpio) and intellectual (Aquarius) plane – fixed signs are brick-laying the road to create a new life (Leo is Sun – ruled = life).

Eclipse energies draw out and materialize the emotional onto the physical plane while intellectual Aquarius must do the hardest work – brainstorm creative solutions in tandem with Leo, our NEW LIFE.

Toro / Scorpio
::: what’s mine and what’s ours :::
 ::: what I want and what we desire :::
Venus (balanced) and Pluto (transformation)

Toro / Scorpio houses are succeedant ::: emotional :::
emotions are water
we have Neptune stationing direct in 15 days

Hurricane Sandy



Neptunian water is intuitive, psychic and it delves deep into memory.

The water signs signal ENDINGS: the womb and the tomb (Cancer), the sexual act, death, and the release of life as we know it (Scorpio), release and re-union with the cosmic universal energy (Pisces).

I do not mean this literally – instead I am speaking metaphorically.
The Macro / Micro universe are having a soulful cry over what has been lost.
This Pluto Uranus square is CHANGING EVERYTHING and EVERYONE.
This hurricane is [on a macro level] clearing the energies of that portion of the US.
The US capitol is out there, among other things … just a thought.
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About Neptune…
Strange thing is… months ago I was thinking and wondering what this reversal of Neptune towards Aquarius would bring for me.  I heard a little voice say : you forgot something, you have to go back and get it. 
I wrote that phrase here at GMA in scopes or somewhere without really knowing what it meant or what it was or – anything. 

Ahhh – you know, the joys of Neptunian faerie dustings… we’ve just learned to go with it baby… it’ll all make sense someday….it felt right.
Guess what.
I was right.  I went back to get something I forgot…or rather, someONE.  Didn’t see him comin’…nope, not even close.  …hmmMmm…

SoOo then I am thinking I got the micro bit figured out – what did the Macro forget and go back for…?

The Psychic Tarot

New Beginnings : Zero : 
It is the void and nirvana :: the doorway, a portal.  It is spirituality, divine intuition, faith in the unseen.  It is unlimited possibilities and a fresh emotional start.
Zero is Pluto ruled indicating REBIRTH. 

Neptune Rx opposite Leo was a gestation of NEW LIFE to be born at direct station.
Neptune Rx applying to Aquarius is KNOWING our personal / collective thoughts [Neptune square Gemini the lower mind and Sagittarius: the higher mind] 
WILL CREATE our physical world via the electrical grid we all share Micro / Macro.

Spirit Card: 7:
Seven is ruled by Uranus: Seven indicates highly creative problem solving.  Freedom, rebellion, polarites, intuition, invention, eccentrics and ELECTRICITY.
The crown chakra rules the central nervous system and cerebral cortex.

The human heart is Electric, our hearts are collectively connected through the Earth’s Electrical Grid.

We are co-creators on the micro / macro scale with the energetic spirit of the ALL ONE. The electrical current of life is charging through us, our DNA, the earth, the sky, the universe, CONNECTING ALL OF US TO ONE ANOTHER.
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I know what I believe the macro went back for, and I am so happy we did.
namaste.

Total Solar Eclipse
November 13

21 56′ Scorpio
see next post, thank you.

om mani padme hum
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Evolve into love

Full Moon in Taurus 6 degrees
Monday 29 2:49pm CST, USA

We are almost Fully Looney, people ! 
Or are some of us already there and then some ?!

Full Toro Moon is for HOooOowling – Toro rules the throat – so let’er RIP !

Hallelujah Venus off my late 9th house Virgo Sun/Uranus/Pluto stellium and bunglefuq progs: Virgo Venus / Uranus [exact] with a sidekick of Pluto [opposite transit Uranus on prog Saturn – which squares prog Mars in Cap to which Pluto is applying].

Recently visited my mother…guess what happens when you put two stressed out Plutonics in the same room. 
exactly.

OoOoh waitress ? wtf is my Xanex horse tranq ?!
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I spent the morning in tears, Virgo processing events of late.

Chrysalis stage anyone ? – deceptively silent – behind the curtain: atomic meltdown.
Shifting / grinding brain gears – BIGTIME unavoidable mental metamorphosis – didn’t realize I was holding my breath until it passed – then WHAM release.

Mars opposite Jupiter Rx – both in AIR – brought internet sparring over some idiotic Doctor Who cartoon that implied the companions were common carbon copies of one another – interchangeable arm candy.  Yet another slight to all women everywhere.
Hey, smack it up on my page – fair game – If I disagree, you’ll know it.  If I agree you will also know it.  I may be blunt – but I am honest.

Show ain’t over yet – Full Toro Moon is in my lunar house (opposite my natal Neptune) with SuperMoon eclipse to follow Nov 13 ON my Neptuner.

This is my NINE year – culmination – solar return is Cardinal heavy, North Node of Destiny smack on ASC with Pluto as focal planet of a T-Square with Sun opposite Uranus.
Translation:
Lock and Load Baby – this is dead straight on shakedown street. 
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I suspect many of you are feeling the CHRYSALIS POWER SURGES as well, yes ?
Do tell…I would love to hear your experience of Uranus square Pluto thus far… 

I apologize for sliding into astro home plate in the bottom of the 9th – been a bit busy – but now I’m back in the game !

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Venus into Libra

Sunday 28
8:04am CST, USA

Ahhh…a light fluffy frothy Venus whipped into a perfect curly Q with sprinkles.
* Lovely ! *
Sweets, scents, art, beauty, friendliness, charm and diplomacy all sit sweetly in the
Libran parlor.

Venus loves to freely flit and flirt in this intellectual, communicative AIR sign, her home – she rules this house beautiful.  She is polite, polished, matchie- smatchie, and wants you the same.  Her sense and sensibilities will suffer greatly if a fugly shoddy – or horrors !  outdated ensemble should stumble across the doorstep on date night. 

She is bubbly, outgoing and honestly enjoys the company of others – the exchange of ideas and concepts revolving around art, social equality and how to balance and beautify everything is a sure-fire win.  She is in love with love, romance is key as is being thoughtful and considerate.

Librans can be incredibly indecisive – fair warning – they often like you to choose dinner and arrange plans so they won’t have to fret over it.  I had a Libra friend that looked at 7 painted color swatches on the wall for years – at last visit – still no choice.

They are great minglers at parties, the hostess with the mostest serving up a smile so sweetlyThey are emotionally straightforward and will work to keep a relationship running smoothly, they dislike chaos and discord Saturn is exalted in Libra – fairness and stability in a mate is especially treasured.
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Heads up !
Libra into Venus means she is opposite Uranus Rx in Aries and square Pluto in Capricorn right off the bat.

You have mail !
Someone most likely a woman delivers a surprise revolving around creativity / love / money.  Communication resolves past issues, propels you forward into your future – fresh ideas are incoming regarding emotional matters held over from the past : childhood, siblings, or close relatives. 

Men / mentors step up to the plate to assist your healing in some form or fashion, offering stability and guidance. 

A whole new way of seeing and thinking develops from these exchanges – actions needed to forge ahead will become obvious.  Growing pains likely, but in the end they are signs of your revolutionary evolution into your divine rebirth. 
Spread your wings and  F L Y . . .

namaste
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ode to martians

Gyuri Lohmuller

Hello astro fiends, how is everyone holding up ? Streamlining Super Scorpy Powers…?… working out the kinks in the psyche, that sort of thing ? 

I have known for ages that I am not the astrologer for everyone, I deliver a rich dense gumbo: layers of earth, science, mysticism and oddball dark intensity – oh, and I will also drown you in music, obviously. 

My former moniker (one of many) was Lady of the Link, so you will find all sorts of links shooting you off somewhere else because above all I am curious.  I want to learn – and I want to share what I learn with you.

I have a friend who has lived a life in constant comparison with another, when for me it is just the opposite.  I have always been told I am too strange and why can’t I be more like so and so, or more normal, or everything I am, create or like is different.  The juxtaposition between us is bizarre.

I know what I think, and therefore write, will not appeal to everyone – I am fiercely stubborn and independent (Toro Moon, Sun conjunct Uranus) and will be doing it my way.  Take it or leave it. 

SoOo I want to thank YOU gneiss readers for showing up for the oddball soirée day after day.  More and more of you are showing up to watch this Capricorn Rising roll the boulder uphill everyday, and I thank you.  Also, good morgon Sweden !
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Now for why you are here:

Moon is void of course 10:04am CST, USA
Void ends when Moon enters Aries 2:31pm

Moon into Aries conjunct Uranus, expect some emotional surprises, incoming braniac insights.   Sagittarius Mars opposite Jupiter Rx in Gemini is great for setting the record straight, blunt communications and generosity of words and ideas – revision of thinking, and mental masturbation centering in the self and future / past.

Mars and Jupes are visionary, clever and flexible in mutables – work it !

peace out
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noble reflections

Four of Swords: Tarot Maximo

From the mailbag:
Is the moon in Libra a good sign when it comes to healing ?

Need a little more information here, but I will dive in anyway.   For physical issues, please read about the Moon Signs, Physical Rulership and Surgery here.  That will tell you a bit about scheduling healing according to moon phase.  Moon rules the breasts and stomach, Libra rules the kidneys and ovaries.

In a nutshell:  Find your balance – Moon and Libra are fluctuating / vacillating energies.

Please know that issues in the body are the end result of emotional and spiritual difficulties that are manifesting on the material plane at the physical level.  Vibrate to the highest level : each planetary, house and sign placement to relieve pain and suffering on all dimensions.

Emotional and spiritual healing I will go into here:

First thing to remember, Moon fluctuates and Libra is the scales of balance, the cosmic weighing of options – checks and balances.  Active balancing, fluctuating is at work here. Saturn (solid, bedrock, discipline, building foundations) is exalted in Libra: meaning a level playing field, pay dirt and justice (just us) is an underlying goal to strive for in this house.

Moon rules a Cardinal (action) water (emotional) house.  Libra is an Cardinal (action) Air (intellectual, communicative) sign, it is a Venus (love, harmony) ruled.

Matters of Moon in Libra will be naturally outgoing, expressive – you will take the reins and ride out to fetch emotional and spiritual balance in a kind and co-operative way with others.  Moon is the mother, women, the public, gardening, nurturing, cooking, family matters.  Venus is wife, lover, artist, the charming beauty.

If Moon is in opposition – it will reflect the energy of both the house and planet it opposes back to you.  For instance if Moon opposes Sun in Aries, Martian (rules Aries) qualities and Sun qualities others possess will be in your face over and over until a compromise is found.  Think awareness, peace talks and peaceful negotiations.

Oppositions are people stepping forward to reflect qualities you yourself must work on and improve upon in yourself.   Employ kindness and patience and negotiate – all strong Libra qualities.  Moon oppositions can mean hurt feelings, instincts rule Moon.  So first thing ::: stop and think before reacting.  *see trines below

Perception is key with Moon oppositions : Are you projecting self onto others ?  Rejecting them for the very qualities you yourself possess ?

Oppositions are on the same wavelength : 1st house is ME (self), 7th house is US (other).  Find the similarities and compromise – vibrate higher for success. Take the high road. Justice becomes just US.  The energies need to work as a team.

Think the Chariot tarot card: fast forward progress through opposing forces.
Yin / Yang

The New Tarot Deck

If Moon is in square this represents qualities that cause internal tension that forces you to change personal traits / habits and how you deal with the house and planetary energies involved.  For instance, Moon square Mars would indicate a need to find inner balance before letting emotional responses escalate.  The tendency to act impulsively and instinctively with anger would need management.

To help solve difficult aspects :

:::Find your Moon sextiles – house or planet either one – these are your places of opportunity to find successful expression of the planetary or house energy through another path – though it will require work and effort on your part, as sextiles are opportunities.

:::Find your trines – house or planet either one – the energies are more easily expressed (same element: fire trines fire, etc…) but they are also often taken for granted.  Raise awareness of the house that trines your Libra Moon (Gemini and Aquarius) and use the energies located there to your advantage *(thinking, learning, talking is Gemini; cerebral detachment, being creatively inventive is Aquarian), also work the house placement 1st. 2nd. 3rd etc…of these trines and sextiles into your repertoire.

Most of all, Moon indicates our feelings.  Crying babies need nurturing via their Moon sign. The same holds true for cranky adults – find Libran activities to help you over the hump – love, art, music, beautiful things, scents and surroundings will help. Nurturing and care is called for when Moon is under stress.
Best of luck…questions welcomed.

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“Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”  ~Rumi

namaste
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altitude adjustments

Trees by Toni Demuro

Gibbous Moon in late Aquarius moving to conjunct Neptune, Chiron in Pisces.
(see Moon times below)

Growing pains were likely on the agenda as Aquarius Moon is passing a square to Mercury and soon will square North Node of Destiny, both in Scorpio.  Squares bring the most inner tension, but deliver the most growth as well. 

I physically felt this Moon square, as Mercury was also preheating a planet in my natal on the upcoming eclipse degree (22 Scorp) as Venus sextiled it – 2 day splitting headache rendering me essentially useless at basically everything.  I was incapable of making a decision -even as slight as what’s for dinner- when I am usually incredibly decisive.

Moon into Pisces
Wednesday 24 6:00am CST,USA

Day / night dreaming your path to health is primo as Moon enters Pisces and trines Sun and Saturn in early Scorpio.  Emotional and spiritual healing is especially favored as Pisces and Scorpio are water houses, and Moon is water as well.  Saturn in trine makes Mooneptunian dreams manifest – be mindful of your thoughts, feelings.  Subconscious and conscious are energetically in synch and emotional insights and power surges are likely.

Full Moon in Taurus 6 degrees 
Monday 29 2:49pm CST, USA

Taurus, you have mail !  This Full Moon puts Sun in Scorpio in peace talks with Toro Moon from across the wheel.  Desires vs. what you already have.  Altitude adjustments are off the scale, digging deep to cultivate peace of mind via purging the old and outworn.  Think love, money, power and restraint.  Venus and Pluto are rulers of these houses.  Transform.

Aquarius and Leo will be feeling squares from the Scorpio party – settle in folks, you are in transformation station.  Personal progress and metamorphosis is underway !

Toro house gets Scorpio types handing over test after test – to revise and rework via compromise, mirroring behavior we disapprove of that we need to change in some way in ourselves.

namaste
gneissmoonastrology.net

Straight – no chaser.


Sun into Scorpio
Monday October 22
7:14 pm CST, USA

Sun enters Scorpio conjunct Saturn; trine Neptune Rx / Chiron in Pisces.
Belly up to the bar, another shot of Scorpion on the house.

SOLAR POWER
Straight – no chaser.
Saturn and Pluto are in mutual reception . . . and they are moving to sextile each other.

This is your opportunity to have a rodeo round-up and cull the herd. 
What is your past problem that still feels like dragging a dead horse mile after mile ? 
What is in your memory bank that does not serve your highest calling ?
What is in your life that is no longer running parallel to your path ?
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Who walks beside you and who tries to slow your progress ?
Who is your fellowship and who has got your back ?
Cull the herd accordingly.

If that sounds tough, well welcome to my world, I was born with Uranus Pluto up my nostril both conjunct Sun, and I have some whammy Scorp / 8th placements.
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STREAMLINE for STEALTH.

If we want to turn our world around: MICRO and MACRO, tough decisions are required.
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Scorpio Sun will shed light and increase perception on the material matters and powerful transformations you have been juggling / morphing between your Capricorn and Scorpio houses. As Pluto rips up, transforms Capricorn house – Saturn formulates structures and rebuilds your Scorpio house.
Saturn infused with Plutonian energy trine to Pisces Neptune and Chiron manifests as tangible healing that occurs almost imperceptibly. . . as if in a waking dream.

Sun in Scorp is a creative, passionate, probing Plutonic metamorph – DIVINE WILL – is in progress. Transformation via razor sharp perception, quick and clean, we are about to get supercreative with our metamorphosis.
We are mining for all we are worth – the priceless power  – the fire in our belly.

The Svadhisthana or Sacral energy center holds
:: sensual desires :: personal power :: the need for control ::

The goal is NOT to possess power – but to RADIATE it.

Love, money, creativity and partnership opportunities are favored, flavoured and flirty as Virgo Venus sextiles Mercury and North Node of Destiny in Scorpio.

One thing about Virgo Venus – she is practical. 
She’s taking notes, running the figures and keeping score.
I mean EXACTLY how viable is this ‘woo woo destiny thing’ ?
Is it built to last ?  We don’t wanna go through that again.
Virgo will sort Venus out – she’s a bit too perfectly picky for love, but she is excellent for financial wizardry on the budget.  She requires the balancing of minutiae.

Bringing all mental processes to visionary heights is Sagittarius Mars opposite Jupiter Rx in Gemini.   RETHINK GOALS, adjust philosophies, open your eyes and SEE.

Any Virgo Venus flirting is apt to be sexy / succinct. 
Straight – no chaser. 
Eyes open.

May the delicious Scorpionic slink be yours…
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Up next…
Tuesday October 6
Mercury stations Rx
5:04pm,CST, USA