Category Archives: Divination

root of the root

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Hello fine people- today’s reading for insight from The Psychic Tarot by John Holland.

Past:  Illumination, truth, time for you to shine- very positive card.

Present:  5 mental card speaks of change, learning, how situations are handled.  Be sensitive to your own energies and those of others.  Choose your battles.  Stay or go, fight or flight ?

Future:  Base or root chakra:  This chakra is most closely related to earthy issues.  It points to the basics of survival and stability, or remaining rooted in the physical.  Root chakra represents those issues involving Saturn, sex drive and fear.  Root chakra is primal.

Spirit card:  5 emotions card speaks of emotional loss, the heart heals and becomes stronger through new wisdom and knowledge.  Focus on the positive, what is left to be grateful for rather than steep in what is lost.

namaste~
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plotting Pluto

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Hello folks,
Lessons learned, Pluto-style are up to bat in today’s card reading.

You choose the meanings for each card as they relate to your personal Plutonic experience.
All intentions of this spread to bring the most benevolent insightful outcome for all…

Pluto direct                         Pluto retrograde                          Pluto direct

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Pluto goes direct on 09.16.2011 in Capricorn at 4 degrees.
Check out which house Capricorn falls into in your chart for where your life will begin moving forward after the internal engines of transformation erupt forth new life.
(Retrograde is forcing inner metamorphosis, direct brings lessons from the depths to the surface)

This day is the vibration of 2.
Two = splitting the zygote, receptivity, union, sensitivity, duality, diplomacy and balance.

Fun times on the 16th as Venus opposes Uranus while Mars squares the Moon / Jupiter conjunction.
Luckily, Neptune is on the bench and a Grand Earth trine keeps things steady as she goes, Capt’n.

Here’s the card that gets to the bottom of things (underside of deck):


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may your lessons learned give birth to a magnificent phoenix
namaste~
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good fortune

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Well…no wonder I love fortune cookies !
Cookies are Venus and Jupiter ruled – both of which I have in the 8th house.

The 8th house is the natural house of Scorpios – secret compartment freaks~
!? whats inside ?! 
I have fun-loving Leo there, and we LOVE toys and games.

Surprises are Uranus which I have conjunct Sun (gifts) and my Uranus is conjunct destructive Pluto.
Destroy cookie, get curious surpise ~ancient wisdom ~
All of these planets in my chart are in aspect to Neptune or fortunes !
nom nom nom


I made them once for my ex-boyfriend and sadly, they turned out like greasy little pancakes.
(He scored points by eating them anyway )
I still write my own fortunes.  I accidentally got a hilarious translation a few years ago when my document margins slipped, and two fortunes got smooshed together.
It read:    You will soon see a rare bird.  Dinner !

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The history of the fortune cookie is fascinating…did you know they used to be tucked in the crack, not inside ?!
The fortune above is beautiful, yes ?!
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Fortune cookie researcher, Yasuko Nakamachi, a Japanese grad student, found the cookie’s Japanese origins, in an illustration from a 19th-century book of stories, “Moshiogusa Kinsei Kidan.”  A character in one of the tales is an apprentice in a senbei store.

In Japan, the cookies are called, variously, tsujiura senbei (“fortune crackers”), omikuji senbei (“written fortune crackers”), and suzu senbei (“bell crackers”).
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namaste~
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zig zag moon

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I went all Virgo persnickety on my yard today – mowed, and yanked a ton of weeds so this dark Virgo moon I can rest easy knowing my inside and outside chores are done.  A happy Virgo is a Virgo with work completed (Virgo is the sign of work and service).
The cool thing is what stopped me dead in my tracks ! 
I brake ( break ! ) for critters.
I just had to get a pic of this most beautiful, groovy (Saturn-ruled) spider and her web.

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How appropriate my new spider friend is a Nephila, or ‘fond of spinning’, as I have been having a weird spun-out, emotional weekend.   Transiting Jupiter is nearly conjunct my natal 4th house Moon/Neptune opposition my emotional geiger counter is c-c-clicking !
I need a distraction, so here are some pics (Neptune) from my home (4th house) !

Golden silk orb-weavers  are sometimes referred to as writing spiders due to occasional zigzag patterns called stabilimenta  (web decorations) built into their webs.  There are many theories as to why the spiders spin such patterns, such as they make shiny UV attractors, excess silk, but the coolest theory is because they like the patterns, it is their spider art.  How cool is that ?!

I’m going with aesthetics, because I once saw a large web with a teeny-weenie miniature web (just like the big one) in the far upper right corner of the web.  I often wondered if it was a practice web, wall art or maybe a guest bed…who knows..?!  I keep an eye out just in case I see another someday.

If my theory is true, it would mean spiders are not only Saturn-ruled, but also Venus (art) ruled.  This particular spider often kills her mate, so better toss in some Mars and Pluto as well.
What do you think….?

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I looked up spider totem, and it is spot-on because I wasn’t even going to post this evening….and just as I waited for the page to load, I glanced at the clock- 11:11 !   (manifestation time)
So groOovy…let’s all see the web of life during the dark Virgo Moon !

Spider helps understanding of illusions and reality, spiritual and physical balance, awakens sensibilities and weaves influences in development in your own world, stay focused on the center of things.  Spider is gentleness and strength and will remind you of this pattern. She also will aid in communications and the written word.
namaste~

be at ease

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I pulled these cards for my readers, with the intention that the reading will deliver guidance on the path towards the most benevolent outcome for all.  This reading is activated when you read this post.

I call this layout Foundation of Strength , the bottom two cards are the foundation; the resulting strength is indicated in the single card above.

 IX- Aloneness
befriend your quiet stillness, listen to what your heart whispers teach you, unfold the divine wisdom within, fully embrace your aloneness…
‘ Be a light unto yourself ‘ – Buddha 

< Slowing Down
let go of attachments and illusions, be free of expectations, find joy and beauty in each moment, each breath of life.  The essence is at ease.

XXI – Completion
insightful third eye understands the whole : self, life, cosmos, endings and beginnings present in each moment

namaste ~

the seer looks up

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Hermes was the god of the birds of omen, birds despatched from heaven under the divine inspiration of prophetic Apollon. Only seers, under the god’s patronage, could distinguish birds of omen from those “idly-chattering” and interpret their divine messages.

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Hermes presided over the rustic art of divination by pebbles aka Lithomancy practiced in the highlands of shepherds and cattle-herders.  He was said to have learnt the art from certain Nymphai known as Thriai, given to him by Apollon in a trade for the music of the pipe.

Mercury stations direct today, in the shadowzone (degree where it began retrograde) until September 9, when it will return ‘fully’ direct.  Communications become easier, less technical mishaps, less typos, less re-working, less navel gazing, revisions of the past finally completed.
warp speed factor one….

Gaia breathes

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Odd that after my ‘breathing‘ post the other day, I was wondering why I didn’t think of including info about how the Earth breathes….then the US gets earthquakes.  She has been breathing for millions of years; very slowly, and at a lower vibration than humans, but breathing nonetheless.

See Pangea at left for a visual of how the continents looked millions of years ago, before plate tectonics moved the earth by the addition of new ground rising up, and older pushing below.

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From Aug 22-24, several earthquakes hit regions where they do not normally occur.  Several small pre-cursor quakes out in Cali– nothing new there, they take their juice shaken most days anyway–then a 5.3 near the Colorado/New Mexico border, a few small ones near the New Madrid fault, then soon after a 5.8 in Virginia.

(Click here for USGS, then click animation to view the sequence of recent earthquakes)

I have been reading Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home by Rupert Sheldrake. In his book, he mentions earthquake prediction via animal behavior, also known as Etho-Geological Forecasting.
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Chart for the time of quake indicates chart ruler, Pluto (earth shifts) in Capricorn (material world), in square to Uranus (vibrations,quakes) in the 4th house of home and property, in square to Mars (energy) which is in opposition to Pluto.  Mars (activity) square Saturn (bedrock, Earth), which is also square Pluto.  Be aware these aspects are in cardinal signs (crisis, activity, action).
(see big red square)

There is also a grand Earth trine involving Jupiter (expansion), Venus (sensations) and Sun (government buildings) with metamorphic Pluto.

How to reduce earthquake dangers.
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namaste~
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