Choice Choices

Merc D in Scorp 003B. Evans

Having worked 7 days a week for many years, it is with glee that I dive through the very last of my basement boxes.
Christ it has taken me forevah, glad to be getting fully organized at last.

Basement spelunking – very Capricorn Pluto, yah ?  (Saturn, Pluto rule caves)
In celebration of Mercury direct in Scorpio, I bring you yet another dead foot in my collection.  Others here.
I laughed my ass off when I saw this.  Oh look !  Dead foot LOL !

Timing, impeccable – of course.
Mercury direct in Scorpio (creepy dead stuff) in trine to Neptune (high octave artistry) while Venus (lower octave artistry) is conjunct Pluto in Capricorn (old dead stuff from a dude).  Jupiter Rx in Cancer and I unearth an old professors (Jupiter) work in the bowels of my home (Cancer).  Moon in late Aquarius – surprise !

I was gifted this (Venus rules gifties) many years ago by my sculpture prof… my friends and I were given a choice and of course I went straight for the creepy one.  That’s nothing new – others idea of creepy is my normal.  If you’ve been reading here long, you already get that, the Gneiss bit. 
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Mercury trine Neptune, Chiron from water to water is great for uncovering perceptions revolving around what ails/sustains you.  Use what you love (sextile Venus) to work with for starters.  When suffering, what do you turn to in order to ease the pain ?  
Does what you turn to create more balance or more struggle (Scorpio) ?
Worth a look under this aspect.

 
Is there balance in metamorphosis – YES – one thing changing into another is an exchange, a partnership, a trade.  Capricorn Venus conjunct Pluto square Uranus in Aries challenges us to find the right trade offs so we can move forward.

Moon into Pisces
8:36pm CST, USA

Make water, film, art, dreams, imagination a part of your next 2 Piscean Moon days.
Moon will trine Mercury, North Node, Saturn, and Sun in these next 48 hrs. giving depth to instinctual choices via square to the flexible signs of think – Gemini & Sag.

Venus conjunct Pluto = transformational choices

Make it work !
Peace, Love & Choice Choices
GMA

cat burglars

Posted
WANTED: CAT
$ REWARD $
posters all over town today.

So as it turns out, transit Mars opp Pluto square Uranus Rx (on my natal Saturn Rx) was not so trouble-free after all.
 My natal Saturn Rx trines Mars in 12th house sign, Sag.

So I found out thieves – cat burglars – snuck in, upturned a bunch of quarters out of a small container. Then carefully placed the tiny rose quartz cat back in same container.  hmph. weird.

+ Cat has gone missing. Two days now.

The Lenormand reads are too revealing, not gonna share, just posting some Neptune clouds like thieves in the night, and holding hope in my heart.
vid source here.

peace out
GMA

under the stars

WoOoHoOo  !
80 years of drive-in movies !

A New Jersey auto-parts store manager named Richard Hollingshead Jr. cut the ribbon on the world’s first drive-in movie theater in Camden, New Jersey, on June 6, 1933.
The astro when he patented the idea, (on May 16, 1933) is a great testament to the hot Mars action that when down later in many a backseat (Saturn) across the US.

Mercury rules cars.
Neptune rules film.
Jupiter rules the great outdoors, festivals.

Virgo stellium (Mercury rules)
Mars (independent impulses, action that drives the chart) is bang on Neptune (film under the stars, space), with Jupiter (freewheeling frolic) conjunct both.

Flirty Gemini Venus squares (second base with Biff tonight..?) stellium, while Mercury trines it from sensual Venus-ruled Taurus.  Mercury and Venus are in mutual reception – they get each others energy – love under the stars ?  YES !

Aquarius Moon sextiles Uranus in Aries – drive-ins changed the future of friendship and hanging out.  North Node in Pisces – film meets the cosmos.
I love drive-ins.
Find one near you, here and please support them !

Peace
 GMA

ps.  I have Mars in Sag (my 12th house sign), Neptune highly aspected, (including square Venus/Jupes).

divining the sworld

Amnesty International

Amnesty is rooted in the greek word amnestia (amnesia stems from the same root). Amnesty is a pardon extended by the government to large groups of people.

Neptune rules Pisces, the 12th house of imprisonment.
Neptune is suffering and transcendence.

Pardon and forgiving is Venus, the stem.

Higher octave is Neptune, the root.


Venusian (personal) love is a stem of the cosmic root; Neptune (source) love.
We are here to grow on earth, branch from the root, learn by experience.

Earthbound love – I HAVE unBALANCEd DESIREs  
(you are mine, I am yours)

Cosmic love – I BELIEVE that LOVE creates HARMONY.
(justice is Just Us)

Venus rules Libra
Saturn (Karma) is exalted in Libra, bringing Balance to the Scales of Justice.

Equalization :: Love and Harmony

Mitakuye Oyasin
All My Relations
One Tribe
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When imprisoned, immobile, the sworld catches your attention.

I left that misspelling…because that is exactly how it is.
When the worlds swirls . . . minutiae beckons.

Desperation (Saturn) meets innovation (Uranus).
Cosmos (Pisces) meets (Virgo) microspace.
Seconds of divinity are plucked from an ocean of time.

Squares to Pisces land in the houses of travel (ouch); trines are in water – metamorphosis (Scorpio) through caring (Cancer) for another life.

Piscean prisoners seek awareness, compromise, redemption, through the (reflection/opposition) of Virgo.

Balance through Opposites
The Wound and the Healer.
Isolation and transcendence.
The prisoner and the pet.

Virgo rules pets.
Have you ever thought about how many inmates in prison stories have pets..?

– Bird Man of Alcatraz
– Brook’s crow, Jake in Shawshank
– Mr. Jingles the mouse in Green Mile
– Litmus pet mouse in Escape from Alcatraz
– Max’s cat in Midnight Express

Spider freely spins a microcosmic sworld – while the prisoner, trapped… watches, contemplating his micro sworld.  Each separately building one moment on top of another and another and another and another and another.  They become friends passing the time, doing their daily routines (Virgo) together.
Helping each other heal.  Pisces / Virgo axis.

Life is Life.
All life deserves respect, the freedom to live, explore and seek happiness.


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Venus rules forgiveness and navels – entering.
Neptune rules accomplices, meditation, third eye – departure.

ALL ONE.

LOVE.
PATIENCE.
FAMILY.
SWORLD.

FREEDOM
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foot follies

The groOovy thing about tons of planets in Pisces is the deader than a hammer sleepfests night after night after night after night.

The not so groOvy thing about tons of planets in Pisces is yammering outta bed at silly o’clock trying to gain vertical while tangled in blankets to do the footcramp boogie.

You know what I’m talkin’ about.
heh.heh…dontcha ?!
Talk about a rude awakening !

Neptune rules Pisces rules feet.
Mars rules pain.  Uranus, spasms.

Mars nears Uranus from late Pisces.
Eat your bananas !
♠ fair warning ♠

nite all & sweet dreams
peace out
GMA

Lofty metamorphics

I’ve been doing lots of brainstorming about the environment.
I have changed my personal habits to become more ecologically sound.
I buy local and organic, eat clean (no boxes), am boycotting palm oil, the list goes on.

The world economic infrastructure cannot sustain itself and life on this planet.

The Uranus Pluto square, is forcing the issue – the ideals born during the late 1960’s  Uranus Pluto conjunction are no longer workable on the material plane  – the global economic system is broken – it needs to be stripped down, overhauled with a keen eye toward balancing both ECONOMY and ECOLOGY. 

We are fighting nuclear leaks and waste in the water, poisons leaching into the soil, trash washing up on our shores, toxic oil spills, Indonesian rainforests are being leveled for cardboard take out boxes – making tigers nearly extinct in the process.  Our food is laden with chemicals and entire families of elephants are slaughtered for ivory trinkets.

Earthkind is dying, we are killing our planet, life on it, and animals are choking on our convenient trash.  I can’t sleep nights thinking about the state of our home.

Surfrider here (clean H20, trash surfboards)

The wheel of life is turning like the gears of a cosmic clock – ever-changing, always pushing us to evolve into a higher state of vibration.  Humans need a keen eye and quick mind to find long-term solutions for our Mother, Earth.  Gaia.
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Leo Moon (Mother, Home) opposes Sun, Mercury, Mars all in Aquarian Air.

Science and progress (Aqua Sun and Mercury) move forward with an eye towards the past (they square Saturn in Scorpio) blazing trails of optimism, re-thinking the future (they trine Jupiter Rx in Gemini – also Air) how to heal our seas, ourselves and our planet as a whole (Jup Rx square to Neptune and Chiron in Pisces).

Jupiter direct
6 degrees Gemini
January 30

5:37am CST, USA

Jupiter goes direct in square to Neptune and Chiron in Pisces.
The energies of healers, philosophers and teachers – will shift into forward gear.

Square is an obstacle, we must work to change it – internal change.
I change, you change, we all have to change.
 Our ‘throw away’ culture is based on a corporate lie – there is no AWAY.

Mitakuye Oyasin (Lakota)  We are all related.

Jupiter can lead us into the future with HOPE, we can stop this.  NOW.
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I was inspired to write this windy SCIENCE / AIR post because of this:

Japan’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy has announced plans to build the  world’s largest offshore wind farm near Fukushima as part of plans to reconstruct the area stricken by nuclear disaster in 2011. 

Sheringham Shoal Wind Farm

If you would like more deets re: wind farms, my friend earthstonestation has done the research, you find links to his wind farm pages below. 

Wind Farm Cons 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5

peace
gneissmoonastrology.net

be free

Martin Clark
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“The clouds are nature’s poetry, and the most egalitarian of her displays, since everyone has an equally fantastic view of them.
Clouds are for dreamers, and their contemplation benefits the soul. Yet their beauty is so everyday as to be in danger of being overlooked …”

The Cloudspotters Guide, by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society
Note: All pics here are from CAS, follow the links for artists
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Aeromancy
is greek for air (aero) divination (manteia)
Divination from air or from atmospheric substances – such as clouds, rainbows, lightning storms, wind – anything in the atmo.
Neptune rules clouds and divination.
To practice aeromancy, think of a question . . . lay back in the grass . . . relax . . . let your mind wander  . . . let your stream of consciousness flow . . . free associate . . . signs and shapes in the clouds will reveal your answer.
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Kevin GerienColin Fraser & Maggie Carson

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 “… our fundamental nature of mind is a luminous expanse of awareness that is beyond all conceptual fabrication and completely free from the movement of thoughts.It is the union of emptiness and clarity, of space and radiant awareness that is endowed with supreme and immeasurable qualities.From this basic nature of emptiness everything is expressed; from this everything arises and  manifests.”

– Tibetan teacher Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche describing Buddha Nature
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Andrew Kirk
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namaste
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Divenusian Octopussy



There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Khalil Gibran

There is a sacredness in tears.  They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.  They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.  They are messengers of overwhelming grief . . . and unspeakable love. 
Washington Irving

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This post is for those of us who have to drag ourselves through the holidays.

In my world: first hurdle – selling, second hurdle – lush holiday, third hurdle – hormone fest, fourth hurdle – buying.  My reward for crossing the not finished line is the month of love and old anniversary while I am single.  Okay, yeah, whatever.  yee HAW

I know many have it worse, I am fully aware of that.  I am often my own worst problem and I am fully aware of that also.  Saturn Rx ruler in Aries 3 equals roadblocks of the mind / actions. I KNOW it, I SEE it (Saturn trines Sag Mars in 11) happening . . .so I percolate and stew on the issue – until PoP !   Action comes in a rush ~>

Lately I have been struggling with the sauce again.  I haven’t mentioned it because my mother reads this on occasion, who knows who else.  Well, now she knows, you know.  Everybody knows. 

There is a reason I call myself Neptune girl – Neptooney is the source of major lessons in my natal – suffering and transcendence; sensitivity and deception.  Artists deliver hard lessons over and over. Fame is nearly always a factor, as is music.  The surprise gain and subsequent loss of love, fame and infamy, villans and heroes – are all laid upon my astrological banquet table.

I divinate in every way I know how because it is the only way I have found to survive the stress shocks.  Forewarning is necessary so that I may fortify – force myself into lock and load deal with it mode. 

Thus I have tuned Neptuner in some ways to my advantage – yet make no mistake – this slippery fish is ever changing and elusive.  She is the siren and the shipwreck. 

I have written about alcoholics and natal aspects here.  I figured I might backslide, it’s common – go sober awhile – get cocky, I can handle it now.

Yeah, right.
Neptune squaring Leo – self deception is the crowned King. 
Lovely. 

…yet, I know things happen for a reason, and I have a few ideas…

The Neptune in Aquarius years were particularly horrific for me.  My natal Neptuner squares Venus conjunct Jupiter in Leo 8th; Neptune transit Aquarius means it opposed Leo as well.

So when Neptune went retrograde, dipped into Aquarius one last time – of course the Aquarian re-appeared, threw me for yet another love loop – stole my heart (and that’s not all) then vanished.
 I regain a bit of equilibrium (Libra MC), am making progress here – cue new hero, new gains followed by new loss, shiny new suffering and new lock down status in order to deal and process.
This loss I have taken hard.
This one is exceptional, magnificent, the dovetailing, sublime.

I remember writing when Neptune was about to go retrograde back into Aquarius, thatwe had forgot something and we had to go back and fetch it.’
 It just flopped in the brain pan and I went with it.  How true it turned out to be, that Claircognizance / Preception thing I get was spot on.

This whole time I was taking clematis flower essence from flowers I gathered on the last Pisces Full Moon in Aquarius. Clematis promotes practicality and reality.  Did it help ?  Considering past Neptooney transits and love transitions, yes, it helped.

Good Goddess, the irony. 
That last total solar eclipse was conjunct my natal Neptuner, so I figure North Node approach is right on time.  Have I flushed all the Scorpionic Neptuner 8th house squares from my system. . .? 

Unlikely, but I am getting there.  

Mercury sextiles Jupiter from Libra 9th at MC, so I write and Write and WRITE in order to GET RIGHT, ya dig ?


be careful out there
with all best wishes for
health, happiness, love and peace of mind . . .
! * happy 2013 * !

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New name is a cosmic joke, really
Leo on the regenerative 8th house
makes me laugh, I’m keeping it.
O&O