Venus will float into Pisces on Saturday 1.14.2012 at 1:47 am, CST, USA.
She will linger in Pisces until February 8th (when she will enter Aries) in the sign of her exaltation.
Venus is love, art, and the spending and earning of money.
Neptune, which rules Pisces, is the higher octave Venus. While in Pisces, Venus will be at flying high – emotionally receptive, giving and passionately inspired.
Venus is coming to conjunct Chiron, express love in order to heal ~ extend this gift not only to others, but also to yourself.
Re-affirm your unique qualities that add to the collective all one.
Be comfortable in your own skin.
Feel the dynamic spirit of life coursing through your veins with each heartbeat.
Venus is now in the decan of Venus in the last degrees of Aquarius, have you been expressing love to your tribe ?
Signs are 30 degrees, divided into 3 decantes of ten.
The decan is an added flavor the planet steeps in on those degrees.
Upon entering Pisces she will be in the decan of Neptune (0-10 degrees), then Moon (10-20), then Mars (20-30).
Expect during the Neptune decan mystical love crushes (beer goggles ?!) or fantastical art urges, the need to sing and create. During the Moon decan expect even more emotional receptivity and fluctuation, during the Mars decan – action, maybe some aggression regarding love, money and wine, women and song.
Venus is feminine and magnetic, she represents what we attract in the natal chart.
She graces your Pisces house with beauty, charm, friends, and good luck.
Think of Willie Nelson…everybody loves Willie, he’s a good guy, fabulous talent, hard-worker, helps others.
He is a Taurus Venus in 10 conjunct Sun in 9 with Midheaven dovetailing between the two (all happening within 4 degrees in Taurus). When the government repossessed Willie’s stuff for tax evasion, his fans showed up to the auction in droves – bought it, and handed it right back to him. That’s Venus attracting love and kindness. Taurus motto is I have and Willie has friends – and lots of them.
Above all, while in Pisces, Venus will restore the emotional and spiritual balance.
Go with her flow … sneak off to your secret hiding place, get cozy with a book, rest easy in the arms of the universe.
Find the wonder and peace in the infinite cosmos that surrounds you.
January 23 2012 – February 9, 2013 Year of the Water Dragon of the rain
Yang Dragons are protectors of the East. They are associated with spring, green/blue, the elements wood/water. They control the rivers, rains and storms. Naga (sanskrit for serpent-like creatures) protected Siddharta, Guatama (the Buddha) from wind and rain for seven days.
Visionary, outspoken Dragons (Chen) are blessed with vitality, health and enthusiasm. Self-sufficient with a strong power of will, Dragon is a particularly lucky sign promising health, wealth and happiness. Dragons are witty, restless, freedom-loving and secretly enjoy shocking others with their eccentric behavior. Dragons are incredibly perceptive, imaginative, intuitive and drawn to the inexplicable. Dragons are original, admired and loved but they often prefer to remain at a distance. They are rational yet their actions are most often driven by instinct. Dragons are flamboyant, unpredictable, assertive and crave the limelight.
Dragons are especially compatible with Monkeys, Rats and Snakes.
Famous Dragons: Salvador Dali, Charles Darwin, Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, Oscar Wilde
Water as an element is receptive, passive and reflective and flows around obstacles.
Water (in frozen and liquid form) covers 75 % of the Earth’s surface. The human body is 70 % water, blood 80%‚ brain 75%‚ liver 96% water.
Water conducts electricity which makes it the medium of bio-electricity in all living things. The Water Dragon known as the electric eel can produce up to 1,000 volts with a current up to one ampere.
Electrolytes become ions (click here for more on ions) in water and conduct electricity. Drink plenty of water – especially in Water Dragon years in order to maintain electrolyte balance within the body.
Water Dragons are shape-shifters, revered and worshipped in the east- they are protective, humane and benevolent benefactors. Water turns Dragons protection towards matters of the heart and emotions of fellow human beings. Water Dragons are naturally drawn to metaphysics and intuitive arts. Water Dragons advocate justice, are humanitarians and are more willing to share than other Dragons. Water Dragons are optimistic and see things objectively. They know the ring of truth and are fluent communicators, open to new ideas and experiences.
Year of the Water Dragon and Neptune is going home to Pisces in February ? !
WoOo HoOo !
Sounds great to me ! (click here for Neptuneinfo)
Woo Hoo !
That freaky internet rumor yesterday gave me the heebie jeebies. I spent March 2 with him one year (his birthday) and it was great !!
Jon is a 5th house Pisces Sun and Venus- very generous, compassionate– check out his donation based New Jersey restaurant Soul Kitchen !
Jon inspired this post, by his lifelong generosity. Pisces is the sign of compassion, the cosmos, everyone as a collective. Jon is a Pisces Sun in the 5th house, which is the natural home of the Sun, the sign of Leo. (Leos are 5th house, have manes/hair. ahem. Bon Jovi. exactly ! )
Sun rules Leo and Leo rules the heart.
Pisces is the sign of compassion and caring.
Leos are typically generous, the Sun (rules generosity) ‘shines’ on them, and they radiate sunshine. Just ask one, they’ll tell ya! haha Leos don’t own the Sun, we all share it.
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Where is your Sun ?
That is where you are generous – you give of that sign and house. That is where you spread sunshine to others, where you have more to give, and do so. The Sun shines steadily, it is the evenstar, it does not wax and wane.
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Now look to the Moon in your natal chart. This is where you and your life fluctuate, your feelings are involved, you are sensitive and needy. This is where you want someone at your back, where you ask for help.
Picture the Lunar phases in your mind’s eye…as the Moon waxes and wanes and travels through each sign, your feelings, moods, ability to adapt and imagine, and your instincts will ebb and flow. You are more likely to take in the sign and house where Luna dwells.
One of the first things I did was go to the grocery store to buy food. It was a novel idea at the time, for I hadn’t really shopped for food in about 10 years. Now here I was, 30 years old, and probably doing the first good grocery shopping in my life. I was an adult with a credit card, a checkbook, and an ATM card. I could buy whatever I wanted in the store, but I had no idea where to start. I thought that everyone was staring at me. It had been so long that I had been anywhere sober that I didn’t know how to act or how to deal.
It was like being on LSD. The lights in the store were blaringly bright to me and the music seemed to be playing hidden messages. I bought some milk and barbecue sauce and cigarettes, and that is all. My shirt was drenched in sweat and I was having a full-blown panic attack. As I drove my car home, I stiffly steered my machine out of the way of three accidents as I rode the brakes the whole way. I could smell my brake pads when I got home.
~Duff McKagan, on his sobriety from “It’s so Easy and other lies” (click here) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Duff McKagan rose to fame as bassist for Guns ‘N’ Roses in 1987, when the band released Appetite for Destruction.
It is is the highest selling debut album of all time in the US, with more than 28 million copies sold worldwide.
Next year’s class of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will be headlined by Guns N’ Roses, the only group on the ballot to be inducted in their first year of eligibility. Click here for Cleveland R&RHoF
I’ve been reading Duff McKagan’s autobiography and obviously GN’R partied, but I had no idea how far it had gone for Duff personally. He is brutally honest, candid and wryly funny in his accounts of his life as bassist of GN’R.
On May 10, 1994, Duff’s pancreas burst and he was told by his doctor if he had one more drink he would die. He spent two weeks in the hospital recovering and taking small steps in the early stages of detox. He credits his sobriety in large part to guilt over seeing his mother suffering from worry while he was in critical care.
He describes his recovery from addiction through a love of mountain biking, and his voracious appetite for reading. He began to write columns for Seattle Weekly, and later many other publications. For Seattle Weekly McKagan archives, click here.
While in recovery Duff read GN’R financial documents and found he couldn’t understand them. He decided to enroll in financial accounting courses (got an A in his first class) and discovered his love of academics. He earned a 4.0 and was on the President’s list, quite an achievement from the earlier addictions he describes in his book. When he saw a need for musicians to be educated about their financial holdings and business deals, it lead him to start his own wealth management firm, MeridianRock, to educate musicians and give them the power to make good business decisions on their own behalf.
Duff is a 9 life path, meaning he is in a lifetime of completion. Nine is the culminated knowledge of all the numbers before it, and is a number of utopian ideals. Nines are spiritual and often have a lifetime of overcoming difficulties. They learn how to succeed themselves, in order to teach the world how to do the same. (I’m a nine too.)
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This is a solar chart, I don’t have the correct birth time, so keep in mind the planets in signs remain the same, houses may change.
First off, I was struck by how Duff has several difficult fixed (ingrained over several lifetimes) squares (inner conflict, obstacles) involving the Sun (ego, spirit) and Moon (feelings, fluctuation) – they are the luminaries, the conscious (Sun), and unconscious (Moon).
Hopes (Sun) and Dreams (Moon) forming an obstacle to one another.
Moon and Neptune in Scorpio are quiet, secretive and perceptive, if they do not find stimulation, (speaking from my personal experience here; and Duff speaks of facing it in the ring) they can turn the Scorpio stinger on themselves to feel something, anything.
Moon (habits, instincts) conjunct Neptune can mean addiction in its low vibration, or spiritual healing at its highest vibration. This conjunction is intuitive, and feels the cosmos coming in. It is a conjunction that can bring mystical emotions, heightened perceptions, illusions, daydreams and imagination into the waking life 24/7.
Note also the asteroid Dionysus 3671 is opposite Sun and Mars and square Neptune. Dionysus is symbolic not only of wine and merriment, but also of the sharp pruning of the vine in order for it to bear the best fruit. Sun (life, spirit), Mars (the blade) and Saturn (pruning) conjunction in Aquarius has indeed led to the bearing of Duff’s best life / fruit.
Coupled with a hedonistic Sun / Mars conjunction in square ( inner tension ) to the often delusional energies of Neptune, that’s one heck of an obstacle. Sun conjunct Mars is raw power, tempered by Saturn (the tester, restriction, karma) the need to restrict and rein in the wild tendencies inherent to the nature of Aquarius. That trio of planets in Aquarius, is in itself a hurdle.
Here’s his ace in the hole : Mercury trine Uranus. Mercury is thinking; Uranus intuition and innovation. Mercury in good aspect to Uranus is the sign of genius, a quick study. The mental faculties are very sharp and capable of radical trail-blazing ideas. Through his love of learning (Mercury is study and is sextile {opportunity} Venus, love) he transformed his life (Sun) his habits, (Moon conjunct Neptune) and his creativity, his love and spiritual health (Venus exalted in Pisces) all by taking the opportunity (sextiles) to learn and stimulate his intellect.
He also took the opportunity (sextile) to keep actively busy through sports (Mars), higher education (Jupiter), and he continually pushes his endurance (Aries) physically in order to improve his self-esteem (Sun).
Duff’s North Node of Destiny is in Cancer, the sign of nurturing. Once he got himself on his feet, he will push ahead helping others too. Now Duff is strong in heart, mind, body, and spirit and has a loving family. He is, by building (Saturn rules building, the earth and rocks) MeridianRock (perfect name- I love it !) reaching out to help his fellow musicians learn how to handle their finances so they can take care of themselves too.
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Very quickly I want to say a few words about the day Duff was admitted into the hospital with a burst pancreas. Moon rules the pancreas, and conjunct Neptune in the natal, it can indicate a weakness. If circumstances in the life and transits activate it, trouble may arise. Duff speaks in his book of alcoholism and drug use spiraling out of control, and that will further weaken the body.
Transiting Sun 19 Taurus (life-force) was opposite (call for compromise) Moon 19 / Neptune 17 conjunction (addiction) in Scorpio (the house of death and rebirth). Transiting Moon was also nearing opposition at 11 Taurus. Transiting Neptune was conjunct natal Mercury (which is trine Uranus in the natal – that’s a wake up call !) Transiting Pluto and North Node of Destiny were conjunct in Scorpio as well – a call for transformation, rebirth, and rising to meet your destiny. Ohm mani padme hum
Duff’s band, Loaded released their 3rd studio album, The Taking, earlier this year, see the video below for an acoustic version of Flatline.
An Eclipse prayer, a Neptune direct & going home prayer ~
guitars, mystics, prophets, spiritual healing and the cosmos…
Neptune is illusion, fog and dreams, the ocean ~ fluctuation on a grand scale.
She has been getting zapped in a fixed electrical sign since August 24th, 1998.
Neptune will, at long last, enter Pisces, the sign she rules, on February 3, 2012.
blessed be om mani padme hum
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South Node indicates the past life, or the road previously travelled.
It is called Ketu- the dragon’s tail- and is likened to a valley.
North Node is the trail we are currently blazing in this life.
It is called Rahu- the dragon’s head- and is likened to a peak.
North Node at the time of last nights eclipse was in the 4th house indicating Karmic Balancing.
North Node placed in the 4th house means the energy is used to do whatever is needed and ordered by the other trinity of nodal point groups. The 4th, 8th, and 12th houses are the Trinity of Psychicism.
The Trinity of Life.
North Node in 1st, 5th or 9th is the redistribution network, intellectual and creative growth.
The Trinity of Wealth.
North Node in 2nd, 6th, or 10th is responsible for material structures on the material plane.
The Trinity of Association.
North Node in 3rd, 7th, or 11th is responsible for maintaining peace and harmony in society.
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Mine is in Aries, 4th. Polarities girl learns a life of balance, not too surprising.
If you would like to know where your Lunar Nodes are located, click here and enter your birth info.
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George’s left hand is forming the Abhaya Mudra : The gesture of protection or fearlessness. His right hand is forming the Gyan Mudra : Posture of knowledge, instruction by silence or contemplation, gesture of teaching, intuitive knowledge. Mudra is Sanskrit- it means attitude, gesture or seal.
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Sunday morning I was having my am coffee and sitting down to listen to my friend, Debra Clement do her radio show, with her guest psychic medium, Daria Justyn. I was amazed at Daria’s accuracy in an impromptu reading for Debra, she was very specific in describing family events, including names.
Then came the info regarding George Harrison that tweaked my brain a bit.
Daria was meditating before the show, and the energy of George Harrison came through. ! She relayed her experience during the show, which can be found here: 11:11:11 11/13/11. (takes a minute to load)
~ > take note this is a show re: 11:11:11 < ~
I’ve transcribed the message from George below:
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He said the world is a reflection of what’s in our hearts. The global level of change is what we are reflecting from the inside out. He never expected to be an emissary of peace and love.
Much of his life he felt ‘shackled’.
He tried to find balance – between the shackles – and freedom to live quietly.
He was an enigma who liked living on the QT. The enigma was – he wanted to retreat, but also wanted to share the joy of what he was experiencing, what he was learning. It caused tension in his throat chakra, which Daria felt coming through in her meditation. Wanting to express yet wanting a quiet life, caused trouble with his throat chakra. He saw much of his life as black and white- one side was fact and real/ the other fiction and unreal (fame).
The last thing he said was…
Life is black and white – as far as – you are either in the light or the dark.
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What you see pictured above is my studio, so obviously you see I am a Beatles fan.
Now considering I had just written about 11:11/ balance myself, this radio show was covering the same, and I had specifically mentioned there is no black or white / shades of grey, the message from George had a resonance with me.
To put it mildly, lol. My jaw dropped, I got gooseflesh and my hairs stood on end like tiny little antenna is more like it.
Read the excerpt below from my previous post, see what you think~
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It’s a matter of polarities. Yin / yang, positive / negative, attract / repel. It is a matter of polar opposites finding their balance. It is an awareness of the choice between the two that counts There is no black or white in humans. We are all shades of grey, a fusion of the planetary energies put in place when we were born.
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When I was posting the above regarding shades of grey, I was a bit uncomfortable with it. I see creatures/humans as rainbow chakra energy beings, but that didn’t suit my analogy of polarities very well, so I ditched it.
Well, now Mars is Virgo, there were spirit communications between Neptune peeps, and I am tweaking it.
I do find it interesting that not only is transiting Scorpio Sun nearly on top of my natal Neptune (which squares my 8th house Venus / Jupiter), but Mercury is also currently conjunct Venus and North Node in Sagittarius, my 12th house. The 12th house of receptivity and psychics, and there was communication / love pointing (node) the spiritual way.
SooOo what I should have said was ‘we are all colors of the rainbow, a fusion of the planetary energies put in place when we were born.’ Every moment of our lives is an opportunity to choose love, kindness and understanding instead of fear, hate, greed, etc.. If an action is conceived with a loving heart than it will bear loving fruits – while anger breeds more anger.
Hence choose the light / rather than the dark side of life. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thank you Daria and George~ om mani padme hum gneissmoonastrology.net
Wednesday November 9 at 12:54 pm, CST USA… Neptune goes direct ~ >
turning to head back home to Pisces ~> WaaHoOoo YiPpiE !
There is light at the end of the tunnel for Pisces + Neptune peeps ! Hallelujah, AMEN !
Direct motion begins at 28 degrees of Aquarius. Neptune will drift ashore in Pisces on February 3, 2012.
She will relax in home waters for 14 years until 2024/5. Bliss !
I felt such a powerful whoosh when Neptune was back in sign this summer.
Water on Water feels much better than Water Electrified.
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Neptune (higher octave of Venus), is the planet of spiritual intelligence.
Being zapped by Uranus (the higher octave of Mercury) and flip-flopping polarities in an air sign known for detached scientific intelligence is not akin to Neptune’s dreamy, inspired, foggy, stealth.
Check 28 degrees in the house of Aquarius in your chart, for when Neptune goes direct, you will feel a shift in perspective ~> an outward manifestation of dreams and visions cultivated during June to November in that house.
It’s a void moon in Pisces and Uranus is trine the Mercury Venus conjunction so grab your pendulums, folks.
Uranus rules pendulums.
Mercury + Venus = love communication.
Pisces is the cosmos, divination; the Moon, intuition, receptivity.
A trine is the easy swift path between energies.
Moon enters Aries at 1:02 pm Sunday, CST USA.
A void moon is when the moon is not making any significant aspects before leaving the sign it is in. The Moon rules feelings, intuition, fluctuation, subconscious, the public. When the moon is adrift in the sky (so to speak) all these matters may wildly fluctuate.
Some folks say that the time of a void moon is a time to stop everything that involves judgement, signing contracts, starting projects or otherwise getting involved with decision making. I suggest you follow your intuition where this is concerned, though I do suggest caution, after all…better safe than sorry.
Neptune is my most highly aspected planet and it falls in the 11th (natural house of Aquarius, Uranus rules) and my Sun is conjunct Uranus, meaning I get the vibes, and I go with it. I treat most void moons as if they were dark moons, or introspective times to retreat into quiet thinking, contemplation- a time for release.
I sense it is very similar to a momentary retrograde where the moon energies take a break from going out, and instead flow inward. It is very much like a high tide and low tide- after all moon is what brings the ocean tides. The energies are flowing from the outside towards the inside. Prime divination time- try it !
Above all, the Moon is intuitive so go with what you feel regarding void moons.
As a rule I get better results from a pendulum when I am not feeling well.
Here’s why : Moon rules Cancer, which rules the breast and stomach. I have Moon (intuition) on the 4th (natural house of Cancer) in Taurus (exalted) opposite Neptune (divination) in Scorpio (metaphysics, the unseen) on the 11th (natural house of Uranus-pendulums- ruled Aquarius). Uranus rules stress, pendulums, and my stomach issues are stress-induced with high-strung energies of Mercury (MC) and Uranus strong in my chart. Mercury (communication) is sextile (oportunity) the 8th (unseen) and Uranus is sextile Neptune (opportunity for whammy divination), so if my vibes are outta whack, or strong Uranus action is happening- Yowsa !
Alex- “What is_____” for $500. lol
I have successfully dowsed a hidden water line in my backyard, the gender of unborn babies, and scratch-off lotto wins. (No I won’t give you the winning numbers, lol. )
Each user generally has a particular direction for yes, no, maybe that is unique to them. When I began dowsing, I asked which direction meant each answer and it has followed the same since- except when I change pendulums. In which case, I ask the new pendulum for each direction/ answer when I begin.
I have used Odin stones on leather thongs, forked sticks, rods, rings.
Sacred space, reverence and purpose is the key. I ask each time I enter sacred space what means what and move forward from there. Some pendulums differ directionally or are very fast/slow it depends on the pendulum. Each pendulum has an inherent energy signature. Merry meet, find ways & part.
I have 3 crystal pendulums and vary the stone pendulum in accordance to the type of question being asked. In matters of health and love I have an amethyst & rose quartz, for business I use sardonyx. I also have a faceted clear crystal which has an energy that is off the charts ~ it is like the Ferrari of pendulums, seriously ~ quicksilver, fast and wild !
Makes sense, since Mercury is quicksilver, and Uranus is Mercury’s higher octave- facets in a gem allow for more refraction of light. Sun is light, illumination, Mercury quicksilver communication, Uranus prisms, telepathy, Neptune rainbows and divination.
Dowsing works well with a forked stick and a ring on a string, so don’t get the impression that I am all about needing fancy stone pendulums. Simply open your mind and your eyes to the possibilities, everything on Earth is sacred and vibrating at one speed or another…as long as it swings, it’ll work.
Check your chart for where Mercury, Uranus and Neptune fall and the aspects they make for an indication of your dowsing talents.
Before I go, one last thing…my brother Jeff (mega- Aquarian) took me to the Wheel Bar in Estes Park, Colorado in the early 80’s where we sat and watched this giant pendulum (that I put into motion) make a spirograph drawing while we ate.
Was the coolest thing ever for 2 Uranian arty types to be doing, really. (Uranus also rules scientific contraptions.)
I have used Odin stones on leather thongs, forked sticks, rods, rings.
Sacred space, reverence and purpose is the key. I ask each time I enter sacred space what means what and move forward from there. Some pendulums differ directionally or are very fast/slow it depends on the pendulum. Each pendulum has an inherent energy signature. Merry meet, find ways & part.
This post is dedicated to my friend who has lost a friend, and to my brother, Jeff who I miss every day.
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