~~~~~~
If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding, then you are a mine of understanding in the making.
If you live to reach the Essence one day, then your life itself is an expression of the Essence.
Know that in the final analysis you are that which you search for.
~~~~~~
Nobody, Son of Nobody (Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir, 11th century Muslim, Sufi) Translated by Vraje Abramian
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
namaste~
gneissmoonastrology.net
The Other Side of Time – Freydoon RassouliOpen up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.
All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting
While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.
~Hafiz
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hafiz (1320-1391), born Shams-ud din Mahommed, was a Persian sufi poet. He studied poetry was in the Sufic Order of Dervishes and was an interpretive professor of the Koran. He knew the Koran by heart – leading to his pen-name, Hafiz, or ‘one who remembers’.
His poetry was wild for his day – love and wine and enjoying life, he rejected Sunni law, causing him to be banned. He was a free – thinking heretic, wildly popular in his lifetime. When it came time to bury Hafiz – authorities questioned if it would be allowed on sacred ground.
By this time his poetry had become so famous that his works were used for divination.
(I mean really ~ how cool is that ?!)
The authorities consulted his work for the answer of burial.
Turn not away from the bier of Hafiz,
Steeped in sin, he will enter Paradise.
Hafiz was buried in the center of a cemetery in Shiraz.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Neptune rules memory as well as poetry, divination, and dance.
Could not find birth info ~ but Neptune, lots of Pisces and Neptune, yes..?
…words like waves…so lovely…
I needed this today.
comments welcome.
namaste~
gneissmoonastrology.net
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night,
And if you go no one may follow,
That path is for your steps alone.
~ Robert Hunter
I spoke of the solar Hobbit eclipse, but I did not speak of the men of Middle Earth, one of which is Aragorn, a fine King, a man of quality.
Sun Quintile Uranus
Viggo is a free spirit, a traveler, a multi-talented renaissance man, but most of all, Viggo is a kind man.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Viggo has Sun, North Node of Destiny and Venus conjunct in Libra – let’s face it, he’s handsome, but that’s not all. He is kind and fair and went to bat for his fellow actors in LoTR – seeking fair pay for work on the trilogy. A man of quiet power and strength, he has Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune all conjunct in Scorpio.
Click here for a fabulous interview in NY Times In Style Magazine.
I also recommend following Perceval Press, so click here to read.
Freya (Freia) is a Norse goddess of the Vanir (nature deities). She is the goddess of love and beauty, protectress of the world, and patron saint of wise and powerful magical women.
She can be found on the fields of war receiving the slain in a chariot driven by two blue cats. She is wise in magic and wears a cloak of feathers which allows her to transform into a falcon. Freya rules over the plants, earth and animals of the forest and can be called upon to assist in affairs of love.
She wears a finely woven golden amber necklace whose power cannot be resisted, called Brisingamen which was purchased from dwarves.
Friday is the day of Freya (called by the Romans, Venus).
Freia is asteroid 76, check her out in your natal chart and apply the above.
:::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::
The Dreaming: “Ere the World Crumbles…”
Lyrics by Knut Avenstroup
sung by Helene Bøksle
Haugen Athr veröld Athr veröld steypisk mun engi mathr öthrum thyrna Knáttu vanir vígspá völlu sporna Skildir ro klofnir fyllisk fjörvi feigra manna
(‘Ere the world ‘Ere the world falls nor ever shall men each other spare And the field by the warlike Wanes was trodden Shields are sundered Drains the life-force of doomed men)
Lyrics above are taken from the Elder Edda, a collection of Old Norse poems written in the 13th century – primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius (latin for Royal Book).
The goddess Freya (the Lady) and the God Frey (the Lord) rule the first aett of Runes, which represent the first stage of creation.
I pulled 2 runes to get a vibe on the eclipse energies. Intent to gain insight and best outcome for all my readers…
Left/Solar = Dagaz: Day or Dawn.
breakthrough and awakening, clarity. embark on an enterprise.
Right/Lunar = Perthro: gambling cup, a mystery.
a secret matter, hidden things and occult abilities, unexpected rewards
Since that was – well, obvious – I pulled another for clarity of direction…
Kenaz: a beacon or torch.
vision, revelation, knowledge creativity harnessed power
blessed be ~ happy eclipses ~
gneissmoonastrology.net
The earth, the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars
the center of their orbit find in Love.
::: Attar :::
gneissmoonastrology.net
A lovely lady with a true heart and deep booming voice from the depths of her soul, Johnette Napolitano, a dyed-in-the-wool LA woman was born under a 29 degree Virgo Sun / Mars.
POWER
Moon conjunct Mercury, Mercury conjunct Pluto all in Virgo.
Emotional depth / intelligence.
~~
Johnette has Venus conjunct North Node of destiny and Neptune in Scorpio.
The voice that brings the dark to light.
Saturn in Sagittarius trine Uranus in Leo both in sextile to Jupiter in Libra.
Unusual visionary creativity of spiritual depth coupled with a strong sense of justice.
Cheers to many more years, you’re amazing ~ xo
gneissmoonastrology.net
Pictured below is Nostradamus, and his natal chart. He was famous for writing over 900 rhymed quatrains (four-lined poems) filled with hidden prophecies that predicted the future for 10 centuries. He lived during the Renaissance and was astrologer to royalty and nobles in Salon. Nostradamus is a 9 life path; a humanitarian. He was also a herbalist, healer, physician and linguist.
His bio: http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Nostradamus%2C_Michel_de
When learning astrology, this chart struck me because of the obvious water trines. Water houses (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) are the intuitive, psychic houses; they delve deep, are mysterious.
Moon in Scorpio gives depth of feeling and a keen, penetrating insight into the mysteries of life and death; as well as a tendency to keep true feelings under wraps.
Uranus, the planet that will not take the bit is somewhat quieted in the 12th house of Pisces. It is quietly, secretly, rebellious – hiding prophetic messages within secret texts, for instance. Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury (the communicator), and is an intuitive planet working in a mystical house.
Jupiter (generosity, philosophy) is exalted in nurturing Cancer; conjunct an angle- making it even more powerful. Saturn and Mars are both uncomfortable in Cancer, but I feel they give a steady anchor to home and roots so that when the waves of visions may come, the seer is not adrift.
Sun in Capricorn (honors, fame, time) conjunct Mercury (writing) with Neptune (mysticism) all in the tenth house of ‘how the world sees you’ shows the prophetic legacy Nostradamus left the world.
Gneiss Moon Astrology 