Hexagonaria percarinata, or the Petsosky stone (state stone of Michigan) are rounded pebbles or cobbles of fossilized coral that lived in the Devonian period about 350 million years ago when Michigan had a warm inland sea.
A close look at a Petoskey stone reveals the septae, or dividers in each coralite that look like sun rays.
Petoskey, Michigan is a name derived from Chief Ignatius Petosegay of the Ottawa or Odawa Tribe. In their language, Petosegay, loosely translates to Rising sun, Rays of dawn, or Sun beams of promise.
Petosky stone enriches happiness (Sun, positive, yang) and dispels negativity. namaste~ gneissmoonastrology.com
Fair Warning – no trespass against any and all Virgos !
Virgos are born to solve, perfect, and protect. When a festering boil erupts, it will be rooted.
Resistance is futile.
Mars direct Friday April 13, 2012 at 3 degrees Virgo: 10:53pm, CST, USA
Read: Mars has been jammed up our nostrils since entering the sign of Virgo on November 10th aggravating, initiating & rousing any and all micro – minutiae analyzation in full throttle force.
Mars has been mainlining energy into all Virgo planets via direct motion since November 10th.
Now – planets situated between 23 and 3 degrees of Virgo will be taking a retrograde hit, followed by another direct hit.
Read: Direct and perfect, retrograde and turn the blade.
Mars is the blade, the power, the energy outgoing while direct.
Virgos prune. Virgos heal. They are duty – bound to serve others.
Virgos perfect by nature.
Mars while retrograde, is the blade, the power, turned inward to re-assess the re-visions already made by the firm and steadfast Virgo intellect. During Mars retrograde, Virgos will heal themselves.
Any and all work not deemed perfect by the perfectionist within will be revived, re-invigorated and resolved.
Natal planets between 23 and 3 degrees of Virgo will feel this Mars Rx strongly by conjunction. Pisces planets by opposition, and Gemini and Sagittarius will feel Mars Rx by square.
Monday Jan 23rd : New Moon in Aquarius will bring communication undercurrents, intuitive, zaps and transformative vibes with Mars, Pluto and Sun/Moon/ Mercury activating Uranus – sharp intuitive powers !
Creative solutions will present themselves – be aware the Goddess vibe is strong with Lilith opposite Saturn at the culmination degree of 29 Libra.
Energies will be shifting, do not pick battles with authority – Lillith is square New Moon/Sun and opposite Saturn, and Mars is shifting to Retrograde.
Do not pick fights during Mars retrograde – plot and plan, yes – confront, no.
By evening, Moon passes the tense emotional squares, the atmosphere eases as Mars stations Rx, freeing us to enjoy the fizzy Aquarian Moon.
She who would slay dragons must first learn their habits.
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Sun (spirit, ego) is rooted in Capricorn, focal point of a T-square involving Saturn (testing,restriction) in the latter degrees of Libra, the balancer, and Jupiter, the expander, is in the early degrees of Taurus.
I balance (Libra) vs. I have (Taurus).
Expand or restrict ? …Or both, most likely – just not the way you expected to.
Be aware both Libra and Taurus are Venus ruled.
Venus is love art, money and yes…women.
I had a great night with a girlfriend watching Game of Thrones and talking art and business. We are both finishers…by that I mean the work is full bodied – 360 degrees and then some. She finishes the underneath where most people do not even look, it is a complete effort head to toe. Her work is fabulous, and she has won many awards and was recently recognized nationally in her field. YaY !
I described my work as a porterhouse steak. Plenty of facts and meat to dig into if you choose to look and click the links I provide. I am 9th house heavy (visionary) in the sign of Virgo (details). Neptune touches nearly everything in my chart, so the writing is mystical, yet grounded with facts to back up the intuitive leaps. Eighth house and Pluto strong, so I go deep, every time.
My friend and I are women artists, (Venus is conjunct Neptune now – both octaves of art) so we spent the evening enriching each other with solid friendship support. That’s Aquarius at work, the tribe.
The Mercury and Pluto conjunction in the sky in the sign of Capricorn (career and status) made our business/art convo rich, deep and satisfying. (Mercury is communication, and Pluto rules the depths)
May your transformations bring you the insight you crave and the peace you deserve…
Moon is nearly full and opposite Mercury and Pluto.
I am feeling the weird, for sure. Anxious expectation.
Full Moon Monday 1.9.2012 at 1:30am CST,USA
Moon and Priestess are frequent visitors in recent readings…
AND my Ganesha card was on the floor this evening. Silent potential.
The cosmos tells me obstacles need removing.
… and how are You fine folks ..?
Sun (creativity) is quintile (gifts) odd Uranus. Venus conjunct Neptune the octaves of art in the sign of the strange, Aquarius. Aquarius= Science, Neptune= Fiction
SoOo that’s my cue to head off to watch the winner of the special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. La Planète Sauvage (The Wild Planet) One of the best sci-fi animated movies ever.
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.
Funny sometimes how astrology plays out … subtle planetary nuances, whispers of moods, or screams ! – depending.
Yesterday I was really feeling the pressure cooker.
I am a civil servant. (I know, how Virgo of me !) I serve the people…this of course escalates at this time of year. Did somebody say time ?! yeegads.
I have Pluto transiting my Capricorn 1st house (opposite 7th- others) and here come the people – all wanting my time (Saturn), a piece of me, lol. (My Saturn is Rx in Aries, the house of me.) Pluto is coming up to square my chart ruler, which is Saturn, the immovable Earth (or so it thinks, lol- Pluto is sayin’ oh yeah..?! watch this ! )
Work, work and more work. Guess what, staycation is More Work. I wake up from working out the daytime issues at nightime, (crazy dreams last night) so Saturn never sleeps. Oh, and did I mention there is an eclipse coming ? Oh goodie ! .whatever.
In Gemini, the twins (anybody here do cloning ?) on my 6th house of bingo ! work and service !
*insert maniacal laughter here*
Pluto is a shakedown planet, and so is Uranus (3 days from going direct !) and both are conjunct my Sun in Virgo. When planets, particularly the outer, transpersonal, s l o w e r moving planets get moving, I feel it.. and the days before direct are akin to water on fire boiling to a whistle.
Uranus is the wildcard of the zodiac, and how do I know it ? … well how much time ya got, lol?!
Mars is quintile Uranus (its the higher octave of Mercury, Lord of Eclipse ) in my natal chart, Mars is trine Saturn, and Mars is transit my Virgo Sun, Uranus, Pluto Stellium, so when the Plutonic pressure is building ~> take . cover . jus’ sayin’ !
hahakidding.
Yesterday I thought the pressure could use some intense primal screamtherapy Mars ! but I was in the parking garage and thought it might freak people out. a. little. My little Aries head might have just popped right off with all that Mars screaming- who knows !? With my Toro Moon it would be loud, perhaps even operatic, lol !
SoOoo I burst into maniacal laughter instead ! ~ which is Venus.
I got loads of oxygen coming in and put out the fuse. …and there is your happy ending, folks.
happy eclipsing namaste~ gneissmoonastrology.net
O= oxygen, with an atomic number ‘Z’ of 8 8 protons / positive electrical charge 8= strength
* edit, came back to add clarity after my busy day (wrote this before work) and found a special Uranian/Plutonic surprise (they rule mistakes) waiting – snap ! is fixed ! Considering aspects such as Merc Rx, and the others detailed above, should have checked 2x, my apologies. Nobody’s perfect. peace out.
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.
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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.
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