Marvel us Mutants


May I introduce Stan Lee.
Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, voice actor and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. 
In collaboration with several artists, Stan co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books.  Lee headed the first major successful challenge to the industry’s censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, by running a drug storyline in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (May–July 1971), without CCA approval.

Inductions into Comic Hall of Fame include:
The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994
Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.

The non-profit Stan Lee Foundation seeks to provide access to literacy, education and the arts throughout the nation.  Very Mercurial !  I love it !

S/heroes brought to life via several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko
A through M
M through Z

Capricorn Stan Lee is a life path 9 (the culmination cup runneth over lifetime), with Mercury opposite Pluto Rx as the opposition/apex of a Kite + Grand Water Trine: Mars/Uranus conjunct in Pisces trine Jupiter in Scorpio trine Pluto in Cancer.  Water Trines are intuitive, emotionally geared to delve into the deep psyche, the well of compassion – feelers are out 24/7.  Kites will bring the somewhat ethereal lassitude of a trine into bold action via the opposition and apex energies. (see Bill Monroe

Capricorn Sun (on the decan of Saturn – perseverance of life)
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Cancer Pluto is (on the decan of Pluto – protection magic, psychological transmutation & metamorphosis) trine Mars/Uranus in Pisces (on the decan of Moon – super sensory rapid-fire instincts) trine Jupiter in Scorpio (on the decan of Neptune – regenerative healing, hope in dark places)  Harmonious energies are coursing between all these placements.
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Thor #1 Turner
Mercury in Capricorn (editing, writing) is a clever, perceptive and witty mind, though with a square to Saturn (the only air sign placement) probably more of a worker than a talker.  Pluto opposite in Cancer, indicates serious research, a storytelling mind where self-expression leads to profound change with: women, home, navel-gazing self-care (good thing btw), and the public – all Moon (fluctuation) ruled.  It also marks an in depth  exploration of what makes (Capricorn) or breaks (Pluto) a hero (Sun) and how the transformation (Moon rules metamorphs) between the two transcends life/death, space/time.

Capricorn Sun/Mercury opposite Cancer Pluto – that’s a call for compromise – between the dark (Cancer) and the light (Capricorn), the personas: both public and private, the hard and the soft, what we hide, what we expose and struggle re: what is ultimately secret to all.

Death and what lies beyond it. 

Unless you’re a metamorph, in which case, you’re good to go.
Death, rebirth, stunning rip evil to shreds protection good guy / gal genes.
Wake up be mutant and kick some creepo bad guy ass to the curb, get stabbed, activate healing and still make happy hour – all in a day’s work.

Rogue X-Men wiki
Ultimate Comics X-Men #24
I love trees, so I picked this one.

Stan’s Sun/Mercury opposition to Pluto is shining a light on what’s buried deep behind the closed doors of the family unit – the raw seedy underbelly of family. This is what I love Love LOVE about the Marvel universe.  Cranky testosterone pissing contests over bag lady claws vs. adamantium blades, girl crushes on the hottie who saved you, ‘borrowing’ the ride and returning it with an empty gas tank just to be a jerk, being there for each other when the chips are down anyway because you are a team, loving and fighting and forgiving and dealing with all the shit real people deal with.  

Rogue
Ultimate X-Men #28

Pluto is metamorphic – pure unstoppable, raw power in the Moon-ruled sign of protective Cancer: family, home, country, roots, those who we consider our tribe.
Enter Captain America, 1941.

Stan (Marvel comics) drags up and examines deep, dark obsessions, desires and fears that live and breathe between people – complexities that lie sleeping within each family and also within each of us.  Saturn rules building, spiders and fear.
Mars rules bites, is tightly conjunct radioactive Uranus, both trine Jupiter (BIG), and Pluto (transformation).
Cool. Another win for astrology.

Enter Spiderman
Spiders are second only to snakes in fear factor phobiasMy sister freaks right OUT if she sees a spider – any size.  Me, I’m cool with spiders.  Saturn rules my chart and spiders too – they build, it’s groovy, we co-exist.


Spiderman #185

Stan has Saturn exalted in Libra indicating justice, patience, self-discipline, diplomacy in relationships, creativity, money (all Venus ruled matters) – yet Saturn also indicates restriction, hardship coupled with slow, steady improvement – balance is key.  Saturn in Libra squares both Mercury in Capricorn and Pluto in Cancer, making it the focal point of a T-Square – or where internal stress funnels and needs release.

T-squares are the shiny brass ring though they sound more like a ball and chain, they are our teachers – they create stress and friction that makes us armor UP and solve the problem, so we grow.

Leo and Sagittarius are the back alleyway opportunities for Stan – creativity, romance, honor, charity, and exploratory play and a rich fantasy life (Saturn sextile Neptune) will help ease the stress of Saturn in Libra issues.

Breaking new ground for comics, Stan listed the creative team on board – artists, inkers – everyone who up to that point had worked uncredited.
WoOoHoOo !

Saturn in Libra seeks balance, fairness and in square to Mercury and Pluto – Stan finds this through metamorphosis of relationships – personally and publicly.  World-wide perception of heroes/sheroes is forever changed by the depth of character he and his team injected into the world of comics.


Classic X – Men (back cover) John Bolton

The planetary energies below form a Cardinal Cross – which amounts to a crisis of outgoing activity – where the personal initiative meets the material world.

Capricorn Sun and Mercury are in opposition to Pluto (regeneration) in the sign of metamorphosis (Moon ruled Cancer). Aries Chiron (wounded healer) is opposite Saturn in Libra – fascinates – the wound (Mars: cuts, aggression, men etc.., rules Aries) is holding hands across the wheel with exalted Saturn (body) in the sign of Libra balance, (ruled by Venus: peace, women).  Men and women on the same team, the (perceptions of) the beautiful and the ugly, division between secret talents and public knowledge, mind control directs personal power.

Aka:  mind over matter.
Metamorphosis, yes..?

Chiron trines Neptune Rx in Leo – creative healing via the power of shared spirit – old school teamwork, leadership and co-operation.  Blurring the boundaries of what makes a hero / healer; human / savior; an outcast / mutant.

Mars conjunct Uranus in Pisces indicates powerful artistic friends, a personal devotion to intellectual and spiritual healing on a mass scale. 

Venus and Jupiter in Scorpio square Neptune (opposite my deets – how cool is that ?!) in Leo is a lesson of refurbishing the ego, self-image, learning to share, releasing the need to control everything, a tendency toward extravagance in love, money, creative pursuits, and high stakes gambling on all of them.

These aspects also show an intuitive read/bead on the pulse of the masses, a fantastic imagination, and a sign of high qi spiritual intelligence.

On deck:
Wolverine (July 26) trailer here.
Thor (November) trailer here.

Thank you Stan !
Signed,
Mutant and Proud

Gneiss Moon

fair warning.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.  Friedrich Nietzsche

Venus in Scorpio . . . deeply mysterious, dark, passionate, sexually intense and deadly if crossed.  Venus in Scorpio possesses power –love power- they radiate sexuality, raw regenerative willpower, and by the virtue of Venus -she attracts- you are drawn in by desire.   Desire to taste the power, the sex and the transformation inherent to Scorpionic Venusians.

They instinctively penetrate to the primal core, drawing the depths of these same qualities to the surface in others they contact.
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Venus is in her detriment in Scorpio: the ancient ruler of Scorpio is Mars; the modern ruler is Pluto.

Internal / External power struggles are common until self-control is gained.
attraction vs. repulsion
controlling selfish love vs. balanced selfless love

sexual vengeance vs. loving mercy
outward bound aggression vs. internal combustion, regenerative fission

Scorpionic Venusians are fond of the darkest, deepest, hidden psychoanalytical side of you – secrets fascinate them.  They want to know what makes you tick, and they are marvelously cunning, perceptive and skillful spies.  Shining with a veneer of pretty persuasion, they are remarkably astute in provoking your revelations while keeping their own hidden under triple guard vault lockdown in their impenetrable fortress.

Scorpio is a fixed sign, making Scorpio Venus loyal to the death, fearless in love, drawn to power – shrinking violets full of sunshine and rainbows need not apply.   Scorpionic  Venusians desire tooth and nail intensity – if they cannot fill this craving in love relationships they will often provoke transition by way of self-destruction.

Artists with this combo are powerful creators conjuring vast amounts of passion from the depths of their soul.  Going straight for the love jugular – they force ecstatic experiences in life as well as death – Vampiric lusts common.

This Venus is dangerous and seductive – irresistible urges, obsession and control; revulsion and powerlessness are all firebrands of Scorpio. Venus rules touch, Scorpio rules struggle – make of that what you will – she’ll love you just the same.

She fancies covert special ops delving deep into the labyrinth of the occult and metaphysical realms.  Life, death, metamorphosis are titillating subjects to be lovingly explored – all with the intent to understand the distillation of, the true, divine ESSENCE of POWER.

Love is power, Sex is power, Money is Power.
These are the jewels of Venus in Scorpio- she will research, probe and struggle with every delicate prismatic facet of all three.  She will regenerate after each catastrophic loss – Scorpio Venus rises UP.

Venus living in the house of Scorpio -OUR power- is also an indication of attracting power, favors and money given by others.  She earns the money of others through exchanges of power: likely sex, death, taxes, the mysterious, or metaphysics.   She has incredible staying power, changing at will (Pluto is Divine Will) to adapt and survive come what may. 

Scorpionic Venus regenerates, metamorphoses, hones her power, she desires divine transformation – to love her is to agree to the same.

Om mani padme hum
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Scorpionic Venusians:

 :: Jim Morrison, Nick Cave, Thom Yorke, Chloë Sevigny, Maggie Gyllenhaal ::

Good Knight

May I introduce Sir Ian McKellen. 

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE *  is an English actor. He has won multiple Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is known for film roles such as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings  film trilogy, Magneto in the X-Men  films, and as Sir Leigh Teabing in The Da Vinci Code.

McKellen was made a * Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979, was knighted in 1991 for services to the performing arts,and was made a * Companion of Honour for services to drama and to equality, in the 2008 New Year Honours. (wiki)
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I will start by saying Sir Ian is so sweet and kind, with a Gemini twinkle in his eye, quite a lovely flirt, really.  He’s fabulous — so fabulous I named my singing toad after him.  Yes, I knighted my toad !  Sir Toadie was recorded in one of the most acoustically perfect halls in the country. true story.  I knew when eclipse toad showed up good things were coming … Sir Ian is a May 25th Gemini, so I am writing & posting tonight – he is in the future in New Zealand and I want this up for his solar return YaY !

Gandalf and  Magneto and a Knight
Seriously !
How cool is That ?!

* Happy Birthday Sir Ian ! * 

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Look how cool !
A moth showed up, right on time.
Precisely when he meant to..!

When times grew desperate, Gandalf contacted Gwaihir, Lord of the Eagles, by means of a small moth. It was Radagast the Brown who told the eagles that Gandalf had visited with Saruman in the books; in the movie, Gandalf is seen speaking with the moth.  (LotR wiki)
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Moth totem: sensitivity to vibrations, awareness, transition and metamorphosis.  Lunar light and instinctual adjusting of the course, allure in love, camouflage.
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Ian is a Gemini Sun, Virgo Moon, Sagittarius rising, making Jupiter his chart ruler.
  Aries Jupiter (is Mars powered) is in the 3rd (communication) house trine 29 degree (culmination degree) Pluto in Cancer, 8th house. Pluto (inner energy, transformative experiences) rules the 8th, is strong, yet fluctuating (Moon ruled house, opposite Mars).

Gemini Sun trines Mars in Aquarius, making Ian a revolutionary (Aquarius) communicator through art and film (Mars trine Neptune at mid-heaven).

Pluto and Mars (Mars is most highly aspected, strong) both square Venus in Taurus, and are opposite each other, which forms a T-Square with Venus as the focal planet.  Venus, the planet of art, love and money is strong in Taurus, the sign it rules.  Venus as focal planet, means it will be forced to metamorph the very powerful energies of Mars and Pluto into artwork, beauty and works of love.

Pluto points to a strong desire nature with opposition to Mars (outward bound energies) in Aquarius, as well as the square (inner tension) to Venus in possessive Taurus.  Pluto in the last degree of Moon-ruled Cancer is a nod to the metamorphic effect Ian has on the public (Moon rules public), through his natural ability to teach and lead by example (Virgo 9th house) through the arts (Neptune [rules film, inspired art] at mid-heaven) and film.

I find it interesting that outward bound Mars is in a sign of polarities (Aquarius), Plutonian inner power is fluctuating in Cancer, and Ian has Mercury (dual perceptions) conjunct Uranus (polarities, magnetics) in artistic Taurus.  Ian is very adept at seeing both sides of any given situation.  He uses this instinctual observation, this intuitive sense (Taurus rules the senses) of dualities to in turn enrich his portrayal of character.

He feels and senses the depth and rich undertones (Pluto Cancer 8 / Venus, Uranus, Mercury in creative 5th house) in humanity and conveys them through artistic means.
(Stellium in creative 5th house/ Mercury conj Uranus trine Neptune at mid-heaven.)

Moon is conjunct Part of Fortune in duty bound Virgo; both trine Saturn in Aries and Venus in Taurus.  Long term (Saturn rules time and work) artistic career (Venus) in the public eye (Moon).

Ian has Mercury quintile (special talents) Pluto, making him a powerfully magnetic ( ! ) communicator, capable of captivating the public (Pluto in moon-ruled Cancer).

He also has Saturn and Neptune quintile Chiron, meaning his work is a powerful healing force to help others.

Ian has one planet retrograde, Neptune – which indicates his work and career in the arts will continue to flourish as he ages.  Retrogrades signify planetary energies that are expressed inwardly while young, until an outside event forces them to be expressed outwardly when older.  At which time, the energy is focused, channeled, and better directed in life.

Melin ceni hin lîn síla i ‘eladhach
Garo arad-o-onnad ‘elir !
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Namárië Mellonea
Saesa omentien lle, Diola lle
Ná Elbereth veria le, ná elenath dín síla erin rád o chuil lín.

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BAM ! kerPOW !

Source

Superpowers activate!
Form of a ____ !
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Me…?…I’ve always wanted :

1. flight  (Sun conjunct Uranus – Uranus rules flight)
 2. speed (Mercury most elevated at MC, see Uranus above)
 3. mental telepathy (Neptune most highly aspected, Neptune rules telepathy)
 4. time travel (Saturn chart ruler- rules time- trine Mars in Sag- long dist. travel)
 5. sorcery (Venus conjunct Jupiter / Pluto in 8th house – 8th rules desire for power)
 6. teleportation (strong in Sagittarius – dissaparation is definitely desired)
 7. healing (Virgo stellium, Neptune most highly aspected)

Now how about you…?….

Aries gotta go with strength here, Super Mars Me !
Taurus going with Bene Gesserit- precision of senses, better yet – Hermione’s bag, lol.
Geminis going with super hearing, speed, Babblefish universal translation powers. Cancers want a force field, camouflage.  betcha !
Leos supernova projection laser beam blingy type powers – make you go WoW.
Virgos mental telepathy, x-ray vision to clean you up from the inside out..!
Libras how about Wonder Woman’s truth telling rope ?  A mighty sword of Justice ?
Scorpios soopersecret invisibilty and superhealing regeneration of bone, muscle, skin.
Sagittarians want to teleport – anywhere in the world – be cool yeah ?!
Capricorns want time travel, pretty sure about that. Kick ole cuss Saturn into gear.
Aquariansalready endowed, lol. They may love telekinesis…bend to my gigantic mind !
Pisces gotta go with weather: storms, fog, tornadoes. Whip up your own atmo…

Whaddaya think..?
What’s YOUR superpower ?

namaste~
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