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When Jupiter is in aspect with Saturn, you are to expect ‘ups and downs’, slow (but steady) growing careers and hierarchy might be an issue. Mr. Pachauri, who joined Al Gore in winning the Nobel Prize for the global warming story is now the object of controversy, because of the mistakes about the glaciers in the Himalaya and because he has written a romantic novel that increases the temperature just by reading it:).

TALENT
There is no known hour of birth, but…it is easy to see the man of controversies (Sun exactly square Uranus) and the fact that communications (and writing) are part of the ‘ups and downs’: Mercury is square Jupiter and Saturn.
Is he an artistic talent? With Moon in Pisces, Venus quintile Neptune and Moon probably opposition Neptune, I’d guess so. I also like his Venus quintile Quaoar,…

Ask the Collective…

Okay, let’s change the subject! Did you know there is no such thing a (violent) crime of passion? Up until 1980 it was widely believed that people went crazy and committed violent acts. They were out of their mind and this thing happened. They killed someone or whatever. Many people still believe this and if I ever sit on a jury with one of them I will be able to disabuse them of this notion because I am familiar with the Lonnie Athens work.

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Read the rest of 3 Years Ago On The Elsa Blog: Astrology, Violence and the Collective’s Defense Against Reality: Predicting Pluto In Capricorn (255 words)

Neptune was in Libra from 1942 until 1957, approximately fifteen years, and except for brief periods at the very end of the cycle Pluto was in Leo – the most quintessential Boomer years. Being born fairly early in that cycle when Saturn in Leo conjoined Pluto, I have observed this generation from the inside and boy, are we a mixed bag, especially when it comes to romantic ideals.

As most people who have read my blog know I am not a fan of Romance with a capital ‘R’ and the reason I’m not is due to my own experiences living with a Moon in Libra conjunct Neptune in Libra. Neptune’s natural inclination to romanticize is exacerbated by being in Libra. I wasted more time and energy on men who had amazing potential – unmanifested but amazing. Many of them had major…

My friend, Art Grant, found astrological references in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Prologue to Wife of Bath’s Tale:

Gap-toothed I was, and that became me well;
I had the print of holy Venus’ seal.
So help me God, I was a healthy one,
And fair and rich and young and full of fun;
And truly, as my husbands all told me,
I had the silkiest quoniam that could be.
For truly, I am all Venusian
In feeling, and my brain is Martian.
Venus gave me my lust, my lickerishness,
And Mars gave me my sturdy hardiness.
Taurus was my ascendant, with Mars therein.
Alas, alas, that ever love was sin!
I followed always my own inclination
By virtue of my natal constellation;
Which wrought me so I never could withdraw
My Venus-chamber from a good fellow.
Yet have I Mars’s mark upon my face,
And also in another private place.

I confess, I don’t know if a gap between…

The skies are waiting to drop a fortune on those who catch on to astrology as a marketing tool…

In a world where everybody has something to say about astrology but nobody is really making a lot of money on it, it’s time to ask why not? J.P. Morgan is supposed to have said, “Millionaires don’t use astrology, billionaires do”, so why aren’t astrologers, astrology sites and software producers, or those who use them, rich? Few people indeed are mining megabucks out of astrology, despite its ever-widening popularity as reflected in world opinion research. What’s going on?

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Flashbacks

People Who Treat Their Partners Like Crap And Then Pine For Them When They Are Gone

The Ranger And His Persona ‘Splains Stuff To Lucy, I Mean P

Getting A Grip On What Cannot Be Grabbed- Pluto’s Transit Through The 12th

Today on the boards - Leo Parents - They are grand!

Your experience dating spectacularly good looking men…

Recently, I saw Rock as part of the television series, “African American Lives 2.” Historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. sat down with 12 prominent African Americans to trace their genealogies back as far as possible (it’s fascinating - I highly recommend it). Most of what was shared was new to them, as many families leaving the South and heading to cities in the early part of the 20th century left their histories behind. Many left their homes because of racism, and not many carried fond memories and stories of that kind of life with them to their new realities. Add to the disempowerment that goes with a history of slavery the lack of connection to family and heritage, and there’s a lot to be healed that this kind of work can support.

Rock in particular had some epiphanic moments. I was…

by Lynn Hayes

As an ardent advocate of Solar and Lunar Returns, the principle rule is that any planet or planets near or conjunct an angle becomes the guiding point in the interpretation and influence in the chart for the coming year or month.  I have noticed that the same rule applies to the natal chart when any planets are near or conjunct one of the four cardinal angles, and it appears to me the planet or planets tends to take on more importance and brilliance then the planets not near the angles.  The planets closest to the angles tend to be the pivoting point for those planets they aspect, sending their rays to activate their energy when they are activated by a transit, direction or progression.  The influence of the pivoting planet gives them priority to express their energy before other planets,…

monday february 8th-
the moon is in expansive, adventurous, freedom-loving sagittarius all day long and goes void of course at 8:58pm PST for just under 6 hours (into tuesday morning). void moons are times to go within and connect to the Divine Feminine. pay attention to your dreams tonight as dreams can be more potent during moon voids. sagittarius moons are times of restlessness, change and motion. it is a time to expand your mind, learn and teach, and travel! be aware of the shadow side of sagittarius- an inability to anchor down and stay put, and a tendency to superficiality.

the only major aspect today occurs at 3:07am when the sun in aquarius semisquares pluto in capricorn, pitting the conscious self and ego against the lord of the underworld. pluto is intense, deep, passionate and powerful. in tense aspect to the…