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Voice Of Mars: Joinin’ The Posse With His Huntin’ Dog, Dora

Today on the boards - I am CARDINAL and I’m IN CONTROL!

do you remember what originally got you more interested in astrology?

5 planets retrograde - Re-flect, Re-do, Re-examine, Re-consider?

Uranus is the planet that is often called The Great Awakener. It can also be called the Great Rebel, The Great Interruption and The Great Extremist especially when referring to it’s mundane nature rather than it’s esoteric nature.

The more extreme experience of a Uranus transit would be like a flash flood rushing without warning into your neighborhood and swallowing up every home in sight or lightening hitting you on the golf course. Another possible and common scenario is finding out your spouse has filed for divorce after 30 years of wedded bliss…or so you thought.

The esoteric experience would differ slightly. In the case of the flash flood you would find that the result of such an experience actually helped to facilitate the move you have been contemplating for years but were afraid to make. Being hit by lightening might have…

(by Thomas Gazis)

Prominent Greek painter “Tsarouchis” once said: “In modern Greece you are (professionally, socially) whatever you claim to be”. Laws are very loosely applied in my country. Combine this with the fact that Greece is the poorest country in Western Europe - going now through a huge crisis - and with the fact that astrology renders VERY WELL in Greece - twice to thrice the average wages and in several cases 5 - 10 times the average wages!) then you will realize why so many crafty people claim today TO BE ASTROLOGERS in Greece! Thus, a huge circuit of lucrative, uncultured “astrologers” is dominating the scene, putting aside, marginalizing, calumniating and even intimidating the cultured Astrologers (who are seen as a major threat to these people’s’ interests). Needless to say that in Greece there is no Astrological Federation…

A trine from the Sun in Virgo to the North Node in Capricorn signals that we are moving along well on our destined path after we’ve mastered another step toward Self-improvement, from which we can gain strength and a solid sense of Self. The sesqui-quadrates from Juno in Leo to Jupiter Rx in Aries and from Vesta in Libra to Neptune Rx in Aquarius push us forward on this course, thereby stressing not to rest on our laurels, but to keep the faith and to surrender to the direction the currents are taking us, whereby it is important that we remain dedicated to our higher ideals and thus fair to others. With Mars in Libra forming an opposition to Eris Rx in Aries we have to confront our motives in this regard. While aiming to confidently present ourselves, we must also be mindful…

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Venus (love) remains in the relationships sign of Libra, along with Mars (drive) and Saturn (reality). All weekend, Venus, Neptune (dreams) and Chiron (healing) are BFFs, reminding us of what hopes we might have had when we first met our significant other and how we might be able to capture those romanticized dreams again or repair what might not be working within the relationship.

The Sun and Mercury blending energies in Virgo give us the tenacity and focus to get to the bottom of things. With Mercury still retrograde, he’s in introspection mode.

The Moon in Cancer on Friday and Saturday give our emotional responses a softer, more sensitive touch. Sunday, the Moon in Leo allows for bold, courageous self-expression for what might have been difficult to articulate in the days before.

Have an enjoyable weekend, everyone!

Choose your Sun and/or Rising signs:
Aries | Taurus | Gemini | Cancer |…

From 2008… updated

I showed my husband the 2008 Men’s fashion for spring/summer… the outfit pictured is mild (Check it out) but you can see in what direction things continue to head.

“That does it!” he said. “I am going to have to put together my own show with my own clothes. It’ll be great, P. I’ll have these big pots of molten steel pouring out of buckets as a backdrop.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. And I’ll have all this heavy equipment around. You know. Big hunks of steel. Big machines and jagged shit. Tractors and stuff. Maybe a machine gun or two.”

“I see.”
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This might be a controversial assertion, but I don’t think the sign of Libra alone is all that skilled in the creation of peace. Libra is the peacekeeper, maybe. But peacemaker? Peace creator? No.

Libra can often maintain, through it’s slick social skills and airy diplomacy, a form of peace that has already been established, but getting to a state of real peace often involves getting into it, and Libra is a sign that, especially when squared by Cancer or Capricorn, prefers to avoid that unpleasantness.

This avoidance is problematic because getting to a real state of peace often involves complex and longstanding disputes, injustices, imbalances, hurts, and oppressions that have been hidden, covered over, smoothed over, let slide, reinforced - made worse, in fact, by Libra’s glossing over of realities and nervous insistence on everything staying nicey nice.

Slapping a Band-aid on…

I did not get my own newsletter this morning and I hear I am not the only one. It shows it was sent… did you get the newsletter this morning?

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I’ve said it many times, I lack perspective and go begging for it often.  Last night I was trying to get my husband’s view on something which can be difficult at times. It’s not that he’s not forthcoming. With Jupiter in Sagittarius, he will pontificate until you beg for mercy but he doesn’t always understand the question.

His Saturn in hard aspect to my Mercury makes communication difficult at times. In his vernacular he’d say I am an abstract thinker where he is logical and the two minds don’t always marry well.

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The Lunar influence over the coming two days is best tracked to identify optimum times to do, to act, to move; we’re looking for power points and moments when it’s best to lay low. Major influences are assisting us in this two … Continue reading →