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Last summer, Samoa decided it had enough of being tied to the east and America and decided it was time to align itself with China and the rest of Asia. They chose tomorrow as the day of transition. Everyone on Samoa will go to bed, tonight on the 29th and will wake up on Saturday December 31st. There is no December 30th. I cannot imagine what astrologers will do in the future when they have to do a chart for some baby born in this window, (probably a professional foot ball player) because it will be confusing, for sure. I know that I still struggle when I do charts for people born in Indiana and Illinois between the 40′s and 60′s and try to figure out ‘to daylight savings time or to not daylight savings time. Darn farmers…

Capricorn is like a diamond. It does best under pressure. If a Capricorn native has a hard Saturn-sun or Saturn-moon contact, then the pressure can be intense. It’s not remotely fun. So you have to forgive us Caps sun for having a dour outlook sometimes. But if Capricorn can take all that pressure, the result is dazzling. Diamonds symbolize the incorruptible. They arise from carbon, the most common element, to become hardest substance in the world.

All that diamond hardness contradicts N. American ideas about femininity. There is something distinctly unfeminine about the cool, cutting, measured steeliness of a practical Capricorn woman. There’s nothing brash or boss-say or rough-and-tumble tough about it, qualities that we find in other more masculine signs. This is not to say that it’s unnatural for women to be steely. I am saying that in…

There’s likely less pressure to get things done today, to have to burrow into any project with great fervor. In fact, you may be one of the people who didn’t have to work today or could take the second part of the day off. It’s as if we’re just sailing along, flowing through the day, moving in what seems like an unbounded expanse of time, doing whatever we feel like doing. All the while, in the stillness, feelings triggered by the year closure may arise, having us drift into a sea of emotions, this way and that.

All of this makes sense given that it’s Friday, the last weekday of 2011, the day before the New Year’s weekend. It also makes sense given that the Moon is in Pisces, void-of-course practically the whole day.

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1:40 am: Moon (Pisces) square Mercury…

This is one I am trying to grasp why.

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I’m not very good at the silent treatment. Giving it or receiving it. Not with someone I love. I always come back. My 1st House Pluto keeps getting reborn, keeps coming back. Call it The Zombie Aspect: Moon Pluto conjunction in the 1st House: hard to kill.

But when someone stops talking to me, it’s as if they are dead. I feel the gap, the absence, the silence, the presence of absence, the hole, the wind, the empty, no noise, nothing, it’s like that poem The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens but, um, not as good.

And it’s like when my mother died. Never heard her voice again. Or when my father died. Although I actually didn’t mind that at the time — because he yelled a lot. So when a lover does that, stops…

The thigh is associated with Sagittarius. And I don’t necessarily refer to the biblical story of Jacob and the Angel, when they wrestled, and Jacob’s thigh got injured, but you can keep that in your mind during this blog post if you want.

I love a good bible story.

When I was young, I found fault with my body. Nothing special about that, but now that I’m older and wearing that NYC winter-special style, leggings and knee-high boots so often… I’ve fallen in love with my thighs and away from the curse of childhood.

Not long ago, I was squatting in the kitchen, probably feeding the cats or eating a bowl of rice or just resting and my roommate noticed it, remarked: you must be strong! Doesn’t that hurt?

It didn’t…

To break it down, so it will forever and consistently be broke, when it comes to astrology, we are basically dealing with four main areas : planets, signs, houses and aspects.

The planets in your birth chart symbolize what energies are at work, or influencing.

The signs in your chart represent the styles in which those energies are expressed.

The houses in your chart symbolize different areas of your life, or fields of experience.

The aspects denote planetary relationships, i.e: how do Mercury and Neptune “get along”  in your chart?

The houses appear below in pizza shaped slices. Here’s a basic primer on the themes of the 12 houses:

1st House- Yourself. Your core identity. Think: De La Soul’s “Me, Myself and I”.

2nd House- Your money and other resources, what you appreciate value, self- esteem, self- worth, and property. Think: Jay-Z’s “Dead Presidents.”

3rd…

Saturn (reality) and Neptune (fantasy) are making a supportive connection that will last until January 4th.  Saturn in Libra means relationship responsibilities and realities.  Neptune in Aquarius gives us a very manageable shot of idealism while it trines Saturn. The … Continue reading →

By now, most of us have seen the 1992 movie “Boomerang” starring Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens and Halle Berry. While reading a question today  on elsaelsa.com, (I highly recommend her) regarding the symbolism of the Moon versus Venus in a Man’s chart, this movie definitely provides clues about how these two planets operate. When it comes to relationships, both Venus and the Moon play a prominent role in the chart of a Man.

Venus is what attracts us. On some level, it’s even what we pursue. What we chase after. If the planet were food, it would be a doughnut or a slice of cheese cake. Venus turns our heads and stirs our senses. It’s Darius Lovehall showing up at Nina Mosley’s door in “Love Jones” after getting her address off of a check she used to buy some music at the record…

I had a client a few weeks ago, she was telling me how she could read people. She’s worked at a job where she encounters slews of people and she’s honed her ability over many years. I was enthralled. I suppose I read people but nothing at all like what this woman has achieved.

Do you read people? In what way? This woman uses her intellect, I’d say. She glances at you, takes in the info and the computer inside her spits out the answer.

What do you know about this? What’s the astrology?

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