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In a recent post I asserted that there is no clear archetype of nature in the horoscope. I want to take that back, kind of. There are actually several symbols that could be different faces of the nature archetype — for example Mars’s wild instinct and Venus’s sensuousness and the abundance of Jupiter — but I’m going to go out on a limb (ha!) and call out the least “wild” of all archetypes as the horoscope’s fullest embodiment of nature.

Saturn.

In western astrology, Saturn is so often associated with doubt, fear and loathing, but every archetype has its light and shadow, and those associations are really, in my view, just potent bastardizations of Saturn’s good side. For, from the Huber perspective, Saturn is the matrix, the ground, the wellspring of security beneath our feet — the mother, even. (Before you take up…

Warning: This is a rant.

I frequently receive Facebook friend requests from total strangers. I usually accept them, because I figure they are readers of this blog, and I have made some good acquaintances/friends with people interested in astrology. I just make sure I only publish status updates that I am comfortable broadcasting far and wide.

The other day, I accepted a friend request from someone I did not know, and within minutes my new friend initiated a FB chat and asked what good things someone born on her birthday could expect in the near future. And earlier today, someone on the forum wrote me and said she knows I like to be paid for my work, but could I please read her post because she really needed advice?

Frustrated, I published a status update on FB expressing my anger about being asked…

Ask the collective

I desperately want to take on parenting / the crisis of parenting and other deep issues of Pluto in Capricorn.

I desperately want to write about the Saturn Uranus opposition having grown up in the midst of one.

I want to write about innovative astrology theory and I want to write stories that no one will every hear any other way… again

Of course I want to write about psych and projection, relationships and tricky things I think of in the night.

What are you interested in astrologically?

King Albert II and Queen Paola of Belgium married 40 years ago, in 1949. The marriage almost crashed because of Albert’s affairs. Both have an aspect between Mars and Neptune in their natal chart. Sharing Mars-Neptune aspects does not make the couple happier (reed Astromarkt about sharing aspect…). But do they match?

He has the Sun in Gemini and she in Virgo: no match
His Moon in Aries matches with hers in Sagittarius
Mercury in Cancer is an speaking terms with Mercury in Virgo
Venus in Taurus collides with Venus in Leo, however
Mars in Gemini is opposition Mars in Sagittarius

(Re: table of matching signs on Astromarkt: http://www.astromarkt.net/tablematch.htm)

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So, generally, no, they don’t match much. They can live together and they can talk together, but they are different. They have another life style, other tastes and sympathies and another temperament. So how come they got married?…

The planets are up there doing their dance around the galaxy just as they have since the beginning of time. The way the planets move affects us humans down here in a major way.

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Canada’s 2009 Solar Return (birthday chart) is remarkably like the US 2008 Solar Return - astonishingly so!

Similar Elements:

• Pluto on the Ascendant indicates a year of transformation. The transformation ahead for Canada may not be as dramatic as the last year has been for the US — Pluto sits on the side of the ascendant that is more associated with hidden activity.
• Pluto is opposite Mercury - this is a conflict of ideas and again it may not be as noticable as it has been with the US as this is not repeating an idea that appeared in the original birth chart.
• The Sun (ruler of the chart) is in the Seventh house - Like last year’s US solar return, the Sun is in the Seventh house and shows an emphasis on relationships with other countries. Marriage is also associated with the Seventh house, even…

Catch up here : The Power of Love and Friendship, Part 1 - Don’t Be Deceived

Turns out when a person or person shows up and treats you well, you start to become well. Are you familiar Dr. Masaru Emoto’s work with water crystals?

He was featured in the movie, “What The Bleep Do We Know” and you can read his freakishly good book, “The Hidden Messages in Water”. But essentially he discovered that water takes on the energy of whatever it’s exposed to via his experiments.

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Read the rest of The Power Of Love and Friendship: The Benefits Are Far Reaching and Eternal (550 words)

Neptune returns this year and next to its discovery degree: 25 degrees Aquarius.  Here is a lovely video about the return of Neptune.  It’s about ten minutes long, but worth the time.When new planets are discovered they seem to release…