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And Time Stood Still. Retrograde Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto
They may say time stops for no one, but right now that's only partially true. Almost half the planets in your sky are now officially retrograde. Mercury moves retrograde in Gemini, May 26-June 19 and if you don't know what that means, you just haven't been paying attention. (For those born yesterday & even if you're not, Virgo Fern Feto Spring, an expert on such matters offers Survive & Thrive Guide to Mercury Rx ). But that's not all, folks: Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto are alas,...
Note to Kylie Minogue: Horary Astrology Helped Me Find My Hot Pants
I lost my hot pants, along with several other items over the past month. I'm no airhead, really - I don't lose things. So I took it as a sign. That maybe...maybe I should take full advantage of the divination spectrum that my craft, astrology, offers, by asking the stars for a little wassup? It's been necessary. First, my cell phone charger -and then- my hot pants, both equally vital to my existence: mainly a girl needs to communicate, and a girl needs to dance. The good news is I recovered...
The Full Moon in Scorpio & Green Porn
The nature-loving Taurus Sun season is simply lucious. Mother Nature is a big show off, like she's pulled off some major collaboration of elemental proportions,symphonically playing her salt o' the earth orchestra of light, color, and fecundity, beautifully without a hitch. She makes this natural abundance look so simple, so easy. So wholesome, so innocent. So...tooling around the internet one day my husband and I discovered "green porn," a set of short films starring the lovely Isabella...
Horoscopes for Moms on Mother’s Day
As a special Mother's day treat for you, here's a May horoscope for Moms written by moi! During the Sun's yearly passage through Taurus we recognize the valuable people and things that inspire well-being. Of course this is serendipitously tied to Mother's Day - proving there are no coincidences. Aries: Quality of life is such an adult concept, and quickly becoming an appreciable reality for you. Yet you retain your edge. Ruling planet Mars plays in your house of fun beginning May 9 and your...
I Want More & Then Some: The Taurus New Moon
The cat's onto me. Skippy senses when I have a spare minute during the day, when I'm mulling over a thought between paragraphs, and jumps onto my chair for any scrap of lovin' laying around. Within all the roles my self inhabits, there's something for everyone, a nugget of attention here, an inquiry into well-being there, diet advice, astrological observations on the day. I do enjoy giving, or do I? Lately I've been wondering how to squeeze more satisfaction out of the simple exchanges in...
Husbands by Moon Sign
So How Do Husbands Stack Up in the Kitchen? An Expose' by Moon sign. Part 3 of a series. Aries Moon Husbands: Natural knivesmen. They probably enjoy the knives and cool kitchen utensils more than cooking. Excellent little choppers, too; give them a plate of vegetables for soup stock and they go to town. Make great sous chefs. Their feelings do get hurt if you threaten replacement by food processor, so be forerwarned. Don't forget to make them feel like they're the ones who really made the meal...
Come to a Monthly Moon Gab!
Ever wanted an astrologer in your pocket to help navigate your cash flow, assist your next promotion or plumb your psychological state but do not want to shell out the big bucks to learn? It is your lucky day! Introducing, a monthly Moon gathering designed just for you. Every month Marin astrologers Jessica Shepherd and Fern Feto Spring play weather girls to the heavens, exploring how moon cycles and star patterns play out in YOUR LIFE. This is a rare opportunity to understand how astrology...
He Said, She Said: Scorpio Woman Wonders if Gemini Man is For Real
He Said, She Said features one reader's love question answered by professional astrologers Jessica Shepherd of Moonkissd and Jeffrey Kishner of Seduction Central . After they each provide their perspective, they combine their insight to offer advice they both can agree on. Here's this week's Reader Question: We have known each other for four months as business and friends, and he has been very supportive to me. He wants me to be his wife for life. We have not consummated our relationship...
Husbands and Kitchens: Part 2
So back to my Carrie Bradshaw moment: husbands and kitchens, is it an uneasy compromise? No. Yes. Okay, sometimes. Seeing as how the Moon sign describes nurture from the beginning, might our beloved men have experienced a little more independence surrounding food, more coddling and feeding from mom, and a smidgen less of her instructive coaching in the kitchen? This discussion is wide open. I'm of the generation (Pluto and Uranus in Libra) where gender roles volcanically erupted and broke down...
Husbands and Kitchens: Part 1
The New Moon in Aries fell on my natal Moon in Aries to the exact degree. It was on the house cusp of husbands (did you even know that existed?). I hesitated blogging about this New Moon beforehand because I felt very much in the dark as to how this would play out, as New Moons have been known to do. And wow, of all the things I'd love to tell you I'm obligated to protect the innocent (or the guilty). So... thinking about what to write, and filtering through all the Aries New Moon news stories...
