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Oprah and Eckhart, Aquarius Dream Team
I've been downloading the podcast of the New Earth for 4 weeks now and am burning to talk about it astrologically. Perhaps it's the Piscean energies circulating this month, and ruling planet Neptune in Aquarius in the air raising astral-consciousness to all-time highs. It seems Neptune's transit over Oprah's Mercury in Aquarius has radically opened her consciousness, and the beauty of the Oprah media empire is we're finally able to ride this new wave of consciousness - together. Goddess bless...
Pisces Woman Wants to Pursue Famous Actor
Introducing a new bi-monthly astrology love advice column! He Said,She Said features a love advice 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: My counselor tells me that when it comes to men, I seem to running away to ones I could me and towards ones I can't. I thought about...
Pisces & Secrets
After a month of ongoing tension between Mars-Pluto opposition, Mercury sextile Jupiter, conjunct Uranus on Thursday (3/27), then Venus conjunct Uranus sextile Jupiter Friday (3/28), reminds me of a benevolent, lovely and light but surprising cocktail - gone shockingly Molotov. Am I exaggerating here? The sheer amount of underlying tension in the emotional and sexual lives of folks read: what's going on behind closed doors - is epic. Yikes. The secret is out. I'm wondering about secrets and...
The Spring Equinox: Sun enters Aries, Happy Astrological New Year!
Aries always reminds me of my kid self. I know, I know, you could say Leo is the eternal child, and having a Leo husband I see your point there, too. But maybe Aries is the perennial child, the part of us that emerges from winter into springtime, eager for today. Why does hope so readily spring eternal for Aries, the first sign of the zodiac? It's another chance to live in the moment, because that's when we're really doing our Aries. There is only the now. If there were ever an Aries watch,...
The Mars Follies
Yesterday, I made a not so near fatal tactical error. Hiking in the Marin hills, there we were like two dogs lapping up liquid sunshine. It was real quality time, the kind that's not easy to come by as a non-DINK couple (double income, no kids). So in the spirit of adventure, with an unexplored trail with a lake at it's head (a lake!) and Mars in Cancer transiting, no foolhardily prodding my Sun, I declared "onward, ho!" My husband gave me fair warning, tracing the trail with his finger on the...
Capricorn Woman Frustrated With Romantic Life
Introducing a new bi-monthly astrology love advice column! He Said,She Said features a love advice 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: I am a Capricorn woman. I have much to be grateful for but the one area of my life that is a perpetual source of frustration is my...
Pisces New Moon: Crazy Wisdom
Yikes, the dark of the Pisces Moon. And if you've never known what that's about - the couple of days before a New Moon, now you do. Despite the steady San Francisco sunlight streaming into my study - it feels dark. Ominous. Mysterious. What's around the corner? Hard to know. We can feel like we're groping in the dark around New Moons, because there's no moonlight, and our capacity to see what's in front of us - that's gone, too. It's certainly a lesson in trusting your intuition, with that...
The Mars-Pluto Opposition, Cancer with Superpowers
Mars enters Cancer tomorrow 3/4/08, making an immediate opposition to Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto fills out the leg of a cardinal t-square involving Sun, Mars and Pluto. With a Scorpio ruled 2nd house cusp, I figured I'd be hit up with a huge bill. And new resolve to become more viable - financially, and as a person. So when an unexpected pain shot from my tooth-nerve to my brain last week, I did my Aries Moon thing: "Moon, get Dr. Austria on the phone, cancel all appointments, this is really...
How Well Does Astrology Predict the Future?: Hindsight, 3: Possibilities 2: Prediction 1
Backtracking to that endless retrograde station of Mars in Gemini on my Saturn for a moment, I need a soapbox here because that particular transit had me wrestling with immovable questions, but also answered them. My clients began voicing a piece of me - the maternal side of me "take care of me, make it all better, promise!" Which in reality came out of their mouths like this, "answer this question. Make up my mind for me...and what will I, should I do?" and resulted in this post - a real...
Virgo Eclipse Redux, Complain Away
I confess. With Mars retrograding then stationing around my Saturn for that hellish-ly long period, then the Virgo-fabulous eclipse, I've tried to stay as low under the radar as possible in the blogosphere. And that was the exact prescription I gave my sister when she called last week, saying her company (not to name names but they have the word Star in it) was laying off folks. She was only one of several people I know experiencing big time shakedown in the lay-off department. Fittingly,...
