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Ellen Page is a Pisces
Ellen Page (2/21/87), everyone's darling, is a Pisces. And like many other young Piscean celebrities, she refuses to act her age - because she has wisdom way beyond her biological years. It's a gift of the Fishes. Who can forget Ellen as waif turned disturbingly wrath in Hard Candy? Her tween-y character turned the tables on a man who used the internet to lure teenage girls into his nightmarish domain - boy, did he pick the wrong chick to mess with. And in Juno, her young elfin beauty once...
He Said/She Said: Aquarius Male Wants to Stop Having Affairs
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 guess I'll just dive in. Two broken marriages, my fault. The first lasted 16 years, the second 10. No fighting, no yelling, the...
Venus in Aquarius, Where’s The “We” In Us?
I'm so in love with my husband. We must say "I love you" like fifty times a day - genuinely. I know, cheesy, cute, romantic or "uh, huh still in your honeymoon period are you?" says you. No, I believe we're different. The cup is not empty or even half-empty - but full all the time. And this NYTimes article When There is No We in Marriage made me realize just how different we are in what we come to expect (or ask) of love. And since Venus has just entered Aquarius (February 17- March 11),...
Mercury in Aquarius, Gratitude Loosens Thought Paradigms
We were walking the dog, my sister and I -and sat down on a bench in the upper crust part of SF, Noe Valley. Settling into our patch of sun, a fashionably self-conscious twenty-something walked by. Followed by another...and another. Overheard: "So I had to cancel my Pilates appointment this morning, and move my manicure...I was just too hung over..." My sister says, "Ugh. Sometimes they make me sick." They being the young urban modicums of hip and cool. "This place looks like Melrose," I...
Career Advice for Scorpio With a Broken Compass
Dear Moonkissd, I have been struggling in trying to figure out what direction to take in regards to career. After racking up debts taking gen. ed. and other classes in hopes of coming to the "aha" moment, I'm afraid I haven't come any closer to answering this question. What I have found is that: I find the thought of an uninspiring 9-5 job dreadful, but I crave financial stability. (Well, financial abundance would be preferable, but Rome wasn't built in a day, eh?) The idea of racking up more...
V-Day, Be A Baby In the Business of Love
What's in store for Valentine's Day? Is it really even a holiday, or a holiday invented by Zales, Tiffany, Hallmark and Godiva? It matters not. Venus is in Capricorn, and she appreciates the stuff - the bling and rings and things. The girl wants things. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. None of this cubic zirconia crap. She wants something that will last, and anything that will improve her image will do, too. Maybe a business card, a webpage. Or an unlimited yoga pass, a business contract or...
Soul Mates: Climbing the Pole to Heaven Together
(this is an excerpt from my upcoming CD on how to attract your soul mate) Everyone has a twin flame, a twin soul, a soul mate. So where did the soul mate come from and why haven't you found yours? In honor of this Valentine's Day Gemini Moon, here's a love note for you. The soul mate is ancient and a modern reinvention. And because we love astrology, the story begins with the Greeks. In Symposium, Plato described it like this (more or less): this dude Zeus (Jupiter) was atop his throne in the...
What A Couple of Bucks, and A Session With An Evolutionary Astrologer Buys You
Sometimes I think being an astrologer is one of the hardest jobs in the world. Step into my world for a moment. People bring you their package of problems and lay them at your feet. Sometimes it's as exciting as Christmas morning to unwrap them together - because we begin to see them quite differently this time, and discover the possibility of a truer, more relevant present. Why, that monster in the closet is just trying to give me a cookie! And that's the gift of astrology, learning to...
Is Venus in Capricorn Cheap?
(conversations between astrologers, Part II) "Venus in Capricorn is so CHEAP!" "What did you say?" "Totally CHEAP! I'm watching the financial markets and every time an aspect involves Venus in Capricorn the markets tank! People become fearful, they hoard. They don't want to spend their money with Venus in Capricorn and people with Venus in Capricorn are the same." "Oooh, this is good. Can I quote you?" "Go ahead. I stand by it." "Well, I don't think my Venus in Capricorn friends would like to...
Ever wanna know what astrologers talk about when they get together?
An expose'. I got together with an astrologer-friend yesterday, for a coffee and catch-up, something I've been doing a bit of lately with the ol' Merc RX in Aquarius. Sure, we're normal folk just like you, who talk about everyday things. But you guessed it, like that VW bug (Herbie?) that used to drive itself, all roads lead back to...astrology. It's kind of annoying to be us, actually. You can call us freaks or boring, better yet call us compulsive - we just can't help ourselves. Wanna be a...
