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Capricorn New Moon Talks About Manifesting a Dream
Yesterday I was asked by an interested friend how long it took to manifest my soul mate. "Around 18 months, with a very focused 9 month period of work," I replied, anticipating the usual deflated sigh that I hear from so many people waiting for their dream of love, or any dream to manifest, "that's so far away..." I know, from the position of wanting, it is a long time. And from my perspective, with the dream fulfilled, it wasn't very long at all. What's a few years in the greater scheme of...
Brad Pitt, The Archer
Brad Pitt 18 December 1963 These days we bet when Brad's not on a movie set, he's jet-setting with his leading lady. For the Sun sign who virtually equates sitting still with depression, being in constant motion must be divine. Sagittarius thinks: there's so much to see do and be in the world, so much to discover about oneself why on Earth would anyone want to limit himself to just one place? It's the curse and the blessing of the Archer, the eternal restlessness, endless questing, to find a...
The C(heart) of Relationship
Dear Moonkissd, I love reading your blog! I have a question about first meeting charts, what they can tell about a relationship. I recently met a man about 6 months ago, and from the moment I met him I felt that we had an intense connection. We met on May 30th at 9:30 p.m at the Empire State Building, Manhattan NY. I was born in New York, New York on November 2, 1964 at 3:18 a.m and he was born in Atlanta, GA October 9, 1970 at 6:00 a.m. Dear Venus Ascending, Deborah Kerr in an Affair to...
Mars: Retrograde, But Not Idle
Mars has been retrograding through Cancer, where peeling back the layers of emotional aggression inherent in certain family dramas has felt like peeling a stinky onion and resembled a soap opera. Mars in Cancer hesitates and dissects the vicissitudes of emotion first, and acts later (when Mars turns direct) which describes any inner conflict stalemate or stand-off. Despite the subtle emotional bubbling, Jupiter has entered Capricorn (Cancer's compliment) lifting spirits with optimism and...
Venus In Sagittarius: The Girl No Guy Ever Got Over
Venus sends love to Sagittarians today as she enters the sign of the free spirit! Our love lives need room to move, from the bedroom of Scorpio and out into the big wide, world. Well, we could make love all day - heck, it's worked for the past month - but now we're romanced by the call of the wild, the call to adventure. If anticipatory excitement rules our hearts (and it does) love brings all the possibility and excitement of Christmas morning. We all need to believe in the presents of love...
Poll Results: Pluto is Entering Capricorn. What will you do?
Grace Under T-Square Pressure
Hello Jessica, I have a question about Pluto/Jupiter to MC transit. In fact, it's a T-square with Mars: Asc-24 Scorpio MC-27 Virgo Mars -28 Gemini, ruler of 5th house (I don't have a boyfriend) and almost exactly conjuncts 8th house cusp-26 Gemini. I am a recent college graduate and straggling with a job search. It seems like a dry spell, whatever I do - nothing brings any results. It would be OK if I were rich but I am not and slowly but surely facing a financial disaster. So, what do you...
Coming Home By Light of the Full Moon in Cancer
On this Full Moon in Cancer I write to you dear reader, from a plane. High in the clouds, feeling snug as a bug in a rug, the plane rather feels like a womb, with all the comforts of business class (upgraded, thanks Jupiter conjunct Sun!). With attendants at our beck and call, offering water, coffee, biscuits, a full meal and liquors of choice (I want to take the reclining chair with lumbar support home) I marvel: could this be any other than a Cancer Full Moon experience? I am warm,...
The Week of Jupiter, Too Much Stuff!
It's a week marked by major shifts, and they're happening so fast I can barely get my fingers to the keyboard before another occurs. So if you're feeling shaky, it's more than the Christmas nog and holiday rushing around, you're also "getting used to" the new planetary energy. When planets/nodes enter new signs and/or change direction, we need a little time to adjust. So give your self a punsch break, and read on. Here's the breakdown: On Monday, the nodes left Virgo/Pisces and entered...
Sun meets Jupiter, Two Kings Do the Meet and Greet
On Saturday, Jupiter joins with the Sun for the very first time (in 12 years) in the sign of Capricorn. Okay so you know Jupiter could contain the Earth and all the planets in our solar system...and the Sun is the King! Or is Jupiter King? Some astronomers say Jupiter was once King of his own solar system, as he emits heat from his own internal radiator. These two Kings aren't competitive, they're naturally expansive - they amp up our visions for what's possible in the year to come. In...
