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Owen Wilson, The Masked Scorpion
Owen Wilson's drug overdose or attempted suicide shocked everyone because it contradicted the image we have of Owen. Because he's a comic, an all American guy with surfer dude good looks, wit and charm. In the astrological world, we'd call his personification or "mask," the Ascendant - and possibly the Midheaven as we see Owen's professional face, too. The face we wear to the world, our cosmic clothes or heavenly garments say tons about how we get where we're going, but little about the...
Will the Virgo/Pisces Eclipse End My Relationship With Mr. Pisces?
Dear Moonkissd, I am a 25 year Capricorn female and I was dating a 23 year old Pisces male for over 3 1/2 years. Both of us have struggled to get our careers off the ground and money has been tight. However, I have recently gotten a great job where I can use my B.A. in Literature. He is a struggling musician with no current income but plenty of talent. Back in May he told me he wanted a break. He said it had nothing to do with me and that it had to do with him. However, as the months have gone...
Minute-Taking At A 5th House Pisces Lunar Eclipse Meeting
So I meet semi-regularly with an expandable/shrinking group of artist friends. We're artistic advocates for one another's work. As supporters of the creator within, we don't necessarily even like the other's work (we cleared that one up yesterday)...that's not what we're about. We're advocates of the artistic process, conspirators of each other's creativity. We're a support group for the fantastically fabulous artist and the barely limping along one. Like a modern day la boheme, we're outcasts...
Connecting with Stardust
"A philosopher once asked, are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we're human? Pointless really. But do the stars gaze back? Now that's a question." -From the movie, Stardust I snuck away for a matinee movie last week, Stardust. A girlfriend suggested: "You know being in our line of work, you might want to see the movie Stardust...it may be far bigger than the summer's blockbuster, maybe even up there with the Wizard of Oz." I knew she was mystically speaking,...
Heavenly Conversations at the Local Office Supply Store
During Virgo Sun, we have Earth to Heaven conversations with ourselves, especially about what's right and fair. Earth Mama: Here I am waiting in line at Staples. It's like race day at the track. Everyone's buying back to school supplies, what a mess of kids and moms! Oh my Fabulous, the checkout girl looks tired and I can already tell she won't give me a refund for my printer ink. Yep, she's insisting I bought the wrong one. I know I didn't. She's stressed. Choice: I can either make a scene...
It’s all G-O-O-D for Virgo
The golden age was first; when Man yet new, No rule but uncorrupted reason knew: And, with a native bent, did good pursue. Unforc'd by punishment, un-aw'd by fear -Ovid Sounds like a Virgo: ruled by reason, she puts G-O-O-D in the world. Minus an "O" and you've got G-O-D, really just an acronym for Good Orderly Direction. The Earth Mama aspect of Virgo makes her a great organizer, worker and helper. Virgo's Birkenstocks are really fairy slippers for the Queen of Heaven. The mystical aspect of...
A Mutable T-Square Bump ‘n Hustle
There's a T-Square in the sky at the 7 through 10 degrees of mutable signs right now (through the weekend). Mars in Gemini, Jupiter in Sagittarius and Mercury in Virgo are stimulating a lot of hot air. Let's just say our response times are challenged. Let me give you a practical example: my husband found a nifty find-a-contractor site on the web where competing contractors bid on jobs (thanks handyman Mercury in Virgo!). When I was able to get through to him, he greeted me on his...
Professional Help and Skeptics
In my last New Moon post I spoke to the Leo in all of us - the creator, muse and artist who doesn't want to take any &*$% from The Man, who just wants to get paid to do what we love. Professionally speaking, there are many characters in each of us who are just dying to be lived out. In the chart, they're the planets - like little people who, when given a microphone, have some very informative things to say about many subjects, including life/career direction. So when I came across this...
Sun/Saturn and Bounded Freedom
Astrology in action... Yesterday, Sun met Saturn in Leo. We hired a couple of workers to build garden walls. Yes, walls. We all need structural support, right? By terracing our front yard we're turning unused dead space into nice flat expanses. Gardens, picnic tables and other cool yard ideas are now possible. Sun/Saturn lives to work and generally sets boundaries on its self-concept. But with the event of garden walls, I'm considering how much space we've freed up by setting these boundaries....
So Friendly and So Friendless. So What’s The Deal?
Hi Jessica! First off, let me just say I am addicted to your website!! I have a question regarding friendships in my life. My birthday is Oct 6 1986 1:13a.m.in Summit New Jersey. I don't know if it's so many planets in Scorpio or what, but I feel like all areas of my life are in extremes. As far as love relationships I could not be happier with my boyfriend, and I feel truly blessed with that area of my life. Finances, happy to say are great right now. But friendships seem to be on the other...
