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Movie Review: Venus, err Saturn
During last week's Saturn/Venus conjunction, while I was busily crashing weddings, a friend of mine suggested I see the movie Venus. 'Uh, maybe it should've been called Saturn ,' said he. Yes, I had seen it, but I hadn't really seen it. It was a few months back, one of those nights I needed to escape into a brighter world that this unexpected love story entered, requiring my earnest attention - not the brief mental vacation I was seeking. Fittingly, with Saturn near Venus for much of the...
Poll Results: As far as my partner and I go, Astrology has….
Brit Behaving Badly: Part 3 of 3
As Pluto transits Brit's Mars/Neptune square, the crux of it is: Britney trusts no one. Not even her mom. They may very well be her staunch allies but to Britney they're not. This is Britney's chart unfolding, her life in real-time. Before she's able to receive the rapturous (and sometimes scary, uh, can you say paranoid?) devotion of her partner and her public audience, she's got to figure out how to move in this world. This is no walk-on part. They want something and importantly, she wants...
Brit Behaving Badly: Part 2 of 3
What's going on with Britney Spears? What could possibly explain her downward spiral? As Neptune moved away from Britney's Moon in 2005, Jupiter headed onto her Saturn/Pluto/Ceres conjunction in Libra. Jupiter bore partnership gifts in Libra, but Jupiter's tendency is to open everything. The gift-giver opened the door of an unknown castle. This is the scene where the fairytale grows grim: the newlyweds cross the threshold of marriage and dark forces receive them - Saturn, Pluto and Ceres. Love...
Brit Behaving Badly: Being Britney Spears, Part 1 of 3
Britney to your left, Britney to your right. Every week there's a new headline. Capturing Brit in a moment of weakness, distress, neglect, chaotic behavior has become a tabloid obsession. Today I'm happy to report, Brit's finally giving those one in same tabloids the whirly bird - the blow off. It's about time. And they're capitalizing on that, too. Britney flees the interview scene and then publish the story behind the missing story chronicling the outrageous behavior of the fleeing woman....
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Hurricane Baby
A reader’s letter answered in Ask Moonkissd !: I have been in love with the same man for over half of my life. We have never married each other. I wonder if the planets show a wedding in our future, or more of the same? Any Happily Ever After for us? I was born September 1, 1954 (DURING A HURRICANE) AT 6:58AM in Boston, Ma and my soul mate was born on December 12, 1955 around 6am in Boston also. Our relationship has weathered many storms and has become stronger in spite of (because of??) it....
You’re Stronger Than You Think
A reader’s letter answered in Ask Moonkissd!: Dear Moonkissd, I was born June 20, 1978 around 1:25-1:30 pm in Santurce, Puerto Rico. To make a long story short, my life in the last year has gone from great to almost unbearable. It began when I opened my heart to "the love of my life" who is also the father of my son, to living in fear and physical abuse, to then losing my job, and my parents (whom I am very close to) moving back to Puerto Rico. As simple as it may all sound, I feel like I...
Leo New Moon Cracks a Smile
At the aforementioned Leo New Moon wedding, I spoke to a woman who just quit her corporate job several weeks ago to pursue her passion full-time: photography. I handed her a business card with a picture of The Saffron Goddess on the front, a beautiful painting of a woman with fierce golden locks. She replied, "Wow, that's how I've been feeling the past couple of weeks." "Gorgeous!" I replied. She quickly corrected, referring not to Saffron Goddess' inner beauty revealed, but the cracks in the...
This and That, Venus in Retrograde Gets Married
Venus continues retrograding in Leo through September 8. At yet another wedding this weekend, The Beatles, official Summer of Love Band floated through the air. A decidedly different wedding from the weekend before, this Northern Californian service was held among the Redwood trees and officiated by a Wiccan priestess. As the Leo New Moon hit full tilt boogie in the sign of the performer, the bride's personal sentiments opened everyone's tear ducts...but the groom stole the show by singing...
