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Mick’s Just Getting Started
Mick Jagger: 26 July 1943 Speaking of pants, Mick Jagger’s skintight leather ones (and infamously lush lips) makes the ladies sing “start me up, Mick!†Yet this strong stage presence arose from humble beginnings, as is sometimes the case with Leo. In early Rolling Stones days, Mick was awkward in front of a crowd and imitated other performers to find his own unique style. But find style he must; self-expression is sunshine to Leo’s creative garden, and these souls bloom by shining...
Venus Retrograde, Defrocked
Who is this lusty lady? Do we really know her at all? As Venus moves retrograde in Virgo today (through September 8 )she begs our kindness and our modesty. But to really know her we must first defrock her. Yes, take off her clothes. My college art teacher once distinguished the difference between nude and naked. Nude implies self-consciousness, the awareness of being looked at, being watched. And the nude model's poses are rehearsed or posed, from that perspective. We're trained at nude, in...
The Sun enters Leo: There’s a Time for Every Star
"Taking off my glasses Sun pokes through my lashes And somehow I know There's a time for every star to shine Everybody got their something Everybody got their something..." -Nikka Costa As of last night, the Sun is in Leo, can you feel it? Its the hottest season of the year- the season of Leo. The radiating heart of the solar system, the Sun, in his home sign, Leo is strong, pulsating, fixed heat. Leo times remind us that in order to be any good at anything at all we must put our heart into...
How to submit a FREE question to Moonkissd
It is easy to submit a question for FREE! Go to the Contact Form and choose "Ask Moonkissd" under contact reason. Then include your question and as much other information as you can: your birth date, time, and place. Your response will be posted in my "Ask Moonkissd" category so check back over the next couple of weeks. *Due to the number of letters I receive I may not be able to answer everyone's question, so if it's urgent consider submitting a "paid question." - Your Astrologer,...
Searching for Collective Soul – Part II
In my recent confessional post about the cult of celebrity, I asked myself why I was feeling this topic so strongly. Was it just me? I guess I’d always considered celebrity watching a voyeuristic Neptunian escape – a cocktail of self-forgetfulness to indulge in here and there. But I’m considering this a Venus- worthy topic, too. Upon reading a fellow blogger’s post whose thoughts were so conceptually close to my last post it was eerie (these thoughts travel collectively – see The...
New Moon in Cancer: Channeling Collective Soul…Hellooo?
I’ve been wrestling with my love for pop culture lately. I’m sorry. I can’t help it: (here’s the part where I apologize for something I enjoy) I enjoy it. It Every time I go to the gym I pick up the Mag of the Moment and check out what’s going on with Lindsay, Brittany and Jen this week. In trying to label the mixed emotions I feel, I can pinpoint similarities to the emotions of guilt, shame and gluttony...until I look around me and realize I’m putting that same mojo on all my...
Angelina’s Makeover, compliments of Cancer New Moon
When I went to see my crush, Angelina Jolie, (by now you know I’m heterosexual, married and I have more crushes on beautiful women than men) in her new movie A Mighty Heart, it got me thinking about how this Cancer New Moon falls pretty close to the Ascendant of Angelina’s chart, and that right about now she’ll be experiencing a sort of absolution for her wild child self-image – fans may finally soften up and allow her to be the maternal, soft Cancer rising her soul needs to express....
Mercury and Memory: I’ve Heard it All Before
Okay folks, retrograde Mercury in Cancer has thoroughly reached a dead stop. The lord of ebb and flow, that cosmic administrative assistant who keeps the wheels of the brain turning, your computer’s RAM accessible and your appointment calendar straight has been at the same 3 degrees of Cancer since July 4th! And even though Mercury technically begins moving forward (from the earth’s perspective – Mercury never moves backwards literally) it won’t make it to 4 degrees until July13th. To...
Desert Mustangs
The quiet of the desert sharpens the senses. Splashes of color contrast against the sun bleached dirt. Hummingbirds frequent our flaming orange-red flowers, as do yellow-jackets. We’ve driven from Todos Santos to Cabo Pulmo, Baja, not a town, not quite a village – more like an outpost in the only coral reef in North America, on the shimmering turquoise Sea of Cortez. Of the two available cabanas for rent, we choose the one with hammocks, a porch and a seaside breeze. With five of us in one...
Full Moon in Capricorn: “Gone fishin’. Be back l8r.”
To my stepdaughters last night, I remarked that the Moon was full in Capricorn, to which I’m invariably asked, what does that mean? They want a simple answer, something neatly packaged. I notice it’s never a simple answer - even though I want to give them an easy one, one that doesn’t involve being a beginner all over again walking through the steps I’ve traced so often before. But I cannot. She’s the Moon, I groan inwardly, not easily understood... The Moon is reflective of the...
