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Sensual Carmen
Carmen Electra April 20 1972 The essence of the Bull's confident beauty is her comfort and naturalness in her body. Venus, the Love Goddess presides over the signs Taurus and Libra. However, Venus-ruled Taurueans are far more physically sensual than Librans. The partially nude statue Venus de Milo reflects the seductive promise of Taurus. Carmen Electra is a modern day Venus de Milo. Her style is provocative, a little too revealing, careful to show just enough to keep you interested without...
Funny Fanny Taurus
Barbara Streisand April 24 1942 On tour in 2006, singer Barbara Streisand didn't miss a beat when a fan repeatedly heckled her during a political comedy skit on her tour. She responded to the offense with an expletive, rare for a female celebrity. Anger doesn't discriminate one Sun sign from another, frustration is an equal opportunist. But remember our bullfight: it takes an awful lot of red flag waving from the matador to provoke Bull into rage. But when the Bull finally sees red, get out of...
Ladies, you’re invited to a Girls Night Out with Cosmo + Moonkiss on 6/7!
Cosmopolitan Magazine has invited moi(!) to participate in an evening of cavorting among clothes and staring at the stars. Ladies, I'll be giving mini-readings (4-5 mins). Fun! Fun! Fun! Join us for hors d'oeuvres, personal stylists, clothes and astrology. Venus enters Leo this week – trust me, you’ll be in the mood to party and shop. The details: The Bioré Style Swap is where women get together to swap gently worn clothing and handbags. Join us for clothes swapping, hors d’oeuvres,...
Full Moon in Sagittarius, May 31, 2007
Sun in Gemini is like a flashy book with glitter and silvery things, and universal symbols and strange script that look like Angelina Jolie’s tattoos on the cover. And like any good book, you’ve just got to open it wide open to find out what’s inside. The Sagittarian Full Moon is a wide open and curious mind. We reach our hand into the goody bag and find all sorts of strange textures, itches and hankerings to do this or that. Which one will it be? On one hand or the other...As always...
Quincunx’d again
I'm back on the wagon. After eating my share of sweets and yeasty treats through Europe, I was kind of expecting it. You know ladies -the dreaded yeast infection. What's astrologically synchronistic about this is it happens on this day when Venus is quincunxed by Neptune. That funny quincunx, who knows what to expect? It's got this "breaking up is hard to do" thing going on with Venus and Neptune...surrender the sweets, my pretty, all the yummy yeasty treats, the too close for comfort...
The lure of the exotic
Budapest is a Sagittarius city, Hungary a Sagittarius country (Lilly, Dariot), the astrological sign of the foreigner, priest, wanderer and teacher. As the sign where wisdom is acquired on the zodiac wheel, after the dark night of the soul of the Scorpio and before the wise elder of Capricorn, Sag’s task is daunting. How can we ever grow in wisdom without suffering? We’ve left Scorpio’s intense emotional waters and must learn to walk the long, dry desert of Capricorn without. What...
I missed the boat to Budapest
After talking with our Viennese friends, we decide to the remaining few days of our trip on a quick jaunt to a neighboring country. Prague? Greece? Budapest. I don’t know why I’m so captivated by the thought of visiting this east meets west city straddling the Danube, once the most important hub for trade Actually, they’re two distinctly different cities – Buda and Pest. It sounds so exotic. When I think of visiting, I imagine myself as the teenaged heroine of a childhood novel I...
Give Saturn a break, says Neptune
Neptune that planet of discontent, dreams, imagination and punch drunk divine love is going retrograde and he’s left a note at the doorway for the Saturn part of us - who is quite honestly, terrified of losing his cotton pickin’ grip on reality. Saturn’s learning tho’ that without creative and spiritual replenishment he really loses it. Lean into it, let your consciousness stream and dream... Dear Saturn (in Saturn’s language), Don’t insist on reality. Really, honey its better...
Sex, Candy and Freud…not necessarily in that order
Shopping, chocolate, lingerie stores (Palmers, Europes Victorias Secret, literally on every other block) and a visit to the psychoanalyst could a woman want for more? Oh, then theres the shopping. For this city of window shoppers, Merchants cram as much as they can in the windows and doorways for the Sunday (nothing is open) and evening strollers. Although businesses close early (Vienna makes serious business of leisure) you can still shop. The prices are conveniently posted next to everything...
Before Sunrise
Vienna is a romantic Libra city. Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke fell in love in Vienna in the movie Before Sunrise. Was it true love or romantic love? Was it the ambience of art & culture, street performers and cafes, cobblestone streets and breathtaking churches? Maybe a boat ride on the Blue Danube River or an Einspanner coffee shared over a Sachre torte at daybreak? What makes a city romantic? I pondered this question last night in an open air café, where we ate bio salads. (We think...
