by Jessica | Dec 31, 2009 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations
The last week before Christmas, I flew out to South Carolina to assist my very sick and very dear grandmother. When I arrived, it was clear she was close to, if not actively, dying. I did what I could. If you’ve ever been a caregiver for a sick person who is fairly...
by Jessica | Jul 20, 2009 | Cancer, Illuminated Lunations, Mercury the Messenger
At first glance, upon stumbling on Simone Butler’s essay on this Cancer New Moon Eclipse, I thought I’d been punk’d. How could we who do not know each other have written something so similar? All I saw were the words in bold, ‘Daughters of the American Revolution’. I...
by Jessica | Jun 22, 2009 | Cancer, Pluto the Transformer, The Wandering Astrologer
“The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman”- Mexican Proverb We were sitting around a table at my sister’s house, four women, different ages all, but natives of a place called Santa Fe, New Mexico. I had made pancakes at my sister’s...
by Jessica | Mar 3, 2008 | Cancer, Mars the Warrior, Real Time Astrology
Mars enters Cancer tomorrow 3/4/08, making an immediate opposition to Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto fills out the leg of a cardinal t-square involving Sun, Mars and Pluto. With a Scorpio ruled 2nd house cusp, I figured I’d be hit up with a huge bill. And new resolve...
by Jessica | Jul 13, 2007 | Cancer, Celebrity Astrology, Illuminated Lunations, Real Time Astrology
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...
by Jessica | Jun 2, 2007 | Cancer, Celebrity Astrology
Dalai Lama: 6 July 1935 Cancer’s identity centers on home and family, so it must be terribly painful for His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso to be exiled from his home country, Tibet since 1950. Nobel Peace Prize winner and Spiritual leader, His...