ASTROLOGY UPDATES!

ASTROLOGY UPDATES BY Tara Greene MAY DAY SPECIALS + MERCURY RETROGRADE heads up!

ASTROLOGY UPDATES APRIL 21^ST 2009

LOVE & Money leap forwards, Venus Direct April 17 @29 degrees Pisces

Mars Venus conjunction, & much more from Tara, Tarot Consultant ©

The Markets have improved during Venus’s Retrograde, since March 6^th it’s a reversal of the drop already in place. This is important but not the prime importance. Money is energy is a symbol and ruled by Venus, Goddess of Love. What do we really value? How do we evaluate it all?

On Friday April 17 @ 3:26 pm precisely EDT/12:26 pm PDT/7:25 pm GMT

VENUS TURNS DIRECT at 29 Degrees + change of PISCES that’s the Very Last of the Very Last Degree of the entire Zodiac. As Pisces is the Sign of endings, spirituality, Oneness, Bliss, Union, Sacredness, the Soul, Higher Love, merging with the Divine, the Beloved, ALL THERE IS. Venus turning around at the 29^th+ = 30th degree, the final, finito, end, culmination of any sign, considered to be “critical” as in, the Game of Monopoly when you get the chance card that says STOP! Do not pass go! Do not collect… in other words WE GOTTA GET “IT” Finish that love/money/spirit cycle of martyrdom/fantasy and illusion all Pisces agendas -did I mention Neptune planetary ruler of Pisces rules OIL? & get over all that fossil fuel shenanigans, BEGIN ANEW, NOW!

This indicates that we are all together archetypal-y at a critical turning point in terms of Lessons in Love,{ remember that song?} Values, Beauty, Art, Relationships, Women, Money, Luxury, Mother Nature, the Body as Venus rules Earth sign Taurus as well as Airy Libra, symbol of the balance, Karma… all those Venus ruled goodies.

Venus turning direct at the 29 degree of Pisces marks THE END of a major Spiritual, Relationship and Financial cycle.

Remember also that in these speeded up leaping into new dimensions of consciousness times that we’re presently in, everything becomes more synchronistic, more symbolic, more literal and more REAL, the dream and reality are merging into ONE. The word critical in itself is associated with Hindu Goddessess the Kritikas, who were the origins of the 3 fates in Greek mythology.

April 19^th –20^th Moon Venus and Mars are all embracing each other at the last degrees of Pisces.

April 21 MARS conjunct VENUS at 29 degrees of Pisces To BALANCE & complete the sequence

So I can’t help but get the symbolic message that this is literally…

DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PIadFsvDk

“Dance Me To The End Of Love”

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We’re both of us beneath our love, we’re both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I’m gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

I want to send great blessings and homage to Leonard Cohen who as a great artist, lover of women, song, all things Zen, Poet, prophet. Leonard has fulfilled his name destiny, as Cohen means The High Priest, so he is fulfilling that role in a new Archetypal way for all of us as all our “Pope’s” High Priests and High Priestesses use the medium of rock music, Venus rules music, to get their spiritual messages across. Leonard was interviewed by CBC from his Montreal home on April 16.

As an Archetypal Universal symbol, VENUS {as the Dove} symbolizes and carries the energy of LOVE the element that created, birthed and sustains the entire Universes

So we see HER, the God/dess forces as leading and guiding us to end old cycle and renew ourselves NOW. Mars has been a few degrees behind Venus in Pisces these last few days lending action, anger, force, defensiveness and co-incidentally we see the women of Kabul Afghanistan marching to oppose that rape on demand by husband law, they took a brave stance they’re not gonna take it anymore! We need to support them.

So, as we can all see, these are very critical times. As we move ever faster towards the singularity event horizon of Novelty that ethno-biologist Terrence McKenna prophsied, a.k.a. Dec 21 2012/ the Mayan Calendar’s “best before” date, the end of time as we knew it, each of these turning points marks a notch towards that singularity. Lets not “slouch towards Jerusalem.”

Venus’s Retrograde cycle was described by ancient Sumerian Mythology/Religion Psychology as the Great Goddess’s Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld as an Initiation. Inanna ventured into the Underworld {the SHADOW, Pluto’s domain} to be stripped of all her worldly possessions untiil she was rendered a mere piece of meat hanging and rotting on a stake in the underworld, in other words she was striped bare of her ego, so that she could rise again, to the Upperworld, more whole, cleansed, redeemed and connected to Her own innate spiritual powers.

Venus’s disappearance from sight for eight days {the symbol for Infinity} as she passes over the Sun, changes her appearance from being a nigh time to a daytime star. The Ancient Greeks believed that Venus was two separate bodies, they called the morning star, Phosphoros the “Bringer of Light” or Latin Eosphorus the “Bringer of Dawn”. The evening star they called Hesperos,Latinized Hesperus the “star of the evening. Eventually the realization came that there was only one planet with two distinct faces or phases. Hesperos would be translated into LatinVesper and Phosphoros as Lucifer (”Light Bearer”), a poetic term later used to refer to the fallen angel cast out of heaven.

So we together have just come out of an Archetypal shamanic death and rebirth journey of the Feminine, the Goddess, our money and values. Interesting isn’t it?

Venus direct happens on Orthodox Greek Good Friday ,so they are synchronized up perfectly and adding to this energy of rebirth. But we must make sure that we all got the lesson that began March 6^th when Venus began her Retro.

RITUAL TO MARK THE END OF THE CYCLE & REBIRTH

To mark this part of your, the collective’s and the Goddesses’ journey through the Underworld, it’s optimum time and paramount that you release old patterns of “self-undoing, especially old negative, self defeating ones, as Pisces shows co-dependent, martyrdom as its shadow side. Think back on any and all the ways you sabotage yourself, in love, financially; are addicted to fantasy, delusion, drugs, sex, consumerism, and sado-masochistic tendencies. As a culture we have all been addicted, brainwashed, and have low self-esteem. This is time to visit all those secrets, the Real SECRET is there, its what’s behind everything, bless it, understand it, connect to the Source PISCES, allow spirit to heal it, leave all that behind and emerge BLISSFULL into a new dawn.

2012 MAYAN VIEW of VENUS

Co-incidentally as I was researching to give you a visual diagram of Venus cycles, the Ancient Maya used Venus as their primary planet, more important that the Sun, the Dec 21 2012 “end date” has to do with Venus’s journeys, she was also very important Astrologically in Vedic Indian culture.

If you look at the diagram of the Mayan Venus Cycle time-line pictured as part of this post above you will note the Mayan glyphs imaged as small blue squares lined up along the time-line. Each blue square represents the Maya day-name associated with a specific date on the time-line. At the beginning on the far left the glyph for the Mayan day-name “Cib” represents the date August 26, 2007. That is the date upon which the ancient Maya approximated the first day that Venus would rise as a morningstar during this present cycle. The ancient Mayas actually considered that day to be the end of the last cycle rather than the beginning of this one and so they would not have pictured this date at the start of the diagram as I have done.

this Venus Cycle that we are experiencing presently began at the very end of the previous one on August 26, 2007 on the Mayan day “10-Cib”. It lasted right on through superior conjunction which began on April 18 2008 ( 12-Eb) and then afterwards through the series of days of the Eveningstar risings which began on July 17, 2008 (11 Ik).

Finally now on the 24th of Marchj on the Mayan day-name “1-Eb” the series of Eveningstar apearances will end, and the planet Venus will enter the last phase in its present Cycle, a phase called “Inferior Conjunction”. This phase will last only eight days and will end on the first day of Morningstar risings, approximately on April 1, 2009 which in the Mayan Calendar is known as “9-Ahau”

The coincidence of a first day morningstar rising with a Mayan day-name “Ahau” was very important to the ancient Mayas. It signalled the end of one eight-year Venus Sequence composed of five Venus Cycles, and heralded the beginning of a new one.

Note that the Markets seem to have improved somewhat as Venus RX meant reversing what was already in place. The Sun just entered Taurus, one of Venus’s home signs on the 19^th. The market should continue to strengthen temporarily in the sign of the Bull.

MARS/VENUS CONJUNCTION April 21 @ 7:19 pm EDT/4:19 pm PDT/11:19 pm GMT

Now incredibly a brand new balanced cycle begins. Mars and Venus conjoin at 29 degrees 32 mins of Pisces. The rule is to round up and go forward so this means that a Huge new cycle begins because Venus and Mars are conjunct at ZERO degrees of ARIES.

Archetypally VENUS and MARS Conjunction is the Sacred Marriage, the Alchemy, the turning of Lead into Gold. We are exactly on the edge of the old,29 degrees of Pisces and the new Zero degrees of Aries, This is a Rebirth, a new life, Spring. Zero degrees of Aries is Archetypal New Life, the very beginning of the Zodiacal degrees., a new round in the Wheel of Time and Life.

RITUAL IS HUGE and timing is everything so it’s very important to mark these important celestial passages. Our ancestors world wide would have done so and Indiginous peoples are doing so and for a new ecology of the planet and consciousness and what with Earth Day on the 23^rd ,let’s embody the planetary significance of this cycle inspiring a whole new balance and quality of Life.

The ALCHEMICAL MARRIAGE WITHIN

Prepare to do ritual, to manifest the “as above so below, as within.” Usually one bathes and cleanses themselves, I would suggest wearing white. Call in the 4 directions, the 4 elements. Call Venus and Mars, light a Blue or green candle for Venus and a red candle for Mars and place them on your alter or on a table close together. Have fresh flowers around for the Celebration.

Play Dance me to the end of love or other music which relaxes and feels sensual. Take your time, relax and breathe. Remember that you have just finished the Archetypal “dark Night of the Soul” and have faced your Shadows, and are being reborn as Venus is, cleansed. You are a new being, a new person, ready to face a new dawn a new life, new love. Behold all is new!

Visualize inside of yourself your own inner Queen and King, {or Prince and Princess} your inner Masculine and Feminine sides, every person has both. The Feminine side is the feelings, intuition, receptivity, traditionally the left side, The Masculine side, usually the right side, is where you act on and defend the Feminine Guidance in reality. Really sense, visualize what they look like, details. Feel their presence, their love and passion, their honesty and dedication, their longing to unite with one another, their hope of creating Heaven on earth together. Hear the strains of the Wedding march or other music which feels appropriate to you, whatever that may be. {personally I love the song Put Your Love in Me}

See, Feel and sense your Beloved. See your inner couple being present at their own, your own Wedding. Feel the heat and sweetness of their breaths and hear their vows to each other, Feel within your self a melting into a sacred inseparable union. Bring your hands together and as you do hear and feel two heartbeats meld into One and clasp your hands together. Hear the Wedding Bells chime. Feel the soaring union in your heart. You are whole and complete, inseparable within yourself, nevermore alone, you have achieved the Inner Sacred. Everything changes upon this union. Masculine and Feminine sides become Interchangable, balanced. Feel the elation and the awe, the sense of being able to relax and let go, the chase is over, all is attained. You are the Beloved and the Lover. Hear Tears of joy will well up in our eyes, let them flow. Feel and sense the joy, the choruses of angels and archangels and Seraphim all singing in praise. Dance the joy.

Give yourself a gift, write out the vows, your experience of the wedding. Drink champagne, this is a Holy Day! Take a photo of yourself as a Newlywed! Take yourself on a honeymoon in your imagination. Make sure the experience lasts. Speak only positive loving words to each of your inner mates.

April 22 Spectacular SKY WATCHING early am LYRIDS METEOR SHOWERS

The Lyrian meteor showers peak this am . Moon conjuncts Venus @ 9:29 am EDT/6:29 am PDT/ 1:29 pm GMT. The Moon is at the same declination as Venus and will occult or Eclipse her. Minutes later.

APRIL 22 EARTH DAY- KISS THE GROUND, thank Mother Earth

New actions are initiated on Earth day as

MARS enters Aries @ 9:45 am EDT/ 6:45 am PDT/ 1:44 pm GMT

Mars thrusts ahead as is his wont into His home sign of Aries, so it’s a new beginning for men now and for new actions. We should be clear about what we’re fighting for. Mars will be “at home” until May 31.

MOON enters ARIES 10:09 am EDT/7:09 am PDT/ 2:09 pm GMT

July 30- Aug. 5th Astrological Updates copryright Tara Greene

all time EDT unless otherwise indicated

July 30 Moon in Aquarius
July 31 MOON ENTERS PISCES @ 1:40 PM
Dream away for a few days.
MARS OPPOSITE SATURN @ 7:59 PM
Ouch this one's gonna hurt. The planets with the two worst baddest reputations oppose each other. Who's stronger? Mars in Taurus in his girlfriend Venus's house or Saturn the Time Lord, the Cosmic Cop in regal Leo? Watch out for temper explosions, extreme frustration, unexpected parking tickets, break-ins and the like. It'll be hot temperature wise too.

AUGUST

Aug 1-MARS QUINCUNX PLUTO @ 11:00 PM
if yesterday weren't difficult enough here comes the Double Whammy! Mars and Pluto both rule Scorpio and they're totally in two different Universes at the moment. Tempers, road rage, shootings, killing, extremism. This is the Dark side of a Black Hole with the Lord of Death hovering at the Event Horizon. Personally I'd be on a yoga retreat if I were you.

Aug 2 MOON ENTERS ARIES @ 4:43 PM
Hot enough for you? Tempers are ready to explode, watch out for Arians on the warpath.

MERCURY QUINCUX PLUTO @ 6:54 PM
Nobody's gonna mince words under this one. CAncerians are likely to go down that rabbit hole called the Galactic Center screaming and crying.

AUg 3
Moon Trines Jupiter @ 9:29 am
Hot on the heels of all of the aforementioned, Jupiter's energies only serve to ramp em up to the Xtreme Danger Zone.

MOON TRINE SUN @ 11:07 am
Well at least you should be feeling sunny about it all. Remember to just keep smiling, keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side, keep on the sunny side of Life

Aug 4-
MERCURY ENTERS LEO @ 1:15 PM-

All right, Mercury is much more at home in Leo where he bestows regal messages of great importance, and now everyone can blow their own horns once again. Time to get out there on stage and sing. Express yourself, do a tango, be Big,think big,big hearted.

MOON ENTERS TAURUS @ 7:16 pm
Two planets, the Moon is considered a planet in Astrology, have just entered the FIXED SIGN design category.Moon is stubborn, practical, earthy and sensual when in Taurus, do some gardening, laze about in a hammock, make sweaty love.
AUg 5-
Moon Squares Sun @ 5:19 PM
this is a fourth Quarter Square. Sensual Taurean Moon warbles to his or her Highness. Emotions and egos chafe against each other. It's a Holiday weekend in Canada, so have a good safe one.

August as a whole Aug. 5th
Astrology comes from the words astre meaning a Star, of course.
Read on and you won’t go astray. In India the word for star or star light is Sitara, from which the musical instrument the sitar gets its name, so it’s actually making the music of the stars. Sitara translates as Tara, the Great Goddess still praised in Hindu and Tibetan Religions.
The word disaster means literally without a star or more correctly Dis-from the Roman God of chaos + aster =chaos star
Summertime and the livin’ is easy. I’m trying to take a bit of time off to relax, so if my updates are a bit late, you’ll understand. I’ll will give an overview of August ,some hi lites of planets, patterns and galactic stuff to get you through the dog days of summer if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere and cat days of winter in the Southern.
Between around the 4th - 7th of August, Mars transits the Pleiades, which now extend into Gemini.

Now, the Pleides there are many ways to spell the name of the Star group actually doesn't have a very good reputation traditionally. Since the mid 80's there have been a number of channellers claiming to receive transmissions from the Pleiadians-two Barabara's in fact-Barbara Hand Clow and Barbara Marciniak. Their interpretation of the Pleidians is that they are extremely benevolent very Goddess loving future Light beings who see us on Earth as "Living Libraries." Personally I love all that Pleidian info they've received.

Did you know that a very popular car,made in Japan is named for the Pleides?

This transit asks us to excavate things that are traditionally associated with the troubles of the Pleidies things that might recently be under your skin-like a sliver. Recent, and not too recent annoyances, frustrations, things that are bugging you,events that have brought sadness,and/or a sense of letdown need to have time to clear. These are heavy times these are so honor your emotions, it will all pass.

On the 6th Jupiter finaly slows down and gallops forwards once again. Before that turning point it's a great time to make a plan of everything you'll do as soon as the big guy changes course. Jupiter is one heck of an optimistic planning coach. Review all the plans that didn't quite hit the mark and great ideas that you didn't quite polish off since Jupiter went Retro that 1st week of April. Pick the ideas you still want/intend to pursue and direct them to the top of your TO DO list for August 6th with rebounded enthusiasm.

Aug 6-12 ASTAROLOGICAL UPDATES

AUG 6 - It's a Government and Banking holiday in Canada today and good timing it is.
There's 10 count 'em aspects today! I'll name the most important.
*****SATURN TRINE PLUTO @ 6:35 am

THIS IS VERY VERY POWERFULL! The blessed combo of Reality with the power to transform ANYTHING {especially being conjunct the Galactic Center is well, Galactic Empowerment.
YOu can move mountains, create Universes, die and be reborn!
MOON CONJUNCTS MARS @ 9:50 PM

La LUna REd Bull! Passionate, sensual,spread your lover with fresh picked rose petals, sing your hearts out.

MOON ENTERS GEMINI @ 10:01 PM
The Moon is the fleet-footed Messenger now so let your feelings take flight. Emotions are filtered through the mind's lofty heights. Moody but quickly changing.
JUPITER GOES DIRECT @ 10:04 PM

Alright! Let's get this show on the road and on the stage.
PLans, travel, school plans all advance now. Optimism reigns once again.
MOON SQUARES VENUS @ 11:26 PM
This one will set all women on edge as Moon is playing the eternal peur, the little boy who never wants to grow up, settle down and commit.

MARS ENTERS GEMINI @ 11:01 PM PDT
Planets changing Signs and therefore Elements really do show how Astrology works in the real world. The Bull Market is over. Put your money in communications,companies that see both sides of an issue, youth oriented things,new fangled cel phones, Blackberries, etc. good for the Nasdaq.Actions are not well thought out and kid like, changing.Mind set is not. Mind is seeking ever newer things, busyness, sampling everything.
Aug 7

MARS ENTERS GEMINI @ 2:01 am EDT

MOON OPPOSITE JUPITER @ 2:58 PM
Feel good, go out on the town, get a gaggle of buddies together and hit a casino.

VENUS SQUARE MARS @ 7:36 PM
Venus is very nitpicky these days in Virgo and she gives it to the guys for being so terribly thoughtless, late, inept, imperfect, all over the map, etc. etc.

Aug 8
Another busy day.

MOON SQUARES URANUS @ 4:41 am
Expect upsets in plans, don't expect people to show and you won't be disappointed and can't run any kind f a victim routine.
MOON TRINES NEPTUNE @ 9:37 am
Good for eloquence, waxing poetic, apologies, forgiveness, and transcending the whole damn thing.
MOON OPPOSITE PLUTO @ 7:33 PM
This is like beer these days Heavy LITE! EXpect no holds barred in the verbiage flowing out of, or into the Event Horizon. Beware being caught in the Cosmic suction of the Black Hole because once you're in you ain't gonna get out, at least not in the same state you entered or Universe for that matter.Which like Martha Stewart says "Is a good thing." Take MArtha as an example she personally went into a Black Hole and came out pretty O.K. It's not as bad as you think so don't avoid the Void.

VENUS RETROGRADES INTO LEO
Venus decides to look over where her heart really is by re-visiting Leo's throne room again. Love affairs really get the once over, as do values of all kinds. Need all that stuff to make you feel important or not? Isn't Giving LOVE that 5th house LEO stuff what it's really all about?

MOON ENTERS CANCER @ 10:36 PM PDT
For all my West coast buddies Moon comes home to roost. You'll need to recover and nurture yourself after all the cosmic goings on.

AUg 9 MOON ENTERS CANCER @ 1:36 am EDT
same as above, only 3 hours later.

*****MERCURY TRINE JUPITER @ 11:36 Am

Trines are the sweetest deal you can get. Get all the old stuff out in the open. Very creative thinking going on. Sales, teacher and teaching,promotions,and talking your head off raucously. Enthusiasm, over doing it, splurging, hoof in mouth disease,honesty,gambling and risk taking.
Aug 10

Overoptimism from yesterday gets reigned in by a tense Mercury Pluto Sesquiquadrate
SUN URANUS QUINCUNX @ 4:28 PM
Jarring to say the least. Earthquakes, tidal waves? tsunammis, Yellowstone to blow?
A roller coaster ride to be sure. Fears may be high. The Mercury Pluto aspect from earlier today can be a blessing helping us to stay willfully focussed not paranoid or negative. Don't obsess over problems. Remember the Universal Law is of attraction. The more you think about what gripes you the more you attract more gripes.
Aug 11
MOON ENTERS LEO @ 6:42 am
The Confidence Flag gets raised up the pole. Play, romance, being open hearted,and dramatic highlites this weekend. The ability to be a courageous leader is Leo's greatest asset. Take heart courage and will now.
MOON TRINE JUPITER @ 9:48 am PDT
Feels so good to be dancing in the moonlight.
AUG 12
the above @ 12:48 am EDT
LEO NEW MOON- 20 degrees of Leo @ 7: 02 PM
This is a new Moon with a Heart full of Soul.A very firey LEonine New Moon this one is. Besides the 2 luminaries we have Mercury, Venus and Saturn. That's 5 of the 10 planets grouped together in one sign. All planets point to your Heart Chakra. Do you have the courage to dare to live and will from your heart? Do you dare to dance your dream of being a Star awake? Will you direct yourself in the starring role of your life? Will you fully open your heart and give it away, give it away, give it away. Neptune closely opposes the Luminaries at 21 degrees Rx. shedding his light on boundless love and acceptance, compassion and egolesness. Chiron the wounded healer is also opposite Sun and Moon at 12 degrees of Aquarius. The healing balm is in the wound. It may take the greatest strength and will to have the courage to be vulnerable, open to intimacy and all of Life's hurts. The True Warrior wears no armour, has no need for defences. Mars is opposite Jupiter-
Mars sends a laser beam to Jupiter. Minds can be very telepathic right now, beware of interference of how your mind is being manipulated by behind the scenes espionage.
Pluto Trines SAturn Conjunct Venus
The mythic Goddess of Love and Beauty meets Father Time/The Grim Reaper. This is a super Reality check. All Baby Boomers have been seriously affected personally by the Saturn Neptune Conjunction falliing on their NAtal Pluto's which started almost a year ago.
Issues about female aging, beauty and Crone Wisdom are about to be totally reversed.
Valuing elders, your Ancestors will come back to put our forebears in a place of reverence for creating us. ALso a more serious realization that we are the ancestors of the Future Generations, something highlighted n Al Gore's AN Inconvenient Truth documentary.
Saturn rules the Cycles of 7. Every 7 years Saturn makes a Square to the point it was at in the previous cycle. Our bodies totally renew themselves every seven years, in concert with Saturn's rhythmic cycles.
Native American Sacred LAw stated that- "What we do now affects the next seven generations." This movement has already begun and will continue apace with people leaving jobs they don't love. Downsizing work to be home with children voluntarily.
Venus CONJUNCT SATURN
helps us to re-evaluate the Earth Itself, Her Resources, Her Abundance. WE have started becoming more and more aware and we need to stay the course and keep this track ever growing if it's really going to "grow corn."

August 10th -14th, from Philip Sedgewick-Venus, back in self-oriented Leo, joins Saturn at the foot of the throne of the regal fixed star Regulus, standing across the sky from the talented and process-oriented black hole, Cygnus X-3. The unique Cygnus black hole system functions within a 4.8 hour orbital period. Venus wants what she wants. Saturn seeks to bring excellence into form and desperately aches to restore quality of life. Regulus reminds us to give ourselves the royal treatment - that is, the positive royal treatment, not the onslaught of critical review that can pop up like an annoying Internet ad, just when one is most busy planning vacations. The summary here reminds everyone to take mini-vacations if long term intervals of repose are not readily do-able. At least once a week, chill and do something fun for a time lasting no less than five hours at a shot. When pesky moods creep up, allow enough time - like five hours - to clear them out once and for all such that they do not dog you.

On the 23rd, Mars in Gemini opposes Jupiter at 10 degrees + change. Since Mercury also Squares the lunar South Node, it's a darn good time to repeat "What have I learned?" going back to April. But don't repeat any actions that failed to produce optimal results. Mars in Gemini prodded by Jupiter asks for "give me more, more" and to give it all you've got. Mars in Gemini is a frying pan for the brain, multitasking like crazy but stay aware and prioritize. Mental energies will be very high flying in Never Never LAnd,don't squander them, but apply persistent intentions in order to finish the race.

As August wanes, the Sun sails into Virgo's earth harbors or is that arbors? Venus opposes Neptune on the 25th, both retrograding. Alternately wear and then take off those rose coloured glasses and make a dewey eyed review of how it's supposed to turn out. But beware that big pot hole, called the rut of regret. Venus will turn direct on September 8th and again opposes Neptune on the 20th. Just in time for the balance of night and day - the equinox - Venus and Neptune step forward and issue Passports to Shangrilla/dreams fulfilled land at that time.

Astrology Updates July 23-29 by Tara Greene

Copyright Tara Greene

HILITES OF THE WEEK

July 23 SUN ENTERS LEO- 1:00 am EDT
Moon in Scorpio till the 24th
July 27 VENUS GOES RETROGRADE @ 1:226 pm EDT
July 29 Full Moon in Aquarius @ 8:48 pm EDT

ALL TIMES EDT unless otherwise indicated

VOID OF COURSE MOON TIMES THIS WEEK
{when not to initiate anything}

July 24 6:30 am Moon goes V.C. from Scorpio
July 24 Moon enters Sagittarius 4:29 pm
July 26th Moon goes V.C. from Sag. @ 8:13 pm
July 26 Moon enters Capricorn 11:21 pm PDT
July 27 Moon enters Capricorn 2:21 am EDT
July 28 Moon goes V.C. @ 10:23 pm
July 29 Moon enters Aquarius @ 9:13 AM

We’ll get to the biggies first-

VENUS GOES RETROGRADE July 27- @ 1:26 pm EDT-Sept 8
This is a biggie! Venus travels backwards in the skies for the 1st time in over 18 months. Do you remember what happened last time?

Venus rules everything that’s nearest and dearest to most people’s hearts- relationships, values, love, beauty, money, luxury, peace, harmony, and let’s not forget music and the arts. So her Retrograde movement will significantly change all that, our buying habits and social patterns over the next 6 weeks or so while she’s Retrograde.
We have an opportunity to resolve unfinished business in relationships and artistic endeavours.

Venus won’t get back to her retrograde station point again until Oct 11th when relationships, values, dating, shopping, etc. have had their complete make-over. So we’re really talking about a 10 week period here of re-evaluating our primary basic relating and consuming habits. Venus’s prescription,Rx in Virgo asks us to become more discerning, less judgemental and perfectionist-a very Virgoan trait.

Venus begins her Retrograde period in earthy practical nitpicky Virgo @ 2 degrees 57 mins.to be exact, which she entered on July 14. Venus will boogie ass backwards into dramatic royal heart-centered Leo on Aug. 8th and re-evaluate all the love given in your life, all the fiery pomp and circumstance, ALL THE DRAMAS, pride, courage, will and big kid at heartedness that Leo has to offer.

Venus Retrograde in Leo in the natural 5th house house of love affairs asks us to be more authentic, valueing from the heart, not the head, {Virgo} less willfull and egoistic. A re-evaluation of DRAMA becomes DARMA, meaning true unselfish service. O.K. not spelled actually correctly but phonetically and by the power of the pun it works!

It might feel a bit strange to be limiting or reticent in our hearts during the Retrograde phase combined with the usual expansiveness of Leo-very much like driving your heart vehicle through a major urban traffic jam having to alternatingly put your brakes on.

EXPECT SIGNIFICANT REVAMPING OF RELATIONSHIPS!

Most of them will be significantly overhauled or dropped upon more diligent scrutiny.

I got a call from a man on the 23rd asking me what I thought about Venus Retrograde and how it would affect his sad love life in the near future as he had his Venus in Virgo and Retro to boot at birth.
I told him that Venus Retrograde natally is always a karmic signature of repeating relationship patterns and repaying lovers and loved ones through lessons one hasn’t learned yet {from past lives}.
We all have those lessons to learn but Venus Retrograde at birth points out that this is a major life lesson that absolutely must be worked on and resolved. Vensu Retro at birth usually bodes ill for relationships if you are unaware and unconscious but with diligent work it can be made to really clear the decks.

Yet I said I thought that it was hopeful time for him as he is having a “Venus Return” a symbolic New Moon, a new phase, a new birth in love relationships and that he would definitely be in his familiar element when Venus Goes retro in Virgo and that that would be good for him. I compared it to people with Mercury Retrograde nataly who I observe do very well when Merc. goes Retro by transits. Significantly enough he told me that he has been an alcoholic for many years and just a few weeks ago went to A.A. and stopped drinking when a relationship broke up rather than falling into that familiar pattern. I wished him much luck and blessings.

My advise to him and to everyone during this Venus Rx is to review all significant love relationships and work related patterns and of course health and diet routines and values during this time in order to really reap the Venus revamp rewards. We will all have immense scrutiny and discipline to accomplish this not to mention great heart and will.
There is also an element of re-evaluating work, our daily routines & health regimes with Venus in Virgo and of course our love for the Earth whose harvests’ we depend on to stay alive.

We must do what we love and what we want to harvest from now and also to see love as work, as a discipline. THIS IS a biggie for the stock market which has been soaring lately!

It is especially symbolic that Venus is reviewing values coming out of Virgo who wastes nothing and lives very frugally on a very tight budget using only what she needs and then re-assessing Leo royal flair, the big show, the bling, bling, bigger cars, diamonds, palaces, etc. etc.
With the more recent consciousness shift that primarily America and significantly the First World Countries waste and use up most of the World’s resources this Venusian Retrograde bodes very well for a HUGE consciousness shift to only using what we need, becoming aware of just how much we waste in this instant, throw away culture, this macho-mine is bigger consciousness-yes, you suburban bleach blonde Goddesses in your SUV’s -this means you.

When Venus Re-enters Virgo we will all be more entrenched in the daily routines of recycling, reusing, and living a much more basic down to earth existence.

If we don’t volunteer our awareness to the task well then Saturn’s entry into Virgo on September2nd will do it for us and if you think you can bluff it in this big poker game called Life, remember that Saturn always wins!

Saturn will be in Virgo till 2010! Restricting and limiting the harvest of the Earth. Yes food, and basic resources that we need to keep us warm over the upcoming fall and winter will be drastically reduced.

SO be the wise ant now and meticulously store away the necessities of Life and be not the foolish Grasshopper who fiddles away the summer making merry music with total disregard of the upcoming winter.

The cosmic Landscape changes a lot during Venus’s Retrograde period. See chart-

Overview of this Week-
July 24th after all the dramas over Harry Potter, Ron, Hermionie’s, “you know who” and everyone else in the Wizarding world’s fate
Now exposed since Sat. the 20th at 12:01 am and the usual intensity of Scorpio Moon, we get to optimize while Moon enters Sagittarius. Jupiter is still Retrograde in Sagittarius as it has been since April 6th so Sagittarius fire is reflecting now and a bit held back, being raked over the coals so to speak. As a double Sagittarian myself Sun + Moon + Mercury at the Galactic Center, I’ve been feeling good with Jupiter in my home sign as all Sagittarians ought to be, but I am reflecting and reviewing how I use my words, search for truth, higher goals and of course planning trips and workshops.

The Only significant planetary aspects this week are:

Mars SQUARE NEPTUNE @ 7:10 m on the 24th
Mars in Taurus squares Neptune indicates practical solid acts of spiritual and artistic significance but can also drain energy in wasted dreams.

Moon Conjuncts JUPITER on the 25th @ 12:26 PM
This is a feel good one. Book that trip, buy a lottery ticket, sign up for a workshop that expands your mind.

MOON CONJUNCTS PLUTO July 26th @ 8:13 pm
Deep intensive inspired feelings tone is connected to the Galactic Center. This aspect will re-evoke the July 17th FIRE THE GRID, the world wide meditation held around the world commemorating Pluto’s exact conjunction with the G.C. again. So do do some meditation at this time as the Moon goes Void of Course after this aspect until July 27 @ 2:21 am EDT. That’s 5 hours and 8 minutes of pure inspirational letting go of the past and going into the heart of the souls’ journey from the Galactic Center and into Futurama.

MERCURY TRINES URANUS @ 11:25 PM July 28
Amazing inventive ideas, communications, revolutionizing awareness about spirituality. Expect to hear about a new breakthrough in cosmic mysteries. Hey E.T.’s where are you? Your timeline is running right down to the wire here.

FULL MOON JULY 29th 8:48 pm

Aquarian Full Moon asks us how do you want the world to be? How can you share in bringing awareness and revolutionizing the old power structures into a Oneness with all humanity?

Jupiter Mr. Big is Trine the Sun and sextile the Moon bringing optimism, creativity and bodasiousness. Jupiter has been Retro since April 5 and will station Direct on Aug. 6th. Get the final re-evaluations and judgements down now and be prepared to act on your mission soon. Letting go of old beliefs and outworn philosophies enables us to fully engage in following that arrow of higher truth.

Venus is kinds of dancing a wide cheek to cheek with Saturn the Cosmic Cop now from mid-June to mid October {within 16 degrees}.
Highlighted during this Fullness are issues around self-esteem and commitments. Venus Retro is re-evaluating how can we be more loving to ourselves and others. Plus

SATURN TRINE PLUTO- STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

Saturn Trine Pluto brings discipline,limits, structure and helps build a “stairway to Heaven” Song written by Jimmie Page and Robert Plant
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
And you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forest will echo with laughter
And it makes me wonder
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen
Yes there are two paths you can go by
but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
Your head is humming and it won't go in case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady can't you hear the wind blow and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for
And she's buying a stairway to heaven, uh uh uh.

And how symchronis is that!!!! Rock stars are archetypal messengers don’t you know. There’s a reason!

FUN "STAIRWAY" FACTS:

· As of January 7, 1991, "Led Zeppelin IV" had been certified platinum 10 times ten million copies sold.
· Released on No. 8 1971 the song is as of this date almost 36 years old.

* Stairway to Heaven" remains the biggest-selling sheet music in the history of rock. An average hit sells 10,000 to 15,000 copies. "Stairway to Heaven" has sold more than one million copies.

* "Stairway" is still played 4,203 times a year by the country's sixty-seven largest AOR (album-oriented rock) radio stations, according to trade magazine MONDAY MORNING REPLAY. How many times has it been played since it was released? ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers,refuses to release exact figures, but here's a rough guess: Figure that on each AOR station in America, the song was played five times a day during its first three months of existence; twice a day for the next nine months; once aday for the next four years; and two to three times a week for the next fifteen years. There are roughly six hundred AOR and "classic" rock stations in the U.S., which means that "Stairway" has been broadcast a minimum of 2,874 times. At eight minutes per spin, roughly 23 million minutes – almost forty-four solid years -- have been devoted to the song. So far.

SATURN CONJUNCT FIXED STAR REGULUS a.k.a. ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL
In effect under the Full Moon,Saturn Trine Pluto with Saturn sitting right on the degree exact on Aug 6 at 27 degrees of Leo/Sagittarius. Around 27 degrees of Leo sits the Fixed Star Regulus, one of the 4 Royal Stars, markers of the Arch Angels.
Regulus is the Star marker for Angel Raphael, the healer placed in the North. This Royal Star marks the Heart of the Lion.

Raphael's name means "God Heals."
Archangel Raphael is the archangel that supervises healers and healing for all Earth’s population. It’s sensible for everyone to call upon Archangel Raphael for his help in healing.

Ask Raphael for help when you are in any kind of pain, whether it is physical, emotional romantic, intellectual or spiritual. He will somehow inspire you with sudden ideas and thoughts giving you just the right information to help the healing. Pay attention to and then follow these angelic answers to your prayers.

When asked for healing assistance, Raphael surrounds and nurtures people with the EMERALD GREEN LIGHT of his halo. Green is the color of healing and clairvoyant people may see emerald green sparkles when Raphael is around.

Except for situations where the person’s death or illness is part of their overall divine plan, Archangel Raphael will energetically supply whatever is needed to promote healing. It’s important to note He will not always swoop in and heal everything right away. He could let you know that your negative thoughts have created this illness and to get rid of it, you must change your thinking. Hand over old anger to him for cleansing in the light. When this anger is gone, you will feel much more at peace and the effects of rage and anger in your body can be healed.

Raphael coaches and motivates healers whispering instructions into the ears of doctors, surgeons, psychologists, nurses and other caregivers including scientists. His intervention helps scientists in making breakthroughs in medical cures.

Ask for Raphael’s participation to promote healing in rocky marriages, addiction, grief and loss, family relationships and stressful lifestyles. Simply say his name or make a specific request: "Archangel Raphael, please come to my side and help me feel better about [issue]. Please surround me in your healing energy and guide my actions and thoughts so that I am healed."

Raphael is also the archangel in charge of travel. As you check in at the airport, ask Raphael watch over your luggage, the plane and your travels. Raphael and the traveler angels and can control airplane turbulence, give you directions when you’re lost, keep a leaky tire inflated and prevent your car from running out of gas (for a while anyway!).
Ask Raphael to smooth the way in all your travels. Don’t forget to thank Archangel Raphael and the ange for their help!

Sabian Symbols for this Full Moon fit in brilliantly with the COSMC ILLUMINATION

Sun @ 7 derees Leo –
“The constellations of stars shine brilliantly in the night sky; the power of basic spiritual values which refer to man’s common humanity and to all ENDURING ARCHETYPES.” –ha! STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN IT IS!

Moon at 7 degrees of Aquarius-
“A child is seen being born out of an egg; the emergence of new mutations according to the great rhythms of the cosmos.”
The world is changing, we are changing. A new cosmic archetypal being is hatching, we are all part of this new birth.

July 16-22 Tara Greene’s Astrology Head's Up Copywrite Tara Greene

Hi Lites of the week

July 18
Sun Sesquiquadrate’s Jupiter a square + a semi square = 135 degrees of over the top joy
July 19 Sun Quincunx Pluto-cut back on what you overdid and take out the garbage
July 20 Mars –Uranus sextile, could be sexy and unpredictable
July 22 –It’s LEO’s turn to shine the brightest and how!

Moon Void of Course Times: when not to initiate anything!
July 16 @ 11:55 PM EDT until July 17 @ 5:39 am
July 19 @ 9:44 am until July 19th @ 3:53 pm
July 22 @ 2:29 am until July 22 @ 4:16 am

The week begins with Moon in fiery me first showman Leo

July 16
Moon Squares Mars 2 2:06 am EDT- harsh dreams wake you up in early hours
Moon opposite Neptune 1:29 pm-foggy? Day dreaming?
Moon Conjunct Saturn @ 11:55 pm-Serious reality check!
Moon Trines Pluto @ 11:55 PM –riches of the depths, power, control! Pride!courage!

July 17 FIRE THE GRID
MOON ENTERS VIRGO @ 5:39 am
Earthy, practical, hard working, perfectionist, nit-picky, organized, eager to serve others during Moon’s sojourn through Virgo. Good for gardening, cleaning up, enjoying nature after you’ve worn yourself to a frazzle cleaning up your act for Fire the Grid..

MOON CONJUNCTS VENUS @ 7:40 AM
This is during the Fire the Grid and how beautifully it fits. From 7:11 am EDT for 1 hour Shelley Yates a Canadian who had her and her sons’ lives saved by Angelic Beings in 2003 has been guided by them to call this world wide meditation synchronized to 11:11 am Greenwich Mean Time. Moon Conjunct Venus is Virgo is grounding love, beauty, harmony, peace, values. It’s not airy fairy but practical. The Fire the Grid gets thousands or perhaps millions of people world wide to tune into their Higher Selves and the energies that these Beings are triggering.

July 18
Moon Square Jupiter @ 1:44 am
Emotionally this will keep you from doing the bungie jump. That exotic foreigner looks a bit less exotic in the harsh light of the office lights. Plan carefully for your vacation, higher educational goals and if you have any legal dealings. Good time to examine that map for the gold mine.

Moon Trine Mars in Taurus @ 2:06 pm
Treat yourself to a sumptuous treat. Energies pick up and are geared to beauty, martial arts, bull fights, cattle ranching, dude ranches and the like. Make music, sing, do a lot of rose smelling.

Moon Opposite Uranus @ 5:06 pm
Oops! It’s always an oops with Uranus. Virgos hate tardiness, like to be totally planned but Uranus in Pisces teaches them and you to relax and flow with the punches. So what if a few crumbs get spilled it’s really not the end of the world.

July 19

MOON SQUARE PLUTO @ 9:44 am
Tough, everyone’s picky picky picky. Road rage. The shadows of the Light side come out and they’re full of germs too! How dare you mess with any of my stuff, and revenge plots start to form in the subconscious.

MOON ENTERS LIBRA @ 3:53 pm
That’s better, a little balance, hopefully some peace, nice music, a fine wine, a delightful candelit romantic plan around dinnertime. People become emotionally in their heads during Moon in Air Signs, and definitely can’t make up their minds about how they’re feeling although they have to be in relationships now but skirting the truth.

SUN QUINCUNX PLUTO @ 6:47 pm
Water and Fire don’t mix elementally in Astrology, so Cancer tender hearts can easily get scorched now under Pluto’s power and control needs. Try to be honest with your feelings, don’t deny the Void or hide under a rug.

JULY 20
Moon Squares Mercury @ 6:12 am
One side wants to talk about their feelings, security needs, the Moon in Libra wants it all light, sociable, romantic.

Moon sextiles Jupiter @ 12:40 pm
This one will get everyone’s mood up for a big party.

MARS SEXTILES URANUS@ 6:13 pm
Alt. Time! Break loose of your shackles. Creative unorthodox, wild ‘n crazy ideas abound. New forms of religions sprout up! Passionate Mars in Taurus makes the earth move. Have very unpredictable sensual sex! It’s bound to be a whole new rocket ride for those earth bound types connecting to Piscean Uranian Oneness.

July 21
MOON Quincunx’s Uranus @ 4:48 am
Tantric sex, cosmic orgasms, spiritual romantic!

MOOn trines Neptune @ 10:34 am
I hope you’re situated in a beautiful nature scene, listening to the sounds of a waterfall, or tuning in through yoga or mediation to the heavenly spheres. Write something inspiring about last night.

JULY 22
Moon Squares Sun @ 2:29 am
This is just part of the unfolding lunation cycle. Feel safe, secure, tender and open hearted after that lingering amazing ride through the cosmos. Libra soaks up all those new social graces and balances out the energies.

MOON ENTERS SCORPIO @ 4:18 am
Moos definitely shifts down, deep, into the heart of the matter, Sex, death, birth, rebirth, power, control, secrets, money. This is where the real riches are. Way down low. So swing low, lowdown and dirty. This is an excellent balance to the Fire the Grid heights then Libra re-balancing act, now the trick is to love the shadows. Feelings are at their most intense with Moon in Scorpio.

Moon sextiles Venus @ 9:16 am
The theme is sex, romance, beauty, exploring the deepest most intimate private parts.
You’ll learn to love the darkest parts of yourself and others. It’s not all that scary.

SUN ENTERS LEO @ 10:00 PM PDT
Yes they do things faster in California. Leo’s leap forward in all their shining glory.
Eveyone gets more exuberant under Leo’s golden beams. This is the Sign that the Sun rules, so it’s the Sun’s Birthday month so to speak. Leo is pure gold, courage, daring, heart and will. Leo brings childlike exuberance to everything, be a kid, eat ice creams everyday if it makes you happy-you will for surely be able to do a stringent diet when the Sun enters Virgo. The whole world’s a stage and this is your movie. You are the lead actor, director, sound person, editor. So emote, be dramatic, you are a star, edit out the parts you don’t like. Open your heart to the joy and passion of being alive. That is what Fire the Grid is all about! Continue your lessons. Be generous. Use your will power. No one can direct you but yourself. You are a child of the Universe. Play, play, play!

WONDERING WHY YOU CAN'T FIND THE LATEST UPDATES FROM ME HERE THIS WEEK? IT APPEARS MY TRIPOD SERVER HAS BEEN GLITCHING UP FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS AND WELL, YOU KNOW MERCURY RETROGRADE AIN'T EXACTLY OVER YET. MY APPOLOGEEZE

Friday the 13th & other Enlightening Astro Cosmic Updates by Tara Greene

Enlightening Astro Cosmic Updates and Insights July 9-15

By Tara Greene

Copyright Tara Greene

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I AIN’T SUPERSTITIOUS –IT’S FRIDAY THE 13TH!

“Ain’t superstitious,
black cat crossed my trail. Whah whah whah whah, boom, boom,whah whah whah whah
I ain’t superstitious,
but a black cat crossed my trail.
Bad luck ain’t got me so far,
and I won’t let it stop me now.
The dogs begin to bark,
all over my neighborhood.
And that ain’t all.
Dogs begin to bark,
all over my neighborhood.
Mmm-mmm
This is a mean old world to live in,
And I can’t face it all by myself, at all.
And, dogs begin to bark,
all over my neighborhood.
The dogs begin to bark,
all over my neighborhood.
I got a feelin’ about the future,
and it ain’t too good, I know that.
I know, I know, I know.
Ain’t superstitious,
but black cat crossed my trail,
(I said it so many times before)
Ain’t superstitious,
a black cat crossed my trail.
Bad luck ain’t got me so far,
and you know I ain’t gonna let it stop me now.
Come on. “

Jeff Beck’s rewrite of Willie Dixon’s I Ain’t Superstitious sung by Rod the Mod on the album Truth 1968

I apologize for being 5 days late getting this out. I have been so busy working which is great but I see that if I don’t write the columns regularly my viewer ship sinks from over 400 per day to less than 200 on this website, so that keeps me inspired to keep burning these midnight candles.

What can I say about the last few days-briefly so you can check it out in retrospect. I always find that the retrospect view serves to galvanize Astrology’s strengths-so give it a go.

All times EDT unless other wise stated

July 9

Mercury goes Direct! Whewh. I personally didn’t feel this one was too bad except for a major screw up at the bank which I found out about on the 10th but OY I heard rumours. Now things won’t actually be running full speed ahead until Merc. that Hermaphrodite is once again where he/she gets back to the degree where he went backwards at which will be on Aug 10th.

Moon Conjuncts Taurean Mars @ 7:25 am

A fire cracker of a slow deliberate morning. Kinda like driving with the brakes on. Emotions can get shredded when locking horns with a mad bull!
July 10

Moon Makes 3, Count ‘em Squares –all Fixed this day

Moon Squares Neptune @ 1:57 am

Moon Squares Saturn @ 5:00 am

Moon Squares Venus @ 12:54 pm

The first one is inspirational, spiritual, compassionate, boozy, escapist

The 2nd one is difficult, school of hard knocks, carrying that suitcase full of lead,

The 3rd one is romantic, creative, artsy, makes you want to splurge on expensive trifles and the like.

Put ‘em all together and they spell “It’s a hard knock life for us, it’s a hard knock life”

After that last Moon to Venus Square Moon goes VOID OF COURSE- @ 12:54 pm

MOON ENTERS GEMINI @ 4:10 pm

The mood lightens considerably when in Gemini’s airy eiries. The dualistic twins famous in Star myths world wide are symbols of the apparent duality down here and obviously up there in the heavens as well, “As above so below” and vice versa.

Just know that emotionally you’ll be flitting around, nary to stick to any one thing over the next few days, socializing, and feeling like a kid again, which is “ a good thing” in Martha Stewart’s words.

July 11

Moon Trines Uranus in Pisces @ 1:33 am

The Universe gives you a whoopy cushion of a ride!

Moon Opposite Jupiter @ 10:33 am

Then sends you off to the Casino to try your “I’m Feeling Lucky” mood. You’re likely to eat a lot of chocolate cakes today, pet lots of dogs, go to the race track, philosophize,

Jog, run into a wall, crack a pile of jokes, book a trip to an exotic locale or at least to Vegas- I did, expound judgementaly, tech an old horse some new tricks, watch a James Bond movie, be hypocritical, shoot a few arrows, have your hooves polished. Not necessarily in that order.

Moon Squares Uranus @ 11:17 pm

Not to be taken lightly by those with hemoroids. Unexpected emotionally upsets. Hang loose baby and enjoy the roller coaster ride. Whee!!!

July 12

Moon Trines Neptune @ 4:11 am

Soft and pastely, gauzy, smell the incense, sooth your overwrought emotions. Write poetry at times like these, always dream big, forgive someone or yourself. At least get into some water and try to Re-Birth yourself.

Moon Opposite Pluto @ 1:39 pm

This illustrates the classic Gemini duality-Light and Dark, Good Cop Bad Cop; should I stay or should I go? The Light side of the Shadow or the Dark Night of the Soul? You choose. Oh but of course you can’t make up your mind. The Moon is the reflection of the Sun, here Moon reflects Hades, secrets, the shadow, power, control, kinkiness, hidden agendas and motives, mysteries, sex in the middle of the afternoon in the office broom closet, etc. etc.

Moon Sextiles Venus @ 5:12 pm

The tickler aspect and with Venus it’s sweet and sexy.

MOON GOES VOID OF COURSE-when of course ya shouldn’t initiate anything @ this time 5:12 pm EDT/ 2: 12 pm PDT

MOON ENTERS CANCER @ 6:30 pm

How quickly things change. Moon sails home to home sign of Cancer- Mom, Apple Pie, security, nurturing, food-y, watery, ultra emotional, real estate and relatives.

Cancer is the tenderest emotional time. Even big beefy steak eating types mellow out as Cancerian Moon pounds them out like a mallet to a fine fillet for the next 60 or so hours.

Moon Conjuncts Mercury @ 11:33 pm

Feel just how screwed up and confused things were in that Mercury Retrograde period now that you can look back at it and feel how knotted up your stomach is because of it.

Sip some chamomile tea. Feelings are given clear voice now but uttered with feelings as soft as butter on a hot summer day.

FRIDAY the 13th-

Now we’re up to speed and that only took me about an hour to write the previous. Not bad.

Friday the 13th with a Cancerian Moon behooves me to tell you to hide under the covers of your favorite security blankie, eat chicken soup with apple pie for desert, and be nice to your Mom,

Now of course you know that the Number 13 is not at all unlucky except for those superstitious Christian {and Muslim and Jewish, and Confusiun, etc.} Patriarchal Founders who feared the full fury, power and force of the Goddess, the Feminine which they were trying to destroy and did a pretty good job of defaming, obliterating, raping,

Stealing her power and resources, lying about, etc.etc.

The Number 13 is simply observable as the number of Moon Cycles in a year therefore bound to the Archetypal Lunar Feminine Powers of the Unconscious, Mothering, Menstruation, the Oceans, Dreaming and everything Nocturnal.

So it’s actually a Goddess Numerology Celebration Day. Can that Superstitious crap.

Very superstitious, writings on the wall,
Very superstitious, ladders bout to fall,
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.

When you believe in things that you dont understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition aint the way

Very superstitious, wash your face and hands,
Rid me of the problem, do all that you can,
Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin strong,
You dont wanna save me, sad is my song.

When you believe in things that you dont understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition aint the way, yeh, yeh.

Very superstitious, nothin more to say,
Very superstitious, the devils on his way,
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin glass,
Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past

When you believe in things that you dont understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition aint the way, no, no, no

- by Stevie Wonder

But to negate your unconscious fears of black cats, walking under ladders, broken mirrors, opening umbrellas in the house, seeing funerals pass, lipstick on his collar, etc. etc. throw sea salt over your shoulder 3 x;s and pray to the Goddess. I’d advise you to go out and and get a black cat, as cats neutralize negative energy anyway.
July 14

Moon Trines Uranus @ 2:32 am

This is like Anusol on a Cosmic Level when Mom soothes all your hurt boo boo’s.

Emotional peaks and valleys. Expect to hear an unusual Cosmic Message from Uranus in Pisces and double check the credentials of whomever you’re channeling, please.

NEW MOON @ 22 degrees of CANCER @ 5:04 am PDT / 8:04 am EDT

New Moons are always about setting new intentions and with the flavour of this Month’s New Moon being in Cancer the question is asked with regards to our stomachs, our security needs, home, family, and how nurtured we are feeling emotionally

Remember that Cancer’s symbol is the Crab. Crabs have shells some hard some soft to armor and protect themselves. Take a look at your own armoring is it too heavy, or too light? Are you over protective or under protected? Either one is ready to be shed to allow for new growth.

Where this New Moon falls in your Natal chart shows where you are ready to outgrow the old suit of armor, what needs to be nurtured and made secure in your life now.

This New Moon has several potent alignments. Neptune at 21 degrees of Aquarius and Retrograde Quincunx’s the Sun and Moon. A Quincunx is in some ways more challenging than an opposition, which is a natural polarity of opposites. A Quincunx, a 150 degree angled aspect challenges inharmonious elements to say “we can work it out.”

Neptune blurs all boundaries showing us our common unity. Neptune can be helpful here in obliterating all differences, obstacles and distinctions. We are also forced to blend a Cardinal sign, Cancer with a Fixed Sign, Aquarius. Cardinal Signs-Aries, Cancer, Libra & Capricorn initiate. Fixed Signs –Taurus, Leo, Scorpio & Aquarius bind and hold energy in place. SO time to initiate security that is secure and nurturing that lasts. We are also combining Water and Air –feelings with understanding and communicating.

Neptune’s Quincunx awakens us to our Sacred Dreams, to Healing the Hearth and Home.

This is the New Moon before PLUTO’s 2nd Conjunction with the Galactic Center whilst Retrograde.

On July 17th Pluto will be EXACTLY on the Galactic Center again. The first time was on Dec 28, 2006 while Pluto was direct. Pluto conjunct the Galactic Center is a VERY RARE occurance. Only every 240 years so pay close attention, this opportunity will only happen this year in this lifetime for all of us!

There is a World Wide Meditation planned so we can all connect to the Star Gate that the Galactic Center is.

See http://www.firethegrid.com

to see local times. All Meditation are supposed to be performed symchronized to Greenwich Mean Time and to meditate for 1 hour.

Pluto will be only conjunct the Galactic Center once in Retrograde! So now is the exact time to tune in, tune in, tune in! The Galactic Center is the very core, heart and Gateway of this little Milky Way Galaxy we reside in. The Galactic Center is the KEY to what all the 2012 Mayan predictions are all about. That Big Black Hole is our Place Holder in Space! Better get to know that place, it has the name of this little blue planet on it. Talk about My Space!

Astrologer Philip Sedgewick is a deep space Astrologer and he talks a lot about the importance of tuning into the Galactic Center. It’s all very future oriented and the key is not to ask for personal information but Galactic Information. Unlike the SECRET which is unbridled spiritual materialism, not that the Secret doesn’t work it’s just that it’s more of the same old ME, MINE,STUFF-EGO & CONSUMERISM. Pulleeze! It’s kinda over for that show now I feel. By all means use the ways of the Secret but don’t do it just for a bigger car, house, money. None of that will matter in a very short while. What will matter is what this New Moon symbolizes. Relationships, nurturing, love, care, food, a shelter over your head, internal security not stuff that requires external security systems.

PLUTO- dangerously demoted by a few cranky Astronomers-is Lord of Death, The Shadow, Power and Control, Re Birth, Sex, Mysticism, the Shades. PLUTO always dismantles, takes apart, overturns the BIG PICTURE, the Collective Unconscious. Pluto is considered by some Astrologers to represent the Soul itself.

SO the Big Picture is the Death and Rebirth of the Collective Unconscious from the Heart, Soul and Vagina of our Milky Way Galaxy. How appropriate in the Sign of Cancer. Where did you come from? All humans are of woman born, the Sign symbolized by Cancer. We grow and evolve from our marine origins, from the Sea. Mare is her name in Latin, she is known as Mary Jesus’ Mother in Christianity, or Mary Jesus’ wife. Mare is also the name of a female horse and Pluto is in Sagittarius, the half horse half human centaur. I believe we are in for a Galactic Information download about our Celstial origins, if you think the Da Vinci Code was shocking, wait till all hell breaks loose when we get the Cosmic Message that should make us feel totally secure that we are not alone in this Galaxy or in the Universe. I’ve been predicted for what seems like ages that aliens would show up or that some kind of evidence would be brought to light about the Gods origins from Space. I totally know that we originate from the Stars, that we are indeed made of Cosmic Star dust. The Collective Unconscious will get this message. Perhaps Neptune will send a wave of Star Dreams to the Star Dreamers. Read Native American mythology they all speak of Ancestors coming from the Stars,called Skwanaysee. Our Ancestors watched the skies, received the Archetypal stories and Myths from the Stars, the constellation, the original Gods all came from the Sky. Pluto as Lord of the Underworld is the balance to the Sky Gods, he lives under the Earth, he is a grounded God.

Pluto transiting the Galactic Center has always sparked times of momentous change.

In his Retrograde period expect all the old demons and shadows to resurface one last time. Personally use this time to totally absolutely clean out all the old baggage in every secret recess in your own subconscious. You won’t be needing it any more.

PLUTO will make his final and last appearance at the Galactic Center in our present lifetimes moving direct on October 28, 2007.

SO this is the 2nd to last chance saloon on July 17th, although Pluto will be lingering on the Galactic Center as he has been since that first conjunction in Dec. 2006.

BIG BIG CHANGES AHEAD. The DEATH AND RESURRECTION SHOW. Think of James Brown’s ritual. Think of chaos anarchy freedom. Think of “novelty”..

Moon Goes VOID OF COURSE after the NEW MOON @ 8:04 am

JULY 14th VENUS ENTERS VIRGO!

The planet of Love, Beauty, Harmony, Luxury and Values and of course Women enters Earthy, Practical, Perfectionist, Analytical, Routines and service to others, Health conscious Sign of the Virgin Goddess Herself Virgo.

After giving lots of love and having major and numerous love affairs, living life as in a Soap Opera, being courageous, proud, being the Queen who needs to be served, and like a big hearted kid, doing leadership with style, while she prowled through Leo, Venus takes a completely different turn wearing earthy tones, Autumn colours and getting decidedly disciplined, practical, hard working and especially nit picky about Health and Values.

After the great hearted Leonine self-expression, this is the grounding and the practical doing the laundry, taking out the garbage, balancing the budget. The Romance must stand the heat of the daily and boring grind, but not dull for Virgo who loves to keep things in spanking clean order! This is the time where you notice all the little imperfections in what seemed to be so perfect a mate. Remember that being human means making mistakes. Do you want love, relationships, real life or Perfection? If you want Perfection then you really must be an alien because we humans ain’t perfect-ain’t it the truth?

Do lots of reading while Venus is in Virgo and for Goddess sake get your habits your Health regime, desk, purse and especially your debts in order now.
Do you love your job? Is work a joy or a chore? What’s the state of your body? Had a medical check up lately? Virgo’s nature as Virgin Goddess means that she is Virgin in the original sense which meant a woman who is whole and complete unto herself, who does what she does because it pleases her and no one else, She belongs to no man and follows her gut instincts. Sounds romantic?

MOON ENTERS LEO @ 10:43 pm

Fiery, fixed, lion hearted, courageous, dancing on tables, starring in their own productions, fearless leader, giving lots of love, King and Queen, regal, dramatic, golden, childlike, willful that’s what Moon in the Sign of Leo absorbs and reflects..

JULY 15

Leo Moon Trines Jolly Jupiter @ 5:53 pm

You’ve hit the Big Time! You get the promotion, win the lottery or at the slots, win a trip to Hollywood, get scouted, climb Mount Everest, do some brazenly crazy wild stunt, travel big, buy some sinfully expensive, conceive a baby! Boss everyone around, wax largely philosophical, be erly judgmental, eat too much for desert at a fancy restaurant,

Serenade your girlfriend with a Spanish guitar under her condo balcony, give someone a big hug, smooch, gift, etc. etc.

Moon Squares Mars in Taurus @ 11:06 pm PDT/ July 16 2:06 am EDT

The Bull and the Lion face off. No one wants to back down. Emotionally clawing at stubborn and defensive bull’s hides may not be exactly where you want to go. Get out a big nail file and dull down those claws of yours. Or use the fiery Leo Moon to sound off about those lazy self indulgent ….. Tempers should be high. Enlightened Taureans just smell the roses the whole time, turn the volume up on their favourite music and snack on some lovely food and wine savouring every moment they can. What’s that Lion roaring about anyway?

Astro Logos Updates July 2-8 by Tara Greene
Copyright of Tara Greene

Permission is given to send this information to other with source acknowledgement

Hi Lites of this week

Actually it’s a very quiet week, Have a Cosmic Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Break!
Yeah right!

All times EDT unless otherwise stated.

Monday July 2
Moon Enters Airy Aquarius 1:24 am EDT
To Canuck’s right now, the Goddess depicted in the symbol of Aquarius is pouring out Blue Canadian Beer on everyone’s heads. Hangover after all the Canada Day Celebrations? Chill out while Moon is in Aquarius. Group awareness intensifies while Moon passes through Aquarius. Get outside and look to the stars for Cosmic inspiration.
Aquarius is the sign of Revolutionaries so do something radically different.

Moon Squares Mars @ 11:26 am
Good thing the banks, post offices and Government aren’t open in Canada today because Aquarian tempers are heated up by practical Martian Taurus energy and amplified bull or moose headed.

Bi-Quintile between Mars & Jupiter @ 5:09 pm
This is a 144-degree aspect, you know the # 144? A very sacred number. It’s two 72 degree quintiles, 1/5 of a circle. A star takes 72 years to move 1 degree. It’s highly creative and auspicious. Mars in Taurus and Jupiter in Sag. work towards practical aims truth and justice. It’s practically inspiratiuonal! Usually fire and earth aren’t compatible
But this helps them to integrate their energies. Venus sits at the mid-point of the 2 adding Cancerian care artistic and romance into the mix of passionate action seeking Mars and optimistic Jupiter.

Moon Quincunx’s Sun @ 8:45 pm
Water and air don’t mix so put it in the Cosmic Blender and create a cocktail out of thin air. Talk about lite!

July 3rd
Moon Conjuncts Neptune @ 4:06 pm
Brilliant ideas and great dreams are spawned. Romance is in the air. Great works of art and idealistic revolutions likewise. You’re walking on the clouds!

Moon Opposes Saturn @ 5:52 pm
O.K. so don’t hit the ground too hard but get it all down to earth with plans that are practical, require patience and persistence and in which you are the star of the radical show.

Sun and Jupiter Quincunx @ 7:13 pm
Brings instability and insecurity. Cautious Cancer Sun make be too emboldened by Jupiter making promises it can’t keep. Jupiter in Sag. aims usually very high threatening security and safety. Judgments may be off. Cancerian limits may be expanded into the wider world and the Big Picture.

Moon Opposite Venus @ 8:21 pm
Venus in Leo is a regal Queen who demands all the luxuries, to be totally adored and Moon in Aquarius is always arch, cool, detached and rebellious totally ignoring the Queen’s demands and emotionally leaves the building quickly before the Queen yells Off with their head!

Moon Sextiles Pluto @ 11:02 pm PDT then goes Void of Course-
I think of sextiles as Cosmic tickles. The Moon tickles Pluto’s toes sending us into emotional depths which we can view with detachment to see what needs to be discarded.

July 4 It’s America’s Birthday!!! On A Void of Course Moon!
We all know not to initiate anything on a V.O.C. Moon.
The Good Old U.S. and A. is 231 and the countdown has started. We all know that the U.S. Natal Mars is moving Retrograde for the next 70 years or so. Call it Cosmic Synchronicity. You’ve been an irritating neighbour. Better be nice to us Canadians as we’re your closest relatives and have lots of resources which you rely heavily on. It’s always important to be nice on the trip up to the top because when your backsliding down everyone has a long memory. Lucky for you Canucks are nice folks, non-aggressive and so far still have social medicine and we don’t carry guns.

MOON ENTERS PISCES @ 6:52 am
The last Sign of the Zodiac indicates this is a last stand emotionally shining down on America’s red white and blue skies. Pray for compassion and forget all that flag waving,
Bombs bursting in air stuff and Nationalism separatist stuff. We’re all one Big Country on this planet. Pisces is Pacifist, lay down all those arms and open up your arms. Escapism will probably be the unenlightened side of Pisces showing.
I didn’t see Dubyah’s state of the Onion address if he made one. But I hear he’s got lots of navy ships floating around off the Persian Gulf near Iran. Drink a few too many glasses of Shiraz. Let John Lennon’s song Imagine carry the Total Meaning of Pisces to your brain, play it over and over on your ipod in your brain till you get that message.

Moon Trines Mercury @ 1:11 PM
Good deeds and random acts of retrograde kindness.

July 5

No real significant planetary action today so take a break. Only 4 more days till Mercury goes Direct. Rehash, relax…

Moon Squares Jupiter @ 3:01 am
Great big fat spiritual dreams tonight.

Moon Trines Sun @ 5:36 am
Feel’s so good to cry into an Apple Pie! Cleanse your heart and stomach. Forgive your Mom for all your past real or imagined indignations. Easy to be kind.

Moon conjuncts Uranus @ 3:21 pm
A compassionate revolution! Like Gandhi revolutions can be made passively without bloodshed and tears. Meditate at this time even for a few minutes and tap into some higher consciousness.

July 6
Moon Squares Pluto @ 6:08 am then goes V.o. C.
An irritable wake up call! Pisces Moon pushes on Pluto hovering Retro at the Galactic Centre for spiritual awakenings.

MOON ENTERS ARIES @ 10:56 am

This pushes the emotional buttons onto defensive, aggressive, action oriented fast forward. It’s me first outta my way! Pace heats up for a weekend full of spontaneity
Fiery daring do.

Moon Squares Mercury @ 3:55 PM
Too many independent, brash, selfishness and harsh wounding words that you’ll be sorry you uttered in retrospect. Hold those tongues of fire!

SUN QUINCUNX CHIRON @ 8:33 pm
This Cancerian/Aquarian combo puts salt in the old wounds. Much kvetching about how Mom didn’t love you totally and unconditionally. This can translate positively into looking at the wounds around unrealistic expectations from the things we project as “MOM.”-the government, our lovers, job security, etc. Chiron can help Cancerian sun shed some light into those old dark dusty wounds where they lie festering.

July 7

It’s Ringo Starr’s 67th Birthday! Happy Birthday Ringo!

Moon Trines Jupiter @ 6:18 am
Big, Passionate, adventurous gambling amorous liaisons with exotic foreigners, scallywags, pirates and the like in your dreams.

ARIES Moon SQUARES SUN @ 12:53 pm
This’ll get you outta the house outta your security net, and out into the vast reaches of the fun of Life as an Amusement Park for the senses.

SUN NEPTUNE BI-QUINTILE @ 9:33 pm
This aspect seems to be popular this week! The 72 + 72 degree spiritual aspect encourages more of the same. Nurturing big dreams, compassion, inspiration, faith.

MOON TRINES SATURN @ 11:15 Pm PDT
Check your emotional brakes before getting in your vehicle. The Cosmic Cop and the Arian Emotional warriors have a nice tete a tete where they pay their dues to the Major Domo, whoever or whatever that may be in your life. This is driving without the brakes on.

July 8th
The above happens @ 2:15 am EDT and do be careful when driving.

Aries Moon TRINES VENUS @ 8:34 am
A wildly romantic passionate morning fling anyone?

MOON TRINES PLUTO @ 9:06 am then goes V.O.C.
More of the same only deeper, deeper, into my secrets, {heavy breathing} faster,
{more heavy breathing} deeper, breakthrough intensity, dissolving boundaries.
A quick ride through Hades realm makes for exciting bedfellows. Hold the brakes or it’ll be over too soon, you want the “little death” to never end and it won’t as the Moon goes into oblivion and Void of Courses and you never want to avoid the Void now do you?

MOON ENTERS TAURUS @ 1:54 PM
Get your feet back on solid ground after that earthquake. Sensual Sunday all day, Taurus loves comfort, good food; it’s lazy and loves to enjoy smelling those roses, making music and love. Pleasure is what Taurus is all about and the Bull sticks stubbornly to that credo and who can blame him? This is a day to relax, rest and enjoy enhancing all your senses.

VENUS TRINES PLUTO @ 9:04 pm
The mood continues and what could be more intensely passionate than this? The Goddess of Love in her most regal beauty in Leo is in bed with the Lord of the Underworld. Nudge nudge, wink wink. Secrets, passion, obsession, death, and rebirth, Phoenix fireworks! The harmonious nature of the Trine makes for incredibly deep inspirational desires. Pluto is at the Galactic Centre

RITUAL TO VENUS AND PLUTO
Venus is the Goddess of Love and Beauty in Leo she is a Golden Goddess of Opportunity opening our hearts and our wills to be transformed by Pluto where we die to our egos and are reborn as the Shining Light and the Golden essence of the Stars that we are! Venus also rules money and values and Pluto is the god of Power and riches so this is an excellent combo to do prayers for abundance of wealth. In Leo Venus’s heart is big and open, generous to those she loves and especially to children. AN amazing day for transforming Love, giving and renewing the Inner child, for playfulness for letting the Sun shine internally and recognizing that we are all Children, all one in our hearts, all one under the Sun.

Breathe and Meditate on your Heart, from your heart. Feel a Golden honey like light welling up in your heart, feel its viscosity, its thickness, examine it and see that it contains real gold flecks which multiply to enrich and become liquid gold in your heart. The Golden Light is Love, is the Sun, your Heart is the Source of all Life, is the Source of Love. Feel the gold of Love coursing through your Veins. This is Venus’s realm.
Feel your heart beating and the pulsing gold liquid throughout your entire being. Feel the golden essence of your Spiritual Love nature emanate out through your pores, your skin, and into the atmosphere. Feel the Power that you have access to, the Golden Light of the Source of all life in our Star system, the Sun. Feel the warmth of the Sun all around you and know that you and the Sun are one. Be with that, stay with that.
Pluto is the Shadow of the Sun, the darkness without which the Sun cannot know itself. The Sun casts Pluto as its shadow. Venus is Love and Love knows no darkness. Darkness is only a place where the Light hasn’t touched. Let the Golden Sun in your heart fill the dark places within you, fill the shadowy parts, the fear, negativity, sadness,
Any places where you have known hatred, Judgement, separation, let the Light of Love fill those empty and thirsty parts of yourself of your experiences on this earth plane. You have the opportunity to let the Light shine through the Darkness. Slowly do this, without fear, with total faith and trust. This is true Alchemy turning lead into gold. The Goddess of Love joins the Lord of Death and loves Death knowing that there is no” death” as you have been taught to believe, death is only what you choose to consciously not experience, there is nothing to fear. All is in the Light and a Golden Oppotunity; Death is only change, transformation. You are an immortal Spiritual Eternal Being of Light.
Notice all the other golden hearts lighting up. Visualize everyone else’s golden hearts in the World. Know their hearts are made of pure Golden Love Light. Stay within the Light of that image; hold it in your heart.
When you come out of your meditation know that whomever you see again you will remember the Golden Love Light in everyone’s hearts no matter what they do, how they act, how they look, what they own. You will see through the eyes of Love to the Spiritual essence of everyone from now on. Behold you are awakened to the Truth!

ASTRO CRAZY LOGICICAL INSIGHTS BY TARA GREENE
copyright Tara Greene

WEEK JUNE 25-JULY 1ST

Hi Lites of the week
Saturn-opposite-Neptune Dreams do come true!
Capricorn Full Moon June 30th Big Healing Moon

June 25th
The 3rd and final Saturn-Neptune opposition @ 21 Leo-Aquarius marks a significant turning point both personally and collectively. Baby Boomers born between Oct. 51 to Aug. 54 get this opposition smack dab on their natal Pluto’s!
The gap between Reality where your ego sits on a regal throne- Saturn in Leo, and your Highest Spiritual Revolutionary Freedom Loving Dreams- Neptune in Aquarius are opposing each other. As with all oppositions as Carl Jung said-the key is to hold the tension of the opposites. And tension abounds! With any two apparent dichotomies, radical fundamentalists vs. Islamic fundamental terrorists for example there is no real difference, there is only an illusion of separateness, they are two sides of the same coin.
For a win win situation both sides need to have their say and find their common denominator.
Saturn the Cosmic Cop, is giving us all a Cosmic reality Check. Holding down the bastions of good ole’ boys Patriarchal power over histrionics. Saturn in Leo is Masculine Consciousness, ruled by the Sun. Leo is the sign of the Leader, the child, will, and creative self-expression. Neptune ruler of Compassionate Spiritual Pisces wants Oneness and Bliss. Neptune is also Lord of Illusion, Escapism and Addictions, films, the arts, secrets, things going on behind closed doors, the Unconscious and completion. Neptune is ruler of Revolutionary and change loving Aquarius sign of the individual and group consciousness, leadership without ego, invention, technology, higher communications, breakthrough consciousness, Kundalini energy. This is a big wake up call.

In the collective fraud can be exposed now, anything based on illusion may collapse now.
Corporations based on the higher good of all can be significantly formed now. Universal law courts, humanitarian rights, children’s rights all come to the fore. Spiritual frauds and cults, religious leaders and Institutions are at peril, pharmaceuticals that don’t do what they’re supposed to do will crash and burn under the fiery consciousness of awakened eyes, or unused eyes closed more shut in denial and fear, hiding behind the bastions of power people hope will take care of business, escaping into flights of “reality shows” escaping with drugs legal and illegal, sci fi, high tech, the Internet, or Spiritual seeking which is ungrounded rather than dealing with the real mess that needs to be dissed for a clearer better way.
This is a great time to meditate and use Neptune’s Aquarian Higher Consciousness energies to visualize a brave new world, like Aldous Huxley’s “BE here now”

Dream a better world where all of humanity knows its’ Oneness and Origins from One Spiritual Source. Time to revolutionize that Old Time Religion in favour of a personal individualized direct connection with the Source. It’s like that Disney film Bridge to Tarabithia where the young girl Leslie a revolutionary free spirit goes to church with her friends who are country bumpkins who believe in the law of the Bible’s words literally. She says I don’t believe that God sends people to hell for not believing in the Bible, God is too busy creating all this.
Some people may feel depressed and hopeless, as old, rigid dreams die making way for new ones.
For spiritual people this opposition gives form and solidity to the Spiritual realms, insights and intuitions are made real, dreams do come true, it’s instant karma time. making it easier to follow a spiritual discipline and making the spiritual realms tangible.
More evidence of spirit from space, quantum physics, a more holistic understanding of the cosmos. More angel sightings, U.F.O.’s, messages from people on the other side, enhanced telepathy-the Internet is a technological Saturn tool for what it is we’re all developing-telepathy, the ability to feel what everyone else is feeling with no duality.
Therefore wars fought somewhere else affect everyone, the eco damage to the Earth harms all of us, we recognize our Unity, we’re all in the same boat, floating on this big blue barge called the Earth, spinning around in space at an enormous velocity.

June 26th Irritating Square laden day-
Moon is still in Scorpio. And she is Squaring Venus early in the day-so watch out for arguments. Then she Squares Uranus, then Neptune at around 4:00 and Saturn 20 minutes later. Ouchy! Crazy, Irritable, Mercury Retrograde!!!! Did I mention that Venus also Qunicunx’s Uranus before noon? It’s my way or the highway the ladies doth protest!

June 27
Ah, Moon enters Sagittarius-8:23 am EDT

Just relax, hang loose, Moon is now in Sagittarius and if you’ve made it past the last two days and are still standing you deserve a break today. Humor is the best medicine, all Sagittarians know. With the Moon in the “red rubber ball of the Zodiac” sign we’re all bouncing right back on our hooves to gallop off into the woods in pursuit of a higher philosophy to try to make sense of it all.
Qunicunx’s Qunicunx’s and more…
Moon then pulls a few fast ones on us, just when we’re starting to feel O.K. by Quincunxing Mars, oh that’s a fast punch in the haunches, and then Moon Quincunx’s Sun, Which way is up? And then last but not least Moon Quincunx’s Retrograde Mercury in Cancer. Feeling irritated by this Mercury Retrograde where you can feel it in the pit of your stomach? {I got a thousand spam emails in my inbox!} Qunicunx’s are like totally inharmonious elements, they don’t a speak the same language. Hang loose because as always things change.

June 28th
Moon conjunct Jolly Jupiter King of the Gods at 8:09 am
This one will get you out of bed happy, whistling a happy tune and ready to be casual and hopefully have a stroll in nature.
Sun conjuncts Mercury @ 2: 39 pm EDT
Ego and intellect collide and may feel a bit retro, but can also help to shed some light on all the recent miscommunication and encourage honest sharing of feelings.

Moon Squares Uranus @ 8:37 pm
Emotions are unpredictable, changeable and seek freedom at any cost. Be spontaneous!

June 29
Moon Trines Venus @ 12:18 am
How very romantic. Sagittarius and Leo are great companions. Fiery, passionate, Venus in Leo, a shimmering Queen of Beauty always gets her way and Sag. Moon being very easy going is happy to oblige. Do something Leonine-dramatic, the tango, an outdoors picinic, Yogi Bear/Sagittarian style, go to a baseball game and root for the home team!
Go to a comedy club. Be a big kid!

Moon Trines Saturn @ 3:13 am
Are serious proposals in the Air?

Moon Conjuncts Pluto @ the Galactic Centre @ 1:08 pm
If this is your lunch hour I’d advise you to seriously sit and meditate on what your higher truth is, and ask for direction from Pluto. The key is to ask in a non –personal way, as to how you can aid humanity in inspiring them to Higher wisdom. Moon conjunct Pluto is always a heavy time but go down into Pluto’s realm with typical Sag. Optimism and you’ll be rewarded and share the information, Pluto rules the Collective Unconscious.

Moon goes Void of Course at this time and then-

Mercury Semi-Squares Venus @ 3:34 pm
Hurt feelings, misled plans, but tenderness and love sweeten the situation. Use extreme diplomacy.

Moon enters Capricorn @ 6:05 pm
Emotional tones gets serious, all business. The Moon is debilitated in Capricorn the sign opposite her home in Cancer. It’s dry, barren, emotions are repressed but discipline and purpose may be the order of the day and this whole Holiday weekend in Canada.

June 30th CAPRICORN FULL MOON @ 9:49 am-
But 1st-

Moon Trines Mars @ 1:17 am
An earthy robust headstrong bovine and goat celebration! Capricorn Moon is the clear winner with determination to reach that peak whilst Mars in Taurus plods along stopping to smell the roses. Where’s the beef? Have a huge BBQ. Vegans head for a petting zoo and stroke some baby goats.

Moon Opposes Mercury @ 4:53 am
Oh Oh. The best-laid plans go awry no matter how Capricornian the plans are with Mercury Retrograde in Cancer. Better to stay in your own backyard.

CAPRICORN FULL MOON @ 8 degrees + of @ 9:49 am EDT 6:49 am PDT
Full Moon’s are always culminations in the Lunation cycle. How Full do we Feel? Are are tummies satisfied? Do we feel nurtured, well fed, loved, safe, secure, at home? These are all Archetypal Full Moon questions.
Sun is in Cancer the 1st water sign of the Zodiac; this is the womb, the emotional body, the importance of feelings. It is also the most Feminine of the signs. Sign of the Mother and also the Child. This Full Moon helps us to illuminate how well our Inner child is doing. Cancer is the sign of the beginning of Summer in the northern Hemisphere when all life grows green, thriving and abundant when flowers bloom and living color explodes,
The Sun has just reached its peak.
Capricorn is the opposite signifying the onset of Winter in the North when the Sun reaches zero degrees of that sign. Traditionally, and for thousands of years, resources were scarce, it is cold, shelter food stored matter, keeping warm is a chore, wood had to be cut, careful planning was necessary to ensure survival. Capricorn makes us get serious grow up, be mature and face the hard facts of life. Rewards are earned through hard work, planning, patience and persistence. Moon in Capricorn asks us to evaluate duties commitments responsibilities. DO we need to take more responsibility? Or perhaps less, maybe we’re overburdened with work and have no time to nurture ourselves, our family and children, or inner child who may be starving for affection and attention while we’re so busy acting grown up and taking care of bringing home the bacon, never mind the upkeep of the SUV, etc.
I mentioned Mercury conjunct the Sun it is Retro asking us to look back at old feelings, buried and repressed early childhood memories, suitcases full of them and release them bring them out in to the light where they may be aired out and released.

Neptune at 22 Aquarius sesquiquadrates the Sun, a square + a half, and semi-squares the Mooon allowing for dissolution of old emotional patterning.
Neptune is the esoteric ruler of Cancer, helps us to feel the Eternal Love of Our Spiritual Mother, call her Mary, Quan Yin, Tara, the Great Goddess Mother for nurturing. No mortal Mother can give unconditional love in the same way.
GREAT BLESSINGS- THE GODDES OF LOVE, SATURN AND NEPTUNE
Venus Goddess of Love Beauty Harmony and Peace is in Leo opposite Neptune and conjunct Saturn. Neptune is also the Higher Octave of Venus, and this is a very beautiful Blessing and consolidation of feeling the Great Mothers Love both personally and collectively. Venus in Leo is Love Yourself, Treat yourself like Royalty. DO absolutely what you love, express yourself, your heart your will, your Inner Child, now feeling healed and whole after dumping all that old baggage. Neptune brings us the message that all is love, you are love. Saturn says feel it in your bones. Chiron the wounded healer is also within range of conjuncting Neptune in the whole mélange of Venus and Saturn bringing major healing through going through the wounds.

Uranus is also in Quincunx with Venus and Saturn indicating that we need to innovate compassionate revolution towards the old guard who will want to hoard all the wealth, the downside of the Venus Saturn conjunction. Also that new technologies will disrupt the old order and old ways of doing things if not based on love, compassion and inclusion.

RITUAL –
You will need some prepared dried bones, a drum if you have one.
Get some bones, chicken bones, beef bones, and dry and prepare them for this ritual.
Saturn rules the Bones we will use these bones as magical holders of the energies emanating around this Full Moon. Prepare a sacred circle, call in the directions and elements. First we will do an active meditation then a receptive meditation. Meditate on Love, personal love the love you have known and felt, and send that love out to the physical world, the corporate world, world leaders, the rocks and minerals of the earth. Then focus on Spiritual Love. Be open to receiving the cosmic Love and Bliss flowing through you, through your heart with every beat. If you have a drum or you can simply improvise {Neptune in Aquarius} and feel how your heart beat synchronizes with the pulses of Love. Get blessed and blessed, sing, hum, chant, tone.

Do this for as long as you like, really getting into it. Send love to your Inner Child, telling her/him that you are always there for that little one. That you have always been present and you will always be there, no matter what. Send love from the Source of Oneness to all the children of the world. Sense a huge wave of Love engulfing the world and all her children in peace, security, safety, with full tummies. Watch for an image or symbol of your inner child, let that unfold in your mind’s eye. The child may give you a gift, some words, a smile, their hand in trust.

Do an Invocation-
When you have finished sending, and receiving the love, Invoke the planets ad energies emanating from the Sun in Cancer, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, and Neptune into the bones where the energy will be solidified and held. You could fashion a necklace or a doll out of the bones and wear it as an amulet. Or keep the bones on your alter or in a special place where you can hold it and see it to remind you of the grounding of this unique and rare event.

Mars is in Taurus supporting the grounding of the energies. He is conjunct the Planetoid Ceres, Goddess of the Earth, Giver of the Grains. It’s important that we look at how we use the earth and how we harvest her resources. The Warrior here tells us that we need to defend the Earth’s Honour now. Also extremely high temperatures may cause severe droughts, water shortages, and difficulty growing crops. Defend the Goddess, the Earth, act as her warrior.

Pluto is about to exactly conjunct the Galactic Centre, but is near enough to the Heart of the Galaxy. Definitely tune into the messages emanating from the Black Hole, the Cosmic Vagina. Talk about ReBirth. We’re all going through it unconsciously or consciously. This is quickening us to the major rebirth of 2012, only 5 and a half years away from now. Just tune in.

The Sabian Symbols for this Lunation are
Sun at 9 of Cancer- “A small naked girl bends over a pond trying to catch a fish.” The first naïve quest for knowledge of the unconscious and for an ever-inclusive understanding of life. And for the Moon “An angel carrying a harp, the revelation of the spiritual meaning and purpose at the core of any life situation.”

Venus and Neptune exact Opposition @ 11:31 am

July 1st HAPPY CANADA DAY EH!

VENUS CONJUNCTS SATURN @ 10:38 am
Normally Saturn restricts, but Venus brings Love, Beauty, Harmony, Peace, Social Graces and Balance and expands hearts tired from the grind of life. It’s Canada’s 140th Birthday. She’s still young. This conjunction bodes well for Canada’s economy with her dollar soaring against the U. S. dollar and she is rich in minerals and natural resources.
Canadians do have their Saturnian side, known for being reserved and conservative.
So lighten up a little Canucks! It’s o.k. to be over the top, boastful, proud, courageous, big hearted, generous, graceful. Venus conjunct Saturn brings support for the arts. Bring back the 1% Corporate donation for the Arts, they still do this in the U.S. they used to do it here to. Canucks are Peace Makers so bring home the troops in their wayward “Peace Keeping” Mission in Afghanistan which has turned out to be the usual Canucks are always the front line flunkies for the Super Powers. The jig is up Neptune says. Send a gracious telegram to that Harpy in Head Office and tell him how seriously displeased you are to have your sons give their hearts for this phony cause. And do the same in the U.S. with this conjunction. What does your heart stand for? Peace, love and Union. You created it, you can uncreate it.

Have a Happy but serious Old Fashioned Canada Day. Eat some beaver burgers.

Moon Qunicunx’s Saturn and then Venus of course-
Another round of itchy and scratchy moods.

Mercury sextiles Mars @ 3:08 pm
Clarifying the issues without being tooo bullishly stubborn.

MOON ENTERS AQUARIUS @ 10:24 PM PDT-
Those Californians they’re always ahead of everyone.

Astro Jolly Updates June 18-24th

This is the WEEK of Summer Solstice –

Hi Lites of the Week

All times EDT unless otherwise noted-

Sun Opposed to Pluto June 18/19th depending on where you live
Summer Solstice, Longest Day June 21
Uranus goes Retrograde June 23
Mars enters Taurus June 24

June 18th
A day that’ll rock you.

Moon Conjuncts Venus at 11 degrees + of Leo @ 11:06 am
Well all you Leo’s will be at your preening best today. Everyone will adore you, compliment you. Your heart will be full to bursting with pride, courage, drama, open hearted and generous to a fault.

Moon in Leo Trines Jupiter @ 1:29 pm Ego Overload!
13 degree + of Leo Trine the same degree of Jupiter. Could it get any better for all Fire Signs? Leo’s will gamble big, hit ‘em with their best shot, lucky day for Sagittarians too.
Those Martial Arians will be flaming like mad. Egos out of bounds. It’s an “I gotta crow” kinda day. So far…

SUN Opposite Pluto 11:49 pm PDT & JUNE 19th 2:49 AM EDT

This Opposition happens directly on the Galactic Center as Pluto is Retrograding back over that Cosmic line once again. The Light and the Dark meet at the Heart of our Galaxy. This is a huge Cosmic Tango, tensions rise. Gemini Sun is the Archetypal Peter Pan puer mentioned in the former paragraph. Peter Pan must meet his shadow, remember how he was crying when Wendy met him because he’d lost it and Wendy had to sew it back onto him? This is the perfect day to sew your shadow back onto yourself.

Moon Conjuncts Saturn in Leo @ 4:03 am EDT
It’s a heavy nite. Dreams of authority figures, restrictions, obligations, heavy responsibilities, men, Father Time, corporations, Patriarchs, children being gobbled up, and carrying heavy weights around abound.

The combo of Sun opposite Pluto and Moon conjunct Saturn enables us to bring down to earth whatever it is we’ve gleaned from absorbing the Sun’s Light and shining it bravely into the Heart of Darkness. Saturn rules all of the physical realm. In Alchemy the Great Opus is to turn Lead {Saturn} into Gold {the Sun}. The double Luminaries, Sun and Moon represent the duality of the sexes, here the Sun, the Masculine meets the Lord of Death and Rebirth Pluto, and Moon, the Feminine Principle meets Time, the Karmic Planet Saturn. It seems incredibly Instant Karmic like to me and very symbolically powerful. The Sun representing maleness, identity, daylight consciousness meets the Ultimately Feminine Death and rebirth Goddess Pluto who we of course have been indoctrinated to thinking of as male. The Light seeks the shadow so it can see itself.
The Moon, ultimately Feminine, reflecting, the Unconscious, the Maternal shadow of the Sun, is One with Time, Limitations and Karma. Do some shadow work. With this powerful Quadrinity at the Galactic Centre. A wonderful book by author Debbie Ford “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers” is thorough on this subject. There is so much abuse and violence going on in the world, if we all do our own healing work on our shadows, on our inner child who’s wounded by life and karma then perhaps such horrific things as child sexual abuse recently busted in a huge global ring won’t continue.

Moon opposite Neptune @ 5:21 am
And the hits just keep on comin’” This is excellent for night time dreaming and inspiration. Be aware where your emotions are in Neptunian denial. Contact with the spirit world is strong, imaginations soar, romance, rose coloured glasses and the like.

Leo Moon Trines Mars @ 1:37 PM
Beware irritated boorish aggressive egos today. Watch out for road rage, entitlement etc.
Good for actors and actresses. Hi Noon dramas. Life is like a Cosmic Soap Opera isn’t it?

Happy Birthday Elijah- @ 2:35 PM
It’s my son’s 24th Birthday! I can’t believe it. I love you always. A pretty heavy duty birthday for you Astrologically.

Moon Trine Pluto @ 4:14 PM
Too easy to get dramatic with this one. Rebirthing time. Get new insights into your heart with Pluto at the Heart of our Galaxy. Expand it, let it encompass the whole Gal.

Moon sextiles the Sun @ 5:22 pm
This is a sweet tickle.
Moon Goes Void of Course at this time-

And last but certainly not least for this day-
VENUS JUPITER TRINE-Hooray for Fire Signs.
Delicious, at 13 degrees and change of Leo and Sag. Leo’s have been hard put by from Saturn since July 05, they deserve a break. Don’t ya love ‘em? Venus is the aspecting Planet but of course those Sagittarians love to be in the know, and Aries’s too get the boost. This is Divine Blessings, Tudnerbolts, earth shaking, falling in love again, winning the lottery, open hearted truth telling, global business dealings, “I love foreigners” give your teacher a treat, they work hard, OPTIMISTIC, tones down all the heavies of a few hours ago.

ARIES! LEO! SAGITTARIUS!
If you’re an Aries born April 3-4th you’ll get the direct benefits,
Leo’s born Aug. 5th & 6th get the mucho blessings, that means you Joe.
And Sagittarian’s born Dec, 6th & 7th also Divine Blessings for You. A certain musican friend I know gets the tail end of this one.

Air signs benefit from this, too.

If you have planets at any of these degrees enjoy it.

MOON ENTERS VIRGO 8:45 PM EDT

Mood shifts to earthy, practical, efficient, organized ways to handle all the Fire Blessings.

June 20
Moon Squares Jupiter @ 10:00 PM
Those efficient Virgos are taking on the task, a great day to re-organize, and re-evaluate big plans, travel, adventures, higher education, etc.

June 21
Moon Opposes Uranus 9:09 Am
Wasn’t there a little Beatles ditty called the One after 909 on the Let It Be Album ? Well hop on that train, it’s loop the loop and destination unknown. Virgos don’t like the unknown, they want a budget. Sing “We’re On the Road to Nowhere” a great, one of my favourite and very liberating Talking Heads songs.

Mars in Aries Trines Pluto @ 9:30 am-
Not to be left out of course, Mars muscles in on the act, provoking scintillating, initiating,
Martial arts tactics guaranteed to deep six any musty, old detritus. Power and passion to overcome any obstacles including Death. Aggressive independence, may give you one big headache, so be careful which side you’re the most defensive on.

SUMMER BEGINS in the Northern Hemisphere @ 2:07 pm EDT
WINTER BEGINS in the Southern Hemisphere

The Sun King reaches the peak of his long journey begun on Dec 21st at this ultimate point of the Year in the Northern Hemisphere. Called Litha by pagans and witches it is the Celebration of the triumph of the Light which also signifies its demise. The Light dies unto itself and sets sail into the oncoming fall. It is the Celebration of the Longest Light,and Night and the Birth of the Season of Summer bringing the greatest vegetation growth.
Astrologically it is the Sun entering zero degrees of Cancer which marks the Summer Solstice. We are symbolically nurtured by Mother Earth, fed and warmed by Her abundance. Celebrate the Summer, romp in the Garden, Have a Solstice Celebration!
Marking the entry into a New Season is always optimum time to do Ceremony, to mark the nest Quadrant of the Year.

Venus in Leo Opposite Chiron @ 11:23 PM PDT and June 22nd, 2:23 Am EDT
At 15 degrees and change of Leo, Venus’s Opposition to Chiron in Aquarius is like the child in the Emperor’s New Clothes who points out the naked truth. Insecurity about love, our ego’s, who loves us, have we expressed our best, kinds of questions come up.
The Inner child is hurt, wounded, insecure, uncertain about his/her self worth.
Chiron in Aquarius points out humanities indignities to All Children. On the heels of that Venus Jupiter Trine of a couple of days past expect harsh new laws {Jupiter} to come into effect regarding anyone who abuses children in any way.

Moon Squares Pluto 11:50 PM PDT/ JUNE 22nd @ 2:50 am EDT
The Celebrations lasted too quick. Now we’re down to some serious business.
Virgo Moon gets all the info from Pluto downloads at the Galactic Center at this time. In California where they’ve been celebrating the Solstice, meditating, chanting and drumming all day they’re ready to settle down and get the facts.

Moon is Void of Course after this aspect.

MOON ENTERS LIBRA @ 7:43 am EDT/4:43 AM PDT

The balancing act, the scales of Justice, symbol of the Law, Sign of Relationships, harmony, balance, Beauty, Love, the Arts, Values, Luxuries, Social Graces and Indecision. Airy Libra Moon is objective, emotions are filtered through the Mind.

Moon Squares the Sun @ 9:15 am EDT
The First Quarter Square is a major turning point in the Monthly cycle. The challenge with Libra Moon and Cancer Sun is to be sociable or to hide out in safety at home.
Both perspectives are valid, what do you need to feel secure in venturing out to meet new people? Use this point in the circle to embrace new Cardinal energies that are balanced, and nurturing for all.

June 23 URANUS GOES RETROGRADE-
EXPECT A KICK ASS, UNEXPECTED REWIND-
“GET BACK, GET BACK, GET BACK TO WHERE YOU ONCE BELONGED“

I guess this could also be known as the Ass backwards transit, or breech birth. Sometimes it’s exactly what you need-a good kick in the ass, or a “shoss in kop” Yiddish for a hit in the head, to wake you up.

Uranus is in Pisces the last if the Signs the most spiritual so this is a Spiritual, compassionate, blissful, unbounded, imaginative, watery Replay

Uranus is the Planet of Wonky, orbiting at a 90-degree angle! It truly does it’s own thing and thus rules all of that. Uranus is the Planet of Revolutionaries, Freedom Lovers, Individuals, Higher Consciousness, Hippies and Tree Huggers and Humanitarians.

Uranus naturally rules the 11th House of Aquarius, known as being the house containing Wishes Hopes and Dreams, and Love Received, being opposite the 5th house of Love Given. Aquarius sees all of Humanity as a whole entity. It is an Air sign, so thinking comes from a Higher Perspective. The Symbol of Aquarius is the Tarot Trump 17- The STAR .

We are moving into the Age of Aquarius and every man woman and child is a Star, even as it is coming down the media pipe as realities shows upon reality show.
Uranus going Retro. the planet of Revolution puts on a business suit, and liberation is internal rather than external. Retrograding at 18 degrees 42 minutes Uranus travels backwards until Nov. 24th in a Full Moon in like-minded Air sign of Gemini. Uranus directs its’ station at 14 degrees 46 minutes of Pisces and won’t get back on track till 2008.

Uranus and Pluto had a Major Conjunction occurring between 15 and 18 degrees of Virgo in 1965. The Beatles, the sexual revolution, birth control, hippies, freedom love etc. all were born out of this Collective outer planet conjunction of Revolution, Death for the old collective thinking and rebirth of the new. Think Astrology is insignificant?

The children of that Powerful Conjunction are now 42 years old and having their mid-life crises which is triggered by the Uranus opposition.
This is time for them to “GET BACK” to their rock ‘n roll routes. The Cultural Icons of the ‘60’s The Beatles, the shamans of the way, told it like it is-

[sweet loretta fat thought she was a cleaner but she was a frying pan.]

Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it wouldn't last.
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass.
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back jojo. go home
Get back, get back.
Back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Back to where you once belonged.
Get back jo.

Sweet Loretta martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back Loretta. go home
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back Loretta

Your mother's waiting for you
Wearing her high-heel shoes
And her low-neck sweater
Get on home Loretta
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.

[thanks, mo! ...on behalf of the group i hope we passed the audition.]

HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU

Most affected by this Uranian transit are PISCEAN’S born March 4-11th whose Sun’s are at these degrees.
Next most affected personally are SAGITTARIAN’S born Dec 5-11th who get the Uranian square and GEMINI’S born June 6-10th who also get to be wearing the Sponge Bob Square Pants aspect.
And lastly but not leaslty VIRGO’S born Sept. 6-11th get the opposition aspect. Should they stay at that job or should they go?

The other two water signs GET THE TRINE-
CANCER’S born July 6-11 get the Trine, that’s good!
SCORPIO’S born Nov. 6-11th get the goodies too!

Feeling left out? Two EARTH SIGNS BENEFIT
TAURUS gets the sextile tickle, as do CAPRICORN’S

Aries gets left out of this one.
Leo’s who hate to be left out of anything get the Uranus Quincunx, ouch! As do Libra’s.
And Aquarians who are ruled by Uranus feel the backwards pull energetically.

June 24
Nice Trine to Neptune @ 3:49 am
Sweet dreams are made of this.

Moon in Libra sextiles Pluto @ 3:22 pm
Moon tickles Pluto’s fancy then goes Void of Course, of course.

MARS ENTERS TAURUS @ 5:27 pm till Aug. 6-7th.
Things been feeling hyper frenetic since mid May while Mars was roaring through his home fortress of Aries? Well the action should slow down and mellow out with enough time for everyone to significantly be able to stop and smell the roses, and the coffee.
Taurus is earthy, stubborn, fixed in purpose, loves to satisfy all his bodily senses, stability and is prone to being a couch potato. So do slow down, enjoy life’s earthly pleasures. Venus rules Taurus” and she is seeking safety and comfort at home in Cancer right now so this is a good blend of the Masculine with the Feminine although Mars is in detriment in Taurus and not all that comfortable in Venus’s Feminine territory. As Mars moves through Taurus he is in his own natural 2nd house of income. Being very security conscious this is a good time to pay off debts and consolidate your finances, build an aggressive new security blanket.
Mars in Taurus symbolizes the warrior in Venus’s arms, Love territory. Here’s hoping all the soldiers lay down their arms and opt for Making Love not War. Mars enters Gemini Aug, 6-7th.

MOON ENTERS SCORPIO @ 8: 26 pm EDT
Moon gets down into those intense emotional depths ruled by Mars traditionally and

MOON OPPOSITE MARS @ 8:38 pm
No time to waste, Mars and Moon oppose each other, in a cosmic emotional battle.
There is flagrant power and control trips in the air. Watch out for road rage, accidents,
Ruthlessness, resentments, secrets, and passion. If you are a Scorpio or an Aries watch out for your battle weapons. Remember that stinging or wounding another is always self-punishment.

It’s the Gay Pride Parade in Toronto-
Should be more intense passionate, kinky and exciting than ever. And watch out for that Uranus Retrograde stuff O.K.?

Astrological Updates Week of June 11-17th
copyright Tara Greene

HILITES OF THIS WEEK

All times are EDT unless otherwise stated

New Moon in Gemini June 14th 11:13 pm
Mercury Retrograde June 15 7:40 PM

June 11
Moon enters Taurus @ 7:29 Am
Let’s get earthy, sensual, practical, stubborn, arts, when Moon is in Taurus.

Moon Square Venus in Leo @ 5:08 pm
Venus rules the Taurus Moon so the Moon and Venus together emphasize Taurean Venusian values. Love, romance, luxury, get a massage, give a massage, eat a delectably sinful meal and cuddle up on a comfy couch with your favorite stubborn Venusian or bull.

Mars in Aries Trines Saturn in Leo @ 6:43 pm
Mars in Aries sparks new business activities. The king has a firecracker on his seat. Mars’s aggressive warrior stance initiates heads rolling from high places {Saturn in Leo}.
Bush holds the hard line re: war war and more war unfortunately. Good time to become your own boss.

June 12
Moon Squares Saturn @ 5:06 pm
A somber mood prevails. But it is good to iron out structures in business and relationships and find out how solid the ground we are standing on is. If you’ve been lazy on the job-watch out! New seeds can be planted and tools retooled.

Moon Squares Neptune @ 7:17 pm
First the Moon sobered us up, and if you took it on the chin now’s your time to dream, space out, imagine, meditate, be compassionate, do some charitable work or simply escape with your head in the clouds. Make art, write a poem, do imagery work, call up a shaman. Good for manifesting for artists and romantics.

June 13
Sun Trines Neptune
Trines are in Martha Stewart’s immortal words “A Good Thing.” This one will have your dreams shining. Dream big, source it, where do you shine? All charitable and compassionate oriented works are favored now. Sun in Gemini encourages babble babble and more babble about spirituality, essence. Go for the gold.

Moon enters Gemini
Emotional tone lightens up considerably. Communications flow faster, people are changeable, interested in variety, don’t expect commitments to stick. This is a “Peter Pan” Moon phase childlike, fun, gregarious, energetic, and scattered. Good for PR. Sales.

June 14, 2007
Moon opposite Jupiter @ 6:59 am
This is occurring as I write this and of course I’m disseminating my truth hopefully to inspire people. Extra energy and oomph in this aspect. Plan your travels now before Mercury goes Retro tomorrow. Kids are nearing their school year end and just want to play.

Gemini Moon Squares Uranus in Pisces @ 2:55 PM
You know the mantra for this one. All together now “Expect the unexpected!” The emotional roller coaster ride begins fasten your seat belts. Mind and spirituality are compelled to move. Brilliant ideas new inventions, wanting to quit that old routine are all possible under this aspect.

Moon Trine Neptune @ 8:18 pm

Lots of nice Trines to Neptune must be trying to tell us something. The mind and spirit soar. Musicians innovate new technologies, publishing, inspiration. Lots of romantic idealism.

GEMINI NEW MOON @ 11: 14 PM.

This New Moon in Airy Gemini has Pluto on the Galactic Centre once again directly opposite the Sun and Moon. Very powerful for looking lightly at your Plutonic shadow. New Moons always combine the Masculine and Feminine it is an Archetypal Sacred Marriage time a new beginning in the monthly cycle. Pluto’s energy at the Galactic Centre shifts and moves the balance of power between the sexual dualities. Pluto rules waste, refuse, toxins, death, birth, taxes, sex, money, the collective unconscious, the shadow. Expect sweeping and rapid laws governing toxins, nuclear energy and how we clean up our act.
We are at an evolutionary threshold now with Pluto giving us our last chances.
With Gemini dualism the shift is to see from the Heart of the Galactic Centre that we all are in Union, that dualism is an illusion. Pluto routes that message out.

The Religious fanaticism of fundamentalist Christians and Islamic Terrorists are not opposed but are in fact made of the same coin, there is no duality or separation between them. The challenge here is to resolve all apparent differences in ideologies, which is all religion is-an idea. We have to get over and beyond, all this wasteful religious indoctrination, which kills and has killed for thousands of years millions of innocent people. Pluto’s message here is just that. All life comes from the galaxy. We are Galactic beings learning to be human, evolving, transforming heading back to our common Source.
Gemini is the Butterfly, the dilettante, the journalist. Butterflies originated as caterpillars, transformed from one type of life form to another more beautiful, transformed from creeping creatures to a winged one, drinking nectar, food of the Gods, floating gracefully on the breeze. Since the Galactic Centre is in Sagittarius, the Earth is always in the Sign of Gemini. Humanity embodies the Gemini Archetype. Gemini, a twin sign, rules the 2 halves of the brain, which enables us to talk, to communicate, write. Gemini is about relationships. Gemini the first human sign of the Zodiac symbolizes the apparent duality of the sexes. Gemini is the Tarot Trump of the Lovers, # 6, connected to the Sixth Sephiroth in the Kabbalah at the Centre of the Tree of Life. It is called Tifferet in Hebrew, and it symbolizes love, relationships, for that is what we humans have incarnated for. The number 6 is symbolized by a six pointed Star which we think of as the Star of David, which is an ancient Tantric symbol for the Union of Heaven and Earth, the Masculine and Feminine.
Mercury Gemini’s ruler is going to go Retrograde tomorrow. At 12 degrees of Cancer, helping us to get outta our heads and into our hearts. This is the degree of the Fixed Star Sirius, worshipped as Osiris as the God of Rebirth by the Egyptians. It is also the degree of the U.S. Sun indicating important reversals in thinking, communications and ideas for that country.

Release and Regeneration of Thinking and Feelings
This year all three of Mercury’s Retrograde stations occur in Water signs, doubling Mercury’s transits through Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio and underlying the message of releasing old emotionally triggered ways of thinking. This gives us the keynotes to clear old emotional blocks, to feel connected to our Higher Selves and Guardian Angels in Pisces, to our emotions in Cancer, and about power and control with others in Scorpio.
Retrograde Mercury lets us relax, be receptive, regenerate, review, readjust, it is the Feminine sleep related phase of mental communications. Mercury spends the same time Retrograde approximately 1/3 of our time as we need to sleep.
With Mercury’s ruler ship of Gemini connected through the Sun and Moon by opposition to Pluto we can rebalance both halves of our brain, the rational and the intuitive, transforming the relationship of the conscious and unconscious.
Mercury Retro in Cancer translates literally as re-lationships. We have a major opportunity now to turn inwards, to our roots, our childhoods, heal old wounds, sheltering the wounded child within and without and eliminate old emotional wounds.
New thinking in terms of home, houses, shelter, homelessness, a rethink on women’s rights, children’s rights, traditions, family, ancestors.
Because Cancer relates to nourishment, this Retro may see more recalls of tainted foods which started with the pet foods with melamine in them. People will demand clear communications about what’s really n all the foods we eat. Repeals of many toxic fertilizers and additives in foods. Speaking of which- back to the butterflies, birds and bees my husband was telling me about how bees are disappearing at alarming rates in the U.S. Beekeepers travel around huge orchards with truckloads of Beehives, which they unleash to fertilize many different types of fruit trees. Fruit groves {and all vegetables} have been sprayed with synthetic nicotine as an insecticide. What they didn’t know was that the synthetic nicotine makes the bees woozy and they get confused and can’t fertilize the flowers, it sickens them and huge colonies die off. Even though the French discovered this in the ‘90’s and banned this type of insecticide, the U.S. paid no attention and there may be a looming food crisis. Did you know while you thought you were getting your good green veggies that you’ve actually been “inhaling” nicotine? Buy only wild honey.

There is a splendid Grand Fire Trine in this New Moon
Pluto at the Galactic Centre, Trines Mars in Aries, Trines Saturn in Leo
Three, Three, Three times the Power! Yup Grand Trines are Triply powerful. As each Mode enhances the others. Expect very hot weather, forest fires, a fire in a Royal palace.
This Grand Trine may also ignite a new war or attack by Terrorists, especially with Mercury going Retro on the U.S. Sun. Another interpretation is that Pluto rules the Collective, the people are angry; this may initiate Bush’s impeachment, for being such a dictator. Also new structures and laws re: how much power a senior authority can have.
Traditionally Mars and Saturn are considered to be the “great Malefics” the Trine enables these 2 and the Lord of Death, Pluto to function very powerfully together. As Pluto rules atomic energy, nuclear detonations are possible, atomic bombs, dictators seizing power in many places, nuclear accidents, inflated egos, spontaneous combustion and enlarged leonine egos,

On the personal level-all fires Signs get the message, it’s fuel speed ahead.

Neptune in Aquarius Trines this New Moon and makes its final exact opposition to Saturn on June 25, at 22 Leo-Aquarius. This opportunes us to trust our inner guidance, source, to have Faith, embrace our inherent Divinity. The Air Supply is Spiritual and Electrifying and breaks with tradition. Neptune’s passage through Aquarius radically changes our perception of Spirit. Aquarius’s energy is like Lightning Bolts, Electrical, Kundalini energy, inspirational. Tune into the Cosmic Zap at this New Moon.

June 15
Moon enters Cancer @ 9:45 am
The gentle waves of the nurturing and security conscious Cancer Moon envelope everyone. After the New Moon blitz we need to slow down, cuddle, eat.

MERCURY GOES RETROGRADE @ 7:40 PM until JULY 9th
Well you know what this means. Check Recheck, double check all information, communications and what you thought you heard, expect computer breakdowns, misinformation shuffle, etc. etc.
This is the brains time to reflect, regenerate, rest, it’s the “sleep” phase, the Feminine phase of Mercury, who is after all a Hermaphrodite, containing both male and female qualities.
Mercury is also known as Hermes to the Greeks. If you happen to own a Hermes watch, do the hands travel backwards during this Mercurial time period?

Contrary to popular opinion, I think Mercury Retrograde is highly creative, yes it’s a pain for watching out for info transmission and reception, but it gives us new insights, a fresh way of thinking, out of the box, and the usual drudgery of fast forward, linear, logical “progressive” thought forms.

NOTE” ALL MERCURY RETROGRADE INDIVIDUALS- this means you. This is your slim time to shine. Mercury moves Retrograde, every year for about 6 weeks at a time, 3 times a year. Equivalent to 1/3 of the year, the same as humans need to sleep.
Therefore there’s quite a lot of people born during any and every Mercury’s Retrograde passage, unique thinkers all. Usually they feel very unconfident about their intellectual capabilities, are pegged as Learning Disabled, or just feel like they can’t communicate very well with most other people. Ding! Ding! Know you understand why.
Someone who came to me for an Astrology Consultation recently had Mercury Retro in their Natal Chart, he said he’s always been told that it was not a good thing. I explained to him that those other Astrologers gave him short shrift and told him that he was in fact a brilliant thinker, and that every time Mercury goes Retro is his home turf time. He was delighted and elated, like a huge weight had been lifted off his mind.

Mercury turns retro at 11 degrees 36 minutes of Cancer linking us to recollect childhood, maternal, womb memory, early childhood emotional experiences. Look through old photo albums, videos, and films; reflect on your own personal history. Reminisce with your ageing parents, siblings and friends. Remember what gave you joy as a child, how you used to play, how you were so full of exuberance about life. Go to a park and watch children play if you don’t have young children of your own. Blow soap bubbles, get on the swings.
Let yourself feel young again. Remember how simple life used to feel. A Great time for an old school gathering.

Technically Mercury entered it’s pre-Retro period on June 7th and turns Direct on July 9th at 2 degrees plus of Cancer. Mercury will pass it’s Retrograde point on July 24th when it’s really full speed ahead.

June 16th
No major aspects today. Whew, isn’t it nice that the cosmos gives everyone a break sometimes?

June 17th Father’s Day-Moon Enters Leo @ 1:25 PM EDT
Moon in Cancer for the first part of Father’s Day so nurture Dad in the am. At 1:25 pm EDT. Moon fires into Leo so treat your Dad like the Royalty he is. Give him the biggest, the best, salute him, honor him. He is King for a Day today. Make him feel proud, creative.
Ego clashes are likely but the real way to be a great King is to let everyone share the spotlight.

AstroLogical Updates June 4-10 & Musical Accompaniments copyright Tara Greene

Lunar Locations ALL TIMES EDT unless otherwise indicated

HILITES of this WEEK: VENUS ENTERS LEO June 5th –July 14

June 4 Capricorn Moon
June 4 MOON ENTERS AQUARIUS @ 7:15 pm
June 6 Moon ENTERS PISCES @ 10:24 pm PDT, June 7 @ 1:24 am EDT
June 9 MOON ENTERS ARIES 5:26 am EDT

VOID OF COURSE MOON {when not to initiate anything}
Moon Void of Course: on the 4th @ 5:44 pm
Moon Void of Course: June 6, 6:47 pm PDT, 8:47 EDT
Moon Void of Course: June 8 @ 10:52 pm PDT, June 9 1:52 am EDT

June 4
Mars Trine Jupiter: Enormous Power available in Fire Signs this is forma a Grand Trine with Saturn, and opposite Neptune too. Dream it back, give it form, work hard to make all that fiery inspiration grounded and to last.

Moon opposite Venus at 5:43 pm
Venus in Cancer, Moon In Capricorn, the Moon always rules Cancer, so this should put some emotions and tenderness into that corporate heart of Capricorn.

Moon enters Aquarius on the 4th
Should lighten things up after a somber work only ethic of Capricorn Moon. Aquarius Moon is impersonal, feels for all of humanity but from a safe detached distance.

JUNE 5 VENUS ENTERS LEO Love is Hot Hot Hot

The Lady of Beauty, Love, Luxury, Values, The Arts, Harmony and Balance goes Red in Fiery Leo and all women demand to be adored as True Queens and leaders for this time period. I should hasten to say that the Anima, the Masculine Inner Feminine side also wants his Inner Queen to be listened and catered to right now. Leo is a generous sign, loyal to those he/she loves, exuberant, centre-stage, childlike, will full, a show off, dramatic, and heart centered.
Romance will certainly be hot, passionate, Big, over the top, lavish, connected to giving love, warmth with children, playful, dramatic, showy, expensive, regal, powerful, domineering, full of heart. Venus in Leo brings “the summer of Love” back again
Enjoy Venus transit of Leo, it makes you feel so young. Musical accompaniment “There’s A Summer Place” which Percy Faith {my cousin} orchestrated in 1960 which was a #1 Instrumental hit, from the film of same title, 1959 film starring Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue. The lyrics were recorded in 1965 by the Lettermen.

There's a summer place
Where it may rain or storm
Yet I'm safe and warm
For within that summer place
Your arms reach out to me
And my heart is free from all care
For it knows
There are no gloomy skies
When seen through the eyes
Of those who are blessed with love
And the sweet secret of
A summer place
Is that it's anywhere
Where two people share
All their hopes
All their dreams
All their love
There's a summer place
Where it may rain or storm
Yet I'm safe and warm
In your arms, in your arms
In your arms, in your arms
In your arms, in your arms

Sun in Gemini Opposite Jupiter @ 7:12 Pm EDT
“Happy Talk keep talkin’ happy talk, talk about things you like to do,” describes this aspect, lyrics from the musical South Pacific. Gemini’s get to see and talk about their twin other side under this influence. Travel, big ideas, communications are highlighted.
Moon in Aquarius Trines Sun in Gemini @ 10:40 pm EDT
Trines are good, sometimes taken for granted. Brilliant ideas get generated. Good for helping humanity, inventing, group work, gabbing, sales, PR.

June 6th
Moon in Aquarius Opposes Saturn 7:43 am EDT
All oppositions are tense. The Sacred Geometry is The Balance of two opposing or seemingly opposing sides.
This Lunar aspect wants to help all of humanity, and gives Saturn sitting on his Regal Throne in Leo, the entrenched powers, the old boys a run for their money. Saturn is related to the Latin word Senex, from which the words Senator and Senior are derived. The discrepancies between inventions using new technologies and doing the same old, same old are truly highlighted now. This coincides with the 33rd G8 summit, held in Heiligendamn Germany June 6-8th. Get the picture?

Sun Trines Chiron 10:57 am
Offering healing talk and alternative ideas about how to heal the old wounds.
Moon Opposite Neptune @ 11:09 am
This one can fog up the picture and also bring great idealism, compassion and martyrdom.

MOON enters Pisces Life Could Be A Dream
Emotional tone quiets down, feelings are ultra sensitive, compassionate, spiritual, Divinely inspired, psychic energy for dreaming is ultra high. You’ll feel like a walking psychic sponge, altruistic and may need to set some boundaries or you’ll commit yourself to being a martyr. Commune with the Moon is Pisces; it’s optimum for Meditation, poetry, healing and music during this period.

June 7, 2007
No major planetary action, stay within Piscean dreamy waters and row your boat gently down the stream. Musical accompaniment: Life Could Be a Dream, from The Crewcuts {1954}

Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang alang
Boom ba-doh, ba-doo ba-doodle-ay

Oh, life could be a dream (sh-boom)
If I could take you up in paradise up above (sh-boom)
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream sweetheart
(Hello hello again, sh-boom and hopin' we'll meet again)

Oh, life could be a dream (sh-boom)
If only all my precious plans would come true (sh-boom)
If you would let me spend my whole life lovin' you
Life could be a dream sweetheart

Now every time I look at you
Something is on my mind (dat-dat-dat-dat-dat-duh)
If you do what I want you to
Baby, we'd be so fine

Oh, life could be a dream (sh-boom)
If I could take you up in paradise up above (sh-boom)
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream sweetheart

Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da
Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da
Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da, sh-boom

Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da
Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da
Sh-boom sh-boom Ya-da-da Da-da-da Da-da-da Da, sh-boom

Every time I look at you
Somethin' is on my mind
If you do what I want you to
Baby, we'd be so fine

Life could be a dream
If I could take you up in paradise up above
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream sweetheart

A little personal Piscean reflection here. I often wake up in the middle of the nite and sit outside in my backyard when it’s relatively quiet, because I love to watch the stars and Moon and pray and receive my most keen psychic insights. Knowing that the Moon had entered Pisces, and that it was at about 3 degrees when I was sitting outside this A,M. The Moon was about ½ full. or ½ empty in a very patchy swirly cloudy sky. Knowing that around 3 degrees of Pisces is conjunct the Fixed Star Fomalhaut, a.k.a. The Archangel Gabriel, it struck me as a very propitious time to pray to Gabriel, the Angel pictured on the 20th Trump in the Tarot, that of Judgement.

I watch the Moon and silently send out my prayers to Gabriel, who figures large in my life. My personal Personality # is 20, called The Aeon in the Toth Tarot deck which I always use, it’s symbol is that of Rebirth, of Judgement being granted to clear the past. Also there is a statue of the Angel Gabriel blowing his horn on the wall of The Tango Palace, a lovely café at Queen East and Jones Avenues where I initiated Tarot Readings in January 1996. I had put out a lot of psychic energy to attract people to the café when I started. The very first nite I was there, under the auspices of Archangel Gabriel blowing his Redemptive Notes, an old friend appeared, whom I hadn’t seen in about a year. I was very surprised to see Napoleon at the Tango. Turns out he’d been living in the nabe for a while. Feeling totally inspired Napoleon and I re-struck up our old friendship, which had been totally Platonic since we were Art Students at O.C.A. in the ‘70’s. Long story short: Within seven month we were married and still very happily are, I’m proud to say. So I do feel I owe part of my Blessings to Gabriel for bringing New Life to Napoleon and me and to our daughter Leah Jaya. Life is a Dream, so please note all the symbols occurring around you.

Back to the Backyard Dreaming with Archangel Gabriel-
Back to the yard: I’m watching the Moon and an outline of a perfectly formed heart appears attached to the Moon, on the left, then there seems to be a mirror of the Moon’s shape directly below it, seeming to be 2 Moons, and a cloudy outline of a large Crescent Moon on the right. I wish I’d had a real camera to picture it, of course the apparition didn’t last very long, you had to be there, to see it, in the moment to embrace it. I felt delighted, inspired and blessed.

June 8 Active Day: Mutable T Square Moon, Uranus, Jupiter the Sun
Moon Square Jupiter Opposite the Sun @ 3:01 am EDT
Optimistic, spiritual, compassionate and well-traveled dreams. Jupiter Traditionally Rules Pisces, so there is lots of Divine Union going on in the Dreamworld.

A bunch of aspects Intertwine:
Moon Squares Sun @ 7:43 am Last Quarter Square marks a turning point in the Lunation cycle. Pisces Moon’s desire for Total Union puts tension on Gemini Sun’s need for keep all options open.
Moon Conjuncts Uranus 18 degrees Pisces @ 9:55 am. + Squares the Sun @ 18 Gemini
Pisces Moon Conjunct Uranus
Takes you unexpectedly to places you’ve never dreamed of before in order to revolutionize your soul and spirit. New inventions in technology advance humanitarian ideals and compassion.
The Sun in Gemini goes: “Whoops I’ve slipped on a spiritual big yellow banana peel and I don’t know what to do with it.” Sun is outta it’s Airy element with the Moon’s influence, feels nerve wracked by this is and doesn’t know where to put all that Piscean Spirituality and compassion.
We have Moon and Uranus Conjunct and both Squaring Jupiter and the Sun
This is a Mutable T Square creates excitement. It’s Jubilant, definitely unorganized, highly changeable. The urge is to fly, break from the past, quit a job, blow up something, Fight for civil and humanitarian rights. Jupiter is Retrograde so revisions in Laws, Education, will the Global Community be enacted now. Lots of world wide protests about the G8 conference. Hanging loose and going with the flow are the Keywords.

June 9
Moon Squares Pluto @ 1:52 am, June 8 @ 10: 52 pm PDT
Moon in Pisces, a.k.a. “The Cling Ons’s” need to merge, clashes with the Sagittarian need to “Hi Yo Silver, Away.” Tension arises for Total Transformation.

MOON ENTERS ARIES @ 5: 26 am EDT
A new cycle begins. How hot is it? Fire sign Moon, Mars is in Aries, Venus in Leo, Jupiter is in Sagittarius, Saturn is in Leo, and Pluto is in Sagittarius. So that’s, 6 Planets on Fire. Definitely a hot time climate wise. Passions abound.
Moon in Aries Trines Venus @ 11:51 am
A very hot passionate Saturday morning, impulsive. As Aries is the 1st Zodiacal Sign, it makes me think that Aries is like the 1st Card in the Tarot, the Fool, blindly leaping off the cliff in true Aries spontaneous fashion. Venus is in Leo the Sign of the King, or the Emperor in the Tarot, The Fool and the The Emperor or King are paired opposites, two sides of the same coin, remember that the King always had a Jester or Fool by his side?

Which leads my thinking to the brilliant musical Accompaniment for this Aspect-
WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE
–by Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers
3 weeks at #1 - 20/07/1956 16 weeks on chart

ooooo wah, oooooo wah, ooooo wah, oooooo wah,
ooooo wah, oooooo wah, Why do fools fall in love

Why do birds sing so gay
And lovers await the break of day
Why do they fall in love
Why does the rain fall from up above
Why do fools fall in love
Why do they fall in love

Love is a losing game
And love can be a shame
I know of a fool, you see
For that fool is me
Tell me why
Tell me why

Why do birds sing so gay
And lovers await the break of day
Why do they fall in love
Why does the rain fall from up above
Why do fools fall in love
Why do they fall in love

Why does my heart skip a crazy beat
For I know it will reach defeat
Tell me why
Tell me why
Why do fools fall in love

Sun Squares Uranus @ 4:08 pm
Keep things open and spontaneous. Independence is the watchword of the Day, don’t expect plans to be on schedule. Breaking rules is the order of the day.
Moon Squares Mercury in Cancer @ 10:49 pm
That impulsive foolish independent Moon in Aries rankles the cockles of Mercury where the mind and communicative realms are currently needing to be safely and securely at home in the waters of Cancer.
June 10
No significant outer planetary activity today. Lunar aspects are:
Moon Trine Jupiter @ 5:35 am EDT
Fiery feelings of inspiration, independence, freedom gallop off to the most exotic places.
Moon Conjuncts Mars @ 2:24 pm
Watch out for impulsive rash, aggressive, warlike energies. Crash Boom Bang, beware reckless drivers, and martial defensiveness.
Moon Trines Saturn @ 3:41 pm
This one may call in the authorities after your rashness. Egos are inflated and jostling for first place. This aspect is good for initiating and implementing new business plans and structures as Saturn brings Aries impulsiveness down to Earth.

June 4th The Martian Perihelion, GRAND FIRE TRINE!

Infusion of Fire all week
Mars is making its closest contact to the Sun right now, one of the most potent triggers for solar storm activity. On June 1st a very powerful sunspot outburst disrupted cell phones and short wave radios, and I’m promising more havoc yet to come as Mars God of War and Fiery Leader is moving fast and coming closest to the Sun,called perihelion, the red planet is bathed in solar energy and it in turn inspires the Sun to erupt.

I read that recent discoveries by scientists monitoring the Sun found that it literally cries out prior to a coronal mass ejection-like a woman in labour or an orgasm? Wow gotta ponder on that, what sound does the Sun make when it cries out? Want to tune into that massive heliocentric groan.

On Earth we find ourselves bathed and swathed in this massive solar radiation. Cell phones are disrupted, computers can glitch and our bodies get irritated, impulsive and headed towards collisions.
With Mars in Aries Trining Jupiter today
Both planets are in their home fire signs thus both planets are exceptionally strong. There’ll definitely be a hot time in the old town tonite. Has it been hotter than usual where you live the last few days?

Mars in Aries brings energy, aggression, defensiveness, pioneering actions and pushes Jupiter in Sag. to even higher levels of enthusiastic truth searching, inspiration and exaggeration. The two planets are also Trine to Saturn in Leo at 19 degrees, forming a Fiery Grand Trine. Sounds grand doesn’t it?

FIERY GRAND TRINE
A grand Tine is a big positive download of spiritual energy. Each planet lends a hand to helping the other 2 it is intertwined with in the fiery ménage a trois.
Mars in Aries is Just Do It! Saturn in Leo is structure it Royally, and Jupiter in Sag. says Do it Bigger, Honest, with Inspiration, make it Global, include all religions, throw in some sports, some animals, a few lightning bolts sponsored by Zeus, wear lots of Royal Purple and Gold, try not to trip over your own feet and your mouth, and have a buncha laughs whilst juggling that Great Ball of Fire.

The downside: War mongering, leaders acting like Gods, hypocrisy on a grand scale, too much heat, exploding tempers, Corporate melt downs, the price of Gold goes through the roof, instant Billionaires, explosions, Big terrorist attacks, fueled by Jupiter in Sag.’s religious fanaticism, answered by Military Law and an un elected President sitting on the Throne as Emperor. Hmm Nero fiddled while Rome burned….

For all Fire Signs and you know your pants are smokin’ now, you’ll have so much energy and chutzpah you won’t be able to sleep, stop talking, globe trotting, or causing everything around you to spontaneously combust. Dragon breathers all.
And Neptune opposite Saturn adds the spiritual compass- sionate creative dimension of dreams, as the handle of the tricorn firecrackers. SO dream your highest dreams now, there’s plenty of fuel stoking the flames. Time to charge UP! We're all like Stravinsky's FIREBIRDS! Phoenix's who are reborn from their own flames.

It’s like those ancient Andy Hardy and Judy Garland movies. This was before my time but I saw the reruns. “I’ve go it. I can see it now! We’ll have a show. We’ll fill the auditorium, everyone’ll come. It’ll be a big hit.”

AS THE WORLD BURNS THIS WEEK enjoy this highly charged solar energy and remember you and I are stars just like the Sun. Solar radiation causes more melatonin and stimulates the pineal glands, makes mutations!

Caution: Don’t burn out! Keep the flames alive by staying grounded. Get yerself into nature, roll around n the green grass. Breathe in the solar radiation at night. Have you been watching Venus in the early evening night sky in the North West? She’s very big bright and beautiful now. Practice aligning yourself body mind and spirit with this high level stimulation. We’re all receiving massive amounts of Light. Breathe in the Light.

Astrology Updates May 28- June 3rd It’s Once in a Blue Moon Time May 31st.

Hilites of this week.
All times EDT unless otherwise noted:
Moon enters Scorpio May 28th 1:11 pm
Mercury enters Cancer May 28th 8:56 pm
Moon enters Sagittarius May 30 10:06 pm PDT,May 29th 1:06 am EDT
May 31 BLUE MOON Full Moon 9:04 pm
June 1st Moon opposites Jupiter 7:19 am
June 2nd Moon conjuncts Pluto 7:29 am
June 2nd Moon enters Capricorn 11:09 am
June 3rd Venus Quincunx’s Pluto 2:23 pm

Void of Course Moon Times: when Not to initiate anything
May 28th 12:17 pm until 1:11 pm same day
May 30th 1:11 pm until May 31, 1:07 am
June 2nd 7: 29 am until 11:09 am same day

Monday starts out watery, deep, intense, secretive, powerful, sexy, and transformative in Feminine Scorpionic waters at 10:11 am. Scorpio Moons are always dramatic, pulling emotions into dark waters in order to be transformed.

Mercury plunges into Cancerian waters on Monday, for …quite a while
Mercury leaves its’ airy high flyin’chatty home sign of Gemini to flow into the Moon ruled sign of Cancer. Communications shift from the head to the gut, Cancer rules the stomach. Feelings and thinking are babes in arms now. Imagine your brain taking a well needed soak, floating on it’s back in the primeval womb, hot tub of the Great Mother. Ahhh. Safety, security, comfort, home, Mom, family, nurturing are all soaked up and spoken about by thirsty brains now. Don’t let your brain get too soggy what with the Moon also in the watery realms.

Mercury will remain in the emotional Feminine field for quite some time..till Aug. 4th!.
EARLY ALERT!!!! MERCURY GOES RETROGRADE JUNE 15th –July 9th
Mercury will take it’s infamous backwards two step in only another couple of weeks, just in time for coinciding with early summer travel plans. Mercury goes Retrograde at 11 degrees 36 minutes of Cancer, and won’t go direct until July 9th,which helps but still is in its’ shadow until it catches up to where it went Retro on July 25th! So beware of being extra careful in those wedding plans, summer parties, schedules and travels during this long time period. Mercury floats in Cancer until Aug. 4th so we must be needing to soak up all those feelings about emotional nurturing. The Earth is The Great Mother so nurturing the earth our collective Womb will be close to everyone’s emotions not just a mental idea. More communications about food, scarcity, quality and security will be in the news.

Moon enters Sagittarius May 30th
After all the emotional damage control of the past couple of days, Moon fires into ever optimistic Sag., my favourite sign. If you start to pay attention to how the Moon changing signs really affects the way people relate, the topics that come up, you’ll be amazed at how Moon ruled we all are. Sagittarius Moon days are spontaneous, freedom loving, trekking in nature, philosophical, truth seeking, inspirational, judgmental, klutzy and feature sports and gambling.

THE Sagittarian BLUE MOON of May 31st/ June 1st 1:04 am GMT
Ah yes, once in a Blue Moon. A Blue Moon occurs about once every 2-3 years when 2 Full Moons fall in one calendar month. It carries a special message.

Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue Moon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold

Blue Moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked the Moon had turned to gold

Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

The Full Moon happens at exactly 10 degrees + change of Sagittarius. Full Moon Illuminate, they are oppositions linked as Sol and Luna dancing in a partnership. Sun is in Gemini the 1st Air sign, which is the Sign of the twins, relates to the mind. Gemini in the Tarot is linked to the Major Arcana called The Lovers. Gemini is all about duality, dark and light,projections. Gemini’s positive side is curiosity, gathering information, and it’s dark side is the eternal puer who never grows up, the chatter-box who’s all hot air. Sagittarius is the 3rd Fire Sign, spiritual in element, aiming for truth, wisdom, varied viewpoints, travel, freedom, justice, and judgment. The Archer’s best side is optimistic and inspiring, it’s dark side is hypocrisy, bigotry and dogmatism. Gemini needs to listen and Sagittarius needs to speak out for the truth. These two issues are highlighted now.
Mercury Gemini’s ruling planet is in Cancer now, so to listen from the heart, which Native Americans and Buddhists all know is the location of the true brain. Sounds good?
If it doesn’t feel right, it’s not.

This Full Moon conjuncts Jupiter the ruler of this Blue Moon, and widely Squares Uranus adding a big oomph. The Blue Moon squares the Moon’s Nodes, North Node in Pisces signify our forward direction and the South Node in Virgo,where we’re coming from. The Nodes govern popular public approval and are karmic, soulful in nature. This aspect forms a mutable Grand Cross. The Mutable sign, Gemini, Virgo, Sag. and Pisces are concerned with integration. Gemini learns and communicates, Virgo analyzes and perfects, Sag. interprets and teaches, Pisces intuits and unifies.
This Grand Cross shows us that’s this is exactly what we need to do on this special Full Moon.
The North Node in Pisces calls us to bring full circle our collective compassion and unity as divine humans. The Transitting South Node in Virgo reflects wherefrom we come and what we need to let go of in order to move into the North Nodal position. Virgo South Node is analytical, perfectionistic, inhuman, servile, bound to routine, harvesting, through being located in over functioning mental approaches. We need to look at the nature of work, of being perfectionistic and forgetting the human, our incessant need to be busy in the West, and produce, produce, produce.

Grand Trine in Fire
There is a wide Grand Fire Trine here too with Mars in Aires, Saturn in Leo and Jupiter ruler of Sagittarius at the middle degree of his home sign now. This adds extra spark and initiative to make bold moves.

This Blue Moon echoes the one that occurred on the same date and at the same degree in May of 1988. Issues that began or ended at that time, when the Nodes were in the same place as now can be opened up again, or brought to a completion.

June 1st

Moon Trines Mars at 1:38 am putting some heavy action into your dreamtime.
Moon Conjuncts Jupiter at 7:19 am helping you to bounce out of bed with an optimistic Oklahoma exuberant smile,singing “Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day, I’ve got a beautiful feeling, everything goin’ my way.” Make travel plans now, and do be carefull not to bet the house at the roulette wheel.
Moon squares Uranus at 1:08 pm make feelings run rampid.
Moon trines Saturn at 3:31 pm so get down to positively sobering up and finishing off business before the weekend.

June 2nd

Moon opposite Pluto at 7:29 am
This one strikes fear into the hearts of many, known for catalyzing tsunamis, terrorist attacks and deep upheavals, maybe better to stay under the covers, sleep in and make friends with your shadows for a few hours until Moon enters Capricorn.

Moon enters Capricorn 11:09 am
Moon enters the sign it is least comfortable in. Capricorn don’t like emotions, it’s a dry dry sign in a dry dry season. All the better to do capitalist business in my dear.

Moon opposite Mercury 9:27 pm
With Mercury in Cancer, where the Moon rules, thinking is from the emotions, but the emotional magnet Herself is in organizational practical mode. Good to wade through those watery emotions and clarify feelings, order them, make some long term goals and have the discipline to do it.

June 3 Quixotic Qunicunx’s and other annoying sounds today…
A bunch of Quincunx’s mark the mark the journey today. Quincunx’s are when signs are in totally inhospitable elements, like foreigners who don’t speak or understand the others language, understand the others’ customs or religion. Picture a hunched shoulder quizzical I don’t capish sort of stance when Moon and Sun, then Venus and Pluto then Moon and Saturn do this during this day.
Venus and Pluto doing the quixotic 150 degree angle stance indicates a hard edge in values, depth of needs, compulsion and obsession.
Did I mention Moon squares Mars today to sometime in the middle of all that annoying fingernails on the cosmic chalkboard sound of it all? It’s adds up to a total Donald Trump “you’re fired!” sort of day. It’s O.K. I guess if you’re the Donald, and of course it depends if you’re on the receiving or the firing side of the desk.
My advice, lay low. Use the grounding power of the Moon to overcome all obstacles. Avoid arguments if humanly possible. Do something earthy and practical to ground the energy. Pull weeds in your garden. Remember Capricorn is a sign of earthly and spiritual ambition to reach the heights of the mountain.

AstroLogical Cosmic Updates May 21-27

Hilites of this Week
May 21 Gemini’s time to shine 6:12 am EDT Sun enters Gemini
May 24 Neptune Goes Retrograde 9:08 PM EDT
May 25 World Tarot Day! All day.

Void of Course Moon periods- when you should not initiate anything
May 21 3:46 am EDT until 6:12 am that day
May 23rd 9:08 am EDT until 12:26 pm that day
May 25 8:43 pm EDT until May 26th 12:16 am EDT

It’s a relatively quiet week planetarily speaking, although Sun’s sojourn through Gemini is never what you’d call quiet, lots of yakking and yadabouting when it’s Gemini’s turn to shine. The tone is lighter, airier in Gemini, youthfull. Gemini is the Archetype of Peter Pan, the Jungian Archetype called the puer aeternis. In the Tarot Gemini is the Astrological sign associated with Trump # 6 The Lovers, the Central Sephiroth on the Tree of Life, called Tifferet, meaning Beauty. Huh? Gemini with the Lovers? How so? Believe it or not, Gemini, being a dual sign, the sign of the Archetypal twins, is all about duality and the inherent nature of this Universe appears to be dual, consisting of opposites which are really part and parcel of the whole shebang. In other words, dark and light, male and female polarity. Gemini’s are here to learn all about relationships, and relationships is what it’is all about.

Neptune in Aquarius’sgoes Retrograde until Halloween!

The synchronicity strikes me as very potent. Neptune of course rules the sign of Pisces, the most spiritual, nebulous and dreamy of all the Signs, Pisces being the last sign, the sign of spiritual completion, similar in context to the number 9, which we are in, 2007=9,a year of completion. The Number 9 signifying the initiation by the Hermit. Time to dream the big dreams into completion now.

All times EDT unless otherwise noted

May 21
Moon enters Leo 3:56 am EDT
It’ll be a hot time, a big hearted, dramatic, let the child within come out kinda time

May 22
Moon conjuncts Saturn 3:26 pm EDT
Emotions get choked, serious, businesslike, time to make commitments
Moon opposite Neptune 9:02 pm EDT
After all that seriousness moon shifts to romance, as dreamy and romantic as they get, create a new dream, then rehash it when Neptune goes Retro

May 23 Mercury trines Neptune 3:47 am
Airy fairy ideas abound! Mercury in Gemini and Neptune in Aquarius are in the same elements. Channel in higher frequencies
Moon Trine Pluto 9:08 am
Hours later the dreams deepen in power, heart, will courage, drama overload. Fire + fire creates lust, sparks and control freaks!

Moon enters 23rd Virgo 12:26 pm EDT
Moons mood is grounded now into what’s practical, what can be harvested after the wreckage. Emotions and intuition is analytical, precise, fact finding, orderly and tidy. Good time to organize,plant your garden, do some community service, and just simply get those jobs done.
Moon Squares Sun 5:02 pm
Moon in Virgo and Sun in Gemini shake hands as they are both ruled by Mercury in Gemini, and Mercury is in his home sign now. That’s a whole lotta airy ideas but they can grow corn now.

May 24
Moon opposite Uranus, 9:45 pm PDT,
Whoops look out for that cushion. Perfectionist Virgo Moon doesn’t like Uranian unexpectedness. Uranus in Pisces brings a bit of dreamyness and compassion to that otherwise budget minded Virgin Moon.
Venus Trine Uranus 11:41 pm PDT
Venus in Cancer will bring home the homeless, the oddballs, freaks, revolutionaries, countercultured unique individuals now {is there actually any of this sort around these days?} to feed and nurture and soothe their urge to blow everything up souls in order to merge with the All. Chicken soup is always good with apple pie for desert to quell the hungry Soul insatiably desiring peace, completion and put a bit of bliss in their tum tums.

May 25
Moon opposite Uranus 12:45 am EDT-see above
Venus Trine Uranus 2:41 am EDT-see above
Moon Square Mercury 3:38 pm EDT
Good for quick thinking your way outta any too tight fitting situation
Moon square Pluto 8:43 pm EDT
Miss no-nonsense control freakin’ Moon in Virgo when squared by Pluto sounds like this: She wants to know where you’re going, when you’re coming home, what you will eat, better iron your shirt before you go, and change your pants they’re too wrinkly, make sure you don’t go over budget, irritable. Why can’t you be perfect like me? Pluto in truth loving Sagittarius just can’t help her/his shadow from blurting out the Naked Truth.
Moon enters Libra 9:16 pm PDT
Ah, a little peace at last, a little harmony, romance, candles and fine wine. Moon in Libra lights up this oh so social weekend. Moon wants balance, some good music, dancing, refinement, appreciating the arts, and trying to relax.

May 26 Moon enters Libra 12:16 am EDT see above-
Moon trine Sun 10:21 am-
A happy little trine from Libra Moon and Gemini Sun. Airy ungrounded emotions. Lots of yap with not much substance. Go to a poetry reading, an art gallery.
Moon in Libra loves to shop. Buy some lite art that harmonizes with your colour scheme. Enjoy talking all day and seeing and meeting as many people as you can non stop.
Moon opposite Mars 5:38 pm
Mars in Aries aggressiveness and brashness easily offends Libran refined sensibilities. Go to a wrestling match. Good for divorces in process of devolving. The Martially inclined will be pulling no punches and that Libran Moon person will know they are offended but ask others what they think anyway.

May 27
Mercury opposite Pluto 11:13 am
Lots of talking that spills the beans. Good for deep discussions that hit below the belt and barely scratch the surface. Or, debate the virtues of Peter Pan versus Moby Dick ,or the values of Tweedledee and Tweedledum versus Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Read all 13 novels in one day. They’re actually very Plutonic, cleansing, funny and literate all at once and of course the children always beat the bad evil Count Olaf and his cronies.
Moon square Venus 7:14 pm
Libran Moon is all romantic and Venus in Cancer wants security, a home, 3 hot home cooked from scratch meals a day and a couple of kids or more. Listen to some schmaltzy oldies and do some retro dances. This one should make everyone feel fuzzy.
Moon trine Neptune 9:02 pm
Three days into Neptune’s Retrograde and we have this lovely aspect. The Moon rules over everyone’s dreams every night and Neptune rules the dream world too from a more spiritual perspective. Dream the big dream of world peace, harmony, balance, fairness, justice now. Moon in Libra trine Neptune inspires artists, creative urges, idealistic rose coloured romances. Expect miracles. See only love everywhere. Forgive those who trespassed. Sink into a big hot tub and relax, breathe out big slow sighs and let go, let go let go. Dance, sing, paint, make Divine love. Libra Moon’s ruler is Venus, Neptune is the higher octave of Venus.
Your head should be in the clouds. Use this energy to meditate, visualize.
Feel the incredible forces of love and attraction that Shiva and Shakti, yin and yang, masculine and feminine are always dancing the Universe into creation with. Feel the soft pulse of your heart beating in unison with all that exists, in the invisible and visible worlds. Fall in love with yourself and everything you perceive. There is balance and beauty, love and longing satisfied always, every moment, every nano second, Love and fulfillment, completion is the ever present song of the Universe.
Feel your heart beating the rhythm of the Universal dance.

Astro Cosmic Insights Updates May 14-20th
Copyright Tara Greene

HiLites
Mars enters Aries May 15th 10:06 am EDT
New Moon in Taurus May 16th 3:29 pm EDT

The Moon’s Cycles & Void of Course Moon periods

May 14th Void Moon, @ 8:24 pm until
May 14 Moon enters Earthy Taurus 10:48 pm EDT
May 16th Void Moon @ 3:27 pm until
May 16 Moon enters Gemini 10:34 pm
May 18th Void Moon @ 8:57 pm until
May 18 Moon enters Cancer 11:38 pm

May 14 BIG TRINE DAY
A fiery optimistic Aries Moon Jupiter Trine 3:00 am EDT happy gambling piracy James Bondian globe trotting dreams for you
Moon Trines Saturn at 4:42 am structure all that optimism, make a big business plan
Moon sextiles Neptune at 10:02 am inspirational dreamy, romantic
Moon Trines Pluto at 8:24 pm,Wow that Moon is marshalling up all the goodies today. Make your power stance tonite. Don’t take too may hostages emotionally.

The Taurus Moon May 14-16
Taurus Moon is all Bull. Earthy, practical, fixed in nature, body oriented, sensual, slow to speak and react, likes money, good food, fine wine, smelling the roses, music, the arts, poetry, and stability at all costs, hard working, but has a lazy self-indulgent side too, can be vain. Ruled by Venus which is presently in Cancer, enhancing a very feminine and security conscious time. Taurus plants seeds, has the tools, the horns, and the stubbornness to get the grounded necessities done.

May 15
Mars fires home to Aries. It’s Fight Club time till June 24
If desires have been soggy since the first week of April while Mars was in Pisces and your libido has been langoring, you’ll find actions, Eros and desire flare now. When Planets are in their home signs they are at their strongest. Mars in Aries is Fight Club, macho, testosterone driven, warrior time. It’ll be easy to smolder, be aggressive, make your moves and initiate. This is also a defensive, short fuse and literally head strong period -Aries rules the head. Expect more headaches! Men definitely feel stronger when their ruling planet is at home. Of course Mars here denotes war, so expect new action in militaristic initiatives. I predict forest fires, droughts, scorching high temperatures in late Spring. Can be a dangerous time, explosions and volcanic eruptions. Women, fire up your inner male now, get him to support and defend you, especially while Venus is hiding out securely in Cancer at the mo.

New Moon Beauty May 16th 3:29 PM EDT

This is a New Beginning in which to ground your Beauty. Taurus, first Earth sign is about Beauty. The beauty of your body and the beauty of the Earth. Venus Goddess of Love rules Taurus, and Taurus is the Body itself, being the 2nd sign after Aries’ fire inception from Pure Spirit into the material plane. It’s your main tool, Taurus is the Temple itself. Like the Navaho Beauty Way Prayer,

In beauty may I walk;
With beauty before me, may I walk;
With beauty above me, may I walk;
With beauty below me, may I walk;
With beauty all around me, may I walk;
In beauty, may my walk be finished;
In Beauty may my walk be finished.

Taurus rules the Throat, the 5th Chakra, and the Number 5 Trump in the Tarot is that of The Hierophant, mediator between The Divine and the Human World. The form of 5 is the Pentagram, the magical Star symbol, Da Vinci’s drawing of man as the Star. You can embody the magical ability to ground both world’s, your Divinity and your Humanness now. Toning, chanting, singing all open the Throat, a power center. In the beginning was the word, vibrating out of the throat. We humans have the power of speech, speak in beauty, practice deliberate acts of beauty.

Whereas there was a fixed Grand Cross at he last Full Moon between the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Mercury and Chiron in Scorpio the planetary energies and messages have shifted into a fixed Taurean T-square between Sun-La Luna, Saturn, Neptune and Chiron -not quite as intense but still cattle-prodding enough. No B.S.
The overall theme is ground your beauty, your body, get a fixed purpose and intent at this New Moon. You’re Beautiful, look in the mirror and sing it to yourself and to everyone else you see, and everything you see.
Neptune opposite Saturn is points to how great is that gap between your karma {Saturn} your Inner Child {Leo} the love you make {5th House} your inner Gold Leo,the Sun} and the Higher Love of Neptune’s dream world of Bliss, Peace, Connectedness to the Perception {Air} of a Humanitarian World {Aquarius}. Structure and build your Leonine courage, will and heart to be able to play ,in all senses of the word a bigger role in enhancing Neptune in Aquarius’s ideals. Saturn is the Great Teacher, time, obstacles, restrictions. Get the spiritual lessons that Saturn’s world of hard knocks brings now, so no more repeats.

Venus rules this New Moon. She is at 9 degrees + of Cancer right now, in the most nurturing and Feminine water sign of Cancer-the womb itself.

On an equal house Natural chart wheel with 0 degrees at the Ascendant.
Mars is at the important Zero degree Cardinal beginning of Aries. In his rulership. Act now!
Sun conjunct Moon in the 2nd House Taurean house of values, tools, the body,self-worth.
Mercury is at home in Gemini and very strong. Communications are highlighted.
Venus is in Cancer in the 4th house. The roots, home,security, tradition. The Moon rules Cancer and the 4th. Love yourself.
Saturn in in Leo in the 5th House. The Sun rules Leo, and the 5th
The South Node is at 13 degrees of Virgo, in the 6th house. Release perfectionism and being a know it all.
Jupiter and Pluto [both Rx} are in the 9th with Pluto only 2 degrees away from the Zero Cardinal point of Capricorn. Transformation of highest goals in coporate world.
Neptune and Chiron are only 7 degrees apart in Aquarius. Healing the wounds around being your unique self, joining forces with like-minded groups to open consciousness to a higher spiritual reality.
The North Node and Uranus are in Pisces in the 12th. Revolution in spirituality. The highest goal, is to achieve Bliss, compassion, unity.

The Sabian symbol for this New Moon at 26 degrees of Taurus.
“A Spanish gallant serenades hid beloved, the ritualization of individual desires.”
So sing your heart out.

Moon in Gemini May 16-18th
Talky talky, zip around fast, youthful, communication highlighted.

May 17th
Moon conjuncts Mercury 7:30 pm
Emotions and mental planes are in Peter Pan mode. Lots of yapping, networking, relationships.

Moon Opposite Jupiter May 17 11:23 pm PDT
May 18th 2:23 am EDT
Don’t expect commitments at this time. Gaddabout Gemini and Mars in Aries means independence. Communications overflow, exaggerating that Sagittarian hoof in mouth disease.

May 18
Moon squares Uranus at 3:59 am EDT
Emotional roller coaster rides in the nite.

Moon Trines Neptune at 10:20 am EDT
Good inspiring ideas for ad campaigns. You may talk about love and finer things in the moment.

Moon Opposes Pluto at 8:57 pm EDT
This one is always hoary. Shed some light on those hidden parts, talk about it.

Moon enters Home Cancer at 11: 38 pm EDT
Time to sit tight emotionally this weekend. Bake apple pies, feel cosy safe and warm. Good for family reunions.
Emotions are super sensitive now. You’ll need some nurturing if you let it all outta the bag earlier this evening.

May 19
Moon Squares Mars 4:26 am EDT
Fight Club nite. Watch out for thise storming Nazi’s in your dreams and rash drivers if you’re out that late.

Moon Conjunct Venus at 9:30 PM
Aw sweet love, trust, comfort, you want unconditional love and safety. Spend the evening cozied up at home with those who you love and who love you.

Mercury opposite Jupiter at 16 degrees Gemini/Sag. 10:30 pm PDT
May 20 1:30 am EDT
Tension, rash words, don’t get pulled into that opposition. Feelings will be easily hurt now and overwhelmed by all that talk talk.

May 20
Mercury Square Uranus at 7:26 pm EDT
Jangled? Won’t need that coffee this evening. Brilliant new ideas come outta the blue. Follow that roller coaster of non-linear logic to see the big picture.

Astro Logical Updates May 7-13th

HiLites:
Venus enters Cancer May 8th
upiter Square Uranus May 10
Mercury enters Gemini May 11
Mars Squares Pluto May 13!

Void of Course Moon Times-don’t initiate anything during these time periods.

Moon leaves Capricorn on the 8th,goes V/C @ 3:34 am-
Moon enters Aquarius on the 8th @ 1:48 Pm
Moon goes V/c on the 10th @ 5:47 pm –
Moon enters Pisces on the 10th @ 7:31 pm
Moon goes v/c on the 12th @ 7:53 pm
Moon enters Aries @ 10:19 pm on the 12th

First, the Nice Aspects-Trines this week
May 7th Capricorn Moon trines Taurus Sun at 1:12 pm EDT This is an excellent hard working aspect. Moon Trines Mercury 10:23 pm PDT on the 7th on the 8th at 1:23 am EDT
Feelings and ideas flow concretely. May 10th Pisces Moon Trines Venus at 10:06 Pm PDT and On May 11th 1:06 am EDT
This is as soul matey, homey, comfortable and cozy as it gets.

The Moon’s Routes this week
Moon starts the week in Capricorn- Down to business, hard work and responsible, dry, Moon is in detriment in Capricorn, the sign opposite the one it rules, Cancer. This is the Moon in the Paternal sign, Saturn’s sign. Emotional tone is serious, no nonsense, grounded.
May 8th Moon shifts into Airy Aquarius 1:48 pm EDT Instincts take on a lighter, more expansive, group awareness, you love everyone but at a distance. Emotions ruled by Mind. Inventive, rule breaking.

May 10th Moon flows into Pisces at 7:31 pm EDT
Moon is comfortable in the watery realms. Instincts are purified, spiritual, imaginative, fantasy fueled, extra sensitive, escapist, martyrdom rules these days, secrets, privacy, Karma, being in the background, flowing in a bath, chanting, meditating, painting, drama, films and photography, oil, and viruses are all Piscean.

May 12 Moon charges into Aries-10:10 pm EDT
Moon begins a new cycle in Amazonian Martial artistry mode now. Defensive emotions, hot tempers flaring, Moon isn’t so nurturing or co-operative, wants to do Her own thang. Instincts and Emotions are initiative, bravery comes to the forefront. This enhances male emotions. Women are more demonstrative, independent, pushy. Susceptibility to headaches, Aries rules the head.

Large Scale Squares throughout the week

Squares are toughening aspects-the energy brings tension to make things move and change.
May 7th -Mercury in Taurus squares Neptune in Aquarius-
Imagination is heightened and softened, higher love enters the mind, but makes for foggy brains

May 9th - Sun in Taurus squares Saturn in Leo – 8:05 am EDT-demanding
Taking responsibility and towing the line to bring in the Light! Slow steady deliberate obstinate and bullish gets the glitter. Do gold prices go higher? Very stubborn, the Sun locks horns with the elite powers that be on the throne. If you got the tools, go for the regal heights but your heart’s gotta be init.

May 9th –9:28 PDT and May 10 8:08 am EDT
Aquarius Moon squares Taurus Sun-Last Quarter Square- The need to be open to change and Higher Perspectives challenges the Taurus bull headedness and attachment to the physical plane to go higher. It’s a pretty fixed situation. The good part is how to use assets and tools in new forms.

May 10th Jupiter squares Uranus at 11:32 Pm EDT, 8:32 PDT
Square occurs at 17 degrees 57’ of Sag./ Pisces, mutable
This is the 2nd of 3 squares, the first one was in late January and the last one will be in Oct. This is a very dynamic aspect bringing optimism and big sweeping changes. Uranus in Pisces revitalizes spirituality,compassion, brings unexpected change and endings. Jupiter in Sagittarius rules religion, beliefs and the Law, education, foreigners. That old time religion is definitely going through some last death rows in dogma. Education will be revolutionized and brought up to speed to fit with today’s contemporary world. Uranus in Pisces stirs up the waters of Neptunian rules Pisces’ imagination, bringing faith and Jupiter’s optimism into the Big Picture.
Expect technological breakthroughs from water as sources of fuel, Jupiter loves to travel, and in purifying water, you all know about Dr. Emoto’s work with toning and positively affecting water with thoughts, as water becomes more scarce and precious we will be needing this desperately. There is also a long series of ongoing trines, good aspects, between Jupiter and Saturn now which is reshaping social structure. Jupiter in Sag. brings ideals and aims high. I do hope this moves as fast as the Sagittarian energy would like.

Personally- If you are a Sagittarian born in or around Dec. 10th or a Pisces born around March 9th you are getting the direct hits of this aspect. If you are a Gemini born around June 9th you are getting the opposition from Jupiter and the square from Uranus. If you are a Virgo born around Sept. 10th you are experiencing Uranus’s opposition and Jupiter’s square personally.
Interestingly enough this Jupiter Uranus square then brings new and unexpected legal investigations into 911 and its’ hidden Pisces agenda. Carefully constructed belief systems get shredded from deep hidden substratas. Restlessness and impatience should be high, the call to freedom strong, a yearning for peace.

May 12 Taurus Sun squares Neptune at 10:56 pm EDT
Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side, keep on the sunny side of life. Just smell those roses, and park yourself on a couch and indulge, eat as many chocolates as your heart desires, it’s revolutionary way to loose weight-not. Clean out your fish tank. Down to earth practicality bumps up against higher inspiration and revolutionary thinking.

May 12 Moon Squares Pluto 7:53 pm EDT
To the strains of the William Tell overture- Faster than a Speeding silver bullet- Hi Yo Silver, Away. Pluto –The Lone Ranger, whips your emotions into a galloping pace like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse! Reign in those emotional, powerful, deep, hidden, secrets and blast your way to the Galactic Center in a Milky Way Cleanse leading to Bliss completion and completion. It may take all the hidden strength you have to keep from hurling a la Sagittarian hoof in mouth disease. Moon in Pisces will enable you to be alone, but never actually alone, accompanied by angels and spirit guides lending you invisible helping hands to do their karmic clean up work.

May 13th- Mother’s Day Heavies-
Mars in Pisces Square Pluto- 11:15 am EDT Potentially Dangerous!
In this corner we have Mars, God of War, and in this corner we have demoted Pluto God of Death. Do ya think that demoting Pluto made him happy? The smallest things in the Universe are the most powerful. Mars and Pluto co-rule Scorpio, the 8th Sign concerned with you know Sex, Death, Birth, Inheritances, Taxes, Power, Control, Secrets. This is a Galactic Centered sucker punch. Mars is at his Spiritual Warrior best now at that critical 29th degree of Pisces, so use his energy to defend transformation and higher goals as symbolized by Pluto on the Galactic Center. We’re all in this soup together. Defend the Truth, Justice, Freedom and the state of Democracy, which is dying as we speak. Pluto in Sagittarius shows us the way to aim our arrows of truth higher from a central Unified core. Pluto transforms through death initiations. Examine where you might be in fantasy and illusion about power, control and false prophets/profits.

And the shadow side of this is dangerous. Ignore the shadow at your own peril. When I saw Conversations with God author Neal Donald Walsh in Toronto a couple of years ago, he came onstage with a gigantic pocket watch, for dramatic effect, then he paused and said “Time is running out!”

This Mother’s Day will see anti-war and environmental protests as well as Mother’s Day marches as women and Mothers refuse to bow down to the war machines and stand up against the Plutocracy, defending and denying the sending of their sons into Hades throughout the world, and met with heavy police brutality. Anger from a very deep source wells up, driven by a sense of the Bliss, Beauty and Harmony that life on our Mother Earth could be, and was, a memory of a Life lived with respect for all creatures on this planet, Guided by the Feminine forces in total relationship with everything.
Now it’s time to take a stand, Goddesses are also fierce. Durga, Kali are both wrathfull Destructive Giving and Rebirthing Goddesses, Invoke their powers now to bring Rebirth

Mercury, the Whore of Babble On speeds home to Gemini May 11th at 5:17 am

That fleet footed/foot fleeted Mercurial Messenger, rules the Mind, the lungs, and is a hermaphrodite, duo-sexual, and like Quicksilver, you just can’t ever hold onto it. Minds, communications will be hyper-speed, adaptable and downloading info. and interests at the fastest bandwidth possible, in every which direction. Gemini is the Archetype of Peter Pan, watch your mind fly to Never Never Land, nothing’s for eveh, escapist thoughts abound. Mercury is the Symbol of the Magician, the number 1 card in the Tarot.
Your mind is the most magical tool of all. Thinking is the best way to travel. You know how you get old bits of songs going in your head? Pepsi’s motto used to be “For Those Who Think Young” and there was a hit song with the same title in the ‘60’s so let that mantra/ ditty stick in your mind and be a kid again, have playful thoughts and remember what occupied your mind as a child. Go play in the sandbox, it’s great therapy. Gemini won’t linger long at home of course, he/she’ll be off to the next sign by May 28th so enjoy basking in the sunshine and don’t make any firm commitments. Babble on my friends.

Conjunctions-where things bump into each other-

May 10th- Aquarius Moon conjunctios with Neptune-
Inspiration, expanded feelings combines with visionary activism and poetic liscence.
May 11- Moon in Pisces conjuncts Uranus- 11:18 pm EDT, May 12, 2:18 am PDT
Emotional Freedom-
This one brings unexpected emotional relief and revelations, feelings and tears flow as a cleansing. Use this to revolutionize your spirit. Forgiveness and compassion opens your feelings to release any old karma, imprisoned emotional patterns and addictions. Meditate, create during this time period, artists, songwriters, poets and actors benefit. Visualize a beneficial brave new world that is wholistic, peacefull, inclusive, free from bondage on all levels.

May 12th Moon conjuncts Mars in Pisces at 7:01 pm EDT
A compassionate Moon is ready to act, to defend its’ beliefs. He’s under the influence to soul mate with you. Emotional completion, bliss in action. Be carefull of doing any drugs, or handling dangerous weapons. Rash escapism is also part of this. Good for getting quick results on artistic planes.

Mother’s Day-Venus is in Cancer-how sweetly coincidental!

Once a year we officially honor our personal Mother’s. Venus, enters the sign of the Mother, Cancer on the 8th @ 3:28 am. and beckons our hearts, and values home, to be with Mom, apple pie, nurturing and comforting. Venus in Cancer tenderizes relationships, feelings are sensitive now, nurturing others comes first, trust issues are big. “Homeland security” is the banner of these times to be sure. It’s a very nice thing to have Venus in Cancer during Mother’s Day. Love your Mother, you are your Mother, and your Mother is you.
Venus is the Goddess of Love and Beauty Harmony and Peace, there is an etymological link between Venus and our very veins. Venus, love, runs through our veins. The Great Mother is also the Earth who nurtures and births all of us. We made a big deal about Her and her ability to keep nurturing us, due to all the damage and neglect that we, her human children have inflicted on Her. Every day we are alive is Mother’s Day. On Mother’s Day, and every day Honor your Mother, the Earth.

Copyright E. Tara Greene 2007

Astro Logical Updates April 30-May 6

Hi Lites;
FULL MOON in SCORPIO May 2nd Eastern Daylight Time
Jupiter and Saturn form 2nd Trine
Venus Pluto Opposition on the 6th

Void of Course Moon Times
Mat 1st 4:07 am EDT-6:41 am on the 1st
May 3rd 2:43 am – 6:48 pm on the 3rd
May 6th –2:45 am EDT – 5:21 am on the 6th

April 30th
Mars quincunx Saturn at 12:09 am EDT ouchy! Toughest of the tough planets rub each other the wrong way. Stressful, Last minute tax time! Procrastinators are crying in their beers.
There’s 2 major aspects today.
Mars square Jupiter- ups the anger ante, enthusiasm reaches all the way out to, well, Mars.
Venus in Gemini Trines Neptune in Aquarius -the planet of females, values, money, love, luxuries, makes the easiest aspect there is, as good as it gets-to Neptune the planet of “higher Love” Divine Love, I kid you not, illusion, delusions, addictions, dreams, spirituality, oil. Not necessarily in that order. Expect oil prices to really go through the roof. Inflation.
Venus in Gemini takes as many partners as she can wrangle to try ‘em on for size, but don’t expect ‘em to be seriously consequential. You’ll be very apt to be hearing yourself say “I’ve finally found my soul mate” at every turn. Of course this is a great aspect for musicians, artist, dreamers, romantics, alcoholics, and gives everyone a taste of what a Fast talking hermaphrodite Gemini spiritual computer geek would look like.

IT”S MAY DAY! POLE DANCING Moon enters Scorpio
This is traditionally a Fertility Festival. Couples used to make love on the furrows of the earth to fertilize it to ensure good crops. You get the message. It’s a quiet day Astrologically and yet the Moon tunes into the sexuality of the day by entering Scorpio at
6:41 am EDT. Ah the Scorpio Moon phase, deep, intense, smoldering, sexual, lusty, deep, power, control, riches, secrets, birth, death, transformation. Trust is a major issue. We’re all high from all that Venus Neptune soul mate stuff. Now we get down deep and dirty into the real nitty gritty.

Wed. May 2nd FULL MOON @ 6:10 am EDT, 3:10 am PDT
But before we get to that lush Scorpionic Full Moon, it opposes Mercury at 4:00 am EDT
Heart opposed to mind very stubborn Mercury in Taurus.

Scorpio Full Moon-it doesn’t get any fuller than this!

What’s been in the dark comes out into the Light. Sun in Taurus is concerned with building, values and self-worth. Taurus rules money and resources, reflecting our interconnection with self-worth and our relationship with material goods and values. Ruled by Venus, Taurus represents appreciating the beauty of our bodies, physical strength, the ability to create and have beautiful objects, clothes, enjoy wonderful foods, works of art, use our voices, Taurus rules the throat, valuing the physical world as the concretization of the spiritual world. So having a healthy respect for oneself is the theme here.
If we have a negative self-image and feelings of unworthiness, low self-esteem, then we do not regard ourselves in a healthy way; we deny our selves, our Souls and our spirits
From thoroughly enjoying this physical romp we are in in 3D.
One way of overcompensating for a felt sense of personal worthlessness is rampant consumerism as a cover or staying in poverty mentality, a stasis of Self-denial.

The Moon in Scorpio opposite the Sun shows us that this Full Moon is all about bringing up the shadows where we do not feel worthy, what we cover and hide and mask the most, our insecurities. Are we good, fast, smart, beautiful, rich, creative, stylish, young, enough? All the shadows around our inherent self-worth need to be examined in depth.
Rooting out where we do not have a healthy self-esteem, respect for our bodies and our physical resources now helps us to make the transformation, the AHA moment, when we Get IT! The motto used to be Just Do It! But I believe it should be Just Get It! And I don’t mean the latest Blahnik shoes.

The Dalai Lama, probably one of the most spiritual persons on the planet, had to have the concept of low self-esteem explained to him because it is a totally foreign concept in the Tibetan culture and religion. We need to have healthy egos as containers for the Spirit. Not overly grossed immature, self-demanding egos.

Mercury closely conjuncts the Sun helping us to ground our thinking about $, security, and how our minds create the stuff of the Universe. What you think you attract. You are the Great Attractor. Think rich, be rich. And Mercury helps us define what is ego and what is essence.
Chiron @ 15 degrees of Aquarius widely squares the Sun and Merc, as does Saturn @ 18 degrees of Leo, this lunation forms a Fixed Grand Cross. Fixed means-I ain’t going’ nowhere. There is lots of pressure here, four squares and two opposition involved. This pressure is meant to breakdown long-standing patterns to reconfigure them to a higher potential. The force is with you.

The BUDDHA FULL MOON

And speaking of the Dalai Lama, this Moon is known as the Buddha Full Moon, this May Full Moon was present at the Enlightenment of Prince Gautama. Taurus Sun is fixed Earth and Scorpio Moon is Fixed Water- death, and this is what the Buddha taught, the contrast of life and death and the impermanence of all human existence.

Look at your resources both tangible and intangible. Think about your life right now and see yourself through eternity’s eyes. Imagine that you have died, look back at your life and see what really mattered to you, what counts now, what lasts. Yes we do need to know how to manage those Saturnine bills and keep a roof over our and our families heads it’s true, Chiron’s presence in the Fixed Grand Cross shows where we are also wounded by our possessions, where they hold sway over our lives, where we hold onto them too much. Are we over identified with the physical world? Time to look past that to inner riches, resources and wealth, this is Pluto’s realm, modern ruler of Scorpio.

TRIPLE CONJUNCTION-North Node, Uranus and Mars in Pisces

There is also a close triple conjunction of the North Node @ 14 degrees+ of Pisces, Uranus @ 17 degrees + and Mars @ 19 degrees. This indicates revolutionary actions, the end of the road for old traditions, innovations, unexpected breakthroughs, and unexpected water-check your plumbing. All of this new Piscean activity has a fated quality, a sense of North Nodal higher goals, in Pisces the highest road-pure Spirit. You’ll be able to forgive and have compassion if you allow yourself to surrender to Higher Dictates.
All of this is quincunxing old Saturn, Father Time. Time may be running out for the old status quo. A revolution in true spirituality is at hand-no more outside authority to leaders and flim flam snake oil salesmen.

This whole picture also relates very strongly to The Earth, as Taurus is the 1st Earth sign, and Scorpio rules Death and Rebirth. The writing is on the wall; the state of Mother Earth is dire. This Scorpio Moon highlights that we have to take drastic actions, change power structures in order to help heal and enjoy the beauty of the Earth.

RITUAL FOR THIS MOON-
What do you need to change about your body and how you think about it, your creativity, your values, money, and possessions. This is the time to implement a new plan and with that Taurean stubbornness stick with it. Let old values that do not align with your Higher Self die now. You might want to do a ceremony where you symbolically and actually dig a hole in the green earth, after writing down a list of all the oldies that no longer serve you and bury them. Very Taurean, real, practical. Rituals in all religions around the world serve this purpose. It’s why the Buddha touched the Earth to witness his enlightenment. Create your own ritual. Using your voice to state aloud-newfound self-worth, sing it, dance it, Paint it. Dig another hole to counterbalance the death and to bring in birth. Plant copper pennies, the metal sacred to Venus in the ground with the intentions of planting new energies, ideas, resolve, self-worth and invoke Venus’s grace and help.

Think about that last famous scene in one of my all time favorite movies, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Walter Huston and Humphrey Bogart. After striving to find gold, 3 men led by an old timer finally strike it rich, but bandits, and greed get in the way. Finally at the end of all their strife, Bogart has been killed and the young man and the old one Walter Huston watch as their bags of gold get blown away in the wind. All they can do is laugh, and laugh and be glad to be alive.

May 3rd MOON ENTERS SAGITTARIUS @ 6:47 pm EDT,
My favourite sign. Galloping off optimistically to gamble into the far exotic for truth, justice and freedom.

May 4th Take a break, but it could be tense from some sesquiquads from the Sun and Pluto-power struggles.

SAt. May 5th-Busy to say the least

MOON SQUARING URANUS at 5:39 AM EDT-
sounds painful. An erratic day due to emotional upheavals in your dreams.

MOON TRINE SATURN 6:52 am EDT-
this is where the heavies get easier to handle,you actually enjoy the discipline.

MOON CONJUNCT JUPITER 7:03 am –a bouncy bright optimistic mornin’ to yah,

MERCURY SEXTILE URANUS 11:53 am EDT
great for brilliant ideas that have weight.

MOON SEXTILE NEPTUNE @ 1:47 pm EDT
romantic, poetic, spiritually uplifting you’ll be in the clouds, PAINT A PICTURE

MOON SQUARE MARS 2:58 pm
Moon in Sag. makes you yearn for a man who’s a spiritual warrior. Anger and martyrdom also come up here, oh so righteous Sag. Moon can judge Piscean compassion.

MERCURY SQUARES SATURN at 6:55 pm
All those brilliant ideas you had earlier today Get nailed under Saturn’s scrutiny, Be not too proud to learn that discipline does get the job done. Can indicate information arriving late.

MERCURY QUINCUNX JUPITER 7:20 pm
this is really grating. Too much information flows now.

MOON OPPOSITE VENUS IN GEMINI @ 9:50 pm PDT
for you West coasters this is a flirty flirty night.

MOON CONJUNCT PLUTO @ 11:45 pm PDT
Instincts are keen when mated with soul. The rockets will soar for those who have found partners this nite, cosmic tantric lovemaking are definite possibilities tonight. Don’t despair if you are alone, this is great for visualization at the Galactic Centre.

May 6th

MOON OPPOSITE VENUS IN GEMINI @ 12:50 am EDT
This is a flirty flirty night.

MOON CONJUNCT PLUTO @ 2:45 am EDT
Intuition can reach true depth on this one. The rockets will soar for those who have found partners this nite, cosmic tantric lovemaking are definite possibilities tonight. Don’t despair if you are alone, this is great for visualization at the Galactic Centre.

JUPITER TRINES SATURN @ 12:11 am PDT 3:11 am EDT
If it all felt great hopes are high for a permanent lasting bond. Jupiter brings optimism for the darkest times and the combo of play a lot work a lot works out just fine. This is the last Trine between these 2 planets in Fire Signs, they will trine again next year in Earth Signs. So take time to work with this aspect. Jupiter expands on the Hearts {Leo} wish to play {5th house Leo}at working towards our highest achievements Saturn {ruling the 10th house}.

MOON ENTERS CAPRICORN @ 2:21 am PDT 5:21 am EDT
Someone maybe sneaking back home feeling guilty about ignoring business after all that last nights revelry. Sobering to say the least.

VENUS OPPOSITE PLUTO at the Galactic Center 7:05 pm PDT 10:05 pm EDT
This opposition straddles the North Star at 28 degrees of Gemini Tropical and the Galactic Center. Oppositions can tear things apart or be used as counter balances. Feelings and values that are dualistic or ambiguous Gemini}are counterpoised with the depth of the Soul, Pluto and the Lord of the Underworld rules the collective Unconscious of the people, and that Collective is gathering in the Heart of our Galactic Womb at the moment. What we feel consciously and unconsciously may be pretty unknown right now. But I do believe our need for love is being drawn into the womb that we all come from. We are all collectively in a Dark Night of the Soul, that is what the Galactic Centre symbolizes and we will all collectively be reborn on Dec. 11 when Jupiter and Pluto conjunct at the Heart of the Galaxy. Save that date on your calendars. On a more mundane note the secrets, cheating, lies can be exposed now. Hidden resources can be discovered. Dualism {Venus in Gemini} will be abolished under the Archer’s swift arrow pointing higher and higher towards one common denominator.

Copyrite E. Tara Greene

Astrology Updates April 23-29th

April 23
MOON ENTERS LEO @ 7:38 pm EDT so say it loud and proud, get your courage up and take center stage, let that big kid inside you out to play and frolic, be big ostentatious, flirty. Moon squares Sun in Taurus, so things are pretty fixed shall we say.

April 24th
Sun quintiles, a 72-degree aspect, considered highly spiritual, the most imaginative and spiritual Planet Neptune! Source your spiritual and creative visions now.
And then Sun sesquiquadrates 1 square + a ½ a square aspect-to Jupiter-Mr. Big. This can make us go too over the top, in an upbeat way. Taurus sensuality can veer towards sloth and gluttony. Sagittarians may try to justify this behavior through cosmic osmosis.
Sun-Neptune keeps the tendency to boorishness, reverenced, humble at best.

Wednesday April 25
That Leo Moon sextiles VENUS @ 12:25 am. Leo Moon can charm the pants off even the most ambivalent Gemini. And do it quickly because the MOON CONJUNCTS SATURN @6:14 am slapping us with that reality check, a harsh awakening to start the day. The taxman may be hitting below the belt this time of year.
MOON TRINES JUPITER @ 8:11 am EDT so it’s a roller coaster ride already and it ain’t even 9:00 am.
Busy MOON THEN OPPOSES NEPTUNE @ 1:16 pm EDT, dreaming of your favorite movie star while having that extra glass of wine at lunch? Have a great inspiration or spiritual epiphany?
VENUS TRINES CHIRON and heals love’s wounds @ 3:19 am EDT. Venus in Gemini may whisper supporting words instead of exiting stage left.

April 26
MOON TRINES MERCURY in Aries at 1:00 am EDT promoting fast talking bold dream characters, or much late nite pioneering leadership.
MOON TRINES PLUTO @ 3:01 am, bringing dreams of conquering the world, secret plans, atomic explosions, sludge, bursting plumbing, etc. But before you take all that power with you out into the world the next day.

MOON ENTERS VIRGO @ 5:24 am and makes it all neat, practical, servitude, analyses it all first, write out the big business plans. The tone of the next few days with Moon in Virgo is neatness, precision, getting things to work on schedule, balancing the books, etc.
MERCURY TRINES PLUTO @ 1:06 pm EDT
Mercury, Virgo’s ruler in Aries trining Pluto Retrograde hovering around the Galactic Center allows you to write down all those Big Plans. Intuition is sharp and deep right now. This is great diagnostic energy getting down to the core issues.

MOON TRINES SUN @ 5: 54 pm the two lights adore each other. Intuition and will work in total harmony.

VENUS AND URANUS square off @ 11:20 pm whoops watch your feelings and values fly off into the upper stratospheres! Kinky tastes abound, not to mention sudden shifts in mood. Freedom beckons, with Venus in Gemini this is smooth sailing all the way.

April 27
MERCURY ENTERS TAURUS @ 3:16 am. Enabling much more down to earth practical dreams and thinking. Your mind needs a break, wants to simply veg. Smell the roses, sweet dreams.
MOON OPOSITE MARS @ 2:12 pm Virgo Moon feels intellectually defensive against Mars Spiritual warrior stance. Can also lasso renegade martyrdom with clear-headed deliberation or drive it to tears with nit-pickyness.
MOON OPPOSES URANUS @ 4:18 pm EDT sudden emotional quakes stir spiritual call to the wilds whilst emotions stay grounded in Virgoan logic, kinda like Mr. Spock viewing humans on Star Trek.
MOON SQUARES VENUS @ 6:02 pm you have to pick the perfect restaurant with the perfect food wearing the spotlessly perfect dress, and be totally punctual or Venus will just get up and leave mid-meal, fed up with all the chatter about how things should be.
MOON SQUARES JUPITER @ 7:31pm EDT and ties the gadabout Sagittarian ruler down demanding rational explanations instead of inspired perspiration.

April 28 STRESSFULL
Mercury semi-squares Uranus today, after semi-squaring Mars late yesterday which I didn’t mention but since it’s a one two punch it packs more irritating, irritable chin power.

VENUS OPPOSITE JUPITER @ 8:43 am EDT
Wonder Woman socks it to Mr. Big! Venus in Gemini values maybe bi-do you love me? Who needs you anyway. But demands the most. Then

MOON SQUARES PLUTO @ 3:14 pm EDT irritable or what? The big deep secrets come out, tears flow, It’s O.K. to let the dams burst, it’s cleansing.

MARS-URANUS CONJUNCTION @ 17 Pisces exact at 9:37 PM PDT. This is the spiritual warrior and a mad scientist getting together in the old secret Perfessor’s Lab. Brilliant ideas may ensue rocketing us out of old think.

This is a very busy non-stop drag 'em out day. A big bunch of squares conjunction, oppositions for one day. They all make aspects to each other heightening the impact. See chart below.

MOON ENTERS LIBRA FOR A LITTLE BALANCE- WE NEED IT BAD!
At 5:45 pm EDT we need that balance. Libra Moon promotes harmony, peace, co-operation, especially with that crazy Mars Uranus, Mercury stuff still echoing, If you like strange weird, kinky you’re in your element now. Take your choice, a little refinement or?

April 29th
The Mars-Uranus quirky energy hits those on the Eastern part of the country 12:37 am, better midnight madness? It may be easier to ride with the Moon in Libra simmering down the tone. Moon makes 2 quincunx’s today,1. to Mercury @ 1:55am, you may be suddenly awakened. 2. to the Sun @ 11:58 am irritable. Then Mars, not to be outdone, quincunx’s Saturn @ 9:09 pm PDT will have you worried and sweating over your tax return. The old guard and the spiritual revolution don’t get along too well. Whew, this has been quite a week! If you can harness the divergent energies of Mars in Pisces, which gives off a lot of stem power, fire in water, get it, with Saturn in Leo’s incredible will, daring-do, courage and I’m numero uno attitude, along with Mercury in Taurus’s practical tools to just do it along with all the other amazing energies we’ve all been shell shocked with this week u just might be able to apply your latest most brilliant thoughts in a unique relevant way to help revolutionize everyone daily lives.

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Moon trines Neptune at 11:42 PM making for a romantically inspired Soul MATE in the flesh kinda evening. Poets and songwriters take note, this is the moment for bringing celestial musical inspirations and dreams into real notes on paper.

April 21
Mercury in Aries trines Saturn at 3:09 am EDT
Very logical aspect for straight talk and walking that talk into reality. Put your money where your mouth is.
Moon opposite Pluto at 11:52 am
This one is always difficult. Did you know that Pluto rotates in the opposite direction to most of the other planets. This is a time of emotional upheavals and often co-incides with disasters. But there is a blessing as well as,
Mercury Jupiter Saturn Trine unfold throughout this day
A GRAND FIRE TRINE
Mercury in Aries Trines Saturn in Leo Trines Jupiter in Sag.
This one is good for that proverbial cosmic kick in the butt. This enlivens and animates spirits, everyone feels good, talks fast, is big hearted, generous, adventurous, optimistic,pPursues their own sense of truth, and acts like kings, gives from their hearts, pursues higher aims and goals. Communications should be heady.
The down side is, too truthful?- watch that infamous hoof in mouth disease of Sagittarius, don’t sit too high on your horse.

MOON ENTERS HOME SIGN of Cancer 1:50 PM EDT
Emotional tone softens, breathe a sigh, feed yourself well, nourish others, go see your Mom, recuperate, bake an apple pie, take a bath or go for a swim, feel homey, feelings will be very sensitive, tender, security conscious. As for that Fiery trine in effect today, be aware of Cancerian ultra-sensitive side or else the armour will not come down. Appeal to nurture the truth {Jupiter in Sag.} from your heart {Saturn in Leo} and just do it Mercury in Aries.

As Sun’s Taurean beams lead us to Earth Day tomorrow, definitely contribute to greening the environment, if it’s warm enough plant some seeds and flowers, definitely get your hands into the earth. With all the talk about ecology, global warming, this is the time to do something about it. Write letters to the government urging your support, Jupiter in Sagittarius is expanding our knowledge about power, education, truth, our interdependence with each other on the planet-ie: China; expanding laws.

April 22 EARTH DAY
This Green Day. Honour the Earth Our Mother! How appropriate that Moon is in Cancer {Mom} and the Sun is in Taurus the 1st Earth Sign.
Moon Trines Mars in Pisces : so be compassionate as a spiritual warrior for the Earth, defend her, protect her, bless her, definitely hug trees today.
Moon trines Uranus at 8:14 pm Expect happy unexpected gifts from spirit.
Mercury sextiles Neptune at 9:12 PDT
Putting our talk and our dreams into one.
Venus squares Mars, Gemini to Pisces at 10:30 PM PDT
This is hot, difficult, Venus wants an easy way out, and Mars will do anything to keep her around. Ambiguous values rub the wrong way into old secrets and insecurities. Too much idle chatter dissipates the desire to let compassion flow.

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Astro Updates Week of April 9-15th

onday the 9th: Nice trine Sun to Jupiter @ 19 degrees of Aries to Sagittarius 8:07 pm EDT Energy amps up!

Tues the 10th: lots of aspects
Mercury squares Pluto @ 3:25 am EDT makes things very tense, x-ray mental probabilities. Be careful of being overly critical, power tripping, controlling and attacking yourself or others.
Capricorn Moon squares the Sun at 2:04 pm, Arian fieriness gets called onto the carpet. This square is a turning point in the Lunation cycle testing the impulses of the previous New Moon to see how solid it is. The seeds of a dream planted 3 weeks ago have now matured.

see www.seedcollective.org to test this out.

Saturn quincunx's the Moon makes us irritable, we need to test our emotional habituations.

MERCURY ENTERS ARIES at 7: 07 PM
A whole new cycle of thinking and communications begins-Very Springy! Thought and tongues are aflame! Be careful not to burn up the carpet with dragon's breathing. Set new sites and goals, be a warrior with a purpose to enhance life!

Wed. April 11:
Venus & Pluto rub each other the wrong way at 12: 32 am EDT in a quincunx of an embrace! Or maybe it's the right way if you’re like that kind of thing! Matters of trust, vengeance, wealth, secrets, control, deeper soul expressions may explode to the surface. The perfect op. to do some in-depth work on your relationships, with your own Soul, Soul mate, or that person that just rubs you the wrong way.
Things do lighten up after the dragging the past out into the light if you work it through.
At 5:57 are Moon trines Venus in Taurus. This Earthy Earthy sensual aspect says: Take a bath in chocolate, or roses, cook a great meal, do some yoga, take an early am. walk, give each other massages put your money where your mouth is. After all that soul gut wrenching about values, you deserve it!
MOON enters AQUARIUS

The Moon lightens up the energy as she enters group minded Aquarius, at 7: 23 am EDT. to take our feeling-tones to a more objective airier place. Moon in Aquarius supports heightened emotional planes. Sun sextiles Neptune 21+ Aries/Aquarius at 3:33 pm also expands the heights, making lofty spiritual pursuits easier to attain. New creative visions are easy now.

VENUS enters GEMINI
at 10:15 pm. and wants to talk and talk and play, and flit and flirt, have fun, gadabout and get ambiguous. All financial and relationships issues are of the LITE variety till May 8th. Expect many shifts in relationship values for this time period, as people are more flexible.

The 12th:
Moon in Aquarius opposes Stern Saturn at 3:31 pm. Be careful to protect and nurture all your wishes hopes and dreams and instincts so that they don't crash and burn under Saturn's watchful eye.
Moon turns about and sextiles Jupiter which should put the oomph back into your Ship of Dreams at 6:06 Pm though, Wear a pirate patch over your right eye. Clear sailing ahead mateys!
Moon does a lovely dance conjuncting with Neptune at 9:18 pm this is perfect for meditation, feeling through which dreams to support, chilling out, creating.
Moon then waltzes with the Sun in a sprightly sextile at 11:29 Pm EDT bringing intuition and will power together cheek to cheek. Create a dream Mandala.

It's Friday the 13th! "I ain't superstitious, when a black cat crossed my path"
-was an old song Rod Stewart sang when he was the lead singer of the Jeff Beck group. It was a great song with wah wah guitar, and I still have the album and saw them play it at the Electric Circus when City TV was in its infancy. But that's another whole chapter of the book. The origins of the superstitions about Friday the 13th have to do with the Church's repression of the Goddess, whose sacred number was 13, for her 13 Lunation’s a year. In order to suppress the ancient Goddess worshipping pagans the church made 13 "bad luck". Also it was the number of people at the Last Supper. And the #13 is associated with the Death card in the Tarot. For a more in-depth info about the origins of Friday 13th see-

http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm

SO what are the planets doing on this day?

MOON ENTERS PISCES at 11:38 am so this should make it peacefull, sensitive, flowing, watery, emotional, inspired, chameleon like, slippery, ephemeral, good day for endings-as the # 13 card in the Tarot is Death, spiritually infused, psychic, illusory, escapist, watch the alcohol consumption, and prone to fears. This is the last sign, before Moon enters Aries and catches up to the Sun. Finish up your taxes or any old unfinished business over the next couple of days.
Moon In Pisces squares Venus at 2:59 PM women's sensitive feelings and values can feel split by Venus's square punch in that divergent sign of Gemini. Maybe better to walk than indulge in self-pity.

Moon conjunct Mars at 5 degrees+ of Pisces at 9:32 pm. Need I say more? Great night to actively meditate, seek higher visions, connect your emotions to your activities. Mars isn't happy in Pisces, but it is his testing ground.
Saturday the 14th:

Moon conjuncts Uranus-woops! At 3:34 pm putting a few unexpected turns of events on the plate. Stay loose with that Piscean Moon and Mars combo. Dust off your magic carpet; it'll make the sailing smoother.
Moon quincunx's Saturn at 5:43 Pm EDT, the carpet doesn't get off the ground at this point. And lastly for today Moon trines Jupiter at 8:07 pm so a jolly wild night of exuberance, overindulgence, falling in love with foreign exotic strangers, blowing the budget, casino hopping and crying in your drinks after. Don't say I didn't warn you!

Sunday the 15th

Moon squares Pluto at 11:02 am. Go to church this Sunday and confess, you'll feel much better and use this energy for what it's intended to do. Scour the conscience with Super Galactic Scouring Pads.
Nary minutes after you leave the pulpit
Moon enters ARIES! at 12:46 pm and you'll be skipping down the road, ready to take on any adventure or anyone who stands in your way. Shift happens!

Happy Passover! It's The Full Moon of April, Monday the 2nd at 1:15 Pm EDT in Libra, sign of Peace, Harmony, Balance, Relationships, Beauty, Venus ruled.May Venus shine her Beauty upon you.

Astrology Updates Week of April 2-8th

HIGHLIGHTS-Very Busy week
Full Moon April 2-Passover!
Moon enters Scorpio on the 4th 12:35 am EDT,the 3rd PDT
Jupiter goes Retro the 5th,
Mars enters Pisces on Good Friday, Happy Easter!
lots of Lunar aspects, Moon conjunct Pluto Easter Sunday Night,
Moon enters Capricorn on the 8th.

Full Moon in Libra Monday April 2nd @ 1:15 pm EDT

Ah, the Libra Full Moon illuminates the Fullness; the reflecting Moon/Mirror brings us peace, harmony, balance. It’s relationship oriented-Libra is the 7th Sign and house naturally in the Zodiac, it’s all about “others” and especially committed relationships, but also business.

Venus ruler of this completion cycle of the Moon’s phase, soothes our ragged souls, talk of love, beauty, poetry, the arts, refinement, justice. All beauty enhancements flourish under this Full Moon-treat yourself to some new make-up, a new hairstyle, a spa treatment, adore beautiful art, flowers, read poetry, buy new perfume or essential oils. You get the picture.

It’s Passover on this Moon, an ancient religious ritual for gathering of family to remember the Jewish peoples struggles as slaves, their receiving of the Ten Commandments and Moses leading his people out of bondage into freedom. The feast and ritual observation lasts 2 days but Passover observation lasts 8 days with the eating of matzo, and specially prepared foods for this holiday. Happy Passover. The 6 pointed star which the Jewish people use as their symbol is an ancient symbol of the Balance of Heaven and Earth, The Masculine and ther Feminine in a Tantric embrace of Union. Passover should be a symbolic time of freedom from bondage for all peoples, all races. The 6 pointed Star, the number 6 being at the centre of the Tree of Life, Tifferet, is a personal centering anchor, the Sacred Marriage of Oneself and to the Great Mystery.

Tues 3rd

Boy the Moon sure is busy today. Making some alternate quirky quincunx’s-I love that word-an it doesn’t fit right elementally aspect, alternating with sextiles-a nice easy aspect, make love on the bathroom floor? So just follow the bouncing emotional ball throughout the day until 10:30 pm EDT when Moon goes V.O.C., which is an emotional “time-out.” You’ll need to catch your heart’s breath as…

April 4th

Moon descends into deep darkest heart of Scorpio at 12:35 am EDT. Well you know what this means. Sex, rebirth, intense passion, power trips, control, kinky sex, domination, secrets,

Money. It’s the monthly visit to Hades’ realm, and we’ve got to pay our dues. Remember Persephone? It’s always intense when Moon is in Scorpio, use it to let emotions come up, cry, scream, tear your hair out, let your power out, clean your emotional closets out, and align yourself with Persephone and drink pomegranate juice. I predict a spike in rousing arguments during the next 2.5 days.

Mars sextiles Pluto this day at 8:22 pm so watch out for really aggressive people. Mars and Pluto both rule Scorpio so this aspect makes it easier than usual to go go go and vent vent vent.

The 5th

Again the pattern on this day with the Moon is quincunx, trine, squares to- in this order, the Sun, trine Uranus, square Saturn, square Neptune. It’s irritable, easy to want emotional freedom, but the hard-core reality breaks through and you want to run away to Fiji, or go on a retreat.

Jupiter Goes Retrograde at 9:22 pm. !!!!

Jupiter puts his horse in rear gear and will back us up through the Saggy territory he’s been galloping through. Planets are strongest when turning direction. Jupiter will Retrograde back from 19 degrees until TURNING DIRECT ON AUG. 6th at 9 degrees 56 minutes of Sag. Which is right on the important Fixed Star Antares.

Antares’ name means, “rival of Mars.” It’s a huge red giant star. It is in the Constellation of Scorpio. It is considered to be one of the 4 Royal Stars in the Heavens. The 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse are linked to these 4 stars and Cosmic Elements they represent. Antares represents the Archangel Ariel or Uriel of the West. The Babylonian name Uriel, and the ancient city of Ur, which was the ancient name for the earth Urs, is where Abraham, founder of the Jewish religion was born, and that is not too far from modern day Baghdad. What goes around comes around. Remember we’re dealing with the symbology of the Star at the Heart of the Scorpion, and we all know about the Scorpion’s infamous sting.

Jupiter, King of the Gods, bonhomie, director of The Wheel of Fortune in the Tarot, hurler of thunderbolts, lecherous husband, and good old boy, turning direct on this Archangel star which rules War, and the starting dates of Wars and huge conflicts, usually classifieds as total destruction and crushing defeat of one side over the other can mean-you know what.
This is also the Anniversary of the Hiroshima Atomic bombing.

Perhaps Jupiter strong in his home sign of Sag. will bestow, good judgment, Sacred Law over man made law, good will, higher learning, justice, and broad minded philosophies to this really war mongering cosmic degree.War is not the only outlet for Antares’ energies. Great stores of energy, optimism for grand adventures, the pursuit of a very lofty goal, sports achievements, explorations, diplomacy of the most hazardous kind or scientific research at the very extremes of human knowledge and ability are all benefited by Jupiter’s’ largesse here.

So Jupiter Retro.’s mambo for 4 months asks us to re-examine our loftiest goals, aims and spiritual desires. Are we shooting our arrows to the highest peaks,shooting our mouths off or shooting ourselves in the foot? Are we following our truth and Understanding the dictates of the Spirit? Are we a tad too judgmental? Are we too breezy easy and optimistic?

Are we truly listening to spirit? Are we growing, expanding, taking risks? What do we gamble with too much? Where do we need to reign in our

Corner of Victoria and Shuter, across from Massey Hall

Please come witness and participate

Ceremony led by Tara Greene

hostess: Elizabeth Dipchand

MARS/VENUS CONJUNCTION April 21 @ 7:19 pm EDT/4:19 pm PDT/11:19 pm GMT