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MOON MAGICK tidbit: This is a great time to manifest expanded knowledge or insights, to pierce the veil in a manner that is safe for the initiate.

🌑 New Moon = Sun/Moon 4 deg Virg

The 4th degree is heavily emphasized with this New Moon, so take note if you have any planets, angles, or your nodal axis at the 4th degree of any sign.

New Moon 4 Virgo Trine Pholus 4 deg Capricorn

PHOLUS is a centaur-classified planetary object like Chiron. Pholus represents something akin to the opening of Pand...

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Jupiter and Neptune form a conjunction to each other every thirteen years. The last time they were conjunct was in 2009, in the sign of Aquarius. This time, they will be forming their conjunction at 23°59’ Pisces, the sign they both rule. That makes this a particularly strong conjunction for them. The last time the two planets met up in the sign of Pisces was 1856. 

Although a new planetary cycle is always significant in any sign, when planets are in the sign they rule, they have greater s...

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In this blog entry I'll give an overview of how and why the 12th House often creates a difficult experience for those with personal planets there. I'll also give specific insights into how each of the personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars) operate in the 12th House. 

The twelfth house is certainly an interesting place for a planet, especially a personal planet, to fall in a natal birth chart. The 12th House is sort of like the doorway between the world of spirit (the Great Beyon...
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The following is from my monthly horoscope column in One4All Magazine, Knoxville, TN's only LGBT Mag. My horoscope columns are based in *magic* and *synchronicity*! Every month when I'm writing my column, I put out a prayer that each person who encounters their horoscope in this column will find it meaningful, helpful, and/or insightful in some way. These are my horoscopes for January 2013, and you can read them as basic affirmations for the year. :) I feel this will be a year for great bless...
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                I have long had a fascination with Emily Dickinson, partly because of our shared birthday. Emily was born December 10, 1830 and I was born December 10th exactly 150 years later. From a young age I also enjoyed writing poetry and I encountered Dickinson's poetry for the first time when I was in middle school--it was the poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" in a children's book illustrated with frogs. :) I can't remember when it was I realized she and I shared a birthday,...

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I was recently inspired by Michelle at Astrofix.com's blog post wherein she explored the meaning of her south and north node placements as well as their sign rulers. One of the greatest tools an astrologer has is their own chart, but oftentimes it is the hardest to decipher! It's like looking at a painting when you're an inch away from the canvas. It helps to step back a bit, depersonalize a little (hard to do when you're looking at your personal chart!) and all...

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I left home when I was seventeen
I just grew tired of falling down
And I'm sure I was told 
The allure of the road
Would be all I found

And all the answers that I started with
Turned out questions in the end
So years roll on by 
And just like the sky 
The road never ends

(Chorus:)
And the people who love me still ask me
When are you coming back to town
And I answer quite frankly 
When they stop building roads
And all God needs is gravity to hold me down

(Chorus:) 
And the people who love me still ask me
When a...

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"Let's go slow, I ain't got nowhere to go...
I'll make you love to you, like you want me to."


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Then you say go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds   

     I urge you not to expect much from this entry, were you to expect anything at all. I really just want to ruminate on the fact that my progressed Venus will enter Capricorn next year. I look forward to this transit in the same way I looked forward to my Saturn Return, which I realize is not the usual way to feel about Saturn Returns, but I'm a pretty Saturnine lady and I was so ready to be responsible for myself and my life. My...
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 "[Vesta] is an elemental force that must be tended, within and without, and tending that flame becomes one of the closest things to an organic religion in existence." --Eric Francis

     When our Vesta nature is bruised from love (which may happen when she is activated by synastry contacts with a lover or potential lover or by transits or progressions) we can find ourselves turning away from romantic love toward some inner devotion to real spiritual love. Vesta makes us learn about how to l...
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When we want to feel aligned with the Divine, the easiet way to achieve that from an astrological standpoint would be to concentrate on expressing your divinity through the energies of your Sun sign. Aspects and house positions of the Sun are also important, but you might want to concentrate first on the sign that your Sun is in. What is the divine Capricorn? Or the divine Libra?  What does it feel like to truly express the warmth and heart-centered intensity of the Sun in your sign? Training...
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    Some astrologers don't consider minor aspects, but the energy of Venus today is very much wrapped up with them. The planet is making a sesquiquadrate (or 135 degree) aspect to both Saturn and Pluto, which are meanwhile in square to each other. This forms an aspect pattern that looks pretty similar to a Yod or "Finger of God," in which two planets in sextile both form quincunx aspects to a third planet. In a Yod, astrologer Eric Meyers writes, "the two planets in sextile are in harmonious ...
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        Although it didn't seem it at the time, in retrospect a dreamy, romantic fog hangs over my memories of the 1990's. It was a time of the emergence of cyber-space, of the rise of "alternative" music, and a fascination with teen culture a'la MTV's The Real World, the teenage drama My So-Called Life, and Saturday morning's relentless showings and re-showings of the high-school sitcom favorite Saved By the Bell. It also saw a resurgence of mournful, emotive, romantic (in the sense of John ...
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    When I was growing up I would spend hours with books and music in my bedroom, alone with my thoughts and my feelings. These days it seems we live not for ourselves but for our Facebook or Twitter newsfeeds. I find it difficult to feel authentic in this Jupiterian Magic Kingdom of social media technology. Neptune underlies any kind of magical interaction, but sometimes I want my magic for myself.


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    One of the great things about paying attention to moon cycles is that it allows you to connect with your own cyclical changes. I remember that at the last full moon I was experiencing a lot of strong emotions about my family (especially my sister and niece). At this full moon I'm missing them both very much and looking forward to spending Easter weekend with them.


The Tarot Garden, "Justice"

    At the last new moon, I planted jonquil bulbs and re-potted a lilac bush, and so it's interestin...
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    Walking up to my house this morning after having been at a series of spiritual workshops, I noticed two mockingbirds playfully flying at each other in the parking lot next to my house. They would fly up, bump chests, then flutter back down. When I stopped to watch them, they noticed me and one took off flying with the other chasing after it, then one circled around to my car, settled on top of it, and looked directly at me. I gave it a cheery, "Hello birdie!" and s/he flitted off again, e...
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    This morning I woke up earlier than usual for a lazy weekend day, planted some jonquil bulbs, re-potted a lilac bush I purchased last night, watered these and the other plants, and cleaned up the debris and mess than the landlord's maintenance workers have left around the house lately, and cleaned my computer. Other plans for the day include riding my bike back from downtown (where I left it Friday night after attending Knoxville's "First Friday" art gallery event), taking the recycling, ...
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    I remember so many times as a child in school having the teacher chastise our class, saying, "You guys always want to make things harder than they have to be!" This is sort of the impetus of Mars in Capricorn. The planet Mars is our drive, our ambition, our body, how we assert ourselves, how we pursue our dreams and talents, our manner of expressing passion. Capricorn is self-reliant, slow-moving, interested in long-term stability, interested in conservation, old-fashioned, ambitious, and...
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    I spotted the infamous recent "Supermoon" last Saturday night while riding home in my sister's car with my niece asleep in the backseat. My sister had been visiting me from out-of-state for the past four days... this was to have been the night she left, but her misplaced phone charger was keeping her around a little longer. She couldn't find her car-charger after she had packed up and was ready to pull out, and with a 2 year old along she didn't want to be making a 4-hour drive at night w...
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    Every so often I just know, without checking my transits, that I'm having a transit to my natal Chiron. Today was one of those days. I logged on to Facebook and I swear three posts in a row had to do either explicitly or not with weight/obesity. Last night someone I'm connected with through Facebook for purely political reasons posted the random comment, "On the plus side, fat people." I have no idea what that's even supposed to mean, though perhaps a pun on the word "plus" often associat...
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There's some great writing out right now about Uranus in Aries. Here are some personal favorite highlights with synopses and quotes! Enjoy and awaken. :)

This is Part TWO, if you want to read Part ONE, it's right over HERE.
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Lara Owen, The Uranus Pluto Square 2011-2016

I always love astrological writing that takes into account the ongoing cycles the outer planets have with each other. In this one, Lara touches on ...
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    Well if there's anything Uranus has taught us best over the last few days, its that predictive astrology (especially when it comes to Uranus!) is very limited. The earthquake in Japan with its correlating tsunamis and nuclear crisis took the whole world by surprise. I felt like saying, "Well I'm not surprised that Uranus was...surprising."

    So it's impossible to say really how this nuclear crisis will play out. We really just have to empty ourselves of any feeling that we can control t...
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    I've just recently started doing Sun-sign horoscopes. The premise here is that the 0 degree of the sign in which your sun is in (Sagittarius for me) begins the first house of the Sun-sign horoscope chart and each sign gets a whole house. This means that when slow-moving planets like Uranus change signs, they're also CHANGING HOUSES! If you set your natal chart to whole-houses, the same will be true. So for Sag suns and Sag ascendant folks out there, we've just had Uranus enter our 5th Hou...
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There's some great writing out right now about Uranus in Aries. Here are some personal favorite highlights with synopses and quotes! Enjoy and awaken. :)

This is Part ONE. If you'd like to read Part TWO, it's right over HERE.

Kathy Biehl, It’s Heeeeeeeere! Uranus at 0 Aries.

Along with a succinct explanation of the significance of this transit worldwide, Kathy gives you a Sun-sign horoscope for the Uranus Ingress. Sagittarians like myself, prepare for some unexpected fun and romance! I'm al...
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    I was talking to a friend of mine earlier about the recent crisis in Japan and she was saying that it must be especially difficult for Japan to recover from this partly because they're still recovering from the collective psychological wound of the atom bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which in the big scheme of things did not happen so long ago. And psychological woundedness is a strong influence on the very nature of Japan, as can be seen by Pluto's prominence there on the ascendan...
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    A few weeks ago I had a client come to me for a reading who was buzzing with Uranian energy. Her natal Sun in Aries was getting a charge from Uranus, the "Great Awakener," which had entered her sign in 2010 and is now about to re-enter. She had made major life changes, willingly, brazenly. She was drunk with Uranus! Not everyone feels quite as comfortable with the electric energy that Uranus brings, but she was willing to be at a place in her life where she could say, "Hell, I don't know ...
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    I was driving home from work tonight admiring the peaceful landscape of the rural outskirts of Knoxville and I decided to use that moment to make a prayer for someone who called me recently looking for assistance--this person was having trouble (like so many of us) moving on from a life situation that was no longer good for him. So I said, "please help this young man move forward in his journey," and as I said those words "move forward," I suddenly backtracked. What if he needs at some po...
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    Yesterday I opened up a fortune cookie to find the message, “The key to failure is tr...

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EDIT: Since writing this post I've re-thought my interpretation of this horary chart. I'm leaving this post up, but please read my (hopefully) better and (definitely) more thorough interpretation of this horary chart HERE.

    Political unrest is a constant, but a revolution is not, and we've been seeing a lot of the latter lately. I've been involved in social and economic justice activism for some time now, so I empathize with the Egyptian movement to oust dictator Mubarak in favor of a more...
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It can be frustrating for the person learning astrology to understand how the individual parts of their birth chart work together to make one unified whole.  One way to put it all together is to create sentences for how plan...

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    One afternoon at the age of 11, I awoke from unconsciousness in the backseat of my mother's wrecked car.  I remember the waking up itself feeling like being hit with a baseball bat, like being jarred awake.  My glasses had been knocked from my face and so the contents of the car were just a blur of their real selves.  I could hear my sister in the front passenger seat moaning (she had broken ribs) and could vaguely make out the form of my mother in the driver's seat, her still hand presse...
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Welcome Back!   

    As we discussed in Part 1 of this series on Solar Returns, interpreting your Solar Return chart is a good way to prepare for the year following each of your birthdays.  The point is not to be fearful or complacent about the year to come, but to prepare for and take advantage of the energy that will be availabl...
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     Julian Assange and Wikileaks have been all over the news lately due to the massive leaks of U.S. Intelligence information by his organization as well as his court case involving his alleged rape of two women.  Although Assange has been diligently hacking since the 90's, why is it now (astrologically speaking) that he c...
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    I prefer to think of the Solar Return Chart in the same way I do the Natal Chart, which is that it does not determine outcomes or destinies in an inflexible way, but instead serves to highlight the ENERGIES available to you in the form of opportunities and/or frustrations that we can choose to take advantage of and navigate t...
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Understanding Lunation Cycles

    The New Moon marks the beginning of each lunation cycle.  It is the moment when the moon lines up with the sun in the same degree of the same sign of the zodia).  From the perspective of Earth, the moon is not visible at the "new moon" phase because it cannot reflect the sun's light in our direction.  Though seemingly cloaked in darkness, the moon does still receive and reflect the sun's light back towards the sun--an exchange of energy that vitalizes and ener...
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What is a Full Moon?

If you think of the Sun and the Moon as the minute and the second-hand on the zodiac chart, like hands on a clock, then the Full Moon is the moment when the tips of the second and minute hands (the Moon and Sun) are at their most opposite points in the sky.  This happens about every 29 days, roughly once per month.

Full Harvest Moon September 22, 2009

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