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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    As I noted in my other post on Lindsay Lohan, "Taking Responsibility with the Cappy Solar Eclipse," the New Moon Solar Eclipse on Jan. 4 (which began this current lunation cycle) was conjunct her natal Sun in Capricorn.  The eclipse also coincided with Lohan's release from rehab.  A solar eclipse on someone's sun rings as a major wake-up call, and I remember wondering if that little eclipse push would be what she needed to start getting her life back in Capricornian order.  (View Lindsay'...
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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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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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