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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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        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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    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 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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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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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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