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Photo of the Week: Leap (of Faith) Year

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:32:38 +0000

Leaping and earthing -- with her barefeet, this lithe maiden is featured in the photo of the week. 2012 is a leap year, since it's divisible by four. The 29th of February, one week away, is being called a day out of time, and I'm hearing some buzz about experiments in mind melding for a leap of evolution.

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Neptune's Rushing Waters, Integrating the "Ordinarily Sacred"

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:27:55 +0000

It's the Dark of the Moon, a purgative window here that Mystic Medusa calls a Cosmic Colonic. If you stay with it, it's looking to be a New Moon for taking the waters, being cleansed, though sometimes the waves feel like crashing ones these days. My sister, a special education teacher, reports her students are off-the-charts stirred up and acting out. I sent her the Hopi Prophecy for this time, a favorite:

There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.

Pisces is the sign of soul resolution and release, and now Neptune surfs the waves of Pisces, too. Neptune's realm is the oceanic, all times and all lives merged in an impressionistic collage. It's a fluid time, to see with a mystic or shaman's eyes and this quote that came to me by way of M. Kelley Hunter this morning, "The world is as we dream it." In the dissolving of so much, we make space for a new dream!

In a recent chat with Yogastrology's...

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Great Shiva Night & Dancing with Chaos

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:36:46 +0000

Shiva is known in some traditions as the Lord of the Dance, who dissolves to create anew, moving with the cyclical rhythms of the universe. This vibrant pan-Hindu deity in motion, within a wheel of ages, is a powerful image for the Pisces New Moon this Tuesday (21st) and 22nd for Australians.

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Miraculous New Moon Ahead

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:41:28 +0000

The waning (diminishing) Moon is time to sift and divest of what's cluttering your physical space, mind or soul. This morning, I noted my man was taking old receipts out of his wallet. And in going through my boxes of books, wanting to lighten the load, I found a longtime favorite, Demetra George's Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess.

Here's a primo quote I found through bibliomancy (random book-looking): "The secret teaching of the dark moon is to let go, retreat, surrender, cleanse, heal, distill wisdom essence, mutate, aspire, and wait in the still silence for renewal."

I'm in danger of going overboard with superlatives about this Pisces New Moon (February 21/22), as I am under Neptune's enchantments lately. So I simply offer you these updated notes on the Pisces New Moon. And the companion article, on Themes for Pisces New Moon.

I believe it can be one of miraculous healing and seeing stuck "issues" resolve unexpectedly. I'll personally be welcoming the miracle of masks thawing out and the unraveling of surrender that works where effort fails. It's a New Moon for letting go of the temporal in favor of the eternal, to see beyond the masks we wear, to the shining soul behind it.

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Neptune Pisces through the Houses

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:28:50 +0000

Astrologer Marguerite Manning sees Neptune as the soul's reminder of yesterday, including past lives, and what we chose to overcome in this life.

In a recent conversation, she said of the meaning of life, "I think it's about living an honorable human life, and that's one that the body has worked for, but the soul can be proud of...And I think down here on planet earth that's a little difficult because we're spiritual beings having a mental experience in a physical world. And that's why we need Mars to push that Sun to stardom and Neptune out there reminding us of the initial game plan."

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Whitney Houston and the Neptune Shadow

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:50:56 +0000

I remember Whitney Houston from before she was famous. I was a tween and she was just a few years older, and the first model of color in Seventeen magazine. Radiant, pure joy, bright eyed, stunningly beautiful -- these naturally go with the fiery combo of Sun Leo and Moon Aries, with planets Venus and Jupiter in aspects that further magnetize her special something and artistic gifts.

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Downton Valentine's Cards

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:07:03 +0000

After seeing the Downton Abbey Valetine's Day Cards by artist Chad Thomas, I've got an idea. It's a heartsick Lady Mary waiting at the train station for Cousin Matthew, holding this vintage card, with the inscription, "I Accept You."

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V-Day as Thanksgiving Day for Lovers

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:35:19 +0000

I love holidays and for me, Valentine's Day is a purely fun celebration of love. It's a day to remember that spark and love for life that we share with friends, family, and our beloved.

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Love Surge with Venus-Uranus

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:58:30 +0000

It's a rocketing lead-in to Valentine's day, for love bursts and surprises! Venus is now in Aries, for surges of affection, and on edge spontaneity. And lover Venus is hit by triggering Uranus at one degree Aries -- the igniting moment is exact Thursday, February 9th at 9:29 pm est. This is a big energy day to act on what you love, especially what has the momentum of a fresh start.

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Heart Sees Us Through: Leo Full Moon

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:41:06 +0000

"As the world appears to be spiralling into increasing chaos, it's important to remember the place of stillness in the heart. This is what will get us through." From The Emergence Project

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