Ripped from the Headlines: Saturn opposed Neptune
The Saturn/Neptune opposition was exact yesterday, and here are a few items I gleaned from a quick review of internet headlines: “This Movie is Not Yet Rated” – a film about the MPAA movie (Neptune) ratings board of “moral experts” (Saturn); protection for children, or cencorship? (May require viewing of …
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Random Notes
Venus conjoined Saturn over the weekend; did difficult things seem sweeter? Or sweeter things more difficult? Here’s a really heartbreaking story I just read on Salon; apparently a newlywed couple were on the Comair flight that crashed Sunday in Lexington, KY. They were married on Saturday afternoon; the Venus/Saturn conjunction …
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Thursday Thirteen Vol. 4
Thirteen Days to Mark on Your Calendar August 22: Sun enters Virgo. The unbridled (except by Saturn) enthusiasm of the Sun in Leo gives way to Virgo’s “wait a minute…” caution, fact checking, and editing. August 23: New Moon at 0 Virgo. The first of two successive New Moons in …
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Venus in Leo? Can’t complain.
Venus entered Leo on Saturday – opposing my natal Jupiter and trine my Ascendant – and immediately got to work making my life more pleasant. My neighbor presented me with a completely unnecessary and utterly breathtaking bouquet of flowers – a thank you gift for spending time with his parrot last week while he was out of town. Hey, my pleasure! Two of my best friends extended last week’s Aprilpalooza by taking me out on Sunday for a belated birthday lunch. Gracias, amigos! …
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New Moon in Leo: The Woman in the Mirror
I look in the mirror, and I don’t see a young, beautiful girl, a blank slate with her whole life ahead of her. Instead, at long, long last, I see someone I recognize.
Read MoreThe heat, my God, the heat!
It’s just been… so hot. So very, very, horribly, witheringly hot. We spent the weekend in Long Beach (merely uncomfortable) and South Pasadena (life-threateningly, Godawfully hot) and came home last night to a stifling house (despite every window being open and every fan running) and two annoyed cats. This is …
Read MoreA new home
A couple of weeks ago, transiting Uranus turned retrograde right smack on my 4th house cusp (and coincidentally, still square my Moon). To say I’ve been feeling like moving would be an understatement. But we like San Diego. This weird place where we ended up by accident 13 years ago …
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Ewww: a Mars/Saturn story.
As a married couple with thirteen years of trandem entertaining under our belts, Jonny and I are fairly unflappable hosts. Spilled wine, broken dishes; inebriated or emotionally distraught guests, guests suffering from heat exhaustion or from canopies falling over on their heads; too much food, too little food, food allergies… …
Read MoreVenus throws a hissy fit.
This afternoon, Venus in feisty Aries gave a nasty little 90-degree square, “I’m the boss of you!” hip-check to Mars in Cancer. You know, just because it could, exactly like some bratty little girl bullying a shy boy on the playground. People were feeling a bit out of sorts, I …
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Last degree wonkiness
Was it just me, or did the past couple of days seem sort of Mercury retrograde-ish? A series of technical difficulties too exhausting to recount here in detail (problems with my recording software, my printer in nervous collapse, errant report binding machine, etc., etc.) had me scurrying to my trusty …
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