A new Bishop of Rome, the 266th, an Argentinian, Pope Francis 1st was announced 13th March 2013.He inherits tidal waves of problems, internal power struggles, sex abuse scandals and failing congregations following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI&n…
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Sun in Pisces – The Oceans of Infinity & The Sea of Souls
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| A new Bishop of Rome, the 266th, an Argentinian, Pope Francis 1st was announced 13th March 2013. He inherits tidal waves of problems, internal power struggles, sex abuse scandals and failing congregations following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI Mercury in Pisces Shadowlands Smoke Signals |
Pisces symbol is two fish representing the bridge between heaven and earth providing connections between the spiritual and material world, the divine experience brought into our everyday life. The fish was also an early symbol of Christian faith when members were persecuted. Christians having to meet in secret would draw a single arc in the sand another Christian would complete the drawing with a second arc forming a fish. The slippery nature and ambiguity of Pisces coming in very useful as code.
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| Early Christian symbol in catacombs, Rome. |
On the 18th February, 2013 the Sun traveller moved country, as it does every month, this time it takes a swim, diving dazzlingly into the dark depths of the Pisces Ocean.
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Surfing visionary legend Laird Hamilton has Sun in Pisces ‘To find your passion, you have to look inward. If you look outward, all you’ll see is what other people are doing. You’re not other people.’ |
It can be good to haunt the mysterious world of the imagination, floating around supported by what appears to be the invisible with an endless stretch of open water ahead of us. Now we can fully join, empathise and feel with all those other creatures who live with us and with what may live and breathe in the further spaces yet to explore.
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| On the 5th March 2013, hard rains continued a state of alert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and surrounding areas, where flood mudslides killed 900 people two years ago, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless in what has become the annual tragedy of the rainy season with further heavy rain expected. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) |
At first glance, there does not seem to be any roads, paths or sense of direction to this territory, it all seems to be one big well of water where there seems to be little or no form or structure. Until we hit rock bottom that is, then we find out exactly where the limits of our new space reside and take action. Mars on Pisces – Eternal Affectations
How to know just where to go asks the confused traveller, how is it all organized, do I just follow the crowds going this way? That is some strange dance but who knows? Just as life in all its beauty and colours is lived in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, with the coral building their own cities according to some grand unknown pattern, so too during this period of time we shall all encounter and merge with others to make our contribute to society.
International Woman’s Day was the 8th March 2013. Mars in Aquarius – Idealistic Battles & Contradictions
Suffragette Movement Leader/Astronomer/Womans Suffrage Journal Lydia Becker has Sun in Pisces
There is a shift to the infinite, to the imaginable and unimaginable, most welcome after the removed and scientific world of the Sun in Aquarius environment of last month
Sun in Aquarius – Free Radicals.
Here in Pisces we encounter the vivid, the vapid and the extraordinary. We may have thought that Sun in Aquarius last month was bizarre with all its unexpected twists and turns but now things can get truly surreal. Here in the Pisces Oceania, the world begins to reveal its mysterious and glorious visions as we slide and glide our way through. Now we will have the space to dream, fantasise and we can only imagine who and what else may magically appear before us next, perhaps even on the silver screen.
Here in Pisces we encounter the vivid, the vapid and the extraordinary. We may have thought that Sun in Aquarius last month was bizarre with all its unexpected twists and turns but now things can get truly surreal. Here in the Pisces Oceania, the world begins to reveal its mysterious and glorious visions as we slide and glide our way through. Now we will have the space to dream, fantasise and we can only imagine who and what else may magically appear before us next, perhaps even on the silver screen.
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| Actress Emmanuelle Riva has Sun in Pisces. On the 24th February 2013 she celebrated her 86th birthday in Hollywood becoming the oldest Oscar nominee for Amour also a poet and photographer Riva has appeared in over 50 films in a 55 year career |
We have a clear choice now, to stay on the surface where it is warm and light and currents wind and waves have more effect upon our movement, or we dive down deeper into the darker, colder murkier environment of the inky black depths. We may notice that being in Pisces brings with it strange dualities and conundrums such ‘its this or that’, ‘you can’t have this without the other’ and ‘this always brings that!’ there are so many more complications and predicaments to which we are suddenly made aware in this land. ‘Oh why is it not more simple?’ many of you may cry, well for those of you with Sun sign Pisces you already know exactly the truth of this; it is part of your mythology.
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Renaissance Artist Sculptor Michelangelo has Sun in Pisces Around the centre of the Sistine Chapel ceiling are 12 prophetic figures all representing the coming of Christ. Seven are Prophets but five are pagan female Sibyls from the Classical World, with Michelangelo masculine muscles preference. The Delphic Sibyl is the oracle at the navel of the world, reputed to be the sister of Apollo and descended from the Sea God Poseidon, one of the 12 Gods of Olympus in Greece mythology or Neptune in Roman mythology, the ruler of Pisces. The all male Papal Conclave to elect the new Pope is being held under The Sibyls sensitive eye. The 12th March 2013, 115 Cardinals electors entered the Sistine Chapel but the ‘ princes of the church’, produced black smoke from the chimney above, indicating a failed two third majority ballot. The 13th March 2013 the Roman Catholic Church has a new Pope Francis 1st, Jorge Mario Bergoglia |
As we all journey with the Sun, we will all move into Pisces and its complexities and ancient wisdom. It’s symbol is that of two fishes joined together, whether they are cavorting or paralysed is unclear, but as a water sign its medium is emotion and it thrives on feeling. A fish is cold blooded and descriptions of Pisces frequently flow and glow about how feeling, emotional and intuitive they are, true many if not most have all of these traits, but this is a dual sign, there are two fish, and just as one may want to swim on the surface the other tugs into the deep, or visa versa.
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| Cardinal Keith O’Brien has Sun in Pisces Three priests and a former priest have reported the Cardinal, the most senior Catholic clergyman in Britain, to the Vatican for inappropriate sexual misconduct going back 30 years.On the 3rd March 2013 the Cardinal admitted that the allegations ‘had some substance‘. Due to retire, O’Brien has been an outspoken opponent of gay rights, condemning homosexuality as immoral and opposing gay adoption. Recently he argued that same-sex marriages would be ‘harmful to the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of those involved‘ leading to being named ‘bigot of the year’ by the gay rights charity Stonewall. The Vatican council that deals with major transgressions by the clergy, the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, will likely launch an investigation into Cardinal Keith O’Brien once a new Pope is chosen. |
Nothing is clear, certain definite or distinct. Water merges invisibly with water, it disappears into the earth, is carried along by the air and evaporates with heat, its boundaries filling and adapting to the holding vessel or dominant medium. It does not mix with oil, there are some things which resist its force and sometimes its own force is the most dominant, although it can sneak up on you suddenly or spend decades slowly and invisibly eroding the structure.
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| Chairman of JP Morgan investment bank Jamie Dimon has Sun in Pisces He has been an major critic of the US government’s desire to regulate Wall Street after the 2007/2009 financial crisis. However an official US Senate report has stated that JP Morgan Chase & Co ‘had ignored risks, misled investors, fought with regulators and tried to work around rules as it dealt with mushrooming losses in a derivatives portfolio.’, also highlighting the casual approach the bank took over the conduct of its so-called ‘London Whale trader’, who lost the company more than a colossal £4 billion ($6.2billion). |
For this month, during your stay in this water world, do not take things for granted, know that the unknowable lives and breathes a fraction away from your breath and accept that the mysterious can seem to be playing games with your head.
A couple of Piscean secrets: 1) they just don’t know and 2) they just ‘know’. Confused? Well yes, now you are getting with it, confusion maybe just the one tiny sign that suggests that you are truly submerged and enveloped into ‘the Pisces zone’.
James Bond 007 Skyfall Actors Hero & Villian Daniel Craig & Javier Bardem both have Sun in Pisces
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| Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Writer Douglas Adams has Sun in Pisces ‘ So long and thanks for all the fish’ Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture 12th March 2013 – Creation ‘I know that astrology isn’t a science. Its just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis. The rules just kind of got there. they don’t make any kind of sense except in terms of themselves. But when you start to exercise those rules, all sort of processes start to happen and you start to find out all sorts of stuff about people. In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It’s just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It’s like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that’s now been taken away and hidden. The graphite’s not important. It’s just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology’s nothing to do with astronomy. It’s just to do with people thinking about people. |
Sensitive and sweet, chilly and warm, uncharted and relaxing, scary and safe, highly changeable and slightly narcotic, welcome to Pisces Seascapes where unfathomable issues and behaviour ebb and flow around us, whether we like it or not. Whether we ponder, have an answer, deliberately evade or debate, at some level we will eventually have to meet in ourselves or in others multiple layers upon layers of meaning. Things will be more complex than imagined, more complicated and not as they seem.
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Photographer Ansel Adams has Sun in Pisces On the 19th February, 1942 after Pearl Harbour, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorising the War Department to designate ‘military areas’ and excluding those it felt to be a danger. It was aimed at over 110,000 Japanese/Americans living mostly along the West Coast of America, who were forced into internment camps as a result. In 1943 Ansel Adams documented the life of those interned at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California producing ‘Born Free and Equal’, a departure from his well respected, signature style of landscape photography. ‘The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community’ |
So what can we expect as Pisces energy pours down once again to us through the Sun’s rays? After all we will be affected whether we are indoors, outdoors, sleeping or waking, we will be saturated in its radical and far-reaching powers. We can expect to be more sensitive and highly attuned to the space and inhabitants of the world. We will pick up on the nuanced, the lyrical, the uplifting, as well as the suffering and wrong doings. Themes of sacrifice and immersion, loss, faith and spirituality may rise to the surface and instantly recognised or sink down in to be hidden in the depths operating submarine like – hidden, unseen, yet ancient and powerful.
Actress Drew Barrymore has Sun in Pisces
‘I pray to be like the ocean with soft currents, maybe waves sometimes. More and more I want the consistency rather than the highs and lows’
The zone’s presided over by Pisces in our lives will start to undergo their annual zap and zing. If you have planets ‘tuned in’ to receive Pisces energy then they will feel the ebb and flow. If you are Venus in Pisces the way you relate and how you receive love and money will get a boost. If you have Mars here, the way you marshal your troops to attack or defend will come to the ascendancy. You may well be called up to express your sympathies, your compassion your vision. Pisces is ‘the last sign’ of the zodiac and has accumulated much during its passage through space and time, maybe now it is time to let go and release some old baggage or conversely give forth its sparkling wisdom. The Sun in Pisces time the end of February/March is about restoring both our humanity and our divinity, it is living with complexities and embracing the differences so that we may perhaps all realize our connections whether to each other or ‘something else’. The two fish are connected to each other after all, they may be swimming in opposite directions but they are joined – constantly aware of, adjusting to and equally affecting the other.
James Bond 007 Skyfall Actors Hero & Villian Daniel Craig & Javier Bardem both have Sun in Pisces
We may all find ourselves faced with a sea of improbabilities, things become more interwoven and fluid so much so that we give up our more usual way of processing and just go with the flow. Certain in our uncertainty or guided by a far off glimmer, whether we are navigating by the starlight or responding to ancient imperatives stored deep in our DNA, one thing we can be sure of is we may shiver with cold or fear but we will also tremble at the marvels that we encounter. There are oceans of beauty, seas of sorrow, ripples of compassion, waves of complexity, fathomless reflections, pools of passion and trickles of pathos. Wherever Pisces take us into the oceans of infinite possibilities, come on in, the water is lovely.
Singer Johnny Cash has Sun in Pisces
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Mars in Pisces – Eternal Affectations
Artist Francis Bacon has Mars in PiscesPart of an obsessive series of Screaming Pope paintings over years, initially inspired by Velasquez’s Pope Innocent X portrait in Rome but constant reworking may have been psychological turmoil over his homo…
Mars in Pisces – Eternal Affectations
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| Artist Francis Bacon has Mars in Pisces Part of an obsessive series of Screaming Pope paintings over years, initially inspired by Velasquez’s Pope Innocent X portrait in Rome but constant reworking may have been psychological turmoil over his homosexuality. 13th March 2013, Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglia announced as Pope Francis 1st in Rome |
On the 2nd February, 2013 the warrior planet Mars packed its kitbag and set off on its journey into the water world of Pisces, where it will encamp, compelled to love and be loved until it begins to spring into action and gambol and jump onto the energetic trampoline of fiery Aries on the 12th March, 2013.
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Author, broadcaster, comedy scriptwriter and UK Labour politician John O’Farrell has Mars in Pisces He wrote for UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown who also has Mars in Pisces On the 28th February 2013 he is standing as Labour candidate in the Eastleigh by election ‘Suddenly, I feel really lucky to have an outlet for the profound sense of outrage I feel about this coalition government. This is the most important and interesting byelection for years, with the bizarre situation of Liberals and Tories fighting each other for the right to vote for exactly the same terrible policies. How could I not want to get in and help Labour stop both of them? |
While Mars is here, swimming in the oceans of Pisces, it will be mutable, mobile and malleable on any number of ‘issues’ whether personal, social or universal. During it’s stay in Pisces it floats and gets pulled by the strong currents and tides although it is also muscular enough to swim against the flow should it so choose.
Footballer/Model/Sex Symbol/Icon David Beckham has Mars in Pisces
‘Everyone’s been so quick to say that Im really thick or I haven’t got a brain… I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where i have to have everything in a straight line or everything has to be in pairs..People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.’
Mars the planet of action will be driven to rescue and provide a raft for those who may be drowning or engulfed in conflict. We may find ourselves torn between intervention and laissez faire or just full on or full off. We may want to help then at the same time feel equally powerless to do justice to our ambitions. Whether split in two, torn asunder or just dithering and juddering on the spot, our actions will not be quite so clear cut or simple.
Singer/SongWriter/Counter-culture Icon for 5 decades Bob Dylan has Mars in Pisces
Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg also has Mars in Pisces
‘There is a very famous saying among Tibetan Buddhists: ‘If the student is not better than the teacher, then the teacher is a failure.”
Mars love a good fight and whilst it was in humanitarian and freedom loving Aquarius some real battles played out on the global stage. ‘The People’ elected in a new government in both Japan and Israel. The USA watched and listened to the inauguration speech by President Obama speaking for ‘we the people‘, sparking up heated debate about the meaning of liberty and liberalism as well as bringing into high focus those in the minority or outposts of society. ‘We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths—that all of us are created equal—is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls and Selma, and Stonewall.’
On a truly sad note, the tragic shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School also sparked up the issue of freedom and the cost to safety in daily life of the American citizen insistence on the right to bear arms and the protection of their children.
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| America’s former child star sweetheart later Ambassador Shirley Temple Black has Mars in Pisces Temple was a toddler as the New York Stock Exchange crashed on ‘Black Tuesday’ leading to the Great Depression. In her 80’s he has seen ‘Black Monday’, another global financial crash triggered by the US housing market bubble and the lowering of the US financial triple A rating. ‘I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph’ |
Facing the future what can we expect of Mars as it now clammers, trying hard to keep its shape and find its form in the transparent opaqueness of water? When looked at directly water will both reveal and distort the image beneath it and in much the same way Pisces can be both unfathomable whilst appearing transparent. Pisces emotions and feelings appears to be on display and yet Pisces can often absolutely confound any further attempt at questioning or analysis. Mars in watery Pisces will actually feel what it is like to ‘be there’ and it’s actions will be visceral and emotionally driven. However, the Pisces fish do swim in different directions and get pulled into eddies that can get very murky.
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| Radical Islamic cleric Abu Usamah has Mars in Pisces Due to visit Reading University’s Muslim Society in February 2013 amid protests and cancellations from several other UK universities. An American convert to Islam and last seen on Channel 4 ‘Undercover Mosque’ ‘Whoever changes his religion from al-Islam to anything else kill him in the Islamic state.’‘Allah has created the woman, even if she gets a PhD, deficient. Her intellect is incomplete, deficient. She may be suffering from hormones that will make her emotional. It takes two witnesses of a woman to equal the one witness of the man.’ Also calling gay people ‘perverted, dirty, filthy dogs who should be murdered.‘Do you practise homosexuality with men? Take that homosexual man and throw him off the mountain.‘ |
Mars in Aquarius chose to hover above it all, creating a barrier of protection and still being able to give forth its opinions. Mars in Aquarius – Idealistic Battles & Contradictions. While part of the Mars picture can be about planning, thinking and preparing, in essence Mars just wants to move, to spring into action and flex its muscles. Mars in Pisces wants to prove itself by ideally defending the weak, championing those who can’t champion themselves and by winning an essentially ‘unwinnable’ battle. Its weapon (Mars) is often ideology (Pisces). It may function on the social level making sure everyone in its group is treated charitably and as compassionately as possible. It may want to function only on the personal level and treat others with forgiveness and mercy or it may function on the universal plane seeing to it that large groups are treated with care and soulfully.
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Stylised Counter-culture Icon/Sex Symbol’ Ernesto Che Guevara has Mars in Pisces ‘Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.’ Universal image of Marxist revolutionary Guevara ‘Guerrillero Heroico’ by Cuban photographer Alberto Korda is seen in a myriad forms around the world. February 2013 a billboard outside the 5 star W South Beach hotel in Miami had to be removed as Cuban-American guests continue to be offended by the image which turned out to be yet another self-portrait pastiche of Guevara this time by UK artist Gavin Turk. |
Check out the Pisces zone in your own chart. This area will see the passing of a zealous compassionate avenger or defender through it and used wisely this energy can be healthy and much needed. For instance if Pisces is your 6th house zone you could save a work colleague from a situation that they are struggling with by listening or counselling them through it. Or is it passing through your 4th house zone of family and you need to open up your home to people or even creatures who need rescuing.
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| Actress/Author, eternal bun hairstyle Princess Leia Star Wars Icon, Carrie Fisher has Mars in Pisces She may even return in Star Wars Episode 7. Her complicated family situation drama involved her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, Mars in Pisces and iconic beauty actress Elizabeth Taylor, Mars in Pisces |
Conversely, used more negatively you could get lost in a sea of endless possibilities. You could feel unable or too fearful to choose an option and act that may cripple all your best intentions. If it is moving through your personal 11th zone people you value as friends may eventually drain you or take advantage of your good nature.
Going through your 7th house zone perhaps a partner may never get round to saving themselves as they keep relying on you to do it for them. Or perhaps they never got around to saving you.
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| Actor Heath Ledger playing legendary lover Casanova, both have Mars in Pisces ‘When anything is blocking my head or there’s worry in my life, I just go sit on Mars or something and look back here at Earth. All you can see is this tiny speck. You don’t see the fear. You don’t see the pain. You don’t see thought. It’s just one solid speck. Then nothing really matters. It just doesn’t.‘This is the way he always was. He was always a thought ahead. He was the hardest person to play chess against.’ N’Fa, close friend of Ledger who was a chess fanatic. |
Pisces going through your 5th house zone and your kids will be testing out your No! maybe feeling that it does not really mean No! but really ‘well maybe’.
We can all use the power of Mars to motor us through to our goal, ignite our passions, fuel our issues and drive us ever onwards. During this time with Pisces we may lose our sense of individual self, which could be excellent in some situations and disastrous in others, so ultimately we must make a choice. This is not something Pisces is comfortable with but with the planet of Mars urging action, well, we just might take to being the intuitive warrior and moving with the affectations.
Singer Adam Levine has Mars in Pisces
‘You wouldn’t be a complete band without a slightly cocky front man would you?’
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Mercury in Pisces – Postcards from a Magical Mind
Stig Severinsen has Mercury in Pisces4 times World Champion Free Diver, ‘The Ice Guru’, Viking Swimmer with superhuman lungs. He has held his breath after inhaling pure oxygen in a tank full of sharks for over 20 minutes emphasising men…
Mercury in Pisces – Postcards from a Magical Mind
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| Stig Severinsen has Mercury in Pisces 4 times World Champion Free Diver, ‘The Ice Guru’, Viking Swimmer with superhuman lungs. He has held his breath after inhaling pure oxygen in a tank full of sharks for over 20 minutes emphasising mental control on the body and in 2012 he was awarded the longest breath held voluntarily by Guinness World Records for holding his breath for 22 min. His passion for water and yoga lead him to write Breatheology – the art of conscious breathing. Astrologically the breath and lungs are Mercury ruled. |
Welcome to the mind-blowing tour of the magical mystery realm of the fish. Not one fish, but two, chained together as one entity for eternity. Mercury moved country on the 5th February, 2013 from the air space of of Aquarius into the watery depths of Pisces. This month it may have to act as the bringer of succour, healing, understanding and care.
On the 17th February 2013, the ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross marks its 150th anniversary. Helping with suffering during war time it is now dealing with catastrophic humanitarian crises and complications in conflicts, including the kidnapping and murders of its own aid workers.
Mercury in Pisces can also bring, carry or trade in abstractions and concepts which can be puzzling to follow and yet surrending and going with the flow may get us there and be the right the road to travel. During this time Mercury also appears to move backwards, it goes Retrograde, on the 22nd February 2013 after a spell in its Shadowlands.
Mercury in Pisces Shadowlands Smoke Signals
This may herald some seriously wooly, or confusing, baffling and quite obscure communications and activities or conversely things might just appear to happen rather magically. We know that magic can be entertaining, and if we can’t work out how it is done, totally puzzling. Magic can be used to disguise what is really going on because it’s an illusion that distracts or numbs the left brain.
Harry Houdini has Mercury in Pisces and is world famous as a stunt/escape artist often in water. He started as a magician in a ‘double’ act with his brother ‘Dash’ then later on with his wife ‘Bess’.
Magic can also be used to intimidate or scare, voodoo and black magic are just words but scary easily springs to mind. Magic involves slight of hand and the fooling of the left brain that is used to being in control. With Mercury in Pisces this is used to powerful effect as we can lose ourselves and allow our brains to be taken outside the range of normally functioning. In much the same way as a drug can induce the brain to function outside of reality, Mercury in Pisces can take us to some out of this world places and to places right out of ourselves.
David Blaine has Mercury in Pisces and is world famous as a stunt/escape artist. He started as a street magician
‘As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others. He went on to hold his breath for 17 minutes.
The roads in this land may sometimes seem off the map and uncharted but this can also make the exploration all the more bewitching. This is a time that generates unanswerable questions, that throws communciations and exchanges of any nature to either the top surface level or into the deepest darkest depths imaginable. Imagination is quite literally the place from where we will draw our thoughts and will colour therefore the very words we write, speak, text and type. Compassion, soul, empathy and emotion will be the choices in our water colour paint box into which we will dip our pen and brush.
Mercury in Pisces can also bring, carry or trade in abstractions and concepts which can be puzzling to follow and yet surrending and going with the flow may get us there and be the right the road to travel. During this time Mercury also appears to move backwards, it goes Retrograde, on the 22nd February 2013 after a spell in its Shadowlands.
Mercury in Pisces Shadowlands Smoke Signals
This may herald some seriously wooly, or confusing, baffling and quite obscure communications and activities or conversely things might just appear to happen rather magically. We know that magic can be entertaining, and if we can’t work out how it is done, totally puzzling. Magic can be used to disguise what is really going on because it’s an illusion that distracts or numbs the left brain.
Harry Houdini has Mercury in Pisces and is world famous as a stunt/escape artist often in water. He started as a magician in a ‘double’ act with his brother ‘Dash’ then later on with his wife ‘Bess’.
Magic can also be used to intimidate or scare, voodoo and black magic are just words but scary easily springs to mind. Magic involves slight of hand and the fooling of the left brain that is used to being in control. With Mercury in Pisces this is used to powerful effect as we can lose ourselves and allow our brains to be taken outside the range of normally functioning. In much the same way as a drug can induce the brain to function outside of reality, Mercury in Pisces can take us to some out of this world places and to places right out of ourselves.
David Blaine has Mercury in Pisces and is world famous as a stunt/escape artist. He started as a street magician
‘As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others. He went on to hold his breath for 17 minutes.
The roads in this land may sometimes seem off the map and uncharted but this can also make the exploration all the more bewitching. This is a time that generates unanswerable questions, that throws communciations and exchanges of any nature to either the top surface level or into the deepest darkest depths imaginable. Imagination is quite literally the place from where we will draw our thoughts and will colour therefore the very words we write, speak, text and type. Compassion, soul, empathy and emotion will be the choices in our water colour paint box into which we will dip our pen and brush.
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft has been capturing high resolution colour images of planet Mercury for 2 years. This 3d model combines all the visual data showing volcanic plains as sand coloured areas and unclassified rock as blue areas, giving a brief impression of water where there cannot be any. More interesting and mysterious than previously thought, strange hollows have been spotted on the surface and minerals that ‘should’ have been burnt off by the Sun.
Mercury is in the watery space and territory of Pisces for these few weeks and it is to this language we must open our ears and to this environment we must acclimatise.
Whenever Mercury changes sign, we need to learn a whole new language and adapt to completely different customs to the ones we have become used and familiar. Mercury affects the way we process and deal with information. In other words: how we talk, think, chat, twitter, blog, text, write, read, listen and learn and Pisces is highly imaginative, flexible and conflicted with the facts. It knows that it must say difficult things after it sees the truth clearly but how to say it without creating conflict, hurting or causing pain that is the problem. It clearly sees that saving one hurts another, that there is always another side of the coin and a vast array of alternate possibilities. Sometimes it is all just too painful and unresolvable and Mercury in Pisces retreats, gets lost and may even lose the plot.
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Papa Ratzy’, Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Alois Ratzinger) has Mercury in Pisces, The first pope in nearly 600 years in the history of the Roman Catholic church who hopes to disappear on the 28th February 2013 alive. Significantly he made two trips to the relics of 13th century predecessor Pope Celestine V and in Pisces fashion, these two ‘fishers of men’ are now forever linked together as the only two popes to step away voluntarily, or so the story goes. Benedict’s time has been turbulent and full of power struggles. He is ultra conservative at a time that seemed to call for a progressive. The Vatileaks scandal, his butler stealing documents, the continuing, ever growing, sexual abuse revelations within the church, its inappropriate connection with celibacy, the ongoing issue of women priests, an inability to accept homosexuality or deal with contraception, are all left unresolved but apparently exorcisms were allowed. A pope with a pacemaker but not easy for him to get out of impossible positions as a peacemaker. ‘Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.’ |
When Mercury passes through such a wise old sign as Pisces it realizes it cant teach an old dog new tricks and that there is nothing new under the sun so might as well stop exhausting itself in the effort, better to surrender end the pretense of control and ‘just go with it’. Time to pioneer and energetically beat new paths will come soon enough when we reach the fire roads of Aries. Meanwhile the journey whilst not exactly ending is like the waters in the mouth of a giant river apparently slowing right down, leaden, pregnant and fecund with life giving silt and sediment ready to merge and enrich the huge ocean expanse.
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| Actress Ursula Andress has Mercury in Pisces Eternally emerging from the ocean holding seashells first seen in the Bond film Dr No |
Mercury is travel, trade, exchange, communication and busy activity and here in ‘let’s just wait and see’ Pisces it can all go off in a tangent with no apparent grip on what is actually happening. We may not exactly see the way ahead, it may wobble and be extremely blurred but we can use intuition and sense our path, if we try.
Magician/Illusionist Derren Brown has Mercury in Pisces
It is possible that whilst Mercury was in freaky and off the wall Aquarius, many of us noticed we had to switch our mental tuning to getting to grips with socio-cultural issues, the concerns of our friends or those in our group.
Mercury in Aquarius – Postcards from a Fantastic Mind
Under Aquarius we may have had to re-think what we took to be authoritative and delivered to us as right ‘from above’. We may have had to learn by disobeying rules and age old and respected traditions. We may have upset a few apple-carts along the way. Journeys and communications could have been surprising, unplanned and they may have even been disrupted or disrupting.
It is possible that whilst Mercury was in freaky and off the wall Aquarius, many of us noticed we had to switch our mental tuning to getting to grips with socio-cultural issues, the concerns of our friends or those in our group.
Mercury in Aquarius – Postcards from a Fantastic Mind
Under Aquarius we may have had to re-think what we took to be authoritative and delivered to us as right ‘from above’. We may have had to learn by disobeying rules and age old and respected traditions. We may have upset a few apple-carts along the way. Journeys and communications could have been surprising, unplanned and they may have even been disrupted or disrupting.
However, just as we have got halfway used to this style of speaking and thinking we will suddenly find ourselves in what appears to be a foreign country where everyone asks us to speak more emotionally, to go that extra mile to help or understand. We may have to use our right brains and bring alternative solutions to the table. We may have to learn by soaking up information and trusting in what we know.
When splashing its way through Pisces, Mercury will want us to employ our heart and minds to get to somewhere ‘kinder’ and more tolerable and tolerant. We will naturally incline to speak our truths but equally knowing full well that truth is multi-faceted each face sparkles, tempts and beguiles with a different allure, depending on persective. You may be standing right next to me in the river but the water rushing through my toes is uniquiely different from the water rushing over yours and yet it may look identical.
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| ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for its not the same river and he is not the same man.. everything flows and nothing abides, everything yields and nothing remains permanent. Sometimes it may seem safer to stay where we are than to accept change or take a step into the unknown. Bit inner peace can only come when we give up worry and trust in life’s flow for the only thing that never changes is change itself. Heraclitus |
Being adaptable is Mercury’s middle name it will adjust to this new terrain we will adjust and find the new angle. It may well be with Mercury in Pisces, a highly adaptable sign itself, things get less defined and definite, after all infinity beckons. The truth of eternal change comes as waves of order then chaos, endlessly lapping, unable to ever leave the ocean.
You will notice the difference and the change from Mercury in Aquarius to Mercury in Pisces, as you know the difference between sea and sky and wind and rain. You and others around you, remember we are all feeling Mercury’s shift, may appear more confusing but more accepting, baffling yet beguiling, frustrating but magical, open and also closed, transparent and subtly opaque. We may yet find a way for us all to express our inner rescuer in ways that respect social and cultural imperatives. We may even doodle or daydream our time away but then suddenly draw back a minute later to see the Renoir in the scribble.
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| French Impressionist Painter Artist Pierre-August Renoir has Mercury in Pisces |
During Mercury’s time in Pisces all of us on this precious planet of ours will be mentally processing with more imagination, irreverence, tolerance and also be a teeny bit more obtuse and confounding. Mercury in Pisces takes us along the ‘who knows’ path of the infinite. It presses us to processes in ways which are right brained, intuitive, and often pretty much ‘out there’. We all will be a little more compassionate, doubting a bit more, yet also more accepting and tolerant. We will be a lot happier discussing spirituality, art, boundless possibilities, a million what-ifs and what-nots, imaginative worlds, fantasy and illusion.With this Mercury our communications are about to get more unreal for good or bad.
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| FLNC Corsican nationalist member, Yvan Colonna has Mercury in Pisces After ‘disappearing’ for four years he is now serving a life sentence for murdering French prefect of the island, Claude Erinac, something he has always denied and an anonymous group claimed the killing. In 2012 Colonna’s lawyer, Antoine Sollacaro was also gunned down in a mafia style hit. In January 2013 Colonna has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights whilst the beautiful island continues to have the highest murder rate per capita in Europe. |
We will all feel this change, this mental shift but you may well wonder just how does it affect us specifically. Well, the sign of Pisces sits somewhere in your birth chart, even if you do not have any planets in this sign. You will always have the mysterious Piscean ocean somewhere in your psyche. It is this Piscean zone which is entertaining Mercury as a house guest. Welcome your mercurial visitor and make ‘it’ feel at home. If you know where your ‘Piscean Country’ is then slow down and put your full attention to it. It is here that you may be trying to exercise imagination and fantastical ideas. Take your time and respect the issues affected in this part of your chart. For instance, Pisces may be in your 2nd house of ‘Money & Resources’, in which case Mercury here will probably prompt you to think about and plan imaginative changes which could impact your bank balance. Or if Pisces covers your 7th house or zone of ‘Partnerships’ where your plans could be in for a major overhaul concerning your significant other. Making the adjustments will now go more smoothly. Or is Pisces pulling at your Venus, if so maybe these few weeks will get you thinking about deepening, or severing, your commitment to what you have placed faith on previously valued.Make the most of your facility to think ‘strangely’ to be taken out of your normal comfort zone and perhaps the literal space you inhabit. You are about to taken to some very different looking landscapes where all is not as it seems and yet it is all of what we imagine. The endlessness and boundarylessness of this space may frighten the life out of us. How can we possibly get our heads around infinity, and yet it is here to which we are magnetically drawn with an inevitability which can shake us right down to our fishes tails. We emerged from the waters and many of us continue to hear the latent echos, and whisperings from that place and want to reply in the same tongue. Poetry is one such language, abstract mathematics and religious verse also contain its murmurs. Diving into the source reveals our origins, Mercury seeks to pass on and exchange and during this time in Pisces we may come to know that the motherland is really the mother ocean, where we truly are ‘all one’ and that is magic.
Singer/Actress Doris Day has Mercury in Pisces
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Mercury in Pisces Shadowlands Smoke Signals
Valentine’s Day Protests in Karachi. Pakistan 14th February, 2013 Valentine’s Day celebrated by a fair few people around the world is also being denounced as un-Islamic in a few others. In Karachi billboards have been decorated with a b…
Mercury in Pisces Shadowlands Smoke Signals
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| Valentine’s Day Protests in Karachi. Pakistan 14th February, 2013 Valentine’s Day celebrated by a fair few people around the world is also being denounced as un-Islamic in a few others. In Karachi billboards have been decorated with a black heart urging people to ‘Say No To Valentines Day.. this tradition reflects insensitivity, indignity and ignorance of Islam’ claim Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious political party. |
Mercury entered its Shadow Period on the 8th February, 2013, yet another piece in the intricate astrological jigsaw puzzle of the moment we have already had a Moon wobble. New Moon in Aquarius – Moon Wobble & The Black Water Snake. Although actually still appearing to move forwards this is the beginning of Mercury’s journey back on itself. Mercury is in a slight haze, running down the corridors it will have to travel back down again soon on the 23rd February, 2013, when it will start another Retrograde phase.Where we are now is behind the confusing smokescreens of Mercury Shadowlands.
The birth chart for the Independent State of Vatican City has Mercury, Sun and Moon all in Gemini in the 10th zone of Public Face & Reputation. These planets are forming a square aspect to the current Shadow Mercury forcing action and exerting a fair amount of stress and pressure. Pope Benedict was born with Mercury in Pisces and his Ascendent also falls exactly along the part of Shadowlands at 16 degrees of Pisces, birth time accuracy dependant. When it conjuncts his Ascendant, the Pope will become a much more shadowy figure and has already stated that he will play little or no part in the election process for his successor, the result will be indicated by a puff of smoke.
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| Smoke coming from Sistine Chapel chimney indicates the election of a new Pope. Secret ballots are burnt after each vote, black smoke indicates a failed ballot and two thirds plus one wins. This normally occurs after the death of the pope but Pope Benedict has resigned, a very radical decision for a conservative pope. The Prophecy of the Popes, a list of 112 Latin motto/phrases predicting future popes has Petros as its last entry, if he is elected this will see the end of Rome and the church. Ominously one of the front runners in the 2013 election race for a new pope is a ‘Petros’. Peter Turkson fom Ghana is a moderate candidate, he called for radical economic reforms to deal with the global recession, condemned the ‘idolatry of the market’ and expressed support for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. He also argues that condoms might be appropriate where one partner is HIV-positive. The new Pope Francis 1st, Jorge Mario Bergoglia from Argentina was announced on the 13th March 2013 Sun in Pisces – The Oceans of Infinity & The Sea of Souls |
Just before the full Retrograde period Mercury has to walk through the Shadowlands. This usually lasts a couple of weeks and is a time when essentially Mercury is ‘not in its right mind’. Mercury can in fact appear to be running at full pelt on some very wobbly terrain. Things may feel quite disconcerting for a while, uncertain, rather like moving forward but also picking a way around broken glass. Part of us instinctively knows that we are going to have to come back to this place in order to clear things up, anyway. In effect the avenues we are hurtling down so fast are littered with material and detritus that, normally fleet of foot Mercury, is missing now. Attention is focused on the distance horizon while the ruts and potholes, signposts, left luggage and lost possessions are being ignored. Remember, these conditions are not for very long and in just a few weeks we will be dragged back to deal with ‘the ignored or overshadowed’. The Shadowlands of Mercury can appear as a strange and disorientating place but one not to be overlooked. These few weeks before the Retrograde the terrain is going to be decidedly shaky and at times literally, in the case of the Korean peninsula.
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| North Korea’s nuclear test February 2013 has received condemnation and a promise of tough action from the U.N. Security Council and drawn serious responses from many countries and another test for China’s new Communist party leader Xi Jinping. North Korea’s threats continue with a warning that it will follow the nuclear test with ‘stronger’ actions unless the US ends its hostility. ‘If North Korea’s latest cycle of misdeeds, followed by international censure, followed by menacing words out of Pyongyang has a familiar ring to it, it is because this behavior has become a fixture of the accordion like rhythm of Northeast Asian security. But a familiar path is not the same thing as a prudent one. It would be a mistake to let North Korea’s young leader think he has inherited the family license to provoke with immunity.’ Patrick M Cronin. CNN |
When North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on the 12th February, 2013 it drew a swift response from US Foreign Policy Advisor and US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, who argued immediately for much toughen sanctions. Susan Rice has Mercury at 13 degrees Sagittarius forming a ‘must take action’ square aspect to Mercury in Pisces. Also her warrior planet, Mars is at 5 degrees Virgo plus her Uranus 14 degrees/ Pluto 16 degree conjunction in Virgo forms a ‘hyper-aware’ opposition to current shadowland Mercury. North Korea’s Midheaven/ public face is at 7 degrees Pisces, a conjunction with the current Shadowland Mercury. Status and reputation literally becoming one and the same with the smoke and mirrors of Mercury Pisces shadowy situation and encapsulates it in a very graphic and literally explosive manner. North Korea’s actions will need a great deal of re-viewing and a lot of clearing up. Since the 1950’s officially the US and South Korea have no peace agreement with North Korea only a ceasefire.
Jupiter in Gemini Unbound – Talking to the Neighbours
This Mercury Shadowlands takes place in the watery sign of Pisces, a sign not generally noted for its clarity anyway and so may be disconcerting for anyone to negotiate, especially someone relying on the left side of the brain, the rational, logical ‘just give me the data’ side, so beloved of Mercury in normal conditions.
President Obama’s, State of the Union address occurs right under the Mercury’s shadow, and he himself has Pluto in Mercury’s own sign of Virgo, forming a direct opposition to the Shadowland Mercury bringing hyper-awareness to deep complexities. Where the whole event becomes really ‘shadowlands’ is when Mario Rubio has been asked to write and deliver a speech, all very Mercurial already, to counter the President’s. In essence Rubio had to write his reply without knowing the exact content of Obama’s speech. In the words of Chris Moody of Yahoo News it ‘gets more strange’ because then the Democratic National Committee has to write a pre-buttal to Rubio’s speech without knowing its contents and on and on, it goes. Mario Rubio has his Jupiter at 6 degrees Gemini forming a tense ‘must take action’ square aspect to Shadowlands Mercury.
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| President Obama State of the Union speech stated ‘I can announce that, over the next year, another 34,000 American troops will come home from Afghanistan’ probably by February 2014 but already on the 12th February 2013 he pledged to take ‘swift and credible‘ action over North Korea’s ‘highly provocative‘ nuclear test while already trying to conclude two wars. He also stressed tackling climate change issues, a fiscal crisis that reframes the free enterprise economy model as maybe a cause of world recession/ depression not necessarily its saviour and the serious difficulties of implementing gun controls. |
Communications are also Mercury ruled and so they could unfortunately be more prone to spluttering or even stuttering to a halt at the wrong moment. Outages, which shut down most things electrical including computers, or damaged phone lines and accidental cuts in pipes, blocked tunnels and criss-crossed grids are all examples of how the normal lines that invisibly interconnect us all so efficiently normally can be effected. Mercury’s shadow can also remind us just how vulnerable and tenuous the bands that tie us together are, they can snap and trigger unexpected consequences, not always for the worse of course, just different and maybe for the better.
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| Landskrona, fan group of Russian Zenit St Petersburg football club issued a manifesto calling on the club not to sign black, South American or gay players. It complained that ‘black players are now being imposed on Zenit practically by force’. It also said the lack of black players at Zenit was important to the club’s identity and added that fans were also ‘against representatives of sexual minorities playing for Zenit’. This has caused even greater concern about racism at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Zenit has also previously been fined by the Russian Football Union after one of its fans throwing bananas at Brazilian Roberto Carlos and been given a game ban. Zenit has lit the touch paper and signed Brazilian Hulk and Belgian Axel Witsel this summer. On 14th February 2013 they played Liverpool with the proviso the match ends with any racial abuse. Zenit won the game one of the goal scorers was the Brazilian Hulk. |
What we have to say may just come out garbled or just get plain misconstrued, no matter how eloquently expressed. Oddly one of the most noticeable features will be that we can feel more pressured to meet deadlines at a time when we also feel the least equipped to do so in these hazy Shadowland times. Time may also appear to play tricks on us as it seems to give us the slip if we try to follow it too closely. There may be a trail of white smoke to follow but it may turn out to be equally as elusive and impossible to grasp.
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| Arak Heavy Water nuclear facility, Iran Iran denies developing nuclear arms but may be interested to see what form UN sanctions take with North Korea. Iran’s nuclear activities came under greater scrutiny again on the 12th February 2013 after North Korea conducted its third nuclear test. Many intelligence officials believe that the two countries share nuclear knowledge despite no hard evidence coming to light as yet. |
Roads are part of Mercury’s territory, as are market places, trading centres, transit junctions, airports, harbours, bus and rail stations and ports.
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| The stricken cruise ship Carnival Triumph towed into Mobil, Alabama on the 15th February 2013 with 4,200 relieved passengers on board. The Carnival Triumph drama was played out live on cable news stations in the US. Over the last four days passengers have been describing conditions after a dangerous fire, billowing smoke, then drainpipes overflowing, sewage in cabins and corridors and passengers sleeping on deck.This new drama has created another public relations nightmare for the cruise giant Carnival Corp. Last year the Costa Concordia was grounded and later capsized off the coast of Italy killing 32 people. |
A wide brief for sure but there is a thread which links and connects them all and us to them. Without casting a shadow of doom over the next few weeks or paroxysms of anxiety every time we step on a bus or nip out to the shops for some groceries as is often seen in Mercury Retrograde periods, there is perhaps a need to simply inject a note of awareness. We would all be wise to exert levels of restraint in certain situations or just general care and vigilance at some level, for example, assuming or accepting the other guy is just ‘fooling around’ when threatening road rage. A sense of awareness and our inherent intuition provides a full time in-built boost to our levels of security and protection, anyway. Taking a little extra time to re-assess situations of our own accord and before circumstances ‘force our hand’, get taken by ‘sleight-of-hand’ or simply ‘out of our hands’ is a good idea.
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| Superstar South African Para & Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius known as Blade Runner is charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, she was shot four times, twice in the head. He kept a pistol by his bed and a machine gun at his window. A police spokeswoman said that there had been ‘previously allegations of a domestic nature‘ from Pistorious home and that neighbours heard screaming and shouting during the night before the murder and the police will refuse bail. Pistorius has his Jupiter at 13 degrees Pisces at the heart of the Shadowlands. The Blade Runners – Oscar Pistorius & Richard Whitehead |
That section of our chart where we have 5/19 degrees of Pisces will be a signpost for where we can expect to experience these shadowy smoke trails most acutely and where we should exercise more awareness and caution but equally the same degrees in the signs of Sagittarius, Virgo and Gemini are where things such as communications and paths may also get cloudy and blurred. Sometimes it will feel like you just have to keep going back to the drawing board which is both frustrating and demoralising. Expect to re-view and re-evaluate a lot of things during this period and slowly things will start to make more sense. Expect to feel chased and pressured to fulfil certain deadlines that seem to crowd in on you all at the same time, crunching in on your peace of mind. Pisces rules the feet so we had better be sure of our footing and watch our step, figuratively and literally. During Mercury in Shadowlands passage, Chiron ‘the wounded healer’ also transits these sensitive degrees of Pisces for good measure. Deep old wounds may be re-activated as well as more raw recent pain and hurts inflicted during Chiron time in Pisces.
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Tibetans will not be celebrating Losar New Year or light firecrackers as a sign of mourning. On the 11th February 2013, a Tibetan monk Lobsang Gyatso set himself on fire in the latest incident of anti-Chinese protest self-immolation. The Chinese state security extinguished the flames and forcibly removed the monk, the 23rd Tibetan to do so in the last year with a nun dying on the 9th February, 2013 protesting for religious & cultural freedoms for Tibet. Labelled as terrorists, nearly 100 Tibetans have died in this way since 2009. China continues to defended its ruthless control of Tibet, stating that the region suffered from dire poverty, brutal exploitation and economic stagnation until 1950 when Chinese Communist troops ‘peacefully liberated‘ it. Xi Jinping and the new leadership of China needs to be aware of the message it is sending to the world as Beijing already considers Nobel Peace laureate and Tibetan spiritual leader in exile, the Dalai Lama, a violent separatist. |
The best way ahead for us must be to prepare for misunderstandings and double check all forms of communications, interactions and travel arrangements. We can try to be as patient with ourselves and others as possible, give everyone a bit more legroom and time to come up for air. As regards things such as the general on-going delays and frustrations, well here too we must try and be more tolerant and accepting because this too will pass.
Then there are still the things we just can’t control.
A meteorite apparently shot across the sky in central Russia sending fireballs crashing to Earth, smashing windows, setting off car alarms and injuring people.Fragments of the meteorite reached Earth, falling in sparsely populated areas in the Ural mountains city and region of Chelyabinsk. Traffic came to a halt and people looked for shelter in buildings as the fireballs blasted through the sky. A lot of drivers in Russia have video recorders fitted in their cars in case of accident disputes with traffic police that resulted in the footage of the fireballs crashing to the ground
Perhaps we need to reflect on our old thoughts and ideas and really try to see them in an entirely new light at the end of this Shadow period.
Because out of this jumble of retrospective reviewing, chaos and disorder a new pattern can be found. From this perhaps a new picture is drawn and a brand new paradigm will emerge from the ghostly, smoke filled landscapes of the past.
Singer Tony Williams has Mercury in Pisces
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Venus in Aquarius – The Carnival Season
The 66th British Academy Film & Television Arts, the BAFTAS, 10th February, 2013The BAFTA mask was designed by sculptor Mitizi Cunliffe who is Venus in AquariusAfter her deliberate and cautious trek across the mountainous earthy terrain of Ca…
Venus in Aquarius – The Carnival Season
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| The 66th British Academy Film & Television Arts, the BAFTAS, 10th February, 2013 The BAFTA mask was designed by sculptor Mitizi Cunliffe who is Venus in Aquarius |
After her deliberate and cautious trek across the mountainous earthy terrain of Capricorn, from the 3rd February 2013 with a yawn, Venus moved into the light and fluffy clouds of the Air sign Aquarius. All the while she will be alert for new sources of stimulation and enchantment wanting to spend her time socialising and disarming. She will project her open, tolerant, unconventional, friendly image and impress whoever she meets and greets until the 26th of February, 2013 when she gets much more mysterious and emotional in watery Pisces.
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| Skyfall has 8 BAFTA nominations, its James Bond Actor Daniel Craig is Venus in Aquarius |
Venus always loves to indulge, feeding the body, anointing it, making it look, smell and feel really lovely. Venus cannot help herself because that is what she is all about Venus Come Out Of Your Shell. There are other things she loves, such as beauty in all it’s forms, an appreciation of the finer things in life like the arts, culture and social bonds.
Fashion Icon Kate Moss has Venus in Aquarius here she is in Hologram form. Venus in the air!
With Venus in Aquarius part of life’s great pageant can be a string of such magical occasions. Money and fairness are also part of the Venus makeup which should give us a clue just how fundamental and central Venus is to our lives. There is also the small matter of the heart, l’amour, amore, of course Venus just adores the romance although she can give over a little Aquarian detachment. Yet Love and Money are the two basic ingredients that most people need to blend in order to feel that they have a good handle on life, even an independent, aloof Venus in Aquarius.
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| 2013 BAFTA Fellowship award winner Director Alan Parker is Venus in Aquarius |
Venus has been rather solemn and serious recently. She has been using a restrained and mature mindset to get what she wants whilst deliberating in Capricorn. For the past month we have got used to this way of being, making sure that we attend to our long range goals and keeping our eyes on the task at hand whilst still trying to be helpful to those we love. Now we have Venus in Aquarius running the show and her word of advice, as social secretary, is to lean towards the quirky and the weird and wonderful. Embrace the odd, the misfit and the under represented.
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| 2013 nominated Golden Globes Actress Glen Close is Venus in Aquarius ‘It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories, so many triumphs and tragedies and all we see are yards and drive ways’ |
If you want to attract, look like you want to join in and be one of the gang but also be prepared to be different because Aquarius simply loves the bizarre. It is impressed by concepts and ideals and loves a grand vision but most importantly it wants fairness. For Venus in Aquarius being true to your inner light and holding on tightly to what you believe is the right thing is paramount. No matter if you alienate or aggravate those who disagree just as long as you have a few close friends of like-minded people and you are being true to yourself then its all cool. Oh and also be prepared to join in the party, have a party, fancy dress, don a mask and ride along with the carnival.
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| Rio de Janeiro Carnival Parade 9th/12th February, 2013 |
Aquarius wants us to apply our attention to our principles and to what we believe. With Venus the goddess of Love here for a while she will urge us to sample the delights of universal vision, of giving our attention to the many and of following our inner star, no matter how distant or faint. She will want us to wake up to what both separates and adheres us as human beings living together on the same planet. She will want to explore the new and fantastic ‘out there’ possibilities that may literally be ‘out there’. We have new worlds both inner and outer to explore or put under the microscope, view through a telescope and observe with fascination. Stop all that past Capricorn earnest devotion to ‘the real’ the real point is lets have fun with exploring the unknown.
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Venice Carnevale February 2013 ‘The subversive nature of the festival is reflected in the many laws created over the centuries attempting to restrict celebrations and often banning the wearing of masks.’ Street performers, acrobats, masquerades and amazing costumes, acrobats have continued to subvert since the 13th century. |
We will all have a month where our relationships may get a bit more ‘off the wall’ but happily, pleasantly, tolerant. It will become that much more important to relate with an openness and an acceptance of difference. To allow the ‘odd’ to live with the ‘normal’, to include and respect all manifestations of life no matter how weird or out of the ordinary they may initially appear, anyway lets be extra-ordinary.
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| BAFTA for Amour Filmmaker/Screenwriter Michael Haneke is Venus in Aquarius |
Before we get too carried away with the openness and acceptance it may also be the case that we can also get much more awkward, opinionated, and willful with Aquarius, it is a fixed sign after all. It could be that we get so convinced we miss the mark altogether and bypass what was or is really important or intrinsic to the situation. Or we can get so caught up in idealisations and abstractions that the realities may get overlooked.
Key to understanding what is going on for us now is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Aquarius-attuned’. We all have degrees in our birth chart which look out for any passing Aquarius vibration. Look for your own personal Aquarius antenna. It will be good to look at how smoothly the matters connected to your Aquarius house and planets run at this time and if they are functioning as well as they could be or is there a need for a bit of improvement.
Performer Elton John is Venus in Aquarius
He apparently upset Chinese authorities by dedicating a performance to outspoken Chinese artist/activist
Ai Weiwei. An English language edition of a state run newspaper said the singer was ‘disrespectful‘ when he ‘forcibly added political content to the concert.. and that If they had known that this concert would be dedicated to Ai Weiwei many in the audience would not have come’ Chinese culture minister, Cai Wu has demanded that only stars with university degrees be allowed to play in China in future.
If your own Venus is in Aquarius this is a lovely time to welcome in the new arrivals in the shape of people or coins because this is your ‘Wow factor’ time.
If you have Aquarius spanning the 5th house zone of Romance & Creativity, you may find your ‘fun time’ gets a perk and what you do for the sheer love of it deepens and may go on to another level.
As for a Sun sign Aquarius, well hey this individual, unusual stuff is easy but to a point because even a ‘lets all do our own thing’ Aquarian needs some fluffy-cuddly, caring, sharing time. Your hearts desire for there to be room for each and everyone in this world does get an extra boost this month. There just may be such a place for you and this is just the time to find it, go on have a look.
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| 2013 BAFTA nominated for Argo Actor Alan Arkin is Venus in Aquarius |
Carnival time is when we can merge with the crowd while still wearing a mask or costume to perhaps to protect a full, true exposure of the self sometimes. During this Venus in Aquarius month we all may feel that much safer hiding in a crowd or we may feel that much stronger being part of one. Whatever we choose to do we will want everyone to feel supported in their independence. We all want to feel special within the mass, we are part of the collective but unique in our true expression.
2013 writing stage musical for King Kong, Elbow songwriter Guy Garvey is Venus in Aquarius
The Carnival was well and truly over for the passengers of cruise ship Carnival Triumph.
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| The stricken cruise ship Carnival Triumph towed into Mobil, Alabama on the 15th February 2013 with 4,200 relieved passengers on board. The Carnival Triumph drama was played out live on cable news stations in the US. Over the last four days passengers have been describing conditions after a dangerous fire with drainpipes overflowing, sewage in cabins and corridors and passengers sleeping on deck.This new drama has created another public relations nightmare for the cruise giant Carnival Corp. Last year the Costa Concordia was grounded and later capsized off the coast of Italy killing 32 people. |
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