Gadgets, car chases, kiss kiss, bang, bang. Was there ever a deeper examination of the modern condition than James Bond?Just kidding.A Bond film is about wallowing in style over substance, stuff over emotions, materialism over spirituality.Ian Fle…
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Just a Little AstroEssence for Your Weekend 21-23 September 2012: ‘It All Feels a Little ‘Alice”
The 21st of September is a rough day for successful communication: Mercury sesquiquadrates Sedna, suggesting that much of what’s communicated is done without any awareness of what’s truly shared, and the Sun-Earth axis creates a T-square wi…
Balancing The Masculine and The Feminine
Shivashakti – male and female energies combine in one body.The asteroids – Ceres, Juno, Vesta and Pallas, named for four of the great goddesses of Olympus – were actually discovered before the outer planets Neptune and Pluto. But you wouldn’t think…
Ceres Enters Taurus: ‘Let’s Eat!’
Or maybe that’s ‘Let me tell you what to eat!’ Ceres doesn’t give up her sense of authority and dominion just because the material comforts and conditions are emphasized; instead, she feels them more. Her role as Mother Nature i…
Seeing Pregnancy Through Ceres’ Eyes
I wonder: is this the most influential portrait of a woman from the 20th century?You wouldn’t believe it now, but way back in 1991, this cover of Vanity Fair showing the then highest-earning actress in Hollywood naked and heavily pregnant caused a stor…
Introduction To Ceres In The Natal Chart
“It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to … Read More…
Ceres in Your Chart: Nurturing, Mothering and Pain
I haven’t blogged about the asteroid goddesses yet even though I do analyze them in my astrology reports. I’ve decided to start writing about them because their impact in the natal chart is just as important as the planets. There … Co…
That Tiger Mother
Tiger Mom: me me meAs an indulgent, child-worshipping Western mother, the Tiger Mom thing really gets up my nose.In case you missed it, (which I’m sure you didn’t), last year a law professor at Yale published a book explaining how she was a brilliant m…
Election 2012, Mars/Neptune, and ‘The City of the Sun’
Foggy Mars/Neptune Rises in America as ‘Utopia’ Lurksby Jude CowellIf you have your Dec-Jan 2012 issue or online access to The Mountain Astrologer, then you’ve probably already read editor Tem Tarriktar’s overview Peak Moments of 2012 and Forecast for…
Just a Little Lunar Essence for Today 26 September 2011: ‘The Power of the Maternal’
7:30 AM PDT the Virgo Moon opposes Ceres in Pisces; here we have two sets of feeling, nurturing, and maternally-keyed energies facing off against each other–and this could prove to be an incredibly rough showdown. One side (Ceres) clearly will feel i…