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…
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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…
Just a Little Essence for Today 16 September 2011: Ceres Conjunct Earth ‘The Good Mother’
Here’s what I said about this conjunction in the newsletter: “Earth also conjuncts Ceres today, suggesting that we should keep all our dealings strictly material today–if you can’t weigh it, hold it in your hand, or point to it in the physical …
Wise Counsellors for Cancer, Leo and Virgo
You may have read some of my previous posts on the “tutelary deities” used by Roman astrologers. These came as a surprise to me when I read about them last year since I’d not come across them in any astrology texts or lectures that I’d attended previ…