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Astrology of Now: The Disappearance of Manannan Mac Lir
A statue of the Celtic sea god Manannan Mac Lir was stolen from an Irish mountaintop on January 21, the day Mercury, the planet of thieves, went retrograde. Although Manannan is the “son of the sea” and a deity of storms, but he has more in common with Mercury than Neptune. Manannan is a trickster (sometimes appearing dressed as a clown), a musician (he plays a harp) and he moves with ease between this world and the other world, just like his Greco-Roman counterpart. If we understand myth, then we know that Manannan has simply slipped over for a short visit to the other world. That’s […]
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Saving Souls, Mars in Pisces
Life is constantly changing. This is an excellent reminder, especially for the new year, with the 2015 vibrations of the number 8. If we can remember that everything is energy and that nothing stays still, then allow yourself permission to change righ…
SOTU 2015: Cyber Uranus and Mercury-Jupiter’s "political games"
A SOTU 2015 Address, Mercury Stations Rx, and Two More Years by Jude Cowell For President Obama’s annual State of the Union Address to a Joint Session of Congress, I’m looking at the 9:00 pm est horoscope set for January 20, 2015 Capitol Building Was…
The Mighty Pen, Symbol of Reason
Twelve people at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were gunned down on January 7. In the same week, Saudi blogger Raif Badawi received the first 50 lashes of his 1000-lash sentence for blasphemy, ironically, an echo of the Charlie Hebdo cover that caused such offense in 2011 — “1000 lashes if you don’t die laughing”. Not to mention the on-going incarceration of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayad in Saudi also, for blasphemous verses. Islamofascism (still apparently a contested term, but loosely defined as a political ideology based on Islam) has been gaining in strength for decades, but its […]
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Three Hotspots for Mercury in Aquarius
Further to yesterday’s post on Mercury in Aquarius, here’s a closer look at three aspects that will be repeated throughout its transit. Jan 5th: sextile Saturn at 1 deg Sagittarius Jan 14th: sextile Uranus at 12 degrees Aries Jan 15th: R…
Something about random thoughts and spreadsheet hell…
Earlier this morning I was in spreadsheet hell in the partition job. And by spreadsheet hell, I’m not exaggerating. They were everywhere. And they were doing my head in. Seriously. So I did what I usually do when I can…Read more →
A Different Point of View…
Mercury in Aquarius…one I prepared earlier… Remember school sports carnivals? I hated them- with an absolute passion. I loved the swimming carnivals, but that’s because I was good at it, and usually in line for age swimming champion, or a…
The Reality of Our Journey
During the past weeks, there has been a lot of rocking and rolling.. especially with the recent square of Uranus (change, awakenings) and Pluto (destruction, regeneration)… but also with Uranus stationing direct. The shakiness in the foundation o…
Blue Sky Mining
I went into 2014 with a set of goals…and I don’t normally do the goal thing. Why not? As a Piscean with a serious dislike for anything that could look, feel or sound like a boundary, goals are simply way…Read more →