Energy shifts as the Taurus New Moon secures her grounding power on Friday May 6. Sensitivities will increase, with a sense of stubbornness and sincere determination to push forward and heal. To grow with these earthy vibrations, we may want to ask ourselves; ‘how may I build self-reliance and protect my strength, so that I may create more value and beauty with all that I have’? Healing is a […]
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May 2016 Tarotscopes, A Tarot Horoscope
May 2016 Tarotscopes, A Tarot Horoscope Starcana Tarotscopes is a monthly horoscope; created by concentrating on each individual sun sign, while pulling one tarot card for monthly insight. I include a general tarot card interpretation for basic guidance, but for something more detailed; personalized consultations are available. Receive free astrological forecasts from Starcana Cosmic Dirt, along with a monthly Starcana […]
Neptune in Pisces: Fairytale TV, the Mystic North
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.” Willa Cather I can add “failure to hire leather-trousered pirate as childminder” to my Mother’s List of Shame. My kids are a tad irritated that Captain Hook is not their babysitter; instead he’s doing the job for some kid in Maine. Actually, I sympathise: Captain Hook (Colin O’Donoghue, Aquarius Sun) is deliciously watchable — simultaneously melancholy and dashing, kind and cruel — in ABC’s Once Upon A Time, which we are currently binge-watching. I’d quite like him to come […]
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Romancing the Brave, Venus enters Aries, Aries New Moon
Values, love and money begin to shift on Tuesday April 5 as Venus exists from romantic Pisces, to enter warrior Aries. During the next four weeks, it can be much less about ‘them’ and ‘their’ longings, and just more about ‘me’ and ‘my’ yearnings. In this child-like energy, raw hunger is being stirred; heating up a passionate need’ […]
Navigating The Changing Winds
We’re continuing to be led onto new and unfamiliar roads as powerful Sun transits brave, pioneering Aries. We can benefit most when paying attention to who or what we meet up with this week – while remaining mindful and aware of what is being communicated, and how it’s shared. The finicky uneasiness that is in the air is being unleashed; so […]
Inner Reconstruction, Libra Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse, Saturn Retrograde
The heat has turned up a few notches as Mercury (thoughts, communications, journeys) has left dreamy Pisces on Monday March 21- to join Sun in daring Aries. Where we may have recently been lost, enchanted, or confused – the foggy mist will quickly begin to disappear during the next three weeks, allowing us to see […]
In the Key of Pisces: Elizabeth Maconchy
Dame Elizabeth Machonchy was hailed as a girl-wonder at the age of 23 and then told she had only a few years to live. However, she beat TB and went on to live a long and full life. I don’t have the time of birth, but I note the conjunction of Chiron and Venus. Her husband devotedly nursed and nurtured her out of TB. Also Sun-Saturn makes for a survivor. The mysterious atmosphere of her music must be connected to the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Cancer opposite Uranus in Capricorn. This is, of course, a generational combo, and without a birth […]
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In the Key of Pisces: Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole… perfect phrasing, casual grace, immortal. Cole was an outstanding jazz pianist who just happened to be able to sing — to start with. Of course, it’s his gorgeous voice for which he’ll be remembered — and indeed he has a packed second house, which we might associate with voice, and Venus, the planet of beauty, in the third house of communications. This is a Cardinal chart — Capricorn Rising, a host of planets in Aries, and the Moon in Libra. Cardinal signs are leaders, innovators and pioneers. Indeed, Cole was a unique person — the first black host […]
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In the Key of Pisces: Astor Piazzolla
Thanks to Rachel for suggesting Astor Piazzolla, the late great Argentinian maestro of tango. Loss, plangent longing, melancholy love — so romantic — that’s one side of Piazolla’s work. Uncompromisingly avant-garde, experimental and cutting edge — there’s an utterly different side too. Piazzolla was a composer and multi-intrumentalist, but the sound he’s most associated with is that of the bandoneon — a kind of accordion that’s essential to the distinctive tango sound. Interestingly, like James Taylor, he has a powerful Mercury-Uranus contact, and again he has incredible speed and dexterity. But his musical choices are also so daring, so revolutionary. He mixes jazz […]
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In the Key of Pisces: James Taylor
James Taylor’s soft, reedy baritone is so sweet and his melody-weaving so certain, his lyrics so perfectly distilled and his phrasing so effortless — he truly was blessed by the gods of music and song. Indeed, his first album, which included classics like Carolina in My Mind and Rainy Day Man was cut when he was just 20 in 1968: his most recent, just last year. But like Orpheus, Taylor had to pay a price for his talent. Taylor had real demons to contend with including wobbly mental health as a teenager (he committed himself several times) and subsequently years of heroin addiction. Making music probably saved him; once his […]
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