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Sun In Taurus – Tending To Our Gardens

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The Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show London, 21st-25th May 2013 celebrates 100 years A natural world’s iconic cathedral for the worship of the fruits & flowers of the earth and people’s love of the ‘garden’ and an a…

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Sun In Taurus – Tending To Our Gardens

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The Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show London, 21st-25th May 2013 celebrates 100 years
 A natural world’s iconic cathedral for the worship of the fruits & flowers of the earth and people’s love of the ‘garden’ and an annual demonstration of the beauty and diversity of human creativity. 

On the 19th April 2013 the Sun traveller moved country, as it does every month, this time it meanders leisurely but purposefully into the Taurus Earth Landscape until the 20th May 2013. It feels good to taste the fruits, sip the fresh water, listen to the songbirds, smell the freshly cut grass and secure our feet firmly and deeply into the earth and feel secure even in the hard work.

UK Celebrity Gardner Alan Titchmarch has Sun in Taurus
‘It’s time we reconnected them with apples rather than Apple Macs, plant cells rather than cell phones and raspberries as well as BlackBerrys’The Twitter Controlled Garden may have come about as a result of concerns by people like Titchmarch that young people are not interested in gardening. (The Digital Capabalities Garden designed by University of Lincoln with brothers Harfleet & Harfleet 2013) Maybe young gardners just need ‘nurturing’

Now we can stretch into our bodies, fill and expand out into our personal landscape and reach for the ripe juicy goals just in front of our noses. Our purpose, symbolised by the Sun, during Taurus the Bull time, will be so tangible we can practically smell it, so close we can nearly hear its whispers, and so tantalizing we can almost believe it is there, already in our hands. We are so convinced we are ‘there’ in fact that we tell ourselves we deserve a break, no matter what else is going on or how high our expectations are.

Irish Celebrity Gardner Diarmuid Gavin has Sun in Taurus 
‘F**k It’ we say, pour a glass of something, lay a blanket on the ground and just simply 
R-E-L-A-X………

The Dreaming Girl ‘Eve’ from Chelsea 2006 Garden of Dreams
Bought by Beatle George Harrison’s widow she now takes her rest in Henley-on-Thames, UK
Olivia Harrison is Sun in Taurus

Hang on though, this is all very fine and dandy if your garden is fully in natural flow, doesn’t need pruning or sowing, the grass doesn’t need mowing and the dead leaves blow themselves away. Great if your goals are accomplished or new goals set or scored.

Scottish Football Manager David Moyes has Sun in Taurus
 9th May 2013 He was appointed Manager of Manchester United Football Club on previous manager Sir Alex Ferguson who retires after 27 years, recommendation.
Timed Astrology Birth Chart for Football Manager David Moyes (birth data Paul Wright)

‘Skol’, cheers, prost!, yamas, a votre sante, you say…..however……there is also the very real possibility that some of us may still have some way to go before we are all brimming over with the goodies. If that is the case then, well then it is time to exercise the full muscular power of the Bull and put your shoulder to the plough and your back into it. In other words this month it is time to ‘Get Your Hands Dirty’ and get stuck into your various tasks, its a winning formula.

 Footballer Callum McManaman has Sun in Taurus
‘Man of the Match’ in FA Cup 11th May 2013.
He plays for Wigan, the ‘youngest’ club in the UK Premier League they beat football heavyweights
Manchester City FC, founded in 1880, owned by the Abu Dhabai United Group since 2008 and one of the wealthiest clubs in the world. Ironically, Wigan have since been relegated.

This Taurus ground that the Sun, our purpose, finds itself in is extremely favourable to our efforts to direct our energies into getting exactly what we want. The operative word being ‘exactly’. As any gardener will tell you, sow an acorn and get an oak, don’t expect a bamboo to sprout instead from that intention. Taurus loves it obvious, Taurus loves it literal and it loves it smack bang in front of its face no matter how messy, just as long as it is real. It knows how to tend, it knows how to get the best out of any situation or person, just as long as it has something to nurture, cherish, love and develop. Many writers and literature greats were born with Sun in Taurus and as many writers tell us in order to write we have to turn up everyday. Then we can slowly develop your ideas, find the exact words and work hard at it. There is a shift to the tangible, the sensual and the physical with Taurus, as we are prone to prolonging our pleasures for as long as possible. No, nothing hurried or harried here, we want to take our time with those things we enjoy and why not. We really do want to Savour the Flavour but for some there may well be a lingering bitter taste in the mouth. 

               
Queen of England, Head of the Commonwealth & Head of the Church of England  Elizabeth II has Sun in Taurus
The 87 year old dressed in full Royal regalia, wearing the heavy 3,000 gem, Imperial State Crown and 18 foot Robe of State for the opening of Parliament in the UK ,8th May 2013 and the delivery of the Queen’s Speech. The speech is not written as ‘her own words’ but facilitates the introduced of 20 new bills from the unpopular UK Coalition Conservative/Lib-Dem Government. The Queen was joined by her son Prince Charles who will take on some of her State responsibilities as she begins to cut back her royal duties. The Queen Speaks Taurus

King Willem-Alexander & Queen Maxima of the Netherlands are both Sun in Taurus
In contrast after Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated her throne to her son he was sworn in on the
 30th April 2013 in a secular ceremony in the decommissioned church, Nieuwe Kirk in Amsterdam

Steady Taurus energy can be most welcome for some of us after the all the rushing around and perfectionism of the Sun traveller’s environment in Aries, last month. Now we simply can choose to adopt a more tolerant and kindly eye upon what is in front of us. Our senses can also become more keenly attuned. Beauty will always hold a deep fascination and not always in the ‘eye of the beholder’. Big Bull eyes might not stop at just beholding a well laid table but also savouring rather more than the belly can normally hold.

Writer/Actor/Director Orson Welles has Sun in Taurus
His films are classics and have influenced many subsequent film directors, he was hailed as a genius, he married beautiful actress Rita Haworth and then fell from grace. Sadly, he can often be remembered for just being as an obese, over theatrical, hammy actor who became connected with tacky commercials.
 ‘I started at the top and have been working my way down ever since’

As we all journey with the Sun, we will all move with Taurus and it’s graceful, sensual yet powerful push forward. The Taurus symbol is of the Bull and the Cow. Both of these animals are deeply revered in many countries. Spain has a culture that is inseparable from the active yang masculinity of the Bull. Whilst Mother India worships and holds ‘holy’ the passive yin feminine sacred Cow. Deep in our cultural mythologies these animals have been both object and subjects of desires and glorification through the ages, the Minoan Culture of Crete, for example.

Bull leaping was a sacred ritual at the Minoan Palace of Knossos on the Greek Island of Crete.
Both women and men took part, women wore the same clothes as men, ‘even the penis futteral sheath’ however the Minoans always painted women white and the men red.

Also qualities of the Bull and Cow, such as stubbornness, perseverance and reliability have been attached to those born with Sun in Taurus, and many Taurus Sun’s will identify with the possession of such traits. This is only part of the story, they are people to whom much is projected onto them from others, and they can get so fixed in these pictures they can forget what it was that called to them in the first place. Sun in Taurus can get frozen in time and place, caught in a time lapse, trapped in zones of inertia and this is all because it can just be fulfilling other people’s fantasies about them and there they are derailed or stuck! In order to help yourself get unstuck this month, when you become seduced by the all pervasive Taurus mood so apply the Taurus balm of determination to build your vision. 

           
Millionaire toy developer, manufacturer & Conservative MP Frank Hornby has Sun in Taurus. 
His brand names like Meccano, Hornby Trains & Dinky Cars, obviously only meant for ‘BOYS’ constructed and peopled childhood worlds and imaginations all around the world. 
Artist Liam Curtin used the Meccano principle of scaling down engineering by scaling it up 10 times to design a useful ‘work of Art’ for Manchester, the Bolton & Bury Canal Bridge, replacing the old horse bridge at Nob End, Little Lever, Bolton (no, I have not made up any of these names) It was constructed largely by volunteers from the local community. ‘Building a bridge from giant Meccano is the fulfilment of a childhood dream. I spent my entire childhood building mechanical devices from Meccano and now we have the largest Meccano style set in the world.’
Keep on exploring what is truly you and yours and what is not and has been ‘put onto you’, passed along, mis-labelled or inherited.De-clutter in wardrobe, mind, body and expectations and also remember to maintain some momentum but also that Taurus know only one speed – its own. Sun Spotlights Hoarding 
These are normally Taurus secrets because they generally have sugar-sweet natures and the one speed they know – their own. Taurus is a combination of practicality and poetry, a mixture of earth knowledge and sky expanse. You may never quite know when a Taurus at any given time is the gazing, grazing Cow, the full steam ahead charging Bull or a panicked herd. 
Doomsday Preppars, preparing for the worst by ‘hoarding’ the essentials part of the Survivalism movement actively readying themselves for all manner of emergency disruptions in the social or political order on very local scales or on grand international scales. They stockpile supplies, quite a few guns, try to get self defence and medical training. They try to become self sufficient, ‘off the grid’, grow their own food and build shelters in isolated places in order to survive man-made, earth-made, universe-made catastrophes. Nancy Lanza the first victim of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, mother of perpetrator was a survivalist preppar who stockpiled food and the guns used Venus in Sagittarius – Faith in the Future
Adam Lanza has Sun in Taurus
Welcome to Taurus Landscaped Garden which is where we and the Sun traveller find ourselves. All these issues and behaviours will be all around us, like it or not or whether we have time to ponder, debate an answer, evade or try to avoid them, at some level we will meet them face to face for good or bad and sometimes we have to face that not everything in the garden is lovely.

So what can we expect as Taurus energy pours down 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 power. We can expect to be more practical and hands on, more focused on our bodies, more attuned to beauty and harmony in all its forms. We will want to have it easy and also quiet prepared to do what it takes to get there, even with the detours through feeding pastures and watering-holes. Remember we are all on Taurus time which is all about our own sweet time but have we got the time.

French Environmentalist Nicolas Hulot has Sun in Taurus
Known for the Ushuaia Foundation and was a candidate in the Europe Écologie-Les Verts (Green Party) primary for the 2012 French presidential election.
The zone’s presided over by Taurus in our lives will start to undergo their annual gaze ‘n graze. If you have planets ‘tuned in’ to receive Taurus energy then they will sense shift, if you are Venus in Taurus 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 put your ideas into practice, to get involved in community or social gatherings, to hang out and enjoy other peoples company, Taurus is a herd animal after all and relishes in the company of others in real time, in cyber space or both.

The Buddha is often associated with Taurus energy. To fully taste and partake in the Now, actualise who you are in present time, delight in your breath as it comes in and goes out and draw on the reserves of power nestling in your body, your own garden and in your heart and mind under your own Bodhi tree.

Anandamoyi Ma-Nimala Sundali (Immaculate/Beautiful) has Sun in Taurus  
Known as ‘The Blissful Mother’, Mother of Joy, Mother Divine and the Universal Mother these names were given to her by her devotees who experienced her in these ways. She never referring to herself as ‘I’ but ‘chhotee bachee’ small child and ‘yeh shorir‘ this body.
‘the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced’ Swami Sivananda (Divine Life Society)

The Sun in Taurus time, the end of April beginning of May is about the grounding of ideas, living in the present, just being, not necessarily just doing but wherever we are enjoying Mother Nature.

German Musician Deva Premal has Sun in Taurus

21 Day Mantra Meditation began 23rd April 2013

credits: mirroe & zimbio & BBC & wikepedia & Getty images & guardian & geo.fr
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Sun in Aries – Terrorism, Rebellion & the Human Race For Life

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The Rebellious Stripes Flag of the Sons of Liberty
A secret society with American Founding Fathers members including a principle author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the United States Thomas Jefferson who has Sun in Aries
On the 20th March, 2013 the Sun traveller moved country, as it does every month but however by the time it had found it feet and sprung right into the thick of the action we find ourselves leaping directly onto what feels like hot coals in the Fire-lands of Aries. 

Boston Marathon finishing line. Pressure cooker nail bomb blast, 15th April 2013
23,000 people took part in the historic race with hundred of thousands of spectators cheering on what should have been the major achievement of running 26.2 miles.

This post was originally based on celebrating people’s efforts running races for charity in true exuberant Aries fashion but suddenly and sadly on the 15th April 2013 two explosions ripped through the Boylston Street finishing line of the Boston Marathon, 50 to 100 yards apart and under the 96 flags of nations who had runners in the race. In particular on that day there was an increase of Aries energy with a looming Sun-Mars conjunction.
The blasts killed three people, one of them an eight year old boy, Martin Richard, another a 29 year old restaurant manager Krystle Campbell and the third a Chinese post-graduate student Lu Lingzi. There were terrible injuries to at least 19 people, 5 critically with 7 necessary amputations and over 100 people being treated. Apparently some runners crossing the finishing line then ran over to Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston to give blood. Investigators of the crime scene have described two bombs consisted of explosives packed into pressure cookers, with shards of metal and ball bearings and nails both in black backpacks on the ground. It was Patriots Day in Massachusetts commemorating Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolution. 

American Sculptor of the original Minuteman Daniel Chester French has Sun in Aries
(Minuteman were militia in American Revolution)

The Boston Marathon began in 1897 and is always held on Patriots day, the third Monday of April. Inspired by the success of the first modern marathon of the 1896 Olympics it is the world’s oldest annual marathon and one of the world’s best known road race events. 

American lithographer Nathaniel Currier has Sun in Aries 
Just 40 years before the first Boston marathon he depicted the Boston tea tax rebellion, the Sons of Liberty dumping the tea were not really dressed as Native Americans (although Massachusetts was a tribe, part of the Algonquin Indians a Boston symbol) and there was no actual political Tea Party at that time, just poetic licence. However in Boston on Patriots Day the 15th April, 2013 people were dressed up again and running in euphoria, celebration and triumph as they participated in the Boston Marathon. They were soon running in fear and desperation as the usual community spirited scenes of marathon supporters and participants coming together in a joyful crescendo became a scene of tragedy and horror as two explosions ripped through the crowds of well wishers and participants on the finishing line.

This time will test and challenge our boundaries as we try to re-gain our footing and re-sprint off into the chase once more true to the Aries spirit. We can feel under attack and our muscles can feel taut and stretched but we will still accept the challenges laid down ahead of us as life speeds up and stretches ahead. We will up our own styles of pace and momentum and we will race off in the direction of the future because it is springtime, it is Aries time and that is a part of our natures as it is part of our astrological charts. It is not easy but we will set our next goal, whatever shape that may take and we will set off.

The London Marathon 21st April 2013
One of six marathons that form the World Marathon Majors series, with Boston, Berlin, Chicago, New York (cancelled in 2012 because of Hurricane Sandy Venus in Libra – Grace & Danger) and in 2013, Tokyo. Security for the London Marathon is being reviewed in the wake of Boston’s tragedy but officials have ruled out cancelling the event. Approximately 37,500 people are expected to run the 26.2 miles from Blackheath in south/east London to the Mall with around 500,000 people on the streets supporting and encouraging them.

This Aries ground usually supports our gambolling ways because it is springy and resilient enough to propel our forward trajectory. Here in this land we find so much around to spur us on, so many things to do and explore, so much to accomplish before the springing-about in all directions time will run out. Running in fact is something that may increase and gain some creedance, running the family, running the business, running the syndicate, running down the road, running against this and that, running towards a deadline, running into someone quite unexpectedly….or just running around, until we run out of puff. In the UK, the advert with the Duracell battery bunny who goes on and on long after it competitors run out of power but even ‘Duracell bunny Aries’ will finally come to a halt.

Duracell Bunnies keep on running in the Copenhagen Marathon

Just as we accomplish one thing up pops another equally demanding, equally challenging and probably requiring our full and IMMEDIATE ATTENTION! Oh look, another rabbit hole, Easter bunnies sometimes included, of course and speaking of courses, charity race events (astrologers running for charity included) Race for Life London 2013 Cancer Research.

Pippa from Astrology Wheel preparing to Race for Life 2013

There is a shift to the tangible with Aries, the visible, the immediate, the rapid and the hastened as we are catapulted towards the next target. Life becomes much more urgent, more rushed and with so many more imperatives calling for us to take action. This is most welcome after the somewhat confusing, vapid and unboundaried world of the Sun traveller’s environment of last month within the infinite Pisces. Sun in Pisces – The Oceans of Infinity & The Sea of Souls. In Aries, we encounter the definite, the absolute and the definable. We may reflect on last month and still find it a bit baffling and sometimes a bit at odds as things have begun to take this more obvious turn. We know where we are and what we must do and that such a definition in itself feels good. Here in Aries Fire-lands, the world can seem to be new born and our energy levels can feel as if they have risen. We also appear to be a great deal more emboldened and galvanised and ready to explore this brand new terrain. The truth is, the more unknown and new everything appears the more we secretly begin to enjoy it. Now we will have the space to push ourselves forward, to want to go further and to try out our new running shoes. 

               

Christopher McDougall author of Born to Run,

A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.
‘Pah! to the gremlins and voices of doom’ we say as we gallantly sprint out into the unknown quite high on our own supply. Whether adrenaline or caffeine fuelled, fired-up by our own idealism or conviction or just compulsed to act on impulse, off we want to charge. It can appear as if nothing will stop us sometimes, as a certain wilfulness, some may say stubbornness, grips our muscles and mental circuitry and propels our engines into top gear. Learning to stop, slow down, smell the roses not just the coffee may be a task worth pursuing, in itself.

Ethopian Marathon Runner Derartu Tulu has Sun in Aries
 The first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the 10,000m event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. she won the New York Marathon at the age of 37 having the compassion as well as the competitive spirit to help her great rival Paula Radcliffe who has Mars in Aries.
(Mars in Aries – The Primal Punch) 

As we all journey with the Sun, we will all move into Aries and it’s joyful, childlike glee. The Aries symbol, the Ram, the new born lamb, rutting and playing, simply delighting itself with life.  Sometimes this fearless, naive and innocent Lamb, or challenging brave rutting Ram can become the easy-going, lets just take life as it comes, Blar Blar Blase Sheep. Nothing at all wrong with that but be aware that that this can be a little bit deceptive as it belies the playful Lamb and rutting Ram are always ready to reveal themselves without a moments notice. Aries is a Fire sign, and very proud of it too, as fire words such as motivational, inspirational, creative and exuberant all define and mark  out this sign.  So long as there is time space and allowance for all the Aries sides to express themselves, the playful innocent Lamb, the brave warrier Ram and the shy ‘leave me alone for 5 minutes’ Bar Bar Bashful Sheep Aries will be satisfied and everyones a winner. The Sheep part of Aries can be so taken with the goodness’ of another person or group of people that they can follow them into some pretty dangerous or scary situations. Relationships can also last longer than may be wise or even healthy and jobs are endured past extinction and sell-by dates and then quite suddenly the Ram will make an appearance and the Aries will just leave, start something else, as if out of the blue and all fired up with such positive expectations and hope that is irrepressible once again. A Hint – Don’t try to tell an Aries that what they are about to do may be ill-advised by the way, well tell them but don’t expect them to alter their course easily once they have set one, all you may get is a smile and wave goodbye as they anticipate the next adventure or adventure marathon!

Here are a couple of Aries secrets: 1) they are deeply trusting 2) they ‘know best’. This can be a combination of bravery and idealism. A mixture of hyper-insensitivity and hyper-sensitivity, you never quite know which one is predominating in any given moment. Brave and shy, quiet and loud, selfish and unselfish, welcome to Aries Fired-uplands, which is where find or lose ourselves this month. These issues and behaviours will be all around us, whether we like it or not, whether we answer, deliberately confront or red-hot debate them, at some level we will meet them head-on.
As Aries energy pours down to us through the Sun’s rays we will all be energised, indoors, outdoors, sleeping or waking, we will be fired-up by this power. We can expect to be much more pioneering, adventurous, a great deal more driven and goal-orientated and far more inclined to be enterprising and courageous. We will pick up on the freshness and change of this season, igniting it into starting something new, empowered to gear-up through the changes and to ‘Just Make-It-Happen’.The areas presided over by Aries in our lives will start to undergo their annual re-vamp. If you have planets ‘tuned in’ to receive Aries energy then they will feel the blast of the new or the smell of adventure. 
If you are Venus in Aries, the way you relate and how you receive love and money will get a hefty boost. Venus in Aries – Love Action 

If you have Mars here you have probably already marshalled your troops to attack or defend or just excite and sex things up. You may well be called up to act out your vision, or to put your ideas into practice or just show your mettle, flex your muscle and make a great big Grrrr sound! Aries is the ‘first sign’ of the zodiac and is in a hurry, it wants to get on, it is anxious to make a start, it’s had enough of theorising it wants to see some action. Put your money where your mouth is, ‘head-out’ and just make a start. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Sun in Aries time, the end of March and into April, is about the wide-eyed innocence of youth no matter what chronological age you happen to find yourself dealing with and sometimes there is just the sadness of lost potential and poignancy of enthusiastic, naive youthful expression.
Sam Harper Brighouse sadly died after collapsing at 16 miles into the Brighton Marathon on the 14th April 2013 suffering a cardiac arrest, he was just 23 years old. He was running with 9,000 others, his family waiting for him on the finishing line. His father said that ‘it could not have been more of a shock, he was a healthy fit young man…we are devastated’ he was seen to be fit as a fiddle and had trained well completing a 22 mile run just a week before. Donations are flooding in to his Just Giving fundraising page for Arms Around the Child charity supporting Aids orphans, with the total at nearly £10,000
‘I’m running, jogging, crawling the Brighton Marathon for Arms Around The Child (UK) (formerly KCA UK) because I am want to raise money for a good cause.’
Aries time is about moving and even better moving towards a goal. It can also be about protection, look at those horns on the ram they are mighty impressive and pretty hard, formidable weapons. Anyone who has provoked or threatened an Aries loved one can contest to that. Want someone to act on your behalf, even around something quite difficult, well go ask that Aries. We may all find ourselves faced with a tough and difficult challenge this month, when we may have to show what we are made of, reveal our hand and state our viewpoint and stake out our boundaries. 

British Conservative Politician, Right Honourable Norman Tebbitt has Aries Sun
Served in Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet from 1981/1987, as Secretary of State for Employment (1981–83) came up with his famous suggestion to get a job ‘get on your bike‘.
In 1984, he was injured in the IRA’s bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, during the Conservative Party Conference and his wife was left permanently disabled. 
An the Aries Sun shone down on Baroness Margaret Thatcher’s contentious and very public funeral, conducted on the 17th April 2013 in London, it mixed celebrations of high office of the longest serving UK Prime Minister of modern times and the first woman, forever associated with the Falklands War, with nationwide protests highlighting her lack of compassion for huge swathes of the country in ‘this Lady’s not for turning’ ‘Thatcherism’. Her policies and their continuing effect on the current Conservative government is seen by many as the destruction of collectivism and communities in the past and again in the middle of another world recession shown to be caused by ‘selfish and greedy individualism’ and has opened up many old wounds.
Actor Motorcycle adventurer Ewan McGregor has Sun in Aries
(lines from Trainspotting with actor Robert Caryle Sun in Aries) 
We will be inclined to be super-charged and super- energised over this time and may well alternate between fatigue and feeling low, if we do not balance it all out a bit, yes just like Aries opposite sign Libra. Yes this will be a good time to start afresh, kick off something new, kick out something old and embrace a brave new world, preferably of our making. We may feel a real yen to take life in our own hands and set out on the Star ship Enterprise with a blazing sword with which to meet any challenge. Ok but lets not frighten, threaten or phase anyone in the process. Even early pioneers appreciated company on their wagon trains, we said that trailblazing should be a lonely task.
We offer our condolences to everyone affected by the horrific, tragic events that caused the loss of such young, spirited lives, to those they loved and those that loved them and to the 100’s of people injured at the Boston Marathon and as New York goes on high alert.

Original member of Snow Patrol Mark McClelland has Sun in Aries
credits: trianglenews & nazret & the guardian & msn news & wikipedia & tweetbuzz
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Some American Aprils

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The “Minutemen”, American revolutionaries ready to snatch up their weapons at a moment’s notice, confront the redcoats. Their flexibility, speed and the urgency of their cause was a big factor in their victory. Allied to the fact that they were on home…

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Fresh Fire: The Vernal Equinox

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The momentum is accelerating, and over the next few days, we’ll be full speed ahead. It starts on March 17th, when Mercury goes direct at 5 degrees Pisces. You’ll get your answers/clarity about most issues that have been swirling around &#8…

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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. 

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.

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. 

  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. 

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. 

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
(Delphic Sibyle part of the Sistine chapel)
Mercury in Pisces Shadowlands Smoke Signals

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. 

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. 

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’.

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.

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

credits: helmo aga & italian renaissance art & npg brian griffin & NATO & swellseekers & worth 1000 & cderman & codexarcadia & sky news

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