Graphic Artist Saul Bass has Mercury in Aries producer of iconic opening film sequences & legendary film posters google animated birthday tributeMercury moved country on the 14th April 2013 from the watery depths of Pisces and stepped out…
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Mercury in Aries – Postcards From A Red-Hot Active Ram Speed Mind
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| Graphic Artist Saul Bass has Mercury in Aries producer of iconic opening film sequences & legendary film posters google animated birthday tribute |
Mercury moved country on the 14th April 2013 from the watery depths of Pisces and stepped out onto the bouncy, springy ground of the Aries terrain. We welcomed some fresh cavorting energies in the mind fields and mind games playgrounds of ideas. So lets review all that fresh energy that appeared to rush through our thoughts before Taurus s l o w e d – i t – a l l – d o w n and chilled it right out on the 1st May 2013.
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| Writer Harper Lee has Mercury in Aries She has sued her literary agent 4th May 2013, who apparently tricked her into signing over copyright to her classic Pulitzer Prize winning To Kill a Mockingbird published in 1960, set in the Great depression, selling over 30 million copies and made into a popular film. ‘Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s concience’ |
With Mercury in Aries we were also able to race around the open urban plazas where we could flaneur even if just in our minds eye. (‘Flâneur… a literary type from 19th century France, essential to any picture of the streets of Paris. It carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street’…an emblematic figure of urban, modern experience’)
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| Pioneer Photographer & Caricature Artist Felix Nader has Mercury in Aries ‘an Icarus with replaceable wings’ Nader was the pseudonym of inventive Gaspard-Felix Tourachon, his ‘Pantheon Nader’ contained about 300 caricatures of literary and artistic figures. One of the first great French portrait photographer, also the first person to take aerial photographs by building a huge 190ft high ‘red-hot’-air ballon called Le Geant (Giant), he invented crowd control barriers to keep people safe while watching his ballon (the barriers are still know as Nadars in Belgium), pioneered the use of artificial lighting in photography whilst working in the catacombs of Paris, erotic photography in Bohemian Paris, promoting any new idea like supporting the group of artists that became the Impressionists. Nadar |
Mercury may have acted as the bringer of fresh news in order to kick starts projects or just to herald the opening of another installment in the biography of our lives. So did you ‘spring into action’? Did everything seem a little more attainable as you were adrenalised and reinvigorated and became more inclined to start over? Or were you pushed? Mercury in Aries will also have brought in, carried or traded in facts and figures, physical commodities and brave new worlds ripe for exploration. The direct path may have become the road to travel on. Act now!
Conversely or perversely this could also have heralded head to head confrontations, out and out battles and fierce talking head debates and outright loud and ugly accusations.
Actor Bill Roache has Mercury in Aries & Mars in Aries Mars in Aries – The Primal Punch
Roache has been arrested 1st May 2013 on two sexual abuse allegations of raping a 15 year old girl. He previously boasted that he has slept with 1,000 women and that he had ‘no control’ over his sex drive. He also recently disclosed his membership of the Pure Love Movement, ending his relationship with a weather girl 36 years his junior so that he could ‘explore a mystic message of love’. A spiritualist and a Druid he has also expressed great interest in Astrology, taking a correspondence course with the Faculty of Astrological Studies and reading Coronation Street cast members astrological charts.
The roads in this land may have sometimes seemed scary and we would have been challenged to toughen up or move on out, either way we may have had to be prepared for action. It may well have been quite a bumpy ride. This could well have become a time that generated a torrent of questions that needed answering and answering NOW! It definitely was a time that fired up communications and exchanges of every nature. We may well have had to be prepared for some challenges and to be robust and forthright because our conversations may have been both blunt and sharp in a hammer and tong sort of way! If we were are waiting for an answer or to be ‘told’ something with Mercury in Aries we could not have expected it to be suger coated. We did stand a chance however of getting to the truth even if we may have previously been professionally employed to cover it up?
High profile UK Publicist Max Clifford has Mercury in Aries & Mars in Aquarius Mars in Aquarius – Idealistic Battles & Contradictions In the past he has often represented controversial public figure accused of crimes. Most of his professional life is spent trying to conceal stories. He was first arrested under Operation Yewtree part of the Jimmy Savile child sexual abuse accusations in the UK but on the 26th April 2013 he was charged with a further 11 indecent assaults on young girls.
This is the fire space and territory of Aries we have all been in for these past few weeks and it was this language we have become accustom to. Whenever Mercury changes sign, we have had to learn a whole new language and adapt to completely different customs to the ones we have become used to and familiar with. Mercury affects the way we process and deal with information. In other words: how we talk, the way we think, chat, twitter, blog, text, write, read, listen and learn. all this will have been fired up and Aries is already highly opinionated. Aries can also be reasonable and trusting but can get very direct with the facts. It knows that it must say difficult things, deal with tough, full on negotiations, travel through new territories and confront most things head on but the temptation to go with the flow of an idealised picture whilst avoiding the realities can lead to some genuine complexities for Aries that they would rather resolve quickly and cleanly. Consequently, this requirement may lead to rushing in with more than a dollop of courage and bravery but also this can be more than a healthy fair amount of rashness and impatience leading to some regrettable situations and further complexities.
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| Australian Artist, Singer & TV Presenter Rolf Harris has Mercury in Aries A household name in th UK since the 1950’s he was also arrested primarily under Operation Yewtree UK Jimmy Savile child sexual abuse investigation. He has been named since on social media by thousands of people and accusations have made their way back to Sydney, Australia on the 2nd May 2013 with a new victim.He has denied any wrongdoing. ‘Can you see what it is yet?‘ |
When Mercury passes through such a brave new sign as Aries it realises that something fresh and energetic must be allowed space, that dynamism must be encouraged to spin its magic. Stagnation and indecision can freeze frame even the most restless of souls, and Aries are some of the most restless of souls around. Aries loves to keep moving and they have to keep active. This Mercury in Aries time that we have had was a chance to pioneer and energetically beat out our new pathways because now and since the 2nd May 2013, when Mercury reached the Earth meadows of Taurus, is where we can sit and chew over the new information gathered when Mercury was in Aries and the mercurial journey was all about the forward motion, the ‘getting to’ and the forging ahead…and relax
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OK………. but Mercury is about travel, trade, exchange, communication and busy, busy activity in any sign but in ‘let’s just get on with it’ Aries it can all go off in a tearing hurry, trying to be enterprising, independent and self-reliant. Working for others may seem like being a ‘slave to work’ and we may resist by thinking up ways to be more entrepreneurial, just having more of our own style or at least appearing to be self-motivated and more our own boss. We may not have cowered under anyone elses rules as easily as before, we may even have believed that we can make it on our own and be dammed but change things up we will surely have tried something. The road may be untrodden but at least it is our feet imprinting the soil.
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| Actor Gregory Peck has Mercury in Aries Forever associated with Atticus Finch the lawyer in the film To Kill a A Mockingbird ‘I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you are licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what’ |
It is possible that whilst Mercury was in dreamy and imaginative Pisces, many of us noticed we had to rely on a more intuitive mode of thinking, as compassion may have gripped out minds. Under Pisces we may have had to rethink what we imagined the world to be about. Journeys and communications could have been other worldly, escapist, and romantic or they may have been unstable and disorientating. Mercury in Pisces – Postcards from a Magical Mind. However, just as we have got halfway used to this style of speaking and thinking we found ourselves suddenly in what appeared to be a foreign country where everyone asked us to speak more clearly and emphatically, to state what we meant honestly, to be up for the odd challenge and to stand up and defend our views. We may have had to learn by doing, by physical engagement with the subject, by falling down and getting back up again or just getting out.
Kidnapped as a teenager in Cleveland, Amanda Berry has Mercury in Aries, escaped her prison, 7th May 2013, with her ‘neighbour’s’ help. She also helped two other girls and apparently Berry’s 6 year old child to escape.
When leaping its way through Aries, Mercury will want us to be brave, to pioneer, do go or think of new solutions to old problems. We will naturally incline to lunge forwards, to take the next step even though we are scared, to cut the thrust through to the truth of the matter. In a group of people debating who should lead the group out to find the windmill as they calmly measure the pros and cons of each individual, Mercury in Aries just stands up, pulls on its armour, grabs the gauntlet and winks to the person who has caught its eye then charges off in search of the windmill, possibly in the wrong direction, but by stepping one foot in front of the other, by allowing itself to rise and fall Aries will hunt down that windmill and most probably find it or something equal if not better than it.
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| Danish Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard has Mercury in Aries ‘There are two ways to be fooled one is to believe what isn’t true the other is to refuse to accept what is true…our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts’ |
Being adaptable is Mercury’s middle name, it will adjust to the Aries landscape as it has to adjust to Taurus terrain. We will all adjust and find the new angle again and again and quite quickly. It may well be with Mercury in Aries that everything sped up and rushed on a pace, but that is just how we wanted it, for that time, anyway. You will have noticed the difference now as you will have noticed the change from Mercury in Pisces, as you know the difference between fire and water and wet and dry. You and others around you will have seemed more impatient and confrontational, headstrong and excitable with Aries running through our mindsets. We may all have tried to beat a path according to our own internal clocks, resisting outside interference and fiercely defending those we love. We may have to suddenly be seen to openly and defiantly defend our beliefs, actions or motivations. During Mercury’s time in Aries all of us on this precious planet of ours will have been mentally processing with much more honesty, directness and also, you may have noticed, been sliding on the slippery slope of a tad more pedantry, irritation and intolerance. There may have been a few storming off’s at a moments notice into high dudgeon! Exit stage left.
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| New Zealand Film Director Jane Campion has Mercury in Aries Top of the Lake 2013Academy Award Winner for The Piano.‘Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they are not with a partner then it doesn’t really count, they are still searching for their prince, in a way and as much as we don’t discuss that because it is too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist…I would love to see more women directors because they represent half the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.’ |
Mercury in Aries took us all along the pioneering path of ‘Brave New Worlds’. It pressed us to process in ways that seemed naive but sharper and clearer. Your children, your friends, partners, teachers, bosses, next door neighbours, heads of state, Twitter, the person sitting next to you on the bus all this will have been a little more direct, forthright and yes frankly, impatient. With this Mercury in Aries perhaps our musings, mutterings and communications got more authentic, for good or bad.
Academy Award Winning Actress Holly Hunter Top of the Lake 2013 new TV Drama
We will all have felt this change, this mental shift but lets review how it affected directly. Aries sits somewhere in your birth chart, even if you do not have any planets in this sign you always have Aries Countyside somewhere in your psyche. It is this Aries zone which had Mercury as a house guest. This is where you will have had to be more accommodating and make those adjustments now in place. It was here that you may have been trying to exercise more imagination and set off some fantastical ideas. Take your time and respect the issues affected in that part of your chart. For instance, Aries may be in your 2nd house of ‘Money & Resources’, in which case Mercury here will have been probably prompting you to think about and plan changes that will impact your bank balance. Or if Aries covers your 7th house or zone of ‘Partnerships’ your plans could be in for a major overhaul concerning your significant other. Making the adjustments will now probably be going smoothly. Or is Aries pulling at your Venus, if so maybe these few weeks have got you thinking about deepening, or severing, your commitment to what you have previously valued.
Make the most of your facility to think with fresh ideas and with a braver heart acquired over this last Mercury in Aries period. You have been taken to some very different places in yourself and fast recently, where actions and decisions have had to be taken quickly and clearly. Things may have become very black and white, with very little patience for grey areas or the boundary-less stretch of open and endless possibilities. We wanted the freedom in order to roam, go about our daily lives unencumbered by too many demands from others as we may have believed that we have very important business of our own to attend to, however, we may have also been easily distracted by the people looking back at us, whatever the climate change we find ourselves in now and wherever in the world, we may flaneur because we need to connect.
Scottish Composer Craig Armstrong has Mercury in Aries
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credits: wikepedia & huffington post & sydneymorningherald & allmusic
posted by pippa ponton & jphibbs
Sun in Aries – Terrorism, Rebellion & the Human Race For Life
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 Ar…
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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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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.
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| 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
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posted by pippa ponton & jphibbs
Some American Aprils
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…
Venus in Aries – Love Action
Iconic Actress/Singer Marilyn Monroe has Venus in Aries’I am selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don’t deserve me…
Venus in Aries – Love Action
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| Iconic Actress/Singer Marilyn Monroe has Venus in Aries ‘I am selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best’ |
After her confusing mystery tour through the ocean depths of oceanic Pisces, from the 22nd March, 2013 Venus jumped right out of the water and began to flash her flames around in the Cardinal Fire sign of Aries. She just loves burning and searing through the first sign of any trouble as she goes about her business her own way. All the while she wanted to create new patterns, new designs and new paradigms.
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| Russian Indira Devi has Mars in Aries An adventurous life began with a Swedish banker father and a mother from the Russian nobility, she began Drama school in Moscow escaping to Berlin during the russian Revolution. Her fascination with India began at 15, when she read a book by poet-philosopher Tagore and a yoga instruction book by Yogi Ramacharaka. she travelled to India adopting her stage name, ‘dev’ for ‘god’ to sound Hindu and began to act in Indian films. She also became the first foreign woman among dedicated yogis and began to work as a yoga teacher. |
Everything appeared to be a lot more do-able, much more defined and probably a little more hopeful than can seem in less obvious Pisces. Aries Venus spends her time getting on with stuff, dealing with very important ‘busy-ness’ and attending to ‘what must be done’. There must always be something to be done because if not, she may literally get bored and that will literally spell trouble. Aries loves it literal. Venus in Aries will spend her time doing everything as perfectly as she can, getting things just right and making sure she and others is treated with the due amount of respect. Respect is a big word for Venus in Aries, dismiss or underplay it at your peril.
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| Theoretical Physicist who developed the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein has Mars in Aries ‘Everything is energy, thats all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is Physics. |
Friendly and fun, Venus has been projecting an open, honest and direct image, charming whoever she ran into but now only until the 15th of April, 2013 when she gets really indulgent and obvious in the in earth lands of Taurus. Venus Come Out Of Your Shell Venus always loves to indulge. Venus just adores feeding the body, anointing it, making it look, smell and feeling good is basically what Venus is all about. Venus also loves beauty in all it’s forms, she has an inherent appreciation of the finer things such as art, culture and social bonds. Relationships, money and fairness are also high on Venus desires. A run through of her list of desires and to-do’s gives us a clue on just how fundamental and central she is to our lives. Love and Money – get those two things sorted and most people feel they have a good handle on life. You can deny one but it is unusual to deny both.
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| Actor/director/activist George Clooney has Venus in Aries Ultimate Bachelor ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ Award (People Magazine) |
Venus has been mysterious, elusive and bewitching during her time in Pisces for the past month and has got all of us kind of used to this way of being – saying but not saying, meaning but not meaning, doing but not doing, making sure we adopt a more sensitive, empathetic and compassionate attitude to those with whom we came into contact. How different has it been with Aries the warrior running the ‘Love ‘n Money Show’? More respectful, more mindful of our p’s and q’s? More direct clearer attitudes when relating to others, not taking liberties, not forgetting the details and overstepping our boundaries, how will we know if or when we overstep? Well, for a start, tolerance for falling short of these behaviors will be low, whether from others or within ourselves.
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| Performance Singer/Internet-Phenomena, Lady Gaga has Venus in Aries ‘Mother Monster’ back after hip surgery for injury sustained on her 98 date tour Born This Way Ball |
If you want to attract a Venus in Aries, look like you want to get on with things and have a plan. Be prepared to take action. Be brave, stand up for yourself and those weaker than you, be active, show care for the creatures of this earth and you will be on the winning team. Acting in these ways will count, this kind of thing will matter, and we will have a low tolerance for sloppy uncaring or cruel behaviors. Venus in Aries loves a code, it loves a set of ethics and standards to live by and it loves nothing better than to be free to do what it wants when it wants. Make no bones about it this Venus goddess of love romance and desire is up for the fight just as much as the warrior god Mars. One big difference is that covered in Venusian charm and seduction this Aries may not at first glance seems as fierce. Hang on one minute, get them fired up and step out of the way as molten hot lava explodes in hot flumes throwing just about everything up into the atmosphere.
Just let others do their own thing without interference be kind to everyone and all creatures, be respectful and we may just have got through without too much scorching and singing around the edges. Drink coffee too hot and we burn our tongue, overstep the mark and we get told in no uncertain terms what we did wrong, push the door over the threshold and we may get a glimpse of either a demon or an angel just depends on whether we have been naughty or nice.
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| Actress Jennifer Aniston has Venus in Aries In a media ‘love-triangle battle’ hype with Angelina Jolie about ex-husband Brad Pitt since 2004 ‘I have had like wind-burn from this year’ On turning 44 in 2013…. Yoga calms me down. It’s a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time.’ |
Venus in Aries means that we can push and manipulate ourselves into odd shapes and uncomfortable poses, as we are well able to hold a posture or mental attitude for a long time. We are able to withstand and weather the storm just so that we can accomplish our goal. Woe betide you if you meet the fury or hit a wall of displeasure you could be faced with a dark blank stare from a Venus in Aries if you offend their sensibilities or clash against them in some way. Basically Venus in Aries wants to Do Right both for itself and for everyone else, they really do care and it really does matter to them that we all treat each other kindly and with respect. During this time then we should all attend to these matters if we want to increase our own store of love and money.
Independence, a very important and key word for everyone at Venus in Aries time, and one not to be taken lightly, it will be a delicate balance between affording the freedom and independence which is so craved against the equally strong need to be social and loving. More a case of ‘don’t hem them in’ but be there when they need you. If we are all wanting this very same thing then it is a tricky, delicate balancing act to pull off.
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| Ironman Actor Robert Downey Jnr has Venus in Aries |
Aries wants us to apply our attention to our actions, to press on and get moving. With Venus the goddess of Love here for a while it will urge us to get a project started, to actually do what we have been imagining or dreaming of whilst it was in Pisces. Now is the time to slap on our war paint, do our war dance and go after what we desire.
We will all have a month where our relationships may get a bit more feisty and fired-up. Expect passions to be stirred and sudden rushes of blood to the head as impulse control will be a bit on the loose side. Do not expect indecision or wavering with Venus in Aries as we strike to the heart of the matter and claim our prize.
It may also be the case that we have been getting much more irate and impatient. Our frustration levels could have soared at the slightest roadblock or the faintest sniff of a restraint over this period. There may be more than a few red faces around after doing something foolish as we may act first and think second with a swashbuckling attitude which masks a vulnerability quite close to the surface. The ideal of perfection is like a windmill we may all have been chasing in many ways throughout this period sometimes to the good and sometimes less so but always with a brave and bold intention.
It may also be the case that we have been getting much more irate and impatient. Our frustration levels could have soared at the slightest roadblock or the faintest sniff of a restraint over this period. There may be more than a few red faces around after doing something foolish as we may act first and think second with a swashbuckling attitude which masks a vulnerability quite close to the surface. The ideal of perfection is like a windmill we may all have been chasing in many ways throughout this period sometimes to the good and sometimes less so but always with a brave and bold intention.
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| Actress Icon Audrey Hepburn has Venus in Aries ‘I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe the happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles…Nothing is impossible the word itself says I’m possible…For beautiful eyes look for the good in others, for beautiful lips speak only words of kindness and for poise walk with the knowledge that you are never alone’ |
Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Aries-attuned’, we all have degrees in our birth chart which looks out for any Aries clout, your personal Aries antenna. It will be good to look at just how smoothly the matters connected to your Aries house and/or planets have been running. Are they functioning as well as they could be or is there room for improvement?
If you have Aries spanning the 5th zone of Romance & Creativity, you may have found that your ‘fun time’ got a little perk as did what you do just for the sheer love of it. This may continue to deepen and go to another level.
If your own Venus is in Aries, a time to welcome in new arrivals in the shape of people or coins. This is your time for you to have the ‘Wow factor’ – work it!
If your own Venus is in Aries, a time to welcome in new arrivals in the shape of people or coins. This is your time for you to have the ‘Wow factor’ – work it!
If you are a Sun sign Aries then this stuff is easy, right? Well to a point, even an ambitious and keen Aries knows the value of down tools and switching off the whirring motors. Your hearts desire for spontaneity, independence and self-expression gets an extra boost, however. As Venus moves into Taurus, lets review how we shaped up.
For this Venus in Aries month we may have just had that spark that sets us off on our way to get what we want. The ignition of impetus to go out and get our quarry. we could just have got the impulse to just jump into situations unprepared. This readiness for the now, freshness, newness and ‘wonder-ess-ness’ may well take us into new ground and open up virgin territory as we charge into a new chapter with all the power, force and energy to startle and re-start our thirst for life. We all may feel just a little bit more refreshed and renewed in a place that we have ‘fought’ hard for….Mars in Aries – The Primal Punch
For this Venus in Aries month we may have just had that spark that sets us off on our way to get what we want. The ignition of impetus to go out and get our quarry. we could just have got the impulse to just jump into situations unprepared. This readiness for the now, freshness, newness and ‘wonder-ess-ness’ may well take us into new ground and open up virgin territory as we charge into a new chapter with all the power, force and energy to startle and re-start our thirst for life. We all may feel just a little bit more refreshed and renewed in a place that we have ‘fought’ hard for….Mars in Aries – The Primal Punch
Both Singers Chris Martin & Rhianna have Venus in Aries
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I like it loud- Mercury in Aries
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Mars in Aries – The Primal Punch
79 in March 2013, Feminist/Activist Pioneer Gloria Steinem has Mars in Aries’The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off'(with Dorothy Pitman Hughes)On the 12th March, 2013 the warrior planet Mars set off on its travels spring…
Mars in Aries – The Primal Punch
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| 79 in March 2013, Feminist/Activist Pioneer Gloria Steinem has Mars in Aries ‘The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off’ (with Dorothy Pitman Hughes) |
On the 12th March, 2013 the warrior planet Mars set off on its travels springing into action and jumping into fiery Aries. Mars will be fired up here until the 20th April, 2013 when it touches Taurean terra firma again.
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| Argentine General Leopoldo Galtieri has Mars in Aries His opponent ( with an opposing Mars, literally) ‘the Iron Lady of the Western World’ British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who died on the 8th April, 2013, while the ‘battle’ for the ‘sheep’ on the Falkland Islands/Malvinas appears to continue. Residents voting in a two day ballot in March 2013 in a sovereignty referendum asking if they wanted to remain a British overseas territory and knocking aside Argentina’s claims over the islands. Diplomatic tensions between the two countries continues unabated since the Falklands war, over three decades ago. The referendum results revealed an overwhelming vote to remain British with a huge turnout and only 3 people voting No. |
While Mars is here, bursting with energy and keen to expend it, it’s sheer will power and self belief will thrust its metaphorical sword into the first fight or challenge it sets its beady sheep’s eye on, which can either hasten trouble or quash it instantly. This immediately leads us to imagine that Mars in Aries signals an increase in war and strife or at least the threat of it. Whilst rash and impulsive, Aries also rules the head, and most Ariens are clever and tactical. However Mars rules Aries, and as such ‘Fight!’ may over rule ‘Think!’
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| Hollywood Legend, Actor/Director/Mayor Clint Eastwood has Mars in Aries Eastwood, a Republican has given high profile support of same sex marriage by calling the US Supreme Court to drop Prop 8 ‘I don’t give a f**k about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We’re making a big deal out of things we shouldn’t be making a deal out of …Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.’ |
During its stay in Aries, Mars hurtles, rushes and charges about the place, being ever-so-busy doing ‘all these very important tasks’ to the extent that it just might forget to stop and question the efficiency of its actions and behaviours. At heart it desperately wants to do good and help, even change the world, so it will be with some sorrow to actually acknowledge that the opposite effect has occurred. Here Mars is ‘suited and booted’ in all its metal armour with weapons honed, tempered and sharpened, surely all this is not put to best use picking delicate daisies and floating around aimlessly on a sea of dreams, as Mars was more inclined to do whilst in Pisces.Mars in Pisces – Eternal Affectations
Now Mars is blasting, firing and eating heartily from the ceramic or metal bowl forged by his own might, to his own taste and much more his forte and inclination.
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| Celebrity Chef Evangelical Food Prophet Jamie Oliver has Mars in Aries New recession book and project will make meals that waste less and cost less.‘This year I’ve got the message loud and clear that as everyone comes under bigger and bigger financial pressure, they want help to cook tasty, nutritious food on a budget…Our biggest luxury is knowledge, whether times are hard or not. So get kitchen-smart and smash the recession.’ |
Mars the planet of action will be driven to stand up and defend those less able or down trodden. We may find ourselves impetuously making a stand on someone’s behalf, striding into another persons conflict engagement without a moments contemplation of consequence or effect, all we know is that we must and can do the right thing. With this extra dosage of courage, impulse, rash bravado or just bravery we may race into taking direct action. This is that time of year when ‘the red mist’ may descend more easily over our eyes as we literally have times when we simply ‘see red’.
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| Singer/Songwriter Mick Hucknall has Mars in Aries Self confessed ‘sex addict’ admits to having sex with three women a day. He produces wines now under the label “Il Cantante”, The Singer in Catania, Sicily also owns a company that constructs public squares and public buildings and is politically ‘simply red’, supporting the UK Labour Party. |
Mars love a good fight, and whilst it was in compassionate and imaginative Pisces some real battles played out on the global stage. Loss, resignation and religion are very Piscean words and the Catholic world ‘lost’ its spiritual leader with Pope Benedict announcing his own early retirement leaving the Catholic church facing a resignation for the first time in 600 years. This was most unprecedented and subsequently set up maneuverings and politicking behind closed doors and out of view and again, very Piscean. As Mars moved into Aries a new Pope was chosen after a relatively quick conclave, setting a number of ‘firsts’, such as his name, Francis the 1st, the first South American Pope, the first Jesuit Pope, all very pioneering and getting into a very Aries mood.
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| President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has Mars in Aries In the top ten in Forbes list of Most Powerful Women she has also vigourously taken up the Falkland/Malvinas issue.(with Pope Francis 1st) |
Then there was the tragic blending of romance and death involving the South African, para-Olympian athlete, ‘Blade Runner’, Oscar Pistorius and his well loved girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The world was utterly mystified and bewildered as it watched the unfolding events of a wounded man in court charged with killing his beautiful and glamorous girlfriend in their en-suite bathroom next to a fully armed bedroom and claiming mistaken identity. ‘Playful tiff’ or full on attack can be difficult to watch.
TV Chef Nigella Lawson silenced by husband Advertising Mogul/Art Patron Charles Saatchi, Mars in Aries
‘From Domestic Goddess to Domestic Violence’ in a shocking public display, described and played down as a ‘playful tiff’ by millionaire copywriter Saatchi, who received a Police caution on the 17th June 2013 and with neighbours subsequently ‘reporting’ the couple as having a ‘volatile’ relationship.
Facing a situation with Mars in Aries ready for full on face-to-face engagement may be tough. Whilst part of the picture is planning, thinking and preparing, in essence Mars wants to move, to spring into action, to flex its muscles. Mars in Aires wants to prove itself by defending the weak, taking up a cause, being a knight in shiny bright armour, winning every battle and being the hero.
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South Korea ex-President ‘God’ Lee Myung Bak has Mars in Aries A figure of hate in North Korea his image used for target practice until his five year term ended in 2013. South Korea raised its alert level to vital threat on the 10th April 2013 whilst North Korea has warned foreigners in South Korea to take precaution in case of war and no guarantee for safety of embassy staff. (Benetton Unhate campaign) |
Mars in Aries may function at the social level making sure everyone in its group is treated fairly, it may function in the personal level making sure that you are treated with respect or it may function on the universal where large groups face a head on battle over some cause or other. Our ardour and heat may rise, we may rush in like naïve fools only to turn round and find ourselves alone and standing in stark contrast to the surroundings like a white silhouette against the dark background. We will utterly believe, in ourselves in our project in our latest enthusiasm, in our current cause, and most especially in the good of others. This can turn out to be extremely positive as things will appear very black or white and easily identified but equally this could mean difficulties could rapidly escalate and spiral out of control or simply be denied.
Comic/Presenter Dara O’Briain has Mars in Aries
The Astrological Association of Great Britain has complained about comments made on the BBC’s programme Stargazing Live. According to The Guardian, the organisation is unhappy about remarks made by Dara O’Briain and Brian Cox on the show. O’Brien said: ‘Let’s get this straight once and for all, astrology is rubbish’ Cox replied: ‘In the interests of balance on the BBC, yes, astrology is nonsense.’
Check out the Aries zone in your own chart. This area will have the passing of the Knight In Shining Armour through it.This is where we will be urged to act as the have-a-go hero.
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| Author of ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ Julia Ward Howe has Mars in Aries Daughter of a New York banker she married Samuel Gridley Howe, a physician, reformer and pioneer teacher of the blind. They both were were abolitionists and her writings reflected her philosophies. None of her work had the popularity of the patriotic song composed in a tent whilst visiting Union troops during the American Civil War, ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ making her one of America’s most widely honored women. Following the War she ran the New England Woman Suffrage Association then the American Woman Suffrage Association. ‘I could not leave my nursery to follow the march of our armies’ |
Used wisely this energy can be very healthy, much needed, profound and powerful.
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| Swami Vivekananda born Narendra Nath Datta has Mars in Aries ‘Strength is Life, Weakness is Death..be a Hero always say I have no fear’Introduced Indian philosophies like Yoga to the western world and raising awareness of Hinduism. He was also a major force in a revival in India that contributed to the rise of nationalism in colonial India |
For instance if through your 6th zone you could come to the defense of a work colleague or you could try to save an animal from suffering. Going through any part of a chart, if misused this energy can just end up behaving wildly and completely out of control..
Uruguayan Footballer playing for Liverpool FC Luis Saurez has Mars in Aries
Or is it passing through your 4th zone of home and family and you need to don your painting/ decorating gear and spark up those DIY tools. Conversely used more negatively you could simply just anger and inflame situations rather then calm them down. You might easily get the wrong end of the stick and charge off waving your arms at the wrong windmill. Moving through your 11th zone of people you value as friends just may erupt into some previously unheard charged hostility. Through your 7th house zone and a partner may kick off over something seemingly trivial but which enrages them into a short-lived but explosive tirade. We can all use the power of Mars to motor us through to our goals, to ignite our passions, fuel our issues and drive us ever onwards. During this time we may come to be a hero or champion of a worthy cause or movement facing the primal urges.
Comic/Actor Russell Brand has Mars in Aries ‘He’s a really big deal, I’m told this…’
As one of ‘Thatchers children’ he writes in the Guardian, ‘The blunt, pathetic reality today is that a little old lady has died, who in the winter of her life had to water roses alone under police supervision. If you behave like there’s no such thing as society, in the end there isn’t. Her death must be sad for the handful of people she was nice to and the rich people who got richer under her stewardship. It isn’t sad for anyone else…It always struck me as peculiar, too, when the Spice Girls briefly championed Thatcher as an early example of girl power. I don’t see that. She is an anomaly; a product of the freak-onomy of her time. Barack Obama, interestingly, said in his statement that she had “broken the glass ceiling for other women”. Only in the sense that all the women beneath her were blinded by falling shards. She is an icon of individualism, not of feminism.’ Guardian 9th April 2013
In Britain on the 15th March, 2013 it was Red Nose Day, a time when the Great British public let their inhibitions loose and enjoyed a laugh or two in order to raise money for charities and causes around the world. We all have the potential to make a fool of ourselves, take on physical challenges or just donate money to others who have chosen to go to work in their pyjamas or work the checkout in a supermarket dressed up as Little Bo Peep. Heros, one and all, shepherds for life perhaps, not just for a day. Occasionally perhaps we all wonder where did we put those sheep or want to just ride free, jump all the fences and shadow box our own demons.
Singer Marcus Mumford has Mars in Aries
Both Paul Simon, who wrote this song & Art Garfunkel who originally sang it with him also have Mars in Aries
(Silent screen immortal comic/stuntman Buster Keaton has the opposite Mars in Libra)
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