Scorpio ~ America Recycles Day November 7, 2009
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November 15th is the official America Recycles Day and is a day dedicated to encouraging us to recycle and buy recycled products. I was surprised to learn that 2009 is ARD’s 12th year. Thank goodness someone has been watching out for us. I love the ARD’s motto: “It all comes back to you.”
Yep, recycling is a Scorpio event.
I live in a community where recycling doesn’t seem to be a high priority. Unlike many communities, we aren’t obliged to recycle. We aren’t required to separate plastics, cans, and newspapers from our regular garbage. The sanitation department doesn’t provide bins for curbside recycling and will throw everything into the landfill here. That includes pesticides, old medications, paint, and all kinds of toxic materials. Our landfill has some kind of super liner that allows this kind of dumping. Apparently, when it reaches capacity, they’ll put a supercover over it, and throw a bunch of dirt over it. And then what? This landfill has won a couple of national awards, so I suppose it’s progress, but it still creeps me out.
Regardless of what seems to be reckless abandon, the head hauncho at our landfill assures us that plenty of the county residents are doing their part to recycle. The county has even gone into partnership with a paper mill and uses their unused warehouse to sort and store all the plastics and newspapers collected at bins placed around the county.
Did you know that if you pull out your recyclables and separate your composting materials (all kinds of uncooked food except meats, fish, and dairy), that you’ll reduce your trash to about a third? It’s kind of like having a clean trash compactor. Gardeners are very knowledgeable about the merits of composting and how it’s a magic elixer for your soil. I’ve made the switch to organic gardening. It’s not always as easy as it was before to get rid of weeds. I can’t just spray them away anymore, but conscience overrides comfort. This is my first house. I want good dirt and happy little wild critters, you know. If I poision them, I poision myself.
Plastic bags are a huge problem. The stores will put one item in a plastic bag, and you wind up with 30 of them before you know it. Reduce the problem by getting yourself some reusable bags for shopping and keep them in your car. If you’re in an area where you don’t need to drive to the store, keep them someplace handy enough to grab on your way out. They’re great for all kinds of other purposes, too. I use them to move books around the house from one room to another. Speaking of books ~ when ordering from Amazon, I get as many used books as possible. They’re always in great shape and I save money.
Boils faster!
Here’s a tip from Arm & Hammer that came as a surprise to me when I read it this morning ~ get water to boil faster by putting a lid on the pot. Wow, who knew?! How does that help the world? It saves time, therefore putting a tiny bit less stress on our natural resources, therefore saving us money because we use less electricity, gas, or propane. I’m sort of psyched to check it out. (OK, I’m easily amused.)
If you haven’t taken the first steps toward recycling, try just one little thing to start. Buy one reusable bag, or don’t buy water in a bottle for a week. Teach your children. They’re going to have to put up with an even bigger mess on planet Earth than we do.
Scorpio ~ Obsession, Fatal Attractions, and Film Noir November 7, 2009
Posted by cjwright in Planets and Signs, Scorpio.Tags: astrology, auntie moon, cjwright, fatal attractions, film noir, obsession, pluto and venus
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Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurry in Double Indemnity
There may be some debate about Pluto or Neptune being the ruler of our obsessions. There’s not so much debate about fatal attractions. I have no doubt that Pluto, Scorpio’s monarch, is the title character in the film noir aspects of life so I’m placing this topic under the Scorpio heading. Neptune is sure to win an Oscar in its role of Best Supporting Actor or Actress to Pluto in this dark mystery. Venus, of course, is our leading lady. The patsy in this ill-fated ménage à trois? Who else…the moon…the poor sap who’s getting the wool pulled over their eyes.
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard
Neptune as the lord or lady of obsession is a bit of a no-brainer. Here’s a real contender. In it’s negative state, it’s the poster child for addictions of all kinds ~ drink, drug, food, tv, sex, shopping, falling in love, any kind of escapism from the hard knocks or everyday routines of life. Calgon…or should I say Neptune…take me away. Neptune has its lovely points, but not when it comes to the topic du jour. In this scenario, Neptune is completely obsessed with the one object of desire that can turn something obviously dangerous into the most wonderful, beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. Pure illusion.
When do obsession and the desire to control ~ or obsession and allowing yourself to be controlled ~ pass from Neptune’s realm to Pluto’s? When fear, loss, or anger enter the picture? Maybe someone becomes afraid ~ afraid of the dark, afraid of the pain, afraid of losing the thing that has become so important, when the realizatiaon of being duped becomes obviously apparent?
When Pluto operates dysfunctionally, it destroys without rebuilding and penetrates without mercy. . .too forceful to be humane. ~ Gail Fairfield, Choice Centered Astrology
Pluto and Venus in aspect can be quite a sexy combo, and someone with these placements in their natal chart is probably going to have a great deal of sex appeal. If it’s not sex appeal, it’s certainly going to be some kind of magnetism that can be used to get what they want. Money or position are excellent lures.
Here’s a typical definition of Pluto transiting Venus:
By Pluto’s hard transit to your natal Venus, you need to keep your head and not relinquish your own power to reason. If transiting Pluto is squaring or opposing your natal Venus, you might find yourself very attracted to someone who is going to wreak havoc in your life. This smacks of “fatal attraction.” Word on the street is that these relationships don’t work out very well. If you find yourself obsessively attracted to someone during a transit of this kind, be absolutely sure that you know what you’re getting into and that you’re willing to walk down that road. Look into your future. Is this an affair you are willing to live with forever?
Do your homework. Look at the obvious. Hire a dectective if you have to.
Well, that wasn’t the result in my case, but I know there was such a case in Venezuela ~ meaning that it does happen.
During my own tr. Pluto square Venus, I left the banking industry to manage a notable dance school in New York City. Venus in her guise as the arts was my lure, backed up by Neptune in Libra which Pluto was about to smooch by conjunction. I didn’t know a thing about dance, but I had a pretty good head for how to run it as a business. Working in the arts gave me a sense of prestige that corporate America could not. There’s that Pluto/Venus magnetism at work. It didn’t last. Frankly, it wore me out. Looking back on it now, it has a kind of “affair” feel to it. Lots of very famous people walked through those doors and that appealed to my ego a lot more than statistics and routine number crunching.
A recurring issue during those years at the dance school had to do with another Pluto issue ~ sanitation. There was disagreement among sanitation companies as to which one would be picking up the garbage. That’s an important issue in NYC and involved some very Plutonian characters.
A third Pluto/Venus event during that time was the discovery of rampant endometriosis during surgery to remove a grapefruit sized cyst from my ovary. Venus is in my 6th house (health) in Cancer (the womb/ovaries). Coincidence? Am I grabbing at straws to find a correlation here?
Typical of the “it won’t work out” messages written for Pluto/Venus transits, my involvement with the dance world came to a close. I ended it. We weren’t really made for each other, after all. It wore me out, and I didn’t really love it. It was just so dang appealing and gave me a sense of position that banking could not.
But back to a more film noir type of Pluto/Venus transit.
We usually think of women being taken advantage of by men under a transit of this type, but that’s limited thinking. Women do it to men. Men do it to men, and women do it to other women. Someone takes control of another person’s actions and it’s all downhill from there.
Barbara Stanwyck used sex appeal to control Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity. This movie is about a murder/insurance fraud. Murder and insurance are associated with Pluto and the 8th house earmarking this film with Scorpionic traits. MacMurray really went the distance for Stanwyck, losing everything and taking a bullet. Gloria Swanson lured William Holden with money and a career boost in Sunset Boulevard and he he wound up face down in the pool of her Hollywood mansion. He also took a bullet. Both of those guys took their bullets while trying to escape a fatal attraction.
Please understand that this is not to say that you’ll actually get shot during a transit of Pluto to Venus. I didn’t. Most of us don’t. As a warning, though, you might have to take the metaphorical bullet somewhere in your personal life ~ your bank account, your marriage, your career, your ego ~ if you get caught up in this web. If your personal life is in some kind of crisis, you might be more susceptible to someone who you believe can save you. That’s Neptune in full costume doing a number on you. Don’t get sucked in.
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Photos courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Scorpio ~ Clean Up Your Bathroom November 5, 2009
Posted by cjwright in Planets and Signs, Scorpio and Pluto.Tags: auntie moon, bathroom renovation, cjwright, scorpio
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Early Stage of Renovation
About this time last year I started renovating my bathroom. Actually, I’d peel a little bit of the 35-year-old wallpaper off a spot and then stare it for a few days. Then I’d repeat the process in another spot ~ peel, stare for days, peel, stare for days. That went on for several months, and then one day I peeled off almost an entire wall. I had committed. An ugly peeled-off wall meant there was no going back. I had crossed the Rubicon. Transformation was eminent.
Okay, so…what does all this have to do with Scorpio? Well, a few things. Scorpio and Pluto rule bathrooms, toilets, urinals. Pluto holds the sceptre over plumbing. Scorpio is a water sign. The organs of elimination are related to Scorpio. That all makes sense. So, renovating your bathroom is a Scorpionic transformational event. It certainly was for me!!
The whole house and part of the garage was a huge mess during the renovation. I knew that would be the case ~ which I why I spent so much time staring at the wall instead of doing anything about it. Stupidly, I started this mess around the Thanksgiving holiday and it dragged on into the New Year. That’s not a particularly good time to have your house torn up, but it eventually paid off.
I scraped, I sanded, the toilet paper went missing. Dust was everywhere. Little snippets of old gooey wallpaper jumped out from who knows where to stick to the oddest places on me. The floor was gross because I didn’t cover it before I started scraping the old paper off ~ even though I had the thick brown floor paper made just for that purpose! It’s still rolled up out in the garage. Scrubbing out the corners of a bathroom floor covered with old wallpaper paste is not fun. Put the paper down.
Sometimes you have to make a mess to clean things up. And that’s certainly the story of my bathroom renovation, any renovation actually. In many ways, that’s the crux of a Pluto transit activating a point in your chart. A lot of nasty stuff has to get demolished and hauled off so that the corners of life get a little cleaner.
I have to stop here and say what a great job my husband did on making it into a beautiful room. He’s a very talented carpenter and painter with a discriminating Virgo eye, and without him, I would probably still be in the throes of the mess trying to decide what to do next ~ stuck forever to my own gooey-pastey wall, like a human fly-paper trap.
Oh! And to make things a little more difficult for us, we had to replace the drain under the bathroom basin while we were in the middle of the renovation. It decided to dissolve before our very eyes. Nice, huh?
If you’re wondering what all this has to do with you ~ simple. First, and least important, clean up your bathroom. Second, don’t just stare at what needs to be renovated in your life. Pluto is waiting heavy-handed with a wrench and hammer. If you don’t take care of the do-it-yourself renovations you need to make ~ in your bathroom or anywhere else in your life ~ he’ll step in as your contractor. And that’s a bill you don’t want to get.
Scorpio ~ Hey! Watch Where You’re Going! November 4, 2009
Posted by cjwright in Scorpio and Pluto.Tags: auntie moon, carelessness, cjwright, pluto, Portia Nelson, scorpio, There's a Hole in My Sidewalk
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Have you ever stumbled while walking down the sidewalk because you weren’t watching what you were doing? Maybe you stepped right into a big gaping hole?
If you’ve been keeping up with the news about Saturn’s entry into Libra and the current Pluto in Cap square Saturn, you’ve been alerted to the strength of these placements and the caution you need to take to make them work for you instead of against you.
Pluto square Saturn
To err on the side of caution, this is to alarm you to watch where you’re going! There’s an open manhole with your name on it. The manhole pictured here looks a little too much like an open toilet seat to me, and that’s exactly where we don’t want to end up ~ down the toilet!
I hope you’ve kept up with Donna Cunningham’s incredible 3-part series, The Pluto-Saturn Preparedness Kit on Skywriter. You can see the whole list of articles in the series by clicking here. Read them. They’ll really help you get the cover back on that manhole.
If you read this blog regularly, you know I’m a huge fan of astrological symbolism. You can find an abundance of it just by looking around the very room you’re sitting in right now. Sometimes we need factual information to understand what’s happening in our lives. The cold hard facts are necessary to get a clear perspective on the all too obvious pitfalls that surround us. Being a lunar type, I automatically hone in on the feelings that accompany an issue or situation. Symbolism and metaphors help me process the facts and feelings as a whole.
Portia Nelson is the author of a poem that really seems to symbolize the Pluto/Saturn square, as well as Saturn’s transit through any house or by its contact with any of our natal planets. This poem is a warning based on life experience, and I’d bet all of us can recognize ourselves in her words.
There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk:
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
by Portia Nelson
Chapter 1:
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost…
I am helpless.
It is not my fault.
It takes forever to find my way out.
Chapter 2:
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don’t see it.
I fall in.
I can’t believe I am in the same place.
But it isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
Chapter 3:
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it there.
I still fall in…It’s a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
Chapter 4:
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
Chapter 5:
I walk down another street.
As observers, we stand back and watch people fall into holes over and over again. Sometimes it’s hysterical and we just stand back and laugh. The hole was so obvious! How could they miss it? Other times, we might try to warn someone ~ Watch out! ~ but our warning is too late or they don’t hear us, and in they go.
Sometimes it’s us that takes the fall. It was never on purpose, was it? That doesn’t really matter. The key is to learn from those pitfall experiences so that we don’t continue to make the same mistakes again and again. We walk down another street. But we’ve still got to keep our eyes open.
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Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Astrological Picture Book ~ The Death Card and Scorpio November 2, 2009
Posted by cjwright in Astrology and Tarot, Planets and Signs, Scorpio and Pluto.Tags: astrological picture book, astrology, auntie moon, cjwright, death, judgement, judgment, scorpio
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The astrological associations of the tarot are open to lots of debate among authors and readers. The tarot is a symbolic system that holds personal meaning for the individual readers, so there’s lot of room for interpretation. I assoicate the Death card with Scorpio, and will investigate the sign of Scorpio, the 8th house, and the issues that surround them when this card is drawn. I associate the card Judgement with the planet Pluto. Together, these two cards represent the cycle of endings, transformational power, and new beginnings.
Death becomes the Teacher Card when you realize that coming to terms with death is true liberation. You can then die to those rules that constrict your freedom of spirit. ~ Mary K. Greer, Tarot Constellations
If you have some experience with tarot, you’ve most likely been taught that the Death card is not the harbinger of physical death. It’s a scarey looking card ~ and death tends to scare the patootey out of most folks ~ but no one has ever died when I pulled this card. Death does, however, represent the natural end of things ~ work, projects, relationships, and believe it or not ~ even the end of bad habits and hardships. Everything is cyclical, so all things end. Even long-term commitments end through change or by evolving. At least, we can hope that they change because the only alternative is stagnation and, ultimately, true death. Rotting, non-evolving, never ending, eternal stagnation. The last rut.
How long can you hold onto something that has no life of its own or that sucks the life out of you as you try to keep it barely alive? Do you just keep trying to revive it again and again? Sooner or later, you’re going to have to loosen that death grip and let go.
Here’s some good news about the Death card. It’s in the middle of the Major Arcana cards (#13 of 22) because Death is not the end. Based on the meanings of numbers, the card has the base number of 4 (13=1+3=4). 4 represents solid foundations, stablility. The skeleton shows us that ~ even when everything else has been stripped away ~ we are left with our basic foundation, our core. We can survive if we find the strength and a sustaining way to rebuild.
The number 1 is the unique spark, the urge toward birth, and the desire to survive. It’s the Sun. 3 is the ability to express oneself and expand ~ Jupiter. 4 is Saturn, the earth, stablity, foundation, continuum. And that means growth. Growth is the only alternative. Whatever it is that the Death card is pointing at, craves new life.
There’s a little white thingy in the upper left hand corner of the BOTA Death card. It’s a seed, ready to be planted, carrying all the potential of whatever you will have it become. It’s a seed from the Tree of Life. As long as there’s a seed, a spark, we can go on.
You have to make room for abundance and the only way to do that is to get rid of all the rubbish that’s holding you down. All things end. Go ahead and grieve for what you have to let go. Hold on to what you need to. Bury your dead. Clean house. It’s time for something new. So much more is waiting for you.
Judgement shows us that we will all be called forward again, and not necessarily in “the next life.” It could be today. As Pluto, Judgement insists that we make major changes in our lives so that we may live again.
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See more quotes on Death as Scopio at The Quotable Tarot.
The cards in this post are from the BOTA deck which you color yourself. You can find all images from the deck here. You can order a deck or print the images on heavy card stock. The cards in this post are the ones I colored.
Suggested reading for the Death card is Hajo Banzjaf’s chapter on Death in Tarot and the Journey of the Hero.
I’ve always taken a great deal of comfort in Dylan’s song, Death is Not the End.
Full Moon in Taurus ~ A Hunter’s Moon November 1, 2009
Posted by cjwright in Planets and Signs, Taurus.Tags: Actaeon, Artemis, astrology, auntie moon, cjwright, Diana, Full Moon in Taurus, Hunter's Moon, security, the hunt
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Taurus the Bull is grounded, earthy, stubborn, persistent, practical, creative, security conscious, and very sensual. Ruling our sense of hearing ~ Taurus hears the call of the muse and the tinkle of the coin.
Taurus signifies our resources (what we have) and our values (what we believe in). Sometimes they’re the same ~ and sometimes, they’re not. Sometimes we deny them, give them up, or perhaps they are taken from us by circumstances. If we are true to our authentic selves, we will not lose site of them or fail to honor them. Not for anything.
If you read my post on Selene, you may remember that I said I preferred her as the Goddess of the Moon rather than Diana. Well…when it comes to Full Moon in Taurus, I just might have to do a little wafting on that. The Hunter’s Moon is the perfect depiction of the sublime partnership between Venus and Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, who later took on a moon goddess role.
This Full Moon received the name, Hunter’s Moon, because it enabled hunters to press on into the night to capture game for the feast that would follow ~ a mark of a secure winter reserve. When things have been reduced to their bare minimum, we must find that we have held on to the one or two things that will sustain us.
This Full Moon brings an opportunity to explore the valued ~ and hunted ~ in our lives. The Taurus Moon asks a very important question:
What do you value in yourself?
The Full Moon in Taurus will always appear during Scorpio since Full Moons always show us oppositions to the Sun. Taurus sites a trophy in Scorpio’s house ~ there is at least one great trophy to be targeted and claimed now. Use this Full Moon to discover what you value most. Scope it. Site it. Know where it is. When it comes time to draw your arrow, you may discover that you have Diana’s accuracy in this hunt, or you learn that your mark is a bit off.
A big question to ask yourself before letting the arrow fly is, “Is this target what I thought it was?” It is important not to be fooled by your own moonlight (or your passing passions) and to remain persistent in your hunt.
Where is Taurus in your chart? Wherever it is, it signifies a part of your life that needs security while at the same time requiring a lushness that is hard to find anywhere else.
Where is Venus? Wherever she is in your chart, know that she is singing a song made only for your ears. Listen to that song, and be sure you understand the lyrics.
Diana was frequently depicted with a deer or hunting dogs. Though she herself remained chaste and virgin (and required it of her nymphs), she was, nevertheless, the goddess and protector of pregnant women and children. She took no lovers. She guarded what she valued most ~ herself ~ and would not be compromised.
Diana and Actaeon ~ Giuseppe Cesari
There’s an interesting story associated with Diana and the hunter, Actaeon. He accidentally stumbled upon her while she was bathing, which really angered her. It’s important to understand that he was not spying on her, not stalking her. It was an accident. A bit of Scorpionic revenge erupted in Diana, and she turned the unsuspecting hunter into a stag and allowed his own dogs to kill him. In the painting, you can see that he has already sprouted antlers. Click on the painting to get a closer look.
Even though we’re living through Scorpio days now, the goal of this Hunter’s Moon is not to take quick revenge as Diana did. The goal is to target what it is that is most valuable to you ~ what it is that gives you security and is a voice from which you cannot turn away. When everything else has been stripped away, this is the one thing that you will not let anyone take from you. It’s your dignity, your core self.
Scorpio ~ Tricks and Treats from Our Own October 29, 2009
Posted by cjwright in Planets and Signs, Scorpio and Pluto.Tags: astrology, auntie moon, cjwright, Halloween, scorpio
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There are some really good Halloween posts circulating now on the Astro blogs. If you’re craving some fun posts for the season, here’s a few links I’ve collected from our own community of astrology bloggers ~ posts on costumes, decorations, movies, and creepy candy divination.
Joyce Mason, The Radical Virgo, has a costume guide for each sign of the zodiac in her post Scorpio for a Day. Befitting this Cancer native, she suggests the evil mom character, and mentions Mommie Dearest, a movie I just can’t resist. A real rubber-necking treat. Check out her suggestions for your sign.
Beth Turnage at Astrology Explored also has some great costume tips, with fun photos in her post, Halloween Costumes by Zodiac Sign 2009. I love the Leo Burger King and the Aquarius Face Book costumes!
If you don’t like costumes, here’s one that anyone can wear all day long ~ even to the office. Only the truly astute will know that you’re in costume. It will be your little Scorpio secret.
Halloween Costume for the Office
This is so easy. You’ll need red lipstick (or lipstick liner) and a little purple and green eyeshadow. What you’re going to do is create a small “bruise” on your neck with the purple and green eyeshadow. Just dab the two colors around until you get a bruised effect. With the lipstick liner or lipstick, put two small dots inside the “bruised” area and delicately smudge it so that it has a bit of an infected look. Add two small red dots for the fang marks. Instant vampire victim!
I’ve done this several times at Halloween in very corporate environments, and get the biggest kick out of it. (Ok, I’m a nerd!) A neckscarf that just happens to “slip” and reveal the wound is a nice added touch.
The Baron over at Dark Sun Astrology has a movie list by sign for Halloween that’ll knock your socks off. Don’t miss his The Wheel of Misfortune: The Zodiac of Horror before making your weekend movie pics. I love a real spooky movie on Halloween.
Patricia Lantz, the Atlanta Astrology Examiner, has links galore to all kinds of Zodiac Halloween fun in her post, Halloween is less than a week away ~ get into a spooky mood and have some frightening fun!
Gwen at The Intoxicated Zodiac has some fantastic Free Bottle Labels for Your Halloween Bar. Keep the labels on all year if you don’t want folks dropping in for a quick one, but for Halloween they’re great fun.
Storm Cestavani will tell you how to divine your future from your Halloween candy at Your Cosmic Weather Forecast. Check out his post Trick or Treat Divination (Top 5 Creepiest Halloween Candy Remixed). And creepy candy it is! Gross!
I got this in my email this morning. It’s not from an astrologer, but it’s still pretty scarey and definitely highlights Scorpio’s darker tendency toward revenge. And let me tell you, this is definitely nightmarish for the Moon Children in the crowd.
Have a fun Halloween, and get ready for the Full Moon in Taurus, the Hunter’s Moon ~ coming up next Monday.
Astro Humor ~ Scorpio: Maudie and the Graveyard October 28, 2009
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Ma and Pa are sitting out on the porch one evening in their rocking chairs. Pa stops his whittling and hangs his head in grief, “Poor ol’ Maudie, a-layin’ out there in the graveyard.” Ma, never missing a stitch from her needle work replied, “Yep…she’d be better off dead.”
Moon Phases for November 2009 October 25, 2009
Posted by cjwright in Moon Phases, Planets and Signs.Tags: astrology, auntie moon, cjwright, Moon Phases, november 2009
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Many of my readers are interested in the dates of the moon phases throughout the month because they’re useful for gardening. Here are the four major phases for November. If you are not sure how to determine the moon’s phase in the sky, there’s an explanatory page on this blog, Moon Phase ~ Waxing or Waning? You can find links to almanacs and ephemerides here.
Since the New Moon in Libra (10/18/09), the Moon has been in its waxing phase. It will continue to wax until the Full Moon on November 2nd.
From the Full Moon to the New Moon is the waning phase ~ decreasing in light. November 2-15th.
Waning Phase:
Full (Taurus) Hunter’s Moon – November 2, 2:14pm
Last Quarter – November 9, 10:56am
From the New Moon to the Full Moon is the waxing phase ~ increasing in light. November 16th – December 1.
Waxing Phase:
New Moon in Scorpio ~ November 16, 2:14pm
First Quarter ~ November 24, 4:39pm
Full Gemini Moon ~ December 2, 2:30am
All the times listed here are Eastern Time.
Visit Zodiacarts for a monthly moon phase calendar with notes on the Void-of-Course Moon and “handshake days” which are geared toward business activities.
Patricia Lantz has started a very nice series in the Atlanta Examiner on getting in tune with the moon. She’s covered the New to the 1st Quarter phases so far, and the rest of the series will continue throughout the month. I’m looking forward to the next installment.
New Moon Phase: The Potential to Manifest Your Desire
Crescent Moon Phase: Breaking Through the Inertia of Old Habits
1st Quarter Moon Phase: Taking Action with Activities Directed Toward the Future
Scorpio ~ Got Any Secrets You Want to Share? October 24, 2009
Posted by cjwright in Scorpio and Pluto.Tags: astrology, auntie moon, cjwright, scorpio, secrecy, secrets
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One of the most powerful ~ and fustrating ~ characteristics of Scorpio is its great secrecy. It’s frustrating for those who want or need the information and very powerful for the person holding the secret.
Everyone has a secret, even if it’s only a small one. Whether or not we decide to share that secret takes great consideration for everyone invovled. With it, we hold the power to help or to harm.
Why would we reveal a secret? Perhaps one reason is because it will stop pain or heal a wound. Maybe it’s because we got caught, so we may as well step up to the plate and tell the truth. It may not be an easy thing to do, and it takes a great deal of humility to reveal something so personally ugly. That’s all part of Pluto’s job, though ~ to take all the ugly, fermenting things out from under his decaying cloak and expose them to the light of day.
Are dark secrets ~ skeletons in the closet, so to speak ~ best kept hidden? That’s impossible to guess, and taking a chance on revealing a dark secret can be paramount to personal destruction. A false ego has to die. You can no longer be what you pretended to be. The self-annihilation that is part of revealing your secret can come with pain, anger, shame, and ~ if we complete the process ~ atonement. And, of course, a great deal of forgiveness is required of the person who was deceived. It really is the only way to survive.
Many secrets start with lies, a cover-up for the truth. We either know of or have done something that is so awful that we can’t bear to believe it’s true. We can’t imagine that we could be or do something so horrible. We think it’s better to just shuttle it away out of sight, hide it. The problem is, that little hidden something sprouts in the dark, eventually pushing its way up out of the darkness. It wants out, and the only way out is into the light for all the world to see.
It’s not easy to reveal a secret, but that doesn’t always stop the desire to share it, the need to tell. So what’s yours? Do you have something you need to share, but just can’t tell anyone you know? It’s interesting how people are prone to tell strangers things they wouldn’t consider telling people they’re close to. Strangers can be a sort of anonymous confessional. You get a little something off your chest, and feel better for a while. Sometimes that pressure does need to be relieved. And that stranger just might have the answer you’re looking for.
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There’s a website and a series of books devoted to secrets that are absolutely fascinating, mesmerizing. People write a secret on a 4×6 post card and mail it to PostSecret. Frank Warren, originator of PostSecret, receives a couple of hundred post cards a day, each carrying someone’s secret and most with altered art ~ altered art being quite a metaphor for anything cloaked in secrecy. Some of the post cards are quite sad and others are humourous, but each is filled with poignancy and quite revealing. PostSecret’s latest book is PostSecret Confessions on Life, Death, and God, especially fitting for a sneak peek during Scorpio.
PostSecret
13345 Copper Ridge Rd.
Germantown, Maryland 20874
