*+-The energy is intense out there today. We know this. And not just the Eclipse (wouldn’t that be enough?) but Mercury (communications) retrograde (askew) square (difficult) Neptune (confusing) in Pisces (rose-colored glasses). Were you looking for clarity? Were you looking for truth? Sorry! Here’s some emotional intensity instead 🙂 I am thinking about […]
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*+-Was watching the news just now. I don’t know when the report was from exactly. Earlier today I think. People in communities in Coney Island who lost everything. Maybe they have their homes, but no food, no water, no electricity, no heat. And then some who lost their homes as […]
*+-Sun in Scorpio. Saturn in Scorpio. The transiting Node in Scorpio. Mercury will retrograde back into Scorpio. Neptune in Pisces is trining Scorpio. And the Solar Eclipse New Moon on the 13th will be in Scorpio. There is no escape. You are supposed to… stop lying to yourself. Stop pretending […]
*+-You know, I never used to pay attention much to retrograde Pluto in the birth chart. Wasn’t thinking that it had a special meaning beyond anything the astro books could tell me. But now, after tracking planets so intensely, since I started this blog, and for clients, and after […]
*+-Uranus goes retrograde on Friday. Mercury goes retrograde on Saturday. Both in fire signs so they trine. I’ll have to give you degrees and more important details in my next blog post. The Sun is in Cancer and I’m not getting off the futon to get my glasses 😉 When […]
*+-Well, I don’t know if I’m leaving anything behind. Full Moons bring results, news, endings. I feel myself holding on and I feel like a broken record: leave behind self-blame, leave behind guilt. I feel like I’m in mourning and it will have to run its course. Won’t turn off […]
*+- I feel like I can’t keep up with my own changes. Uranus rules sudden changes. I haven’t checked my chart lately but I’m pretty sure there’s some Uranus action going on. What’s happening is happening fast and it’s out of the blue. Well, actually, it’s not totally out of […]
*+-As the hours passed today and I felt a bit lighter and my foot less swollen, I wondered if the Moon had magically entered Gemini already, had skipped the late Taurus degrees because there had to be a reason for this feeling, right? As if a Moon in the 1st […]
*+-…even though Saturn rules Capricorn. These words from the late great Isabel Hickey, “Saturn’s goal is perfection. Through the chastening process of testing, sorrow, delay, disappointment, limitation, and privation, man learns the purpose of life is not pleasure but to gain experience, patience, humility, wisdom, and compassion.” Alrighty then! So […]
*+-I unwittingly scared a client the other day by talking about the confusion of a Neptune transit. She’s a Pisces under Neptune square Neptune. But it’s not dementia-type confusion, I told her (and believe). It’s not like forgetting your keys everyday although I suppose that could happen with Neptune aspecting Vesta or Mercury […]
*+-Sometimes a chart answers a client’s questions so clearly and profoundly that it’s spooky-good. And they could have picked any astrologer or teacher on the internet and they picked me for this moment, this question, this time. I may be #27 or #270 in their search but it doesn’t matter. […]
*+-I know we don’t usually think of Full Moons as the time to set intentions BUT with Uranus stationing direct on the SAME DAY… And I was going to say anyway: the old rules? You know those old old rules? Do they still hold? Do we still need them? Doesn’t Uranus […]
*+-Uranus breaks. Saturn builds. These two planets rule Aquarius and the Moon is in Aquarius today. Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury (according to the amazing Isabel Hickey). Mercury is the mind/words/writing, and Uranus? Intuition, which I believe is related to Inspiration and, thus, the breath. This is elementary […]
*+-What are you seeing back from the dead in your life? Look for the Scorpio house in your chart. Venus and Mercury are transiting there now. Venus loves. Mercury talks. What are you talking about these days? And what are you seeing back from the dead? Maybe you didn’t want […]
*+-I’ve told this story before, but it’s on my mind again 🙂 I named myself/this blog Moon Pluto because of that aspect in my chart: Moon and Pluto conjunct, in Virgo, 1st House. Other than the conjunction itself, it has no “bad” aspects, only sextiles and trines. For this I […]
*+-If you make a way or breakaway this Full Moon in Aries (read Part 1 here and Part 2 here) and find yourself with a burned down house or ashes in your hands… then find your antidote in Scorpio. What do I mean? I mean that Scorpio follows Libra and […]
*+-When I first think of Saturn, the negative keywords come to mind: fear, oppression, depression. But there are neutral keywords for Saturn and positive ones too. Limitation, for example, is not always negative. Without limitation, there are no laws. At all. My natal Saturn takes some good aspects in my […]
*+-And today’s big news? The Sun is opposing Uranus. Sun in Libra, Uranus in Aries. Sun moves fast. Uranus moves slow. Dizzy yet? Are the changes coming too fast for you to handle, to process? Well, sit down. It’s okay to sit down. Actually, it’s more than okay. Uranus is the […]
*+-I was up to something today, don’t remember what, when I started wondering what in astrology rules the breath. Some context: I didn’t smoke today and for a few months now I’ve been smoking more and more. It used to be one a day or two a day… and now […]
*+-Well well well. I just had a revelation. With a capital R. And this is a Happy Blog Post even though it’s about feeling depressed because it is true that I, MoonPluto, have been a bit depressed lately but BINGO I figured out why. And not on my walk to […]
*+-Neptune back in Aquarius? Okay. Fine with me. Truth is I don’t feel the outer planets changing signs. I try to understand what it means, but I don’t feel it. I’ll feel a transit, I’ll feel a house shift, but these slow-movers? Nope. And Neptune? As if. As if we […]
*+-Little Miss Mercury turns retrograde at just 1 degree Virgo. Just. One. Degree. You’re a tease, Mercury! Mercury Retrograde is famously the time we’re not supposed to sign contracts or buy electronics and also the time we are supposed to RE i.e. REvisit, REdo, REvise, REview, REnew! Yes, renew your… […]
*+-Loyal reader and commenter redleppard wanted me to address the topic of Progressions so here goes. And this is not going to be too technical (not today anyway) but more about what I do, my approach. And of course I need to quote my fave (one of my fave) astrologers […]
*+-Every 7 years. Every 7 years, Uranus takes you by the hand, or by the hair, and says: you’re coming with me! That’s how my first astrologer, years ago, put it. Uranus is the only planetary energy we cannot control (wrote Isabel Hickey). We can only control our reaction to […]