When word of Jaycee’s release first surfaced on Friday I of course took an immediate look at her birthchart. You would expect that someone who was kidnapped and forced to be a sex slave for 18 years would have a horrific chart full of Plutonic undertones but that did not turn out to be the case. We do not have a time of birth for Jaycee, and while her chart (May 3, 1980) does show a conjunction of the Sun... Read more
Even people who don’t believe in astrology believe in Mercury retrograde. I usually start hearing it around the office co-op where I spend my days about a week into the retrograde period. “Is Mercury retrograde?” people start asking me. Email can get glitchy, computer and other equipment starts to fail, contracts take forever to negotiate. Well folks, Mercury turned direct this morning so it’s moving in the right direction again, but it will be in the news for a little while... Read more
Now this is interesting and mirrors what I suspected was the case. The Kaiser Family Foundation has published new poll numbers with answers to two questions: It’s more important than ever now to tackle the problem of healthcare; or We can’t afford to tackle healthcare now. The first opposition of Uranus (change) to Saturn (not change) occurred on November 3, election day. At that time there was the widest disparity of opinions on this subject. The second phase of the... Read more
Honduras is not a country that has been much in the news, but in June of this year president Manuel Zelaya, who had attempted to rewrite the constitution of that country to permit a president to serve two terms, was ousted by a military coup ordered by the Honduran Supreme Court. Zelaya re-entered the country illegally last week and demanded reinstatement and the fall of the replacement government. The government reacted by suspending civil liberties and instituting martial law in... Read more
I have to say I am a bit creeped out by Mackenzie Phillips’ admission that she had what amounts to an affair with her father for ten years. There has been much debate in the news media about whether the affair was rape or not, since Mackenzie reportedly was 19 years old when the initial incident occurred. Mackenzie is the daughter of John Phillips and his first wife, Susan Adams, but John left the family when he married his second... Read more
Spaceweather is reporting that a new sunspot created a C-class solar flare. Normally this would not be much to write home about, but since we’re in the middle of the deepest solar minimum in 100 years, a solar flare is a big event! Read more
In modern pagan circles, the Autumn Equinox is known as Mabon. Our favorite witch, Beth Owl’s Daughter, has a beautiful post and gorgeous imagery about this holiday on her blog: Today is the Equinox, taken from the Latin for “equal night.” It is the Autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the Spring equinoxbelow the equator. In both cases, today consists of exactly twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness. At 5:19 this afternoon (Eastern time), the Sun will be directly above the Earth’s... Read more
According to the article in the New York Times last Sunday, the unraveling of Jung’s psyche began in 1913, a period of time that coincides with the transit of Uranus over Jung’s ascendant, the point of personal identity. Uranus is strong in Jung’s chart, since it forms a tight square to his Taurus Moon. The Moon in the birthchart represents our emotional security, and in the fixed signs the emotional nature can be quite rigid and resist change to the breaking... Read more
Before I complete the post on Carl Jung’s Red Book, which I promise I will post either tonight or tomorrow morning, I want to wish everyone a happy Autumn Equinox. The equinoxes take place when the days and nights are of equal lengths. This marks the end of summer, when the days are longer, and the beginning of autumn which takes us into the darker season. The astrological charts for the turning of the seasons, which are marked by the... Read more
A secret book written by Carl Jung nearly one hundred years ago will be released next month according to the New York Times. Known as the “Red Book,” it was jealously guarded by Jung’s descendants until it was recently found in a bank vault and negotiations with the Jung family ultimately permitted its publication. The work of Carl Jung transformed the field of modern psychology by incorporating the concept of archetypes and synchronicity into the mystery of the workings of the... Read more
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