This is part of a series of articles, beginning here: Venus Goes Retrograde: The Tale of Eros and Psyche Psyche receives a lot of help in the completion of her four tasks, often at the very moment when she has given up. Where does that...
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This is part of a series of articles, beginning here: Venus Goes Retrograde: The Tale of Eros and Psyche How heartbreaking it is when a girl first discovers that other girls will sometimes pit themselves against her and compete over boys. She discovers this in...
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This is part of a series of articles, beginning here: Venus Goes Retrograde: The Tale of Eros and Psyche At this point in the story, Aphrodite is determined that Psyche must be done away with. So she devises the most difficult and diabolical task of...
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This is part of a series of articles, beginning here: Venus Goes Retrograde: The Tale of Eros and Psyche Aphrodite has another task for Psyche. This time, she is to fill a crystal goblet from the Fountain of Forgetfulness and return with it to the…
This is part of a series of articles, beginning here: Venus Goes Retrograde: The Tale of Eros and Psyche Aphrodite is very angry that Psyche has completed the first task. She sets another, very difficult and this time dangerous task for the mortal woman. It...
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This is part of a series of articles, beginning here: Venus Goes Retrograde: The Tale of Eros and Psyche As her first task, Psyche is presented with a huge granary filled with a tremendous variety of seeds. Aphrodite tells her to sort each type of...
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Neptune and Chiron have met on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Neptune is a lovely lady in sea-green, aqua and deep blue colors, with a long, flowing skirt. Chiron is a centaur, rustic-looking and worn, but kind. Chiron: Who are we healing today, Neptune? Neptune: ...
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This is part of a series of articles, beginning here: Venus Goes Retrograde: The Myth of Eros and Psyche Upon first discovering that Eros really has gone, Psyche panics. We know this because the first being she encounters after her husband’s flight is Pan, the...
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The following is a repost of an old post from back when I began my blog. I still feel passionately about this, 3 and a half years later. Here it is, just to remind us both: I was raised almost entirely without religion. My mother...
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Friday, October 8 through Thursday, November 18, 2010 What Is Venus Retrograde? When Venus goes retrograde, she takes our hand and pulls us into the darkness of our relationships. A retrograde period of any planet is a retrospective of that planet’s themes. It is like…
I’m not one of those doom-saying astrologers. I won’t rant about how the world’s going to end in 2012 (or any other year). But Saturn square Pluto is starting this month and going through August of 2010 and it’s serious. It really is heavy. And…
Remember that old TV show “The Odd Couple,” with Oscar and Felix, two bachelors living together in the 70’s? When we think of Virgo, we may well think of Felix. It’s easy to imagine that Felix is a Virgo type, because he’s so fastidious. After…
A time of change and upheaval is upon us. Saturn and Uranus have been pulling in opposite directions since November of 2008 and they won’t be done until the end of July in 2010. In previous posts about this theme, I’ve described Saturn as the...
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In my travels through life as an astrologer I have found that Virgo is the sign most people would rather not be. “What? I have Virgo rising? No!” “You mean I’m not really a Libra, I’m actually a Virgo? I didn’t want that.” “Virgo is…
From May of 2009 to November of 2010, Neptune and Chiron are dancing in & out of conjunction with each other. They came within kissing distance of a conjunction on May 30, 2009 and will again on November 6, 2010. Their only true (exact) conjunction…
Jupiter & Chiron have been moving in and out of conjunction (i.e. so close they could be holding hands) in 2009, bringing up some interesting possibilities for healing & growth. They connected the first time this year on May 23rd, the second time on July…
Leo types have a deep ambivalence about their public reputation and audience response to their creativity. They crave audience response—their creativity thrives on it—but this gives them a corresponding extreme sensitivity to the audience. A Leo will vacillate between extreme self-consciousness and a self-imposed blindness...
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Ever wonder why sun sign astrology became so popular, when it’s so silly? It’s because sun signs are easy to use. Everybody knows their birth date, so everybody knows their sun sign. It gives people something to schmooze about in bars and at parties—“I’m a...
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Here at the end of May of 2009 there is a momentous and extremely rare triple conjunction of Neptune, Chiron and Jupiter in 26 degrees of Aquarius. This conjunction provides an unprecedented opportunity to re-experience your place in the human family in ways that bring...
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