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Neptune Retrograde – The Impossible Dream

One thing about humans is that their lives are filled with stories. We think in stories rather than facts, data, numbers and equations because stories are soothing to our soul and embellish our otherwise cruel and mundane existence on this physical plane.

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SUN/SATURN: Getting Serious

Unless you're someone who thrives on strict discipline, the combination of Saturn and the Sun can be a daunting experience. Put simply, Saturn on the Sun ain't much fun...

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‘Never Enough’ The JUPITER/SATURN SEMISQUARE, Jul-Sep 2022, Mar 2023

Let us revisit the Jupiter/Saturn cycle a little because each year's changing relationship between these two significant planets describes the incremental process of an emerging new reality. As humans, the kind of mutual endeavours we project into our respective societies are represented perfectly by the ebb and flow of Jupiter and Saturn's periods of growth and recession...

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JUPITER/NEPTUNE – Grandiose Dreams

2022 is the first time Neptune will meet Jupiter in Pisces since March 1856. At each conjunction, Neptune subtly introduces a possible 'better' future to Jupiter, who then spends approximately a year transiting through each of the 12 zodiac signs, sowing the seeds of dissolution to all the dreams that stood before, washing them away with the promise of a brand new hope...

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MARS/SATURN – Boot Camp

In Aquarius, the freedom-fighting Mars combines with the harsh disciplinarian force of a socially reformist Saturn, hampering activism and controlling 'social justice' waves of anger and frustrations with the distinct effort to instil new control systems. It is an indication that we are entering a whole new 2-year cycle of painstaking work...

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“For All It’s Worth…” The NEW MOON at 21°18′ TAURUS, Tuesday, May 11, 19:01 UTC

At Taurus, the sign of fixed/earth, the seed of self-awareness that germinated in Aries becomes invigorated into physical form and seeks protection and security. If you are tuned into the natural rhythms of life, you may observe the subtle, primordial pull of both your deliberate and instinctive attention shifting towards the perseverance, stabilisation, longevity, virility, fertility and sustenance of your being.

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In Pursuit of a New Hope: The Week Ahead – Feb 8-14

If ever there was a time when the world needed a new hope, some glimmer of positive inspiration that things might start to take a turn for the better, that there is light despite all of the darkness and confusion that currently enshrouds this earth, it would be now.

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VENUS/SATURN – Karmic Love

True, spiritual love has no bounds. It must be allowed to dance freely both within us and in all that is around us. Constrained love is not true. To become true it must be allowed to flower to its maturity....

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The Bitter Winds of Change: THE WEEK AHEAD – Dec 07-13

It's now December and the icy, Aquarian winds of change are already upon us. Whilst much of humanity seems prepped for the big transition, falling diligently into the Capricornian line, the sheer force of how dramatically our collective consciousness has altered over the past 12 months as Jupiter and Saturn danced with Pluto has left many of us reeling...

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THE WEEK AHEAD: The Question of Meaninglessness – Nov 16-22

After a two-month period of being routed back to the mid-degrees of Aries, Mars is now finally direct again, hedging his efforts into staging a 'come-back'. That's right, the impish god of action and punch-ons is picking up some pace again, but it won't be until the end of this year (22-23 Dec) that he finally takes charge, urging us to do the things we probably should have done a while ago. Will it be too late? With Neptune squaring the Nodes, we cannot turn back the tides of change.

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Pathways to the Reconstruction: THE WEEK AHEAD – Nov 9-15

Well, the US election came but, as it appears, is not exactly gone. As the harshly critical Saturn/Pluto conjunction now prepares to be joined by the judicious Jupiter, the level of fanaticism around the deconstruction of our systems of governance, law, religiosity and moral certitude is only increasing.

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Judgement Day – NEW MOON at 23°54′ LIBRA: Fri Oct 16, 2020

The closest Supermoon of 2020 also sees Planet Earth and all of its inhabitants experiencing the most intense time. In the late degrees of Libra, this New Moon intention is to restore (or create) harmony and balance into our highlighted affairs. However, it appears that there are distant, overwhelming forces weighing heavily against our efforts to make peace.

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Learning to Speak Up to Tyranny and Injustice: THE WEEK AHEAD – Sep 21-27

In the final days of September 2020, the Virgo Sun will reach the Equinox, inaugurating into Libra (Tuesday). This crossing marks a highly significant shift in the Solar cycle, heralding a change in the direction of the Sun's rays falling on Earth. Here, at the sacred turning point, we are called to open our eyes and ears to others as they all become equally significant.

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Cleaning Up Our Act: New Super-Moon at 25°01′ Virgo – Thursday, Sep 17, 11:00 UTC

This has been an extremely potent week, and thanks mostly to an intensely close encounter with our Moon. Thursday's Lunation is the first of three consecutive New Moons in perigee (Supermoon) that will see the Moon pass before the Sun at her closest proximity to earth - a phenomenon not only swelling the ocean tides but nudging us too, in no uncertain terms, to "bring our big emotions into line".

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Upcoming Virgo New Moon

Thursday's Virgo New Moon marks the synodic lunar cycle's reset point. It is the time of the month when affairs most important (Sun) and most personal (Moon) in our lives come together and we are called, both instinctively and through our experiences, to make an intention with how to deal with pertinent matters...

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Smeared Lenses: THE WEEK AHEAD: Sep 7-13

Nobody can deny that our world is going a little 'nuts' these days. Our 'informed' societies have slowly descended into such a state of absurdity and cognitive disorder that it now seems an impossible task to both ignore or bring things back into some semblance of the cohesive sensibility we used to know and love. Who can predict which way things will turn out when so much of what we hear seems distorted by our own inability to see things clearly?

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PISCES FULL MOON: Seeking Order Out of Chaos

Like any Full Moon, this glorious lunation shines the Sun's conscious awareness upon the Moon's often hidden or more unconscious nature. As the luminaries stand at the height of opposition in the heavens, we are asked to reconcile two very different sides of ourselves. We may notice some matters in utter discordance, feel strongly averse to those around us, creating both confrontation and opportunities to make amends.

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*Update* COSMIC BUS rescheduled

What kind of a world are we building? Or is it up to us to destroy everything for the sake of a few? Do we want to leave our children a planet that runs on empathy and kindness or one possessed by bullying demagoguery? Do we even care what happens, so long as we don't die?

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Purification – THE WEEK AHEAD: Aug 24- 30

Virgo acts as the perfect filter through which humanity can examine its deeds, provides the Sun with a keen lens by which to scrutinise errors that need to be addressed and rectified. The mutable waveforms produced through this earthy perspex of the pure sunlight allows us to discern what's beneficial and to neatly organise and purify it so it serves its rightful purpose, as needed.

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Cosmic Rehash (Dec. 2019)

Every day becomes a struggle to adapt now, especially psychologically. For some, it's sad to come to grips with the crushing reality that dawns each day. Many are still in denial, or oblivious to what is happening, or are living in hope that in a few weeks all this will pass and we can return back to how things were.

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SUN at 29º LEO

And what did we learn? Was it that nobody is as special as you and that (after all) you're no more special than the next person?

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LEO NEW MOON at 26°♌35′ – Wed Aug 19, 02:42 UTC

No lunation rings as loud and clear as a bell than a Leo New Moon. It chimes us back into the integrity of our being, and mind, body, heart and soul start to resonate in alignment with the core centre of our highest intelligence - the pink hot spot that is the nucleus of our individual creativity.

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ERIS conjunct MARS

ERIS sits there all alone, beyond the perimeters of even the most distant wastelands of consciousness. She's been denied entry to the contest, shut out, left behind, forgotten and forlorn for far too long. But not for long...

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MARS square SATURN/PLUTO

By the end of the weekend, forces will have mounted to launch full-scale restraints upon that which they deem to be impure, contaminating or corrupt. Many noses may be put out of joint...

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on MARS entering the SATURN/PLUTO zone

A kind of madness and hysteria starts to intensify over this planet, possessing certain individuals with an urge to desperately, uncontrollably rail against the force of its perceived oppressor...

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Waging War Against the Patriarchy: THE WEEK AHEAD: Aug 10-16

This week is most significant in that Jupiter and Saturn form another exact midpoint to Pluto - a picture which is not only potent in its capacity to overturn entire fortunes, but as Mars squares this point on Tue/Wed, he introduces extra duress and irritation into the game, as if to force drastic reaction to his individual ends

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COSMIC BUS Stopping Soon

How are you feeling? Is your world, your environment, your emotional state settled and supportive of what your 'heart of hearts' wishes to accomplish? Or are you feeling restless and uncomfortable, inundated with changes that you neither understand (fully) nor accept as accommodating to your dreams and desires?

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