The pace of life being what it has been for the past while now, I only just yesterday came across some staggering information regarding the triple retrograde phase of planet Mercury this year. Mercury will be going in and out of retrograde for the majority of the year and this will be extremely consequential. Other planets are retrograding as well including Venus in Gemini later, in the late spring and then there's the long standing Mars in Virgo transit underway. Oy vey. God help us all! More on this later, just a head's up. A lot is happening at the cosmic, extra terrestrial level and we will need to be level headed going forward, forget we not that this is the big one: 2012. More on this soon.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Farewell, Whitney Houston and Thank You
Listening to a Whitney Houston recording just now, I'm prompted to post this blog.
With our transcendental, huge, ice/gas ball planet, Neptune on the very cusp of it's own sign after traveling throughout eleven stellar constellations of the zodiac - Neptune has finally arrived at the threshold, the earliest degree of it's planetary place of greatest power. The constellation of Pisces, sign of the underdog and the sign of sorrows. It is significantly in relation to Whitney Houston (and to us all really) that "the house of Pisces" is the sign of our own undoing.
Pisces, the astrological sign often related to the water element, to vibrations of all sorts, music, fine arts, dancing and yes, drug addiction and other visionary states of mind, the mystic and so on.
With Neptune arriving in the earliest degree, again, we can see a global sorrow for the loss of this huge, international talent. When I heard that the state she was born, New Jersey, will lower the flag to half staff, I had to reserve my judgement as best as I could. I am not sure that sets the right example for her many young followers to connect with but, it is for her contribution and not her weakness the flag will be lowered.
The circumstances in which Whitney Houston lost her life are known to a certain degree and significantly again, water was involved. The results of toxicology reports will be available for the Houston family and for the world in the coming weeks.
In the next few days, the sun sign of Aquarius will have set and the next sign, Pisces will have ascended. The results of the exact cause of the pop star's death will be revealed during the sun in Pisces time period.
No matter what our age, we need to take a clear and honest look at our lives. Ask ourselves whether we care if we live or die. Is it a 50-50 balance of will to live or death wish?
We honor our lives going forward in the evolutionary sense when we can recognize this simple fact. We cannot live or breath in water and it is water that we need to respect now more than ever going forward in our lives and in the life of our beautiful planet, Earth. A planetary shift has taken place and simply stated, the power is with the water.
Your loving family, friends and fans the world over cry for you today but, you have left us so much of yourself.
God bless you and keep you always.
With our transcendental, huge, ice/gas ball planet, Neptune on the very cusp of it's own sign after traveling throughout eleven stellar constellations of the zodiac - Neptune has finally arrived at the threshold, the earliest degree of it's planetary place of greatest power. The constellation of Pisces, sign of the underdog and the sign of sorrows. It is significantly in relation to Whitney Houston (and to us all really) that "the house of Pisces" is the sign of our own undoing.
Pisces, the astrological sign often related to the water element, to vibrations of all sorts, music, fine arts, dancing and yes, drug addiction and other visionary states of mind, the mystic and so on.
It is no mere coincidence that the world lost Whitney Houston during this time period. The singer has been known to have had problems with recreational drug abuse and other issues that apparently reached a culmination and may very well have contributed to her loss of life.
With Neptune arriving in the earliest degree, again, we can see a global sorrow for the loss of this huge, international talent. When I heard that the state she was born, New Jersey, will lower the flag to half staff, I had to reserve my judgement as best as I could. I am not sure that sets the right example for her many young followers to connect with but, it is for her contribution and not her weakness the flag will be lowered.
The circumstances in which Whitney Houston lost her life are known to a certain degree and significantly again, water was involved. The results of toxicology reports will be available for the Houston family and for the world in the coming weeks.
In the next few days, the sun sign of Aquarius will have set and the next sign, Pisces will have ascended. The results of the exact cause of the pop star's death will be revealed during the sun in Pisces time period.
There must be a takeaway that comes from this sad and tragic end to a still young star's life, I believe it will be that once again, drugs have taken someone, in this case, a talent of great magnitude away from us.
The takeaway must in some context be made clear that for the youth who so often experiment with drugs and altered states of consciousness - our youth must see it as an example of a needless sacrifice not worth the early, unnecessary loss of life. But "see" this loss as a closing of the door on the possibility of drug use by themselves.
I hope this sad and terrible event is not just an occasion to sing Whitney Houston songs and bring flowers or listen to her music. I hope the loss of her life is in some way authentically meaningful and that our youth learn something they can strengthen themselves with now and take that with them going forward with their lives.
The benefit or good that can come out of this universal loss, if it can be seen as a benefit, should be that, we need to strengthen and not weaken ourselves going forward. Realize the obvious, drugs kill. Drugs are not sexy or glamorous but destructive and deadly. Recreational drugs ruin lives and families suffer. I hope this sad and terrible event is not just an occasion to sing Whitney Houston songs and bring flowers or listen to her music. I hope the loss of her life is in some way authentically meaningful and that our youth learn something they can strengthen themselves with now and take that with them going forward with their lives.
No matter what our age, we need to take a clear and honest look at our lives. Ask ourselves whether we care if we live or die. Is it a 50-50 balance of will to live or death wish?
The fact that our world is changing so rapidly with many opportunities but with so much denied our youth and really people in all age categories and walks of life, lower class, drug class, middle class and luxury class, we simply have no other choice. We must strengthen not only ourselves but each other, our friends and neighbors.
We need to find a way to help our young people rid themselves of the destructive lifestyles of drug use and the sale of drugs. I think this is the perfect time to see the need to do so although; it is a sad time for so many people, this loss of a star who gave us so much. It can be a final gift from the star if we see it as such, a lesson to learn from her loss with which we can and should strengthen ourselves and each other.
Recreational drug use is a killer. It ruins lives and generates sickness, disease and a pathology of infection of others who are too young, too weak or too brainwashed, who want to buy, use and get into drugs and the drug culture.
It will be extremely interesting to see how the Hip Hop and Rap music community responds in the press as well in their musical recordings with this loss. Was Whitney Houston too far removed in terms of age, from our youths today to make an impact on Hip Hop and Rap stars and their audiences?
My personal prayer on this day of Whitney Houston's final services and burial is that. at the cusp of a major planetary movement, signaled by Neptune in the earliest degree of Pisces, we see this sign for what it is, powerful, seductive and at times deadly.
We come from the water of our mother's very body. Water is our life source but we cannot return to it in destructive ways, drugs and alcohol abuse - we must strengthen ourselves against these options. Jimi Hendrix who also lost his life because of drug abuse sang of it when he sang that "...man cannot live or breath in water."
We honor our lives going forward in the evolutionary sense when we can recognize this simple fact. We cannot live or breath in water and it is water that we need to respect now more than ever going forward in our lives and in the life of our beautiful planet, Earth. A planetary shift has taken place and simply stated, the power is with the water.
- Respect yourself and your life here on earth.
- Respect marine life and the waters of our beautiful, blue planet of water.
No one should judge you unkindly, each one of us has our own individual destiny and our own individual end.
Your loving family, friends and fans the world over cry for you today but, you have left us so much of yourself.
God bless you and keep you always.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
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Venus Transits Aries from the 2012 Superimposition Series of Photographs
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When they tell you (and the time may very well arrive when they will tell you), "A woman is not a flower," you have every right to question exactly what it is that they mean by that statement. Is it that a woman is not as fragrant as a flower or that a woman is stronger than a flower? Or perhaps they mean to say, a woman is something more than a flower. Or that a woman simply symbolizes a flower and beyond that, a garden of flowers. |
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Mars in Virgo, Retrograde!
Almost here at last and not entirely welcome, the Mars in Virgo retrograde begins. Oy vey, it's going to be one heck of a transit with Lord knows what kind of repercussions.
The retrograde apparently will last for about 80 days and then the slow forward movement going forward but, 80 odd days is a long time for Mars to be retrograde and in Virgo, it makes me think, for some people there may or may not be surgery involved and for others, perhaps all of us, there will be some early and continued, sustained, spring cleaning.
Not an exciting or sexy place for Mars to retrograde (that would have been in the sign of Libra), we must deal with this planetary configuration whether we like it or not.
Many other astrologers have said, "don't buy tech equipment, computers and such during this time period," there will be issues perhaps so, best to wait until the spring. Yes, the spring, why push your luck?
The Mars in Virgo retrograde will end on April 13th and by that time, we will be in early springtime.
I hope we can use the Martian energy to get the job done (but not new projects). All that spring cleaning is waiting and trooper that he is, Mars will see to it that we march to his call, like it or not. :((
The retrograde apparently will last for about 80 days and then the slow forward movement going forward but, 80 odd days is a long time for Mars to be retrograde and in Virgo, it makes me think, for some people there may or may not be surgery involved and for others, perhaps all of us, there will be some early and continued, sustained, spring cleaning.
Not an exciting or sexy place for Mars to retrograde (that would have been in the sign of Libra), we must deal with this planetary configuration whether we like it or not.
Many other astrologers have said, "don't buy tech equipment, computers and such during this time period," there will be issues perhaps so, best to wait until the spring. Yes, the spring, why push your luck?
The Mars in Virgo retrograde will end on April 13th and by that time, we will be in early springtime.
I hope we can use the Martian energy to get the job done (but not new projects). All that spring cleaning is waiting and trooper that he is, Mars will see to it that we march to his call, like it or not. :((
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Chinatown Lunch on the First Day of Year of the Dragon
Lunch with a close friend in Chinatown yesterday was exciting but the food was particularly not good. I don't like soup and because the restaurant is known for serving great soup, I took a chance. Mistake number one, it was terrible and I ate almost none of it.
My long time friend (who covered the bill) had a business appointment and had to rush off by bike as soon as we left the restaurant. I won't give the specific restaurant a name here, I think it's enough to say, it was the worst soup I've ever had.
It was nice to see my friend who is leaving for San Francisco where she lives when not in NYC (those Geminis often lead two lives and or have two of everything) but, we barely had time to talk. Nevertheless, and although the restaurant was crowded to the max, I gave her a brief analysis on her new partner. She had brought along a computer generated horoscope and when I did the analysis, I spoke as if my friend was a stranger and to the point now - I spoke perhaps too bluntly and I regret that.
Analysts want to help, I certainly do when I do analysis but, it's up to the person who is having the interpretation done. They can take the advice or not. If they have fallen in love already let us say or have dived into the pool, whichever way one wants to mention it, it may be too late for any prohibitive analysis.
I gave my friend a to-the-point (we were under time constraints and, I wanted to discuss as much as I could) analysis and tried as best as I could to make light of the fact that this person might not be in her best interest). Keep it light.
My friend tired from working into the wee hours of the morning, said the analysis was, "a brutal" reading which of course was not my intention. I only want her to be happy and so, I gave fair warning the way I saw to do under the tyranny of the clock.
Confetti poppers and two dragons with an entourage of followers trailing behind them were just arriving on Mott street as we meet, a very auspicious indicator for the two of us to be sure. The ever young Dragons shook their heads and bobbed up and down as they were followed closely by an expert drummer from the local Kung Fu school and a bevi of disciples - it was an exciting and auspicious moment to meet my friend yesterday in Chinatown.
As the two Dragons bobbled about on this, the very first day of the Year of the Sea Dragon, in front of a nearby bank to bring them luck in the coming year, I felt that my friend a I were very much a part of the auspicious moment in time that would last us a year and beyond. I still believe the same. (I feel confident this will be a fortunate year in so many ways for so many of us, 2012 notwithstanding.)
My friend, who happens to have been born in the year of the Dragon will need good fortune going forward because, she will probably have her hands full with the new partner. The best of success in their relationship going forward. I hope it works out well for the two of them but, a Dragon is a Dragon is a Dragon and no amount of fluttering around the truth will make that Dragon an Ox or a Rabbit!
The truth at least the way this analyst sees it will have to stand although, I will be writing my friend a thank you note today and, I will try to smooth over my brash and a perhaps insensitive, astrologic analysis of her new love.
I'll be needing some good luck too, I simply hate being negative.
:((
My long time friend (who covered the bill) had a business appointment and had to rush off by bike as soon as we left the restaurant. I won't give the specific restaurant a name here, I think it's enough to say, it was the worst soup I've ever had.
It was nice to see my friend who is leaving for San Francisco where she lives when not in NYC (those Geminis often lead two lives and or have two of everything) but, we barely had time to talk. Nevertheless, and although the restaurant was crowded to the max, I gave her a brief analysis on her new partner. She had brought along a computer generated horoscope and when I did the analysis, I spoke as if my friend was a stranger and to the point now - I spoke perhaps too bluntly and I regret that.
Analysts want to help, I certainly do when I do analysis but, it's up to the person who is having the interpretation done. They can take the advice or not. If they have fallen in love already let us say or have dived into the pool, whichever way one wants to mention it, it may be too late for any prohibitive analysis.
I gave my friend a to-the-point (we were under time constraints and, I wanted to discuss as much as I could) analysis and tried as best as I could to make light of the fact that this person might not be in her best interest). Keep it light.
My friend tired from working into the wee hours of the morning, said the analysis was, "a brutal" reading which of course was not my intention. I only want her to be happy and so, I gave fair warning the way I saw to do under the tyranny of the clock.
Confetti poppers and two dragons with an entourage of followers trailing behind them were just arriving on Mott street as we meet, a very auspicious indicator for the two of us to be sure. The ever young Dragons shook their heads and bobbed up and down as they were followed closely by an expert drummer from the local Kung Fu school and a bevi of disciples - it was an exciting and auspicious moment to meet my friend yesterday in Chinatown.
As the two Dragons bobbled about on this, the very first day of the Year of the Sea Dragon, in front of a nearby bank to bring them luck in the coming year, I felt that my friend a I were very much a part of the auspicious moment in time that would last us a year and beyond. I still believe the same. (I feel confident this will be a fortunate year in so many ways for so many of us, 2012 notwithstanding.)
My friend, who happens to have been born in the year of the Dragon will need good fortune going forward because, she will probably have her hands full with the new partner. The best of success in their relationship going forward. I hope it works out well for the two of them but, a Dragon is a Dragon is a Dragon and no amount of fluttering around the truth will make that Dragon an Ox or a Rabbit!
The truth at least the way this analyst sees it will have to stand although, I will be writing my friend a thank you note today and, I will try to smooth over my brash and a perhaps insensitive, astrologic analysis of her new love.
I'll be needing some good luck too, I simply hate being negative.
:((
Monday, January 23, 2012
Byzantium & the New Year of the Water Dragon
Sailing to Byzantium in the new lunar New Year of the Water Dragon! Happy New Year of the Water Dragon and many happy returns of the day, visitors, friends and family out there.
It's going to be an exciting year and a year of prosperity and blessings according to the Chinese lunar zodiac, we are in for it so let the good times roll.
I know. I know. Christians identify the dragon with the you know who but, the Dragon is the dynamic force of the creative and combines elements of all the other animals in the Chinese zodiac. I found this out just this morning and had been unaware however; I know that this dynamic symbol of the force of creativity is highly held as the greatest sign particularly to bear (male) children. It is a bit of anathema if it's a girl born in the year of the Dragon. :((
This year, the Water Dragon also occurs in a 5 Universal Year and according to numerology the 5 year also has a special, creative and masculine arc to it. I think we can expect very exciting changes in the film industry, breakthroughs in other creative oriented platforms in technology and a strong surge of continued development and prosperity particularly in Asia, China, India, Africa, Brazil and other quickly developing economies of the world but, one need not be a rocket scientist or an astrology analyst to realize that to be the case!
America is undergoing such difficulty, I am not sure what I think the upside of the Year of the Dragon and a 5 Universal Year will hold for us but, I am optimistic. I was born in a 5 Universal Year so, I am particularly hopeful that this year will be one in which I can introduce myself and my particular brand of artistry to the general public as well as to collectors, curators and others and that, my creative work (there's that word again) will be well received.
With so many other aspects of astrological interest at play now, I am fortified in my opinion that this is a wonderful although difficult time for so many Americans. There are a number of interesting trends (Venus will cross the face of the sun later, in the springtime or early summer, which is a rare transit for the planet. I believe it is auspicious and something to look forward to. You will probably hear of this when it happens on the news media channels).
We are in the 2012 year after all and it has with it a lot of expectations of doomsday and other cataclysms. I have found that from any number of perspectives: Religious, spiritual, helio-geological, Aztec calendar, psychic (Edgar Cayce predictions) etc. that, the overview does not look calm for the 2012-20-14 year time period.
We may get the business but the business in a not nice way if the power grid crashes as some authorities are suggesting it may (Dr. Michio Kaku) and that remains to be seen or not seen if we luck out.
Come what may, Americans, Chinese, wherever you may reside and land or group you may come from, we all need to continue our efforts for peace (an end to wars), brotherhood, love of family, neighbor and animals alike.
If we can continue and step up our efforts in the all of the above whatever comes our way will be met with grace, love and brotherhood. When you think of it, these are the essentials that will get us through any hardship on the global, national or personal level.
It's going to be an exciting year and a year of prosperity and blessings according to the Chinese lunar zodiac, we are in for it so let the good times roll.
I know. I know. Christians identify the dragon with the you know who but, the Dragon is the dynamic force of the creative and combines elements of all the other animals in the Chinese zodiac. I found this out just this morning and had been unaware however; I know that this dynamic symbol of the force of creativity is highly held as the greatest sign particularly to bear (male) children. It is a bit of anathema if it's a girl born in the year of the Dragon. :((
This year, the Water Dragon also occurs in a 5 Universal Year and according to numerology the 5 year also has a special, creative and masculine arc to it. I think we can expect very exciting changes in the film industry, breakthroughs in other creative oriented platforms in technology and a strong surge of continued development and prosperity particularly in Asia, China, India, Africa, Brazil and other quickly developing economies of the world but, one need not be a rocket scientist or an astrology analyst to realize that to be the case!
America is undergoing such difficulty, I am not sure what I think the upside of the Year of the Dragon and a 5 Universal Year will hold for us but, I am optimistic. I was born in a 5 Universal Year so, I am particularly hopeful that this year will be one in which I can introduce myself and my particular brand of artistry to the general public as well as to collectors, curators and others and that, my creative work (there's that word again) will be well received.
With so many other aspects of astrological interest at play now, I am fortified in my opinion that this is a wonderful although difficult time for so many Americans. There are a number of interesting trends (Venus will cross the face of the sun later, in the springtime or early summer, which is a rare transit for the planet. I believe it is auspicious and something to look forward to. You will probably hear of this when it happens on the news media channels).
We are in the 2012 year after all and it has with it a lot of expectations of doomsday and other cataclysms. I have found that from any number of perspectives: Religious, spiritual, helio-geological, Aztec calendar, psychic (Edgar Cayce predictions) etc. that, the overview does not look calm for the 2012-20-14 year time period.
We may get the business but the business in a not nice way if the power grid crashes as some authorities are suggesting it may (Dr. Michio Kaku) and that remains to be seen or not seen if we luck out.
Come what may, Americans, Chinese, wherever you may reside and land or group you may come from, we all need to continue our efforts for peace (an end to wars), brotherhood, love of family, neighbor and animals alike.
If we can continue and step up our efforts in the all of the above whatever comes our way will be met with grace, love and brotherhood. When you think of it, these are the essentials that will get us through any hardship on the global, national or personal level.
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