The Queen of Heaven who walked in ChaosVenus as evening star in Scorpio conjunct Saturn and the North Node of the Moon at the time of the Full Moon on September 19, 2013.This Pisces Full Moon is not only the Harvest Moon in the Northern Hemisphere, it's Sabian symbol at 27 Pisces is "The Harvest … Continue reading Queen of Heaven in the Harvest Moon
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J.K. Rowling and Virgo Mercury
J.K. Rowling's progressed Mercury retrograde JK Rowling speaks at Harvard commencement The link above is to a speech J.K. Rowling gave at a Harvard University commencement ceremony on June 5, 2008. In this speech she elucidates the benefits one can gain from failure, as well as the supreme importance of imagination and how it gives humans the … Continue reading J.K. Rowling and Virgo Mercury
Ceres Sun Leo / Full Moon Aquarius
Ceres at the Crossroads The legacy of Goddesses in all Her forms will be lit by the Full Moon in Aquarius occurring on August 20, 2013 at 6:45 pm here in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America, as Ceres will be conjunct the Sun and Mercury in Leo at the time of … Continue reading Ceres Sun Leo / Full Moon Aquarius
Nirvana and the Grand Water Trine
Kurt Cobain 1967 - 1994 Scorpio Neptune, Cancer Jupiter, Pisces Saturn-Venus-Chiron Imagination can be the source of our pleasure, perhaps is our most important human gift, and yet it can also be our downfall when we choose to hide from the challenges life is presenting us for growth and greater strength by sealing ourselves off … Continue reading Nirvana and the Grand Water Trine
The Neptune and Jupiter Cycle
Grand Water Trine of July 2013: Trinity in the Neptune-Jupiter cycle Angelic grace or imaginal joviality may be evoked by the conjunction of Neptune and Jupiter, but their cycle has a deeper relationship with the evolution of consciousness. In July 2013 we are now in the first quarter trine phase of this most recent cycle, … Continue reading The Neptune and Jupiter Cycle
Sirius New Moon in Cancer
New Moon in Cancer The image above is by my favorite painter, Marc Chagall, a Cancer who is enjoying his birthday today wherever he is, as I write this. It is called, "So I came forth of the Sea and sat down on the edge of an island in the moonshine," and to me it … Continue reading Sirius New Moon in Cancer
Chiron in the Flood of Pisces
Chiron in Pisces: Mediator of Water Chiron stationed retrograde at 14 degrees Pisces on June 17, 2013. Chiron and Neptune have been widely conjunct during the first half of 2013 in Pisces, and will remain together within a wider orb of nine degrees for the next year. Chiron and Neptune began their current cycle in … Continue reading Chiron in the Flood of Pisces
Gemini and the Ugly Duckling
Gemini New Moon: meetings of Mercury & Venus The Lunar Eclipse on May 24 occurred at the same time that Mercury and Venus were conjunct at 19 degrees of Gemini, also in range of being conjunct Jupiter. In June the cycle continues, as Venus and Mercury will be conjunct again, magically, at the time of … Continue reading Gemini and the Ugly Duckling
Persephone: Queen of Soul and Spirit
Persephone conjunct Saturn in ScorpioPersephone asteroid (#399) is conjunct Saturn in Scorpio on May 28, 2013 and has about a two degree orb of a conjunction with Saturn from May 1, 2013 through July 21, 2013.Persephone asteroid (#399) also had about a two degree orb of a conjunction with the North Node of the Moon … Continue reading Persephone: Queen of Soul and Spirit
Pleiades in midst of Midspring Eclipses
Pleiades: Seven Sisters Whenever Mercury enters the sign of Gemini as it did on 5/15/13, it is thought of as Mercury returning "home," since Mercury rules Gemini. Yet this is even more true according to myth, as Hermes is the son of the Pleiadian sister Maia (the Pleiades are seven sisters in Greek Myth), and … Continue reading Pleiades in midst of Midspring Eclipses
Taurus and Incarnation
Taurus and Being Human in FormWhat do you desire? What do you value? You may have noticed others, including astrologers, asking you these questions recently as we have been experiencing an incredibly intense time period of Taurus energy these past couple of weeks, but especially now. Unrelated to astrology, in the community college class I … Continue reading Taurus and Incarnation
Isis: Archetype of Love and Devotion
Isis in Astrology Asteroid #42 Isis associations: unity, love, loyalty, devotion, sustaining, synthesizing, reassembling, resurrection, alchemy, soul retrieval, healing of fragmentation, finding wholeness of Self through union with other, kundalini, sex magic, mother of inner divinity, wholeness, and mourning protector of the dead. The house and sign placement of the Isis asteroid in our birth … Continue reading Isis: Archetype of Love and Devotion
Aries and Individuation
The Birth of Archetypes In Botticelli's masterwork The Birth of Venus we can sense the initiatory impulse of Aries: a Goddess arising out of an oceanic expanse, naked and primal, radiant and yet revealing an inclination to slightly cover up her exposed beauty. Or perhaps that slight insecurity is coming from the woman rushing in to cloth … Continue reading Aries and Individuation
Saint Francis: by way of Neptune and Uranus
On March 13, 2013 the story of Saint Francis re-entered mass consciousness with the birthing of Pope Francis. No matter your opinion regarding the political scandal and gossip concerning the Vatican and the Catholic Church, the horrific accusations and coverings up of sexual abuse amongst priests and other acts of oppression, the choice of the … Continue reading Saint Francis: by way of Neptune and Uranus
Gray Crawford 