Glow in the dark holy land...

It's a waxing moon this week and there is no more sizzling fuse then the Gaza Strip. The children of Abraham have been at it since daddy held a sword. Whether literal or figurative history it's the plot. We're waxing into a volatile full moon.

If the Israeli nationalists and their western support group don't change drastically the holy land could be glowing in the dark. There is no 'clean bomb' but a nastier, dirtier one could drop. If it gets to that level it's international fireworks and you can't just nuke an area, the wind makes sure we all share in it. This recent attack started with Mars and Pluto teamed up in Capricorn. So it's not just a skirmish in a long history.

This is for real and could be the last round. Jupiter is opposite or square all the majors of the chart for Israel '48. This expansion will crumble unless they immediately turn to the task of complete peace on their borders.

If we're going to evolve as a planet we have to settle the middle east, a fraction of global land and population but a majority of the attention..

On both sides are voices of humanity and reason. Here's the faces of some Israelies that are willing to be jailed to walk their talk. I wonder how many hipsters in the west would take their place?

kNEW MooN tuesday dec. 30

Tuesday morning is the capricorn kNEW Moon. The figuring of the
books on all the planes that they can be calculated. Obvious bottom line time.
Everything under Saturn. That's the way the chart draws out for the
left coast of n. america. It looks so orderly, magical, it's a 'bucket chart' all energies released through Saturn, the handle. The Cap moon is always the 'call it as you see
it' by the voices in your head moon. There is no way to stuff, camouflage or deny
the realities that be. The internal saboteur must be exposed, grievances heard by a jury of your internal issues' peers. It could take an instant or lifetimes, it's only as difficult as you want to make it.

What if the weather, the economy, the environment all were not yet even turned up all the way. You look at amplifier and see there is alot of head room, it's the awareness that it could exponentially increase in intensity. It can, and will. It's choose up or let the choices be made for you. We either have a voluntary upheaval in the system, individuals transform themselves and the ripple runs upward, a true reLUVolution of thinking and action, OR, just fill in the blank for your favorite negative utopia.

In the small bites of time in a human life we are barely in winter here in the northern hemi, the hibernate or migrate choice has been made. Before the bed you've made gets to sloppy now is the time to clean it out, get clear and blunt with the mirror then translate it just as clear but with a little more finesse to those around you..

It's going to take all of us, some will make it. In is the only way out..
allLOVE
stephen

*this marks the end of a year of not writing about astrology or blogging in general. digital mauna if you will, a sadhana done in trade. Starry Eyed will be posted on itsALLlove.com begining next month. for those who asked about it, if i was evasive it wasn't personal, i just couldn't talk about it. i appreciate your interest in the writing.. thanks to all the swami's. i made it ,you didn't think it would happen did you?

starry eyed for january 7-13

Mon Jan 07- Sun Jan 13

MoonWeek Capricorn thru Aries

We start the week on the dark of the Moon. The end of the lunar cycle. I've heard of many physical and emotional maladies the last 28 days of this moon so I'm sure the news of the New Moon and what it offers will be welcome to many. Some form of a fresh beginning and change is upon us. Don't languish and focus on the wounds, injury and sickness are just an opportunity to feel the strong forces of healing rise up in you. Those that continue to pick the wounds are resigned to staying in the bounds of pain. Our whole reality is about pain according to the Buddha so we all have it. All that can be changed is our reaction to it.

Monday is the dark day of the moon what comes up is the things that wish to be shifted, dealt with and transformed. The New Moon is early Tuesday morning, if you missed it know that it's never to late to check in and give some thanks offer up some intentions and ride the wave.

By the middle of the week on Wednesday we are into the wave of the Aquarius moon, waxing and tossing out ideas and alternatives. It's a bit of an idea blizzard and not all of them are appropriate but it's nice to feel the mind and attitude at a point where it's jumped out of the box. Seriously we have a fresh new year and a moon. So if you're grumbling and moaning then you really need to look at how much you've gotten used to grumbling, moaning and snarking and break that habit. It's not just back emotional physics, it's bad physiology and it dumps the wrong chemicals in your blood stream, lowers your immunity and freezes the , 'creative glands' in their tracks. So it's not just new age babble anymore, you have control of your thoughts every breath, if you keep them in the upbeat zone you improve your physiology.

Wednesday through Friday we have the moon in Aquarius. It's the monthly brainstorm, where the box disappears altogether and we're all out of it. With the waxing moon in our sails we can really see both the forest and the trees, even the sky and roots if you want to. The trouble is the focus goes in and out and thoughts are fleeting at the speed of light.

For groups it can be a bevy of useful ideas or an unraveling of direction. This is not a 'decision moon'. This is the window for things to come to the surface by ricochet means. I'm specifically talking about the u.s.a's presidential elections. All it takes is one misrepresented story to be relentlessly repeated and it can shift focus. We live at the speed of page refresh and RSS feeds, where mere hours after happening something becomes truth by exposure. Witness that Clinton did not cry, merely waxed wistful and it spun into a huge wave that confused all the pundits. In this few days the news from the campaign trail will take backroom paths to get to our ears. Always trace your sources!

Friday afternoon and through the weekend we enter the waters of Pisces. On Saturday Venus is square Uranus and will provide some unusual directions in the arenas of social direction. This is the pattern of 'tough love' in our world. Compassion can take an aggressive tone, or at least switch from passive to active. In the gospels of the Magdalene they translate the 'turn the other cheek' into trying a fresh philosophy in the face of the slap from the status quo. Not a victim 'hit me again' type of thing but an active, creative and evolutionary response. Ultimately active compassion will always trump out, especially in a world with so much violence the response is obviously needed.

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Moon and Planet stats for the Week

Monday

Moon in Libra

Mars into Gemini

Tuesday

Moon in Capricorn

Moon VOID 3:37am PST

Moon conjunct Sun 3:37am PST

Wednesday

Moon in Aquarius 3:13am PST

Thursday

Moon in Aquarius

Friday

Moon in Aquarius

Moon VOID 9:52am PST

Moon into Pisces 10:44am PST

Saturday

Moon in Pisces

Venus square Uranus SAG-PISCES

Sunday

Moon in Pisces

Moon VOID 3:41pm PST

kNEW YEAR, Starry Eyed for jan 1- jan 6

Mon Jan 07- Sun Jan 13

MoonWeek Libra thru Capricorn

Yeah time is subjective, particular to each person. But right here right now the Roman calendar rules, 80% of the decade under foot. That's the subjective time part again, it seems like only yesterday. The reality is we all write 08 now.

Monday with the Moon in Libra Mars slips into Gemini, even before Kiritimati is the first to wander into year 08. This is a great night for a party though and it's a good thing because plenty will be doing that. The Mars in Gemini part is a caution though, we're in a pattern where the war over words is just a slip of the tongue away.

Tuesday night through Friday we're hanging with a Scorpio Moon. Could be some secrets of '07 pop out early in '08. No matter what the Roman calendar says the lunar one tells us this is the darkest part of the moon. Time to dig into yourself while the ground is soft and see what's under there. Psychic tinkering is valuable now. Many will just look away and use distraction devices. The brave and the lucky will purge out those things that are the causes of physical and psychic maladies and as the pop prophet said, "...turn to face the change...".

Mars, fresh in Gemini and Pluto fresh in Sagittarius make their first opposition. It's the beginning of a dance they will do until early April. So words can be the most hard core of weapons. Often something said years ago still stings, but that broken arm is healed and gives no problems. It's a passage where we all have to speak what you really feel and when you feel it. The more time you allow things to fester internally the more likely it is that when released they will fall on the wrong ears, for the wrong reasons.

Thursday night is a prime time for the ills or blessings of this dark moon to burst forth. The moon roams void of course and we have the array of our psyche laid out before us. Those that look are cool with it; those that don't want to can go to extremes to not see the wall much less the writing on it. We'll be awash in what Iowa means according to the pundits. It's 'Horton hears the who' time for our collective American village. Not that I'm a believer that representative democracy is healthy and vibrant, it's a case of some caring to much and others too little. But now is the time to educate yourself and be heard.

The first meteor shower of the year is on, The Quadrantids, so if you think wishing on a star is a better angle there will be thousands to practice on.

On Friday we slip into a different gear for the rest of the week; the Sagittarius Moon. Now you have the wind at your back and the horizon in your sights. The places you want to travel and the things you want to study come to the forefront. Training our wanderlust and desires towards directions that evolve us and those around us is the call. Make lists of all the things you want to do, no matter how outlandish. Just getting them in the physical world will help with the execution. To be able to see your desires is a unique and valuable mirror to see yourself.

On Saturday Venus and Saturn square and the Moon moves into Capricorn. This is some hard-core astral love. A window of a few days where we can see in stark clear light the restrictions of what we perceive as beautiful and in the literary sense romantic. With the overtone of the Moon in Capricorn we can get an accountants view of our amorphous psychic territory. I always say start the new year slow and see what develops rather then toss a bunch of conditions on it from the start. This alignment gives us all a chance to really survey the deep landscape and be honest with ourselves. If you can't be honest with yourself who can you be honest with?

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Starry Eyed november 19-25

Mon Nov 19- Sun Nov 25

MoonWeek Pisces thru Gemini

It's a fUll mOOn week. It's not until Saturday so you have the whole week as a fuse. The Sun moves into Sagitarius, Blessings of the natal return to the Archers! We all get a hit of the 'direction of things'. Once loosed you know the arrow only goes in one direction. More on that later, this week defines the whole next cycle, it is the seed of the Scorpio Moon -Nov 9th-
Germinated, grown and bearing fruit. What we don't harvest or at least deal with will surely rot on the waning side next week and we all know what a yard of unpicked cherries looks like.

We're in the Pisces Moon on Monday. The energy flows both ways and death of person, place and thing isn't such an intimidating concept. We can see the cycle of things. Mars gets in the middle of Venus and Mercury, the classic Mars square Venus and then later in the day a trine with Mars and Mercury. Mars in Cancer has a lot of pent up flashes to burst up to the surface.

When Mars and Venus square regardless of sign it's a format we all have access to; the internal blend of masculine/feminine that makes us up. Even for someone in a decade old rut it's still a fluid blend. This yin-yang combination described as projection/reception, physical/emotional or ease/disease is scientific by as well as metaphoric. We now alter hormone levels to illicit a variety of medical aims. Also it seems like it's not such a good idea. The regulation of the being goes on thought by though, breath by breath. Every day, for our whole life we have a chance to participate more in that process, ancient theories or modern technologies, there is plenty to drawn on.

So today we know what is, has or needs to die. The moment of acceptance and moving on into the new reality can happen now or be dragged on forever, it's a matter of choice.

Overnight the Aries Moon is installed, Tuesday makes the musings of yesterday seem like they never happened. While using this burst of energy and momentum don't loose track of the realizations of the last few days. It will keep the arrow pointed in the right direction. Aries moon energy just wants to empty the quiver quickly and the search around for other things to put in the bow. Watch bumps of the head, strange but common occurrence on waxing Aries moons. It is the day associated with Mars in most systems, the moon tags Mars on a degree sensitive in king george's natal chart. Someone hide the red button from him please!

Wednesday we still have the fiery winds of the Aries moon in our sails. The full moon is just days away and focusing some of the momentum to clean up the areas of your life that the Scorpio new moon exposed is vital. If you sweep it under the carpet or look out another window to avoid seeing it on the waning side you're gonna have a mess. Mercury is trine Uranus today, sympathetic messages of a fresh look at your situation. Revel in it, see it as a possibility, even if it includes learning to fly or a new language. It will flavor the rest of the week, so when that crazy prophet on the street hits you will some skewed wisdom don't toss it out before mulling it around a bit. There are fragments of talismans, morsels of evolution and hints of divination sprinkled in the oddest places right now.

On a side note, I've been feeling the transits are right for our 'deep throat' right now. Or if you prefer the defector from the dark side, the one who gives up some hard evidence paired with those who have the bravery to expose the truth. This degree (the mercury/Uranus trine) was hot for the new moon, the u.s.s.a. and president shrub. It's the window open for two weeks. Can't wait to see it. I pray that people care about it as much as anna Nicole smith.

We reach the thick part of the Full moon fuse Thursday with the Taurus moon. Nice to have a good solid body level, nature of pleasure and sustenance before the full moon. The Sun moves into Sagitarius. It's always a party for the Archers among us so we enter the season of gatherings and merriment. Just another reason to shave off your issues so this cycle doesn't drain you and can sustain you. From the vista of the Taurus moon we can see the simple needs in life and revel in what we have. Gratitude equals high serotonin so get with those mind thoughts and feelings and heal yourself cell by cell.

By Friday we're 'within-orb' of the full moon , the fuse has disappeared into it and all that's left is the boom. Moon still in Taurus but rolling void. The Tantric Yogi's say the moment just before is more powerful than the moment after if you know what I mean. It's even cultivated as a state of meditation. Like poise on the tracks with a freight train.

Rituals or business deals you should have it together by today. If you don't stay minimalist as you missed the window. It's best not to grab and get frantic just take it as it is. So whether you're closing the big deal or a circle drawn in corn flour go with what you really can count on and understand mentally, physically and emotionally.

Saturday the moon is full at 2 degrees Gemini. It's early 6:30am PST. Moment before or after it's on! I've always loved the pairing of this full moon each year. In the opposite season it's Gemini Sun and Sagitarius Moon. Now in the northern dark nights it's the Sagitarius Sun with the Gemini Moon.

The Archer, one-pointed ness, infused with the distant ideas and places sits opposite the twins, diffused thoughts and communications, the mirrors of all possibilities reflecting freely. When a bow is pulled to tension thatit will release is a guarantee. Relaxing a bow is actually not easy to do with grace. The simplest is to just let free with the fingers, but be sure you have sighted a target!

One of the greatest archers of all time is Arjuna of the Bhagavad-Gita. His quandary was over loosing arrows onto those of his blood, and in the grand sense of that poem, right action, wrong action or no action. That if we are connected to all how can we war, how is any act against the dharma anonymous or without victim. Even indecision is a decision.

Arjuna eventually gives up his whining and gets to the living of reality and so shall we. To consider deeply the nature of actions in general and the actions of our lives is of course a given. Otherwise one could end up under the wheels of the chariot instead. With Mercury square Neptune, secrets and obsessions are the wheels so could certainly get messy like Ben Hur for some. Twisted natural selection I guess.

Sunday is the afterglow. Hopefully it's not from uranium. Whether you see it as a 40's detective flick with cigarette holder and red wine or the smoldering of an all night puja dhuni we should drink it in thirstily with all sensory functionables. This is the reason of life, for the living. Life isn't happening to you, you are happening to it.

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Starry Eyed

Mon Oct 29- Sun Nov 04

MoonWeek GEMINI thru VIRGO

After the full moon last Thursday we're in the waning cycle, the ebb of the tide, the seeding through decay from the Libra new moon the 10th of October. This week two backward moving planets turn direct, Mercury and Neptune. The dreams, visions, delusions, flights of mind and fantasies of the last cycle have to fruit or die. It's the cycle of nature. Look for the seeds you keep and don't weep for the ones you don't. They are food for something else.

Monday the moon is in babble, Gemini. Take care one could say something that will fester and infect quickly, like by later tonight. 'Cause the moon heads into Cancer. It's always a good time to review what you did babble about the last couple of days and make sure you didn't give a verbal agreement that you don't want to back up in writing.

Jupiter gets square with Venus and then glances Neptune while the Sun and Saturn mix. A potent start to the week. Outer planet stuff disperses over time, so the week carries these flavors. Visions of expansion, and expression being freed from the dream world. Social fantasies will be loosed from the minds and souls and walk the streets as reality. Revel in the costumes of the everyday and see the uniforms they hide. What comes up from the depths always returns to them, it's the wake left behind we have to deal with.

Tuesday the Cancer moon passes by Mars. The craying tissues will be needed as with each month passage of the moon through Cancer. Mars is brewing some nastiness and doesn't like to be suppressed. If you happen to be the leader of the free world that has a Sun in Cancer almost by degree of this transit take a breath before you push any buttons today. Especially big red ones. And if you're not that guy we could all use a bit of channeling into the over soul to avoid dubya from acting out today, he makes such huge messes when he does.

Wednesday we should still walk and talk lightly. Cancer moons are no joke. The body/mind/heart is at its most sensitive and a great time to watch for internal messages on areas of health that may need attention. It's easy to just live on anxiety and adrenalin, pushing on just to keep pushing on. But it's far easier to not get sick or emotionally down by tending to the body/mind when it sends us hints. Staying hydrated is sooo important. It takes more water to keep us warm then to cool us off so it's a sneaky thing that can happen, getting dehydrated when it's chilly, then all sorts of fun phlegm breaks out. If you can't stay healthy for you try staying healthy for those around you. It's embarrassing to be the one that brought the superBug home.

Neptune turns Direct today. Lumbering backward since the end of May the in-tune of the village will look over dreams, visions, obsessions and the like to see what this cycle from then to now has exposed. You learned something about the deeper workings of yourself. Now is the time to actualize it so you don't lose the lesson. It will take a few days for Neptune to get momentum forward so use the 'in station' period as a dreamy review.

Thursday the moon goes into Leo and it's the last quarter Moon. We're really in the dark side now! The Leo Moon offers a bit of energy and passion. So if the Cancer moon brought you down to the depths now you have a chance to break out. This evening is 'dia de los muertos'. The day of the dead. With so many people inviting the dead down for dinner how could they refuse? If you have a chance to head to the cemetery of someone that died this year take them their favorite food and drink and go hang out with them. It's a lot cooler and more real then Halloween.

Mercury goes DIRECT today! The great communicator has been retro since the 11th of October. Look back and see what machines, devices and calendar meetings tortured you the last few weeks. Before heading forward there is an 'in station' period of a couple days. So writers, artists, technicians all should give everything the once over before turning it over. Any blatant miscommunications of the last few weeks should be combed over for hidden problems. Don't just gloss them over because when they crack it could pull it all down on you.

Friday many will have put off the Halloween party until the weekend to take full advantage. It will serve to be good timing as the moon is in Leo, defiantly a party sign. All sorts of big cats will be out and flashing red. Remember to place nice and keep the drama to a minimum. Leo moons can turn on you, confident and sassy one moment weepy and self doubting the next.

The Moon heads into Virgo for the weekend, so Saturday and Sunday are sort of the 'worker bee window'. The mind will be sizzling and the hands and feet too. We all could use a bit of home cleansing and releasing of the clutter. It's definitely time to get the cave in order. Small bits of effort can pay off big in changing the 'vibe' of your surroundings. Hibernation season is here and you don't want stuff smelling up the corners, it makes for a grumpy bear.

The Sun and Mars trine today, bringing together the powerful water signs of Scorpio and Cancer. The explosive energy of Mars is stifled in Cancer and things are bound to explode to the top. Mix fire and water and you get steam. A potent physical force. I already made light of king george's placements in Cancer. It's a real thing though and the headlines could ooze with its effects. On a persona level we can use this steam judiciously to push up things we don't want in the depths. Sure it's easier in the short run to ignore all that deep Scorpio stuff. The downside is it's working while you sleep, while you focus on trivial things. Remember live with reality or it comes to live with you.

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Moon comes for you...

We're freshly in the change of the seasons, but northern or southern hemisphere it's been felt early. We're animals after all, most of our 'involuntary functions', like 20K breaths a day, conversion of chemicals into proteins and the like is hard wired into the timing of the seasons. The flow of nature has us surrounded don't be stupid. It's a full moon this week, the Harvest Moon Wednesday. so the trump of the week happens on hump day.

Monday thru Wednesday is all set up for the full moon. Like all momentum events the waxing moon is substantially more powerful just before she crests. Early in the week we should take heed of psychic hints and keep the safety on the trigger. Best to tighten things up and do some checkin's with your intimates. On the bigger issues things that you don't want to drag through another cycle should be completed or destructed.

Mercury tangos with both Pluto and Mars before the Full Moon. Words can be as explosive as depleted uranium ammunition. There is always time for a breath. It's good Kung Fu, the warrior is always at peace, the best battle never fought. So getting a few of those 20K breaths a day into the conscious is a powerful tool, and could save you some grief and drama. If you feel the heart rate pulse up you know you're breathing with your collarbone, you have to drop it back down into your pelvis. It takes just an instant and your blood chemistry changes.

Ricochet words and retorts could hit innocents. Not just in the Kung Fu movies but in real life it's possible to elevate in these terse situations and drop a line that isn't expected, even by you, and diffuse the situation and get to the deeper stuff. Turning the other cheek isn't about getting hit again it's more offering another face of the truth.

Ahmadinejad the PM of Iran is in New York, I really hope him and George don't bump into each other until after the full moon or it could get schoolyard nasty.

Wednesday the Moon is full at 12:45pm Pacific time. It's all about receiving the bounty, it's a combination of Aries and Libra, it has passion and discretions, discernment and involvement. Even if you live in a high rise dancing amongst the crops and giving some thanks can be pulled off. They say the more grateful you are the more you have to be grateful for.

Thursday and Friday we have post full moon glow and she is in Aries so it's got energy and passion. We can physically use it to do some of those projects that take a short burst and flurry. Cutting, chopping, sweeping are all great uses of it. It also is a great way to get the stream of consciousness flowing sweetly and is as good as a long walk to think some things through.

Mercury and Mars both change signs before the weekend, Mercury into Scorpio and Mars into Cancer. Both are water signs. Mercury could spit some secrets for the next few weeks, if you don't want it known don't do it! That's the world we live in, It's an elevating thing, satya, a yogic principle to just live truly. The flipside is to let the freak in you out in the open, it's not that freaky and the world needs it right now anyway.

Mars in Cancer is an emotional time bomb I'm not going to coat it. A month or more of seeing where the deep issues are festering. We can use it as a transit to spiral up to another level or just feel like reality has it out for you. On the macro level the headlines for foreign policy will look like the Pro Wrestlers promotional commercials.

Saturday and Sunday we have that monthly lurch from the verve of Aries moon into the happy sloth of Taurus. If you cleaned up the farm you can just sit around and enjoy. Santosa is another yogic principle that implies contentment with your surroundings. It's not easy and it's not new. It is powerful. With the way the week has been you can easily look to see someone else that's worse off then you. This should be a last resort technology though. Just feeling content to be alive, relieved of the pressure to 'figure it out' is liberating, invigorating and the transformation is as real as it gets.