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.

Starry Eyed for sept 2nd - 9th 'the emperor is naked'

Mon Sept 03- Sun Sept 09

MoonWeek Gemini thru Virgo

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Did that eclipse full moon knock you back? Lift you up? It certainly didn't leave anyone alone that's for sure. We're still in this 'Lunar cocoon' and each action or inaction is a preset for the next cycle. To live the life for NOW as you want to be. Experiment with it, we're always waiting until things are right or perfect. Maybe perfect is waiting for us.

Monday we start the week with the moon in babble, airy and light Gemini. Should be a relief for most. Take care not to commit to everything that comes up. Later in the week you won't have the follow through that you thought you did.
Mars squares Uranus, Venus then tangles with Mars and the Sun hard angles Jupiter. What a clusterfuk! All within 3 hours in the afternoon. It can be a reorienting in what you feel is the balance of the masculine/feminine blending in your life. It can also sharpen the tongue and quicken the comebacks so speech should be treated as a potential weapon. Don't play with fire or knives. It will be some potent energy to ply into your art or relationship if you choose to step into it you won't get stepped on.

Tuesday we still are in overly communicative Gemini. Rather then resist it there are lots of ways to move with it. It's great for brainstorming by groups or pairs, getting down some creative energy on the canvas, disc or page. Inside this eclipse cycle all actions are magnified so if you want to hook up with the person in the mirror and have a little chat the effects could be long lasting. Any issue you're unsure of you can see in various new ways, it's a great day for just unconditional flirting, even if it's with yourself!

Wednesday we slip from Gemini into Cancer. One of the most drastic transitions of the zodiac to be sure, now we move from the realm of the mental to the emotional and feelings are amplified for the next few days. These are the roots of the emotional tree, rather then just endure it dive into it, discover where they are attached deep inside you. See where the well of your emotions truly springs from. It's a part of us that overwhelms many, but like most overwhelming things when you get acquainted with it the past week's, 'oh my gawd' in angst is todays, 'whahooo OH MY GOD! "in a curious surprised cartoon voice yelp.

The difference is more then the caps key, it's a continual experiment to ride this complexity that is being human and the blending of the emotional/mental/physical is a constant braid we learn from. many are realizing can influence IT by just how we think.

Not as simplistic as glass half full technology but as easy to apply. Mercury has moved into Libra for a quick tour. Like two weeks of communication on the proverbial diplomat. There will be a lot of playing nice, the undercurrent could be a mixed bag of motivations. Alliances started or reinforced now are important; if they are not made in an honest and clear way they could be fatal in personal and global aspects. My grandfather used to say, "I trust them all up front, then you know quick who the weasels are." In the global realm the extremely strange bedfellows mattress is getting crowded. We get to watch the violent soap opera get sickly sweet for a few weeks.

Thursday is a chance to purge, mostly non-physical, but if you are likely to throw things while venting put away the fine china. There are homeopaths that say when you're sick you get rid of more bacteria and the like then the original infection. So when it comes pouring out let it pour, feel it as the release it is, like finally getting into the porta potty after a twenty minute wait, bladder on extreme danger setting. It's a simple pleasure but real. So don't stifle sneezes, cough like you mean it and if the tears show up get a towel not a tissue.

Like the organic system that must rid the body first of the habitat for dis-ease, our mind/heart can be purged of the habitat for self-critical thinking, judgmental philosophies and cynical mindsets. Like the body where once clear the necessary microbes and cells for health flourish so in the mind/heart creativity, compassion and just plain old open mindedness flow right in.

Friday that button pushing, emotional stabbing is so yesterday. The moon moves into Leo. We're all loving it. This whole 'eclipse cocoon' doesn't' have to be all heavy. There is positive drama! We can live life as theatre, shrug off the unspoken 'public ness' of stifling each other. So it's okay to laugh hysterically with a friend in the grocery store, tickle in the crosswalk, break out in Shakespeare during a meeting. Well okay maybe not but if you can't apply a little entertaining dramatics to communicate you might want to reconsider who your meetings are with. Bottom line this is a highly aspected Leo moon and we all can remind ourselves not to listen to the unspoken 'collective voice', we often suppress playfulness and theatrics with the, 'not here', or 'they' will freak out. There are rarely 'no laughing or playing' signs posted. So practice wiping them from your subconscious. Second hand fun thrills!

Saturday you want to remember that we're in the 'dark phase' of the lunar cycle. It's sure to stir up ghosts -some that are still alive- and strange dreams. It's the time to take to the curb what you don't want to go another cycle with. It can be a mental and emotional recycling too. Some of that gets attached to the clutter around the pad. It's that way with every lunar cycle, survey your worlds and cut off energy to what you don't want and get magnetized toward that you do. Except, yes here I go again, we're in an 'eclipse cocoon' so it's all got extra bonus points written all over it. Small efforts now can stick and will grow exponentially during the next cycled.

Venus turns direct today and we have all learned a bit on our perspective about what is beautiful about life. Look back over the time since the first of August. Absorb any lessons you've learned in this arena. Venus also has boots and leather in her closet so it's not all angels and goddess' floating on seashells. Athena has come back and she ain't playin'!

Sunday the moon moves into Virgo, yes check all systems with the Uber-mind of the Virgonian. We're in the sign that the Solar eclipse will be in. This is truly the darkest of the dark; the eclipse is on Tuesday, September 11th. I'll get to that next week.

Here at the end in an instant you can do all 'the work', it's not that complicated, each one of us know right from wrong no matter what the greater culture has fed us. We can sink into the depths of our being or float into the reaches of the infinite instantly right now. It just takes intention and focus. This window is vital, to forgive, to employ hard-core compassion, starting with the person in the mirror. The tsunami of awareness is going to happen, we all have a drop of that wave, we are that wave. Send and receive what you think is optimum reality. Life is not a spectator sport.

POEM:: Lucid american dreaming

here's a poem i wrote last night..
still have some space in the collection
coming out in the fall..:::

Lucid American Dreaming

in the end we get the beginning,
of the result of our inactions.
the wave on the beach of oily
treason, murder, sexual debauchery.
if only it were tv..
this is the u.s.s.a reality..
300 hundred million separate bubbles.

no matter your fervor,
he is our president.
when you travel you have
to answer, 'what did you do during
the war." and "why didn't you stop him"
we just marched produced songs about it
art, installations, performances, and yes poems.

the freaks never have had any power,
over any of the wars.
fleeting minutes of e-fame and it's over..
indie pop stars don't a full sky make..


there are some bright stars with the reins now.
know the slant of the past, corruption doesn't scare them..
they are born into globality, the seed isn't deeply buried..
in an instant the truth can be absorbed by us all..

it's epic, dramatic, we living in legend days.
purify the treachery out of the u.s.s.a.
the shock is that things are as they seem.
let's have a collective american a lucid dream.

Starry Eyed for august 27 thru Sept 2nd

 

Mon Aug 27- Sun Sept 02

MoonWeek Aquarius thru Taurus

Eeeeeeclipse baby! It's a total Lunar one this time, followed two weeks hence by a Solar. A fortnight of action that will dictate how you evolve or don't over the next full cycle. You can run but who can hide from the moon? It's best for all if you find her in you before she comes a callin'. If you don't look for reality it will come lookin' for you.

Monday we have the full moon sizzle down to each cell of our bodies as it's building, she's full as the left coast of America sleeps. If you want to view the eclipse you should be flat on your back staring at her starting at 2AM PST. Below is a time calculator you can use to see what time it is for you. When the moon slips into Pisces at 7:34pm it's on. We're 'within orb' as they say, that means it's palatable to say the least. Like all process that build up and explode, volcanoes, orgasms, roller coasters and tides it's most powerful just before. So give and take a break on Monday, think about what you have been going through and tie up whatever loose ends you can. Unacknowledged danglers can explode spontaneously, so give some care to emotional crevices.

Tuesday the moon is full at 3:35am PST. This is Pisces-Virgo, the psychic efficiency expert. We can and will examine at lightening speeds the fleeting nature of our thoughts and feelings. All of the drama and trauma of the season can be put in perspective and the window is open to instant healing and resolution. We enter a two-week 'lunar cocoon'. Eclipses come in pairs, this time Lunar then Solar on the 11th of Sept, yeah I know we'll get to that next week. What we do and don't do inside this fortnight sets the tone internally and externally for the next full cycle, almost a year. So those that really step up into it will reap the benefits of awareness and forgiveness, make space in the mind/soul/body for fresh lessons and can even cut the tethers to what seem eternal issues that keep playing out in our lives. Yeah we all have issues, like 'ish you or issue not my baby'. At any time we can see their root and pull them up out of our mental and emotional gardens. The only thing holding you back is you.

Wednesday the moon goes VOID-of-COURSE. This is when she has no aspects left for the sign she's traveling through, time for the chord to resonate and for us to absorb every note that makes it up. Every aspect of this waning eclipsed moon is magnified, it's also a great time to feel her rhythm so that it becomes more organic in you, more natural. The effect is there but it's up to the receiver to tune into the affect.

Thursday the moon moves into Aries and the burst of energy is going to feel welcome, we feel like we can actually DO something with all of this. In the theme of the waning moon it's advantageous to channel the Aries furnace to tackle the ignored closets, junk drawers and hard drives of our lives. Rather then dissipating with no affect we can use it to get these short tasks taken care of. It's easy to stare at the pile of boxes as insurmountable but it really is just a short flurry that cleans them up then you stand back wondering why you waited so long. Well we know why, it's easier to talk issues and clutter than it is to move them around and actually reach out and touch them.

Friday the torch of Aries is still under our butts, you have to do something with this energy or it will course through you creating arguments, unfinished projects and general mayhem. We're going to wake up tomorrow with a Moon in Taurus and a general big view gaze over the fields of our existence. You don't want a bunch of half done projects staring you in the face. Of course we can't 'finish' everything, but if you look at it, realize it's not going to get any more 'done' and dispatch it consciously it's not going to have that baggage gravity to pull on you.

Saturday the moon is in confident and content Taurus. Look back over the week and just see the peaks and valleys for what they are; a single connected landscape. This vision of the bull is helpful to be satisfied with your lot, to forgive and realize it's all been you, the world doesn't force us to do anything we could just lay down and stop drinking and eating at any time. We are volunteers for the life. It's more a playground then a prison, go ride the swings!

Sunday is the shift all you 'Saturn returnees' have been waiting for; Saturn leaves Leo and moves into Virgo. Since July of '05 it's been a surprise quiz/inspection on reality as you know it. For us that don't have Saturn in Leo (those that do are 29ish, 58ish or 87ish) it's been an aligning of what is truly in our heart with physical reality. The ego can have high ideals about the status of the heart but the reality is sometimes harshly different. So the lessons and tunings of Saturn are never described as gentle. All systems of astrology from east to west that disagree about so much agree on this, Saturn trumps all.

As with all outer planet changes it takes awhile to settle in so it's a great opportunity to use the Taurus Moon's objective vision to see where Saturn has left its mark on you and yours the last 2+ years.

Mercury and Pluto square to make this a 'messages of war' passage for the next few days. With our intimates and our circle of acquaintances we can either build bridges of trust with an exchange or begin a feud in a single word and pinched eyebrow.

Inside this eclipse window it's all magnified, the lessons of Saturn are bearing fruit. When pruning you may feel the pain of the snips but you can have the sense also to see that the vine is healthier and the pain makes way for the fruits to come.

Starry Eyed for August 20-26 '07

We are moving towards a full moon, it will be early next week and it's an eclipse too so it's like a turbo charged waxing moon. It's the pulse of all inertia, everthing that's moving, including the mind and heart channels. All life responds to the moon, that includes yours. You may pay it no mind but it even pulls on the inner tides of the water bags we walk around in, including the bubble of goo on our shoulders. The brain is also an electromagnet field, lunar influence on the brain/mind is more science then fantasy. The Sun leaves Leo and moves into Virgo this week and it's the call that the season is over and the arc of the Sun is undeniable. All loose ends will be tied up and dealt with, it's up to us whether we have any say in the matter. Live with reality or reality comes to live with you.

Monday is the transition day, we start in Scorpio and the in the evening the Sagittarius moon kicks in, a sense of direction an a bit of yearning for distant shores or houses of learning. We all can see something or someone on the horizon that we want to get to. It's a great time to ask yourself, 'why', not to be confused with 'why me. Like why go there, why learn that, the motivation exposed and understood will make the execution of it more fluid and a lot simplier.

Tuesday the Sagittarius moon is the backdrop to the annual Sun/Saturn conjunction. It only happens once a year and it's the last time it happens in Leo for 30 years as Saturn moves out next month. For those in 'Saturn Return' it's a bit of a final test. Whether you're in your first, second or third return it's a day of challenge on those issues the return has brought up the last few years. At all times you have control and can spontaneously evolve out of old patterns. For all of us it's a few days where the restraining maze of base reality is exposed. We can always be one of the mice that just floated right out of the maze, dictating to it rather then letting it dictate to you. It's like the weather report, if you knew it would rain and didn't prepare you look foolish complaining about being wet.

Wednesday we wind up this recent observing and yearning for the horizon. It's a symbolic thing, that horizon and the desire for it exists within. There can be a tinge of the harsh edge later in the day and into the night, emotional and physical roadside bombs. Pluto and Saturn both come into play and we all know how they do it. The 'surge' isn't working and couldn't work, but today could commit some of its bloodiest blunders.

Thursday we put the re- onto all and it comes up REAL, all that fiery action of the last few weeks grounds out. With the moon in Capricorn the Sun moves into Virgo. It's one of the biggest 'vibe changes' in the year. Moving from fiery and freewheeling Leo into the practical efficiency and mentality of Virgo. We are available now to make real changes in patterns, small things that lead to large affects. It's a great base to address things that seemed overwhelming recently but now you can see how the parts work, the flow of it and your position. It all makes sense, and that which doesn't isn't so disturbing as it was.

Mars is conjunct Jupiter today and added in with the Sun/Saturn dance from earlier in the week it's a burst of energy and power that can be applied for the rest of the week. We're in the transition of the seasons and it relates to simple things like the outer layers we'll need for the weather and the inner relationship we need to don to stay in tune with the cosmos. The deeper towards the cellular level we are with these changes the more an effortlessness comes into the living of our life. Like sailing any wind is good, it's where the sails are that matters.

Friday the Capricorn moon is the CEO, administrator and efficiency expert channel of our being. It's amplified with the Sun in Virgo. Mercury squares Jupiter from Virgo and the talk of expansion is in the air. So shall you speak it so shall it be done! So take care with the huge pronouncements. If you spout out to the divine that you want a bigger house you could get shrunk so your old one seems like a mansion. We're in an instant karma zone, it's a great place because if you dig deep and speak sweet there is no end to the paradise you can transform your current position into.

Saturday we drift into Aquarius and there is some precarious action with Mercury/Mars and Venus/Neptune. Hard core communication laced with passages of sexy dreams and fantasies brought to life. The Aquarius moon has our mind free and in the realms way outside the box, so far we can't even see it. The energy of the outer planet stuff is potent and after all the practicality it's going to be like emotional manna from heaven. The smart the lucky and the few will drink this up and sprout extra wings, many will be bemused, overwhelmed and blinded by their passions and obsessions though still will enjoy the party. The air of innovation and life without a blueprint is the backdrop so for the weekend check your disbelief at the door and experiment with a wider reality.

Sunday we have the same fabric being woven. This Venus Neptune opposition can pull the curtain back on what it is we love about our obsessions. It's seeing the puppet strings that are connected to the things and experiences we feel we 'must have'. The root connection of what we may call vices. Today we can see it without the judgment and understand that one person's wheat grass is another person's crack cocaine. It's not the act or substance that is the obsession, it's the power it has over us individually and collectively. All we can do is live it's that simple, each day we decide if we're a saint or a demon, for most it's a cautious blend. To delve into the arena of how we create ourselves, now that's the only true show there is.
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"...the night belongs to love" Starry Eyed for Aug 13-19

full full stats and bleep click on punk Goddess Patti Smith, the 2haiku comes from waterfront park sunday august 12th, a kNEW Moon show that was sizzling.

It's scorching in Leo, did the new moon leave your fur ruffled and in need of a good licking? The week will continue to bring out the feline in all of us. Leo rules the heart, how we love, what we love, the physics of it. Love is in fact mysterious and like a force the few and the brave look at directly and attempt to surf in harmony. For those the waves are getting high, curling way offshore and the water is fine!

Monday early the Moon slips into Virgo for a little cleaning of the pockets, nooks and crannies. The energy of the new Moon on Sunday was intense and vibrant and you may want to attend to the condition of your fur and straighten out your whiskers 'cause it's just beginning.

Leo gets lit up all week and today it's Sun opposing Neptune. The pulsing fiber of your being laying exposed down to your obsessions and you're sure everyone can see it. Dreams walk among the waking and hidden motivations are on the surface. No David Lynch isn't directing your life but some of the camera angles seem that way.
Round two is Venus and Saturn on top of each other. Think and feel that for a moment... the elements of how we view and construct beauty and love entwined with the power of restriction and physical reality, all rolled together in the environment of the heart. Anyone for some core deep issue releasing heart wrenching adjustments to the way things actually are? For the rest of the week we have this; you can be who your heart desires, to reflect what's down there. Free of judgments and expectations. Some of it isn't pretty but you have to sort through it to get to the golden core in everyone. Even the most evil love something.

Tuesday the overtone of the moon in Virgo is helpful. With all the sizzle of Leo it's good to have the mental faculties whizzing along with it. The tightrope is having critical and practical thoughts about expansive and boundless topics. Groups have to be careful that meetings don't crumble under the weight of micro management played out through personal space problems. It's a good passage to just take notes and make hard definitive decisions later when folks won't feel each detail so personally.

Mercury opposes Neptune today, Leo and Aquarius, communication and deep realms of passion. Such a sweet transit for intimate relationships to be clear in just a simple glance or touch, to reset them from a transparent point all the way to the dream world. The primary relationship is always with yourself, in family/lovers/friends we often play out this dialogue externally, today it's exposed and we can tune the dial to full openness free of conditions. They say, "change yourself, change the world."

Wednesday the moon moves into diplomatic Libra in the evening. Any rough spots from the heart spouting out the mouth that left marks can be soothed today. Just honestly asking for forgiveness is a simple and powerful thing if it's real. If it comes from humility, hard in Leo I know, then all parties get to pass around the cup of forgiveness and compassion. Current research indicates that this increases serotonin so you can cut down on the psycho meds.

Every day has outer planet action this week, today it's Venus trine Pluto, fiery, and the Sun conjunct Mercury, hmmm fiery-er. On an individual level we can flood the warring and argumentative part of ourselves with a higher motive and raise our love game. With the solar influence the exchange and communication window is high and an opportunity for true feelings to be spoken and heard. Couples, families and all intimate circles can get a hard core 'awareness healing', it's possible to spontaneously elevate over previous personal/public issues to a new mind/heart existence that integrates them but is no longer bound by them. No wonder the congress of the u.s.s.a. and the parliaments of Iraq are on vacation, wouldn't want any truth to get in the way of the lie now would we.

Thursday with the moon in Libra we have the skills and environment of the problem solver, the seer of all sides and the solution that integrates them. With Mercury and Venus right on each other it's a powerful day to make a statement to the mirror of the positive desires and expectations you have for yourself. Realistic and practical ones. Being a better listener, evolving spiritually in a way that effects the simplest parts of your life, bottom line just becoming a better human being. It's lofty stuff but this is the transit for it, you will hear yourself deeply, if you don't have the time to listen to yourself who will?

We are at the end of the Libra moon transit and Mercury, Pluto, Venus and the Sun weave together. It's a bit of a volatile day even in diplomatic Libra. As we know many consider bullets a type of diplomacy and there are no greater battles then those over love. The only way that someone could blow themselves up is that they feel something they love greater then their own life is threatened. Who or what would you jump in front of the bullet for? Few ever really experience the fight or flight signal from the nervous system for real reasons. We've all seen people going off in traffic or on the phone, there is no tiger chasing them or exploding cars. Today we can check in with that instinctual part of our nervous system that jumps into out of proportion dramatic words or behavior. Bottom line if it isn't life and death don't act like it is. Don't say you're going to kill someone if you can't, words live beyond their speaking. If your system gets used to it there is no where to go from there and when things do explode and the tiger is chasing you your arteries will just pop. we all need to make room for some heavy reality that is taking place, drama over mundane will make you insane.

This is also a great day for new age dictators and demagogs to attempt to rattle the populace with fear and terror. It's up to each individual how to receive the threats of war and disaster. How we each deal with it spreads to our intimate communities and the larger group mind. They will use this tool to manipulate us until we quit responding to it, pull the curtain away exposing their violence and terror machine for what it is; generational insecurites played out globally. The ruling elite are afraid, hurt people with alot of weapons at their disposal. Whether global gangsters of corporate proportions or neighborhood thugs it only takes a few to stand up to the bully calmly to dissolve their power over us in an instant. When compassion is used to confront conflict melts under it's heat.

Saturday the moon heads into Scorpio and Mercury kisses Saturn. If you've been clear and brave this week you're in the mood for the deepest and fullest love. Scorpio gets the reputation for sex, but not just any sex it's metaphysical. So maybe you won't be dancing through Maithuna but everyone will be deep. Glances have the power of wet kisses tonight and through Sunday. So grab a sweetie or two and try evolving through that most basic path of human intimacy. Just sharing breath could bust you open.

Sunday we're still in Scorpio and can feel some of the other areas ruled by this transit; espionage and intrigue. The Sun trines Pluto and there will be some international scandals breaking. The nature of 'national intelligence' is dubious at best. Ahhh where are those WMD's were they talking about? So when the headlines brim over with accusations against character and the sabers begin to rattle it's up to us all to bring it to making sense. You can only control your reaction. This big ol' bad world isn't happening to you, YOU are happening to IT!

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Barry Bond's vitamins- Tour de dope

We've always been druggies. The history of substance is a story of humanity if you look at the timeline of human intoxicant usage.
The flavor of the current outrage over doping in the Tour de France and Barry Bond's vitamins suggests that we've always been reluctant to change and one age's norm is another's work of the devil. No doubt the first runner that showed up with a sandal and a gourd for water was met with cries of unfair advantage.

It is a tug between the drive to excel and evolve and the protectionist instinct of the status quo, Back iN the Day , it meant real survival. If chewing some leaves or drinking a tea gave you a boost on the food chain we just did it.
Sports and gambling predate the written word. Like medicine and the current debate over genetics and stem cell debate there is the pull back but the gravity is to move forward. What's the difference if a CEO gets to buy and organ to live another day to plunder more riches and a guy injecting horse sperm playing a kids game for millions of dollars a year?

Yesterday's piss test is today's blood scan, the further tests are refined the further the edge goes. Let's erase that edge all together. Full disclosure! The sports world loves stats, thrives on them. So does the supposed medical research industry. Now with full disclosure it's all out in the open for them to discuss, you could merge them into fabulous real life Sci-Fi, "This tour de France features the first four legged rider, the 100meter butterfly done with genetic halibut therapy." Yes shocking but no more strange then the first guy you saw shave his body to skim seconds of his butterfly time or more close to home people being poisoned by the 'fake sugar' industry. For me these are the real doping scandals, poisoning people in secret to decrease their performance.

Maybe I do have a second tongue in cheek here. I don't really care about sports, but I would love to see the wheat grass, raw foods yogi as a batting or boxing champion. If we knew what everyone was on it would clear up a lot. If senators, doctors, much less sports hero's had a full blood chemistry declarations then we're getting somewhere.

The East German swim teams of the 80's trounced other nations and elicited cries of hormone irregularities. In the west hormones were handed out to women like candy. The swimmers could have been the hormone canary in our cancer and heart disease coal mine.

The belief that you can 'clean' up something from the outside with a system of security and testing is bad mathematics. It only and always leads to a suspicion. Like deep down we know the drive to succeed is stronger then any social morals and someone is going to figure out a way to circumvent the testing.

So maybe it will let us look at the idea of champion in a different light too. If someone is willing to trade their health and gamble against cancers and organ failure for a fleeting record, fake gold medal or moments on the podium we all get a lesson. Sure they may say, records and championships assure a mark in history. The thing about history is it includes the now and will always be updated, so when the gold medalist is a candidate for radiation and surgery then we all get a lesson without loosing and organ.

Venus and Mars

NO matter the pop sentiment we're all effected by our two closest neighbors.
Today and the rest of the week the internal relationship with the masculine and feminine
principle is highlighted. relationships can evolve under this aspect or dissolve it's up to you.
Communication should be clear and really say what you mean or say nothing at all. It's not like don't speak if you don't have anything nice to say.. More if you have something intense to communicate find a way to do it gracefully. If you are the receiver then hear it all the way out, take a breath and then respond, firing back only leads to more fire and then everyone gets burned up.

you gotta love the zeroooooooos

Starry Eyed for august 6-12

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...and the sky went black. Yes we're in that time again, the darkest of the Lunar phase. Creeping towards a new Moon in Leo on Sunday. There is a lot between Sunday and us; Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Venus and Mercury all have major aspects this week. Secrets will be slippery and want out of the closet, old habits will make a run at you to show you what you loved about them and the deepest waters of the psyche will flow free on the surface. Kind of an apocoWeek for sure.

Monday we start with the Moon in Taurus, it gave us a comfortable but sloth-like weekend, able to sit around and appreciate our surroundings. The heavies shadow the day; Saturn trine Pluto and Mars moves into Gemini. Mmm sounds like a recipe of a war of words that escalates into a pounding by real world weapons. Saturn/Pluto will play out through the week, as they are slow moving. It's in fire signs, Leo-Sag and the sparks can escalate into a blaze easy.

On a personal level you might want to set all weapons to stun or not carry them at all. Remember thoughts and words are weapons too. With Mars in Gemini for a month words have instant presence on the physical plane. Remember just 'cause everyone laughs doesn't mean it's funny.

Jupiter turns direct after being stalled since April. So your mechanisms of expansion, whether they be organic or machine should gather speed and be working properly by the middle of the week. Projects, pieces, art or business all elements of expansion are now on GO!

Tuesday the Moon moves into Gemini and touches Mars right away, then fresh off that Mars and Venus square, the elemental masculine and feminine in a square, a harsh angle for astrology. Venus in practical Virgo and Mars is dispersed in Gemini. It's a time in relationships that you can check the moorings, make sure that all parties are on the same page so to speak. Not a great time for a fight over trivial shit, you'll end up wasting time and digging a hole. You can flip it and use all this for some vigorous cuddling and send that down into the cellular level instead.

Wednesday most of the day we are still in the babbler, the Gemini moon, so you have to realize that you're going to say more than you intended and that words have some extra oomph to them. It's also really easy to agree on something you won't feel like following through on later so take commitments and give them sparingly.

The Moon slips into Cancer in the evening and Venus continues her backward motion into Leo. The evening would be good for a bath and some quite time with the intimates as the tears and emotions are close to the surface.

Thursday the moon is still in potent Cancer and the issue machine is cranked up full blast so be careful with your own and treat others as reality.

Mercury is trine Jupiter, who is now moving forward as stated above. If you can't brainstorm some ideas about expansion of your band, dance troupe or new start-up then you don't have any storm at all. This will play out for a few days so get the band together and thrash out some new tunes or state that plan for a free energy project out there to the universe, it's listening and hasn't heard from you in awhile. It's best to pray/ritual/conjure when things are going good, you can't expect the forces that be to bail you out if you only call on them when the shit is going down. Internally we can converse with our whole being so it's a great passage to do some internal advertising that reaches way down to the depth of your cells.

Friday we're still in lunar Cancer. The moon 'rules' the sign of Cancer, not so much in a rocker stylee but that too. So when the moon is in Cancer it seems like it's all amplified, emotions, feelings and intuitions are floating on the surface and foretell lots of stuff in the depths too. So we should walk lightly and carry a soft stick. People's buttons are up and easy to push so you have to take them with the proverbial grain of salt. My granny says, "if I pushed your buttons what are they doing up?".

Saturday the moon gets with LEO!!! So all you kitties out there outa' get your shit together and play nice for the whole weekend. This is your moon when you can set the tone for the year to come, how you eat, clean and purr. Everything is a microcosm to you. For the rest of us we are honorary Felines and it's also now within orb, that is the darkest night of the month. The depths of our being come up to greet us. Great night to see ghosts from the past and future. You can't overdo the red today and let it fly. This is a great aspect for internal readjustment of your heart, what does it really crave? Not just in the simple needs category but also in the fulfillment of YOU, the complete you. Find out what it is your are here for!! If you're not doing that you're wasting the energy of the sum of existence. There's some pressure for you.

Sunday ahhhh the kNEW Moon, full moon's get the press but without the fresh new moon they would be nothing. It's another chance to hit the reset button on the issues of your life. Look them right in the eye and give them the, "I don't play 'dat". The next new moon is an eclipse so you want to really set your pattern deep and simple. All this introspection and interior alignment with purpose doesn't have to be so heavy. For many of us it just doesn't work that way. You can be more spontaneous then that, make it swirl instead of going in straight lines. A walk on the park can be as powerful a ritual as fifty people chanting in robes in a circle, and often far truer. So whatever your puja style make it ring in you, make it fun, make it sexy, but just make it. 'Cause if you don't make life it's gonna make you.