Mediatrix

Aren't they all.
BUT, ever since Mars went into Leo on Sat morning, the tone of my astro-queries has altered somewhat.
Ladies & gentlemen, an example...

"Dear Mystic,

hello and how are you? I just had this anecdote/theory to bounce to you about fire signs and sweat and stuff. LOL.
So, I am a Taurus woman with Sag rising, and about five other fire signs in my chart, mostly Ariess. Finding all those fire signs in my chart was an interesting confirmation of an intuitive feeling that I am a 'firey' person. Definitely warm blooded. Heat in the Hands. Nothing outrageous there. But am interested in how it interacts with another Fire Sign in one's bed, not in the sexy way but the sweaty way.
Am seeing a Leo man (don't know anything else about his chart) and it is ridiculous as to the extent to we sweat when we sleep together, both often waking up completely drenched. So, restless, draining, unsatisfying sleep on the one hand, but sometimes can also be the direct opposite. Cathartic, purging, healing heat. I think both applicable in our case. Actually, quite the metaphor for a lot of aspects of our time together.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this, or if you have heard of similar.
xx Hot In Bed. "

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Astro-Weirding Alert: Note that on May 26/27 both Neptune & Mercury go Retro. Mercury will be Retro in GEMINI. How gloriously bats is that? Loads of crossed wires, appliances going zzzht in your hands, mixed messages and sudden random bonkers communiques from people you would not believe. Good for ideas though. Don't schedule those days for anything sensible - do plan some sort of an occasion where you get to conceptualise without any undue pressure or obligation to 'show your working'...

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F.Y.I.
"...The second guiding thought behind the regime is astrology. Than Shwe has a personal astrologer, just as Ne Win did before him. One of the reasons the regime moved the capital from Rangoon to the remote jungle location of Naypidaw was, according to speculation, that Than Shwe’s astrologers advised him to do so. In 1988, Ne Win demonetised much of the currency because his astrologers told him his lucky number was nine—and so he invalidated notes which were not multiples of nine, causing millions of people to lose savings overnight...."

From here

What a VILE use of something so gorge as astro. Mind you. HITLER had an astrologer. He ended up in a concentration camp. Yuck. It's such a beautiful day but my heart is so heavy at awful news - China, Burma - apart from the need for prayers, money, etc it is such a potent reminder to be blissfully grateful for our blessings.

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Dorothy Wordsworth & her brother, the poet William said that the brightest star in any sky was always Jupiter. Which is how vague I can be sometimes. So many astrologers, astrologistes et al work whizzery with computers, have their cute snouts in ephemerides but find astronomy tricky.
It's partly that astronomers seem to take an awful lot of interest in constellations that don't "work" from the astrological p.o.v. Anyway, this Visual Astrologyis fascinating for Astro-Fiends.

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Okay, I do, i DO like Aquarius men. One especially.
And am LOVING Mars in Leo.
Yes, I do use that quote below a lot. I think it's beautiful in that it is uplifting and also evokes such a host of mythopoetic references - Sun Chakra and all.
Have noticed a slight zooshing up in the general vibe with Mars in Leo.
Two shallow examples: My Gemini daughter, who is not quite eight, has hatched a whole series of grandiose ambitions. They range from developing her own range of what seem to be Goth-themed dolls to "becoming a scientist and opening up new dimensions of everything."
I love that. Scheme big.
And because Mars in Leo loves a good scene, i got to make up with Aqua-Man at the boxing room in the gym. I feel i am more articulate when i wear pink boxing gloves. It's odd. I just remembered that when I was about nine, Leo was the sign I most wished to be. Okay, it was the 70s - when Leos were most fashionable - but it just seemed so cool to swan about in jumpsuits, aviator glasses, huge flowing hair and always just breathless at the fabulosity of it all.
I still love that about Leos.
Oh and this thing on Collaborating With Fate is brilliant: About how private submarines are trendy now & it's all a manfestation of Pluto in Capricorn.

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"In the depths of Winter I finally learned that there was in me an Invincible Summer."
Albert Camus

Happy Mars into Leo & go Sol Invictus

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"...According to Said, Gustave Flaubert wrote “Inscriptions and birddroppings are the only two things in Egypt that give any indication of life”, which would be damning if true. But, in the original French, what he wrote was “les inscriptions et les merdes d’oiseaux, voilà les deux seules choses sur les ruines d’Égypte qui indiquent la vie”, which is unexceptionable...."

Now that Mars is nearly in Leo, this article is way too brainiac for me. Truly. But i love the comment re bird droppings et al. It reminds me of aquarian men. Or, one in particular.
Neptunian Weirding (Neptune conjunct North Node) continues. Everyone i know or even hear of is either on the piss or meditating their heads off, sitting up incanting affirmations & trying to intelligently analyze their dreams.
Mars in Leo liberates us from months of Pass-Agg and now the best way to greet any challenge is to engage dignity first. You can emote to your shrink. Or cat. Or with one pithy witticism before an elegant exit. No texting. All messages must now arrive via carrier ibis or you waving farewell from a hot air balloon. A quick dash from your limo, lifting your ballgown to avoid the puddles? Oh, I don't know. I am chanelling an alternative Leo dimension.
Anyway: The element of Fire returns to the key cosmic backdrop tomorrow & see if you note the difference in vibe.

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Well, I just looked at my ephemeris and this vibe of hardcore realisations, boundary delineation & yet it's all for our own good in a "Quod me non necat me fortiorem facit" way continues till about May 25. And then it's the 2nd of two Full Moons in Scorp.
Golly.
Saturn is TRINING Pluto so thus helping us strengthen the structures in our lives/psyches...etc. Mars into Leo on the weekend WILL help. Less pining and longing to connect/talk it out/work thru issues - more like good, old-school pride & dignity.
Note that I am utterly serious re the Neptune-Node thingie making people more psychic and impressionable. Good for conscious work with dreams etc but soooo dodgy if you're hanging about with low-vibing folk.

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Neptune is conjunct the North Node in Aquarius: Beautiful lucid dreaming and a shining path to higher consciousness. Fabulous psychic flashes. Not so nice if it's neg-Neptune, a bit like lower-Pisces: denial, furtive, game-playing, druggie etc. But definitely aim for the clairvoyant dreaming over the next week or so. And a lot of people - especially the Aquarians & Pisceans or wherever you have these signs prominent - are achingly sensitive and impressionable.
A Pantheist suggestion to ground your energy, should you feel like you're lurching around processing someone else's bad mood/anxiety - an Epsom Salts bath. Or Dead Sea salts if you want to be poncy about it. Epsom Salts are like magic. Cheap too. Tip the whole packet in.
Come Saturday and the wide-open chakras will be less of a concern. Mars will glide into Leo, with some pomp and there will be a bit more of a snazzy, fiery and flamboyant atmosphere. These last days of Mars in Cancer are a tad trying, non?

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"Thomas Edison filed his first patent, for an automatic vote-recording machine, in 1868. When he set up his laboratory at Menlo Park, in 1876, he promised “a minor invention every ten days and a big thing every six months or so.” He kept that promise, averaging an almost inconceivable forty patents a year—one every nine days—for a lifetime total of more than a thousand. He filed his patent for the incandescent light bulb in 1879, but 1882, the year he lit up New York, marked his personal best of a hundred and seven..."

Aquarius - yes. actually - Mercury, Sun and Neptune conjunct in Aquarius. Uranus in Aries...
Fascinating article here

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