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Agean sunset from the Isle of Paros, Greece. Photo by Anthony Ayiomamitis.
Today is Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. We’re actually on the cusp of an historical era, marked by Neptune’s ingress of Pisces next week on Feb 3. The god of the sea is coming home to the ocean. It’s the last of the major outer planets taking its place for the events of 2012, and the cosmos is giving us a ‘real moment of astrology’ to be sure we pay attention just before Neptune crosses the threshold.
Let’s check in with the Moon first, since it’s the celestial body most people feel most palpably (even those who don’t ‘believe in astrology’). Today, just before 1:28 pm EST, the Moon ingresses Aries. Aries is the first sign of our zodiac; the first of the initiative-taking cardinal signs that begin seasons (Cancer, Libra and Capricorn rounding out the roster).
That first degree is so special, it has its own name – the Aries Point – whose effect extends to the early degrees of the other cardinal signs. And that effect is to make sure that what is personal impacts the body politic, and vice versa.
What’s so beautiful – elegant, really – about this latest visit of the Moon to the sensitive Aries Point, are the conversations between the other planets and Neptune, which is just at the last quarter of the last degree of Aquarius at this moment. (In other words, Neptune is at 29 Aquarius and 45 arc minutes.) It’s as if Neptune’s homecoming is so momentous the gods are offering all kinds of signs to celebrate, aligning in honor of the transition.
Today’s Oracle takes us to the Leo weekly for Feb. 20, 2004.
This is a very good week to shuffle your investments around, explore the possibilities and generally take a few breaths of the winds of fortune. I mean it. Pick up your phone and call the stock broker, investment advisor or bookie. Check out what’s happening in solar energy stocks. You get the idea. This is also a very good week for sex. If you’re one of those people who does sex every three years (if you’re a Leo, I doubt that you are), this is the week. If you’re anybody but a Leo, saunter up to the nearest kitty and mention how good they smell.
Note, The Oracle is a random selection from the Eric Francis horoscope archives. Each day we publish one entry from among the 10,000 in our database. It’s a little slice of horoscope history — but chosen by our Oracle program, which always speaks to the present moment. New horoscopes are published each Friday plus twice a month in Planet Waves subscriber editionand Planet Waves Light. And for your 2012 annual reading, you’ll find Revolution. Revelation. Reality Check.
While I’m out on the eastern tip of Long Island, I had a chance to visit John Steinbeck’s summer home and I reckon favorite place to live, at least on the East Coast. It’s a modest home — not a mansion — on about an acre of land in Sag Harbor, a few miles outside of East Hampton. He lived there, and on the upper east side of Manhattan, in the last years of his life. This was the house he left from on his 10,000 mile journey that became the book Travels with Charley.
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Did you know that the same company that publishes this blog also publishes a weekly astrology magazine called Planet Waves? In this week’s edition of Planet Waves, sent to subscribers last night, Eric Francis delves into the dovetail of the Chinese new year, which began Monday, with next week’s exit of Neptune from Aquarius to enter Pisces. This is a Water Dragon year, which brings some yin to a yang sign — and hopefully some good luck to our oceans. For that, it’s up to us to harness the energy available to us now. This week’s subscriber edition also includes your February monthly horoscopes for all 12 signs.
In your life right now, there is a picture that will express as two unlikely but ultimately sensible events. One will make you aware of unity where before you had seen only difference. The other occurrence will reveal distinction where before you were conscious only of unity. While the details will vary from one person to another, the substance coming through Monday’s window will serve to connect us all.
On Monday, the Taurus Moon will conjoin its own apogee while in aspect to Mercury in Aquarius. The lunar apogee was discussed in this very blog precisely seven weeks ago (December 12, 2011 “We Are Many – Lunar Mean Apogee Enters Taurus”). A hypothetical point on the zodiac representing the part of the Moon’s orbit furthest from Earth, the apogee itself has two values, both referred to as Black Moon Lilith, or BML: the osculating apogee and the mean apogee.
The osculating apogee is BML’s precise location at any given time. The mean apogee is, as Tracy Delaney put it, “an attempt to even out” the BML’s fluctuating position. The mean and osculating values can be up to 30 degrees apart, and they have been, as recently as December 18. This coming Monday, however, both Black Moon Lilith’s will be conjoined to the degree in Taurus when Moon sweeps in to make to make it three. That will, by definition, be a stellium that is at once unusual, rare, distinctive, and auspicious.
Marker buoys stored on Montauk's north side beach. Photo by Eric Francis.
Today is Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Tomorrow Mercury ingresses Aquarius today just before 1:12 pm EST. Following the recent movement of the Sun and New Moon, Mercury is making the same aspects to slower planets, which you can review here. That means it’s almost time to open that envelope holding the list of thoughts and impressions Len suggested making on Monday, with regard to this same event.
We’ll come back to that. Today, the Moon is in Pisces, and this morning made a conjunction to Venus. It’ll make another to Vesta. These are subtle aspects, describing emotional sensitivity, a feeling of devotion and a sense of emotional and sexual contact. Because the Moon is involved, this is something that starts inwardly and is reflected outwardly. The Moon stays in Pisces till it ingresses Aries on Friday afternoon.
Mercury’s movement influences mental patterns. The move from Capricorn to Aquarius is an opening, where patterns become evident or at least visible, what was previously difficult to express can suddenly be put into words, and (whee!) you may want to take a more modern approach to your thoughts. Both Cap and Aquarius are Saturn-ruled signs, though of the two Aquarius is more the one that says ‘now’ whereas Capricorn is the one that usually points to the past.
As Mercury ingresses Aquarius, three other planets are also in the last degree of their respective signs. This is another way of saying that as Mercury moves, it has a dialog with all of them. Two of these will move to new signs (creating new patterns) within the next seven days: Juno (a fast moving asteroid now in late Scorpio) and Neptune (a slow moving outer planet, now in late Aquarius). The third, Saturn, will station retrograde on Feb. 7 and remain in Libra through October. The retrograde will help us review our Libran-ruled material in a new context: matters of coexistence; the viability of ideas; whether the world around you is comfortable, aesthetically pleasing, and otherwise in balance. Balance is the very theme of Libra, emphasized by Saturn, which has a resonance with this sign.
Today’s Oracle takes us to the Cancer weekly for April 21, 2006.
Marriage is the theme, and you may find it’s time to ask a long list of questions about your original childhood perceptions of the perfect household or long-term amorous partner. Some ideas came from your parents, and some came from those of friends. A religious figure was involved somewhere in there, perhaps a nun or a female minister whose ideas factor into the equation. The point of knowing your perceptions of the past is to deduce what you want and need now. The subject of connubial connection is making a tour de force in your mind. Best to keep on course and make sure the discussion gets you to the next place. And it’s time to forgive everyone who’s not right for you.
Note, The Oracle is a random selection from the Eric Francis horoscope archives. Each day we publish one entry from among the 10,000 in our database. It’s a little slice of horoscope history — but chosen by our Oracle program, which always speaks to the present moment. New horoscopes are published each Friday plus twice a month in Planet Waves subscriber editionand Planet Waves Light. And for your 2012 annual reading, you’ll find Revolution. Revelation. Reality Check.
What’s happened is that Washington now works for those who can hire an army of lobbyists and an army of lawyers. If you’re in the drug business, and you are selling prescriptions to seniors, and you don’t want to have to negotiate over the prices, Washington works beautifully for you. If you want subsidies to drill for oil, Washington is working for you. If you run a hedge fund and want to pay the lowest possible taxes, Washington is working for you. In fact, there was recently a study, just in the last couple of weeks … in which it comes out that thirty of the largest companies in the United States are now spending more on lobbying than they pay in federal taxes. Think about that. I mean that is the investment, and that’s what they see as the future. – Elizabeth Warren, Democratic candidate for senator of Massachusetts
As the former adviser to President Obama responsible for setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to watchdog predatory brokers, bankers and lenders, Warren has seen enough of Washington to paint its portrait with an elegant and horrible symmetry. And it’s absolutely true.
In the last few weeks, some Democrats have shown their true colors, or the color of the logos of their corporate overlords. The SOPA/PIPA vote was a revelation in how many Democratic Congressmen and senators are in the pockets of the music recording and motion picture industry lobbies. It was sobering, especially in light of how many Republicans, for differing reasons, were voting against SOPA. At least Harry Reid had the presence of mind to pull the vote off the calendar and “re-group” his party before a bucket of worldwide disaster dumped itself on the heads of Democrats during the 2012 election year.
The Republicans are far less conciliatory, let alone apologetic. If the SOPA/PIPA vote was pulling back the wizard’s curtain in Oz, the current republican presidential primaries have been the trip to an alternate universe. There’s the party’s disengagement from their responsibility for the cause of our current fiscal troubles. Then there’s the doubling down on their patent disdain for aid to the continuing unemployed, and everyone else for that matter, who have fallen off the train because of conservative policies.
I was introduced to these two guitarists, Frank Vignola (lead) and Vinny Raniolo (rhythm) last June at the Rosendale Cafe in New York, when Eric’s dad took us to see them play. They’re phenomenal. Go see them if they ever play near you — but be warned: Vinny is a wicked flirt of the Gemini kind. – amanda
Nicole Hanhan and friend in Chinatown, Washington, D.C. Photo by Kiersten Angela Porter/Nicole Hanhan.
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Monday’s New Moon was accompanied by so much activity, it almost seems strange that the newly waxing Moon is already on its way out of Aquarius, ingressing Pisces at 4:11 am EST. The Moon in Pisces has a visionary, dreamy, romantic and poetic feel, which sounds rather pleasant. It certainly sounds emotionally gentle, which may be welcome for many of us. But the Moon is not operating in a vacuum – and it seems that the dreaminess you may feel today is at odds with other corners of the sky.
For one thing, Venus, also in Pisces, is making a square to the Great Attractor today into tomorrow. The Great Attractor is that deep-space point in mid-Sagittarius that is pulling our solar system toward it, while it in turn is rushing away from us. At essence, this setup brings tension to the issues of attraction and repulsion in your life — and that can manifest in many ways, with a variety of emotions involved.
The Moon catches up with Venus tomorrow, which could amplify whatever you’re feeling about who and what you do or don’t attract and why, as well as who and what you are attracted to (or repelled by). That’s where some of the rest of the sky, with more mental leanings, may provide some tools. The trick, as is often the case, is to be mindful of those thoughts (negative mental loops are hot helpful; using some logic to notice what you don’t know, however, is) and to reach for the right tool. No sense grabbing a sledge hammer when a sculptor’s chisel will do, or a paint roller to touch up the portrait you’ve been working on.
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