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Posted on May 14, 2012 by Amanda Painter

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Re-Creation Season — Venus Station Retrograde

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Len Wallick

Venus will station retrograde from the latter third of Gemini tomorrow. For nearly six weeks, the brightest planet in the sky will appear to move backwards from our perspective. The beginning of its apparent reverse motion puts us on notice that Venus will soon pass between Earth and the Sun. Venus starts its retrograde period in the midst of a long opposition to distant Quaoar, which has occupied Sagittarius since its discovery in 2002. Its opposition to Quaoar, taking place from the precise degree where Venus changes direction, symbolizes another kind of impending passage, into the season of your re-creation.

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The word ‘recreation’ has pleasant connotations. There is no reason why the hyphenated term ‘re-creation’ should be any less fortunate. Venus’ role during its retrograde period will be as a reminder to feel fortunate about an apparent and auspicious opportunity to re-create yourself and the world.

The period between Venus’ retrograde station tomorrow and June 27, when the brightest planet resumes direct motion, will serve as a container of sorts. Within that temporal vessel, there will be an astonishing series of celestial events, one after the other, exceeding in auspiciousness any similar period in your lifetime. Taken as a whole, that series of events implies big changes in your life. Not the kind of changes that leave you feeling helpless and victimized either, but rather the kind you can participate with, as in a dance. That’s the promise held as Venus initiates the container of its retrograde period in opposition to Quaoar.

Quaoar is named after the creator of the Tongva people, first citizens of what is now Los Angeles, California. As the Tongva conceived it, Quaoar danced all the other deities, one after the other, into being. Each god or goddess so created joined in the dance, participating in the creation of the world. The chart for Quaoar’s June 4, 2002 discovery has a lot in common with its opposition to Venus at tomorrow’s retrograde station.

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Let Venus Retrograde — and the Eclipses — Begin

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Eric Francis

Today we embark on a journey that is distinctly 2012. On Tuesday, Venus stations retrograde in Gemini. The retrograde lasts six weeks, at the peak of which is the transit of Venus on June 5. Venus retrograde means that Venus is passing between the Earth and the Sun. This is an eclipse-like event — one of many that happen during the next three weeks. Think of it as Venus penetrating the Sun and infusing it with its feminine power, helping balance out our chaotic world in which both male and female energy are out of balance and out of alignment.

Image of Venus using ultraviolet light, making it appear to be blue. It usually appears a hot, bright yellowish white. Ultraviolet light is the only way to capture the clouds -- otherwise the planet looks like a bland disk. Photo: European Space Agency.

So much of the personal drama we experience in life surrounds the themes of sex, gender and sex roles. Consider the alienation between men and women; the competition within each of the sexes, and between them; the anger and illusions that people project onto one another with a pretext of sex or gender.

Consider all the issues so many people face that involve what you can think of as inner gender relations — homophobia, not knowing what to do about being bisexual, or not knowing how to handle yourself if you discover you belong to some unfamiliar sexual orientation that you’ve never heard of or that your parents or partner don’t approve of. I could keep going; the permutations on gender drama are as infinite as human diversity, but the topic is not so easy to talk about, mainly because it involves exposing things many still consider shameful.

Gemini is the most basic sign of dualism. It’s the first sign where a human being appears, and we get not just one, but two of them. Venus making its penetrating transit across the Sun is visible, and it suggests something obvious. Gemini is all about polarities; a retrograde planet suggests a kind of experiment or play within those polarities. I think we will be learning a lot about ourselves and our relationships during the next six weeks. Not only that — this looks like some kinky astrology, if you’re the type to experiment with non-ordinary forms of sex (including gender reversal role-play).

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Astrology Today: Oracle for Monday, May 14, 2012

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Eric Francis

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Taurus weekly for Dec.1, 2006

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If a partner has seemed reluctant or disappointed, give them a chance to see the light of day. You have been ready to take a step for a while, and you’ve seen the opening where it might be possible to go. But these things don’t work until everyone is ready. It will be worth noticing a shift that’s likely to occur soon. Family Focus: Loved ones who thrived on security will now thrive on progress.

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 edition and Planet Waves Light. And for your 2012 annual reading, you’ll find Revolution. Revelation. Reality Check.

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The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, May 13, 2012

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Sarah Taylor

By Sarah Taylor

Six weeks ago, the Weekend Tarot Reading of April 1 featured the following cards: King of Cups, Seven of Cups, The World. This weekend, we have a reading with some parallels: the King again as the first card, the Six of Cups takes the place of the Seven, and another transformational major arcana card in the appearance of Death.

King of Cups, Six of Cups, Death -- RWS Tarot deck.

King of Cups, Six of Cups, Death from the Rider-Waite Smith Tarot deck. Click on the image for a larger version.

It feels like there is a revisiting of some form of experience, whether inner or outer, underpinned by the King, whose wisdom seems to oversee events in both.

This is what I had to say about the King of Cups last time:

“The King of Cups refers to our emotional natures when we align them with the flow of life. By doing this, we are fully in our feelings, but we are not dominated by them, nor do they dominate us; we do not shy from them, nor are we engulfed by them. There is a foundation to our experience that is unchanging, even while waves might lap, undulate, and crash around us.”

The King represents emotional wisdom in action; as the masculine card in the court couple, the King is primarily about doing while the Queen’s domain is being. Here, the presence of the King is calling us to step into the highest ideal that we hold for ourselves in terms of the expression of love in our world. Emotions either come from a place of love or of fear. The King is an invitation to see something from a more elevated perspective, no matter what is going on around us.

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Astrology Today: Oracle for Sunday, May 13, 2012

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Eric Francis

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Aries monthly for June 22, 2010

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Free will, and freedom in general, are among the greatest challenges that most people ever face. One common response is to panic at the notion of potential and the opportunity to choose. Another is to run away with power and see how much abuse one can foist on the world. But the most common response is to go to sleep and pretend that there is no freedom. As it works out, none of these are viable for you; rather, you’re finally in a position where you must take on both potential and the responsibility of freedom, as well as the power and the sense of danger that comes with it. These are all acting simultaneously on your chart, and therefore your psyche. You have the right to be nervous, but I would not call that a privilege, and I don’t suggest you indulge it any more than is necessary. Simmering down more aspects than I could write about in a good length article, we get one bold theme: you’re ready to step into an expanded vision of yourself. This means being fully present for your own life and showing up for your relationships in a new way. If there’s a sacrifice involved, it’s a kind of habitual insecurity that you ignite on the altar of progress. This comes in the form of one decision that is imminent now that affects both your most intimate private life and your most assertive professional life.

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 edition and Planet Waves Light. And for your 2012 annual reading, you’ll find Revolution. Revelation. Reality Check.

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A Once and Future Transit

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Planet Waves

By Carol Van Strum

On Tuesday, June 5, will occur one of the rarest of astronomical events: a transit of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun. For people living today, June 5 is the last Venus transit in our lifetime; the next will not happen until December 11, 2117 and December 8, 2125. Weather permitting, people in North America should be able to see at least part of Venus’s passage across the solar disk on June 5. This is an event not to miss!

Two excellent, complementary books together provide a roadmap to the history and significance of this rare occasion:

Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present, by Nick Lomb, 2011. Powerhouse Museum, paperback, $24.95

The Day the World Discovered the Sun: An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus, by Mark Anderson, 2012. Da Capo Press, hardcover, $26.00

A transit occurs when a planet passes between Earth and the Sun across the Earth’s orbital plane (ecliptic). Because Venus and Mercury are the only planets with orbits closer to the Sun than Earth’s, they are the only planets that ever pass between us and the Sun. Mercury’s orbit being smaller and closer to the Sun, the innermost planet transits more frequently than Venus, but is harder to see. Venus transits are much rarer and usually occur in pairs eight years apart, separated by roughly 122 years. The June 5 transit is the second of this century’s pair (the first occurred on June 8, 2004).

Venus transits occur in eight-year pairs because for every eight orbits of Earth, Venus takes thirteen circuits around the Sun before crossing Earth’s orbit at the right moment again. (Just to confuse things, since Venus actually reaches the eight-year rendezvous 2.45 days earlier than Earth, occasionally Venus will arrive too early for conjunction and make only one transit in a century.) Calculating planetary orbits and the transit times of Venus was one of the great achievements of 17th Century science.

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Choosing Another Street

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Eric Francis

By Judith Gayle | Political Waves

Don’t you love it when the gears begin to turn and you know you’re going somewhere? That’s in the air now, this sense that we’re picking up speed. Perhaps this feeling of relief is a response to Mars in direct motion, finally moving us along but still in shadow phase so we’re not zooming ahead like a bullet train, unable to process much but watering eyes and rushing wind. We’re more like riders looking out the window now, connecting the dots on the landscape, accessing where we are and how the topography is changing. And it’s more than Mars, of course. It’s the currents of our major energy changes, our pending eclipses and aspects, pulling us forward into the future, having whittled away some of the lethargy and illogic we were stewing in for so long: frogs slowly simmering to a boil.

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It feels like a second wind (or ninth or tenth). Instead of wincing at the prospect, I must now confess a renewed curiosity about what headlines each new day will bring. There’s still a lot of delusion out there, people saying astoundingly cynical things they’re sure the faithful will believe, but there are also signs of sanity everywhere you look, some surprising. Take FOX Newscaster Shepard Smith applauding Obama’s support for gay marriage. Shep suggested that the POTUS was now on the “right side of the 21st century,” which earned the immediate ire of always-vigilant GOP overseer Limbaugh. Rush demanded to know in which state Shep thought such an opinion might win an election. Trumpeted the Bloviating One, “It’s still up to the hicks and the hay seeds …”

A clever Dem would commit that description to memory, just in case the radical right wasn’t sure what Rush thinks about them. Still, who would have thought such a moment might play out on FOX television? Or this report of Alan Colmes taking down Joel Arends, the Swiftboaters’ front-man on FOX radio who had accused the Prez of “spiking the football” on Osama bin Laden. Arends, who successfully muddied the reputation of war heroes Max Cleland and John Kerry ten years ago, did a less than credible job of pretending to represent miffed Navy SEALS critical of Obama’s actions (none available for comment.) It’s all too evident that Rupert Murdoch is preoccupied elsewhere.

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Astrology Today: Oracle for Saturday, May 12, 2012

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Eric Francis

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Taurus monthly for Feb. 1, 2005

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Chiron in the 10th house has been described as the ‘mantle of power’. You now take on this role, which will be an opportunity to actually express, apply and manifest so much that you have contemplated in theory. I am fairly certain this will be easier than you think, and that certain long-overdue changes to your professional life will come with less resistance than you are expecting. The only thing you have to remember is to be what is often referred to as ‘in your power’. I cannot tell you what this will feel like for you — but I can tell you that it will feel different than you’ve known before.

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 edition and Planet Waves Light. And for your 2012 annual reading, you’ll find Revolution. Revelation. Reality Check.

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New Edition Going Out to Subscribers Now

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Planet Waves
New edition of Planet Waves is on its way to subscribers.

New edition of Planet Waves is on its way to subscribers.

In today’s subscriber issue of Planet Waves, Eric considers how the natal chart of Adam Yauch (MCA of the Beastie Boys) illustrates his life perfectly. It’s a snapshot of how one Sixties baby embodied the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of that time, carrying that energy forward as part of his larger dharma in this world. Told with Eric’s personal recollection of attending summer camp with Adam, it is both a loving tribute and fascinating astrological case study — and you don’t even have to like rap to appreciate it.

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