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How was the eclipse day for you? Did you get to do some of what you really love? In retrospect, though I didn’t plan it, I had a balanced, creative day that would make a good model for the next six months: some loving moments and good communication with the people around me, writing a weekly horoscope, finally photographing a woman who’s been buzzing around planning to do a session since the first days I had my studio, and seeing one of the very best films I’ve seen in a long time: Frost\/Nixon<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Apart from the absolutely convincing acting, this was journalism class of the first order: the journalism that counts, the psychological kind, about a face-off between a talk show host widely perceived to be a powderpuff entertainer, and the most shrewd politician of modern times; notably also the most disgraced president up until recently. It’s the story of Richard Nixon’s first interview after he resigned. I think that it’s particularly relevant for our times because we have just lived to see the end of another truly shameful or is it shameless presidency, though we are not processing the trauma the same way; the anger is not there; perhaps this is a positive sign but I am one who honors anger and its value in healing.<\/p>\n Speaking of…today Mercury is conjunct Mars, which is an image of passion, anger, creativity, and a fast mind. I have this aspect in my natal chart. Let me tell you about it, in one manifestation: Pisces styled. If you wonder how I can write several horoscopes a week, several essays in this space, the Planet Waves lead article every Friday, write almost every night in my online personal diary Book of Blue, run a little marketing department and take photos, I’ll tell you: I have Mercury conjunct Mars.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you wonder why I get impatient with people who don’t think fast…on their feet and in color, Mercury conjunct Mars. My conjunction is in Pisces; intuitive and imaginative, spiritual and lusty: and I do mean viscerally naughty in a sensory, linguistic and visual way; and I do mean it’s all for the Goddess (much of which is the gift of Pisces). Meanwhile as one who must coexist with writing and editing colleagues, I have to watch a tendency to get frustrated with how long (to me) it seems to take for other people to come up with words and ideas.<\/p>\n Today’s aspect is in Capricorn, and Mercury is retrograde. So take what you just read above and turn it inside-out and backwards. This is the “lack of imagination” on angel dust. The aspect the way we have it today inspires me profoundly to wonder which particular direction of reverse our society is going at the moment, despite all the talk of blazing ahead.<\/p>\n Monday was not a happy day for economic news. It was as regressive as Mercury retrograde in Capricorn conjunct Mars. My news department informs me that 76,000 jobs were lost<\/strong><\/a>, as announced by industry. Gee, the spirit of ’76. This is called regressive. Anyone interested in why this is happening should look into the ratio of executive pay to worker pay in the United States vs. Japan. Nobody needs to earn 1,000 times more than one of their own employees. And as one Japanese executive said in a recent interview, they learned a long time ago there that you cannot run a company based solely on the profit motive.<\/p>\n Mercury-Mars says think on your feet, for sure, but this particular rendition says look where you’re going. The two planets will make another conjunction after Mercury stations direct (which station happens Monday). That conjunction, in early Aquarius, happens on March 1, in a rather massive grand conjunction featuring Jupiter, Neptune, Nessus, Juno (then Mercury and Mars), Chiron and Neptune.<\/p>\n Gee fucking whiz. The Aquarius show is NOT over. Yes it’s been interesting but if you ask me, it hasn’t begun yet; and we may yet see some signs of progress and leadership and people power applied to this economic question. I think this is telling us we all need to be involved in the economic recovery — which is a rebuilding. I think we need to plot and scheme and make ourselves useful, helpful and productive to others.<\/p>\n Eco means home. If you can’t call it home, it ain’t the economy.<\/p>\n On a new day unlike any other, this is <\/strong>your astrologer,<\/p>\n Dear Friend and Reader: Today is the first day after a solar eclipse: the Moon is still in Aquarius and will make conjunctions to both Chiron and Neptune today. When a lunar eclipse occurs in two weeks (on Feb. 9), the Moon will be exactly opposite Chiron and in a close opposition to Neptune. 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