Venus Williams Wimbledon Champ

Venus Williams is Gemini (June 17). with Venus conjunct her Sun, Libra rising and a Leo Moon with Jupiter nearby in early Virgo.

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Spunky Eclipse

The Spring cycle fully ignites after the Moon crosses the Sun (and Venus) on Friday April 8 at 1:32 pm Pacific. The Moon -- representing our emotions and the past -- covers the Sun -- the life force, signaling shift and change ahead. This event is opposite Jupiter in Libra, forming a T-square with Saturn in Cancer--while sextile Mars and Neptune in Aquarius and trine Pluto in Sag... Mercury is still retrograde, slowing into its station on the 12th . Quite the dynamic brew. This mix signals a major shift with a lot of letting go and much forward movement. Meditate, visualize, act it out over the spring.

Mass Meditation on Death while Pluto is stationary

Pluto's 2-week stationary period has been synchronous with a mass obsession on death and dying, one of the tiny giant's specialties. I seem to be witnessing a particularly severe insanity here. For some perspective, let us consider that along with Mrs. Shaivo, 25000 people starved to death yesterday. When I leave, I would love to go silently and rest in sweet heavenly peace. I am confident reincarnation will be one of my most psychedelic experiences. We all pass, and are likely our closest to God's love when we return to source.

In Alignment there is Fullfillment....

With the Sun, Mercury and Venus conjunct in Aries, the energy of Spring launches. In alignment there is fullfillment, and the time has come to manifest the vision of Spring. Cavaet: With Mercury retrograde, the caution light is blinking. When the Moon enters Sag on Tuesday (3:58 PM Pacific), the energy ramps up and Spring really begins to sing its sweet song.

Full Moon Names

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. European settlers followed that custom and created some of their own names. Since the lunar month is only 29 days long on the average, the full Moon dates shift from year to year. Here is the Farmers Almanac's list of the full Moon names.
• Full Wolf Moon - January Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January's full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.• Full Snow Moon - February Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February's full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult. • Full Worm - March Moon As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter.• Full Pink Moon - April This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month's celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.• Full Flower Moon - May In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.• Full Strawberry Moon - June This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry! • The Full Buck Moon - July July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month's Moon was the Full Hay Moon.
• Full Sturgeon Moon - July The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.• Full Fruit or Barley Moon - August The names Fruit and Barley were reserved only for those years when the Harvest Moon is very late in September.• Full Harvest Moon - September This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this Moon. Usually the full Moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice the chief Indian staples are now ready for gathering.• Full Hunter's Moon - October With the leaves falling and the deer fattened, it is time to hunt. Since the fields have been reaped, hunters can easily see fox and the animals which have come out to glean.• Full Beaver Moon - November This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. It is sometimes also referred to as the Frosty Moon.• The Full Cold Moon; or the Full Long Nights Moon - December During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun.

Full Moon -- Full Venus

Full Moon (visual) tonight -- official full Moon is at 12:58 tomorrow Pacific, Good Friday, in Libra. Full Moon is always opposite the Sun. The Moon will also be opposite Venus which is conjunct the Aries Sun......I call that a "Full Venus." Aphrodite beckons, "must be the season of the witch".......

Saturn turns Direct: Reality Check

Saturn just turned direct and is making a station (for about a week). During this period, the essence of Saturn is amplified: Reality checks, karma, responsibility.

The Celestial Shuffle of Spring

The celestial cards are being shuffled and you are being dealt a new hand. With Mercury now retrograde, play your cards carefully. Saturn turns direct tonight at 6:54 PM PST, a good time to re-vision your longer range plans. Mars has moved into Uranus-ruled Aquarius, stirring the cauldron of change and creation. Venus will move into Aries on Tuesday surging the urge to merge. The Full Libra Moon on Good Friday will be most intense as Pluto is stationary.

Santa Barbara Tribute to the Casualties of Iraq

Arlington West - Santa Barbara, CA. A tribute to the 1521 US soldiers who have died, 11,344 wounded, the 100,000 Iraqi people....at a cost of $1 billion per week...on the second anniversary of the US invasion.

It's Spring -- Happy New Year!

The Sun bursts into Aries today, as all nature rejoices in brilliant sunshine. The vernal Equinox is a time of equal day and night -- and marks the beginning of the outward expression of life itself. The long winter season is finally over. A warm Leo Moon greets the dawn of this day, stoking the cardinal fires of the Aries Sun. A new dawn breaks in our hearts and souls. This is a time of new beginnings, of fresh starts. May love and light fill our lives and change our world!

Mercury Retrograde--Saturn Direct

Mercury in Aries is slowing into a retrograde this Saturday March 19th at 4:14 PM Pacific until April 12th at 12:45 AM Pacific. Mercury goes retrograde about 3 times a year for 3 weeks and is retrograde almost 20% of the time. This little wrinkle in the space-time continuum is a period when there are often delays and revisions, and it is a good idea to be more vigilant and diligent in your communications. Life goes on and does move forward. The analogy of the Indianapolis 500 proceding under the yellow caution flag may be helpful. This is a signal to ease into Spring, rather than sprint out of the blocks. Mercury will retrace the entire first half of Aries, turn direct on April 12th, reach the degree where it began the retrograde on May 1st and enter Taurus on May 12th. Saturn turns direct on Monday, March 21st and will transit through the last decanate of Cancer rapidly until it enters Leo on July 16th. Saturn is retrograde over 35% of the time. This stationary period at the beginning of Spring may be synchronous with some new committments and directions in your life.

For the Lust of the Game

I grew up watching Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Sandy Koufax. Ballplayers who played for the love of the game. Their drug of choice was adrenalin....ok, maybe a little tobacco and alcohol. It was really difficult for me to watch Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Curt Shilling, and Sammy Sosa with poop all over their faces -- lying like little kids to their mama about their involvement with or knowledge of steroid use. Disgusting! I imagine the game today is merely symptomatic of the times in which we live...........the indescriminate scramble for money driven by greed, consumed in the consuming, win at all costs mentality. It looked to me like Jose Conseco was the only one telling it like it was. Mark McGwire just went from a likely Hall of Famer to a Hall of Shame shoe-in in my eyes with his livid BS. Pure unadulterated garbage. McGwire was born on October 1st of 1963 at 7:30 in the morning in Pomona, a suburb of LA with the worst air pollution in the country. So maybe that's it, that's why his body suddenly exploded into a characature.....it was the chloroflorocarbons of all the gas-guzzler's latently kicking in! Seriously. McGwire's a Double Libra with a Pisces Moon, and Venus directly opposite Jupiter in Aries right on his cardinal horizon line. Today anyway, he put on a power-hitting exhibition of the lower nature of that combination of signs. Most of the congressmen and women engaged in idol-worship and softballed the superstars. One of them even remarked to Curt Shilling...."you sound just like a politician," and it seemed like the room just wreaked of it from all corners. Check out the before and after pictures below of Jason Giambi. I guess "milk does a body good," eh? Mercury slowing down getting ready for a long retrograde on Saturday. More on that before Saturday.

Jason Giambi == After Juice?

After the Juice = Jason Giambi

Before Juice == Jason Giambi

Before Juice

Aquarian

Multidimensial Musings on Scary Power Stuggles

Pebble of a planet Pluto is the most powerful force in astrology as it is the boundary between our solar system and everything else. It is the root chakra, rules the unconscious. This week began with the Sun (identity) squaring Pluto, and ends on Friday with Venus (values) moving out of its trine with Saturn and into a square with Pluto. Pluto is power and squares are struggles, so there may be some potent issues in personal relationships which need attention. These represent short term issues which we need to resolve by the Spring Equinox. The Pluto situation brings up some larger issues, namely the global economy and the power source of civilization -- oil. This Earthblood which drives machines, greed and politics is like the proverbial "ring" of Bilbo and Frodo fame. We see oil around $56 a barrel, and gasoline today setting record highs in the US. Reality check: Oil was $30 a barrel at the beginning of last year. Tell me, what do you think the effect is of $25 a barrel of oil inflation? (See: http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/CO/M) Every inch that machinery moves-- planes, trains, automobiles; everything that is made or wrapped in plastic -- is inextricably tied to oil. The government cleverly took oil out of its inflation figures some years ago, so interest rates are not reflecting this hyper-inflationary information. Yet. The United States trade deficit -- the broadest measure of international trade -- soared to an all-time high of $665.9 billion in 2004 -- showing in stark terms how rapidly this country is becoming indebted to the rest of the world. Remember Ross Perot in 1992, and his charts about the National Debt of $5 trillion? Well, its now $7.5 trillion and increasing by $1/2 trillion annually. And in this country, consumers are 85% in debt! Pluto also rules debt and will be turning retrograde on 3/26. I wonder what reversals will synchronize. I know that bubbles are always their biggest right before they burst. Now, consider the intense setup of the power struggle: the world's largest oil reserves are held by Islamic countries, while the world's largest oil consumers are mostly Christian nations, locked in a struggle for "the ring." Pretty wild food for your thoughts, eh?

Springtime Initiation

It's a week before Spring and we feel the stars stirring in our soul jockeying for position. The planets are forming some tricky geometries as the new cycle dawns. The Good News -- Jupiter and Neptune are locked in a tight trine as is Venus and Saturn -- fueling trust in our inner guidance and the power of love in the universe that all will be well. Now, the tricky part starts today with the Sun squaring Pluto, triggering feelings of insecurity -- like the bottom is dropping out. It only feels that way. Mercury turns retrograde on Saturday the 19th, Saturn direct on the 21st, and Pluto retrograde on the 26th. I'll be blogging more about how to navigate this challenging initiation into Spring. The equinox is a stellar time to check your personal stars, get a forecast (check out those email prices!).

Signals from Mt. Saint Helens

Mt. St. Helen's mini-eruption at Tuesday's Mars-Saturn opposition is symbolic of Springtime's thrust. As the new moon crossed the Pisces Sun last night, it is now in its power cycle . Release the frustrations of winter, spring forth with fresh resolve. The Moon will join Mercury in Aries tonight (6:03 Pacific), and by the full Moon, we will be reborn into spring. In the twelve days until the equinox, finish old business, prepare your garden to seed the new spring cycle. In future blogs I will outline the massive shifts ahead.