Get daily Astro-Logical forecasts delivered to
you here. "Last night’s session was a delightful time for me. IT WAS ALL ABOUT ME!!! You are so articulate and caring, and I thoroughly enjoyed the time, all the nu- ances you brought to it and your obviously experienced, long- time expertise."
- Bill R.
Los Angeles I CAN'T WRITE THIS WITHOUT YOU : ) PLEASE support my time and efforts. CONTRIBUTE to my COSMIC TIP JAR using the gold button below. THANK YOU.
|
Happy Monday!
Some of my Facebook friends are reporting a bit of stress this morning. And indeed, the stress of a potential power play and/or emotional catharsis is reflected by today’s nurturing Cancer Moon in a face off with ruthless Pluto, exact at 8:11 AM ET. What needs to be released so that something else might thrive? The mood expands — for better or for worse — as lunch approaches, courtesy of a harmony between the Moon and Jupiter. Note the potential for a flash of illumination, a twist or other upset to the status quo around 4:51 PM ET, as rebel Uranus challenges the emotional security-seeking Cancer Moon. From then until 11:42 PM ET, the Moon will be void of course, suggesting a time to not make a mountain out of a molehill. Chill and focus on routine concerns, preferably those close to home. Roll with whatever twists and flakes may disrupt your efforts to move forward in a straight line. If you are new to this forecast and not familiar with the term “void of course Moon,” here’s the 411.
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY are sponsored by the Moon in drama queen Leo. Great for party, a show or for issuing royal edicts. Emotions are on the rise, as the Moon is waxing to fullness in Virgo on THURSDAY at 7:51 PM ET. Before we get to Thursday, however, we have a busy few days of communication flows and challenges, as well as a chance to pour your heart out. In the case of the latter, on TUESDAY Venus in intuitive Pisces will be in harmony with powerbroker Pluto in Capricorn.
But wait, there’s more. Mercury (the way we need to think and communicate) pulls focus on WEDNESDAY, challenging a righteously opinionated, boundary-pushing Mars in Sagittarius, exact at 6:56 PM ET. An outburst energy for those walking and talking. Keep an eye on P45, as that Mars will be sitting on his opinionated Sag Moon, opposing his blah blah blah Gemini Sun. Provoked much? If you have a planet or angle around 20 degrees of Sagittarius, Gemini, Virgo or Pisces, you may also feel a wee bit provoked. Count to ten before you lash out. And that includes the horoscope of the United States, too. Transiting Mars in Sag will connect with Mars and Neptune in the USA horoscope. Assertion, anger, scandal, vision, dreams, drugs, oil, fantasy — watch the headlines — and expect the debate over gun control to continue.
Later on Wednesday, Mercury will be in harmony with Pluto at 11:40 PM ET. Should be a fine day for investigative reporters. Mercury-Pluto patterns excel at digging up dirt. The Leo Moon goes void at 6:13 PM ET on Wednesday; chill until 12:57 AM ET on THURSDAY, when the Moon enter Virgo to clean up the mess.
THURSDAY features the aforementioned Full Moon. In Virgo, its mission is to refine, organize and make things perfect. A lovely harmony between Venus and Jupiter, exact at 6:22 AM ET, gets that day off to an amiable — dare I say generous — start. Another easy flow between Mercury and Jupiter, exact FRIDAY at 8:05 AM ET, facilitates big news in publishing, legal affairs and other systems of collective beliefs. By then we’ll be seeing manifestations of rose-colored glasses to the max. Why? Because on SUNDAY the Pisces Sun makes its annual meet-up with visionary Neptune, and Mercury meets up with Venus. The two together scream “idealism!!” — to be expressed prominently in matters of women, money, art and social expression the following week. Watch how those themes will be reflected in the Academy Awards.
What are your plans for a dreamy weekend escape? Moon goes void at 6:50 PM ET on FRIDAY; West Coasters can skip out early.
Don’t know where your planets are? Why not make an appointment for a personal consultation? Really, there’s too much going on in the cosmos to remain clueless about how it likely to impact YOU. Now is the time to plan a strategy for the rest of 2018 — and beyond.
And now, the news.
In the aftermath of the Never-Ending Uranus-Pluto Square of 2011-2016, autocrats rule. Now it’s President Xi of China joining the Men Who Would Be King Club. Yesterday the Communist Party announced it was abolishing constitutional terms limits. And why not, on a day with Sun (leaders) in harmony with Saturn (authority, structure), with the Cancer Moon about to be challenged by power-grabbing Pluto? Xi’s birth date is unconfirmed, though it is reportedly June 15, 1953. That would make him another double-talking Gemini whose horoscope was under a streamlining squeeze all last year, as Saturn opposed his Sun. Moon in either regal Leo or Cancer. Mars at 0 Cancer — the prominent Aries Point. We can watch for prominent initiatives from him next week.
Also — the American Dream is still alive for those currently threatened by the destruction of DACA. SCOTUS refusedto hear the P45 Administration’s argument on why it should be permitted to strip Dreamers of their protected homeland status.
Meanwhile…
Back in 2009, when I began writing this forecast (!!!), the original conceit was to see if awareness of planetary patterns could be used to anticipate the headlines in the “paper of record,” a.k.a., the New York Times. With Neptune pulling so much focus, I would expect a truckload of stories involving fish, water, oil, drugs, glamour, fanatics, scandal, film, illusion, spirits, victims, pacifists, lies — to name a few. Here are some examples from Sunday’s edition:
- On the front page — a special report — The Drowning Coast.
- Next up: Despite an Ethics Order, Cuomo Took $890K from Appointees
- In Russia, Bringing Home the Children Raised by ISIS
- Why Your Pharmacist Can’t Tell You That $20 Prescription Could Cost Only $8
- European Ex-Officials Deny Being Paid by Manafort to Lobby for Ukraine
- In the Business Section — front page profile of Linda McMahon, illusionist extraordinaire (“It did not matter that the venue…was not as TV viewers were told…”)
- Why These Goldfish are 70 Percent Organic
- Catching Forgeries and Aiding Justice
- Sports Sunday — Raw Octopus That Quivers? Don’t Mind If I Do — on the front page! Of the SPORTS section?!
- Sunday Styles — front page — actress Heather Graham’s new film is called “Half Magic.” It’s a rom-com about sexism (Venus in Pisces square Mars in Sag) in Hollywood (Neptune).
- “Rehearsals Follow Rehab” — profile of cabaret singer Luann de Lesseps
- Arts & Leisure — front page — “Spellbound” — about next month’s Broadway debut of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child
- Metropolitan — front page — “A Murder, A Conviction and Doubt” (“…the case remains muddled and a jailed man remains in limbo.”)
- Week in Review — front page — “Am I Going Blind?” (“…my eyesight is in jeopardy. But I see some things more clearly than ever”)
- “What Poisons Are in Your Body?” — this one links to an app called the Detox Me Action Kit — check it out and change your life for the better
- Ghosts, monsters and other supernatural stories are discussed in more than one piece in the NYT Book Review
- The cover story of the NYT Sunday Magazine — Is Google Too Powerful — doesn’t seem to fit the Neptune theme — until you realize it’s about how smaller companies are being totally wiped out
- The back page of the Magazine features cinematographer Rachel Morrison
- Travel Section — front page — “A Weird and Fragile Louisiana Beauty” Opening sentence: “If New Orleans is an aging beauty queen drunk on the fumes of her glorious past, Plaquemines Parish, to the southeast, is plain old sloshed — not to mention saturated, striated, slivered and surrounded by water. “
- Obituaries — Sridevi Kapoor, Bollywood’s First Female Superstar, Dies at 54 She drowned in a hotel bathtub.
What do you think? Coincidence or conspiracy? Next Sunday I expect we’ll have more of the same, with Neptune pulling focus in planetary patterns.
Thank you for reading this forecast.
Happy day driven by Moon in rip-roarin’ drama king Leo! Life is a cabaret, old chum. Let the razzle-dazzle, royal edicts begin! Nebulous Neptune colors it all rose, engaged as it is with the personal planets: Mercury and Venus — as noted in Monday’s forecast. Themes of idealism, illusion and lies — for starters — certainly they are all over the news, which we will get to in a minute. Neptune — as you may recall — turns direct tonight at 11:39PM ET. You’re more personally affected by the uptick in idealism, dreaminess, bewilderment and/or potential ego wipeout if you have a planet or other significant point in your horoscope around 8-11 degrees of Pisces, Virgo, Sagittarius and Gemini.
Generally speaking, planetary patterns facilitate a need for a beautiful escape. Pay attention to your dreams now and over the next day or so. Neptune pulling focus suggests a flow of information on the “dogwhistle channel,” which finally breaks through to the conscious mind. Note the symbols and signs. Note also the potential for a ruthless effort at consolidating power and control, suggested by the Sun’s passage through the last few degrees of Scorpio.
No Moon void this weekend is apt for shopping impulses. It’s not too early to be thinking of holiday gifts — someone you love would be thrilled to have a gift certificate for a personal consultation about their horoscope — and with the Moon void at 8:52AM ET on Black Friday, I’m not convinced those deals you scoop up during that Moon void will please. Shop now!
The Sun enters Sagittarius at 4:23PM ET on Monday. No sleeping in.
And now, the news — most all of it related to Neptune: oceans, oil, ships, fraud, water, fantasy…
Dutch warships at the bottom of the Java Sea are missing — believed to have been sold as scrap metal. An untapped oil field three times larger than North Dakota’s Bakken has been discovered in Texas. The Arctic Ocean is now off-limits for oil drilling — for now — says the Obama Administration. J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them premiered in London. In Slovenia, water was declared a constitutional right, not a market commodity. In Miami, Monday’s Supermoon was followed by record-breaking “king tides.”
Meanwhile, JP Morgan settled a bribery case — in which it was accused of hiring the children of Chinese leaders “to win business in the fast-growing nation.” Late Friday, another case was settled — this one a class action suit alleging fraud on the part of Trump University. You may recall Donald Trump tweeting earlier this year that he would never settle — on principle. You may also recall a post here last week noting that the November 28th start date for the trial was on a Moon void that was also dead, suggesting a high flake factor, twist and/or a back-room negotiation. JP Morgan settled its bribery case for $264 million. The president-elect settled his for $25 million. Such a deal.
If you missed the Trump U fraud settlement, perhaps it’s because social media is now all abuzz with news that Mike Pence went to see “Hamilton” on Broadway last night, and he was mostly booed by the audience (some did applaud). At the end of the show, the cast addressed Pence, thanking him for attending the performance and adding — with the idealistic social expression we might expect with Neptune pulling such strong focus this week:
“We, sir — we — are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights,” he said. “We truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.”
The president-elect took to Twitter to demand the cast apologize.
Which brings me to the bubble that is showing signs of bursting. And this is one of the bubbles suggested by Saturn (reality, control, authority) in Sagittarius (opinion, publishing, collective belief) square Neptune (surreal, lies, faith) in Pisces (victims, feelings, faith). This was the major planetary pattern of late 2015 until just about now.
The bubble that is bursting is fake news, now that Saturn and Neptune are moving away from each other. Alas, too little, too late. This story cites seven fake stories — most of which I saw posted on various FB pages — that were circulating before the election. This Washington Post interview with fake-news writer Paul Horner is a must must must-read — here’s an excerpt:
You mentioned Trump, and you’ve probably heard the argument, or the concern, that fake news somehow helped him get elected. What do you make of that?
My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist.
This week, Mark Zuckerberg announced a new “push against fake news,” after being called out by President Obama. We shall see. And we will be writing of other bubbles bursting in future forecasts. To be continued…
UPDATE — posted on 12/7/2016 — but written on Nov 22 or so — MORE NEWS!Still more fallout from nebulous Neptune turning direct — real vs. unreal — also reflected in Beth Owlsdaughter’s always-in-sync Tarot Card of the Week. This week’s Card is the Page of Swords. He sounds a lot like Mercury in sloppy Sagittarius, coupled with the potential witchy-bitchiness of Venus with Pluto. Fascinating.
Today’s forecast was subtitled “The Bubble Bursts.” One of the SNL sketches generating buzz on Sunday was this one about liberals living in a bubble. Dear liberals, you must visit the Washington Times — Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite paper. There you will find headlines proclaiming that Donald Trump is looking “very presidential;” and that unarmed protestors at Standing Rock who were blasted with water cannons (in 25 degree temperatures), teargassed and shot at with rubber bullets were “rioting.” No mention at all of the 21-year-old woman who may well lose her arm after being hit with a concussion grenade thrown by a law enforcement officer — and paid for with your tax dollars. It’s a different world in Washington Times land — and here are a few other conservative websites to peruse, courtesy of this helpful article from The Guardian. Get out of the bubble — whichever one you’re living in. With the Sun in Sagittarius, you can afford to explore foreign territory.
Meanwhile, the NYT published a case study of how a fake news story went viral. Also fake: a story about a DC-based pizza joint, Hillary Clinton and pedophiles. But that hasn’t stopped the owner and employees of Comet Pizza from receiving death threats. Not fake — but no less surreal: a video and tweets of clean-cut members of a white nationalist group raising their right arms in a Nazi salute at a dinner gathering in a DC restaurant on November 18th.
Today, the president-elect disavowed white nationalist groups in a meeting with staffers at the New York Times. That meeting — which was canceled via Twitter and then happened anyway — is described by NYT columnist Frank Bruni here. It’s an apt profile of a person with heavy love, love-me-do Leo and dualistic Gemini and Sagittarius ingredients.
Totally serious — thank you, Mercury (thinking) meeting up with Saturn (control): AppNexus is blocking Breitbart.com, alleging evidence of hate speech. This will cut into Breitbart’s revenue stream.
True item about a fake product: there is no evidence of actual aloe vera in the aloe vera gels sold at CVS and Wal-Mart. Thank you for reading this forecast.
An exact meet-up between action hero Mars and mental Mercury at 6:37 AM ET suggests an urge to multitask and translate sharp words into fast action. Well guess what? The nitpicky Virgo Moon is void of course and Mercury is retrograde. Be especially mindful in your travels this morning. Chill, check your facts, make sure what you heard is actually what was said — and appreciate that a void Moon suggests crises that crop up are often much ado about nothing.
Moon doesn’t get into gear until 5:42PM ET, when it enters people-pleasing Libra, seeking to restore balance and harmony to any hypercritical situation. Patterns are relatively quiet until Friday, save for the building tension between Mercury and nebulous Neptune, which we last experienced on May 9th. What were you thinking about around then?
And now, the news.
You know there’s really something to planetary patterns when your astrologer writes about how surreal the headlines might be…and then you read Serious NYT Economist Paul Krugman’s column. Yesterday he referenced one of the wackiest (and wisest) books ever written, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Coincidence or conspiracy?
Let’s keep talking about Neptune, because it’s everywhere this week (as noted in yesterday’s forecast). Neptune refers to intangibles and illusions, such as photography, television and film. On Monday famed documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark passed away. As a photographer, we’d expect Neptune to be strongly emphasized in her horoscope (March 20, 1940 in Philadelphia) — and it is. We see Mercury opposed by Neptune and Venus-Mars-Uranus trine Neptune, suggesting vision, aesthetics and compassion (Venus is in Pisces), the latter of which she was especially known. Here are some of her photographs.
Another photographer making headlines is very much alive and raking in the dough. Richard Prince uses what some might call the sleazier side of Neptune. Is Neptune strong in his horoscope? Mr. Prince was born on Aug 6, 1949. Ooh — look — Neptune is square to Mars and recently supercharged by transiting Uranus and Pluto. His Capricorn Moon, which knows oh-so-well how to put things and people to good use, might be in touch with Neptune, too — we’d have to have a birth time to know for sure.
Mr. Prince’s latest exhibit consists of photos lifted from Instagram — without permission from the original photographers — and they are selling for up to $90K per print. Which might be a strong argument for posting your pix on Snapchat, where the images will disappear. Snapchat just announced plans for an IPO, btw…
Boundaries — or lack thereof — are another Neptune theme. Neptune dissolves whatever it touches. This is why its influence can be so bewildering. In the material world, we like to have boundaries. They define structure and structure can make us feel secure. Saturn is structure. Where would you be without Saturn? Living a field, for sure – there would be no structure over your head.
Neptune dissolves Saturn — or, on the plus side, can give structure a vision.
Oh geez, Louise. This story just hit the wires:
A federal judge has thrown out evidence collected by FBI agents who posed as Internet repairmen to get into Las Vegas Strip hotel rooms last summer during an investigation into illegal bookmaking…
In this case (which gets weirder with every paragraph), Saturn struck back — giving nebulous Neptune a hard, cold reality smackdown. Got that?
Have I mentioned recently that Mercury retrogrades are an excellent time to REconnect and/or REview your life with your astrologer? Here’s the 411 on personal consultations.
Thank you for reading this forecast — and sharing it with your friends.
Those of you taking this Presidents’ Day off, rejoice. You’ve managed to escape a Monday AM at the office that suggests a slightly rude awakening after a potentially lovely, escapist weekend. Expressing feelings may be challenged by the audience’s insistence that it be presented in a certain form — in triplicate and in blue or black ink only, if you please. Then again, that challenge may not stand a chance against unconventional status-quo disrupting Uranus running wild again today. More news from Wisconsin and the Middle East? With Mercury (mind, travel, communication) entering intangible, dreamy, intuitive Pisces at 3:53PM EST…followed by Mars (action) in Pisces Tuesday in 8:06PM, I’m not sure how realistic that challenge can be. Many may still have their heads in the clouds, basking in the rosy glow of Sunday’s triple meet-up between Mars, Mercury and nebulous Neptune. So if you’re not at the office, enjoy the holiday and indulge in a dream or two…
How’s this for a perfectly timed Neptunian headline: “Ecstasy Does Not Wreck the Mind, Study Claims” http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/19/ecstasy-harm-brain-new-study…or this one: “Hiding Details of Dubious Deal, U.S. Invokes National Security” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/politics/20data.html?scp=1&sq=dubious&st=cse “Ecstasy” and “dubious” are just a few of the keywords one could expect on a day with a strong influence from Neptune (which rules the sign Pisces, btw).
|
