tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85152101167842923902011-12-11T02:46:00.512-08:00astroPPMTHE ASTROLOGY OF POWER, PEOPLE & MOMENTSBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.comBlogger3181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-75678580077541687602011-06-12T23:59:00.000-07:002011-06-12T23:59:00.572-07:00Blog on Hiatus
"In the Shadow of Saturn"As spacecraft Cassini moved behind the ringed planet,Cassini, Saturn and the Sun lined up to create an 'eclipse' effect...and a most spectacular photo!photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-45667097888825964772011-06-11T00:05:00.000-07:002011-06-11T00:05:00.560-07:00Syrian Turmoil as a Global Mirror
Chart for the Syrian Arab RepublicApril 17, 1946 - Damascus (noon)
Syria has been having a lot of political problems for a very long time. Tales of brutalities, and of late atrocities, have emanated from Syria for years now.
Map of Syria
With Uranus’ March 2011 entrance into Aries, Syrians took their cue from Egyptians and others, accessing social media as their way to provide a global Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-66992944629943487972011-06-10T00:05:00.000-07:002011-06-10T00:05:00.395-07:00MakeMake Station/Direct: Purpose Positive?
Dwarf Planet MakeMake as photographed by the Hubble Telescopephoto credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL
Dwarf Planet MakeMake goes direct at 4:40 in the morning (UT/+0) on June 10th.
Let’s start there. Metaphysically, what is a dwarf planet? Considering that planets represent universal human attributes and asteroids and such are moments and situations, aspects/factors of or in our lives which we meet upBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-34864667527001597602011-06-09T00:05:00.000-07:002011-06-09T00:05:01.246-07:00Venus enters Gemini: Valuing Our Ideas
Venus in Mirrors by Nevit Dilmen (1999)
As 2:24pm (UT/+0) on June 9th arrives and Venus enters Gemini, some of the reasons for things being as they are become plain. (Or at least plainer.)
At the same time, many a new thought will occur. Options and the desire to have options seem far more…interesting. Satisfying. Necessary.
Traditionally, Venus in Gemini is period when life focuses on the Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-27813278652168858592011-06-08T00:05:00.000-07:002011-06-08T00:05:00.941-07:00MakeMake on Station: A Window Opens, And…
Pano Anakena Beach on Easter Island photo credit: Rivi
In the wake of an eclipse and all else which is going on, dwarf planet MakeMake is now on station and about to go direct.
Like many ‘new’ points, not a huge amount of experiential research has be done on MakeMake as yet. But given that the myth behind this point is about MakeMake as creator god of Easter Island, it’s easy enough to Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-89212629464963904862011-06-05T00:05:00.000-07:002011-06-05T00:05:00.845-07:00Dateblog: The Week Ahead (June 5-June11)
Michael E. Brown, Astronomerphoto credit: NASA
Today (June 5th) is Mike Brown’s birthday. Don’t know who Mike Brown is? Well, more formally known as Michael E. Brown, professor of planetary astronomy at the illustrious CalTech, Mike Brown is one of the great (and friendly) planet hunters around.
And he has nothing against astrology. In fact, if you read through his blog (Mike Brown’s Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-75233835764275755682011-06-04T02:25:00.000-07:002011-06-04T02:25:00.268-07:00Jupiter enters Taurus
Iris and Jupiter by Michel Corneille the Younger (1701)
Let’s review…there’s just been a solar eclipse and Neptune has gone retrograde mere celestial minutes ago in its home sign of Pisces, where by lessons in excitation and disappointment we are slowly taught the difference between fantasy and reality and the difference between when we can allow ourselves to relinquish ourselves to flightsBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-45881203900020919202011-06-03T00:05:00.000-07:002011-06-03T00:05:01.551-07:00Neptune Goes Retrograde
Le Reve de Parsifal by Margret Hofheinz-Döring (1977)
Neptune goes retrograde once every year. It’s part of life. Physically, retrograde is all about simple solar system mechanics…as the Earth goes orbiting around the Sun, during parts of every year other planets will “disappear” behind the Sun.
That’s what we call retrograde. The “backing up” through the zodiac part…? That’s all about Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-28414866365464521442011-06-02T00:05:00.000-07:002011-06-02T00:05:01.318-07:00Mercury in Gemini
When Mercury enters Gemini at 8:02 in the evening (UT/+0) on June 2nd, the ‘vibration’ or awareness of what is going on in your life (and life in general) will like as no, amp up a notch or two.
At this moment, House (representing how ‘at home’ we feel in life and with our life in particular) is just behind Mercury at 29 intense degrees of Taurus. With Taurus’ ruler (Venus) in Taurus and Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-86783628637943001162011-06-01T00:05:00.000-07:002011-06-01T00:05:01.378-07:00The Gemini Solar Eclipse
Albert Einstein's photo of a 1919 Solar Eclipse
In the moments that June 1st’s solar eclipse forms up at 9:04pm (UT/+0) at 11 Gemini, the world does not change.The world is already changing.
So what does the moment of the eclipse mark?
Simple…it marks the moment when all which we have been ‘realizing’ becomes a cause for ‘doing.’ And for those more reluctant or recalcitrant on the subject, aBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-85639615579564047932011-05-29T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-29T00:05:00.730-07:00Dateblog: The Week Ahead (May 29-June 4)
Creation of the world XII by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1906/07)
With last week having uncovered what we don’t like, this week starts the process of what are we going to do about it?
Mind you, the ‘what we don’t like’ part could be about ourselves – or the world around us. Or someone we know. Or how something we’ve been working on has turned out – or been received with less than Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-1527833732882054252011-05-27T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-27T00:05:01.071-07:00William and Kate: A Marriage Royal, A Human Relationship
William placing the ring on Kate's fingerphoto source: CNN
Anyone and everyone who cared about the grand affair which was the wedding of William and Kate got their chance to watch…once, twice...many times. The whole event was broadcast live, then re-broadcast over and over and over again.
Astrologically, the marriage is one chart – a chart timed for the moment when the vows are sealed.
Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-84596849363615245482011-05-26T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-26T00:05:00.645-07:00Presidential Politics 2012: Candidates, Anyone?
Eisenhower inauguration, January 20, 1953 photo credit: National Archives and Records Administration
With candidates deciding (and deciding when to decide) about whether to run for President of the United States in 2012, I thought it would be fun – not to mention educational – to look at a couple of charts at a time.
This is not going to be an examination of natal charts, except where we Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-72991440792577889092011-05-24T21:22:00.000-07:002011-05-24T21:22:00.057-07:00From An Astrologer’s Notebook
When I looked up 'Golden American Cocker Spaniel' this photo came up, and it does look a lot like my friend Barnaby did about a decade ago.photo credit: Ryan Johnson (January 2007)
A friend of mine died today. His name was Barnaby, and he had four very furry feet, a sweet disposition, fluffy body, endearing gaze and a very wiggly tail.
‘B’ as he was known to his family and probably everybody Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-11293821175801655362011-05-24T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-24T00:05:00.929-07:00Astro-Newsviews: Strauss-Kahn and Vicksburg/Mississippi Flooding
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Charged in New York
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, official IMF portrait (2008)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was born on April 25, 1949 and grew up to be head of the IMF – the International Monetary Fund. By any accounts he became a very important and powerful man.
On May 16th, this very powerful man was charged with sexual assault. The offense concerns a maid and a fancy New Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-45482612686716489072011-05-22T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-22T00:05:00.817-07:00Dateblog: The Week Ahead (May 22-28)
Le Reve by Paul Gauguin (1897)
With the Sun in Gemini and a solar eclipse about to rattle the celestial windows I decided to post one detailed blog which describes the whole week.
That way you’ll get the idea of what’s coming down the pike, and I can put more effort into writing little pieces which point out how daily dynamics are surfacing in the news.
May 22nd: Over the past couple of Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-57539371516407623382011-05-21T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-21T00:05:00.179-07:00Sun in Gemini: Mental Flooding
Gemini by Mikalojus Konstantina Ciurlionis (1907)
The Sun’s move from Taurus into Gemini at 9:22am (UT/+0) on May 21st represents a move from ‘what we have on hand’ to ‘what are we going to do with it’ (or about it). It’s a yearly progression and very much part of life as we know it. The (Aries) infant is born and though it doesn’t know much about life, it knows it needs to survive. Then theBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-29041770176484421602011-05-20T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-20T00:05:00.916-07:00Mercury/Mars/Hamal + Drakonia… Really?
Mercury's Southern Hemisphere by Marinerphoto credit: NASA/JPL
So now that Saturn is sitting at 10 Libra (where it’s going to sit for many weeks during which time we will all be working a lot of things through)…
Now we have a few folks having gotten Ye Olde Stamp of Life’s Approval. But there are those who have just delivered – or received a good swift kick in the pants…you know, back aroundBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-45809396745419151312011-05-19T13:51:00.001-07:002011-05-19T14:08:34.895-07:00News Flash: Saturn Synchonicity
Images of Saturn supplied by the European Southern Observatory (VISIR) and Trevor Barny of Australia. Taken onJanuary 19 (2011) they show signs of what has now becomea huge storm in Saturn's northern hemisphere. More to theastrological point however, January 19th was when Saturnstood at 17 Libra - the degree it would go retrograde in onJanuary 26th. Saturn returns to 17 Libra in September, Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-3700936715248784112011-05-17T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-17T00:05:00.505-07:00May’s Scorpio Full Moon: Milking Issues at Hand
The Full Moon of May 30, 1999 as it appeared over the Upper Patuxent River in Maryland as photographed by Mary Hollinger, NODC biologist (NOAA)
Going back to the concept that in some traditions the May Full Moon is known as the ‘Milk Moon,’ there’s good cause to look at this edition of the Full Moon and wonder about all sorts of things.
With the Sun at 26 Taurus opposition Moon at 26 ScorpioBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-4222871108940197482011-05-17T00:03:00.000-07:002011-05-17T00:03:00.135-07:00astroPPM's 1st Anniversary! Who knew?
(Background) The Carina Nebula as
photographed by the Spitzer Space Telescopephoto credit: NASA/JPL
Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-14105393050606485412011-05-16T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-16T00:05:00.794-07:00Agamemnon, Eros, Damocles: What Insistence Brings
Chryses visits Agamemnon to Ransom his daughter Chryseis (4th century)photo credit: Habib M'henni (Oct 2010)
As asteroid Agamemnon crosses the line into Cancer at 35 minutes past midnight on May 16th, several things take hold…in our world, and as affects our outlook.
For one, this is Agamemnon moving into the sign of what will be July’s solar eclipse. We saw this trend begin back in April…Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-61632269999642908332011-05-15T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-15T00:05:01.221-07:00Orcus, Venus, Mercury: Bringing Us Down to Earth
Bain de Venus by Odilon Redon (ca.1900)
TNO Orcus goes direct in early Virgo at 6:05pm in the evening (UT/+0) on May 15th. Several hours later, first Venus, then Mercury will move into Taurus.
Venus in Taurus is the taste of…or often for the finer things life has to offer. For those who like pop astrology, Venus tends to be spoken of as ‘lucky’ or ‘fortune in money’ and thought of as Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-2964796707036507222011-05-14T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-14T00:05:00.061-07:00Atropos, Eros, Scheat, Damocles: Cut it Out!
Le Poète Voyageur by Gustave Moreau (latter part of 19th century)
Atropos is one of three Greek Fates, specifically the one who ‘cut’ the ‘thread of life’ after it had been measured out by Lachesis and initially spun by Klotho.
Astrologically, Atropos does not mean a literal ending of a life, but it means something ends – and yes, that can be a life, though seeing human death in a chart is Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-52092156906916945562011-05-13T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-13T10:06:20.726-07:00TNO Orcus: Station Effects Begin
One artist's conception of what Orcus looks likecredit: NASA/JPL
Currently in retrograde, Orcus is about to go direct. That it does so on May 15th at 6:05pm (UT/+0) means that station effects are under way as we go about our business on May 13th…and they will continue until late (+0 time) on May 17th – more or less.
This question of just how much time we should give for stations continues asBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-90288982488783273202011-05-12T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-13T10:04:04.113-07:00Atropos: A Turn of Fate
A Golden Thread by John Melhuish Strudwick (1885)
Atropos is about to retrograde. That it’s going to do so two days from now (on May 14, 2011) means that as of May 12th, we are entering a period – which extends all the way to May 16th – when things will end. Or come to a close. Or we will realize that there is nothing left which can be done.
As one of the three fabled Greek Fates, Atropos Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-10234158527086307562011-05-11T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-11T00:05:00.469-07:00Mars in Taurus + Venus, Mercury, Jupiter Conjunct: Who Am I Willing to Be?
Carl Van Vechten in front of the figure of Mars, god of War
As Mars enters Taurus at 7:05am (UT/+0) on May 11, 2011…our outlook will shift. Subtly if surely, we will recognize that our focus has drifted from what am I going to do…to…is what I’m doing really worth my effort? and/or…is life what it should be?
The symbolism of Mars is all about making things happen. Mars represents the very Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-72197200703484434582011-05-10T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-10T00:05:00.311-07:00Mercury Exits Retrograde Shadow Tomorrow (May 11, 2011)
If Mercury is exiting the shadow of its March-into-April retrograde tomorrow, why talk about it today?
Simple: because today would be the day when in some areas of life we ‘wrap up’ matters which began back in March…and where in other areas of life we have our last chance to change things which have been hanging on – or which (frankly) we really haven’t wanted to deal with.
That this ‘final Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-72770894667431939882011-05-09T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-09T00:05:00.810-07:00Nemesis: Confronting An Unwelcome Point
Nemesis: Copenhagen's bronze cast of Bertel Thorvaldsen's original statuephoto credit: Yair Haklai (August 2006)
Most people think of Nemesis as someone stalking them. You know, ‘our Nemesis’ – that person who is out to get us.
But that’s not what the metaphysics of Nemesis are, or are about. The idea of ‘the Nemesis’ is that which is unwelcome – yes. But it is not necessarily there to do usBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-52301425503857103052011-05-07T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-07T12:26:07.421-07:00Mercury, Venus Chiron, Niobe: Aims in Search of a Focus
Venus and Mercury (1585)by Bartholomaus Spranger
We’re going to tackle a three day range here – from May 7th through 9th. It’s a nice enough weekend for those fond of Taurus times…the Moon will be transiting Cancer on Saturday and Sunday which will make things nicely home for those who have time, and those who are hot on fire about some project are going to be brainstorming apace, whatever Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-43938726861017839452011-05-06T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-07T12:24:43.157-07:00Medusa's Entrance into Cancer: A Meteoric Collective Consciousness
The Death of Medusa by Edward Burne Jones (1888-1892)
When I say ‘Medusa,’ most everybody thinks of the Perseus Problem: how to cut the head off a gorgon if looking at said gorgon (with it’s hairy head of snakes)will turn you into stone?
Ultimately the answer to that question is you reflect on where to strike…Perseus does the needed deed of killing Medusa by looking at a reflection of that Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-42275992917757822302011-05-05T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-05T00:05:00.506-07:00Kallisto in Gemini: Are We Beastly?
Landscape with Diana and Kallisto (cropped)by Cornelis van Poelenburgh (17th century)
As Kallisto enters Gemini on 1:47pm (UT/+0) on May 5th, we all ‘change gear.’ With the Sun currently about at mid-Taurus (just a day shy of same, if truth be told) this is the astrological moment in which we would be recognizing that what we do (and things we may hold as dearly important) really do Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-85598114673839896532011-05-04T16:16:00.000-07:002011-05-04T16:16:00.542-07:00News Flash: Earth to Einstein...We Love You!
Albert Einstein during a 1921 lecture in Vienna, Austriaphoto credit: Ferdinand Schmutzer
NASA Science News: Earth really does live in its own personal and private planetary time-space vortex.
Call it a bubble! Call it a field. Just don't call it late for dinner. (Yes, I know, old joke.)
Want to read the whole article? It's a teeny bit techy, but just don't stress on the intricate stuff and Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-595529353232986002011-05-04T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-04T00:05:01.028-07:00Edisona in Gemini: What is a Bright Idea?
Thomas Alva EdisonA famous Edison quote: 'Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.' (Harper's Monthly - September 1932) photo credit: Louis Bachrach (c. 1922)
May 4th and 3:08pm (UT/+0) will find asteroid Edisona moving into Gemini, joining an interesting little group which includes Dionysus (sacred celebration/ritual), Sabine (captured, enforced), Tantalus (tempting, temptation), Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-79367411145975062902011-05-03T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-03T00:05:00.700-07:00May’s New Moon: Spangled and Milky
'Spilt Milk' by Thomas Prichard Rossiter (1818-1871)
Lunar cycles have nicknames – did you know that? And though in the ‘calendaric’ sense such names are generally assigned to the Full Moon, since those of us who think more or less in astrological terms see things in (or as) cycles, that would make the New Moon of May 3rd, 2011 at 6:52am (UT/+0) the founding of that which…well, will come to Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-57618627258196072032011-05-02T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-02T00:05:00.106-07:00Circe enters Aries: Who’s Casting a Spell on Who?
Odysseus and Circe by Bartholomäus Spranger (1546-1611)
The tale of Circe is another one of those thoroughly vile-if-pathetic Greek stories – you know, one of those which is rather fascinating to hear but oh boy, aren’t we glad it’s just a myth?
It starts (as all things do) with who Circe’s parents are. Her mother is Persis, an oceanic nymph and father is Helios, otherwise known as Hyperion. Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-15532293851534323982011-05-01T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-01T00:05:00.202-07:00May Dateblog
Spring Wildflowers in a Kings Parkphoto credit: Alfeewusy
May is one of those months which has all the usual nuances and daily details but an overarching quality which will form a backdrop for our lives in the personal and global sense.
That quality comes from the fact that the weeks of May are leading up to the first of three eclipses (two solar and one lunar) which we are soon to be Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-47913153261766957422011-04-30T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-30T00:05:00.567-07:00Chaldaea (Chaldea) Retrograde in Capricorn
The Inner Gate of Babylon (c. 1960)photo credit: Richard Peter (1895-1977)
There’s a certain North African dictator whose name gets translated with a dozen different spellings. It happens. Whenever we bring names into English from languages which use a whole other alphabet (such as Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew) we get into this gnarl.
‘Chaldaea’ is the scientific community’s spelling of Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-72253028399103632342011-04-29T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-29T00:05:00.334-07:00Kleopatra’s Royal retrograde into Libra: What’s in a (Wedding) Day…?
'Anthony and Cleopatra' Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1885)
Welcome to one of my all time convoluted blog posts. It's about Kleopatra the asteroid - and Cleopatra the person - and more than a bit about the UK's royal wedding, which considering it hasn't even taken place yet when this blog goes up, is an exercise in illumination of astro-theory and a bit of supposition.
See? I told you it was a Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-43332423499062150452011-04-28T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-28T00:05:00.555-07:00Scylla/Chaldaea: Old vs. New - Is it Them, or Is it You?
Glaucus and Scyllaby Bartholomäus Spranger (c. 1580-1582)
In our last blog episode we began talking about Scylla and how as this asteroid was going on station we would be confronted with situations or feelings which could eat us alive or cause us to disregard others…and maybe both….and maybe for reasons we don’t even understand
The myth behind some of that commentary is probably best told byBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-6540319638748060162011-04-26T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-26T00:05:00.314-07:00Scylla’s station window opens
Skylla (the Greek Scylla): A terracotta figure which dates to 460-450 BCE (Currently housed in the British Museum)photo credit: Jastrow (2006)
Asteroid Scylla is about to go on station. To be more specific here, Scylla will go on station at 9:26pm (UT/+0) on April 28th. Given the two days before/two days after which is granted as a 'station window' when any celestial object goes direct or Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-22830558936089462622011-04-25T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-25T00:05:00.125-07:00Psyche in Cancer: Being Mindful of the Bottom Line
Psyche Opening the Door into Cupid's Gardenby John William Waterhouse (1904)
Psyche is a very large asteroid. As such, metaphysically it represents something which ‘looms large’ in our life.And what would that be? Our mind. Knowing our mind, being mindful of the fact we have a mind (and therefore should use it!)…from minding our mind (physiologically) to being aware of our level of Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-67723535843215199632011-04-24T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-24T00:05:01.675-07:00Sappho in Aries: Poetic Mental Motion
Sappho - by Orlai Petrics Soma (1860)
Differing quite distinctly from many other celestial objects, Sappho is named not for a character in a myth or Greek(/Roman) god/dess but for a real live person. Born on the island of Mytilene in around the year 600 BCE, Sappho was such a great poet that no less than Plato nominated her as the ‘tenth muse.’
Of course, there is some suggestion that Plato Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-91622214282117076662011-04-23T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-23T00:05:00.257-07:00Mercury Direct: In the Thrall of our Thoughts
Mercury's 2011 Aries retrograde pattern...plus a few items (and indications of blogs) yet to come!
Telling people that Mercury is going direct always gets a big ‘whoo-hoo!’ Especially for those born with Mercury direct in their chart, it feels like getting out of school early with no homework on a warm early summer day with money in your pocket and nobody telling you what to do.
Whoo-hoo! Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-62286057696272483082011-04-22T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-22T00:05:01.617-07:00The Lyrid Meteor Shower
Earthbound by Evelyn de Morgan (1897)
Meteor showers are interesting astronomical and astrological critters. Some are famous, the others tend to get a quick look and then on to the next thing.
The Lyrid meteor shower crests today – April 22 – and will continue being visible for the next few days. The origin of this meteor shower is a comet: C/1861 G1 (ah, romance…)…aka Thatcher, as in A.EBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-43225582502791919182011-04-21T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-21T00:05:01.734-07:00Venus in Aries: Thinking It Over
/Venus and Mars (1528-1558) by Paolo Veronese
That 2009 spring Venus retrograde in Aries pretty much said it all to me. Venus is graceful, heightened and most beneficial when in Taurus or Libra – signs it is said to ‘rule.’
Not that Venus would rule anything, right? Certainly nothing more than somebody’s heart, their regard and oh, maybe their bank account?
All kidding aside (was I kidding?)Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-50495059529090236992011-04-20T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-20T00:05:00.666-07:00Sun in Taurus/Tantalus in Gemini
The story of Tantalus is not a very…uh,….savory one. This is one of those stories about a ticked off grumpy human (Tantalus) who decides to get the best of the Olympians by serving them the ultimate illicit feast – call it a ‘family’ stew recipe best left to the cannibal set.
To say that the Olympians aren’t happy about it is putting it mildly. Faster than a Brit can brew tea Tantalus is Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-9329675213165775192011-04-19T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-19T00:05:00.550-07:00Astrologer’s Notebook: Trees, Times, Cycles
Eucalyptus Chapmaniana - two of which until just this morning stood outside my window. Now there's just one. It looks lonely.photo credit: Patche99z (Mar 2009)
I was woken up today by a cluster!%# of chainsaws igniting outside my window. Undoubtedly short on sleep this was not a great start.
At first I just lay there. But finally the noise would not be denied; I went to my window and looked Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-57152980522705354502011-04-18T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-18T00:05:00.820-07:00April's Libra Full Moon
An Aries Wheel chart for the Full Moon of April 18, 2011 (2:45am UT/+0) - location not specific
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Amphitrite slides into Aries at 1:20am (UT/+0) on April 18th…not all that long before the Moon reaches its full phase at 2:45am (UT/+0) on that same day…
Should we think of this as a water nymph (a symbol of instinct) leaving a sign it would work very naturally in (Pisces) for a world of what Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-33474318367869026012011-04-16T12:43:00.000-07:002011-04-16T12:43:00.326-07:00Uranus/Black Moon Lilith: A Celebration of the (Maybe?) Possible
The Moon as it appears to us on Earth when at it's perigee (closest/largest) and apogee (farthest/smaller), all of which has to do with a natural orbital cycle. The difference - which is about 12%, and that closest point - the perigee - as it shifts through the zodiac is what we know as Black Moon Lilith, or everything about societyor our need to interact with/cooperate with/contribute to that Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-23287529804600356202011-04-15T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-15T00:05:00.260-07:00Panacea’s station/retrograde
When at 12:07pm (UT/+0) on April 15th asteroid Panacea goes retrograde, it will do so positioned at 19 Sagittarius, a degree known for trials and difficulties specifically in areas of traditionally accepted medical practices - which metaphysically, should also probably look at as ‘healing.’ There are problems noted here with fire against water – an imbalance where there’s too little water Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-651057491909962652011-04-14T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-14T00:05:00.791-07:00Mnemosyne in Taurus
The Muses dancing with Apolloby Baldassarre Peruzzi
There are at least several ways to think of the term ‘reflection.’ We could be reflecting on something, or we could be reflected in some mirror, glass…or reaction.
Often simply listed (and referred to by present company) as ‘one of the Muses’ Mnemosyne is not pretty much but literally the mother of all Greek Muses. Primal Titan essence Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-47607264628251219872011-04-13T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-13T00:05:01.019-07:00Sabine/Panacea: Making Peace with Limitations
From the Peter Paul Rubens workshop, "Rapto de las Sabinas" (or) The Rape of the Sabine Women (17th century)
In the world of blog titles, that’s a very carefully worded one. After all, you can read it as making peace with (implied: your) limitations, or making peace….with limitations.
And why am I not being specific? Because both apply.Sabine being a symbol of ‘capture,’ or ‘rape,’ or ‘Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-81700761734154180392011-04-12T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-12T00:05:01.249-07:00From the Astrologer’s Notebook: a simple tale of power
Much of astrology has come to be discussions of long term trends and when to propose that business deal or who’s going to win that election…there's such a big emphasis placed on that stuff that sometimes the simple (if utterly satisfying) uses for astrology don't get enough play.
So today we play. You sit, and I tell you a little story…
Back on March 30th, there was that Mercury-on-station Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-81248478697688786872011-04-11T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-11T00:05:00.429-07:00Hebe enters Gemini
Hebeby Charles Picqué (1826)
Either sandwiched or nestled between two other asteroids we follow here on the blog, asteroid Hebe enters Gemini on April 11th at 9:07pm (UT/+0).
And which other asteroids am I referring to? Well, right behind Hebe wanders Sabine, symbol of enforced servitude. (Yes, slavery.) Ahead of Hebe stands Industria, symbol of hard work or ‘industriousness.’
This order Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-20468218571512604572011-04-10T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-10T00:05:00.819-07:00Hybris enters Aquarius
Death and the Userer (also known as 'Death of the Miser' and 'The Allegory of Avarice')by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516)
Though there isn’t all that much written about Hybris, we do know some things. The name ‘Hybris’ apparently comes from ‘hubris’ – a word which itself seems to come from the early modern French hybrid…which as a word goes back to the Latin hybrida, meaning breeding a wild Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-40363594421270919262011-04-09T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-09T00:05:00.579-07:00Pluto station-retrogrades in the Face of Facies
Hades (Pluto) - by Agostino Carracci (1592)
It’s a deep and far-reaching concept that Pluto would go retrograde at 7 Capricorn…and not just in the sense of how much emphasis that puts on a degree known for jealousy, owned and projected. There’s a definite stress associated with 7 Capricorn. It tends to surfaces in and through relationships where one party covets a level of attachment to Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-45195202308740151002011-04-08T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-08T00:05:01.149-07:00Chart USA: Solar Return 2011
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Chart USA Solar Return 2011April 10, 2011 - 1:37am EDT/+4 - Appomattox, VA
As an astrologer, it seems obvious - if ironic - that in a moment when political considerations have the United States government posed to shut down that the nation should get a new Solar Return chart.
When? As of April 10th at 1:37am (EDT/+4). Though the United States celebrates its independence on July 4th, Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-32535604752602050232011-04-07T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-07T00:05:00.599-07:00Klotho and Pluto: Fate and Transformation
The Three Fatesby Sodoma
There are many tales which touch on the habits, actions and ‘choices’ of the three Greek Fates, none of which is particularly complimentary.
They could definitely could use a good PR person.
Of said three personages, it’s likely most of us would choose Klotho as the Fate we like best. Klotho is the ‘spinner’ – the idea that new things (and people) come into being. Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-62776147264395278142011-04-06T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-06T00:05:00.593-07:00Hera and Phaethon: Headstrong Additives
Aeneas tells Dido the misfortunes of the Trojan City by Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin (1815)
With the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus currently in Aries “against” Saturn’s retrograde in Libra, we are in a period of weeks all about pushing for change. That change may be in our world…and then again, may be in ourselves.
Granting that it’s always a whole lot easier to point fingers than look in Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-91412018339962923282011-04-05T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-05T00:05:00.875-07:00House enters Taurus
Asteroid House was discovered on December 7th, 1988 by E.F. Helin, who apparently was hanging around Palomar Observatory at the time, doing what astronomers do – inspecting the wonders of the universe.
In this case, the segment of universe in question is solar systemic: House is a main belt asteroid (meaning it orbits between Mars and Jupiter) and as asteroids go, it’s a pretty mainline mainBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-28080265827295834672011-04-04T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-04T00:05:01.059-07:00Neptune enters Pisces
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Planet Neptunephoto credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In the astrological world, Neptune entering Pisces is one of the ‘biggies.’ It’s not just that Neptune is changing signs, no. That, it does once every dozen-plus years or so (the last time being back in 1998).
No, the really big deal here is that Neptune is entering its ‘home’ sign of Pisces, where it rules the ‘outcome’ of all things Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-12867430228241146972011-04-03T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-03T00:05:00.498-07:00An Aries New Moon: For Better or Worry?
Above is pictured the chart of a New Moon which occurs at 2:32pm (UT/+0). For those who read charts, even without “extra points” thrown in this is really one of those astrological pictures which simultaneously makes you wonder why such things happen and if somewhere…on some level…there is some force in this universe which has a really (no, really) bizarre sense of humor.
It’s not really Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-79205412011541566422011-04-02T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-02T00:05:00.727-07:00Mars enters Aries: Blow by Blowing
Mars will enter Aries at 4:52am on April 2nd. Mars being assertiveness incarnate, this would seem to fit the common Aries ‘let’s do it!’ sort of energy.
Of course, there is the side of Mars in Aries which is all about that First Person Perpendicular…you know, the I-me-I-me-me-me sort of thing.
I think I’ve told you about the Aries friend I had who was given two coffee cups, one of which saidBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-66742993858719638252011-04-01T00:05:00.000-07:002011-04-01T00:05:00.950-07:00April Dateblog: Everything you Never Imagined, Never Wanted to Imagine...and More!
A Naiad...or Hylas with a Nymphby John William Waterhouse (1893)
January 2011 gave us a Capricorn Solar eclipse and Saturn(ruler of Capricorn)’s turn to retrograde. The eclipse did what eclipses do – it “blacked out” something. In this case, that ‘something’ was a lot of (Capricorn/Saturn) governments, (Saturnine) structure, (Saturn) plans and stability and in general, our sense that we Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-59285807910733541152011-03-31T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-31T00:05:00.594-07:00Hel in Pisces
Casting the Damned into Hell (c. 1467)by Hans Memling
What a title, right? Well, at least we’re all clear about what's going to be discussed, right?
Yes, asteroid Hel is entering Pisces. To be exact, asteroid Hel will enter Pisces at 9:04am (UT/+0) on March 31th.We don’t talk most about Hel (though a good many of us could claim to reference it – ahem! – from time to time in ticked off Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-73281642950449310942011-03-30T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-30T00:05:00.677-07:00Mercury Retrograde in Aries: Who Put the Why in our What?
Mercury in 'false' colorsphoto credit: NASA/JPL - Caltech
Any time we see an astrological symbol do anything (or just wander by looking organic) in a degree between 20 and 29 of any given sign we know the indication is only person to the degree that things happen to us and we respond. Or we witness something and react. Or we are presented with a challenge or opportunity and decide what to Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-56825627708648296892011-03-28T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-28T00:05:00.262-07:00Mercury’s Station Window opens on Synodic Jupiter/Saturn Effects
Mercury by Mariner 10photo credit: NASA/JPL
What does it mean that Jupiter opposes Saturn as Mercury enters the 2-day ‘station allowance’ window prior to going retrograde?
Well, let’s start by considering that when we find Jupiter and Saturn paired together in any sort of which-way, we’re always getting a signal which pertains to the building (or ability to build) something. In a personal Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-79097435634618175802011-03-27T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-27T00:05:00.977-07:00Venus enters Pisces
Csaba Markus' "Triumph of Venus" (2006)
Venus’ entrance into Pisces usually heralds a time of effusive feeling and often, grace…at least of spirit.Considering everything going on in our world, we will have to trust to the latter…but maybe that’s the point.
After all, Pisces isn’t just about having the dream, its about everything which prompts us to dream. And sometimes that’s the very Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-28333751706808178402011-03-26T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-26T00:05:00.722-07:00Orpheus, Venus, Neptune: Inspired to Dedication
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The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (1818)
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If you look up Venus/Neptune connections in most astrology reference books you’ll get comments on romance and love, idealism and beauty.
In this time of debate, rebellion, desperate needs and tragedy, if we accept that the unfurling of time is as it should be (a central metaphysical precept) what can such inspiring imagesBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-90913794169532993702011-03-25T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-25T00:05:00.710-07:00Eros/Athena: Comprehending Desire and Why We Want to Know
Pallas Athena by Franz von Stuck
Astrology is a mosaic of effects, which is why though it’s interesting and sometimes entirely worthwhile to zero in on a certain moment – an ingress, a retrograde, a transit to your personal chart – that one thing is really just a section of the picture, one flavor in a banquet of tastes, one moment in a day filled with events.
I’ve come to realize this Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-40119155810742868522011-03-24T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-24T00:05:01.484-07:00Sisyphus, Saturn, Neptune: Love Life...What?
Sisyphus - by Franz von Stuck
In the two days that Sisyphus has been on station prior to going retrograde, Black Moon (societal) Lilith has entered Aries.
Oh, great – just what we needed…life getting even and ever more personal! (Not!)
So now what?
Today’s platter of celestial goodies (and yes, I use that term advisedly…) includes two items. The first is the anticipated Sisyphus shift intoBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-80453078582287188852011-03-23T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-23T00:05:00.843-07:00Lilith in Aries: Our Societal Shadow Comes to Us
At 10:03 (UT/+0) on March 23, 2001, Black Moon Lilith – the calculated form of Lilith – enters the sign of Aries.What is this ‘Black Moon’? Literally, which is to say astronomically, it is the point at which the Moon’s orbit around Earth comes closest to Earth. That point changes…it moves slowly through the zodiac like all other orbital factors.
Probably the easiest way to think of this is Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-25318819989438418512011-03-21T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:05:00.198-07:00Sun/Uranus…Sisyphus Going on Station
Sisyphus by Titian (1490-1576)
Just ten days ago now, Uranus entered Aries. For some, this has brought feelings of freedom. For some, this has only meant edginess – even provocation. And are those times when we like that sense of guidance – and if if isn’t there, we really miss it!
Plus there are some people who don’t do all that well without someone to chew at (or chewing on them). You Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-35031923037515801892011-03-20T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-20T00:05:00.105-07:00The Aries Ingress
The Aries Ingress(Aries wheel - location not specific)
As the Sun enters Aries on March 20th at 10:19am (UT/+0) life shifts into a basic – some would say primal – mode. ‘Basic’ is probably a better word for it as primal suggests acting on instinct where the zodiacal quality which carries us through its first three signs (Aries, Taurus, Gemini) is more about ‘basic exploration’ and ‘Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-11109791884717411622011-03-19T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-19T00:05:00.138-07:00A Full March Moon...plus a Jupiter-Mercury Look Ahead
A Full Moon over Amman, Jordan /
What to do, how to make one’s efforts count, how to move beyond the basic problems we know exist in life and which have plagued us – and maybe all of humanity – throughout time?
With Ixion having just gone retrograde showing up the shadowy underbelly of our minds and the world around us, it’s not the most frivolous and lighthearted of moments. What’s wrong Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-84798622481319827592011-03-18T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-18T11:02:28.024-07:00Ixion's station/retrograde: The Depths into Which We Cast Ourselves
The Fall of Ixionby Cornelius van Haerlem
Facets of the story of Ixion bear a great resemblance to stories we know from other places. For instance, in the whole mélange of tales Greek, he’s the first to purposefully shed kindred blood, rather a la Cain and Abel.
Except in the case of Ixion it was his father-in-law. And the problem? That was about Ixion (who was king of his own realm at the Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-320821770759463662011-03-17T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-17T00:05:00.598-07:00Neptune’s Coming to Power in a Subsiding Polarization of Grace.
Neptune's Ringsphoto credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech /
Discovered on September 23, 1846 when at 25 Aquarius 53, planet Neptune has recently finished its first (human-known) return to its discovery degree and now sits at 29 critically intense degrees of Aquarius, poised to enter Pisces.
In Pisces, Neptune rules the outcome of all things Piscean, which considering says a passel of things. First of allBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-48332886302871423222011-03-16T00:09:00.000-07:002011-03-16T00:09:00.075-07:00Ixion and Mercury: Shadows of Our Shadows
Ixion by Hendrick Gottzius (1558-1617)
By definition, we all want what we want. And what we want, we tend to ‘do something about.’
What does that mean? Well, that depends. It depends on on how much we want something, and how much of a rush we’re in – for whatever reason.
But maybe most of all, such things all start with (and therefore depend on) our ability to separate the concept of want Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-6804099292279887472011-03-15T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-15T00:05:00.241-07:00Eos enters Taurus: Instinctual Conservation
Eos- a pencil drawing -by Stanislaw Wyspiranski
Most of March 15th will pass by with Eos at 29 Aries. Then, at 10:12 in the evening, Eos moves on into Taurus.
What does all this mean?
Eos isn’t a point we talk about very much, though I did write one blog focusing on many of the Eos particulars (LINK). Basically, Eos symbolizes an instinct born of our emotions which ‘arises’ or ‘runs ahead Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-19276270581495324442011-03-14T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-14T00:05:00.844-07:00Niobe’s Moment, Photographica’s Image, and a bit on the changing of the Ages
The children of Niobe being slain by Apollo and Diana by Pierre-Charles Jombert
Niobe goes retrograde at 10:18 (UT/+0) on March 14th at 9 Scorpio, a degree known to test and elicit basic emotional weakness.
If pride goeth before the fall as the myth of Niobe tells us, what we are being confronted with is more than mere pride in self, but rather a moment in which we are brought to question Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-26906294208457335162011-03-13T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-13T00:05:00.881-08:00Lachesis, Kalypso, Eurydike: The Measure, the Motivation, the Cost
Orpheus and Eurydikeby Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein (1806)
The tale of Orpheus and Eurydike is as old as love itself. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy gets in trouble, girl volunteers to give her all for him…
(No, not that! We’re talking about her life - these were more innocent if dastardly times!)
….and he doesn’t quite manage to save her.
(Yeah, well…)
Anywho, so if Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-61198055085728527542011-03-12T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-12T00:05:00.602-08:00Kassandra, Uranus, Hidalgo, Niobe: Believing in Potentials
Uranus enters Aries March 12, 2011 at 00:53am UT/+0
With Bali now in retrograde, we know we need to rely on ourselves as our premier generator of all which produces achievement and satisfaction.
With Nemesis now having retrograded back into Virgo, we see what needs doing. Or what has gone wrong.
And now...? Well yes, Uranus is just about to enter Aries. The ticking of the clock seems Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-87930290326501507842011-03-11T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-11T00:05:00.216-08:00Uranus, Hidalgo, Nemesis: Parameters and Prerogatives
The Wheel of Fortuneby Edward Burne-Jones (1863)
As this blog posts on March 11, Bali is on station and going retrograde. Our vision of what things should be (Bali as paradise) is under review. And yet, we probably believe in it all more strongly – as we often do when such idyllic concepts are believed in. Reality can disappoint us – the dream, the image, the fantasy of what things could (orBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-51828578310152179692011-03-10T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-10T00:05:01.764-08:00Hidalgo on station
Backlot ‘Western Street’ at Universal Studios
photo credit: Ipsingh
I don’t know about you, but there’s something very ‘old western movie’ about Hidalgo going on station in the last days of Uranus being at 29 intense and critical degrees of Pisces. It's got a bit of showdown at the OK Corral, if you get me.
But instead of attempting to swagger through a bunch of text (trust me, I do a Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-65141759140110161322011-03-09T00:05:00.001-08:002011-03-09T00:05:00.330-08:00Seeking our Bali
A Martinique coconut palm...ah, paradise!
Oh, how we all so want life to be good! However we define that term, we wish life would just be what we want it to be.
That image is our Bali.
Yesterday’s blog was all about Mercury entering Aries – an ingress which happens on March 9 at 5:48pm (UT/+0). But since Bali will be going into retrograde on March 11th at 12:56pm (UT/+0) that means Bali Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-14172283808526333042011-03-08T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-08T00:05:00.750-08:00Mercury enters Aries
This blog is being posted on March 8th and is about something which will happen March 9th – namely Mercury entering Aries at 5:48 in the afternoon (UT/+0)
So why post a day early?
No, it's not just about the time difference. 5:48pm is quite late enough in the day that Mercury will enter Aries on the 9th no matter where you are.
(Well...except if you're like in New Zealand or Fiji. For youBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-14555523213747365182011-03-06T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-06T00:05:00.686-08:00In Tune with Polyhymnia, a Reflection
'View of Toledo' by El Greco (1596-1600)
As this post goes up on March 6th, Polyhymnia goes direct at 14 Cancer. Given how Cancer is a water sign and thus all about life’s feeling moments and emotional bents and one of Polyhymnia’s great themes is that of ‘reflection’ (or reflecting), this is me doing a little astro-reflecting…and sharing my reflections on Things Astrological with you.
OneBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-19432349315901145292011-03-05T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-05T00:05:00.198-08:00Neptune: The Non-Look of the Thing
In the annals of things one shouldn’t say in a given manner, the title of today’s blog probably ranks high. After all, the ‘non-look’ of a thing is rather like saying ‘confused precision’ or ‘demonic goodness’…or one of my fave John Lennon lines of all time about someone getting gradually injured. (That comes from a great Lennon poem called ‘Arimenta Ditch’…which I may have spelled wrong, Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-14818678029470115112011-03-04T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-04T00:05:01.333-08:00Child, Charybdis, Arachne and Polyhymnia on station: Moments of Thinking
With the Lunar Nodes just having shifted into a Sagittarian/Gemini axis of need to make our choice and follow it through (regardless of bumps along the way), Polyhymnia goes on station.
To be exact here, Polyhymnia will go direct on March 6 at 9:42am (UT/+0). And given the two days before/two days after station affect ‘window,’ that means the question of reflecting on what’s happened Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-28531580319349994912011-03-03T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-03T00:05:01.443-08:00Enter the Nodes: Trying Anew - and the Utterly and Truly New
As of March 3rd, the Lunar Nodes will shift from a North Node in Capricorn and South Node in Cancer to the North Node transiting Sagittarius with the South Node transiting Gemini.
What exactly are the Lunar Nodes and why do we think they are what astrologers say they are?
Well, look at it this way…the Earth orbits around the Sun. Metaphorically, that’s the path of life – of all of life, Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-65325000338977883932011-03-02T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-02T00:05:01.789-08:00Venus into Aquarius, Scheherazade into Pisces: Ideas, Ideals, Flux and Finite Realities
Ali Baba in the Caveby Maxfield Parrish (1909)
Planet Venus enters Aquarius at 2:42am (UT/+0) on March 2nd, raising a flag to tell us that for the next three and a half weeks or so, things will be...unpredictable.
On the other side, Venus in Aquarius favors the unusual. It can be a mark of genius. And great humor. Clever inventions, wild-hair solutions...Venus in Aquarius is as often a markBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-84562724669586496302011-03-01T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-01T00:05:01.078-08:00March Dateblog
Creation of the World XIIby Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis
March is a ‘Uranian’ month. It starts with Uranus at 29 degrees of Pisces and will see Uranus move into, and commit to a transit of Aries which will last until 2018/2019 when it moves on into Aries, sign of ‘I Am.’
But March isn’t only a Uranian month – it’s also a month when the Lunar Nodes change signs. The Nodes being a sign Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-63166156913332716372011-02-27T00:05:00.000-08:002011-02-27T00:05:00.718-08:00Libya’s Turmoil
Um el Maa Oasisphoto credit: Michael Diederich (November 2005)
There are at lot of charts for Libya. For centuries it’s been ruled by treaty, partitioned by war and overrun by invaders. Not meaning this to sound cavalier, if your nation has been a power in the Mediterranean region north, south, east or west, its likely that at some point in history your nation has been in charge of the Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-25702906336337678912011-02-26T00:05:00.000-08:002011-02-26T00:05:00.180-08:00Signs of Internal Relating
Personally, I'm thinking of making the Jacaranda my family tree, but other members of the family might object...photo credit: Shiftchange (2004)
I have a lot of Leo people in my life. I've always had lots of Leo folks in my life. As far as I know, it started with my baby brother being born under Leo.
Okay, so he's not a baby any more. But he was then, and I tend to think he's the one whoBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-28106220054339480942011-02-25T06:25:00.000-08:002011-02-25T06:25:00.595-08:00The Age of Aquarius: Money and Power, Money as Power
The Zodiacal Wheel of Aquarian AgeIn the chart of any given Astrological Age, the signfor which the Age is name appears on the Ascendant(here at left and color-coded to the frame). This denotesthat sign as 'acting' (1st house) to 'set a standard' and a goal which is to be learned about and struggled withthroughout the duration of the Age.
There are several zodiacal ways to think of ‘Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-35160652344394205312011-02-24T00:05:00.000-08:002011-02-24T00:05:01.453-08:00Jupiter square Pluto: Overcoming Odds, Underwhelming Aspects
Nature et Architecture15 by Clo Baril
The frequency with which planets meet up in zodiacal manner is referred to as their ‘Synodic Cycle.’ Jupiter and Pluto meet up once every thirteen years (plus a few days) – their last synodic conjunction was in late Sagittarius on December 11, 2007 and the one before that was in late Scorpio back on December 2, 1994.
Why care about such a thing? Well, Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-18552270992556851312011-02-23T00:05:00.000-08:002011-02-23T00:05:01.788-08:00My Best Solar Returns to You
Our Moon, partially obscured by Earth's atmosphere as photographed from the space station.photo credit: NASA/JPL - Caltech
Today is my Solar Return...known in non-astrological
circles as my birthday.
And for my birthday, I wish us all peace.It's a commodity I know of in the solar 'knowing'
sense as I grew up in the United States.
But having spent my first 17 years in
abusive Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-71764911918354353762011-02-22T00:05:00.000-08:002011-02-22T00:05:01.179-08:00Mars and Kleopatra: Sensing Our Edge
'Cleopatra and Caesar'by Jean Leon Gerome (1866)
There are two subjects de jour, and they are as follows: Mars entering Pisces at 1:07am on February 23rd (UT/+0) and asteroid Kleopatra going retrograde at 5 in the morning (UT/+0) on February 24th at 9 degrees of Scorpio.
The reason why I’m combining them is that with Kleopatra going retrograde early on the 24 Universal/Greenwich time, thatBoots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515210116784292390.post-4656926772113390362011-02-21T14:15:00.000-08:002011-02-21T14:15:00.142-08:00Mercury in Pisces: From Sloppy to Sublime
Mercury, holding the caduceusfrom a mural unearthed in Pompeii
Maybe you’ve heard that Mercury “isn’t good” in Pisces? Au contraire, my pseudo-judgmental friend!
Mercury in Pisces can be brilliant. Yes, it may not punctuate every sentence like a grammar Nazi. Yes, Mercury in Pisces is not generally what you would look for in someone you want monitoring your ‘clean room’ at a computer chip Boots Hart, CAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10339321854032747234noreply@blogger.com0