Welcome To The Astro-Diner!
February 24th, 2012 § 2 Comments
Why a diner? Read on and find out…
Not long ago I met with someone who was interested in watching me work, how I put a chart together, interpreted aspects, and we looked at the chart of a friend of hers.
She already had some astro-knowledge although I’m happy to work with beginners too.
Sessions can last an hour to 90 minutes, a cross between a lesson and a reading. I will show you how to read your chart if you don’t already know, or we can look at someone else’s. Whatever comes up. Very free-flowing. And I’m a really patient teacher.
Of course you must be local to do this and we need not go to a diner but I have a Cancer Stellium. I like food around me 
And please know that these lessons/readings differ from more “formal” readings in that I don’t do prep work. I just print the chart(s) and go! And it’s all very on the spot. How I work in person, too, is different from when I type/work by email. I think different parts of the brain get engaged. In either case, I enjoy them both
Email me at moonpluto@gmail for rates and more details!
Only Revealed Good For The Full Moon In Virgo
February 24th, 2012 § 3 Comments
I feel like the Full Moon in Virgo came early for me. Today. I took a hit along my 2nd/8th House axis. Or maybe more of a surprise than a hit. Maybe both. A hit implies bad. Sometimes something happens and we think it’s bad because the good isn’t revealed yet. Revealed good. That’s a phrase from Chassidic teaching.
One door closes another door opens?
Nature abhors a vacuum?
How many cliches would you like? 
But more about the moon: the Full Moon in Virgo is on March 8th, at 18 degrees. Do you have any natal planets at or near 18 degrees?
Thinking about the number 8: remember the Tarot card for the 8 of Cups? Somebody is leaving. Will you? What are you leaving? Full Moons bring revelations. Leaving for something better, I hope.
The Sun, of course, will oppose the Moon. The battle is built in. Or as I wrote in another post today (at least I think it was today) battle or balance.
Mercury will be in early Aries that day, conjunct Uranus. What will you invent?
Venus will be in early Taurus, conjunct Jupiter and Pluto is at 9 Capricorn, trining. What a rich beautiful aspect. The two benefics and the… Lord of the Underworld! To me it feels like an… anything is possible aspect but… grounded. There’s a foundation to it. And the Venus Jupiter conjunction will only get tighter.
And Mars? Still retrograde and at 11 degrees, joining the trine. All these earthy planets bumping into each other, backwards, forwards. A dance.
The world that comes to mind for me now is “action” that you will want to take some, especially in the areas of life where these conjunctions occur, especially where the Full Moon occurs and the opposing house!
I just noticed a typo. I typed “WORLD” instead of “WORD” but I think I am going to leave it. I like it. The world of action. And yet there are trines. There is flow.
One of my astrology books from storage that I’m enjoying looking through again is by March and McEvers. They’ve got a great list of keywords for conjunctions: emphasis, intensification, concentration, new activity…
So spin the wheel. Your wheel. Find the planets for March 8th, for the Full Moon in Virgo and tell us what you got!
xo
Yes I am doing Mini-Moon Readings for the Full Moon in Virgo Virgo Virgo!
And for info about my usual, longer readings, look here!
Why Should The Fire Die? Full Moon In Virgo March 8th
February 24th, 2012 § 3 Comments
I feel more relaxed with Mars retrograde. When Mars was direct I was working ’round the clock, had just joined the gym, and my personal life felt like the 10 of Wands card from the Tarot.
When the Full Moon in Virgo comes, on March 8th and the Sun opposes the Moon and the Moon and Mars are conjunct… your life may feel on fire.
So much for relaxation.
Okay. Fire may be the wrong word here but I’m tired (see previous post). What I mean to say is “it’s a lot of energy” (energy being a Mars keyword) in one spot and for many of us? Our natal Plutos will be involved. Critical (Virgo) conflagration (Pluto). Critical as in picky and critical as in Life or Death.
Hmm. Maybe fire isn’t the wrong word after all.
Handle this day and the days leading up to it with kid gloves.
Funny I’m listening to a Pandora station and a song just came on called “Why Should The Fire Die” and it seems to fit.
Virgo asks why. Virgo asks WHY too much. And sometimes the fire has to die because YOU want to live.
I watch a lot of Rescue Me these days on streaming Netflix. And right now I’m watching one particular season over again because now I’ve watched the previous seasons and the context is there. I love this show and never fail to be in awe of what firefighters do, especially in the Big City here.
Running in to burning buildings and pulling out bodies, not knowing if they are alive or dead or almost dead.
Again the Moon in Aries today is on my mind. Pull out your own dead body. Save yourself. Pisces rules the Savior. Apply this wisdom to your own life. Let the other lives take care of themselves for a while. And when the smoke clears? Return to your post, return to service.
But… maybe your assignment will have changed!
I think that’s what this Full Moon will be about for many: your new post, your new assignment. Full Moons are emotional partly because things END but what if what if what if what if what if what needs to end is your refusal to recognize who you are and what you need.
xo
Yes I am doing Mini-Moon Readings for the Full Moon in Virgo Virgo Virgo!
And for info about my usual, longer readings, look here!
How Will You Serve Pisces Season?
February 24th, 2012 § 3 Comments
I keep seeing Tarot cards in my head.
Especially on days when I didn’t sleep well the night before and have time for a cat nap. The cards are alive to me and I mean the art from the Rider Waite in particular. I don’t mind other decks, I’m interested in what they’re up to, but I only read from that one.
So I tried to nap and I felt defeat. I saw the 5 of Cups. I felt I needed rest. I saw the 4 of Swords. I felt guidance and I saw the Hermit. I sat on his lap and he held me in his arms. I know that sounds like some kind of freaky Santa at Macys deal but I swear it was… holy (to use a term from my previous post). He was helping me, consoling me. Guidance.
Do you realize that when you close your eyes you can go anywhere you want? You can use your imaginative forces as Edgar Cayce said.
During Pisces Season it makes sense to sleep more, to dream more, to meditate more, to go spiritual more, to meditate on… what is holy to you. What is sacred… as well as what cannot be touched, disturbed, destroyed.
The most common phrase we hear associated with Pisces is “serve or suffer.” Open up almost any astrology text and you will find this. More often than not though I think it’s both.
I actually need to get going so am keeping this post short. Will draw a few Tarot cards though to speak to this day. Let’s see what we get…
Aha! I was shuffling and the 4 of Pentacles flew out of the deck onto my keyboard. It is telling me to BE Pisces. Stop smothering the love and the money. Let it go i.e. SERVICE.
I pulled three other cards. Won’t say what they were, just my analysis. See if you can guess 
If you guess I’ll tell you:
But here’s today’s message: if there is something that you want, that you are waiting for, have faith while you wait. I am getting an image of a waiting room, like at an annoying government office or doctor’s office and it’s the last place you want to be BUT. Have faith while you wait. Get comfortable. You are strong. It’s not as bad as you think it is. Really it’s a small adjustment, a nuance, to get it right. The waiting is necessary but… it’s coming. What you want is coming.
Pisces can wait interminably. 12th House people can sit by the window and hope. And hope. And hope. And hope. And hope. Thing is this though: some things are worth waiting and hoping and living for. And some…
Use your Wise Mind to know the difference. Mars is in VIRGO now, opposing Pisces. We are all living this axis at the moment. The refined mind of Virgo and the higher mind of Pisces. It’s okay to go back and forth.
How are you sleeping these days?
Yes I am doing Mini-Moon Readings for the Full Moon in Virgo Virgo Virgo!
And for info about my usual, longer readings, look here!
Practical Advice For Pisces Season
February 24th, 2012 § 2 Comments
Pisces rules saviors so use this keyword (phrase): help is on the way.
But just know that you may need to do it yourself, to save yourself: the Moon is in Aries now.
I was up in the middle of the night last night, couldn’t sleep.
It’s been like this lately, a few days in a row now and I woke up thinking to myself “you are holy” and how Pisces rules the mystical and the spiritual and wherever Pisces is in your chart, where the Sun and Mercury are transiting (and Neptune and Chiron) is where you are holy. The sacred.
Rather than being shit upon, wipe yourself off and light a candle for the Aries Moon. It’s something you can choose or choose to ignore (which would be very Pisces.)
My teacher used to talk about the high vibration and the low vibration of planetary energies. And once I read Isabel Hickey I wondered if he got those phrases from her, I’m not sure. In either case, this is doubly triply true for Pisces and Neptune. How Pisces and Neptune (and the 12th House) rule not only the prison, confinement, self-undoing, but also escape, getting free. And the 12th House rules not just misery, but meditation.
And you can choose.
The Moon is in Aries today and Aries does what Aries wants so do what you need to do for you. It represents a new beginning. The New Moon in Pisces was also a new beginning but the clarity wasn’t there. The Moon in Aries says NOW. The Moon in Aries says START. The Moon in Aries says you decide.
What does holiness mean to you?
xo
Yes I am doing Mini-Moon Readings for the Full Moon in Virgo Virgo Virgo!
And for info about my usual, longer readings, look here!
For The Love Of Otis Redding
February 23rd, 2012 § 4 Comments
Ever since Whitney Houston died, I’ve been meaning to write about, well, Otis Redding. My love for Otis Redding. I’m a white girl and black music has meant the world to me my whole life. My grandfather played the trumpet. Jazz was his life. When I was a kid and we played 20 Questions in the pool somehow Dizzy Gillespie was always the answer.
I was an adolescent in the ’80s and I remember life before MTV but MTV changed all our lives, the music lovers. I wasn’t a reader. It was music for me all the way (until about age 14 when No One Here Gets Out Alive, the Jim Morrison biography changed my life again).
But back to Otis Redding. I forget how old I was. Maybe 14, 15, 16 and I had just bought a double album compilation “greatest hits” from the Atlantic R & B label and on side one I found Try A Little Tenderness.
It’s hard to convey to young people today life in a less media-saturated world. The stores and malls and Starbucks (not that there were Starbucks!) and tv commercials and EVERYWHERE were not filled with the latest cool stuff or the cool stuff from older years. For example, it never fails to shock me to hear the Velvet Underground when I go into any random store in Brooklyn. I mean, once upon a time… it was secret. The good music was secret.
Otis Redding was never a secret but I remember the first time I heard that song, with headphones on and… I think the ones born a little bit after me got a taste of him from that John Hughes movie (Pretty in Pink?) but for me it was a stereo, a record, a needle, a big black disc, big clunky headphones and probably a day like this one — quiet, but after school. Just me and the music.
So at first I was going to write about the fallen divas, some great women artists who left this world too young.
Otis died before his Saturn return. Go back and listen to those songs that you have heard a zillion times and pretend it’s the first time if you can. That voice. Gives me chills just to think about it.
Of course I had to look up his chart. Sun conjunct North Node in Virgo in the 6th! I wonder if he ever knew the awesome beauty of his voice. Neptune in his 6th House too. Pluto in his 5th squaring a Taurus Moon. Ah no wonder. The sweetness of his voice is in that aspect. The sweetness of Taurus and the yearning of Moon square Pluto.
Saturn in his 2nd House. Yeah, he probably never knew his strength or his gift despite Aries rising and an Aries Mars in the 1st House. I just took a quick look though. This is by no means a comprehensive analysis!
Jupiter in Gemini in his 3rd: big communications, right? And that Jupiter squared his Virgo stuff but was supported by his Mars and his Pluto and his Venus in Libra in the 7th, a trine.
If he had lived? Maybe he would have lived long enough to have been as rewarded as we have been blessed by his music. I kinda doubt it though.
Oops – sorry for the gloom! I’ll be back later to cheer y’all up.
xo
The Stars This Weekend: Moon In Aries!
February 22nd, 2012 § 3 Comments
It’s the end of the day in the Big City and I wanted to post one more time before closing up shop.
This weekend I’m going to a magic show. A friend of mine, a playwright, is also a magician and he’ll be doing tricks in between the short plays. I’m looking forward to it. Never seen him perform before and it feels like a very Pisces sky thing to do: magic, sleight of hand, the world of illusion, imagination, mystery.
Now the Moon will move into Aries on Thursday night and my friend has an Aries Moon too. The Mercury Mars opposition will be exact in the morning: Pisces to Virgo. Mutable. Which way will the energy go. Will you talk talk talk? Or will you do do do? Maybe you will speak in tongues which seems very Mercury in Pisces, don’t you think? Speak poetically. Speak, well, magically Mercury is how you think. Mars is your energy. And an opposition? Battle or balance.
And once the Moon is in Aries, you know she will conjunct Uranus and she’ll square Pluto and don’t we know what this energy is about already? An emotional highwire act. Fast, intense, car crashy aspect. Or maybe just a clangy rumble underneath your surface. With Aries though, it can end as soon as it starts.
On Saturday, the Sun sextiles Jupiter, a feel good aspect, optimism and the Moon conjuncts Venus. A softer day but a mix of energy: sweet Pisces with sweet Taurus Jupiter plus the Aries conjunction. Feels like, well, a love affair, that first good feeling and excitement, the rush of hormonal thrill.
Sunday is a little darker as the Moon opposes Saturn (ugh) but when she enters Taurus we get a sextile to Neptune and a conjunction to Jupiter. The Moon moves fast so don’t hold on to what she says or what she does.
Are you working for the weekend? Or can you relax?
xo
Yes I am doing Mini-Moon Readings for the Full Moon in Virgo Virgo Virgo! and I’m adding in Tarot these days too (for those who desire it).
And for info about my usual, longer readings, look here!
Mars In Virgo Full Of Grace
February 22nd, 2012 § 10 Comments
Full of grace on the treadmill. Full of grace.
When Mars went into Virgo, and my 1st House, I joined a gym. At first I walked (on the treadmill). And then I discovered walking at an incline. And then I jogged. And then I jogged at an incline. And then I ran. And now I combine all three – intervals. When I run? I am free.
And I thought of Mars in Virgo, retrograde, today because there’s this moment, there’s this moment when you RUN, when you are running for your life, and that IS how it feels, when *I* am running for my life, there’s this moment when… you realize that the place, the pace, the level, the speed you had originally thought was as good as you could do… you begin to realize that you can do more, so you start to push yourself, and you do more. That’s Mars.
It’s not about the exertion, the point I want to make, although there is that. And it’s not about the endorphins, although there is that.
There is something that happens when you are running and you are pushing yourself, and your body is simultaneously in control and completely relaxed. What I mean is: you are pushing pushing pushing, your arms and legs and heart and head and lungs are working together… but you can let yourself go slack. Let your limbs go slack, loosen them, relax WHILE you are running for your life.
Any athletes here know what I’m talking about. I guess it’s being “in the zone” and I guess it’s “meditation in motion” for me — but today, I think, was the first time I felt it, or maybe I felt it on Monday too. It feels like flying and it’s not that I keep this up the whole time. I don’t. Still doing the intervals but this feeling, this ability is so extraordinary, it’s my joy, and I feel full of grace at these times. I wish the same for you, however you can find it. I want you to find it.
It’s probably nothing that anyone can see. It’s a feeling. My natal Mars is in Cancer, the sign that can’t stop feeling.
And it made me think of Mars in Virgo retrograde because Mars in Virgo retrograde can’t do the details or the control like Mars direct. It must, for lack of a better phrase, go slack. But it’s still Mars.
I’m telling people these days not to expect results. Or… to expect different results. Review, investigate instead of coming to conclusions because of the retrograde (Saturn too).
But you can pick one part of your life (Virgo rules details) like the treadmill, like sex, or some other Mars activity. Find where Mars is transiting in your chart and pick one thing from those areas of life that that house represents and find your power again, find your Mars.
The Moon and Mercury in Pisces are opposing Mars in Virgo right now so talk — Mercury — to your Mars.
Is Mars in your 1st House now? Talk to your body. Is Mars in your 10th House now? Talk to your family — the 4th House opposes the 10th. You must travel the axis of where transiting Mars is. Is Mars transiting your 7th? It’s not just them; it’s you too.
Moon opposing Mars, Mercury opposing Mars: tense aspects, sure. But there’s more. There’s always more.
xo
Do you have a Mars story to share?
Testimonials, Money, And Psychic Stuff!
February 21st, 2012 § Leave a Comment
A couple months ago I met with a local astrologer for a reading.
Hadn’t seen her in years but she was the first astrologer, the only astrologer actually who told me that I had an aptitude for *this* — for astrology. She saw it in my chart.
Flash forward five years (? not sure how long) and now I’m doing readings more and more and met with her to talk about my transits and other stuff and she told me to post testimonials. Good for business, she said.
And not just individual posts but to have a page where folks can read a whole bunch of them. I followed her advice although I’ve fallen behind in adding the individual posts to the official Testimonial page but it’s thanks to her that I organized them at all in the first place because it’s not my nature to say “Hey! Look what I did! Look what I can do!”
I’m a writer, always been a writer, always been intuitive but it wasn’t until recently that it really came together, the writing and the psychic stuff which I had never considered psychic stuff before. And yet I was always doing this for friends, family… just not making a living at it.
From an email I received today:
I have to tell you, it’s a little spooky how this happens, all of this stuff is there but doesn’t crystallize until you point it out. I feel all of it: square, inconjunct, trine, sextile & it’s unsettling until you put it together.
I’m deeply grateful for your insights and the way you help me make sense of myself. Like a Sherpa . I didn’t get this much to work with from years of therapy, you should seriously think about charging more.
The money thing is a funny thing. I raised my rates a little in January and don’t want to go higher now. People can always tip if they feel the need And, yeah, all of it helps. And I really do want to keep the short readings affordable. Sometimes what happens is that someone can only afford a $25 Mini-Tarot and then when money gets better they come back for something more in-depth. It plays out different ways.
But I appreciate the sentiment anyway, I do.
xo
Hope you had a simply smashing New Moon!
Moon Pluto, Sun Pluto
February 21st, 2012 § 1 Comment
“I am the happy genius of my household”
–William Carlos Williams
What are you like at home? How’s your Moon aspected?
I talk a lot about my Moon, being a Cancer Sun with an afflicted (Pluto conjunct) Moon.
I was telling someone this morning: my Pluto doesn’t mind the Moon there but the Moon minds! My Virgo Moon wants more peace and order and less Pluto dramarama.
But otherwise, she’s mad sextiled, all around the chart. And a trine. Gotta love those trines. Even when it’s a (sigh) Saturn trine.
I took a break and am heading back to work now (readings to finish) and I came home and had that line from Williams in my head. It shows up from time to time. Google it. You’ll find the entire poem.
Some say that Moon Pluto is a tyrant at home.
Moon = home. Pluto = tyrant.
But we can spin it other ways. Pluto also rules holy places, new beginnings (hello New Moon!), life after death…
When Pluto touches your personal planets, especially Sun or Moon, your survival itself brings crisis (to you) but you’re familiar with the phrase “healing crisis,” right?
Are you the happy genius of your household?
xo
