stellArium & ethereal counterparts

New Moon chart : 27 June 2014, 8:08:27gmt - 7e15, 43n42 Less than a week after the solstice, this New Moon in Cancer is stamping its tempo for the summer (winter in the southern hemisphere) and with - a prominence of planets in Cardinal signs  - Mars just coming out of opposition to Uranus   - the Sun moving into opposition to Pluto - Venus square Neptune it heralds an extremely active month - if not compulsive - during which, issues of 'Belonging' will be  on our minds. On the other hand, Neptune in trine to the New Moon, a majority of planets in the water element and Jupiter slowly ending its year-long transit through Cancer also indicate : a timely focus on our need for intimacy and nurturing, on our inner life, a general softening of our past judgements, the mending and healing of our bruised emotions. as there is a risk for emotional dramas  if we delude ourselves, become preys to extreme moods and lose our sense of bounda...

Oil painting on wood - of Hades abducting Persephone. (18th c.) Persephone used to live far away from the other deities, a goddess within Nature herself before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. In the Olympian telling, the gods Hermes and Apollo had wooed Persephone; but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the Olympian deities. The story of her abduction by Hades against her will, is traditionally refer red to as the Rape of Persephone. It is mentioned briefly in Hesiod's Theogony, and told in considerable detail in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Zeus, it is said, permitted Hades, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to carry her off as her mother Demeter was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades. Persephone was gathering flowers with the Oceanids along with Artemis and Athena—the Homeric Hymn says—in a field when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. Deme...

may "Light"  always  overcome "darkness" ... as i write there has been much delirious buzzing about the coming grand cardinal cross line-up (April 2014) which is to occur shortly after the March 2014 equinox/ingress point and Aries new moon: the speculations involve many dark scenarios because the planet Mars will be joining the cardinal cross...  let us try to remember the various times of our lives which carried a drastic sense of "before and after" the kind that was all transforming on many different levels... weren't these periods of our lives usually confusing, sometime very painful and full of darkness? most likely, yes. despite any intuition or foreboding, could we have been able to predict the exact outcome for these transformations? most likely, no. even the most capable seers and psychics can only be 'approximative'... that's because so much seems to happen outside our ultimate human ...

  Full Moon in Leo - 14 february 2014, 23:53 gmt, 7e15, 43n42 while Venus gone direct has been dragging the T-Square effects between Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto and Mercury retrograde has been lingering near foggy Neptune before its coming inferior conjunction to the Sun (15 february) in its square to Saturn in Scorpio (11 february) Sun in Aquarius has brought the weight of the world on some of our shoulders and once again in this full Moon chart (14 february) with Saturn and Uranus at their respective apex the two T-Squares indicate much conflicting and frustrated energies however Libra Mars conjunct the north Node trine the Sun and sextile the Moon enables to calmly review issues which, after having been brought up last november, are most likely coming to the fore again to see beyond masks and roles and slowly find resolutions after this full Moon (14 february) because everything happens in stages and cycles  going in one day from s...