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2012 New Age Dragon

1^st New Moon 2012 (Chinese Dragon New Year)— in Aquarius—the sign most associated with the dawning of a new age. A harmonious aspect to Aquarius’s ruling planet Uranus, the liberator, and one of the principal Greek gods conceived from Chaos, who SHATTERS OLD FORMS TO MAKE WAY FOR NEW ONES.

Time for something completely different: “Nature loves courage. You make the commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the wold will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick…This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.” (Terrence Mckenna)

Art (KC)

 

Metaray—Astro Weather Weekly Forecast for CANCER: 9.1.12—15.1.12

Full Moon in your sensitive sign—Monday (9.1.12) puts you in touch with your needs and feelings. You resonate to the mother matrix—nurture yourself physically and emotionally so that you can be of service to others. A Mercury/Chiron hookup Tues allows your words to massage others. Someone may give you a lead, even prise open a door, which can lead to a career change. Deep conversations are edifying & psychically cleansing Fri. Venus and Neptune become soluble in the infinite oceans of Pisces from Sat—your spiritual intuition is becoming high resolution and foreign countries and higher plateaux study courses serve to further. 

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Metaray—Astro Weather Weekly forecast for GEMINI: 9.1.12—15.1.12

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Full Moon Monday (9.1.12)—focus on immediate needs, resources, $ and possible biz with others. Communication is dramatic Wed/Thur. Mars has the potential to detonate hidden desires, wanton cravings—Fri, passionate excess is highly inevitable. Venus coats Sat/Sunday with dreamy creamy romantic gushy soft-focus overtones. Venus into artistic Pisces for the next 3 weeks has high potential to enhance your talents—opportune for shining at you job, and many opportunities unfold to connect with the right peeps thru your network to assist you.

 

 

 

Metaray—Astro Weather Weekly for TAURUS: 9.1.12—15.1.12

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It's Full Moon in Cancer Monday (today)—important information, particularly pertaining to overseas or a study course. Get ready for a Mars super booster energy infusion Fri and deep conversations in the evening. Neptune kaleidoscope blitzes your imagination Saturday—super groovy for party antics, entertainment escapism, dancing, music fantasia. Venus from Saturday, for the next 3 weeks, brings friendship nourishing support and inspiration—favourable time for group, team, involvement endeavour.  

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Metaray—Astro Weather Weekly for ARIES: 9.1.12—15.1.12

 

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Full Moon in Cancer Monday (today)—deal with home, family, domestic issues. It is a day of hot energised discussions. Fri is a Mars power day, especially skills application with work. Expect new developments on the job front. Saturday very Neptunian: perfect for entertainment, music, dancing… Venus enhances Sat night/Sunday—salubrious for romantic melts and outrageous indulgent pleasures. 

 

 

Seeking Security—Cancer Full Moon—The Creation Matrix

A tender—(Cancer full Moon today—9.1.12)—toughness (Sun Capricorn) polarity is favourably aspected by a skilful Mars in practical Virgo. Mercury having just gone into Capricorn makes aspects to all outer planets —and especially a tense angle to Uranus to stir up hot discussion about necessary changes afoot for the 2012 Cardinal shift bearing down on a personal level and far reaching global collective issues. 

 

Accelerated Brinksmanship Brokering Dilemmas Of fate Vs Free Will Towards An Undeniable 2012 New World Order Shift

The last Full Moon of 2011 today in mental Gemini—an Eclipse—which are always cosmo-collective-accelerators and highlights tension between immediate needs and future goals.

Mercury, Gemini’s, planet, is currently retrograde, thus bringing to a head all ideas, plans, discussions, deals, agreements and the need to renegotiate, review, revise for when Mercury goes direct next Weds. 

Mars makes a tense angle to the Sun and Moon so, so emotion can be vigorous and testy. Ind addition, Uranus, the rebellious awakener, which has been a shocking catalyser for change—i.e, immense political and geological quakes this year, since it went into (new beginnings) Aries in March, the exact day of the major Japanese earthquake and has been retrograde since July, but today goes direct, and will give more traction to collective forces seeking change to old systems that are crumbling; and especially as it starts to make a stress angle with deeply transformative Pluto (exact June 2012), as it has already done this year, and will continue through till 2015. 

Symbolic of individualised will and collective forces, Mars (armies or corporations) will be in the feminine, ecological sign of Virgo till July 2012, also ruled by Mercury, and going through a retrograde phase, which is likely to bring out global government brinkmanship dealing with conflict as well as interpersonal dynamics in relationships.

Venus is the go-between diplomacy goddess, she is in various-view-points Gemini from April, staying there till August, including a retrograde phase. So mid 2012 is loaded for an evolving new order to be brokered, albeit—tentatively, and touches upon the Gemini Eclipse today which resonates with unresolved deepening conflict—civil war in Syria and the UK (reneging) pulling out of the Euro and further fractures in the global fiscal system.

Pic-Mt Astrologer Magazine

 

MERCURY RETRO in loquacious SAGITTARIUS

Mercury—the communication planet—in loquacious dramatic Sagittarius goes into a tricky retrograde, backwards mode from Thurs till Dec 13. 

Double-check details, travel plans and maintain equipment to avoid untimely breakdowns. Be prepared to redo, review, revise, re-evaluate. There can be an undertow of unfinished business. Not smooth for initiating new projects. Pay attention to all communication exchanges. Avoiding misunderstandings and omissions to minimise complications. Best used for tidying up loose ends and revisiting the past. 

 

11.11.11 TELEKINESIS

Mercury and Venus riding together thru—philosophical mind-expanding—Sagittarius until trickster Mercurious flips backwards—retrograde, Nov 24—(more on that slippery-glitchy transit later). It will be globally-communicatively awakening, grappling with the-big-picture—expanded-vision—issues now bearing down on economies-of-wellbeing.

Neptune (compassion and belief systems) goes direct in communitarian revolutionary Aquarius, Thurs; followed by a highly numerologically nuanced Full Moon Friday—11.11.11—At which time 11 a.m. (Austl) I, and Eye, and The Boredoms, and many others will be beating ritual cymbals and drums at the Island Quarry Byron Bay. Please join us, or tune in by telekinesis.

11.11.11 Byron Bay

 

 

 

ARIES FULL MOON

Independent unilateral ARIES FULL MOON opposite relationship orientated SUN and SATURN in LIBRA: An equilibrium suggestive of personal freedom within a framework of cooperation.

 

VENUS in steamy sultry SCORPIO

VENUS—the love planet—in steamy sultry SCORPIO for the next few weeks to explore the unseen plumbing that shapes the emotional complexity of desire and relationships.

 

LIBRA NEW MOON has her ballast scales blasted topsy-turby

The personable, agreeable, affable, societal, legal, relational—LIBRA NEW MOON has her ballast scales blasted topsy-turby by heavy hitting transformational Uranus and Pluto. Pressing indicators of radical changes marked by breakdowns and breakthroughs in politics, economics, relationships. Shirking behind laxive diplomatic smiles won’t cut it now.

 

Spacey Full Moon Pisces Comes Down To Earth

FULL MOON – idealistic, escapist, spacey, imaginative, compassionate – PISCES – opposite practical Virgo Sun/Venus, with smooth trine hookup between Mercury/Pluto/Jupiter in earth signs to make the tangerine dream real, cut thru confusion, illusion, get to the core of the matter. 

 

Hot Venus Retro Music

Hot Venus alert day (Friday) as she makes a steamy connection with Pluto, (ideal psychopomp for salvaging damaged relationships with nostalgic music in the background) but retro Mercury is still hung-up, communicatively glitchy, slowly getting back into first gear on the weekend. Ideal for clearing the static air gunk, relationship funk, and putting projects back on track. 

 

Get The Job Done – VIRGO

Increased efficiency, practicality – get the job done – with SUN & VENUS in problem solving, analytical, refined taste enhancing – VIRGO, for the next few weeks. Plus retro-messenger Mercury (Virgo’s ruler) shifts into forward gear from Saturday giving better communicative traction: contacts and seeding, manifesting, new ideas.  

 

Step outside of yourself > See the global picture – FULL MOON IN EGALITARIAN AQUARIUS

The importance of collaboration. Venus/Mercury conjunction with regal Sun in Leo can elevate ego needs or florid amorous dramatics. But this egalitarian lunation reveals the importance of collaboration rather than hierarchal dominance. A face off between the intellect (head-Aquarius) and emotional passions (heart-Leo). The deeper issue: Love and approval.  

 

 

Mercury The Quicksilver Messenger Trickster Backflips Through August

Mercury the quicksilver messenger trickster has stopped dead and is about to go retrograde for 24 days, turning direct Aug 26. Nail down your data, grease up your agreements. Communication can become stressed, words misunderstood, deadlines are missed, plans unravel during this cycle. Attention to details are especially important, as Mercury commences retro from Virgo, which it rules – particularly techno gizmos. 

Transiting backwards back through Leo where it has already been, Mercury’s backflipping can distort perceptions, especially around Aug 8 when it is opposite foggy, deceptive Neptune. There can be a tendency to invest ideas with more confidence than they merit which can lead to disappointment when these concepts are tested against reality. But can be effective for improving, revising systems and creative projects, as well as reviewing affairs of the heart, love, romance. The Sun and Venus are also in Leo, and associated with relationships and the arts. 

 

New Moon Leo – Love Is Where The Mythos Of Self Melts In Imagination

Art - Lou Beach

FLUFFY FIERCE FULL MOON

Responsibilities, worldly duties and relationship politics can take on a heavy tone with the determined CAPRICORN FULL MOON opposite soft, fuzzy, sensitive, Sun in Cancer. Tension between Mars and Uranus can create interpersonal sparks with snap-crackle-pop communication.

Full Moons are always peak times and a balancing of opposites. This one is the flow from exterior fierce to inner fluffy – particularly reflective of the Full Moon's ruling planet, task master Saturn, in fair-minded Libra.

 

 

Philosophical Pragmatism

Bounteous JUPITER in fecund Taurus harmoniously trines transformational PLUTO in ambitious Capricorn. A prescient, productive, growth aspect in EARTH SIGNS through to March 2012.  Philosophical pragmatism: The power to apply resources in more effective ways. Launch ambitious new professional plans with realistic foundations.

 

Zeitgeist Solar Eclipse

Hot Spot (Zeitgeist 2012) SOLAR ECLIPSE IN CANCER today involving Sun, Moon, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto intensifies the pressure drop of stressful 90-degree squares forming a cardinal grand cross.

Eclipses are accelerators and this one in – security orientated sign of Cancer – and triggering revolutionary planets, portends to the breaking of patterns: Signalling major crossroads, where the old must be broken down in order for the new to break through. Volatility and surprises challenge constraining Saturn and transformational Pluto. Pressure is building that can affect major institutions and individuals to be part of the process of change, regeneration, improvement rather than holding onto the past. 

 

 

Screws Turned On The Cardinal Square

Coming into the most intense period of the year with a cardinal grand cross between Sun/Saturn/Pluto/Uranus. New Moon Cancer (Fri) a trigger.

 

The Solstice Sun Under The Force Of Plutonic Nature

The Solstice Sun in the sign of Cancer resonate to themes of security & safety. I tried to get air born but was grounded by volcanic ash today – symbolic of the current age: Humanity under the force of nature and a noxious, corrosive, global economy, breaking down to be regenerated, transformed.

Uranus square Pluto (revolutionary planets) currently squaring off, reflective of global political tension escalating and collapse of $ system. Pluto opposition to the Solstice Sun (the King/leaders/symbols of authority) are under-minded – clinging onto old models of security. The Sun’s entry into the cardinal Cancer sign on Solstice focuses the ‘cardinal square crisis’ of the current age. The reforming of old models of ‘security’ and political, economic power structure. Uranus signifies shocks, both physcially and political-culturally, via revolutions and seismically, in Christchurch/NZ and Nth East Japan with earthquake tremors, plus the Plutonic earthy convulsions of the Chilean Volcano which is halting air traffic downunder (Austl/NZ).

 

Zigzagging About In Chatty Gemini

Mars joins Venus zigzagging about in chatty, split-minded Gemini for the next 5 weeks. Give good phone. Listen to my new song – TXT AFFAIR with FIDGET WIDGET. Distractions are compelling, as is the pace and variety of activities. Drive yourself insane by hoovering up the mental vitality with massive multi-tasking. Cranking diversity too hard though will get you cranky with scattered energy. 

Pic by Bolago

 

Soul On Deck Shines Like Gold In Dark Times

Lunar Eclipse Thurs Sagittarius “One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.

Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.” (Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

 

UTTERY MENTASMIC ECLIPSE SEASON

Gemini New Moon partial eclipse – June 1^st/2^nd – is the first of three eclipses. The next being a total lunar eclipse June 16, and lastly another partial solar eclipse, July 1^st. Eclipses are accelerators: The new cycle sees socially flirtatious Venus in Gemini and communicative Mercury loquaciously agile fidgety in its own sign sparking clever thinking, live-wire conversations and mental message massages.

Jittery minds curiously zip, flip, flitter, twitter, facebook feeds screeds, hyper link leaps heaps, discover old & new peeps, random data dance entranced. Accelerated air-current info-flux, peaking with big-picture-vision purging of old truths on the Sagittarian Full Moon – eclipsed by the Earth’s shadow – June 16.

Deeper commitment, Saturn Libra, goes direct June 13, ideal for firming up alliances and revisioning hung up partnerships. 

 

 

A Painting about Violence and Hatred caused by Religious Intolerance

When transformational Pluto was transiting Sagittarius, an archetype related to world creation myths and theology of God consciousness, the dark side of traditional religion was highlighted. Symbolically played out by the pivotal turning point 9-11 NY events ushering in the 21st century epoch.

Now Pluto is transiting through Capricorn, an archetype associated with business and politics, reflective of the current breaking-down of banking and corporate structures, as well as quaking transformative fractures to earth structures.

Artist, Heidi Taillefer, says: "Detritus of Devotion is a painting about violence and hatred caused by religious intolerance, and the wars it has ignited throughout the ages. The angel descending is Religion personified, made of elements symbolizing the worlds three largest monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As cousins of each other, they revolve around a commonly shared ancestor, Abraham, represented by the goat that was slaughtered in place of his son. Religion is composed of various iconographies, as well rats and military ordinance, representing the destruction and decay brought fourth out of ideological discord. The woman lying dead on the ground is Peace, who has been slain by Religion in all its fury. She is distinguishable by the olive-branch crown and twig which she possesses, as well as the barren cornucopia once filled with the fruit of happiness. The setting is middle-eastern out of which developed all three faiths, as the cradle of civilization. Set before the city of Jerusalem, innocent children of all three faiths weep and mourn the death of Peace, while a procession of Crusaders moves past Muslim and Jewish soldiers in the distance, and the four horsemen of the Apocalypse ride ahead of the oncoming wrath of God."

 

 

Epicurean Taurean Moon rolls over Mars, Venus, Mercury

_{Epicurean Taurean Moon rolls over Mars, Venus, Mercury}  

 

Hi-Voltage La LUNA Weather

La Luna (the MOON) in amongst the high voltage heavies. Now traveling thru hot-wired Aries about to hit the URANUS electron shock-a-sphere (mental flash, surprising acts of eccentricity, bizarre electricity) and later after midnight squaring off with dark, intense, PLUTO.

 

FULL MOON SCORPIO The Emotional Depths & Bounties of Mother Nature

Full Moons highlight both sides of the equation. The simplicity of Taurus. Mars, Mercury, Venus now clustered there heightening the senses, sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, money, budgets, resources. Contrasted with Scorpio’s deep emotional underground where buried fears and desires reside. The feeling and bounty we share with others.

 

Fire And Earth...Mercury direct...Risque Venus hookup

The Sun goes into earthy practical Taurus but Venus enters adventurous Aries amping up ardour which can stir a conflict between risk taking and playing it safe. Mercury, the communication planet, also in Aries, as is bold brazen action planet Mars, goes direct on the weekend, which gets projects moving forward and brings increased connective traction making new connections. Delays caused by complications during the previous 3 week retro period flow better. There is a freedom loving hookup between Venus/Uranus on the weekend which can spark quirky attractions, risque romantic escapades or upset alliances or ignite social plans.

Art by Michael Whelan

 

Full Moon Libra - Relationships - Balancing Act

The Sun in independent ARIES encounters FULL MOON in (pleasing) LIBRA with its need for compromise, the accommodating of others, balancing self-interest in partnering. Lunar goes into visceral SCORPIO soon after, stirring interpersonal emo deeper, peeling away politeness to expose raw feelings, vulnerabilities, needs, fears and shared resources.

 

 

Mercury Retro Undertow

There’s a rambunctious stampede of planets in fiery, bold, adventurous, Aries. But there is undertow with Mercury, the planet influencing information, communication and transportation, retrograde for the next 24 days. Hmm… how fitting and intrepid: I am off to Israel for my first visit to the play a retro 90s (Rhythmystec) DJ set.

Mercury Retrograde: March 30 - April 23, 2011....Re Re Re... revise, redeliver, review, recondition, reconsider, repair, repossess, redesign... It can be a nuisance to business as usual, but enjoy nonverbal activities (like diving into retro music), and give attention to neglected maintenance of an underfed inner life. The key to navigating this Merc retro period successfully is to double-check everything.

Super Moon & Equinox: The Call For Ascension Into Heart Centered Consciousness

This weekend’s Full Moon is one of the most pivotal times of 2011. This is the 2^nd of six SuperMoons this year, generating stronger tugs on the Earth’s oceans, tectonic plates, and energy grids. In addition this Full Moon peaks just one day before the vernal Equinox, which is the cosmic new year, starting March 21^st. The alignment of the Earth’s equator with the Sun at the equinox causes a reduction in the Earth’s magnetic field, facilitating  “switching channels” and increasing access to higher dimensions and new information. These cosmic gateways were recognised by many ancient cultures.

As the Sun goes into the first degree of Aries on Equinox it joins with awakening and shocking Uranus which went into Aries at the time of the Japan earthquake last Friday. The radiant rays of the Sun will amplify the Uranus Pluto square in cardinal signs, which is becoming more intense towards 2012. The implications of the catastrophic seismic and technological nuclear events in Sendai are going to have far reaching species survival implications for a highly industrial, rapacious global economy impinging upon a fragile ecology, which is tragically vulnerable  to irresistible forces of nature (the cosmos).

The Full Moon is occurring at 29, the last degree of Pisces, the last sign of the Zodiac. A collective emotion water sign of metaphysical realities beyond our five senses. Neptune the ruling planet of Pisces is at the last degree of Aquarius conjuncting Chiron and Ceres, which heightens an awareness to feel the unity of with all life.

The Galactic Center at 27 degrees Sagittarius, an energy source millions of times larger and denser than our Sun, is a colossal transmitter of gamma, X-ray, and ultraviolet radiation that affects the electromagnetic field of the Earth  and all its inhabitants.

This alignment greatly amplifies the call for ascension into heart centered consciousness. – Stephanie Austin (Additional notes: Ray Castle)

 

The Earth is Shaking. CHRIST'S CHURCH Destroyed. Loss of Life.

Seismic cataclysims continue on Aotearoa (NZ) shaky isles. The city called CHRIST CHURCH destroyed. Large loss of life. Sign of the times (Uranus square Pluto) forbodes more crumbling structures: Man made (Politics, $, belief systems-religion) & force of nature (ecology and Gaian upheaveal fluxes); quite possibly connected to the greater reverberating ravages of economic earth exploitation. ZEITBYTE 2012.

 

Revolutionary Air Of Discontent>Freedom call>YEAR OF THE RABBIT

Rebel rouser MARS AQUARIUS ignites PEOPLE POWER challenging DEBT and DEMOCRACY

An edgy, electrifying, rebellious, revolutionary air of discontent on the New Moon in communal minded Aquarius, Thursday, commencing The Year Of The Rabbit. Feisty, combative, anarchic, Mars, also in emancipatory Aquarius, fuels combustive impulses joining in the freedom chant to spur provocative behaviour and confrontations with authority.

A signature that chimes with the building tension of Uranus square Pluto, which is breaking down outmoded political and financial structures, becoming exact mid 2012. 

 

 

My first Sony DJ Dat players with customised case art by Jimmy C, Goa '92

 

All the various model Dat players were highly neurotic and prone to malfunction, but were extremely practical for the parties. I even met the designer engineer of the TCD-3. He was amazed at use they had been put through at hard core out door parties with swirling dust from stampeding dance floors in Goa.

Sony replaced one TCD-3 which they couldn't fix, and were notoriously expensive to service.

Bold Initiating Jupiter In Pioneering Aries

Bodacious, expansive, Jupiter transits through rambunctious, pioneering Aries until June. Fortuitous for confident, bold, initiative, striking out into new directions, launching major projects with enterprise.

 

Full Moon In Cancer Raises The Emotional Tide

Feelings are close to the surface as a Full Moon in Cancer raises the emotional tide. Harmonious trine aspects to bold Jupiter and progressive Uranus in the fluid waters of imaginative Pisces open doors to usher in beneficial new  year changes. Further aided by the Sun joining Mars in experimental, unconventional, tradition breaking, socially activating, Aquarius; the most wired signature of innovation, original sparks of invention, sharpened mental acuity. The current incendiary amplitude mobilising people power revolt and communal uprising. Eg: Popular political uprising in Tunisia confronting authoritarian nepotism.

2011 A REVOLUTIONARY YEAR...intensifying towards 2012

"You say you want a revolution..."

"Uranus entering fiery militant aries in March and from June squares politically transformative Pluto in Capricorn (Govt, corporations, banks) just like the revolutionary 60s. The future generation's conflagration of rage is an impetus for creative change; all further intensifying with potential awakening turbulent tension towards 2012, when Uranus/Pluto tighten with an exact square aspect. 

Global warming, flash flooding, eg Australia and Brazil this week, correlates with sudden gushes of large torrents of dangerous waters, Uranus/Juptier in the water sign of Pisces, portending towards more ongoing ecological shockers.