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Planets Come Bearing Gifts & Blessings

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Vancouver, Canada by Patricia Herlevi With my Venus Return and Jupiter and Mercury also on my Natal Venus, I feel like writing something upbeat this week.  And why not when mundane astrologer Carl Boudreau predicts smooth sailing for June and possibly the next six months? We are now past the shadow of the May 25 eclipse and even though we still deal with the Pluto-Uranus square, Mercury enters Cancer this Friday (May 31) and brings us some relief when the planet forms a Grand Water Trine with Saturn in Scorpio and Neptune in Pisces.  And also on this day Mars moves from Taurus into Gemini, which brings some nervous restlessness and gets us more into our brains.  We have already visited these Gemini themes with the Lunar Eclipse, and stellium of planets in Gemini.  However, on Sunday, June 2, Venus enters nurturing Cancer and we give our attention to self-love and taking care of our bodies, plus eating healthier foods, that is if we don't give into the need for comfort foods i

Bridge over Troubled Waters (Interstate-5 Bridge Collapses--Seen in Natal Chart of Mount Vernon, WA)

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Skagit River, Mount Vernon, photo by Patricia Herlevi (Soon after I wrote this post, I checked out the local news coverage of the collapsed bridge and much of what I said here about over exaggeration, etc has already come to pass.  I'm not surprised with 4 planets in Gemini and the Moon moving into Sagittarius. This event is also receiving international attention). My original plan was to blog about t-crosses today.  However, last night I received the news that an Interstate-5 bridge on the border of Mount Vernon, Washington collapsed and my first reaction was to revisit the city's natal chart (which I have on file).  Depending on which chart I use, the June 27, 1890 incorporation date, or the filing date of the papers, July 6, 1890 (on a Sunday?) I'm confronted with a telling story. A section of the bridge collapsed the evening of May 23, 2013 when a semi-truck hit a beam.  The semi truck and a pick up truck next to it plunged into the Skagit River (which represen

Wild Horses Drag Us Away (Sagittarius/Gemini Lunar Eclipse for May 25)

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Wikipedia (Update on May 28, 2013: Last night I received information to take a closer look at this eclipse, specifically with Saturn at 6 degrees Scorpio trining transiting Neptune, forming an inconjunct with the Gemini Sun and a minor aspect (irritating) with the Sagittarius Moon.  Including these Saturn aspects bring restriction, caution, and some minor irritations.  Where I live, on the day after the eclipse when the Moon was void-of-course, a large sporting event took place that involved outdoor recreation in possibly hazardous weather.  No one was injured or drowned, thankfully, but Saturn and the Moon void of course before entering Capricorn posed problems with equipment for timing the athletes and teams, according to local news reports.  The other event that ties in is the collapse of a bridge on a major arterial in which traveling athletes and other participants struggled with getting to and from the event on time. Again, we see Saturn slowing down movement). Since I cov

Venus in Gemini--Witty Repartee & Sassy Romantic Comedy

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Perhaps those medieval troubadours courting unobtainable ladies with poetry had their Venus and Mars in Gemini... I grew up with Venus in Gemini and my natal Mars also falls under the sign of the Twins. And since Venus now travels through Gemini I feel an urge to write about it.  Actually watching Kenneth Branagh's version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing sparked my interest in Venus in Gemini because the banter between Beatrix played by Emma Thompson and Benedikt played by Branagh acts as an example of Venus in Gemini. Of course, we need to view natal charts holistically, but when Venus falls into Gemini in a man's chart, he seeks an intelligent woman who can engage in witty repartee, who can hold her own in a debate (without getting too dramatic), and who can detach from emotions by not taking anything personally. Communication is key and a man with his Venus in Gemini isn't going to feel comfortable with a woman who sulks and refuses to communicate. Th

Can you Feel Them? (Getting Energetically Intimate with Planets)

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Wikepedia, Solar System Perhaps this is off the wall for some of you, but feeling the energies of the planets goes a long ways in reading transits in charts.  For instance, when a client sends me their data and I pull up his or her chart on my computer, I feel like I'm staring at a spider web strung with symbols.  In order to do a reading, I need to interpret those symbols into archetypes and then into scenarios.  I found that connecting with each of the planet's energy helps me with this process.  I have also spoken with one other astrologer who has taken this route. I am by nature a feeling-emotional person with Neptune in Scorpio near my MC, a Pisces Moon, Cancer Sun and Saturn also in Pisces, Mercury in Cancer.  I can think clearly with all of that and even to the point of over analyzing situations, but mainly I'm a feeler and this is my main function.  So when I started feeling the energies of each of the planets, I knew I was well on my way to relating to them d

Outer Planet Transits--Ignore at Your Own Peril

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Wikipedia I feel so fortunate to have been born in the mid-1960s with Pluto in Virgo, Neptune in Scorpio, Uranus in Virgo, Saturn and Chiron in Pisces because these days these planets are kicking my butt.  Okay, so I write with a bit of sarcasm, but for anyone born during the first week of a cardinal sign in the 1960s can relate to this huge wake up call Uranus, Pluto, Saturn and Neptune bring our way. For instance, I'm getting first hand information from the front line of this outer planets dance and my guess is that I can serve clients better having endured these transits first hand.  I sigh in sympathy with anyone born around the same time as me calling into Mark Husson's Power Peak show (Hay House Radio), especially if they just completed a Pluto or Uranus transit.  And if you haven't experienced the conjunction, square or opposition of Pluto or Uranus (I'm experiencing both to my Sun, Mercury and AC), all I can say is that we have no words to describe the exp