There's something to be said (or not to be said at all) about the galaxy out there.
Chris Roberts-Antieau is a badass. She originally worked in fashion and then segued into textile art. Not long ago she recovered from breast cancer and made it through listening to blues music. It inspired her to make an entire portrait gallery of blues musicians (Son House, Muddy, Willie Dixon etc.) and an incredible piece called "Blues saved my life."
My friend and I were blown away by her work when we stumbled upon her gallery in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Thus began weekly visits to narrow down our first purchase while we were working there. We were thrilled to meet her and tell her how happy her work makes us. A True Rags-to-Riches Story, Chris Roberts-Antieau Is One of the Foremost Self-Taught Artists in America Today
I couldn't leave without this...
"Feeling Sorry for Pluto."
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Stargazing is one of my favorite activities and basically non-existent since I live in Los Angeles. I love that there are apps for it (starwalk and pocket universe seem to be most popular- but you tell me). Anne Orteelee's website is "An interpretive article on the meanings of the Planets and their weekly aspects." Let me know what you think.
From anneoteelee ////
The eclipses are here! The eclipses are here! It is a rocking week! And it is a NEW YEAR, 2011~ a 4 year asking us to solidify all the changes of the past year, especially the past months, into a new stabilizing structure that supports us and our life‘s purpose. And brief hours after the eclipse, we have the third and final union of Jupiter and Uranus in late Pisces wrapping up the last 12 and 84 year cycles. The union also starts the next 12 and 84 years! A very momentous week awaits us! Think about all the new cycles starting up right before your very eyes! Or in the embryo stage of starting up!
Venus leaves Scorpio this week so we are about to wrap up our 100 days of over the top Scorpio passions that have been taking place since September too! And are you going to be sorry she’s leaving Scorpio when life goes back to plain old regular passions? I know I am! I’ve rather enjoyed getting clear on all sorts of stuff even if its been a bit rocky at times.
The New Moon Eclipse on January 4, follows three, count ’em three, releasing full moons in the last degrees of Aries, Taurus and Gemini in October, November and December. Our first quadrant of planets, signs and the emotional energies held in them have been lit up so we can see to help thoroughly clean them out. Think about what you’ve released in October, November and December ~ or perhaps gotten clear about even if you haven’t actually physically released anything. What have you learned about yourself/ your body/ your actions and your values/ self worth/ finances and your communications/ siblings/ thoughts about yourself, your early childhood and other people. There has been lots of clarity in that section of your chart!
Now, under the New Moon, we insert the reorganized, revised and revisited life vision and adjusted passion that Venus in Scorpio‘s long four month journey helped us get clear about. And we integrate into that vision and passion the understandings the last three Full Moons have brought to us. Notice what the stories around October 22, November 21 and December 21 clarified for you. Then take that clarity and apply it to the eclipse New Moon energy taking place this week.
This week’s eclipse, according to Bernadette Brady’s book “The Eagle and The Lark”, is from the Saros Series 13 North. The series started on August 14, 1776 at the North Pole, probably around the time King George received the Declaration of Independence from the rebellious colonies. We’ve all personally experienced the energy before in January 1992, 1974, and 1956. From her book, “This is an eclipse family of groups and associations. Its energy is about large ambitious group projects. These group projects will require a separation or the breaking of a bond that already exists. The individual may well experience this eclipse initially as a separation and then as joint achievement.” Because this is a relatively new eclipse series (only 234 years into the 1244 years of a series), it is centered over Europe, with maximum visibility running in an arc from London, through Paris, Geneva, Belgrade and back up into Siberia. Those are the locations that the eclipse will bring into focus in over the next few months.
Because the eclipse takes place with the North Node of Destiny and is energized by laying on the Mars/ Athena/ Pluto midpoint there is a calling to go DO something, rather than waiting for life to come and find you. Be wary of a scorched earth approach as the Mars/ Athena/ Pluto link can be rather war like. Use the higher forms of the energy applying a vision of laser like focused, pattern anticipating, transformative energy to the tasks before you. Give yourself permission to move toward whatever is calling your heart to full expression~ what expresses your passion for your life path? Do more of that energizing passion each and every day, changing the pattern to conform to the new vision. Eventually you will find your life migrates into the new formation this spring.
And, if you find yourself completely irritated or annoyed with someone under the New Moon’s energy, pull that irritation in and redirect it toward some thing you can change and do some thing about. You or they or both of you are growing up and changing. The old forms and relationships want to morph into something new. Let them change. Don’t blow up the bridge.
When I was young, one of my favorite friends of my parents, Mr. D, announced he was leaving the very secure job he had at a local bank as well as moving away from our cozy neighborhood to go handle “trading money” in Switzerland. In the 1960s, that was a “radical” move! All the adults were completely shocked! Mr. D. was an adult who talked to children like they were real people. I learned how to breed and raise gerbils from him, spending hours in his basement. I was very upset he was moving away. He puffed very thoughtfully on his pipe and paused for a long moment before answering my question of why he was leaving. “Anne, I’ve been at the Bank since I was a young man. I need to leave because they still see me as a young man. By leaving, I will get all sorts of new experiences. One day, all the new experiences will let me come back to be the President of the Bank.” And sure enough, Mr. D. did come back, in a few years, to become the President of the same Bank that he left.
You may find yourself in a similar situation. No need to burn bridges. But you do need to go. It is for the greater good of your path. It is for the vision you have of your life. No worries. Give yourself a hug if you face tears on someone’s face, take a puff on your pipe and gently explain the bigger picture you see so they can start to understand it. Detach gently and explain the bigger vision.
Eris, the Goddess of Discord, stations to move direct this week. Although we are still getting to know Eris, as she is one of the newer planets discovered out in the far reaches of our solar system, her stopping adds an element of strife, discord and endings to the eclipse and week’s energy. Her mythology from the internet “So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife alone, but all over the earth there are two. As for the one, a man would praise her when he came to understand her; but the other is blameworthy: and they are wholly different in nature.
For Strife fosters evil war and battle, being cruel: her no man loves; but perforce, through the will of the deathless gods, men pay harsh Strife her honor due.
But the other Strife is the elder daughter of dark Night, who puts roots into the earth: and she is far kinder to men. She stirs up even the shiftless to toil; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbor, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order; and neighbor vies with his neighbor as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men. And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman, and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel.
Try to use consciously the second kind of Strife ~ the inspired focus of Eris’ stationing energy to toil, plough, and work for your dream. Take the energy she stirs up and direct it consciously towards what you want to create.
Finally Jupiter and Uranus have their last of three unions on the same day as the eclipse New Moon. The union of two of the more exciting and fun planets in the heavens promises to bring us new insights. It also finishes the one-two-three transition these planets have been asking us to make around where we sacrifice or martyr ourselves. They joined on the world axis, at 0 Aries on June 8, 2010. At that time, we had a glimpse, a brief peek at where we were heading this coming spring 2011. We got all stirred Up! We were ready to go! Then, BOTH of them said, “Nope, not just yet! You have some left over work to do!” They reversed direction and left Aries for Pisces again. Both Jupiter and Uranus retrograded back into Pisces and immersed us in the ocean of sacrifice, connections, past lives, sorrow, boundariless edges and feelings of Pisces. Jupiter in Pisces can take care of situations and people way past the past due date…. Nursing, holding and suffering. Uranus in Pisces is the tsunami of emotions that can arise when we are asked to let go of something we think we need to take care of or else we will be a very bad person. Jupiter and Uranus met for the second time, retrograde in Pisces on September 18, 2010 just as Venus DOVE into Scorpio and after Mercury went direct in Virgo. We swam through Venus in Scorpio while Jupiter and Uranus were both in the sign of undoing and self sabotage. We SAW, we truly SAW and FELT ~ deeply FELT ~ the energy as well as the reasons for our choices in the past. We got clear that we didn’t have to make the same choices going forward. And so, here we are at the final conjunction ~ with both Jupiter and Uranus moving forward ~ on the same day we start a new profound cycle. We also used Jupiter and Uranus all fall as they aspected each of the clarifying Full Moons of releasing to release hard (October), easy (November) and fast (December) with no regrets. So here you stand, all freshly clear and ready to go. Perhaps with a few words of discord or thoughts of strife as Eris stations this week but still ready. And when Jupiter and Uranus zip back into Aries this month and in March, expect the promise of last June and July to be filled.
"alright. let's do this." - danny giles
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