Aug 2013
Cyrus the Great
27/Aug/13 09:19
When I returned from Uruguay yesterday, I discovered that Miley Cyrus, of all people, was all over the news. Really, all over it.
It turns out that Ms. Cyrus gave a provocative performance on the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, during which she wore devil horns, demonstrated the truly impressive size of her tongue, gyrated suggestively, sorta-kinda pretended the microphone was her penis, and twerked with Juicy J (hey, I learned a new word!). As we would expect, reaction ran between incensed ("My kids were watching that!") and sadness ("She's got problems and someone should have stopped her").
It doesn't take much to impress a country that freaked out for a week over the micro-second view of Janet Jackson's nipple, and Cyrus surely shocked people. No wonder, with Venus - goddess of love and a general symbol of the feminine - opposite independent and shocking Uranus. Venus is in conservative Libra, where more traditional approaches to aesthetics prevail, while Uranus is in individualistic Aries. Reaction to the performance clearly shows the conservative side of the equation.
But Miley Cyrus sided with Uranus in Aries. We shouldn't be surprised - her name, Cyrus, is also the name of the ancient Persian king, who was known as Cyrus the Great. Cyrus ruled around 600 B.C.E., at the very end of the Age of Aries, where kings were kings and the very embodiment of ego. These heroic egos were determined to make their mark on the world, as Miley also was, in her own way.
Cyrus the great was known for his progressive values and something like tolerance of other peoples. He had a strong influence on the Greeks and Jews. He was thus a kind of transitional figure, moving between the Age of Heroes (with their Terrible Twos attitudes) and The Age of Law.
Our Cyrus won't leave such a legacy. It was just a one-day thing, and it will be gone in a week. Yet she pushed the limits (however close-in they are) of sexuality, if just a bit. Her performance was no coy "come and get me" passive sexuality, as it would have been 50 or 60 years ago. It showed her as overtly horny (Aries) and empowered. No wonder people are saying that she was desperate for attention - we tend to try to "protect" women who are openly sexual.
The moon was in sensual Taurus at the time of the performance, opposite Saturn, who was sitting in judgement of sexuality in Scorpio. It's a minor moment in an ongoing process of the power shift towards the feminine, but the symbolism should get out attention.
It turns out that Ms. Cyrus gave a provocative performance on the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, during which she wore devil horns, demonstrated the truly impressive size of her tongue, gyrated suggestively, sorta-kinda pretended the microphone was her penis, and twerked with Juicy J (hey, I learned a new word!). As we would expect, reaction ran between incensed ("My kids were watching that!") and sadness ("She's got problems and someone should have stopped her").
It doesn't take much to impress a country that freaked out for a week over the micro-second view of Janet Jackson's nipple, and Cyrus surely shocked people. No wonder, with Venus - goddess of love and a general symbol of the feminine - opposite independent and shocking Uranus. Venus is in conservative Libra, where more traditional approaches to aesthetics prevail, while Uranus is in individualistic Aries. Reaction to the performance clearly shows the conservative side of the equation.
But Miley Cyrus sided with Uranus in Aries. We shouldn't be surprised - her name, Cyrus, is also the name of the ancient Persian king, who was known as Cyrus the Great. Cyrus ruled around 600 B.C.E., at the very end of the Age of Aries, where kings were kings and the very embodiment of ego. These heroic egos were determined to make their mark on the world, as Miley also was, in her own way.
Cyrus the great was known for his progressive values and something like tolerance of other peoples. He had a strong influence on the Greeks and Jews. He was thus a kind of transitional figure, moving between the Age of Heroes (with their Terrible Twos attitudes) and The Age of Law.
Our Cyrus won't leave such a legacy. It was just a one-day thing, and it will be gone in a week. Yet she pushed the limits (however close-in they are) of sexuality, if just a bit. Her performance was no coy "come and get me" passive sexuality, as it would have been 50 or 60 years ago. It showed her as overtly horny (Aries) and empowered. No wonder people are saying that she was desperate for attention - we tend to try to "protect" women who are openly sexual.
The moon was in sensual Taurus at the time of the performance, opposite Saturn, who was sitting in judgement of sexuality in Scorpio. It's a minor moment in an ongoing process of the power shift towards the feminine, but the symbolism should get out attention.
Someone call an astrologer!
13/Aug/13 09:06
In a week, Jupiter will be squaring Uranus.
Aspects between these two planets are typically associated with technological innovation. For example, their conjunction in 1969 coincided with the first moon landing very closely, and also with the introduction of the 747 jumbo jet (an oft-overlooked major event in connecting our world).
With that in mind, it is not surprising that we have some news of new technology. Yesterday, August 12th, entrepreneur and innovator Elon Musk introduced plans for a new form of transportation, a kind of pneumatic tube that could whisk passengers between cities at about 800 miles per hour. That's San Francisco to LA in about 45 minutes (but you probably still have to get to the station 2 hours before departure).
Anyway, while the overall timing vis-a-vis Jupiter and Uranus is spot on, Musk announced his plans with the moon void of course. Already, we can see that major hurdles are in the way. Summing up an exciting new idea in a jiffy, USA Today titled it's story, "Why Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" Transport Won't Work." Bloomberg was more measured in its approach, and in fact the experts they consulted suggested the plan might just work after all. Musk is apparently ready to pony up $6 billion to build a prototype.
There are many moments in any project. There is the decision to start work, there is the run of the first test model, and most importantly there is the opening for the public. But the announcement is a key step in the process, and doing so with the moon void is far from ideal. It won't jam up the project itself, but the attention the hyperloop gets is likely to be less than stunning.
It's the sort of thing an astrologer could help with...
Aspects between these two planets are typically associated with technological innovation. For example, their conjunction in 1969 coincided with the first moon landing very closely, and also with the introduction of the 747 jumbo jet (an oft-overlooked major event in connecting our world).
With that in mind, it is not surprising that we have some news of new technology. Yesterday, August 12th, entrepreneur and innovator Elon Musk introduced plans for a new form of transportation, a kind of pneumatic tube that could whisk passengers between cities at about 800 miles per hour. That's San Francisco to LA in about 45 minutes (but you probably still have to get to the station 2 hours before departure).
Anyway, while the overall timing vis-a-vis Jupiter and Uranus is spot on, Musk announced his plans with the moon void of course. Already, we can see that major hurdles are in the way. Summing up an exciting new idea in a jiffy, USA Today titled it's story, "Why Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" Transport Won't Work." Bloomberg was more measured in its approach, and in fact the experts they consulted suggested the plan might just work after all. Musk is apparently ready to pony up $6 billion to build a prototype.
There are many moments in any project. There is the decision to start work, there is the run of the first test model, and most importantly there is the opening for the public. But the announcement is a key step in the process, and doing so with the moon void is far from ideal. It won't jam up the project itself, but the attention the hyperloop gets is likely to be less than stunning.
It's the sort of thing an astrologer could help with...
Take a Leak...
03/Aug/13 13:06
Follow this story...
The Uranus-Pluto square is active from at least 2012 through 2015, although most astrologers give a year or two on either side. So, no one story is going to sum up the entire process. But this one is worth following, as the timing is playing out so precisely.
We first heard Edward Snowden’s name in the last week of May 2013, coinciding very exactly with the third in a series of seven exact aspects between the two outer planets over the course of three years.
The NSA’s spying on Americans is just one aspect of government control that is intensify during the square. The final outcome is unknown and unknowable at this point (because we are creating it), but the immediate effect is a strong polarization in the United States. Many people feel Snowden is a hero, many feel he is a traitor.
This past week, Mars, planet of war, got into the act, aspecting Pluto on July 27th and Uranus on July 31st. As the first aspect was building, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved continued funding for the NSA program. At the same time, Republican presidential potential-hopefuls Chris Christie and Rand Paul got into a sparring contest about the value of the program. Clearly, this is a polarizing issue.
Mars in Cancer is protective, and tends towards the clannish. Jupiter is also in Cancer and can also be rather clannish (Christie, a big man, could well be the national symbol for Jupiter in Cancer... Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and symbolically indicates expansion). The aspect to Pluto touched off the ideological debate around the power of the government.
Uranus in Aries is the rebel, whether an individual or a group (think Occupy and Tea Party). When Mars aspected Uranus on July 31st, Snowden (the rebel) was granted a year’s asylum in Russia, bringing U.S.-Russian relations to a Cold War-level chill.
At the same time, Bradley Manning, who gave documents to Wikileaks was found guilty on a slew of charges. Chalk one up for the Cancerian side of things. With so many planets in Cancer (and Pluto in Capricorn) aspecting stern Saturn in security-conscious Scorpio, we can’t expect the rebels to win them all... or even very many.
We can see Neptune's Piscean fingerprints (or maybe we can't...) on these issues in the extremes of polarization, as well as the deception, the leaking of information, and the covert nature of the spying.
Throw into the mix the U.S. decision to close Mid East embassies and consulates for an indefinite time this week (an action followed by Great Britain and France), pushing the security concerns to a higher level, and we can see further fuel for polarization.
Not to be U.S.-centric, but we can also read Mars-Uranus-Pluto into the Alex Rodriguez story, and the outbreak of a stomach virus tied to fast food restaurants (Mars in Cancer would be a good image for a food-borne bug, and the Warrior planet was aspecting the U.S. sun this week).
The Uranus-Pluto square is active from at least 2012 through 2015, although most astrologers give a year or two on either side. So, no one story is going to sum up the entire process. But this one is worth following, as the timing is playing out so precisely.
We first heard Edward Snowden’s name in the last week of May 2013, coinciding very exactly with the third in a series of seven exact aspects between the two outer planets over the course of three years.
The NSA’s spying on Americans is just one aspect of government control that is intensify during the square. The final outcome is unknown and unknowable at this point (because we are creating it), but the immediate effect is a strong polarization in the United States. Many people feel Snowden is a hero, many feel he is a traitor.
This past week, Mars, planet of war, got into the act, aspecting Pluto on July 27th and Uranus on July 31st. As the first aspect was building, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved continued funding for the NSA program. At the same time, Republican presidential potential-hopefuls Chris Christie and Rand Paul got into a sparring contest about the value of the program. Clearly, this is a polarizing issue.
Mars in Cancer is protective, and tends towards the clannish. Jupiter is also in Cancer and can also be rather clannish (Christie, a big man, could well be the national symbol for Jupiter in Cancer... Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and symbolically indicates expansion). The aspect to Pluto touched off the ideological debate around the power of the government.
Uranus in Aries is the rebel, whether an individual or a group (think Occupy and Tea Party). When Mars aspected Uranus on July 31st, Snowden (the rebel) was granted a year’s asylum in Russia, bringing U.S.-Russian relations to a Cold War-level chill.
At the same time, Bradley Manning, who gave documents to Wikileaks was found guilty on a slew of charges. Chalk one up for the Cancerian side of things. With so many planets in Cancer (and Pluto in Capricorn) aspecting stern Saturn in security-conscious Scorpio, we can’t expect the rebels to win them all... or even very many.
We can see Neptune's Piscean fingerprints (or maybe we can't...) on these issues in the extremes of polarization, as well as the deception, the leaking of information, and the covert nature of the spying.
Throw into the mix the U.S. decision to close Mid East embassies and consulates for an indefinite time this week (an action followed by Great Britain and France), pushing the security concerns to a higher level, and we can see further fuel for polarization.
Not to be U.S.-centric, but we can also read Mars-Uranus-Pluto into the Alex Rodriguez story, and the outbreak of a stomach virus tied to fast food restaurants (Mars in Cancer would be a good image for a food-borne bug, and the Warrior planet was aspecting the U.S. sun this week).