Super rare Jupiter-Neptune PISCES April 12 IMAGINE is real

THE ONCE IN A LIFETIME transit of JUPITER NEPTUNE PISCES CONJUNCTION

is APRIL 12, 2022, at 7:42 am PDT/ 10:42 am EDT/2:42 am GMT at 23 degrees 58 minutes.

It remains within orb (8º either side) from the New Moon in Pisces March 2nd through the Sun-Neptune conjunction on March 13th, until the end of May encompassing the Jupiter’s entry into Aries May 10th.

John Lennon’s song IMAGINE is the very embodiment of what we can do collectively now to manifest that dream of imagining all the people living life in peace. That is what PISCES is all about. Jupiter magnifies and brings great benefits to all intentions. Pisces rules dreams, imagination, Oneness, compassion, heaven, karma, and creativity.

This is the dawn of an entirely new spiritual movement as was begun during the last conjunction in 1856. Many new spiritual movements, virtual and magical arts, and creativity movements begin. New imagination,dreams, concepts of the afterlife, our inherent multidimensional selves, endings of spiritual ideas, romances, idealization, projections, fake news, karma is also part of the cycle. Pisces rules viruses, debt, oil inflation, all drugs, jails, mental illness, death, hidden enemies, soul mates, fake gurus, and all the arts.

At 23+ PISCES If you have any planets or angles etc in your chart from 18- 25 degrees PISCES you will feel the impact strongest. Also All mutable signs, GEMINI, VIRGO, SAGITTARIUS to with any planets at those degrees are strongly impacted. But we will all feel it.

If you are feeling exhausted, befogged, bewildered, spaced out, super psychic, overly emotional, have no boundaries, very creative, super romantic, immune system a bit weak, you’re a big psychic sponge, overwhelmed by the state of the world, hiding out, in denial, addicted, in debt, projecting, soul mate searching, bloated and your feet ache these are all PIsces related issues.

AT 23°29 Pisces conjunct the FIXED STAR *Markab: Violence, honours and riches, “Star of Sorrow”, literary, legal problems, accidents. The ancients considered it Unfortunate; Mars/ Mercury/ Venus

William Blake, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Blake, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The last time these two planets met was March 17, 1856, at 18+ PISCES

 What happened in 1856?

Russia was in the news as it signs the Treaty of Paris, ending the Crimean War

Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts

Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia

The Second Opium War or second Anglo-Chinese War: begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River

Nicola Tesla was in his mother’s womb.

Sigmund Freud the modern discoverer of Psychoanalysis and Dreams was born

A New spiritualist movement began in the U.S. Seances, and hypnosis/mesmerism was hugely popular. Madame Blavatsky founded THEOSOPHY.

The SABIAN symbol of JUPITER-NEPTUNE

19 PISCES: A MASTER INSTRUCTING HIS DISCIPLE. Phase 340

KEYNOTE: The transfer of power and knowledge which keeps the original spiritual and creative Impulse of the cycle active and undeviated.

The Hindu ideal of the sacred relationship between guru and chela (disciple) has of late become familiar to a vast number of young and not-so-young people. The doctrine of “the Apostolic succession” in the Roman Catholic Church has a similar significance. The Power and archetypal knowledge released “in the beginning” of any cycle (or at “Creation”) must be perpetuated until the very Last Day — the Omega state of which Teilhard de Chardin glowingly speaks. This Power is the “self” of the cyclic manifestation, the unchanging Tone (AUM) of all existences within this cycle. It can be transmitted from master to disciple at the latter’s “Initiation.” It must be so transmitted for when the line of transmission (in Sanskrit, guruampara) is discontinued, the cyclic process begins to collapse in futility and spiritual darkness.

This fourth stage symbol gives us a clue to the supreme technique necessary for the continuation of all manifestations of power and spiritual understanding. The transmission is from person to person; it follows a general, unchanging pattern, yet it operates in terms of particular and individual circumstances. Keyword: INVESTITURE.

NOTE the SUN at 27/28 PISCES- A fertile garden under the Full Moon. Note that on April 30 Venus conjunction JUPITER at the same degree 27+ PISCES on a TAURUS solar eclipse ruled by VENUS> 

MERCURY was at the last 29/30 degree of AQUARIUS

VENUS at 24/25 AQUARIUS where Saturn is on the 2022 conjunction.

MARS at 18/19 LIBRA debilitated and inconjunct Jupiter Neptune

SATURN was at 23/24 GEMINI squaring JUPITER and NEPTUNE and close to the North Star and opposite

The Galactic Center at 28 Sagittarius

Note that April 30 Venus conjunction JUPITER at the same degree 27+ PISCES

URANUS at 17/18 TAURUS was sextile JUPITER NEPTUNE supporting radical change

PLUTO was at 3-4 degrees TAURUS the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

CHIRON 3-4 degrees AQUARIUS – A HINDU healer.

LILITH was at 23/23 VIRGO opposing Jupiter/Neptune

NORTH NODE 16/26 ARIES “Lost opportunity regained in the imagination.” This is a super important

Degree as Neptune rules the imagination.

PART OF FORTUNE 2/3 degrees LIBRA Dawn of a new day, everything changed.

April 12, 2022, conjunction is at 23+ degrees PISCES

The CHANDRA SYMBOL by John Sandbach

Pisces 24. An empty perfume bottle, the scent completely gone. (Omega Symbol) Interactive/Responsible

(Degree Angel: Manakel (MA-na-KEL) Accountability, Knowledge of Good and Evil)

This degree has an awareness of all the stories that have ever been told, and all the feelings that have ever been felt. It knows that there is ultimately nothing new. Cravings and desires are the materials from which the self creates dramas, and once all the dramas have been exhausted one is free to play the blissful game of consciousness without the burden of attachment.

The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “A spring festival. The participants are in a state of ecstatic frenzy.” When we align with the energy of any particular time or aspect of a cycle, we take on its power. This degree is about being in tune with what is happening and going along with it in a wholehearted, exuberant way. When we give in to the urge to celebrate life we renew ourselves and realign with cosmic order.

It is interesting that the Omega Symbol for this degree alludes strongly to the past, whereas the Chandra Symbol presents a joyous present that looks on the future with hope. Be it past, present, or future, this degree is about savoring the moment, be that moment laden with memories, hopes, or simply embracing an immediate joy.

Pleiadian Symbol: Searching for a lost friend a man lands on a remote island.

Azoth Symbol: A man visits his own history in the Akashic Records.

Seed degree: Capricorn 18. A forgotten painting stored in a vault. (Omega Symbol). Pictures of the past, lost to memory leave residues in the imagination.

A black leopard with green eyes. (Chandra Symbol). Fierce and wild desires burst forth, activated by the light of a new cycle.

Fulfillment degree: Virgo 30. A man catching a ripe fruit as it falls off a tree. (Omega Symbol). The vagueness of the past becomes focused in the fulness and completeness of the moment.

Supersensible beings appearing as geometric forms. (Chandra Symbol). Abundant joy transmutes into a connection with the patterns of nature and with the consciousness working through them.

THE SABIAN Symbol for the 24th degree of Pisces

PISCES 24° ON A SMALL ISLAND SURROUNDED BY THE VAST EXPANSE OF THE SEA, PEOPLE ARE SEEN LIVING IN CLOSE INTERACTION. PHASE 354

KEYNOTE: The need to consciously accept one’s own personal limitations in order to concentrate one’s energies and to live a centered and fulfilled life.

Every individualized person is a small island in the vast ocean of mankind. The ego fulfills a necessary function, as it sets boundaries and gives a specific character to the consciousness. Within these boundaries a complex interplay linking and integrating the various aspects of the personal life can operate constructively. In time, these ego-boundaries can not only expand, but can become a zone of intense interchange between the inner and the outer, between the individual and the community, between man and the universe.

This fourth stage symbol tells us that the first duty of any man or woman is to be truly what he or she is as an individual. But this individual has a particular dharma, i.e., a place and function in a vaster whole. The island’s inhabitants get subsistence from the sea, and in time learn to navigate this sea and interact with other islanders — and all eventually will come to realize their oneness within the whole Earth, which includes everything. An appropriate Keyword would be CENTRALIZATION.

 In The Astrology of Personality, Dane Rudhyar  says

Centralization of supernal forces,” “adaptability and inherent creativeness of man,” and “Extreme of surety in self-expression.”

KEYNOTE.  “The need to consciously accept one’s own personal limitations in order to concentrate one’s energies and to live a centered and fulfilled life.

 This symbol is one of expanding ego-boundaries, so they become “a zone of intense interchange between the inner and the outer, between the individual and the community, between man and the universe.”  He speaks of the need to fulfill Dharma, or the “place and function in a vaster whole.”  

 This degree is “achievement through a creative opportunism or inventiveness of exceptional order.”

WISHING YOU A NEW SPIRITUAL BEGINNING THAT WE ALL CO-CREATE

JOHN LENNON’S SONG IMAGINE, IS THE PISCES SONG OF A JUPITER NEPTUNE CONJUNCTION. His son Julian Lennon just re-recorded it in perfect synchronicity to raise money for Ukraine.

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Bloody Monday, Sun opposite Pluto, Frida Kahlo

Monday bloody Monday. The Moon is in soft pastels, watery lagoons of creative, romantic, dream time  as the Pisces Moon trines Sun in Cancer, and tickles Pluto in a sweet sextile

I’m flowing along with the tide wherever my imagination takes me. I never knwo what I am going to write most days. I can’t stop  writing. Neptune is at the mid-point of my Sagittarius Sun and Moon. Do I write too much?    then…

WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA’AM the SUN and PLUTO face off in the morning  

The big corporate Plutocrats  are facing off with the Cancerian country,home, feeling-led Greeks.

reigniting the Cardinal Cross energy from 2014- 2015 at 14+ degrees Cancer this of course is a near hit to the U.S. Sun. You may feel a lurch in your stomach. 

After holidays may be a rude beginning in the world markets today what with Greece’s NO vote. 

Neptune, the oceanic ruler of Pisces is also in an easy sextile to Pluto and in a Grand Trine to the Cancerian and U.S, SUN.

Neptune rules DEBT, illusion, things that aren’t real, fantasy, escapism, spirituality, the SOURCE. 

Moon later conjuncts Chiron in Pisces because yes it will hurt. 

Moon ends the day in an awkward quincunx to Jupiter in Leo in PDT and next morning in EDT. 

there will be much ballyhoo and belly aching and big egos and heads rolling.

What to do: Ignore the fracas and ruckus and tune into your own Higher self, a good day to meditate and dream. Every Pisces Moon is a chance to step away from reality and the 3-D demands of work, and living in the material world, especially as the world will be fussing about the material things or lack of them. You stay centered and calm with the world raging around you. Be the symbol of the Chariot in the Tarot. Be creative as well, dance, paint, sing, chant Holy mantras. 

Happy Birthday to His Holiness the Dalai Lama turning 80 today born in Tibet, may he live long.  China overtook Tibet in the 1950’s and continues to smother and desecrate this sacred land and culture. 

Happy Birthday to one of my art heroine’s Frida Kahlo born July 6 1907 

The Love Embrace of the Universe 1949

Frida Kahlo the extraordinary artist had an extraordinary astrology chart too. 

Frida kahlo astrology Tara Greene

with her Sun conjunct Fixed Star Sirius and Neptune {and the U.S. Sun} at 13 degrees Cancer,  the planet of artists, spirituality, and addictions close by, it was natural that she would rise to fame.  Frida had her Moon at 29 degrees Taurus conjunct to ALGOL the Star considered to have the worst reputation and to bring evil. This is also conjunct to the Pleiades, the famed 7 weeping Sisters. With a  Pluto Venus conjunction in Gemini, Frida was a creature of opposites, dual-natured, bi-sexual,oozing charm, attracting wealth, beauty, strength, and she was an amazing communicator. Jupiter and the North Node conjunct in Cancer -she was  a huge soul, the Madre of the earth, who knew what her mission was. With an unusual Retrograde Mars and Uranus conjunct in Capricorn in the 5th house, Frida had enormous discipline, a hard work ethic, she was a fiercely independent woman who came to finish off her karma with men in her life and to change the traditional path for women. The 5th house is traditional the house of children, love affairs, and creative self-expression. She did that in spades, her bus accident- Mars/Uranus left her in pain her entire life with over 30 spinal operations and the inability to have children. Her artworks were her children and she treated her twice married husband Diego Rivera as her baby as shown in the painting. With Mercury in Leo  Frida was a charismatic, beautiful and powerful woman  and was a natural leader, strong-willed, big-hearted, dramatic, ruling like a Queen from her imagination {in the 12th house}. Saturn in Pisces made her a martyr, very creative, a loner, with great spiritual and imaginative depth.  Frida was a Goddess. Her career has eclipsed that of her husband. She is an inspiration to all who see her works. I swear I wrote an article where I deciphered Frida and Diego’s charts and I can’t find it anywhere, Weird. 

inspirational Card of the day 

“The Devil” in the Tarot Garden of Niki de Saint Phalle, Capalbio, Italy 1990’s

“Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.” Is this what Greece is doing? 

The Devil is about buying into the lie of the physical material world Greed, Temptation, Bondage. 

about Frida  http://www.biography.com/news/frida-kahlo-exhibit-new-york-botanical-garden

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Out of Bounds planets, hipster Astrology knowledge.

What are OUT OF BOUNDS PLANETS ?

As it sounds, if you were born with the Moon or other planets out-of-bounds; meaning they are 23 degrees 28 minutes North or South of the celestial equator,the Earths equator extended into space, then you are a loose cannon, unbounded, a free spirit, definitely different from most people, a genius or an outlaw. Astrologers have been researching this information and using it to help define personality characteristics more recently.  The Sun can never be out-of-bounds, explained below.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS WITH O.O.B. PLANETS

The pilot ANDREAS LUBITZ who apparently  crashed GERMANWINGS FLIGHT 9525

Has a number of OOB planets; his MERCURY -planet of communications -independent thinker, and his URANUS- individualistic, rebel, independent, chaotic, freedom. His SUN is very close the  most Southerly declination at 23 degrees 22 minutes 55 seconds. A mere 6 minutes away from the boundary-walks the line.  I’ll wrote a bit about that later.

O.O B. explained 

The Sun travels annually over a wide band of the celestial equator which ranges from  23 degrees 28 minutes north to 23 degrees 28 minutes south.  This is called declination which is a form of latitude rather than longitude. The Sun touches the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn- the Solstice points and the Sun crosses the celestial equator twice a year at the Equinox points. This is what creates the seasons. The Sun can never go past these degrees unless there was a pole shift, but the Moon and some of the planets can travel out of boundaries, hence the term. 

The Moon will go O.O.B. most frequently and reaches a maximum of nearly 29 degrees when the North Node is at 0 degrees Aries every 18.6 years related to eclipse cycles of course.  

The MOON has peak years when it is out-of-bounds in the past. 1913, 1931-32, 1950, 1969, 1987-88, 2006 and upcoming in 2024-25. A lot of social upheavals happened during these years. 

Saturn and Neptune never travel out-of-bounds and Jupiter only occasionally by a tiny amount.  

Generally speaking, and this applies to all planets, those in northern declinations are more outwards bound in effect while southern declinations are inwards and have a more personal effect. Two planets situated at the same degree of declination, both in the north or both in the south, are said to be in parallel, a parallel having a force like a conjunction. These two planets may be in different zodiac signs though.

I have just discovered that my Natal MOON, Mercury and Uranus are OUT OF BOUNDS which instantly clicked for me a whole bunch of information about the why and how I function. I think it is vitally important. 

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR O.O.B planets are? 

You can look this up using an astrology program such as Astro.com after you put up a chart- all this is free- where it says additional tables click that and the declinations for all the planets and asteroids or whatever you input are clearly shown.

MOON OOB peeps

Moon OOB peeps are likely to have very accurate intuitions, a deep-seated need for freedom, a strong level of self-understanding. It is easy for them to freely express their own individual feelings, they see and sense things deeply as if they had x-ray vision.

MERCURY OOB

Born with Mercury OOB you will never stop talking. They do have very important ideas and things to say. Its seems double Uranian like to me. Thinking and communicating out of the box.

VENUS OOB

Born with VENUS OOB makes one an over the rainbow romantic- Judy Garland had it. Clang Clang Clang went the trolley.

This placement delivers a very originally creative artistic person, a genius. This aspect can also bring very strong likes and dislikes. Homosexuality can also be linked. Many people with OOB Venus’s have multiple marriages. Or they can be intentionally single. Huge age gaps between lovers is another signpost. 

OOB VENUS women artists. BJORK! Nico of Velvet Underground, sexy singer Josephine Baker, diva Maria Callas, Helen Reddy- I Am WOMAN singer.

Also composer Erik Satie, artist Robert Mapplethorpe, songwriter Noel Coward, Liberace, Jean Genet and poet Ezra Pound.

MARS OOB

This indicates deviants, criminals, outlaws, reckless, danger seekers, rebels.

OOB PLANET WATCH!

The next planet to travel O.O.B. is VENUS. Everything that is Venus related- RELATIONSHIPS, MONEY, Balance, art will go wonky and unpredictable.

VENUS will begin travelling O.O.B on April 18th at 8:53:04 am (EDT) to June 1st at 6:30:59 pm

MERCURY will be O.O.B. from May 3rd at 8:16:30 pm (EDT) to May 19th at 12:45:25 am

Mercury will also be O.O.B.  from November 27th at 8:59:09 pm (EST) to December 24th at 11:14:55 pm (EST)

MARS will be O.O.B.  June 6th at 7:35:14 pm (EDT) to July 16th at 10:10:46 pm- circle with RED.

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MOON is still in Cancer its home today. Moon squares Sun, trines Neptune-very idealistic, opposes Pluto, squares Uranus. 

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FLY ME TO THE MOON- Julie London 

Water and fire, Pisces time, inspirational Card

Sun and Moon are in PISCES now. It’s the year of the Wood Sheep. GUNG HAI FAT CHOY!

I am not a Chinese Astrology expert so will leave that to those who are.

With Pisces energy we know and remember that we came from Source

and that we are in essence all ONE.

Under Pisces beams we draw close to spirits, we are tuned into highly psychic realms,

we know we are the dreamers of this dreamwe are soul dreamers,

we are ultra-sensitive psychic sponges to everyone’s emotional states.
Boundaries are necessary to stay protected yet open.

We dive deep into the Unconscious world of our imaginations and creativity.
We connect in our meditations more easily.
We feel our own oceanic depths where all life formed on this beautiful earth.

Pisces loves movies, film, photography. The ACADEMY AWARDS are always on during PISCES time. I’ll post my predictions shortly.

Pisces projects, fantasies, illusions, wears rose colored glasses. Be careful of the too good to be true deal.

Feb 19 It’s a very active lunar day.
The Dark Moon is about to square Saturn, there will be serious dreaming tonight.

Moon will conjunct NEPTUNE

– lucid dreaming high alert.

Moon make sextiles to Pluto

– easy to feel deeply connected and ensouled

MARS enters ARIES -NEW CYCLE in ACTION, men, war…

which I wrote about previously

WAR ZONE ALERT! Fiery intrusion amidst all the water for today.

and a Moon/Quincunx to Jupiter in LEO can be tricky,

you may be impounded by someone else’s  big ego drama,

and lastly Lunar  conjunction to Chiron.

All the wounds will be healed by connecting with Source energy, with the Light in the darkness.

INSPIRATIONAL CARD OF THE DAY  

THE LOVERS Trump #6 

Osho Zen Tarot Tara Greene

The cards are always in synch. The lovers = MASCULINE & FEMININE together.

The combination of the planets mirror this.

THE LOVERS is all about relationships yes. But it is also about loving  yourself totally without ego. 

It is about  going beyond duality. Seeing the beloved everywhere, in everything.

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.”- RUMI

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Going with the Mars in Aries and the Pisces watery energy. Venus will enter Aries and this song popped into my head. It perfectly speaks to this energy.

RIPTIDE- by Robert Palmer  

Pee Wee’s Playhouse is back. I know you are…

http://nyti.ms/1DdYfC7 from the New York Times by J. Hoberman Oct 15 2014 DVD 

Pee Wee’s Playhouse for the uninitiated after a ten-year wait is now available on BLU RAY from SHOUT! Factory

PEE WEE was and always will be a mind-blowing fun romp of an ambiguous anarchic totally artsy children’s Saturday morning show that was wholly original. Something visually creative is juxtaposed with something else and everything is moving. It perfectly captures that age’s art movement in the late 80’s. If you want to be a big kid and HEH HEH like Pee- Wee you’ve gotta steep yourself in the Playhouse.

Some famous Pee Wee-isms- “I know you are but what am i?”

 
Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) and Miss Yvonne (Lynne Marie Stewart) on “Playhouse.” CreditShout! Factory

Some performers invent personas so boldly stylized that they refuse to break character, at least in public. Mae West was one. As were Harpo Marx and W. C. Fields. Stephen Colbert broke character only recently; but Pee-wee Herman -PAUL REUBENS  held on for years.

Like Mr. Colbert, Mr. Reubens used a regular television show as a vehicle for his invented personality: a manic, nerdy man-child in a too-small gray suit, red bow tie and lipstick. “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” (broadcast for five seasons, starting in fall 1986, in the Saturday-morning cartoon ghetto) was a fully realized private universe. It was also, as demonstrated by the complete 45-episode series and one Christmas special out on Blu-ray from Shout! Factory, a series of strongly conceptualized pieces. As packed as each episode is with outlandish props, linguistic pranks — many based on each week’s meant-to-be-screamed “secret word” — and running gags, PLAYHOUSE  is far too rich to binge-watch.

One of many Pee-weevian paradoxes was the instant popularity of Mr. Reubens’s hermetic spectacle, which made its debut, on CBS, the same month that Blue Velvet  David Lynch’s darker but not dissimilar exercise in personal fetishes and weird Americana, opened in movie theaters to an equally passionate response. “Playhouse,” which originally cost a sizable $325,000 per episode and was shot at first in a cramped SoHo loft, took viewers to a candy-colored world of sexual ambiguity and a realm of total anthropomorphism.

Photo

 
Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne),MORPHEUS  left, and Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” CreditShout! Factory

Every object was potentially alive: the window, the chair, the floor. The creatures who called the Playhouse home included miniature dinosaurs, sentient machines and a refrigerator of foodstuffs that enjoyed an ongoing fiesta. The mise-en-scène was wildly cluttered, and the show offered a veritable taxonomy of animation styles, combining puppetry, clay animation and video effects, while excerpting Depression-era cartoons on the living TV monitor, Magic Screen.

As Pee- Wee was an adult who acted like a child, so the “Playhouse” aesthetic blended high and low tech, the avant-garde and the vulgar. Art world precursors and analogues include Betty Boop, Red Grooms, the underground animator Sally Cruikshank, the midnight movie Forbidden Zone, East Village performance art, neo-Pop painters like Kenny Scharf, and Raw magazine (an early publisher of the cartoonist GARY PANTER, who was one of the show’s three original production designers).

The Playhouse was further distinguished by its racial diversity and frisky gender bending. Jambi the blue-faced genie (John Paragon) and the elaborately be-wigged Miss Yvonne (Lynne Marie Stewart), “the most beautiful woman in Puppet Land,” each in their way evoked drag performers. Dixie the cabdriver (Johann Carlo) and Reba the mail lady (a pre-law & Order S. Epatha Merkerson) were notably assertive women, while Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne) and the various hunky beach boys who drifted in and out of the Playhouse were bashful and flirtatious.

Not surprisingly, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” quickly attracted the attention of academics interested in what was not yet known as “queer theory” or “gender studies.”

“Perhaps what is most unsettling about Pee-wee is the way he straddles the line between sexual knowledge and ignorance, as if he were somehow pre- and post-pubescent at the same time,” Ian Balfour wrote in one of three scholarly articles on “Playhouse” published in the special “Male Trouble” May 1988 issue of Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory. Perhaps it was this ambiguity that caused a career-stifling public outcry during the summer of 1991 when, with the show in permanent reruns, Mr. Reubens was busted for indecent exposure in an X-rated movie theater. Pee-wee was post-pubescent after all!

Evidently, Mr. Reubens grew tired of “Playhouse,” and the Shout! box is unavoidably front-loaded. Mr. Panter moved on after the first season; the original King of Cartoons and his herald, Dixie, soon departed as well. Many of the most memorable bits of business occurred in the show’s second season, including Pee-wee’s giant underpants, the pajama party during which he marries a bowl of fruit salad and the appearance of the friendless alien Zyzzybalubah.

The cast thinned a bit during the final three seasons. Jambi and the King of Cartoons receded while the more conventional performers Miss Yvonne and Cowboy Curtis became increasingly central. (Truly, having played a teenage Army grunt, a villainous Ike Turner and the guru Morpheus, as well as this Jheri-curled buckaroo, Mr. Fishburne is among the most versatile actors of his generation.) Still, the show remained remarkably consistent.

First telecast on Nov. 3, 1990, “Camping Out”is a great episode, featuring a real-time bathroom break, a cameo by Sandra Bernhard, a seeming glimpse of Big Bird in the fridge, and excerpts from two classic animations, Oskar Fischinger’s “Alegretto.” and Ub Iwerks’s “The Pincushionman” (a.k.a.”Balloon Land”). It is also the show in which Pee-wee throws caution to the wind: His camping trip with Cowboy Curtis is largely a single-entendre discussion of “wieners” and “buns.”

Shown two weeks later, the final episode, “Playhouse for Sale,” is even more self-reflexive. The secret word is “word.” Magic Screen functions as the host, while, confounded by the obtuseness of either Globey the globe or Pterri the pterodactyl, the ever-sunny Miss Yvonne nearly breaks character herself: “I think I’ve taken one too many trips to Puppet Land!”

My husband Napoleon worked on building the props for the first season in New York in 1986. He built CHAIRY and the Fridge and the animated food props. http://www.napob.com/#!press—pdfs

Almost the Saturn Return of Pee Wee’s first broadcast September 13 1986. Saturn was at 4 degrees of Sagittarius. The North and South Nodes were almost virtually reversed. Jupiter is now exactly trining where Uranus was then at 18 degrees of Sagittarius.

Pee Wee Playhouse broadcast Astrology

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PEE WEE’S PLAYHOUSE RESTORED BLU RAY  

TEQUILA by Paul Reubens  

Nuit Blanche Toronto live art

NUIT BLANCHE TORONTO’S all night art extravaganza. Studio- beat asked me for  Mercury Retrograde art predictions

WATCH a live studio visit with NApo B.  Music too  www.napob.com 

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Here’s my horoscopes for the Nuit as Mercury goes retrograde

Nuit Blanche Horoscopes Mercury Retrograde Tara Greene

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