Mercury is a sex God!

Mercury is a Sex god! In Ancient Greece, Hermes/ Mercury was a phallic god of boundaries. Earliest records of his worship as a chthonic deity (heavily associated with the earth/underworld) relating to fertility. The Phallus/Hermes is a tricky shapeshifter.LOL

A Phallus/herma, was placed at the entrances to households, which may reflect a belief that Hermes was a symbol of the household’s fertility, specifically the potency of the male head of the household in producing children a patriarchal take on this.

How interesting to see Hermes as a literal phallus because it changes shape. Hermes is also consciousness. Men always having sex on their minds. Everyone always having sex on their minds.

Mercury turns Direct February 20 at 11+ AQUARIUS at 4:52 pm PST/ 7:52 pm EST/ Feb. 21 at 12: 52 am GMT.

How many computer snafus did you experience? Mercury in an Air sign seems to be more powerful.

Remember that it will take until March 13 for Mercury to get through the Retro Storm period as it recovers its tracks till it bypasses its Retrograde station at 26+ degrees AQUARIUS.

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APRIL PREVIEW- embrace the FOOL this entire month. The Fool is the wisest of all. Symbol of enlightenment. You know what they say? I step ahead, and three steps behind. It is a measure of your progress and time to finish up all kinds of juicy tidbits…

Mars goes RETROGRADE @ 8+ degrees SAGITTARIUS – Sex and love reviews, Do you love who you are with? Old lovers may return in droves over the next few months. Consult the Kama Sutra for best  positions.

Energy, passion, drive, competition, testosterone, firepower goes backwards Rx until June 29th!

Plan to slow down, the economy will  or may be misfires up to compensate. Major backlash, angry hordes, warrior territory recalls, rescinding of power.  

Sagittarius rules laws, so gay marriage laws may be changed or altered, people will change their positions on matters, animal rights issues, repealing of election fraud, wrongful incrimination trials, repressed anger, danger of fires, explosions, volcanoes and mass shootings. 

PLUTO goes RETRO annual soul-searching, Corporations slow down, 17+ degrees CAPRICORN  power political secrets will out. Pluto recycles the garbage, This is healthy. 

MERCURY goes RETRO -4 times this year! from @23+ degrees TAURUS April 28th-check out where you need to pay attention to your mind/body gut instincts needing to retrace steps. 

that’s a whole lotta reversals, review, rewinding, to do. The best advice I can give you is:

BE KIND REWIND

If you have never seen this movie it very sweet, and funny, quite original.

MARS PLanet of SEX goes RETROGRADE from fiery honest, inspiration, funny SAGITTARIUS and will re-enter deep dark Scorpio later. We’ll get to that really sexy part later.  

ALL SIGN PREVIEWS USING SOLAR HOUSE SYSTEM

If you know your Moon or Ascendant sign read those as well. 

Aries or 1st house

It’s your time Aries. Venus enters your sign April  5 for most of the month.  Do go after what you love like an Amazon warrioress. The Full Moon on April 7 challenges you in the cardinal cross again. Sun conjuncts URANUS April 9, begin new creative projects; it’s a romantic creative spring for you. This may be a wacky day. MARS, your ruling planet does RX April 17 in Sagittarius your solar 9^th house you may be in defense court more or less figuratively. Your sexual energy will be greatly lessened, use this time to relate differently and to slow down. Reviewing your education or re-reading, and restructuring teaching methods is recommended. Mercury is in your 2^nd house where it retrogrades in your house of money and self-esteem, watch your spending.

TAURUS-2 

Mercury enters your sign April 5. You need to put your thinking caps on. Start projects before Mercury enters its shadow in mid april. Full bodied Taurus Mercury will turn Rx on the 27^th VENUS your planet is carving out new dreams and jewels in your solar 12^th house. Pay attention to your dreams and intuition and especially synchronicity. The New Moon on the 7^th is excellent for you with grand earth trines. Make hay while the Sun shines. MARS goes Retrograde in your 8^th house of taxes, inheritance, investments. Review and you may want to ditch real estate and stock investments as the economy will slow down. Sexual energy and relationships will change.

GEMINI-3

Mercury your ruling planet is in Taurus in your solar 12^th house indicating this is a time to cement a mind body connection with your unconscious. Your sensual and sexy side may be unconsciously running the show.  This opens up a can of worms in your unconscious. Do Lots of networking and organizing now with Venus in your solar 11^th house  in Aries. MARS goes RETROGRADE in your 7th house of LOVE RELATIONSHIPS, be very careful not to act out. Love may take two steps backwards during this time period.

CANCER-4

Health matter, work, education travel may be challenging limiting and filled with obstacles with Saturn in your solar 6^th house. The Full ARIES Moon April 7 in your 10^th house may force you to be more open and take some risks. MARS goes Retrograde April 17 in Sag, your 6^th house as well. It may be best for you to recoup, rest and review . The New Moon April 21-22 in Scorpio may also prove challenging. And extremely emotional.  Mercury goes Retro in your 11^th solar house Venus is in your 10th house of career you may get some kudos for a job well done. 

LEO-5

Things are starting to warm up and get more fiery for you. April 5 New Moon in ARIES can bring unexpected opportunities so be ready to leap.  MARS Retrograde in your 5^th house which is natural Leo may force you to defend a belief, a legal matter or something you said. Saturn is maturing you in the love department. You may be ready to get married or start a family now. Venus is in your 9^th house most of the month. Mercury Retro’s in your 10^th house of career, redoing lots of mental work and communications.

VIRGO-6

This is your big year Mercury Retro from you solar 9^th house has you  review legal educational or travel matters. While Jupiter is Retrograde in your sign keep your diet and health routine very much under control. This is a time to examine your worries and learn to trust. MARS Retrograde in Sagittarius in your solar 4^th house may mean repressed anger or increased defensiveness and digestive issues. This can also impact your health, doing yoga and taking time out to exercise and pursue your interests is important. SATURN in Sagittarius in your 4th house retrograde means a serious maturity and tests at home and with family.

LIBRA-7

New Moon and VENUS your ruling planet is in your 7^th house of relationships.  There are major challenges.  Many new relationships will begin. Spring is good. Be careful of being too spontaneous or buying things. MARS Retrograde in your 3^rd solar house  and you’re frantically trying to put out fires in conversations. Relationships may end because of philosophical political or religious ideological differences. You may feel defensive against the power of the cutting words with Mercury Retro in Taurus in your 8^th house of transformation. 

SCORPIO 8

This is a big REWIND for you . MARS your ruling planet is in Sagittarius in your 2^nd house of self-worth and money and  goes Retro April 17 with Pluto goes Retro April 18. You may be feeling defensive and challenged around your own self-worth. Money issues may arise from lack of  funding. Mercury in your 7^th house of relationships when Rx you may have to retract words. Many relationships will go through much stress and may fail. Full Moon April 21-22 in SCORPIO brings you benefits from earth energies. Venus in your 6^th house of health and work. Relationships on the job and how much are you loving your work these days? 

SAGITTARIUS 9

Both MARS and SATURN are in your sign  and you  know you are being tested and there are blocks and obstacles and maturity. You are feeling passionate, energized and aggressive at the same time. MARS goes retro April 17 close to fixed star Angel Ariel, this can be protective for you. It’s time to retrace review go back and finish your all the stuff you promised and didn’t deliver. The Jupiter Saturn square is on. Walk your talk, manifest your dreams. Venus is in your 5^th house of love affairs most of April can be good for starting new ventures. Mercury Retros in your 6^th house of health and work , pay attention to all of it.

CAPRICORN 10

April 7 New Moon benefits you with grand earth trines.  Saturn is in your solar 12^th house dredging up limited belief systems and possibly depression. That Tight T-square with Jupiter in Virgo makes it easier to pay attention to health.  With Neptune opposing Jupiter you are questioning what is worth pursuing. Dreams and reality are being questioned. MARS is Retro in your solar 12^th house can bring up old nightmares fears and father issues and also the opportunity to clear all those decks. Pay attention to these dreams,as  Saturn retro in your 12^th house can be depressing, old karmic issues need to be cleared. Mercury Retro in your 5^th house can help finish old writing and creative ventures. Venus is in your 4^th house. be good to yourself, and redecorate your home.

AQUARIUS 11

You are still in rock the world mode so keep up the revolution. ARIES New Moon April 7 in your 3^rd house of communications, indicates new contacts and connections. Start new projects especially with  Venus in your 3^rd house. Mercury is in Taurus in your 4^th house. Re-think  your home, roots and foundations as it Retrogrades. MARS Retrograde in Sag. in your  11^th solar house which is natural Aquarius, you may be spending much time at the drafting or board table reviewing reorganizing reflecting on projects. Don’t be frustrated at the tests they will pass. Watch your speeding with Jupiter in your solar 8th house as you are prone to take risks. SATURN in your 11th house is maturing you nicely. 

PISCES -12 

So much water lately and April 7 New Moon and Venus  starts putting energy into your 2^nd solar house of self-worth, money, relationships and resources. This is all good. Mercury retro in Taurus in your solar 3^rd may prove more gnarly than usual. MARS retro in Sag april 17 in your 10^th career house may have you explaining yourself on the carpet or defending an ideal or someone else morals and ethics. This is a good time to reconsider if you are on the right career path. You are in the T- square of Jupiter in Virgo in your 7^th house of relationships, indicating sobriety and hard work in he real world. You will be needing to leaving your safety blanket behind soon. Mercury retro in Taurus in your 3^rd house pay attention to practical details.

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Equinox Astrology, Ostara, Pagan New year

For the first time in 2016 DAY and NIGHT are equal. This is the first of two balanced “sacred marriage” days in the year.

This event marks SPRING in the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE and AUTUMN in the SOUTHERN. It is a time of perfect equipoise, the balance of the masculine and the feminine energies as a new spark of Life is lit.

March 19 @ 9:30 pm PDT/ March 20 @ 12:30 am EDT/ 4:30 am GMT  

SUN enters zero degrees of Aries and an archetypal new cycle/year begins.  Zero Aries is the beginning of all astrology calculations. It’s International Astrology Day BTW. Aries symbolizes the first spark of LIFE “Let there be light” the Big Bang. Bonfires are lit in celebration. Rituals are created to symbolize rebirth, the sowing of seeds, pregnancy, marriage and joy for a fertile, fruitful New Year of much growth and abundance.

In the NORTH it is a time of REBIRTH.  The time of conception, of the creative spark and the egg, zero/void of all possibility meeting.

ZERO point in the TAROT is connected to the symbol of THE FOOL. Total OPen to new possibilities.

Pagans celebrate this date as the first spoke in the wheel of the year, associated with carnal pleasure, new growth and fertility.  Traditionally associated with Eostre { from which the word estrogen} or ASTARA which means the Stars. Eostre was a Saxon/Germanic Goddess of springs and fertility associated with the Dawn { Venus}, with rabbits or hares, very fertile animals and eggs. Also associated with the Norse Goddess FREYA /Venus/ Venredi in French. The Christians adopted these emblems for Easter which is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox. 

The astrology chart symbolizes the entire year from Spring 2016 until Spring 2017. It is a very important chart to discern. You can also use it to plan the next three months cycle until Solstice.

Overall ,we are swimming in deep waters. Besides indicating a lot of flooding, things are extremely emotional, moody and changeable. There are Six planets including points in PISCES- a mystical, dreamy, creative, spiritual sign. Venus and Neptune, Ceres, Chiron the SOUTH NODE and MERCURY. This augurs for an intensely moody,   spiritual, compassionate, karmic, dreamy, creative journey. We will  be dealing with endings, facing delusions, illusions, our addictions, martyrdom and turning inwards. This is a time of discovering our shadows, the hidden inner realms of the psyche and the shadows of the collective.

The MOON, always symbolizing the Feminine, the moods of the people,the unconscious and emotional needs is in LEO, a fixed fire sign of Royalty and Divine Right. Powerful  passionate feelings will rule. There will be much pride, courage, daring, grandstanding, acting entitled and competition. Moon in Leo needs to be the leader, the center of attention. Selfies, it’s all about me, the ego. We will need to be very courageous, and wear our hearts on our sleeves. Leo is the strength of the will and the heart, and also the sign of the child. Innocence is coming up again.

Mercury the planet of communications is weak in Pisces opposite the sign it rules. Mercury is squaring the GALACTIC CENTER ENCOURAGING US TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE.  We can receive messages from Higher Realms if we meditate and stay open to listening to our Guardian Angels. Our minds are governed by our moods and unconscious. This is a very creative but be careful of being too dreamy and projecting what you want to see onto others. 

VENUS and NEPTUNE are conjoined at 10 degrees OF PISCES, the symbol of the SACRED MARRIAGE.

In the Tarot this is the symbol of Alchemy Tarot Trump #14, echoing the day/night balance. This is an extremely beautiful conjunction. Did you watch the Bachelor on Monday? The feelings when Ben got down on one knee to ask her to marry him and she says yes; that was a VENUS Neptune moment. Neptune is the Higher Octave of Venus and this aspect can take us higher in love than we have ever been before. This is cosmic, unconditional love, charity, benevolence and acceptance of ourselves with the Source. We are both all humans and eternal souls. It is blissful, extremely spiritual and creative. This is Christ Consciousness/oneness guiding us.

This aspect opens increases our intuitive and telepathic senses. Your sleeping dreams and your waking life become seamless. Synchronicities abound. For those who choose the Highest expression fo these two planets it can be an amazingly rewarding experience. But also there are the dangers of denial, illusions, delusions, snake-oil salesmen, addictions, projections, and shadow material being romanticized. This is not an easy territory to navigate.

We are in a tense T-square from JUPITER in VIRGO, to SATURN in SAGITTARIUS to NEPTUNE in PISCES.

WHAT is real and what is an illusion? Telling the truth is what Saturn demands.

Jupiter rules both SAGITTARIUS and PISCES traditionally. Jupiter is the WHEEL OF FORTUNE in the Tarot, the teacher, leader, the optimist, risk-taker, symbolizing faith. Jupiter is conjunct the NORTH NODE pointing us to follow VIRGO energy. We need to be grounded, humble, hard working, practical, on budget, health conscious, disciplined.  We need to honor the Body as the Temple of the Soul, especially if we are going to manifest that Heavenly Venus/ Neptune conjunction.

Virgo is ruled by MERCURY. Jupiter and Mercury are in mutual reception, easily accommodating each other. We need to embody our spirituality in very grounded ways. Our work, our speech our ways of life must reflect this, real/spiritual energy as immanent.

SATURN, LORD of TIME, OBSTACLES, KARMA is at 16+ SAGITTARIUS squares Jupiter and Neptune. Saturn is the bottom line of reality. Saturn’s lessons challenge us to incorporate Virgo discrimination with NEPTUNE in PISCES compassion. Saturn tests and matures us, he is the tax man,the consequences of our actions. PISCES is beautiful but can be a hall of mirrors. Jupiter in VIRGO demands substance; smart, lean, simple and workable. NEPTUNE in PISCES can be escapism, false gurus of every kind. Neptune in Pisces is glamour, Hollywood, fake Reality shows . . The Lord of Time’s presence  in SAGITTARIUS governs politics and he has just crossed the U.S. Ascendant for the first time in 29 years. He uses humor to make his points. I think the joke is at the U.S. expense. It can also mean government crackdowns and limitations on freedom of speech.

Jupiter is Trining Pluto the billionaire’s transit.  The Plutocracy, the 1% gains more and more wealth by the minute and is striving to control the earth. This is also what we must watch out for and make Saturn in Sagittarius laws to limit and control this. On a personal level,trines are considered beneficial, easy aspects. Use it to your advantage if you have earth planets at 15-19 degrees in your natal chart.

URANUS in ARIES @ 19 degrees is square to PLUTO, the last degrees of their square is still in effect. URANUS is inconjunct to JUPITER. With Goddess ATHENA at 19 degrees AQUARIUS they create a YOD or Finger of God to Jupiter. We need to put on our warrioress gear and fight the higher consciousness AQUARIUS battle for the rights of women especially but for all of humanity to be at the table together. Virgo is the harvest and we need to care and account for the earth and the environment, the food supply and be accountable.

LILITH at 22 degrees LIBRA is opposite URANUS in ARIES

There are some strange politics going on. LILITH symbolizes the collective’s shadow of the rejected dark feminine energy who is independent and refuses to compromise. As strange as this may sound, i feel in its twisted, mysogynist, ego-driven, distorted way, a part of Lilith’s energy is coming out through Donald Trump’s mouth. Yes it is in its discrimination of others, Mexicans, Muslims, it is non-descriminated. It is more like the repressed masses unconscious energy. Energy can only be repressed for so long, when it is it comes out in angry, hateful ways. In another way Bernie Sanders is also voicing Lilith’s message by speaking out as an Independent against the powers that be. They are two opposites sides of a similar energy. Like The Fool and the King in the Tarot. The Fool is the divine enlightened One. The King is the power hungry ego.

Set new intentions. I will be doing ceremony in Toronto and sending blessings to you all for a wonderful new year. 

Happy Ostara, 

TAra

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