October 23 Astrology and Tarot card Reading

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Between a rock and a hard place Astrology

September 24 Mercury in LIBRA opposes MARS Retrograde in ARIES

Commubicating justice is in a hard tense aspect to angry defensive actions.

We see this in the news in the US with the Breonna Taylor murder and no police being actually charged with her murder

MOON is in CAPRICORN today squaring Chiron in ARIES – defensive actions to prevent more vulnerability and wounding

Capricorn Moon trines URANUS in TAURUS

opening up some new ideas, things the dial turns more radical. 

Saturn is slowing down to Turn DIRECT on Septmeber 28/29 which is a powerful turning point we will feel Saturn’s heavy leaden weight even more sowith MARS Retorgrade in ARIES we’re really slouching towards Bethlehem.

RETROGRADE MARS AND STATIONARY SATURN SQUARE OFF on the 29th

Planets are at the strongest when at either of the Turning points from forward motion to Retrograde or Retrograde to direct forward motion again.

MERCURY is in its shadow zone about to enter SCORPIO on  the 27th taking the conversation into deeper darker more sinister territory, 

Saturn stationing Stationary DIRECT square Retro Mars ERIS and LILITH opposing Mercury which is entering its shadow is AHHHHHHH!

everything we’ve been experience up until now in 2020 coming to a gridlock.

The best thing to do is breathe its LIBRA Season the middle path the middle way

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Invoke the magic Garden,EARTH TRINES

The Moon is in TAURUS Feb 14 for Valentine’s day.

There is a GRAND EARTH TRINE- MOON 2 PLuto in Capricorn &  Moon to JUPITER in VIRGO

with Mars opposite the Moon. This is the sacred marriage, ALCHEMY  

Balance of Opposites, infinity symbol cosmic alchemy

A lovely balance of sensuous physical and sexual love
O so many dark chocolates to be consumed,
roses to be smelled,
bodies to be slathered in cocoa butter.

O so many miles of skin to be kissed
So much champagne,
essential oils and love making.
Enjoy the pure Garden of Eden wild abandon of it all.
This is why we are here to bring Heaven’s love down to earth.

SO INVOKE LILITH and invoke the ORIGINAL ADAM her consort. who can worship her as an equal and respect his feminine side.

Invoke the sacred marriage of the original Goddess and God within you. It is who you are and who you have always been.

Invoke them within you if you are SOLO this day and if you are in relationship. 
Become the SACRED MARRIAGE  within the ALCHEMIST. 

Blessings to you

I am at your service, your Goddess Guide, Lady of the STARS.

Tara

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Remembering Laura Nyro October 18

copying from World of Wonder by Stephen  Rutledge  http://worldofwonder.net/bornthisday-singersongwriter-laura-nyro/

October 18, 1947– Laura Nyro:

“They say a woman’s place is to wait & serve under the veil, submissive & dear. But I think my place is in a ship from space to carry me the hell out of here…”

It would never have happened to me when I was young. I was a fearless performance as a youth. I actually became more reticent as I got older. Some performers just shun the spotlight & find that back road to success. Laura Nyro was a perfect example. Crippled by chronic stage fright, she never found more than a cult audience with her solo career; but when her songs were covered by Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, The 5^th Dimension,Three Dog Night or Blood, Sweat & Tears, they effortlessly reached the Top 10 on the charts. Somehow, those reinterpretations brought her material closer to the audience’s musical preoccupations in the late 1960s & early 1970s.

You might have missed Nyro’s obituary when she left this world. Her death didn’t garner the type of media coverage that pop icons like Elvis Presley, John Lennon or Janis Joplin had when they left this world. In fact, you may not even know with her name. That is a shame.

But, if like me, you were listening to the radio from 1967 to 1971, you know her impassioned, iconoclastic music. Nyro was still in her teens when she wrote: Wedding Bell Blues, And When I Die, & Stoney End. By the time she was 21 years old, Nyro had already produced a meaningful & large catalog of songs, a stronger body of work than most pop songwriters have in a full lifetime. But, she never had a hit record as herself.

Nyro was not only a distinctive songwriter who created her own world with her music, she also possessed a delicious vocal style, soulful, with deep feeling, fused with Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Folk & Broadway.

I wonder where The 5th Dimension would have been without her songs. That pop-soul group scored big hits with Stoned Soul Picnic, Wedding Bell Blues, Blowin’ Away, Sweet Blindness, & Save The Country. Blood, Sweat & Tears took And When I Die to #2 on theBillboard Hot 100 Charts in 1969. Three Dog Night hit #1 with Eli’s Comin’. Streisand had a #1 hit with Stoney End in 1971, using that song to increase her hipness quotient & prove that she was not just a singer of showtunes.

Nyro was born Laura Nigro in 1947, the daughter of a jazz trumpeter. She began playing music as a little girl, read poetry & was introduced to the music of classical composers Ravel & Debussy by her mother. She attended Manhattan High School Of Music & Art, she was a fan of a wide range of music, from Dylan to Coltrane, Gospel to Doo-Wop, Burt Bacharach to The Supremes.

Nyro’s first album More Than A New Discovery (1966) was recorded when she was just 19 years old (Madonna was 25 years old when she released her first album). It was a remarkable debut, but brought her little attention as a performer.

A little known music agent, who I shall call David Geffen for legal reasons, saw her performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, where she was booed off the stage. He quit his job & became her manager. He got her a deal with Columbia Records & she recorded her next album Eli & The 13th Confession in 1968. The critics liked it. But, the hits came from the cover versions of the tunes by The 5th Dimension & Three Dog Night. Nyro’s originals went unnoticed by most of the public, except for listeners of extreme savvy taste, like me.

 New York Tendaberry (1969) was Nyro’s only album to ever reach the Top 40. It included 2 more songs that The 5th Dimension covered: Time & Love, & Save The Country. This album gave her a cult following & foreshadowed the whole introspective singer/songwriter movement that emerged in the early 1970s. Ironically, Nyro’s own bestselling single was a cover of Carole King & Gerry Goffin‘s Up On The Roof.

Nyro released 2 more albums before & then left the biz in 1971 at of 24 years old. But, after 4 years away, she returned to the studio & periodically released new albums for the next 2 decades. In 1997, a retrospective boxed-set was being released by Columbia: Stoned SoulPicnic: The Best Of Laura Nyro. Nyro selected the tracks & approved the final project. She lived to see its release & said that she was pleased with the project.

Nyro was taken from this world by that damn cancer in 1997. She was only 49 years old; the same ovarian cancer that had claimed the life of her mother at the very same age. She left behind a partner of 18 years, artist Maria Desidero.

A tribute album, Time & Love: The Music Of Laura Nyro, with Nyro’s songs performed by 14 women singers & groups, including Phoebe Snow, Suzanne Vega, Roseanne Cash, &Jane Siberry was issued shortly after Nyro was gone.

Nyro’s huge influence on other musicians has been acknowledged by: Janis Ian, Joni Mitchell, Melissa Manchester, Rickie Lee Jones, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, Sandra Bernhard & Elton John. She is Bette Midler’s favorite singer. Barry Manilow lists her amazing album, & my own personal favorite Nyro LP, Christmas & The Beads Of Sweat, on his Desert Island Discs. The juicy Jackson Browne tune That Girl Could Sing is about Nyro. John & Elvis Costello discussed Nyro’s significant influence on both of them during the premiere episode of Costello’s interview show Spectacle (2012) on the Sundance Channel.

When I was a callow youth, I loved Nyro beyond all reason. Her songs are very much a part of my musical consciousness. The Husband is a big fan. If you remember these songs in their hit versions by other artists, it is fascinating to hear Nyro’s own interpretations. If you’re too young to remember these songs from AM radio, you will be knocked out by the variety & depth of her vision. Listening to her music more than 45 years later, I am transported back to that amazing time. I don’t know why more people didn’t discover the singer/songwriter behind the great melodies & lyrics. Stoned Soul Picnic captures the sweet, hopeful trippiness of the late 196os better than most protest music of the time:”

Speculative Astrology chart for Laura Nyro with no exact birth time. She was a Libra with 3 planets in Scorpio plus Chiron Plus her South Node.Venus in Scorpio rules her Sun and Neptune, all of her creativity was deep, sexual, intense, obsessive, about the shadow { Devil].

 I named my first child and only son ELIJAH after her song Eli’s Coming in 1983.. 

I just discovered that Laura had her MOON OUT OF BOUNDS. That tells me volumes right there. A moon out of bands makes someone feel differently to most people. They will not be confined, they are naturally wild and unconventional. Uranus opposite the Moon in Sagittarius makes perfect sense to me for such a unique talent who definitely marched to her own drummer. She has one son and was married a couple of times then became a lesbian in her later years with a long-term relationship. She had that powerful Mars Pluto Saturn conjunction in Leo. I feel that this was her currency, her resources that incredibly powerful sexual passion straight from her heart and soul. She was more soulful than anyone ever. 

My previous article about Laura’s Astrology https://infinitynow.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-laura-nyro-original-songstressgets-her-saturn-solar-return-due/

also an incredible article here on Laura http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/28/the-laura-nyro-incarnations/

He’s a Runner/Save the country Laura Nyro  

Sexy passion, in the Lion’s den + a bit of fog. Astrology forecast

Sleeping Gypsy  by Henri Rousseau 1897

YEs the Moon’s in Leo so its SHOW OFF time on the world’s stage time 

Moon collides with MARS 11:36 pm PDT tonight/2:36 am EDT very intense passion

we’ll hear lots of roaring later tonight. Leo’s make very passionate lovers, they can be very giving although you always have to treat them like they are King or Queen. Two Leo’s together, alternate- King for a day, Queen for a day. They are vain and child like underneath the Royal Mane.

You may be dreaming about being eaten by lion’s.

We are in the Lion’s den. And the lion is pacing and hungry.

This is the WIll to win, big ego’s,  getting  a huge rocket boost. Tempers will flare. Will power is strong!

On the world’s stage we see this acting out as LEO president Obama gets ready to pull the trigger on SYRIA.

He may act out defiantly even without Congress’s approval. Even though there is a delay. The situation some say may start WW111 as predicted by Nostradamus.

Lilith enters the T-SQUARE RING

And in this corner wearing not much, glowering darkly and smolderingly is Lilith the Dark Goddess, the shadow Kali aspect of the Goddess. Lilith is at 9 degrees Cancer opposite Pluto now. By the end of September she is exactly squaring Uranus as well adding another very potent aspect to the on going T- squares.  This adds even more fuel to this Cardinal initiation.

Unconscious, repressed  hatred and fear of women, of women’s unstoppable sexual power is what’s coming into consciousness now.  Yes more world wide backlash for gang rapes but we’ve got a long long way to go. I see Miley Cyrus’s overtly sexual – we won’t stop -twerking  performance was part of that Lilith T- square energy being released.

WOMEN need to really step into the world’s stage now. Politically, emotionally, with initiative.

FIRE Signs may feel very impatient, but hold those Lions, Leo’s  those horses Sagittarians and Rams you Aries as this is pretty incendiary.

Don’t play with any matches, please.   Is the world about to go up in flames?

LABOUR DAY Sept  2- Four quincunx’s with some fog on the side

Moon creates quirky quincunx’s to Neptune to Pluto to Chiron – ouch ouch and double ouch

The peacekeepers- Neptune in Pisces and the Plutocracy are sure to be at odds over Syria.

Mars makes fingernails on chalk boards aspects on Monday.  MARS in LEO will be in quincunx = 150 degrees to NEPTUNE on Sept 2. at 3 degrees

What’s to believe in the SYRIA situation? Reuters carried a story saying the rebels claimed responsibility for accidentally releasing that chemical. All is illusion, delusion.

Early Leo’ s will feel all fogged up. All early fixed signs, TAurus, Scorpio Aquarius feel this.

LEo Moon also’s squares Saturn in Scorpio   –

Fear,death, fear, big ego’s, shadow governments, power,

Good thing Jupiter is in Cancer and Venus in LIBRA for now-they are supply positive energy. Thank you Zeus and Aphrodite.

Venus in Libra can be credited with being the ambassador, the go-between, trying to balance the scales here.

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Some Huge healing opps. on Tuesday I am writing September’s forecast

blessings

TARA

Daniel in the Lion’s Den by Bessie Jones 

Aug 12-16 take big breaths, we’re all in labour Astrology

A short  breather during the week from the big rebirthing of the world in the Grand Cardinal Cross till the weekend.

Then it all starts up again! Just like a woman in labour, WE the WORLD, need to take big  breaths to hold our energy between pushes.

How you doing there ARIES, CANCER, LIBRA, CAPRICORN?

It’s Intense! I have transiting Pluto in my 2nd house of resources -that’s soul stirring resources

directly opposite my Natal Uranus in the 8th- radically changing my desire nature, letting go, rebuilding the depths

with Uranus in my 5th house  radicalizing my creativity,what I love is changing, 

opposite Natal Saturn in Libra in my 11th house. Should I stay or should I go?

Responsibilities to organize my self and my organization in new way. Leading groups.

Do you realize there will be a weekly Grand Cardinal Cross right through till the end of this year?

Monday starts off on an always sexy deep note as

Moon enters the 8th sign -Scorpio @ 1:18 pm PDT

Scorpio is the DEATH card in the Tarot but have no fear

noted for power, super intense emotions, secrecy, personal magnetism, controlling, S & m, money, 

Good for water CANCER, PISCES and SCORPIO’s  of course. and easy for CAPRICORN and VIRGO

Scorpio Moon is challenging for LEO, TAURUS, AQUARIUS

ARIES and GEMINI get funked up by it

SAGITTARIUS and LIBRA -can’t touch this

Moon Trines Neptune for you West coast types it happens post Midnight East coasters

Tres tres Romantique and Fantasy role playing

but be careful of projecting your love onto the wrong person.

Reality hits as Moon conjuncts SATURN the cosmic cop of boundaries at 11:48 pm

the buck stops… period.

Aug 13

a bad hair and tongue tied day

Moon squares Mercury in Leo  and Mercury Quincunx Pluto in Capricorn- BIg ego’s get into a fracas.

Moon quincunx’s Uranus in Aries – don’t even picture it.

Moon Trines Chiron in Pisces- its healing and crying time.

AUg 14

Scorpio Moon Trines Mars in Cancer early a.m. – sweet dreams are made of this

Moon Square SUN in LEO – FIRST QUARTER MOON

also in wee hours- big dream battles in technicolor like Spartacus Star Wars or

SEXY Moon sextiles Venus in Virgo- @ 2:30 pm  wear the French maid’s costume and do it in the closet

then Moon goes void- a good for mundane things time

MOON ENTERS Fire SAGITTARIUS @ 6:04 pm PDT/9:04 pm EDT

I call this the Hoof in mouth Moon, and I should know I have my Natal Moon here in my 1st house

How many of you out there are proud Centaurs? LEts hear you stomp those hooves.

Sagittarius  is the card of TEMPERANCE or ART in the Thoth deck

MOOD shifts to optimistic, casual, hit the road,good humor, higher education, 

Later in the day  Mercury’s in LEo trine Uranus- brilliant philophical insights abound

but quincunx Chiron- compassion is nowhere to be seen

Aug 15

Hoof in mouth Moon squares Neptune early am. – beautiful dreams of travelling going to loftier spiritual Heavens learning from master teachers

Quincunx Jupiter in CAncer @ 12:48 pm domestic squabbles, no want wants to clean up the mess

Trine Uranus- good day to launch new ideas

Square Chiron – compassion is a challenge

Trine Mercury in Leo- competition for the brightest ideas.

Aug 16 the Anniversary of Harmonic Convergence

Moon quincunx Mars in Cancer early morn- hard to get out of bed and do the routine

VENUS enters Libra- till September 11

VENUS in her HOME SIGNS shines, the Goddess of Love

makes everyone super happy to be with others,

I’ll write a separate article all about Venus for each sign

RELATIONSHIPS BALANCE PEACE HARMONY, tHE ARTS, SOCIAL TIMEZ,

the see saw act.

Moon Trine SUN 10:32 am Emotions ambition big hearts go together-

Moon goes Void of course now all day- hang loose enjoy the Summer while you still can

MOON enters all Business CAPRICORN @ 8:25 pm PDT

Capricorn Moon never likes to get emotional, and can be all grounded and business like

Capricorn adorns the MAjor Arcana of The DEVIL

Promptly squares Venus in Libra 9:28 pm PDT

Business dinners would be appropriate.

Capricorn moon dominates the weekend we’ll keep that separate