by Robert Phoenix

for all signs

At this time last year, I was gobsmacked by The Virgo Full Moon, conjuncting Saturn at my mid-heaven and opposing my south node in my fourth house, transiting Sun, eventually tugging on Uranus in my fourth as well. Reality slipped and I crashed into a hall of mirrors, reflecting the broken shards of my sanity, pieces of self scattered across the cold laminate of institutional foundations–the killing floor. Under the static hum of fluorescent stars and ever watchful eyes, I had to plan my escape through a chemical haze, affirming the watchers expectations, uncovering the coded matrices of acceptable behavior, eventually transcending them, ascending above their Minos maze. With the wings of Daedalus, merging vision with cunning, I tricked the tricksters at their very own game.
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by Robert Phoenix

for all signs

While I have experienced the energy of the new year to be invigorating, to say the least, I wouldn’t be surprised if you’ve been stuck or even in reverse. We started 2010 off with two planets in retrograde (Mercury and Mars) and another (Saturn) going retrograde after the year started. So there has been an inherent sense of re-tracing, re-tracking and going backwards since 2010 kicked into gear. That’s not inherently bad unless you’re on some sort of deadline and getting things done is an imperative. At that point, you have to have a deeper understanding of your personal chart to get a better sense of your cycles.

This is where transits and a transit reading can come in quite handy. Even if Mars is retrograde, let’s say it slides back into a trine with your natal Sun or Ascendant for ten days — you’d want to make real use of that cycle and time. So just because there are inherent blocks with the opening cycles of 2010, all is not lost. In fact, there’s some real magic going on, even with the challenging squares.
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Lucky for you that this moon falls on a non-workday, because if it didn’t, you’d be asking yourself, “who let the inmates run the asylum?” That said, there’s still email and text messages that can get to you. Turn off your tech toys and deal with the madness on Monday. This moon is asking you to expand the idea of what you do in this world for fun, profit and fame. How can you tap into that wellspring of inspiration that you have access to and share it with the world in the biggest way possible. We’re talking authenticity to the nth degree. The schism between your current work and your true work might never be greater than this weekend. Build a bridge towards the future.

If there was one full moon that could give you the inspiration and the impetus to save the world, it would be this one. Your powers of influence are at an all time high and you can really make some waves, which you almost always like to do. The one thing that you have to guard against is unrealistic expectations that you might project onto others. Not everyone is where you are at this time, so you’ll have to carve out some space for those that aren’t willing to get out as far on the ledge as you are. Don’t judge them or shut them out. They’ll be ready when it’s time. In the meantime, make a stand for what you know and party like it’s 1999.

Of all the signs this month, you’ve got the biggest issues with control. You like to be in command, stay on top, etc. Not this month though. You’re driven by compulsions that even you don’t fully understand. Don’t worry, it’s only a temporary insanity and if you’re really smart, you’ll retreat to a mountaintop, if not in real time/space than in your own psyche. Wherever the energy of this full moon takes you, it should be further and deeper than in other months. Some profound insights are your for the asking if you’re willing to let go of your rational explanation for things. We may never fully know the ultimate secrets of this reality, but you’re about to stumble upon some pretty pertinent clues.

My oh my. Can you feel those canines getting sharper? The madness that you’re about to experience is far different than other moons, for you, especially the last Virgo full moon (March) where your very sanity was threatened. Nope, this is a madness on your terms. Get out and get physical. Play a sport, be a sport, give it ago. But remember to give others as much latitude as you’re wanting or needing. Knowing you, it wouldn’t work any other way. Just make sure that if you do cut loose and there is some libations involved, that you leave the driving to someone else. We wouldn’t want some cell bars curtailing your exercise in freedom and self expression.

While I am not an ardent advocate of gambling (unless I’m the one that’s doing it), this could be one of those fated full moons for you. Buy a lotto ticket. Enter a raffle. If you’re going to Vegas, don’t be shy. Double down with gusto. When it comes to your heart, you can take some risks there as well, but only if you’re not attached to losing it to someone that might have the goods to make you see your life in a completely different. In any case, you’re playing with house money on this full moon. Just let it roll baby!

Literary driven Libs will find this moon to be a marvelous source of inspiration — a shining muse in the sky. Pay attention to it and don’t waste a wonderful opportunity to craft a plot treatment, outline for a novel, short story or at the very least, some saucy journaling. Getting out and about is also in your stars. Hit the local farmer’s market, get some delicious veggies, but more importantly, sit back and observe the people and the stories that they wear. Take notes and fill in the blanks with your imagination. You’d be surprised by how close you might come to the truth.

If I were to check the listings of all the U-Haul rentals across The US for this weekend, I bet that I would find that the majority of the movers are Virgos. With the full moon rising in your root cellar, you’re off and running, making tracks for a new place to hang your hat, and in many cases, much further away than anticipated. For Virgos that are moving back home to be with family, this can be a wonderful time as long as you can set boundaries in ways that are healthy for all involved. Praise and give thanks for the new opportunities to dwell in a new place of comfort and connectivity.

The archer’s full moon has an arrow waiting for you ion the bulls eye of your heart. Bow and quiver. Here it comes, flaming through time and space, ready to pierce every level of your being, from flesh to soul. You can certainly use this energy, since you’ve been dealing with much larger issues and forces with Chiron and Neptune opposing your natal ruler. Time to let go of those weighty, transpersonal lessons that are supposed to make you a better person. Sit back and simply enjoy the attention and feeling you’re about to receive.

I have a friend who is attending a raw food fest in Santa Barbara this weekend and she happens to be a Cancer. This is the perfect spot for her and others of your sign. Find the connection between wild and raw, especially as it relates to healing. If you can’t attend something like this, go buy yourself a new book on how to prepare raw foods and create delicious new recipes that feed mind, body and spirit. Oh yeah, don’t forget to share the fruits of your labor. You crabs hate eating alone.

That howl you hear is cutting right through your relationships. It’s not time to play nice anymore. If you don’t, expect others to readily display their own brand of restlessness when it comes to relating. What are you going to do? Whatever happens in your one-on-ones, don’t expect any kind of resolution, only more choices and options, which in reality, you actually love. So the drama is just a drama, but somewhere inside yourself, you’re going to have to let go of control and surrender. It’s the most natural thing for you to do at this time.

This moon has a rather compulsive quality to it for you. While Venus and Mars are giving you some solid ground to stand on, the full moon wants to take you down into the nether regions of your psyche. This cave dwellers and cave art. Lascaux. Picasso’s primal, animal art. Myths of man animals and hybrid beasts that still roam free in the archetypes of our psyches. The weird world comes alive for you on this full moon and if you go far enough and deep enough, you will experience some form of integration with thee energies. Make a myth come alive. Be creative. Dream.

The Sag full moon takes to another plane — literally. If you’re not off somewhere far away from home right now, you’re missing out on a real adventure. But fear not dear ram. Get yourself out in nature, out away from the dim glare of city light that steals the glow of stars and soak under the radiant moonbeams, raw, naked and exposed. Let the energy draw you out and away from your relative comfort and safety and experience the fullness deep in every cell. You won’t regret it.

by Robert Phoenix

For All Signs

The Moon is full in Sag and the call of the wild is sounded throughout the planet. The Sag Moon draws out the most authentic and raw parts of our nature, both on a personal and collective level. In many cases, it impels us to act first then review our actions later, from a higher perspective. This moon is instinctual and favors acting from the most natural parts of our being. When I think of the tale of “The Werewolf,” it reminds me of The Sag Moon, where a man, guided by his rational mind for most of the month transforms into a beast that is one with nature, and is in fact “super natural.”
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While you are still wrestling with Saturn in your house of relationships, The Sun is setting in your house of home, which is adding yet another serious kink in your psyche. First restraint and now restlessness. When will it end? Well, on the relationship front, Saturn will move into Libra in 2010, which will give other challenges that you’ll have to face, but you’ll have hopefully healed the rift in your relationships by then, either moving deeper into or further on. Taurus adds some ballast and stability to your life right now. If you want to get grounded and feel some love, spend some time with people that are family, mostly in the extended sense. Do what you can to connect with cousins, uncles or aunts that you have a heart connection with. They’ll help remind you of who you are apart from the drama.

I also see you frolicking amongst farmers markets, taking in the goodness of locally grown foods and locally grown people as well. Mix, mingle, meet and don’t be shy, that gal selling you a bag of beats might just be your next best friend or even more. We’re talking roots, both in the literal and metaphoric sense. Getting grounded, making and eating good food, sharing with others and capturing these moments is vital to the health of your body and being. You’re a sensitive so make that who you break bread with feeds you as much as you’re feeding them.

Jupiter is about to go retrograde and since it’s in your own sign, it will give you pause to think about whether or not you are achieving the goals you set forth this year, or whether those goals are truly worthwhile anyway. It’s a time for you to reflect upon the big picture and reformulate the path you are on. Are things not looking the way you thought they would in the world, with a president in your opposite sign? Remember, this is your time, your year and you have unique opportunity and responsibility to create a better world for yourself and the rest of us. It doesn’t matter if you work for a Fortune 100 company or The White House (which look an awful lot alike these days) you can still imprint the world with your creations, inventions, innovations and new ways of relating to and with one another.

We’re counting on you to bring the big magic out of the box and turn it loose upon the world. June is the perfect month for such a reappraisal of your process. The key to it all is to allow yourself to entertain creative possibilities that you haven’t given yourself permission to explore and experience. What are you waiting for? Make sure you take care of yourself while you’re burning the midnight oil. The energy of Taurus suggests some very timely help on this front, where you are nurtured and fed on a very real level. Don’t get all detached and impersonal though — you’ll spoil the reward for the other in the act of giving.

I think it’s right time that you took some time out from your quest for world domination. Yes, the seventy-story-mountain will still be there in July, where you will no doubt take up your challenge once again. But for now, I would do my very best to spend as much time around children and the sweetest things in life. Your innocence is calling from your past and you’d be a much better person if you simply listen. This is a delicate stage, where Spring is threatening with full bloom and Summer’s ripeness begins its journey towards fulfillment in the Fall. It’s a sweet spot in the procession of the seasons and a time to relax and take notice of such marvels that our world provides us with.

You need emotional sustenance and nurturing. Yes, even craggy goats are entitled to those things in life. Make sure that you have some time to kick of your shoes and dance amongst the flowers, hopefully with someone that reminds you of the child you might not have had the chance to be, because as we know, Cappy gets younger as she gets older, so why not surround yourself with some of the best teachers under the age of eight? The Gemini Sun and Mercury makes you very curious about what makes you tick and while you’re romping in the fields of innocence, you’re also on a mission to get a deeper understanding about what motivates you and others to be who they are. Look for some crazy and possibly quite surreal messaging coming from your dreams. Talking bees, aliens in track suits, it’s all up for your own interpretation. Good luck!

I recently did a reading for a Sag who was having an intense encounter with his psyche as it relates to another and that other of course is a Gemini. While Scorpio is sorting things out on a more physical/sexual level within partnership, you’re doing it at a level that is much more psychological. In fact, the entire east wing of the zodiac, from Libra to Sag is working out the complexity of relationship on different levels. Yours is has to do with the aspect of the other. Just reverse engineer Libra’s scope for you and you’ll find your theme. You indeed are looking for the other to complete some part of your self. The upcoming full moon in Sag will be a make or break moment for you in that realm. The moon is often associated with lunacy and feeling out of control, so if you’ve been putting the lid on your feelings and making a leap into the void of connecting and communicating with the other in relationship, you’ll have no choice when that moon gets big and full in a mere four days on the seventh.

Your hand will be forced and it might be a lot more messy than you bargained for, but you are the master of seeing it from a higher perspective, whichever way it unfolds. What do you have to lose except your sanity, which is vastly overrated anyway — take it from me. Which way will the wind of your free spirit blow? Will it be a breeze or a gale force blast? In some ways it’s up to you. You can either go with the flow or get swept away. The choice is yours.

You’re being sucked out of your cloistered cave by the bounty and the beauty of the flesh. This is not a bad thing. Trust me. But beyond the contact and spark of skin on skin, there is a deeper reality, a deep and sacred place where you can experience a sense of oneness that is anything but the loss of self — it’s an opening, a portal to a greater dimension of being that allows you to have a profoundly expansive experience when it comes to consummating your relationship in the temple of the body. This is a profound time for Scorpios that are interested in the magic of tantric opening. With Venus and Mars opposing your Sun, you are challenged to go beyond your psychic mooring when it comes to sexuality within relationship. You are pulled beyond the erotic fantasy that usually pulls you in this direction.

Are you ready to surrender? Are you ready to lose control and let the experience take you and guide you? In order to do so, you’ll have to release the strings around your heart and cut the cords of your emotional past, because this opening, this opportunity has nothing to do with the past–It’s new, fresh and challenges you to go further than ever before. You’re drawn to the beauty of the rose, but you must descend beyond the silky flesh of it’s petals in order to taste the sweetness of it’s nectar, then travel even deeper into the very stem itself, all the way into it’s roots and connection with the source of all life. Are you ready?

You and Gemini are soulmates of sorts. You both need the other in order to work out who you are in the world. But unlike Gemini, the relationship for you is one where the other has something you don’t or completes you in some way that you think you aren’t complete about. Gemini needs the other for a mirror, not really for the missing piece of the puzzle. There’s something in this dynamic that you can learn a lot from right now. Relationships in your life can be a significant reflection of who you are and what you’re trying to accomplish with your life. You may not like what you see, you may be thrilled, or a combination of both, but the very best thing that you could right now is not take this personally. Observe the image in the mirror, study it, see how it feels and observe it from a higher perspective. Once you do, you are encouraged to go deeper with the reflection.

For many Libras this month, the earthy energy of Taurus in Venus and Mars gets them into their bodies. Libra is sensual, while Taurus is sensuous. Libra can concoct the most elaborate flesh and fantasy is their heads and keep it there. Not this month. Remember, how Narcissus fell in love with his reflection? The same could be said for you this month, but it’s much more real than a shimmering image upon a shining lake staring back at you in rippling fascination. The Aquarian conspiracy in your house of amore is also sending skyrockets of bliss into your brain on a semi-frequent basis, adding another level of magic and madness to your ongoing process of self-discovery through the other.

We all know how much Virgo loves exactitude and precision and this month, our dead and blessed virgin can find it the higher realms of thought and philosophy. You’re always practical, so your view of the universe must also conform to your own style. This is a wonderful time for making connections, both personal and otherwise that lead you to some very profound, yet simple understanding of how things work on a grand, cosmic scale. If you invest enough of your time, intention and energy, you’ll be amazed by how you’re able to connect the dots and reduce the most complex abstractions into real bits of wisdom that make total sense to you. It’s like plants need the right amount of light, water, earth, etc to achieve maximum potential and you’re able to make such a simple, yet, profound observation resonant and applicable to your life in new and vital ways. It’s not about becoming faster, cleaner or more efficient — it’s about slowing down and taking a much more simple and natural approach to all things. This is the best philosophy that you can expand and make use of in your life.

Seminars, retreats and travel are great for you right now and in fact, single Virgos would likely meet someone that clicks on many levels in those settings. But if you travel Virgo, especially abroad. please don’t be as stubborn as fellow Virgo, Andy Roddick was at The French Open, demanding that he get his way. It worked against him on so many levels. Keep your head up and go with the flow.

Aquarius is still doing judo on your relationships, asking you to refine and define your role and commitment to them. Chiron is constantly reminding you that while you might be the king or queen, you are not above losing face. If you must fail or fall, do it as gracefully as you can, paint a smile on the face you are about to lose and lead others in the chorus of laughter. This is a tried and true technique practiced amongst royalty, for when they laugh, their charges laugh with them. Many Leos are experiencing a rare sense of indecisiveness at this time as well. In addition to the Aquarian factor, Taurus sits at a hard angle to Leo. This is never ore evident now, then in your career. Here is where you meet opposition and even stubborn insubordinance. While you may not face the mutiny on the bounty, you definitely need to find other ways of interacting with others as it effects your career and public standing. New modalities of leadership are encouraged. Find new methods of compassionate communication in getting your point across to others.

All of this has to do with power, it’s application and ramification, both in relationships and at work. Think of it as a process of refinement. The good news is that the Gemini Sun forms a sextile to your own source and it’s a great time to go out and make new friends, find new playmates. If the stress in you one-on-ones and work is too much, go out and find a giant sandbox next to the ocean and play.

Your day in The Sun arrives on schedule on the 22nd, but until then, you’re in fine stead as the steadying energies of Taurus are bringing you some real reward when it comes to aligning with friends and affiliations that touch your mind and heart. This is a great time for social networking, on and off line. Your main focus in this lifetime is security and the sustenance of life. In this regard, you are a creative force and your being lends the emotional resonance that our life on this planet needs. You are gardeners of both life and the spirit and this time allows you to widen your influence, bring more people into your scope and way of viewing the world.

While Pluto in Capricorn is demanding that we scale down, or back, or out, nationalizing corporations, corporatizing the government and so on, you stand on an island of sanity, apart from the tidal wave of potentially disastrous dehumanization. Who is coming over to that island with you? How can you impart the oasis of your heart into day-to-day affairs so that others are magnetized to what’s real, vital, loving, flowing and life-sustaining? Any effort on your part now to broaden your essence and with it your message is well received. It can be as simple as baking a pie for an ailing neighbor, or putting in some extra hours at the local co-op, or opening your garden to children to work and play beside you, or starting a blog about keeping traditions alive. These are all measures of what you can achieve to keep the flame of the human spirit burning. Share your love and magic without reserve.

A belated happy birthday to you and you. Geminis should throw themselves two birthday parties every year, so that they can invite their disparate group of friends and get their party on any which way they can. Unlike other years, where there is usually a considerable amount of Gemini in the sky, the astral landscape currently is filled with Taurus and Aquarius. Many twins have Taurus in their charts, often in Venus or Mercury, so the power of the bull is not something wholly unfamiliar to certain Gems. This year, the Bull brings grounded, stable and earthy energy, especially as it relates to the deepest recesses of your psyche. You’re more grounded during this pass around The Sun and it’s a good thing, especially as the manic, Mercury Retrograde swept through your chart. But with Venus hiding out in your house of secrets, behind the scenes, you’re connecting with people in ways that, well, you’d probably like to keep secret. Isn’t that they way a Gemini likes to do it?

Mercury comes back into your sign on the 15th and that means that the rest of us are in trouble. Gem, you’ll have a lot to get off your chest and the middle of the month sees you freeing yourself of baggage and clutter, but for you it’s words first, then action. By the end of the month, you’ll feel up-to-speed just like your old self and that’s when the fun kicks in as Venus and Mars jump into your sign in July and you are a dervish of activities, plans, projects and schemes. Put it all down on paper now and let it rip in July.