I think it’s pretty darn cute; it looks a bit like its mother (the old site, here) but way more functional and dynamic. It’s small still, but it’ll grow; my amazingly flexible website software (XSitePro) will allow me to update it easily and often, and as I learn how to use it, I’ll be able to do some more interesting things design-wise.

I’ve timed it to release right around the time of the Capricorn Full Moon (call it an induced labour), because I, astrologer that I am, really like the chart for this Full Moon. My li’l baby website might just grow up to be something really special with a chart like this.

Yeah yeah, I know. It’s just a website. But it’s mine, it’s been a long time coming and I’m as pleased as any new mom.

So with all due “Ta-Daah’s” and “Huzzahs”, and without further ado, here it is!

Cheers and blessings to you all, and to me too
Bee

yep… it’s that time again. Time for a new website, that is. As of tomorrow, I’ll be announcing my new metaphysical arts website. This blog can revert back to its original purpose as a creative writing, crazy poetry, here I am, here’s what I’m thinking and feeling now thing.

With Mars in Gemini, I require an outlet for that brash, brazen, ballsy voice. Gemini is duality; two public identities. I also hold space for my more deeply considered material, my quietly serious voice, which hasn’t felt quite at home here. When I began this blog it was called ‘Truth is a Crazy Poet,’ and that energy has never shifted. I do like it. It’s part of what I am.

In fact, I love it. Just try to make me stop!

But the truth is, it’s not what I really need to be presenting to folk as a reason to trust me with their hearts, which is what my particular line of work mandates.
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Down-to-Earth Astrology

The Gulf Oil Volcano packs a heavy emotional wallop for any feeling being; it’s more difficult than ever before to see the bright side and to avoid our fears about the handbasket we seem to be en route to Hell in, dragging whole ecosystems with us.  One way out is through the door we least would choose, painted with letters limned ‘Don’t Go There.’

We all have work to do that we’ve been avoiding; our duty to the planet we are despoiling. Humans have done harm, now humans are called to right it. Yet there seem few practical avenues for outward action. We feel powerless in the face of the global machine.

For now, our real work lies within, to lean our emotional weight to the job of healing the holes in our collective dreamsoul. Not easy, but not un-doable either, if we stay with our bodies and our breath.

Comox Valley June Forecast (more…)

Some thoughts on the transit of Uranus into Aries, first pass tomorrow:

There are two mutually exclusive, co-existent states of consciousness: Dream and Waking.

Animals are Waking while awake and journey in Dream while asleep. Plants live mostly in Dream; birds, mostly Waking, though both spend periods of time in each state.

In nature, these two realms peacefully co-exist. But with the advent of human consciousness (associated with the sign Aquarius, the Water-Bearer) on Earth, we are creating a new reality here on Earth.

Humans are not like the animals and plants; we have a foot in each world, all the time.

All human art culture is an interweaving of the themes of the Dreaming into Waking reality. The Aquarian archetype suggests that an extra-terrestrial, or galactic consciousness guides humanity, and it would seem that this consciousness has not had the interests of Earth in mind.

So far, the reality we are co-creating has been increasingly Hell-ish, and though we may each find pockets of peace, clarity and abundance of our good (if only at times for some), we cannot truly be a healthy, viable species of life on the planet unless we find a way to co-exist with our fellow creatures in a sustainable way.
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Mercury, that tricksy little messenger of the mind, has gone retrograde again. It’s not necessarily a cause for alarm, though there are things to be careful of during these stretches. Double check your communications, edit thoroughly. Not necessarily a good time to bring forward sensitive topics for discussion with others, not necessarily a bad time either, if you are very careful and as open hearted as possible.

Trust matters when Mercury is retrograde. This is a time we have to have faith in each others’ good intentions, because it is so very easy to misconstrue. When Mercury is retrograde, our mental functioning effectively turns inside out, so that the words we say and hear actually travel along different pathways in their swift journey toward our grasp than they normally do. Meanings can be missed that way.

A good way to learn to adapt to Mercury retrograde by using this time to be with yourself, take stock, turn your attention inward, where it naturally wants to go now anyway. Re-read old journals, old poetry, remember the ones who have gone before.
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This post was inspired by a conversation on Facebook. As a result of that conversation, I am now offering individual tutoring sessions for people interested in learning more about this incredibly useful tool. Feel free to talk to me, if you’re interested. You are welcome to forward this link to anybody you think would appreciate it.

Astrology is a circuit diagram of the human brain. No matter what astrological system is used, it can be seen to work; this is why virtually every culture has developed its own symbolic system relating to the movement of the planets relative to the Earth and relevant to humanity. Astrology is a complex and powerful system for understanding the nature of reality.

The different systems of astrology (ie Vedic, Mayan, Chinese astrology and more) use the same basic circuits, but with different software and pathway construction. Those physicists who examine astrology with an open and inquiring mind (articles in astrological journals written by former physicists tell the tale) tend to become astrologers themselves. They must write about their findings in astrological rather than scientific journals because by embracing astrology they discredit themselves and lose the respect of their scientific peers.
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To understand astrology, break it down to the four elements. Each element has a fundamental character.

Fire: creativity, inspiration, excitement, energy, motivation, expansion
Earth: usefulness, substance, beauty, organization, containment
Water: flow, changeability, impressionability, mystery, solubility
Air: information, communication, ideation, abstraction, relation

To understand a sign or a planet or a house, look at its elemental rulership or association.
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I’d forgotten that I was going to post the horoscope columns I write for the Island Word (print edition) here, so we’ve missed the last few months’ worth. Ah well, here’s April’s, I’ll be on it for the future. Enjoy! Some art, too.

Real astrology is another matter. But horoscopes are to astrology what the alphabet is to the English language. Fun to play with.

Down-to-Earth Astrology

by Phoenix Wolf-Ray
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It’s a new year, astrologically speaking. Yesterday was the Vernal Equinox, also known as the first day of spring, also known as the day the Sun moves into the first sign of the zodiac (Aries).

Time to start new things, discard old ones. For every new thing, an old thing has to go away to make room for it. No, that’s not an argument for mandatory retirement, or for older folk to ‘know their place’ (quite the contrary). We’re all the gods of our own creations, and we’re not here to make way for others, but to maximize the potential of our own selves. There is room for everybody, even if we have to make room for ourselves by inventing new spaces into which to unfold.
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It’s a new day, a new year, a new decade in a next-to-new millennium, and I must be excited by this at a purely body level because I woke very early this morning (before dawn) despite going to be very late and have not been able to fall asleep again. I surrendered at last, and rose at 8:30 to consider this thing, this new thing I’m in, this new life.

This could be the beginning of something utterly unprecedented in my own life and in human history. Then again, it might be more of the same old, same old stuff on a greater scale. It’s entirely up to me and up to us on a macro / world / political level.

There is something coming up this year that astrologers have been calling the ‘Cardinal Climax’ and I’ve been talking about it to my astrology students for a few months now. It’s an opportunity for a profound new awakening, or perhaps disaster of epic proportions. Yikes!
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