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News Items for Pluto's Current Retro into Sagittarius

Marriage redefined in California...more financial industry dirt coming to the surface...high food and gas prices forcing lifestyle changes... Each of these news items relates to Pluto's

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Lilith: Myth vs. Archetype

I'm spending a lot of time these days with Adam, Lilith & Eve, digging into the mythos to understand more about why the natural feminine

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Lilith in Real Life

I'm taking a pause after writing a natal true Black Moon Lilith report while the Sun was in Taurus. I have a sense of needing to bring

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A Lilith Profile

Recently, I met an astrologer with Neptune in Scorpio precisely on the Midheaven (Aug. 24, 1968, 6:22 PM, Redding, CA). I asked her if she's an

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Notes on the Black Moon Lilith and Saturn

The following is excerpted from the new natal report I'm writing on Lilith. Specifically, it belongs in the Lilith-Saturn natal aspects section, but since we're all

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Pluto in Capricorn & Gender Identity

A few weeks ago, I wrote in a post here that Pluto's entrance into Capricorn can call up questions about what men and women are

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Emotional Healing with Astrology

To have the kind of life we want in the present, we must heal our memories of and attachments to the past. Astrology offers a vocabulary for

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The Right Way to Lilith

I've been working lately on the Black Moon Lilith (BML), working to describe how to integrate the energy into your day-to-day life, and getting over

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Pluto in Capricorn: Dis-covering Authentic Sexuality

Underneath multiple uncomfortable and discomfiting layers of conditioning lies a particular sexual animal that is uniquely you. There, that wasn't so hard to read, was it? Good.

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Pluto in Capricorn: Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase and The Fed

The day the news about Bear Stearns broke, I heard a surprised radio report about the surprising situation and drastic measures the Fed authorized, and

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Profile & Current Events: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer

First of all, I usually stay away from analyzing the astrology of public persons who meet with dramatic turns. Mostly, I just never want to

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Lilith & Health

When I sit down to work out thoughts on Lilith, I often find myself inside one or another feeling, and seem unable to express anything cogent or

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Eating the Wild: Notes on Hillary Clinton

Our mothers understood something essential: the green is poisonous to civiliation. If we eat the wild, it begins to work inside us, altering us, changing us.

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Pluto in Capricorn: Discovering Assumptions

Capricorn is the sign of structures and the glue that holds social and political groups together.  I'm listening to political reporting on the radio more than ever these

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Pluto in Capricorn: Thoughts on Politics

1. Dirty stuff. Are there still people in this culture who don't understand the psychology of politicking? It'd been months since I've listened to NPR regularly. I keep

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Profile: Playwright Edward Albee

Playwright and philosopher Albert Camus held that every artist, no matter the medium, spends his or her entire life working out one idea or problem,

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Two or Three Thoughts on Libra + Transit Lab: Waxing Pluto Square

While Aries defines itself in terms of self, saying, "I am what I am because I am it," Libra defines itself in terms of the

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Pluto into Capricorn: With Open Eyes

As uncomfortable as it may be, you may soon begin to experience certain aspects of reality that you've seen fit to edit and omit from

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Pluto into Capricorn: The Will to Authority, part I

There isn't a person alive who hasn't been shaped by authority structures related to Saturn/Capricorn. This energy is that of the normalization of groups and

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Transit Lab: Sun conjunct IC

Tonight I've packed up my stuff, prepping for my move to a new place tomorrow. I've been renting a room from a friend while helping her

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