Venus Retrograde: kitty on the half-shell?

Venus on the half-shell as a kitty?
Why not?!

Venus retrograde in Gemini will have you re-thinking how you think about LOVE, MONEY, BEAUTY. Give yourself some time over these next weeks to reconsider how you think about these Venusian things. You might be surprised to find out that you are thinking in ways that aren’t even your own (give that up) or being open to new ways of thinking about these things. Retrograde times are times to revisit and re-do what needs to be re-done. Gemini is a sign of the conscious mind. Watch where that mind goes and see if it’s going where you want it to or perhaps some reigning in and re-juggling is required.
Kitties on the half-shell? But, of course!
Perhaps a little more MAGIC is needed in your life (most probably) so stay tuned for more of that!

This morning was one of those mornings. I awoke morosely sad and feeling disconnected from everything. I felt alone and homesick but not for my childhood home (that has NEVER happened – who misses the Bronx of the mid 6o’s?) but for my real home, the

The Pleiades - home planet

home consciousness from which my Soul originates.  You see, I am a starseed from the Pleiades and sometimes I feel positively bereft at being here.

Starseeds are human beings whose consciousness is connected to other star systems through the Soul connection. There are Pleiadians (like myself), Alpha Centauris, Parallels, Arcturians, Hadarians, Sirians, and many, many more. We each come with specific skills and gifts needed on Earth right now during this process of Earth’s birth into ascension.  We each chose to come here, volunteered as it were, but really we had no idea it would be as challenging as it sometimes seems to be. The density here can feel absolutely crazy-making.

As a Pleiadian I am fast, superfast and everything on Earth is painfully slow. I am used to thinking something and poof! there it is. Not so here. Endless miles of wires and systems and clunky tools, not to mention the horrifying barbaric practices of medicine and ACK! animal experimentation. I could go screaming into the night to throw myself in a bed of flowers – and often do. I find soaking in hot water helps too, briefly.

And what about the freakin’ noise? This planet is excrutiatingly LOUD. Buzzing, honking, screaming, leaf blowers, and  everything else. Will everyone just be quiet for a moment or two?

What about the driving? Driving on roads? Ridiculous. Can’t we just tele-port and what about all the communication devices (that never work) can’t we just read each others’ thoughts? That’s how we do it at home.

Well for today I danced to Katy Perry’s Extraterrestrial and honestly that really helped.
Today I got over the hump of homesickness and now I think I’ll make some more messes to clean up.

Solar eclipse at zero degrees Gemini on Sunday, May 20th  is aligned with the Pleiades. Maybe I’ll get a love package from home. I’ll make sure to double check my mailbox.

Now with her strong Virgo imprint the tendency to WORRY over TRUSTING THE PROCESS pretty much a given, but even with a strong Virgo influence, TRUST can still be accomplished but pretty much is NEVER going to happen through the workings of the conscious mind. In other words you can say out loud all that you desire and wish for yourself but if you are not removing the blocks in your unconscious which prevent those affirmations from making a dent, you can recite affirmations until you are blue in the face and not a single thing is going to change in your reality. Nothing. Nada. Gornisht.

The beliefs and thought patterns that lie in your unconscious completely and totally run the show. If you are not addressing the unconscious it’s like walking with a rock in your shoe and wandering why it hurts every time you take a step. You really have to remove that rock.

That’s what energy healing does.  Energy healing removes the rock from your shoe, the stuck patterns in your unconscious that keep you from manifesting all that you desire.
Energy healing works because it completely bypasses the conscious mind that thinks it knows everything but really knows nothing.

Moms can lead the way but it can get pretty tangled

potential peril than the ones we have with our mothers- except the ones mothers have with their kids.

My mother has been dead for many years and I am STILL having a complex and often perplexing relationship with her. The other day I actually went to call her ( of course I still know her number by heart) as I had heard a joke I knew she would have enjoyed. She had quite a sense of humor, which God knows, she needed. I like to think I have inherited her best qualities. When she finally gave in and got herself an answering machine (Why should I care who called if I am not home?” she would say) – she never lived into the cell phone era – she had my favorite message on there. When you called her number you would hear her  say:
“Only leave good news”.
You have to love that. Everybody did.

Unfortunately I never knew her birth time or I would have done our relationship chart. I

Hello! I can't breathe over here!

always felt that if she had not been my mother we would have been great friends. But in the dynamic we had…oy vey! I found her very challenging and she was completely flummoxed by me.  Not an atypical mother-daughter relationship by any stretch of the imagination.

For Mother’s day this year ( because mercifully I am no longer a professional florist but blessedly am a professional astrologer) I thought I would offer a special so you could look at your relationship with your mother or your relationship with your kid or kids.

For just $50 I’ll give you the lowdown on your karmic soul connection and what you have come learn together.For me and my mother it was pretty much: “I’ll push your buttons if you push mine. OK!”

Can I hear another “oy vey” out there?

Full Moon in Scorpio 5 May 2012 Full Moon in Scorpio poppies Find your security in your connection to EARTH  and all her mag

I can basically sum up the entire message of this Full Moon in one sentence: GET OUTSIDE and CONNECT with EARTH!
You never know what you might find when you go outside! This POTENT full moon, which is going to look GIGANTIC (make sure you get outside and view it!), is a SUPERMOON to the nth.  Close as it will ever be to the EARTH in its elliptical orbit and lined up with both the EARTH and the SUN it’s nothing less than a WOW! lunation.

Everything is bound to be intensified especially as the axis of Taurus Sun – Scorpio Moon is nothing but fun there, that is, if you like intense as intense can be. Look to your own beliefs and relationship to MONEY, what gives you a sense of SECURITY, what you connect to as your LIFE PURPOSE.
See what I mean? Big, intense stuff. Not for lightweights, this Full Moon. FULL MOON is RELEASE time. Whatever no longer serves you – let it GO! I promise you won’t miss it.

The SUN in Taurus is conjunct Ceres, the harvest goddess. Ceres reminds you that all sustenance is given to you from the EARTH and it is she who must be honored. The SUN is also conjunct JUPITER, making everything you will be experiencing BIGGER and more expansive. Therefore monitor your thinking and allow ONLY the highest vibration of THOUGHT and INTENTION to enter your consciousness because whatever you are thinking and focusing upon will get BIGGER.

Lee Cook, John Corsa, and I led a beautiful PEACE gathering the other night reminding us to focus entirely and completely on keeping a
PEACE CONSCIOUSNESS alive and vibrant in your mind. As soon as thoughts that lead you away from PEACE in your mind and PEACE in your hear enter, release them back to the INFINITE, release them from your consciousness.. John led an amazing meditation which we will have available for you by next week (techno Gods complying, of course).

Full Moon in Scorpio faerie

Go outside and ask the faeries to help you. The faeries are emissaries of the EARTH realm and would love nothing more than to connect with you and support you in holding PEACE consciousness

Excellent crystals for this FULL MOON are:
Rainbow obsidian for the Pluto-ruled transformational SCORPIO energy
LOVELY! and POWERFUL

Rainbow obsidian to activate SCORPIO energy

Red Tiger’s eye to help you connect with the grounding energy of Taurus.

Tiger's eye activates TAURUS

To help you with grounding yourself I HIGHLY recommend  DAILY USE of
John’s grounding and healing meditation available on our site.
Grounding Meditation

One Heart Consciousness PEACE gathering, Boulder

I was a very skinny kid. Painfully skinny. And I ate all the time. I mean I literally I ate all the time. In my family where expressing any type of emotion was completely frowned upon, except for spontaneous bouts of hysterical screaming, all emotions were vigorously kept in check by ingesting large amounts of a variety of  delicatessen meats, breads, bagels, yeasted sweet cakes and tubs of ice cream. No drinking in my family. Exercise was out of the question. The only muscle we were encouraged to use was in between our ears. Every single emotion was averted by eating.

By the time I hit college, the hormones kicked in and so did the meal plan. I ate as I always did but the weight stayed on. I started to fill out, which was ok until I realized that I could not change my eating habits with smarts. I was never hungry, but always empty. For the moment of the eating experience I didn’t feel the emptiness, so I just kept eating.

I have wrestled with my weight since then and now as I approach my 2nd Saturn return  and after years of unresolved grief and pain and a distinct lack of self- LOVE (in spite of thousands and thousands of dollars spent in therapy and too many hours to count spent in rooms talking about the unresolved issues) I found myself looking at myself one day and having to admit to myself that I was not large and in charge, I was FAT.

My mother was fat. My aunts and cousins were fat. I come from a long line of fat women, who stuffed every one of their emotions right into their mouths to land with a PLUMP! right on the hips and thighs. Not a good look, all in all, not to mention the inevitable health hazards – of which they have all perished after years of suffering.

So I did what I always do when I am up against the hardest stuff in my life – I prayed.
I prayed to be healed of this terrible affliction of not loving myself enough to care for myself well.

Through nothing less than what I am convinced is DIVINE INTERVENTION I forced myself to go to John Corsa’s contemporary dance class in Boulder. Not only was I fat but I am severely physically dyslexic and from what I knew of John he was a professional. I thought for sure he would laugh his head off at the likes of someone like me trying to dance.
Of course that was my own inner crazy talking in my head.  As soon as I saw John I knew my prayers had been answered. He looked and felt like an angel, as he has turned out to be. I knew that John was who I had been waiting for to help me move my body and learn to love myself.

And that’s exactly what happened.
The dance classes have been amazing and too fun and joyous for words. But the real gift came through the healing sessions I did with John Corsa, intuitive clairsentient and crystologist.  What has happened as a result of the healings is nothing less than miraculous -  I no longer eat emotionally. The impact this has had on my life is momentous. I don’t eat when I am angry or sad or lonely or bored. I eat when my body tells me that it’s hungry (what a concept). I don’t even eat to be polite to someone else. If I don’t  like what is being served I don’t eat. WOW! He even cured me of severe people-pleasing.

I am now thin, svelte. I feel light and free. I feel happy about my body and I get to thrift shop for a whole different size of clothes!

The healings released me from a lifetime of seeing myself as deficient or less-than in some unidentifiable way. John’s work has changed my life in the most profound way. His work has truly been the answer to my prayers. And why, of course, I now promote his work and collaborate with John as a natural adjunct to my intuitive style of astrological counseling. I want EVERYBODY to be healed, to be free of incorrect self-titles and false perceptions of themselves. More on our work at Ignite Your Soul Potential

More on how healings work in the next post.
Keep posted.

So this morning at the crack of 6am I got my rubber gloves on, grabbed the rubber spatula and a paper bag. The hornets were not quite as dozed out as I would have preferred but fortunately there were only 4 of them but wow! were they large. I climbed onto the loveseat under the window and scraped their little new home and their mammoth bodies into the bag. But I got a little nervous and the bag slipped out of the skylight and will be on my roof until the next big winds blows through.  Most of the hornets landed on the couch and I had to spatula them up and toss their sleepy selves out the window. That was nothing but fun.

Then  I put some bleach water on their homesteading spot so should they return once I reopen the skylight it won’t smell so welcoming.

Which is all to say that ACTION (Mars) is being taken, shaky and questionable as it might seem. Mars is finally moving forward but still in VIRGO so all acts are to be thought out with precision and attention to details and eventually you will see the results of what you now set into play. My hornet friends are relocating and have survived a major move.

Perhaps that’s in my future as well, to add to my general feeling of craziness in these amazing times of Ascension. If I wasn’t past menopause I would think I was pregnant with the next immaculate conception as I find myself periodically nauseous during the day and I’m sure it has to do with everything being in FLUX, and I mean in the biggest sense of the word. hang on, everybody, it’s QUITE a ride!

The 7 basic chakras line up from the base of your spine to the top (crown) of your head.

The 7 Chakras

They create a CHANNEL through which energy flows, or in the case of blockages (which most of us have) – don’t flow. When the energy channels are blocked it’s like when your plumbing backs up in your house- and we know how unpleasant that can be. You absolutely want to have ALL CHANNELS OPEN!

When blockages occur, which can happen from any of a number of mental, emotional, and/or physical influences, energy will pool above the chakra that is blocked, often causing disease.

For instance, a thyroid condition is often the result of blockages in the heart chakra. POOLING of energy needs to be cleared in order for the energy to flow properly and for you to be functioning in full health.
Cleared and full functioning chakras magnetize and attract.  A cleared heart chakra attracts more LOVE. A cleared POWER chakra attracts more personal power. You get the drift.

John Corsa, crystologist and intuitive clairsentient, is offering a  4 week tele-class in which you will learn the realm of each chakra, how to keep the chakras clean and clear – ready to be used by you to activate and maintain your full SOUL potential. John will also teach about the specific CRYSTALS you can use to stimulate and soothe the individual chakras.  FABULOUS! Details and to register go to CHAKRA class

THE NEW MOON in TAURUS
reminds us to turn to NATURE to refocus,
reconnect to

Garden Goddess for Taurus time

the roots of our value and worth – that we are divine beings living on this gorgeous planet, sentient beings playing out our SOUL’s story on a planet filled with abundant, magnificent LIFE. Taurus directs you to identify your true value and worth. Do you over-identify with money, with your “possessions” (you’ll be turning all that over when you dis-incarnate, so enjoy them while you’re here!). Are you enjoying what you “own” or are you always on to the new thing that you think will satisfy? Taurus times always remind us to recalibrate your value and worth to what is really and truly valuable to you, and only you will know that!

Use this sensual time of TAURUS to connect with your ALL your senses, feeling your earthiness and deliciousness existence in your human body. That’s what SPRING FEVER is about – wanting to experience the joys and pleasures that the body can experience. Sniff around, following inner directives to inhale the verdant life that is breathing all around you.

ACTIVATE your 2nd chakra to feel the power of TAURUS.

Box calcite for Taurus time

Yellow calcite placed on your lower abdomen will stimulate and activate the pleasure centers of your magical physical body, awakening your power seat of sensual pleasure.