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Well, maybe there's only one kitten that prefers smoothies. No studies have been done that I know of, but check out this video of my daughter's kitten Roxie enjoying a delicious smoothie made with fruits and spinach!
You'll see Roxie in the blog's banner, too, all stretched out with a special admirer on her case - an admirer who thinks she's a cat...
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7/31/09
Meet 'Darianna Downey'
Darianna Downey usually hangs out at my for-17-and-older gallery of Chiffonery Art drawings, Cosmic Persona Designs, but tonight Darianna has dropped by 2 Hrs just to say, Why Hello There!
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7/29/09
Venus' new 'bright spot' and 2012 approaches
Image: Venus Rising from my Secret Moon Art collection of drawings.
Yes, I know that the planet Venus is implicated in the year 2012's Mayan and other prophecies, but perhaps the mysterious bright spot that appeared on Venus last week is just that...a bright spot.
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7/27/09
Midas: his hobbies, his friends, his location
You may notice if you scroll down far enough to my 'Mythology of Astrology's Smaller Bodies' feature in the sidebar that asteroid and mythical king Midas has been added to the list.
But where is asteroid Midas today? His is not a fast-moving asteroid as asteroids go, and he remains in a sign for years, frequently in retrograde phase which seemingly from our earthly vantage point, slows down his progress through the zodiac.
Plundering and The Gilded Age of Industrialism
Checking a chart set for the White House (out of my Political Astrology habit) for the time I thought to look (11:32 am edt), gold-lover Midas is at 8Gem37 which conjuncts the Robber Baron natal chart of 1891/92 when Neptune and Pluto met three times at that degree: 8:38, 8:19, and 7:42, on August 2, 1891, Nov 5, 1891, and Apr 20, 1892, respectively.
The Robber Baron natal chart times The Gilded Age, aka the Industrial Revolution and the Generation of Materialism. Whatever you call it, plundering of natural resources is one of their main claims to fame.
Today Midas is parallel Mars 10Gem47 (similar to a strong conjunction and used in Astrology for timing purposes) and conjunct the transiting 9th cusp 7Gem03; therefore, Midas is entering the 8th house of Credit, Debt, Insurance, Shared Resources, Big Finances, Transformations, and the Occult (meaning 'hidden') - is there action (Mars) today on financial matters (Midas) in Washington?
There is a midpoint at 7Gem41, too: Mercury/Uranus, which Ebertin gives as: 'intuition; astuteness; a revolutionary spirit; inventive thinking; "too many irons in the fire"; nervous haste; brutal frankness; a contradicting disposition; a mathematician, technician, physicist, cosmobiologist; sudden cognition; the power to influence others', and more.
"Too many irons" sounds like the president to me and NPR is reporting at noon that Mr. Obama is meeting with Chinese officials...or perhaps it's a conference call, I'm not sure. China is our biggest creditor, of course, and contains quite a pile of Midases, I venture to say.
So scroll down for the skinny on the Mythology of Midas, if you wish, compliments of Wikipedia, and provided linkily by yours truly.
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Related post: US invasions 1898 - 1934 concerns imperialism and keeping the American people quiet about it by way of propaganda; a quote from Charlie Wilson is included.
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But where is asteroid Midas today? His is not a fast-moving asteroid as asteroids go, and he remains in a sign for years, frequently in retrograde phase which seemingly from our earthly vantage point, slows down his progress through the zodiac.
Plundering and The Gilded Age of Industrialism
Checking a chart set for the White House (out of my Political Astrology habit) for the time I thought to look (11:32 am edt), gold-lover Midas is at 8Gem37 which conjuncts the Robber Baron natal chart of 1891/92 when Neptune and Pluto met three times at that degree: 8:38, 8:19, and 7:42, on August 2, 1891, Nov 5, 1891, and Apr 20, 1892, respectively.
The Robber Baron natal chart times The Gilded Age, aka the Industrial Revolution and the Generation of Materialism. Whatever you call it, plundering of natural resources is one of their main claims to fame.
Today Midas is parallel Mars 10Gem47 (similar to a strong conjunction and used in Astrology for timing purposes) and conjunct the transiting 9th cusp 7Gem03; therefore, Midas is entering the 8th house of Credit, Debt, Insurance, Shared Resources, Big Finances, Transformations, and the Occult (meaning 'hidden') - is there action (Mars) today on financial matters (Midas) in Washington?
There is a midpoint at 7Gem41, too: Mercury/Uranus, which Ebertin gives as: 'intuition; astuteness; a revolutionary spirit; inventive thinking; "too many irons in the fire"; nervous haste; brutal frankness; a contradicting disposition; a mathematician, technician, physicist, cosmobiologist; sudden cognition; the power to influence others', and more.
"Too many irons" sounds like the president to me and NPR is reporting at noon that Mr. Obama is meeting with Chinese officials...or perhaps it's a conference call, I'm not sure. China is our biggest creditor, of course, and contains quite a pile of Midases, I venture to say.
So scroll down for the skinny on the Mythology of Midas, if you wish, compliments of Wikipedia, and provided linkily by yours truly.
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Related post: US invasions 1898 - 1934 concerns imperialism and keeping the American people quiet about it by way of propaganda; a quote from Charlie Wilson is included.
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Blogger 'Followers' feature disappears
Update 10:45 am edt: Funny! As I'm checking around now (including this blog's sidebar) the Followers feature has reappeared on the blogs I've checked so far - wow, is that fast service? Or a mysterious case of synchronicity?
Original post of a few minutes ago begins here:
Have you noticed lately that Blogger's Followers feature in not displaying on blogs where they should be appearing?
Maybe it's only my few blogs but the feature continues to disappear from sidebars all over the place; I've refreshed them but it seems not to make a diff.
Wonder if this means no one can sign up to Follow?
Oh well, I'll stop fretting. Perhaps it's simply time for a little Art...?
Ant Hill in Evening Light, a drawing imported from Secret Moon Art, a Children's~Moon~Cosmic~Botanical~Fairy Art gallery just for you!
All Art images on all my blogs by jude cowell 2009+; preferred medium: Prismacolor oil and Rexel Derwent watercolour pencils on paper.
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Original post of a few minutes ago begins here:
Have you noticed lately that Blogger's Followers feature in not displaying on blogs where they should be appearing?
Maybe it's only my few blogs but the feature continues to disappear from sidebars all over the place; I've refreshed them but it seems not to make a diff.
Wonder if this means no one can sign up to Follow?
Oh well, I'll stop fretting. Perhaps it's simply time for a little Art...?
Ant Hill in Evening Light, a drawing imported from Secret Moon Art, a Children's~Moon~Cosmic~Botanical~Fairy Art gallery just for you!
All Art images on all my blogs by jude cowell 2009+; preferred medium: Prismacolor oil and Rexel Derwent watercolour pencils on paper.
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7/26/09
Kennedy assassination revisited: Sun Sco-Moon AQ
Since noon today I've worked on a fresh look at the horoscope of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, if you're curious.
You may find that the Sun Sco-Moon AQ blend of Nov 22, 1963 tells us something about the day's flavor and the event's participants. Included are a few notes on the Solar Eclipse prior to the murder, an Eclipse which opposed US natal Pluto, planet of: sabotage, the Underworld, spies, nuclear devices, powerful puppetmasters, the Dragon guarding the riches, and invisible helmets.
And Pluto has a 'secret hand' identity as well, which is most useful to know in Mundane work.
As usual, the article is conveniently written in English for those who speak no astrologese, so please check it out in either language and let me know your thoughts...your insights will be much appreciated by this reluctant astrologer.
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You may find that the Sun Sco-Moon AQ blend of Nov 22, 1963 tells us something about the day's flavor and the event's participants. Included are a few notes on the Solar Eclipse prior to the murder, an Eclipse which opposed US natal Pluto, planet of: sabotage, the Underworld, spies, nuclear devices, powerful puppetmasters, the Dragon guarding the riches, and invisible helmets.
And Pluto has a 'secret hand' identity as well, which is most useful to know in Mundane work.
As usual, the article is conveniently written in English for those who speak no astrologese, so please check it out in either language and let me know your thoughts...your insights will be much appreciated by this reluctant astrologer.
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7/24/09
Barack Obama's Solar Return: August 4, 2009
In a cross-pollinating fit of blogginess today I've published something on President Obama's Solar Return 2009 chart but if you click its link, you'll first discover details on the Sun Leo-Moon Capricorn blend from his Solar Return chart.
Mr. Obama's natal Sun-Moon blend is Leo-Gemini which gives to his nature a Fire-Air combo of energies, and it doesn't change. But from his 2009 birthday, August 4, to the next birthday in 2010, he has Moon in ambitious Capricorn working with natal Sun in fiery Leo, sign of leadership - a Fire-Earth combination.
Guess you could think of my cross-pollinating as a scavenger hunt of some kind because from the above-linked post you may click through to the chart's image with details posted on Stars Over Washington, my primary Political Astrology blog since October 2005.
Or not. As you wish!
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7/23/09
On the elusive Truth and a Ron Paul video link
"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version." Oliver North
"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful." Edward R. Murrow
"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth." Publius Cornelius Tacitus
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." George Orwell (English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950)
Above quotes compliments of Information Clearing House
And if you can handle some truth, try this video of Rep. Ron Paul addressing the lies of the Fed who 'delivered' the financial collapse to America and thus to the world.
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"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful." Edward R. Murrow
"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth." Publius Cornelius Tacitus
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." George Orwell (English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950)
Above quotes compliments of Information Clearing House
And if you can handle some truth, try this video of Rep. Ron Paul addressing the lies of the Fed who 'delivered' the financial collapse to America and thus to the world.
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