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Sun in Libra I - The Erinyes

The Sun reaches the point of the autumnal equinox at 8:44 am EDT on 22 September 2024. It's the season of the Furies... are you living in right relationship with Five (maybe Six?) key Relationships? Maybe it's time to check.

The Sun enters Libra I, called The Blindfold and the Sword, at the moment of the Autumnal Equinox on 22 September 2024, which is 8:44 am EDT. He’ll pass through the first ten degrees of Libra in 10 days, 4 hours, and 33 minutes, arriving at Libra II on 2 October 2024 at 1:17 pm EDT. Austin Coppock developed the naming system I use, but T. Susan Chang calls this decan Blind Equilibrium, since it’s…

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Do cultures that use a base twelve number system have an equivalent term to "decade" to denote twelve years?

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Sun in Virgo III - 12 to 22 Sept 2024

Hestia rules Virgo III, from 12-22 September 2024. In matters of lineage, cooking, and inheritance, she reigns supreme. What mysterious dish is she preparing to serve you?

The Sun enters Virgo III The Sarcophagus (according to Austin Coppock‘s naming conventions from 36 Faces) on 12 September 2024 at 2:40 am EDT, and remains there until 22 September 2024 at 8:44 am EDT. This decan is associated with the 10 of Pentacles, showing a wealthy old man surrounded by the fruitful material benefits of his intentional wealth-building, and T. Susan Chang called this decan…

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Class: Intro to Astrology

I’ve decided to teach a 10-week course in astrology, beginning October 1. The class will meet on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm. The price? $400 — although my Patreon subscribers and others are getting various discounts off of that, up to $100 in some cases. You can sign up…

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Origami knight made from a single piece of paper with not cuts or tears.

Video of how it was done below

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Sun in Virgo I - Themis

The sun enters Virgo I on 22 August 2024 at 10:55 am EDT. How will Themis, the parliamentarian-goddess, assist you in directing your team toward your mission, and keep them from throttling each other?

The Sun enters Virgo I A Tree Bearing Fruit (as Austin Coppock named it) on 22 August 2024 at 10:55 am EDT. The Sun will remain here until 1 September 2024 at 7:25 pm EDT — amounting to ten days, eight hours and 30 minutes. T. Susan Chang called this decan It’s The Little Things. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn called the related Tarot card, the 8 of Pentacles, The Lord of Prudence — which…

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Moon conjunct Neptune in Pisces

Here’s a recording of a poem to use at the Moon’s monthly conjunction with Neptune while it’s in Pisces. It’s a useful reminder that this isn’t exactly an easy conjunction — it’s overloaded with dreams and visions that are not always grounded in reality, but sail in deliberate fashion toward hoped-for islands that are often little more than mirages. Moon Conjunct Neptune in Pisces Hail, bright…

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Sun in Leo III - Serapis

covering 12 August 2024 to 22 August 2024 Lasting 10 days, 9 hours, 39 minutes At 1:16 am EDT on 12 August 2024, the Sun will enter Leo III The Banner — the domain of Mars under the Sun, and a place of philosophical and intellectual leadership where we carry forward the symbols and emblems of the causes we care about. The Sun will be here until 22 August 2024, for a total of 10 days, 9 hours,…

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Sun in Cancer III - 11-22 July 2024

This is my 180th astrology column. Since they come out about every 10 days, that’s about 1800 days, or not quite five years. Except, of course, that 36 columns a year, times five years = 180 columns. One way or another, this column represents five years of completed astrological practice. I want to thank my readers for sticking with me for the ride. The Sun enters the third decan of Cancer on 11…

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Sun in Cancer II - 1-10 July 2024

The Sun enters Cancer II The Walled Garden (in the naming conventions of Austin Coppock) on 1 July 2024 at 4:31 am EDT. Associated with the Three of Cups in Tarot, this decan was named by T. Susan Chang as Seize the Day, somehow apropos for the part of the chart associated with Hercules, the strongman of Greek myth. Yet it’s message-bearing Mercury that is the planetary administrator of this…

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Sun in Cancer I: 20-30 June 2024

The Sun enters Cancer I The Mother and Child (in Austin Coppock‘s naming conventions), on 20 June 2024 at 4:51 pm EDT, and passes through these ten degrees until 1 July 2024 at 4:31 am EDT, marking ten days, eleven hours and 40 minutes. The first decan of Cancer is associated with the Greek goddess Nike, and with the planet Venus as its archon. T. Susan Chang called it The Dance Begins, a good…

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The second of the four designs for my 2022 Pride line: a portrait of Holy Antinoos, the deified lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. More myth than fact remains of either his life or his death, but the record is clear that he died while travelling with Hadrian in Egypt and that emperor had him deified, established a hero cult in his name, and named a city after him. The cult never became a major religion, but it was widespread and reasonably popular, and Antinoos became both a religious and literary icon of sexual love between men. I based this image of Antinoos on a Roman statue in the Antinous Mondragone style from the 2nd century CE, reframed in imitation of an ancient coin.

* Made of solid .925 sterling silver or shibuichi (an art metal alloy made of 3:1 copper:silver), yellow brass, or bronze.

* Available as a coin, with an upeye for use as a pendant, or with three jump rings for use in a rosary-style necklace.

Each piece is hand-made to order in my home studio, with unique variations and defects as a result of the fabrication and casting process.

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I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

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Japanese light novel authors 🤝 Renaissance-era/early-modern authors

Convoluted, longer-than-necessary book titles

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Greedflation is manifest.

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Poem: Venus Cazimi in Gemini

I’ve previously written a hymn for a Venus Cazimi in Libra, and it makes sense to continue the trend with a hymn for Tuesday’s Venus Cazimi in Gemini at 11:11 am EDT on 4 June 2024 What is a cazimi? It’s when Venus or Mercury (most commonly, but sometimes Mars or Jupiter or Saturn) is in “the heart of the Sun”. To an observer on Earth, the planet is obscured by the disk of the Sun exactly, with…

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Hymn for Astrologers

I’m currently reading through Julius Firmicus Maturnus’s Mathēsis in the Ben Dykes translation which came out relatively recently. At the end of Book I, there’s a prayer to the planets to ask for the blessings of heaven to come down on the emperor Constantine the Great (who died in AD 337, just a few years after the composition of Mathēsis) to solve the problems of the world. The prayer also asks…