Yes I can. Took me a few years to learn how to do so.
Yes, its not a type of ‘meditation’ just Shamata, using them as object of awareness.
No, but you have to time the viewings with your schedule and watch for clouds/weather.
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I think @BlessingsDeers may have some great wisdom about the water in your chart. She is a master of intuition, and I think may know ways to help strengthen your gifts.
@Parhelion regarding your Mars placement. Here is a rough snapshot,( lots more to say beyond this):
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Mars in Scorpio natives love to challenge themselves to do the impossible. They throw themselves into what they decide to do with concentrated energy and awesome willpower.
These people make formidable opponents, although often quietly so. They keep their cool and their equilibrium on the surface. Below the surface may be another story, and they are unlikely to easily let you in. Mars in Scorpio has the potential to exploit others–they see through others and rely heavily on their gut feelings.
The sexual stamina of this position is thought to be the strongest of all the positions of Mars. Sometimes, Mars in Scorpio people are attracted to taboos, and their fantasies may involve blowing the taboos to smithereens! They enjoy scenarios in which the “other” is giving in to them, wants them completely, and will do absolutely anything for them. And, their sexual appeal is strong enough that they generally do get what they want.
They find it difficult to share their partners, though they will likely never admit this. In stark contrast to Mars in Libra, who is most comfortable with the middle ground, Mars in Scorpio has a black-or-white philosophy of life. These are the people who say, “Just choose!” They really are not comfortable with compromisewhat kind of satisfaction could you possibly get from compromise? Real living, to Mars in Scorpio, is all about accepting challenges and making changes.
These people constantly test themselves, and, often, others. They make all kinds of rules and goals, just for the personal satisfaction that comes from achieving or mastering them. Their survival instincts are strong, and they embrace their own animal nature when they are all alone with themselves, without guilt.
These people have a provocative quality to them. This quality is usually most evident in youth, though it is often carried over into adulthood in more subtle, controlled ways.
Mars in Scorpio natives who have low self-esteem can become mighty twisted. Instead of beating themselves up, they turn self-loathing outward and end up manipulating others and feeling resentful.
While Mars in Libra is constantly striving to bring fairness to the world, Mars in Scorpio knows that life simply isn’t fair."
Scorpio rules death and sex. Mars rules Scorpio. So expect this energy to be Explosive and extremely powerful (firey). Some might call it frozen fire, or fire seething beneath the facade. Here the Mars energy is much more controlled, restrictive, and calculating, but still explosive, powerful, and dangerous.
Entire books have been written on the more taboo topics, worth diving into with your Mars placement (if you have not already). Here is a poor summary, but does mention a few things worth noting:
" When Venus or Mars is in Scorpio, the sexual nature can be quite complex. These lovers generally share a common intensity and depth in their sexual desires, but they vary in expression depending on their level of development. Some enjoy power and are attracted to breaking taboos. These lovers are willing to do almost anything, and they enjoy full-body pleasures. Others express their need for control by being unavailable and abstaining for long periods of time, giving in only when they feel their partner is deserving. Whatever their nature, they have a way that promises commitment and intensity in bed. They are provocative but private. Most will never kiss and tell. Sex is intimate and personal for Scorpio, but their fantasies are full-ranging."
Entire books have also been written about Mars and its placement throught the signs.
Your placement is where Mars energy is at its strongest. When refined and evolved this makes for a very potent force in the world. Like the cancer placement, this is a placement that will never forget a grudge.
Emotions run deep and are very powerful in Scorpio. Unbridled anger can be a very destructive force that wrecks havoc if this emotional energy is not tamed.
When it is tamed, some real wonders can happen. Think of Shiva energy, the power to destroy things or situation in order to transform them into something more powerful.
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" The Sun is in Capricorn from December 21-January 20. While the Sun is in Capricorn, we are motivated by feelings of responsibility, ambition, and respect for law and order. Capricorn derives much satisfaction in completion and accomplishment. Standards, structures, and an appreciation for order are Capricorn themes.
Capricorn wants tangible results, knows what is feasible and what is not, and is most comfortable working within an established framework and known boundaries or limits. Working towards a long-term goal is most satisfying with this influence.
We take a conservative approach to most matters during this month-long transit. Taking risks or making impulsive moves doesn’t suit us. We move ahead gradually but steadily and prosper by playing the long game–patiently working toward our objectives and taking care of our future. It’s a time when we expect eventual success by embracing step-by-step methods.
The Sun is in Aquarius from January 20-February 18. During this cycle, we are motivated by our hunger for knowledge, experience, and originality. Innovation is more important to us than convention. We become more aware of what is outdated in our lives, and strive to find new perspectives and new ways to do things. The class distinctions, structure, and order that Capricorn finds appealing now seem to be too rigid. The freedom of the individual becomes far more significant to us. We strive to free ourselves from some of the restrictions, inhibitions, and limitations that now feel constraining rather than safe.
We recognize those things that are obsolete or outdated, and we’re ready to change the world with new ideas and methods. We might often let our heads rule over our hearts during this cycle, preferring an objective, impersonal, and rational approach to life.
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beloved @Parhelion please let me know if you’d like to have my impressions on your map. I’m very intuitive and to the spot.
if so, please share your date, hour and place of birth (perhaps in a personal message) so I can see the whole map.
blessings.
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Very interesting. I have heard a lot of this before. I have a long standing interest in (read: have been deeply fascinated by and passionately drawn to) death, end of life exploration, and near death experiences. This predates, but prompted, my career choice as a hospice nurse.
Sexually none of it lines up at all, although that’s all we need to say about that topic.
I do have an intensity to the anger in my emotional landscape, but the self esteem issues certainly are directed inward at least as much as outward (contrary to what they suggest).
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Yes this fascinated me as well. I think I mentioned this above with this occupation also resonating deeply with your cancer placements.
I think that passage was poorly done. I think the biggest take away is this Mars placemeent makes doing things half assed, almost impossible for these individuals. Scorpios are very passionate, and the mars makes that passion bleed over into almost all life activities. These are (stereotypically) deeply passionate lovers.
Textbook with this placement. And the shadow side can be vindictiveness. The fact that you are so self aware really helps mitigate this.
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@NightHawk999 This seems like a big day today Astrologically. Whats your analysis?
Just read 2 articles about Pluto
- (Note one of your favourite expressions “Buckle up”
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From Star Sister Astrology
"This morning, for the first time in almost 1500 years, Pluto – the tiny planet far from our solar system’s great, shining center of power – conjoined the Sun in the last degree of Capricorn. The part of the sky that’s associated with challenge and effort is where things become not just real. In Capricorn, energy takes form in ways that last.
Astrologers call 29’ “the critical degree.” It carries transformational urgency. It’s where one thing is changed into something very, very different – as unlike all that is already known, understood, and familiar as every new life that enters the world.
The end becomes the beginning in 29’. The womb becomes a tomb — and in that highest form of truth we call paradox, the tomb becomes a womb. Here, the trauma we call birth becomes a gateway – to an utterly different kind of life.
Any conjunction in 29’ tells us it’s no longer business as usual. Something is being born – and birth is both utterly glorious and extremely dangerous. It’s meant to transform you.
What’s being born this morning isn’t just “any” conjunction, even one in 29’. This one happened in the very last minute of the very last degree. We’re all in the birth canal, part of what’s beginning to be born – the human future.
And here’s the thing about every conjunction with the Sun. It creates something new, something that remains energetically alive, unfolding its potential, until the next conjunction. For Pluto, that next conjunction won’t occur until January 21, 2025. What starts this morning will take an entire year to unfold.
Twenty-two minutes after conjoining Pluto, the Sun entered Aquarius. Eleven hours later, at 7:50 pm Eastern Time / 00:50 am UT tonight, Pluto will follow. Our tiny, potent Reality Transformer will remain in the zodiac’s most visionary and future-oriented sign for almost 7 ½ months – until September 1 – before returning to 29’ Capricorn for 80 days that will likely be as intense as any in your life.
It will be November 19, 2024 before Pluto has completed his 16-year mission in Capricorn, not to return for 248 years. But today’s conjunction in 29’59" Capricorn means that for the next year and a day, his sole and single purpose is this: to locate and transform the energy patterns, within and around you, that are preventing Capricorn, the rock solid earth, from giving birth to Aquarius, the vast, visionary reaches of the invisible and formless air.
Until 3:40 pm Eastern Time / 17:40 pm UT today, Pluto is cazimi. That’s an Arabic word that means “in the heart.” It describes what happens to a planet that’s within 17" of our Star. A purification, transmutation, and exaltation is underway.
Cazimi is a kind of miracle offered to us every time a planet conjoins the Sun. But a 29’ cazimi is special. 29’ is the degree that’s all about purification, transmutation, the exaltation of becoming.
For seven hours today, cazimi is available to your Plutonian depths. To your relationship with transformation and all the deaths, losses, traumas, and griefs that set it in motion, deep within you. To experience the glory of the cazimi, go there.
Go to the depths, with an open heart and a willing spirit. Go to see yourself, for just an instant, or an hour, or a day, or a lifetime – for in truth, they’re all the same – as no-thing, no boundaried, guarded, and defended “state.” See the deeper, bigger truth – that you are a co-creative participant in the infinite, eternal, never-ending dance of Love that we call the Universe. And begin to live from it, more fully than you knew you could, for just one minute — and then another."
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Interesting after reading about Pluto.
The UK is about to be hit by Storm Isha
Isha is a gender-neutral name of Hindu origin, meaning “one who protects”. This name comes from a Sanskrit word that means “the ruling Goddess” or “the ruler”. Isha holds great significance in Hinduism as it is used to describe the God Shiva in Hindu religious scripture
In Hebrew it translates into “woman” and Eve’s 2nd name (Gen. 2:23).
“Eve" in Hebrew is “Ḥawwāh” and is most commonly believed to mean “living one” or “source of life” as it is phonetically similar to “ḥāyâ”, “to live”, from the Semitic root ḥyw
eTeacherHebrew.com(isha,different%20from%20its%20male%20counterpart.
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I felt something for sure, but could have also been the transition of the sun into aquarius.
Nice.
These slow moving planets play a role in things. I cant say what with great certainty, but this transition was worth noting and I appreciate you mentioning it.
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@Bianca_Aga
these resources might interest you:
" Pluto enters the sign of Aquarius on March 23rd, 2023, January 20th, 2024, and November 19th, 2024.
Pluto is very slow moving, and because it spends a fair portion of its time in retrograde motion, it weaves in and out of a sign before staying in it consistently.
*The following are the dates when Pluto is in Aquarius:
- Mar 23, 2023, to Jun 11, 2023
- Jan 20, 2024, to Sep 1, 2024
- Nov 19, 2024, to Mar 8, 2043
- Aug 31, 2043, to Jan 19, 2044
While Pluto first enters Aquarius in March 2023, it’s not until November 19th, 2024, that it enters Aquarius and stays there–for almost twenty years!
Pluto takes approximately 248 years to come full circle. This slow-moving planet’s transits are long-lasting, and each transit takes its time to unfold.
As Pluto transits a point in our chart, retrogrades back over it, and then hits it again in direct motion, it imparts its unique wisdom upon the point in question and the areas of lives and parts of our psyches ruled by that point.
Pluto Transits: General
How Pluto affects our lives depends greatly on whether we resist its influences or try to work with this planet of rebirth and destiny.
Where Pluto touches, it compels us to explore more deeply. Superficiality is not acceptable for Pluto! Pluto transits insist that we connect with our core purpose and deeper sense of power. New levels of intimacy, not only with others but also with ourselves, are discovered and uncovered.
Transiting Pluto brings intensity and focus to our lives. Pluto breaks through illusions in search of the utter truth. These are not Saturn truths, where we see things for what they are in a mundane or material sense. Pluto probes much deeper, shining light on our darkness.
Transiting Pluto offers us the chance to evolve and rebirth. Pluto acts to strip away what is unnecessary or superficial in our lives. Pluto wants deep experience of the transformational kind. Things that are not working for us, whether thought processes or lifestyles, undergo a transformation. We’re rebirthing in the areas of life affected. Pluto transits are about letting go of things holding us back from profound and meaningful experiences.
Fear–sometimes intense fear–can reveal itself at the beginning of a challenging Pluto transit. We confront our “dark” side–those parts of us that are raw, primal, and instinctive. Resisting this process can cause us to externalize or project these parts of ourselves. If we do this, Pluto’s energy has to go somewhere, so we end up meeting Pluto in our lives in the guise of events and people. We might attract jealous, manipulative, and controlling people or situations.
Pluto revolutionizes parts of ourselves, and events that occur at this time can just as easily be new relationships, births, and new beginnings as they are separations. For example, someone convinced to never marry might reverse this conviction during a Pluto transit.
Possible influences and experiences with transiting Pluto:
- Emotionally and sexually rewarding relationships, intimacy.
- Psychological healing.
- Relationship problems, separation, manipulative behavior, jealousy and possessiveness.
- Resistance to change and holding onto negative attachments.
- Self-destructive behavior, obsessions.
- Looking for truth and meaning.
- Beginning new, intense relationships.
- Psychological insight, intolerance for superficiality.
- Soul-to-soul connections with partners.
- Fateful encounters, timely new relationships and/or separations.
- Discovering one’s power.
- Unloading burdens and obligations.
- Increased focus, strength, and commitment.
- Death and rebirth cycles.
- Complex involvements.
- Coming face to face with our deepest fears, and overcoming them.
- A new interest in psychology and parapsychology.
Pluto’s Transit Through Aquarius: General Influences
Background: While Pluto was in Capricorn from 2008 to 2023/2024, we were testing our boundaries. It was an intense period of breaking down, exposing, renovating, and rebuilding structures, governments, traditions, and rules. We sought a life path that reflected our true self or true ambitions.
Pluto was/is in Capricorn from January 25, 2008, to June 14, 2008, November 26, 2008, to March 23, 2023, June 11, 2023, to January 20, 2024, and then September 1, 2024, to November 19, 2024.
Pluto demands renovation and a connection with our true ambitions wherever it touches our charts. Pluto will reveal vulnerable areas that need strengthening and fears that need eradicating.
During this transit of Pluto in Aquarius, it’s time for a complete overhaul of:
- friendship,
- social structures and networks,
- community,
- group associations,
- humanitarianism and individuality,
- scientific inventions and progress,
- our happiness goals.
While Pluto is in Aquarius, we take social structures and politics especially seriously, and we seek major reform in these areas.
Unusual, intense, or dramatic happenings are possible with friends and networks.
During this long-term cycle, we are likely to confront issues of control and power related to individuality, equality, friendships, and group associations.
We can be on a quest to distinguish ourselves for our progressiveness, scientific minds, ideals, humanitarianism, or unique qualities.
It’s also a time when we seek to change and overhaul society through science, inventions, and the mind/ideas.
It can certainly be a time when we are more intense, jealous, or even paranoid in our social lives. New ways of approaching our social needs can be in order. We’re doing things differently because of our new perspective on these matters."
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"### Pluto in Aquarius and the Signs of the Zodiac: Horoscopes
Pluto is in Aquarius for parts of 2023 and 2024, and then more consistently until 2043, when it begins to weave out of the sign.
In a general sense, this is how Pluto’s transit through Aquarius might affect the different Sun signs ( or, more appropriately, Ascendant signs):
Pluto’s transit of Aquarius for the signs, in brief (detailed interpretations are below this list):
For Aries: A time of renovation of your social life, involvement with the community and causes, and interest in friends and groups. Issues of control, influence, and power can emerge with social connections and associations. You’re discovering desires on social levels you never knew you had.
For Taurus: A time of upheaval and/or renovation of your ambitions, career, reputation, and longer-term goals. You might connect with ambitions you previously never knew you had.
For Gemini: A time of upheaval and/or renovation of your belief system, worldview, education, outlook, subjects of interest, or sense of adventure.
For Cancer: You experience feelings, desires, and drives that you never knew you had during this cycle. Power plays, matters of control, habits, dependencies, debts, shared finances, and intimacy are areas of some upheaval, but also renovation or renaissance.
For Leo: Partnerships, one-on-one interactions, commitments, and relating are going through a renovation. You’re meeting Pluto energy through a significant other, or discovering relationship needs you previously didn’t recognize.
For Virgo: Your work, routines, day job, health, wellness, and habits are going through renovations, largely due to the discovery of deeper needs and ambitions. It can be a time when you’re driven to work or accomplish in your daily life.
For Libra: A time for connecting with deeper ambitions and desires related to creative or romantic urges, leisure time, and recreation. Sharing and expressing yourself with others can be in focus, and you’re doing things differently.
For Scorpio: Renovations in your personal or emotional life, in the home, or with family can be in focus. More attention to your personal world is likely, although you should watch for an obsessive or controlling focus.
For Sagittarius: A strong, ambitious focus on your personal interests, connecting, and communicating can figure strongly. How you connect and communicate and the topics you learn and explore can go through deep changes and renovations.
For Capricorn: Your approach to your money, income, personal belongings, natural talents, and self-worth is going through deep changes and renovations.
For Aquarius: It’s a time of deep changes to your personality, particularly as you project it to others, image, health, and attitude toward new beginnings and enterprise.
For Pisces: It’s a time of deep changes and renovations to your attitude to downtime, mental health, unpaid work, and endings or closure."
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I’m beginning to believe in “these slow moving planets play a role”. I haven’t had an interest in Astrology like since reading your posts im grateful for! And i cant take the credit for mentioning these Pluto references as that belongs to someone who sent me an email about the Kali Yuga and Pluto subject that caused me to watch their video and started seeing lots of similar posts on social media. Funny that 
how a subject enters ones arena 
And from all of that post, this is what resonates the most.
Yes! Thank you!
Again… this subject of truth.
yep! I’ll take that!
Thanks for sharing!
@NightHawk999 What star sign are you?
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"FEATURE — The first full moon of 2024 promises to stimulate matters of the heart, and have us all feeling a desire to stand out.
A full moon at 5 degrees Leo will adorn the sky Thursday at approximately 10:53 a.m. MDT. The fixed fire sign of Leo is characterized by strength, bravery and creative self-expression.
Full moons are associated with culminations, celebrations and endings. The energy begins to build about three days before and can last up to two weeks. Full moons pull emotions to the surface and unveil underlying matters. So in Leo, a sign that rules the heart, this full moon intensifies emotions and calls for us to share our inherent gifts with others. This is a time to radically be and love ourselves.
Ruled by the sun, Leo can be further understood by considering aspects of the star of our solar system. It is the sun that brings warmth and animates life, entering and exiting the day with vibrant sunsets and sunrises. It is the sun that allows seeds to germinate and grow. The sun is a source of creation, and it is this same energy on offer now.
In opposition to the sun in Aquarius, the full moon activates the axis of social connection. Both signs love to bring people together. But in polarity, Leo connects by being in the center, while Aquarius connects with the whole of humanity from afar, which is why they are sometimes perceived as detached.
The full moon will form a square aspect with Jupiter in Taurus and oppose Pluto, which just entered Aquarius last week. While this is a more challenging aspect, Jupiter and Saturn connect harmoniously at the same time, indicating a time of melding dreams with reality. This triggers a boost in optimism and confidence that we can create the life we want, while also being able to envision the practical steps to get there."
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"What the Full Moon in Leo Means for You
Ruled by the Sun, Leo reminds us what holds us together. Leo is the regal lion of the zodiac. It embodies the energies of leadership, compassion, vulnerability, strength, and love. The full Moon in Leo is the time to find what makes you shine your brightest and embrace that part of yourself despite any fear of rejection. It teaches you to love yourself fiercely and let love change the world.
With Leo’s energy governing the full Moon, we are encouraged to focus on the heart’s truth. Acknowledging this takes courage and vulnerability. It’s not always easy to listen to and follow our hearts. Our mind often has different plans and will try to convince us that these plans are safer.
This full Moon is the time to listen to the heart and follow its lead, even if we are unsure of the road ahead. It’s a time to feel the guidance of the heart through our emotions and let it give us the answers we’ve been looking for all along. The heart’s energetic field extends far past our bodies and influences others around us through its frequency. The full Moon in Leo reminds us to tend to it and accurately represent who we are at our cores.
Part of tending to the heart is listening to it. Following it, though, can make us feel vulnerable. The heart does not come with organized spreadsheets that tell us the exact trajectory of our decisions. The heart is messy, complicated, and may feel illogical at times. It holds our joy, love, compassion, and gratitude. It also contains all of our feelings, including our pain, regret, and fear.
To feel and amplify the positive vibrations of the heart, we must also be willing to feel and understand everything else the heart holds. We cannot open our hearts and feel only the good things. We have to stand in the presence of all of it, which can make us feel scared, vulnerable, and even ashamed. Leo teaches us to show up for ourselves with courage and strength. It reminds us that we can face anything within ourselves with love and compassion.
Over the full Moon in Leo, find some time to sit with yourself and listen to your heart. Feel what you’ve avoided or shut down in your heart. Breathe into your heart and listen to it without the mind and its thoughts interfering.
We often think the mind is the center of our beings. The mind would like to trick us into thinking it is in control, but the heart is the one that leads us forward. The heart knows the direction we must travel to align with our life’s purpose, and the heart knows how to tap into infinite wisdom. The mind is simply along for the ride."
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from my experience, true transformation comes from the inside out
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@NightHawk999
Thanks for sharing 
This week in astrology ~ "We are more able to sort out what is relevant and essential. Realism enters the picture, our speech is no-nonsense, and precision becomes important to us. Our survival instincts are strong–we’re interested in what will benefit us in the long term.
We’re not interested in the fluff, preferring to get right to a point or the bottom line."
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Why not both?
For sure.
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I could write a book answering your question… hihihi or perhaps you write it!
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"In other regions of the United States, different native peoples have various names for the January Moon. The Potawatomi in The Great Lakes refer to it as the “Bear Moon,” while the Haida in Alaska call it the “Bear Hunting Moon.” In The Pacific Northwest, the Tlingit know it as the “Goose Moon.”
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