VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You have a sense about how things will turn out. You probably know that a certain arrangement is not going to work, and yet there is still something to be gained in the experience of trying.

Luke Temple - Make Right With You

Cat Power: Wonderwall (orig. Oasis)

"Call the Shots," Malcolm Middleton

Spent much of the day walking in the woods thinking about such things as the kitchen-counter toad surgery that Mark performed one spring day. I set myself up for hours to condemn anyone I knew or respected less (than intimately), then merely did so. (wa)

Laura Tsaggaris: Oops! I Did It Again (Britney Spears) great cover

new moon in aries, v.2 [the fringe moves to center]

When I met LMG, for instance, what stood out was that he told me a story before he told me his name, and the story was one of moving from one life to another, partly by necessity and then by choice. The arc of the plot goes like this: I had a life but I got kicked out of it and then since I had to start over anyway I decided to follow my heart/soul/convictions, and then so this and then that and then this . . . etc etc. In his case, it was a divorce followed by inability to do the meaningless job he had bc he had no reason left to do it, so this and then that and finally the music store I was standing in when he tumbled out this story by way of hello. Bale-D, another case: a bankruptcy and then this and then that and finally a green building contracting business. My witch, the same, Tops checkout then the Dali Llama . . . A large number of people don’t like most of their lives really, eh? – hate their jobs, wish they were in better relationships, wish they could see themselves differently, want fewer chores with more purpose per, on and on. In those cases, when the sky falls, there can be a hard release of the spirit, because once you’ve already lost your life there is much less to fear (upside to everything).

So I’m thinking about the economy, looking at it like at a mote on my eyeball; the pool of people I might want to befriend is increasing by hundreds of thousands a month with no ebb of that trend in sight. That perspective helps me achieve equanimity at the moment.

Ruben Gonzalez - Choco’s guajira [like the Buena Vista Social Club? if yes, you’ll like this – nobody with booty can resist this kinda music, methinks] - the rest of the playlist is at moka here, all good but the gonzalez and lopez are my faves

new moon in aries

With Saturn in disciplined Virgo [think: pole up ass] and opposing Uranus and Mars in imaginative Pisces, the struggle between fear of change and the inevitability of change smacks us in the head (Aries) and says, think of possibilities and make it happen.

The Sabian Symbol for Aries is: A man succeeds in expressing himself simultaneously in two realms. The two realms of spirit and matter want to be joined again. We have to stop believing that matter is devoid of spirit and that spirit has no place in our bodies, lives or work world. We have to join these two aspects of our lives and succeed at LIFE.

This year’s Spring Equinox chart, along with the new Moon chart, has Pluto squaring the Sun. Pluto is a big player in this year’s events. Pluto’s move into Capricorn last year at the end of November signaled the beginning of a time of cosmic evolution for our society and corporate structures (which rule our society). And its influence – the destruction of what’s dead and needs to be buried so that new ideas, new life and a new society can be born out of the ashes – is strong all through the year. On Winter Solstice, Pluto conjoined the Capricorn Sun. On this Equinox, it squares the Sun in Aries. On Summer Solstice, it will oppose the Sun in Cancer, and on Fall Equinox is will once again square the Libra Sun.

All the important turning points of the year are tied to Pluto in Capricorn. While we’ve been seeing how bankrupt our corporate and financial institutions are, we have to find a way to let these structures die so that we can create a more fair, balanced and fruitful way to do business and live life. Pluto in Capricorn will demand accountability from our political and business leaders. And it demands responsibility on our part as well. We have to take authority for our own lives and then step forward and join with others to change the world.

Pluto squaring the Aries Sun and Moon demands that we go deep within ourselves and find out what needs to be released before we can grow into our new life. Squares are turning points, where we get to shift our consciousness and change course. Old psychological patterns, imprinted by the patriarchy (Capricorn at its worst) [ha, amen], have to be rooted out of our psyches so we can grow into our natural, unique selves.

How have the rules of the game - greed, domination, hierarchy, power and worship of the almighty dollar - stopped you from doing what you are meant to do in this life? Patriarchy feeds on fear, insecurity, duplicity, shame, domination and inequality. Do we really want to continue this system? It’s caused more destruction, more evil, more despair than it’s worth. I vote to let it topple. Another, more life-giving society can be envisioned and implemented in its stead.

This year is the year to rebel against the old so that your true life can begin. Remember, in times of chaos, we get a real chance for something new to emerge. Putting band-aids on the institutions that have failed us, even families, will just bring more failures. We have to re-structure from the ground up. Putting band-aids on our psychic wounds will get us the same life we’ve been living. Learn to stand up to/for yourself. If you really want something new, it will take courage and passion to face the wound and heal it. So begin now to make the changes you keep putting off for another day.

That DAY has COME.

Dan Auerbach - I Want More

for virgo this week: This is an ideal time to have sessions with a sex therapist so as to get to the root of any inhibitions that might be preventing you from claiming your full measure of orgasmic enlightenment. APRIL FOOL! While this is a fantastic time to deepen your access to the spiritual gifts of erotic bliss, you won't need a therapist to accomplish it. Here's all you really require: 1. a fantasy of making love with an inscrutable deity who has four arms, the better to hug you with; 2. a pretend aphrodisiac made from the peaches of immortality that you'll steal from the tree of life in your dream tonight; 3. an invisible sex toy that you create in your mind's eye while you're meditating about the most sublime situation you've ever been in.

[speechless]

and this is for capricorn (my rising sign) this week [please, O Lord, guard my mind's eye from physic hamsters while I'm supposed to be meditating on sex toys . . . ]:




angela desveaux - joining another
bonus - I can think of few things more essentially appropriate than Marianne Faithfull covering Morrissey: O God Please Help Me

[lol]

Crooked Still: Come On In My Kitchen

Alexi Murdoch - All My Days high rec

William Elliott Whitmore, "Lifetime Underground"
“Fairies Wear Boots (Black Sabbath Cover)” - Bill Patton
Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - I Was Dancing In A Lesbian Bar
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (Extended Remix)

WEEKEND LOVE FORECAST: ARIES: Exercise, get lost in a new neighborhood or window shop. You'll feel energized and attractive afterward. TAURUS: Someone who asks you for advice might not follow it. What this person really wants is your attention and maybe your love. GEMINI: You must let down your guard if you want a certain interesting person to enter your world. CANCER: Broadminded and versatile people are drawn to you, and you'll be surprised at what they tell you, too. LEO: Loved ones require your most compassionate and gentle self. VIRGO: You're attracted to a person who commits caring and generous acts. LIBRA: Cook, decorate and exhibit your excellent taste every chance you get -- you're so impressive to potential loves. SCORPIO: You appreciate passionate people -- it takes one to know one. SAGITTARIUS: A lovely someone might play on your weakness for beauty, much to your delight. CAPRICORN: Your powers of regeneration are strong now. You could heal an ailing relationship or make a good one even better. AQUARIUS: The one you are fond of is also quite fond of you. PISCES: Your flirtatious demeanor might start people fighting over you.

Dj Krush - On The Dub-Ble (right click to save - great track for your weekend getting a groove on chill mix)

“The right use of the will is the steady
effort to stand in spiritual being.”

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

for virgo: Years ago a Polish scientist toiling in Antarctica was consumed with longing for a woman he'd left behind in his home country. Spilling over with the desire to express his adoration, he gathered a mass of penguin dung and used it to spell out a large "M" on the frigid ground. It was the first letter of his girlfriend's name, Magda. To this day, two species of flowering plants have thrived in that M-shaped area, fed by the fertilizing power of the dung. Your assignment in the coming week, Virgo, is to create something equally enduring and unique for someone you care for deeply.

I'm flabberghasted by the lunacy of that horoscope. I will do no such thing, but ok if I did, it would be a giant letter-shaped shit drawing on the lawn, sure, what the hell ever hahahaaLOL

Vieux Farka Touré: Bullet The Blue Sky - the guitar on this is old school awesome

this is ivy league - you and me and the moon (magnetic fields cover)

too much room for me and me only

for virgo: foxglove plant can either be a hex or a healer. If you eat its flowers, your heart rate will zoom to a dangerous rate and your digestive system will go haywire. If, on the other hand, you have certain cardiac problems and partake of the foxglove's leaves, they will steady and strengthen your heart. I bet you can think of several influences in your life whose powers can be equally contradictory. According to my reading of the omens, it's an excellent time to get very clear about the differences, and take steps to ensure that you'll be exposed as little as possible to the negative effects.

Devandra Banhart: Forget About Him

The Pisces sun and Scorpio moon create emotional simpatico in the heavens. It's like the cosmos are having a support group meeting, a safe environment to confess and be absolved. Anyone who needs to get something off of their chest can pull up a chair and start talking.

[I think I might have been married to 'motivational jason' once upon a time; yes, in the horror series prequel, Fatally Uncommunicative battled The Hulk in Hippie Drag (and won).]

The Libra moon nudges us toward compromise, but not the kind of arrangement that will diminish both sides of the equation. This is no time to settle for the sake of being nice to those around us. Keep looking for the win-win deals, and where they don't exist, resolve to create them. The evening takes a sensual turn as the moon slips into Scorpio.

"Me No," Clem Snide

"You Can't Force a Dance Party," Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele, love this

update: we visited the pup and found that a puppy virus had wiped out the rest of the litter. our sole survivor is still hanging in there, butch boy that he was, but he's seen the abyss. under that gorgeous coat he's skinny as a bean and if the congestion returns he won't make it. we named him "Jedi", although "Solo" seems more appropriate :/

Tonight is the full Worm moon, in my homegirl Virgo this year. The first worm castings appear this month, small mounds of dirt that precede the crocus blooms. It’s also called the Crow moon bc this month you hear the crows making all that noise, ‘sprrrrring sprrrrrring!’ along w the blabbering squirrels and there are chickadees on my feeders every morning gossiping like 4th graders in the lunch line . . . It doesn’t feel like it yet maybe, but it’s here actually. We’re all thawing deep down.

This moon is for breaking into a start, as Pisces (flow) meets Aries (force) - like pushing against a door until you fall through it and on the other side it’ll be like The Wizard of Oz when the color-rama comes on. Close your eyes and tap your heals and want what you want, specifically in terms of all that you want to be for yourself and others:

This is the Full Moon of healing and service. Virgo understands that disease manifests itself in societies as well as in individuals. There is so much dis-ease in our world and we all need to awaken to our role as healers. The soulful, peacemaking Pisces Sun opposes the scientific, nature-based healing Virgo Moon . . . this opposition enlivens the integration of healing through transcendence and attending to bodily health.

So let’s talk a bit about Virgo, which most people consider perfectionistic, critical, analytical, organized, discriminating, scientific, empirical, and calculating. In truth, we all express our Virgo side when we strive. Virgo is the true healer of the zodiac because in its mind, if something causes pain, then it warrants attention and a cure. For Virgo, caring comes in the form of finding workable solutions to everyday problems.

This is the Full Moon to celebrate the body and take responsibility for our health - ideal conditions for radically questioning all aspects of how you deal with dis-ease. What are the psychic causes of physical illness? What are the spiritual implications of disease? What is my body trying to tell me about my life?

This Virgo Full Moon also gives us all an opportunity to make friends with our inner critic [that bitch], who can be either a helpmate or a hindrance. For those of you with strong Virgo in your charts, this is the Full Moon to tame the perfectionist living inside your head. You know… the one that says, “Nothing I do is good enough.” Those inner voices of self-doubt block the ability to act with conviction. This is the time to talk back to self-doubt and take control! Use this Full Moon to say, “This is good enough!” and get your talent out there.

Virgo knows that all life comes from star-stuff. Everything you are existed 15 billion years ago at the time of the Big Bang. Virgo and Pisces enjoy a deep connection around this realization. Pisces understands the oneness of all life through a deeply spiritual lens. Virgo understands the oneness of all life through the physical realities of cosmology, mathematics and physics. If we all experienced our bodies with this kind of integrated Virgo/Piscean conscious awareness, we would experience existent transcendent reality in every cell, in every life form. There would be no violence because everything would be holy. In Virgo’s world, holiness is achieved through transcendent embodiment, and from this state of embodied awareness one can heal almost any malady. Make no mistake about it; the mind-body connection is the most powerful medicine for healing and is the true wisdom of Virgo. The potential of the entire cosmos lives within the body.

Yeah so, like, be all AWARE and shit, ok?

Great Big Sea - Walk on the Moon

Make a wish! The full moon in Virgo is like a supportive and delightfully practical friend who can improve your world with the simplest of fixes. And if you don't quite know where to start, the full Virgo moon will help you focus your attention so that you may analyze your situation to determine the most efficient route to the new you.

Tom Rush: Urge For Going (orig. Joni Mitchell)

Remember the story about the man who gets three wishes? There are many versions, but the outcome is usually the same: The man makes his first two wishes in haste and must use the last one to return his world to the place he was where he started. Now is the time to consider carefully what you'll wish for on tomorrow's full moon.



this is fucking hilarious - 'did you dry these trays in the rainforest?!', that slays me

she & him - i put a spell on you screamin jay hawkins cover

Daniela Cotton - Make U Move - retrograde rec [I ain't yo mother la la laaaaa]

venus goes retrograde today in aries - if you've been happy, you're fucked; if you've been unhappy, you're maybe fucked [only different, ha ha]

jose gonzalez - teardrop [theme to House cover]

woo hoo - the night ended w/ local bbq and us w/ everyone hooting at the screens above the bar, the boy babes drunk on their rootbeer
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and the yoga teacher training started t'nite - I love Siri Egg so much already
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and then the launch for this (suggested reading) was also t'nite - we were late, so got the welcome of "my daughter and grandchildren just arrived" and everyone turned around to eyespy whom she was so happy to see, and I was happy it was us (better late than never, eh? [true of so many things])
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and the weekend is stackin' up unexpectedly interesting ([huh])
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Jolie Holland - Stubborn Beast, high rec (note: depending on your browser, moka links may have to be downloaded, or hit 'refresh' on the song's url to have the media player pop up - it's an anti-bot thing)

for virgo: One reason I've been put on this earth is to expose you to a kind of astrology that doesn't crush your free will, but instead clarifies your choices. In this horoscope, for instance, I'll crisply delineate your options so that you may decide upon a bold course of action that's most in tune with your highest values. Study the following multiple-choice query, then briskly flex your freedom of choice. Would you rather have love: 1. knock the wind out of one of your illusions, thereby exposing the truth about what you really want; 2. not exactly kick you in the butt, but more like pinch and spank you there, inspiring you to revise your ideas about what it means to be close to someone; 3. spin you around in dizzying yet oddly pleasurable circles, shaking up your notions about how to keep intimacy both interestingly unpredictable and soothingly stable.

4.____________________________________________________________________________________________ [the world may never know]



Eilen Jewell: Shakin’ All Over (Johnny Kidd and the Pirates cover)

the cat bong - it's not funny so I should probably stop laughing, eh? quite an impressive contraption, the kinda thing only a stoner in NEBRASKA would have the time to craft and one which only a stoner would get caught using as it MEOWED. I'm currently the foster mother of a little rescue shih tzu - maybe she's been baked! that would explain a lot.

queen of swords

[my nana, turning 95 last week - the hotlips are a nice touch,eh?]
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I've said before that every craftsman searches
for what's not there to practice his craft.

A builder looks for the rotten hole where the roof caved in.
A water-carrier picks the empty pot.
A carpenter stops at the house with no door.
Workers rush toward some hint of emptiness,
which they then start to fill.

Their hope, though, is for emptiness,
so don't think you must avoid it. It contains what you need!
Dear soul, if you were not friends
with the vast nothing inside,
why would you always be casting your net into it,
and waiting so patiently?

*Rumi
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what I'm listening to: "Stray Age," Daniel Martin Moore, repost

you're safe with me lala la

God, I was not meant to be the isolate
ery in this body.
I was meant to have your tongue in my mouth.
.
That is why I stand by your great plaster lips
waiting for your voice to unfold from its dark slot.
.
Your hand clenched into the shape of a bottle.
Your mouth painted shut on the answer.
Your eyes, two blue mirrors, in which I am perfectly denied.
.
I open my mouth and I speak
though it is only a thin sound, a leaf
scraping on a leaf.
*Louise Erdrich, "The Sacraments"

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what I'm listening to: "Love Affair," Nina Kinert, you won't feel a thing la lala - totally gets under your skin, this song



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faintedink'skid