Sunday, 31 December 2017

Buyer beware

Introduction
This report is a short edition of the Forecast Horoscope. It is meant as a sample and advertisement for the full version of the Forecast Horoscope which can be ordered from Astrodienst as a bound report of about 15 - 20 pages. In the short edition, only a few, but nevertheless important transits over your natal chart are considered. It is likely however that some important transits of this six month period have been omitted in this abbreviated report. The report was generated for 6 months starting from the 1st of January 2018 with the following birth data: female, born on 16 February 1967 at 11:00 pm in London, England. Your sun sign is Aquarius. This is the sign in which the Sun is in your birth chart. Your Ascendant is in Libra, and your Moon is in Taurus.
to top Pluto trine Moon: News from the psyche End of February 2017 until end of October 2019: This is a period of profound emotional experiences, which should be extremely positive and creative for your overall growth and evolution. You are concerned with making your life more profound and emotionally rewarding. No longer satisfied with living at the surface, you want to feel in your heart everything that until now you have understood only with your mind. At the same time your mental understanding will become more profound because it will be based on intuition as well as on logic. This deepening experience of life will affect your relationships as well. In fact it may very well bring about an important new relationship, which may or may not be sexual. In any case you can be sure it will be emotionally profound and a positive learning experience in which you will discover a great deal about your inner psyche. Even your existing relationships will now have a great deal more emotional content than they have had and will become the source of much self-discovery. Again you need have little fear for the stability of these relationships. The most important discovery you will make about yourself during this time concerns the workings of your subconscious patterns, the unconscious habits and patterns that you carry from your past. This is an excellent time for psychotherapy or other consciousness-expanding therapies. It is not that you need them necessarily, but they would be extremely effective at this time. In your personal and home life you will have a chance to make positive changes. You can make repairs, construct new buildings and generally expand your activities. Your home life should be deeper and more emotionally rewarding now than at other times. This is often a good time for buying real estate, especially if you plan to live on it.

to top Pluto trine Pluto: Up to you Beginning of March 2017 until beginning of November 2019: This is a period of stability, in which very deep and perseverant energies lend themselves to you. Whether you make use of them or not is completely up to you. However, if you do decide to use them, there will be potential for inner growth. From this position you can gain deep insights into the functioning of your psyche which might have shocked you at other times. This is a time for simplification and for finding out what is really meaningful to you. It is a period when you are not only able to, but should, make changes. It is a time when you are able to eliminate the old and outworn elements of your life with relative ease because there will be little in the way. It may even seem so easy that you are not aware of its being an issue, but you should not rest on your laurels. Take an inventory of your life, your friendships, your possessions and other attachments and involvements. See which of these support you and at the minimum allow you to grow. These should be preserved. But do not struggle to preserve anything that does not serve you, especially if it seems to want to pass away. This is most important, because whatever you do not eliminate from your life now that does not serve you could become a cause of difficulty during more stressful times that may come along later.

to top Uranus conjunction Descendant: More arguments End of June 2017 until beginning of March 2019: This influence brings about disturbing close encounters with others. Relationships in general will be a significant challenge, and you won't even be able to take the old reliable ones for granted. Other people seem to be trying to disrupt your life and make you uneasy. Marriage is the most intimate one-to-one encounter, and any hidden tensions, any problems that either of you has been holding back will come out now. Consequently your marriage may go through some rather startling changes. If it has not been working out but you have been holding it together anyway, this influence may very well signify its breakup. Even in a good relationship you may have more arguments and disagreements than usual. This applies as well to two people living together. A business partnership may also be affected in a similar way. Clearly this is a time when you have to do a lot of straightening out. Other types of confrontations may also be quite disturbing at this time. For example, you may become involved in very disruptive legal disputes. Settle these as quickly as possible, because you will not be able to count on the outcome of any legal confrontation at this time, no matter how good it looks. Be careful of acting in a way that stirs people up against you, for they could become extremely disruptive, if you give them any excuse. This influence indicates a general reworking of your relationships with others, and you may not always be happy about the outcome. In general, others are resisting your efforts to control the relationship, which you may be doing in spite of your best intentions. But your partner will not ask that the relationship be totally destroyed unless you are so rigid and unwilling to change that there seems no other way out. All your partner wants is to redefine the relationship so that he has a greater say and more room to move. It is possible that these effects may work the other way, that you are the one who is struggling to gain control in a relationship. In either case, the relationship has to express each of you more appropriately than in the past.

to top Jupiter opposition Moon: The first move Mid-January 2018 until end of September 2018: This is a time when feelings and emotions play an important part in your life, and relationships based on feelings and emotions become very important. This influence is usually experienced positively as warm feelings within yourself and from others. You feel emotionally very generous and giving. Relationships are usually quite good and rewarding now, and those that you have been building up for years may begin to produce results. You can now decide clearly which ones are worthwhile and which are not. But there is a negative side to this influence also. It can make you feel very self-indulgent and undisciplined. You may feel that the world "owes me a living," whether or not you really deserve it. It may also make you feel that others ought to be breaking their back to help you. In personal relationships, you may become very demanding without really offering anything to your partner in return. Instead of reaching out to make things happen in your life, you wait for others to make the first move and become quite angry when people insist that you take some initiative. Your love relationships and relations with women can be either very good or very bad, probably not anywhere in the middle. It all depends upon your general reaction to this influence. If you are demanding in the manner described above, then your relationships will be bad. But if this influence arouses your feelings of warmth and generosity, they will be quite good. And this is a good way of gauging where you are with this influence, because encounters with others, especially women, will bring out its effects.

to top Jupiter trine Venus: Pleasantly lazy End of January 2018 until beginning of October 2018: You feel very light-hearted and sociable now and want to spend as much time as possible with others. This is a good time for taking a vacation, attending social gatherings, or participating in other forms of amusement and fun. It is not conducive to any kind of serious effort, because you are inclined to feel pleasantly lazy and unenterprising. There is also a very strong self-indulgent streak to this influence. Be very careful not to eat or drink too much. Fortunately you have the ability to make others feel good if they are unhappy or depressed, and as a result, people enjoy being around you at this time. You may have the chance to do favors for others that will eventually be returned. And since you feel generous and giving, you will not mind doing them. In some instances this influence has a way of drawing money or other material resources to you. But don't sit around planning how to spend a sudden windfall from heaven, as many people do with this influence. It is a possibility, but only one among many and not the most likely. Actually it is more likely that you will spend money on objects that you consider beautiful. Others may not appreciate your taste at this time, however, because it tends toward the flashy or gaudy. Be careful that you don't get stuck with something that will offend your own taste in a soberer moment. You have a great desire for beauty, however, and if your taste is sound you will surround yourself with objects that you can enjoy for years and that will also gain in value.

to top Neptune conjunction Mercury: Hidden abilities End of March 2018 until mid-January 2020: The logical and rational faculties of your mind are likely to be scrambled by this influence, so that you are no longer quite sure what you think about anything. Or you may come under the influence of ideas that you would not have held previously. You are likely to make the worst mess of this period if you try to organize and restructure your life now. Consequently this is a bad time for making important decisions that will affect the direction of your life. It is also a bad time for most business decisions, because there is a danger that you are poorly informed about what is going on. This influence always raises the issue of self-deceit, being deceived by others or your deceit toward others. Be extremely careful of these hazards in any kind of negotiations. Deceit may be inadvertent. For example, you may find that you are unable to clearly express what is on your mind because the thoughts seem so complex and disorganized, and when you do say something, others misunderstand you completely. Be very sure that people really understand your meaning when they say they do. On the plus side of this influence, you will be much more receptive to subtle forces around you. Your rational mind may be confused, but your intuition is likely to be very sharp. The only difficulty you might have is in making others understand the basis of your understandings. You may become interested in psychic matters and in mysticism under this influence. You will arrive at a profound and direct knowledge of the inadequacies of unaided logic, and you may seek to expand your understanding of the more hidden aspects of the mind. You may even encounter hidden abilities in your own mind. 
 
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The year of the wood dog

 2018 is the Year of Brown Dog. You were born in the Year of Sheep. The following is the Brown Dog year prediction for people born in year of Sheep.
When Sheep meets the Dog, the Dog will guide the sheep looking for the goal of the life. The modest and hard-working Sheep receives the big rewards.
Career: Sheep is in the Earth group. Wood represents career to Sheep. Dog is in the Earth group. There no Wood inside the Dog. Dog won't directly bring you career opportunity. Or you won't focus on the career development during the cycle of the Dog. Both Dog and Sheep are the same element of Earth. They can be career partners. Dog will help you to solve the problems and relieve the pressures at work. Following Dog's leadership, you will have good income and job opportunities. Therefore, your career luck will be good.
Job Change: You will figure out your career goal. The new job opportunity will appear. If there is a promotion chance for a challenge position, then you can consider accepting it. The new challenging job is definitely required work harder. But you should show your capability of workplace adjustments and adaptations. Then you can slowly overcome the obstacles to accomplish your mission.
Wealth: Sheep is Earth. Water is afraid of Earth. Water represents your money. Dog is Earth without Water. Dog won't bring you a chance to make a big fortune. Dog is related to the mountain. When it rains, however, mountain Dog will collect rainwater to Sheep. That means Dog brings money opportunity to Sheep once for a while. What you have to do is to follow the leadership of the Dog. As long as Dog makes its fortune, Dog will share it with you. For example, Dog has a big business project. Dog can give you a subcontract of that deal.

In general, your money luck is good. Since no Water inside the Dog, your money luck won't constantly come. Having a good income, Sheep is easy to lose itself and pursuit for an extravagant life. If you are too greedy to receive the filthy lucre, you might encounter the trouble as huge as the mountain.

Love: Sheep and Dog can get along well. But they have only friendship without romance. It's difficult for them to have speedy love relationship. In order to improve your love opportunity, you can ask people born in the years of Horse to help you. Horse and Sheep have attraction relationship into Fire. Horse and Dog have attraction relationship, too. Three of you together can have a good harmonic atmosphere when talking the subject related to Fire subject.

If you are single, then you should increate your social activities. Your lover might appear around your new friends. If you are in love, then you need a little bit patience for your slow love development. If you are married, then you probably will spend more time on career, siblings or financial investment. The time with your spouse will be shorten.

Social Circle: Your people relationship is fine. If Dog steals your show and opportunities, then you still have many other friends. Sheep is Earth and contains some Wood and Fire. Sheep can get along well with friends of Wood and Fire. Your Wood friends are Rabbit, Tiger, Dragon and Pig. Your Fire friends are Horse, Snake and Dog. As long as you want to show sincere, sympathetic, humble and understanding attitude to people, then you will received the recognition from the group.
Quarrel: If you have quarrel, dispute or litigation with someone, then this case will drag for a long time. Both Sheep and Dog are in the Earth group. Dog is Male Earth and Sheep is Female Earth. Dog has higher momentum. Sheep is good at resisting the high pressure. That will be a long battle, if nobody wants to give up. Because you cannot bring up a good reason to win the argument, it is best to reconcile with your rival as soon as possible. If you really encounter the big trouble, look for the person born in the year of Horse to help you. Horse will act a very good mediator between Dog and Sheep.
Health: Both Sheep and Dog are in the Earth group. Anything related to Earth will impact your health. If Earth is too much for you, then you should pay attention on your stomach and digestive system. If Water is too less for you, then you should pay attention on your kidneys, bladder and the urinary system. Sheep contains some Wood. If Earth is too strong and Wood is too weak, then you should pay attention to the liver and nervous system. Suggest you to often visit park, lawn, lakeside, riverside or beach to enjoy the fresh air.
General Fortune: When the opportunity knocks, don't let it slip. Build more confidence to achieve your goal. Your persistent efforts can extend your luck to the next cycle. 

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In 2018 which is the year of Wood Dog in Chinese Zodiac, you people of Sheep sign will be under the influence of auspicious and inauspicious stars on a par: blessed by four auspicious stars, namely 'Tian De' (天德), 'Fu Xing' (福星), 'Ba Zuo' (八座), and 'Ban An' (板鞍), and harmed by several inauspicious stars like 'Huang Fan' (黄幡), 'Juan She' (卷舌), 'Pi Ma' (披麻), and 'Jiao Sha' (绞煞). Therefore, you will see both opportunities and challenges when it comes to luck; only if you go all out and overcome difficulties, can you see hope in various aspects. 'Tian De' is a kindly auspicious star which suggests you will get help from the influential people; 'Fu Xing' and 'Ba Zuo' indicate the cheerful and peaceful mind, which means you will get out of troubles with a positive attitude no matter how many difficulties you meet; 'Ban An' symbolizes the smooth development in a place far away from hometown, so 2018 will be the best time for you to develop somewhere else and you will get more opportunities if you go out.
It's important to note that you will be harmed by several inauspicious stars bad for interpersonal relationship and health and you should stay alert in life and work. Influenced by both 'Juan She' and 'Jiao Sha', you will have quite fragile interpersonal relationship and should not haggle over every ounce on trifles; be open-minded, positive, modest and low-profile, you will minimize the harm of inauspicious stars.

Wealth

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'Tian De' and 'Fu Xing' will improve your luck for wealth greatly in the whole year of 2018. If you are a businessman, your business will be booming and you will get significant increase in income with the help of capable benefactor. Your luck for income from work will be quite good and you will be recognized by your boss or customers and get good returns as long as you work hard. When it comes to windfall, you may get extra investment returns but you are suggested to invest modestly and never be radical or greedy. The auspicious star 'Ban An' means you will get favorable results if you invest in a distant place, so you might as well expand your business somewhere else to get unexpected gains. Meanwhile, you should beware of financial losses caused by disputes with villains and talk less about others to prevent the contention of mouth and tongue.

 The sheep horoscope 2018 predicts a year of changes. Your energy and instincts will play a pivotal role in the different choices you make in the Chinese lunar year 2018. Relationships for the rams will need some work with better communication and patience. Do not let arguments mar your business relations. Work will increase gradually, thus keeping you busy. Money will come easily. So do not splurge on unneeded things. This will be an excellent year for the goats provided you do everything in moderation.

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2017 challenge



Life warp 10.

"Be nice to everybody. Be friends with a few.Trust one person:yourself" Banksy

 

Saturday, 30 December 2017

8 head holds. Fear of the happiness/fear of the good.


2017 : the year of the shallow, shadow male. 2018: sisters doing it for themselves.

illustration for children by Japanese artist Sleepy.
illustration for children by Japanese artist Sleepy.

Friday, 29 December 2017

Coincidence? No coincidence.


Diamond life

Swaggerbucks and bruisers. Demon hearts in diamond skin. All men hate the Goddess until they find the love within. Beware my pretty maidens,who sally out and in; for these are the blood rites: fair  game on hearts and skin. MB
Eleanor Taylor. ScotlandTales of Faerie: The Grimms' Bluebeard




 Once Upon A Blog...: Bluebeard Illustration Roundup - Le Barbe Bleu by ZhdaNN
Blue Beard by CoalRye




fairytalemood:  “Bluebeard” by Mateus RiosI need a guide

Thursday, 28 December 2017

Still the want that I want.

Vintage Kids' Books That Kids Still Love: 'In the Middle of the Night'

Radiant circuits and the house of overwhelming things.

la notte, fuori. (3) by *Daniela Tieni, via Flickr
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Brenda C speaks of the blue demon.

" When the Devil comes in..or whatever you want to call it..you get completely disarmed..it is the charm..the smile..it's like a spell..that overwhelms you..it is seductive..it leads you to believe you are amazing..beautiful..wonderful...you hear it call you like a lover in the night...it leads you out to sea..over the cliffs..where it's call holds you by your neck..the sound..the call is so beautiful..that you lose all sense of self..just when you realize..in that moment..I'm hanging by my neck?..wtf?..the demon lover cannot exist without your surrender..so now what?..pray you remember where the edge of the cliff was..so you can spread your leg and foot back over to it..and inch away..and don't look back...just get the hell out of there..and reclaim your wild..it's not a joke...it happens everyday..every way" Brenda Childs

Archie McPhee's Endless Geyser of AWESOME!
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Not your typical crochet done with yarn! It’s wire. And it’s 3D. This artist uses crochet to make us think about illness in a whole new way.
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Wednesday, 27 December 2017

Enter the minotaur..



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Blue beard redux..

Bluebeard ~ A Killer to reckon with: How to Survive the Soul’s Predator | September 18, 2010

If you think the human psyche is home to nothing but goodness and beauty, then please step aside. Because if you continue reading, you might get upset. For we shall dive into a reality that is hard to grasp by nature. It is elusive, slippery, and does not want to be seen. It feels counter-intuitive and anti-life. It is indeed both.
There is an innate predator and killer in psyche. A psychic force that cannot be “rehabilitated”. A psychic force that does not transform. The challenge with all archetypal energies is to learn how to relate to them without being overtaken. For the feminine psyche, which always wants to connect and relate,  this anti-life force is probably the most difficult one to come to terms with. It is too much for an individual psyche to digest.
This is the realm of Freud’s Thanatos and Jung’s dark side of the Self. These are the closest psychological images  for psyche’s experience of something “evil”.  Like all creatures, the human creature must also learn that there are predators, out there and within us.
The mythical imagination has always produced images and stories of this psychic reality.The tale of Bluebeard is one of them.Fairy tales are simple and pure expressions of the collective unconscious and offer a clear understanding of universal patterns in the human psyche. The Bluebeard story in short goes as follows ~ Three sisters were courted by a noble man who had an unusual blue beard. Two of them were frightened of this blue beard, but the third one fell for his charm and married him. She may do whatever she wants in his absence, open every door in his huge castle, except one. But curiosity wins out. Encouraged by her sisters, she opens the forbidden door and sees the blood and dismembered corpses of Bluebeard’s previous wives. She understands what is in store for her. Once Bluebeard found out that she has seen the hidden chamber, he comes after her. “Please, allow me to compose myself and prepare for my death” she pleads and was granted a quarter of an hour. She has no intention of going quietly into her slaughter. She posts her sisters on the castle ramparts and shouts “Sisters, sisters, do you see our brothers coming?” And the brothers do show up, just in the nick of time, and kill Bluebeard “leaving for the buzzards his blood and gristle”.
Just like a dream, a fairytale is not to be taken literally. It depicts the dance and the dynamics between the two grand archetypal forces, the masculine and the feminine, as they manifest in the collective as well as in the individual psyche. Both, dreams and fairy tales can be a kind of roadmap to discern an attitude that will allow, in fairy tale terms, for the princess to get her prince, and in Jungian language, for the union of opposites and the sacred marriage of  the masculine and the feminine within ones soul.
Bluebeard is well and alive in the outer manifest world. In his densest form, a person, usually but not always, a male, becomes identified with Bluebeard’s energy and is then encountered, in the serial killer (yes, they do exist), the rapist, the human trafficker. Many of his victims won’t live to tell the story.
Even more prevalent is the sadistic, wife-beating husband. But Bluebeard also manifests through the man who is emotionally abusive. There is a violence that can be inflicted on a woman’s (AND the perpetrator’s) soul, which draws blood not from the physical but from the subtle body. This injury can be even more devastating than its physical counterpart. Sadly, it is ignored or played down by society.
The emotionally abusive man is often a pathological narcissist, unwilling/unable to genuinely feel for anyone (including his own feeling self), although he can be sentimental and whiny when it comes to his own needs. Because he is disconnected from a nourishing center in psyche, he always needs to put himself, his ego, into the center of his own lonely universe. His alienation from the source forces the pathological narcissist to more and more drastic measures. He violently seeks to pierce through to a reality that will finally support him. That often leaves a trail of blood and corpses, sometimes symbolically, sometimes unfortunately literally. Horrifying in both instances.
But our naive heroine, who fell for the deadly charmer, survives and Bluebeard is dismembered and dead. But if a fairy tale is a map, what do we learn about the right kind of attitude to escape Bluebeard? A few things stand out for me. Naive the young woman may be, but not submissive and obedient. She wants to know. Only her disobedience allows her to survive. She becomes a warrioress for life  and lies to the lier. Like is cured by like. When she opened the door to the torture chamber, she truly sees. She does not escape into fantasies, as so many women in abusive relationships do, “It won’t happen to me, he really loves me, he will change”… and so on. Nor is she plagued by feelings of paralyzing shame for having been so terribly betrayed, (an irrational, but all-to-common response to abuse). When she sees, she knows, there is no more turning back.
Her willingness and strength to face the truth is activating positive masculine energies in her, which manifest in her ability to sever the ties of Bluebeard’s seductive charm. Bluebeard’s power is fading. His dismemberment has begun. Her own inner masculinity is gaining muscle, which the fairytale depicts in the sudden appearance of brothers who put an end to Bluebeard. As an archetypal force he will not disappear, but in the life of this woman Bluebeard has no more hold over her.
Addendum: The synopsis of the fairytale is based on the version printed in “Women who run with the Wolves” by the ever wonderful curandera, master storyteller and Jungian Analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Her discussion of Bluebeard is illuminating and the entire book is a  must read for any woman negotiating her own path.
For those interested in the psychological and mythological meaning of fairy-tales, I would like to point to the work of Marie-Luise von Franz, one of the most brilliant first generation Jungian Analysts who was a close collaborator with C.G.Jung himself. I particularly recommend “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales” and “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales”
The French director Catherine Breillart created a film version of “Bluebeard” in 2009, exploring the dark erotic bond characteristic of this particular dynamic, which might be of further interest.

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Tuesday, 26 December 2017

2018 goals






"Surround yourself by good people, and watch the good come out in you". Banksy

The filth of a dirty man..

He liked to think he was a streak of consciousness made good. He walked as if, shoulders rolling as he parted waves- a heavy strutt of mischief. I saw the dark, the eyes had it, they grazed as they devoured, hovering up babes; each one a virgin vessel. He was always borrowing-  hearts, souls, little things at first; always hungry, stealing with permission the unsaids of the unseen good. A bloated warrior hustling for cream. The mild whites, the red tops and the milky hues; blondes, darks, golds, they all bled upon him; unwillingly and unknowingly of course; virgin fodder hoisted on his bloated cenotaph. Memorandum for the dead.  I saw this, avoided it at first, the dark around the edges,  as it strode in and forced  it's way through the kitchen; carrying off left overs without asking; bits of women  with their the little pink  hearts in jars. They all sat upon his pantry shelf, this buccaneer-pirate-black, who sailed a ship of ghouls; this master  boy-child captain, that broke through and drained all that was good.  I see him now still sailing, a challenge on an icy sea; breaking new ice, darkening new suns, stealing new territories.  MB


Artwork © Daria Hlazatova, 2016Wild Woman teaches women when not to act “nice” about protecting their soulful lives. The wildish nature knows that being “sweet” in these instances only makes the predator smile.  

When the soulful life is being threatened, it is not only acceptable to draw the line and mean it, it is required. When a woman does this, her life cannot be interfered with for long, for she knows immediately what is wrong and can push the predator back where it belongs. She is no longer naive.

Down to the out and meditation restore.

Home trashed at Christmas. Months of affliction have given way to delays and storms.  No base to settle, no roof to mind. I the non aligned. No voice to write. Words like dense nights in a crunch sepulcher for a core. All things scored, oblivious to God- Christ a distant deity where Mary 's arms seem poor. MB


 Ritual illustration inspired by Fever Ray song

Friday, 22 December 2017

Ginger recovery and recent influences

"There are always people that like you, no matter what, and people that don't like you, no matter what. Don't try too hard. Just be yourself."