A Personal Note

What is that above?

That is a 340 ton rock. It is in a rock quarry in Riverside which is a town outside of Los Angeles. Last night it was put on a truck and will begin its journey to Los Angeles County Art Museum (LACMA) where it will be a part of a permanent installation called "Levitated Mass." This project has been in development for years and one of the biggest hurdles is ----The route. There are a bunch of towns between LACMA and the rock quarry and not all of them will do the work, (take down street lights, telephone cables, etc) to allow this gynamorous rock on their roads. So, it will be a circurtious route of 110 miles and will take 11 days to get to its destination.

So, why am I putting a story about moving a giant rock here?

Because my Sun conjunct Saturn in Sagittarius loves this story!

How to move it? What happens to the roads? What about bridges? Only goes a few miles a day? What a weird route! I am all about this one!

The extra boon for me is that I live not too far from LACMA so I think I will go over there for the final arrival. Although, I beilieve there will be quite a crowd when the rock arrives!

And the Oscar goes to ....Neptune

Last year when Neptune visited Pisces briefly and then when it turned direct last fall after a summer of retrograde, I mentioned that cinema and film making in general would undoubtedly be influenced by Neptune's move into Pisces. No surprise during the Oscar season that "Hugo" and "The Artist" movies which celebrate the early days of film were fan and critic favorites. And then last night both received an abundant of Oscars.


Neptune stays in a sign for a very long time, and what movies come out of the cycle in the beginning of the transit will have morphed by the end of the transit. For example let's look at the Neptune in Sagittarius period.


Neptune was in Sagittarius between 1970-1984: Of course the 70's were seminal years for movies. Godfather, Jaws, Star Wars, the French Connection, Chinatown, Rocky, Network, Annie Hall, Raging Bull and then in the early 80's things started to change with for example huge mega hits E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Arc.

And if we go back further, during the late 1950's and all through the 1960's Neptune was in Scorpio and we had big ol' traditional type films, in particular adaptations of proven hits either via books or stage such as Dr. Zhivago, West Side Story, Sound of Music, Romeo and Juliet, but then near the end of the 60's, Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, and Midnight Cowboy were starting to emphasize a more independent style in films. Naturally, sex, drugs and the more Scorpio side of life were highlighted.

So, how movies start off now at the beginning of Neptune in Pisces will be much different by the time we end in 2025.

But right now the Oscar goes to Neptune! Especially given the dates of the Oscar telecasts for the next few years will take place with Sun conjunct Neptune!

Coming up this week

2/28: Sun/Pluto: shakes ups that are inspired. Spirit steps in shakes things up for higher good.


First Quarter Moon
February 29 8:21pm



Questions: What actions can you take that help you synthesize information? Do you usually put things in a black box and a white box and never merge them? What if you merge seemingly disparate thoughts so much so that you can see Spirit is possibly talking to you? What actions can you take right now that merge information? What is speaking to you brain but activating your spiritual nature?

3/2: Mercury enters Aries http://astrology.about.com/od/mercury/p/MercuryAries.htm

3/3: Sun/Mars Harsh movements, rash, delusional versus obsessive
3/4 : Venus/Saturn: cold versus love, weak partners exposed, investing in new structures to support love

An Ice Age gift from a long dead squirrel

Yesterday a story appeared in the NYTimes which is perfect for the rich fantasy world of the Pisces lunar cycle which begins today.

A seed was found in an ice age squirrel's burrow that has been scientifically hocused pocused into a living plant. If it turns out to be legitimate this plant was last seen about 32,000 years ago in the Siberian tundra. Apparently the squirrel who gathered the seed put it in his little cubby in the permafrost which acted like a nice refrigerator and kept it from going bad in the summer. Little did that squirrel know that it would pop up as a plant on some scientist's desk in Russia thirty thousand years later.

Consider it my Fat Tuesday gift to you.



“This is an amazing breakthrough,” said Grant Zazula of the Yukon Paleontology Program at Whitehorse in Yukon Territory, Canada. “I have no doubt in my mind that this is a legitimate claim.” It was Dr. Zazula who showed that the apparently ancient lupine seeds found by the Yukon gold miner were in fact modern.

But the Russians’ extraordinary report is likely to provoke calls for more proof. “It’s beyond the bounds of what we’d expect,” said Alastair Murdoch, an expert on seed viability at the University of Reading in England. When poppy seeds are kept at minus 7 degrees Celsius, the temperature the Russians reported for the campions, after only 160 years just 2 percent of the seeds will be able to germinate, Dr. Murdoch noted.

The Russian researchers excavated ancient squirrel burrows exposed on the bank of the lower Kolyma River, an area thronged with mammoth and woolly rhinoceroses during the last ice age. Soon after being dug, the burrows were sealed with windblown earth, buried under 125 feet of sediment and permanently frozen at minus 7 degrees Celsius.

Some of the storage chambers in the burrows contain more than 600,000 seeds and fruits. Many are from a species that most closely resembles a plant found today, the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla).

Working with a burrow from the site called Duvanny Yar, the Russian researchers tried to germinate the campion seeds, but failed. They then took cells from the placenta, the organ in the fruit that produces the seeds. They thawed out the cells and grew them in culture dishes into whole plants.

Go HERE for whole article.

Pisces New Moon

Pisces New Moon is Tuesday February 21 at 5:34pm EST.

Hey--Happy upcoming New Moon. It is a beatiful moon in many ways. I just put up my article which you can find at Margaret Wendt's website

Here is a snippet but go to the link for the whole write up.

Letting Go
At the Pisces New Moon we are entering the last lunar month of the astrological year. Our astro year began last spring with Aries and we celebrated by making our Treasure Maps. Now we are in the final twenty eight days of the year. And what do we know about the final days of anything? We know it is time to let go.

Pisces is the final sign and specifically the final water sign of the zodiac. His ruler Neptune is of course God of the Seas. No surprise that Pisces is the fish symbol where two fish are swimming in two different directions. Are they going up stream? Or are they going downstream? Or are they going in circles chasing each other’s tails? This is the Pisces conundrum and part of the reason why it is so important to let go. The only way the fish can find the correct direction is by getting quiet and intuiting their route. For these 28 days, we must all let go and get quiet so that we can find our right direction.

What does letting go mean? Well, where we have been joyous, it is time to let go. Where we have been angry, it is time to let go. Where we have been passionate and hardworking, it is time to let go. Where we have been adventurous it is time to let go.

Now, I’m not saying that if you had a horrible situation come up this year and you have kept yourself clear of certain people, places or things you should now let down your guard and embrace those situations. No you should not. But perhaps you need to let go of the charge. After all, if you learned the lesson then you won war so there is no sense staying in battle. Step aside and let go of the charge. The same with those things that were brilliantly wonderful this last year. No matter how wonderful, step aside and let it go because we have a new year coming and the best way to embrace the future is by being in the here and now. Not in the past where wounds were great and rewards were awesome. It is time to let go of the past so that we can go inward and find our new selves which will be launched next month with Aries New Moon.

Divine intervention

The beauty of Pisces is that when they are in synch with their higher nature they are almost unworldly. We can go out to dinner with our Pisces friend and talk about all kinds of things and have long conversations where we think they are with us. But in truth they have one foot on earth and the other foot is in the divine world. Perhaps they discuss something that stir us up and we think about....

Pearls before Breakfast

My friend Jody sent me an article yesterday that was long and from 2007. And I was not sure I had it in me to read---But I was intrigued. Basically, The Washington Post set up a prank. Well, not a prank more of an exercise. What would happen if a top notch musician performed in front of masses of people--in an unexpected place? How would the people respond?

The person was Joshua Bell, a world class famous violinist. The location was L'Enfant subway station in Washington DC.

Wow. What a set up, I'm gamed to know the answer. And so I read it.

Well, after I read it I had a moment of mulling and I thought this exercise speaks to the astrology of today: Doing art for oneself that may or may not be appreciated by others. As Neptune gets cozy in his home sign Pisces we may all feel like Joshua Bell on certain days.

Pearls before Breakfasthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html


HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play.

Happy V Day!

February 14

You know what this day is all about. Lots of pink cards, candies, flowers, a whole lotta noise for a day that we really don't know quite understand the root. Something to do with Rome. How that something which scholars believe began with Christians martyred and a Saint named Valentine turned into a highly profitable day for Hallmark and Godiva will never exactly be understood by at least me.

Nonetheless, here we are celebrating this day.

The moon is in Scorpio in the morning and early afternoon and spends the day pretty much in a bitch fight with the sun in Aquarius. The Sun in Aquarius likes to love people and humanity where the Moon in Scorpio wants to love one person and hold on to them and control them until they have completely submitted. If you need a visual think of a child holding a small kitten, "You will love me or else." Doesn't quite fit with Aquarius, "Love everyone, Peace, man".

Don't be surprised if today and I'm not talking about your love life, just life in general if some people hold on to control. "Not my job, don't saddle me with that" versus others who say, "Come on we need someone to step up for the good of the group."

Luckily, by the end of the day the Moon will have moved into Sag and in a nice angle with Uranus. Everyone should feel a lot looser. And probably will imbibe. Can't say Sag without a little drinkeepoo.

Whatever you chose to do, I wish you a loving day. And if things get tough, please laugh. At least you are not being martyred by a bunch of pissed off Romans.

Smooch.