Grand TRINES are In, Neptune Retro- REHAB yes!, New Moon

ASTROLOGY HIGHLIGHTS for Week of June 2-8

Moon’s in Aries June 2-4

Venus entered CANCER June 2- “Home is where your heart is.” Tara Greene
MOON conjunct Uranus early in a.m.  for brilliant emotional flashes of insight
June 3
WATER TRINE’S begin  Monday
with MERCURY in CANCER trine Neptune in Pisces and Saturn in Scorpio



  The mind heart feelings connection touches the highest intuitive dreams and the deepest wells of your darkest desires.
BIG EMOTIONAL & communicating  HIGHS And LOWS.
WATER PEEPS with planets at the BIG 5 degrees get the blast of blessings.
VENUS in CANCER will do the same thing on June 7 at the same degree 5 of Cancer-

REMEMBER the 5th DEGREE
If you are born June 25, Feb 22 and November 26 you get the lucky high tides blessings. Give a day or two on either side.
June 4
Moon enters TAURUS in a.m. Emotions are earthy sensual slow practical, hands on
Makes nice sextiles to VENUS and NEPTUNE – the stars of the show this week
this is the reality part of those beautiful romantic dreams
Moon opposes SATURN in evening. Stubborn bull fighting.
June 5
TAURUS moon TRINES PLUTO – this is rich in every sense, rich deserts, feeling Great, knowing you got the goods, strut your stuff
JUNE 6 
SOME love inconjuncts means irritating, can’t understand each other as
VENUS in Cancer quincunx MARS in GEMINI= men are in GEmINI land and Woman are in homeland
Moon enters GEMINI which always lightens the emotional scope
or at least makes it possible for the guys to think up some excuse and get the hell outta there.
JUNE 7
NEPTUNE Goes RETRO  + 2nd GRAND TRINES of the week
NEPTUNE RETROGRADE ALERT June 7- NOVEMBER 13,
THis means it’s a dreamy 5 + month time to RE-dream + SPIRITUALLY RE CHARGE.
And time to go to REHAB- yes! yes! yes! Do you hear that Rob Ford?
Artists, musicians, actors, all creative types. Time to dust of an unfinished or old piece. Perhaps update, re-configure or relaunch.
Old dreams that haven’t manifested need your attention now. Soul mates you haven’t seen or have not met may s…how up during this time period. Review your dreams, your debts both karmic and financial and what you’ve been in denial about.. Neptune rules debt, addictions and denial.Politically “OIL PIPELINES” and all issues relating to International oil will be reviewed and halted.
Retrogrades are the FEMININE energy. Neptune rules spiritual love, DIVINE love.
VENUS TRINES NEPTUNE 3 hours after Neptune Retro to put a beautiful loving kiss onto Neptune’s cheek as he goes back into the stellar ocean’s of unconsciousness. Neptune is the HIGHER OCTAVE of Venus. Ah a beautiful soul kiss, a deliscious aspect.
It’s a very busy day Moon conjunct MARS @ 4 degrees GEMINI early A.M. a busy hi energy day get started early.
Moon squares NEPTUNE- Neptune is getting primed here.
Moon quincunx Saturn before noon. Irritating difficult annoying why do we have to put up with so much hot air?

VENUS TRINES SATURN  - before noon.
Love and desire are necessary parts of  making those dreams come true. It’s ok to commit.
MERCURY in Cancer opposes PLUTO in Capricorn around dinner
THE FEMININE values of  family safety women children real values or PLUTOCRACY face off. Much revolutionary action.

MARS in GEMINI SQUARE NEPTUNE
ACTIONs ideas and dreams combine or clash. Don’t put down an idealist or a romantic dreamer.
GEMINI Moon quincunx’s PLUTO
the will of the people, new information of a shocking nature may be suppressed to come out later and reveal the hidden agendas of the
most sinister nefarious kind. WIKILEAKS, ANONYMOUS hackers put a huge dent in the system.
MARS in GEMINI quincunx SATURN in Scorpio
angry street fighting vs Black Ops, escalating battlefields.
June 8
Moon squares CHIRON at night watch for old wounded figures in dreamscape
GEMINI NEW MOON @ 18 01 degrees @ 8:58 am PDT/ 11:58 am EDT
FEATURES MERCURY + VENUS  between 6-11 degrees of CANCER square URANUS
MERCURY rules this NEW MOON and in CANCER it is EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE we need.
We need to think from our hearts not from BIG BUCK CAPITALIST HIERARCHIES- There are radically new technologies, inspirations, creations, feminine centered ways of working together as family of like-minded beings. We ‘re all in this together.
This is a stressful aspect adding Mercury= IDEAS and COMMUNICATIONS and Venus -WOMEN’S VALUES  to the T-SQUARES of the outer planets.

NEPTUNE makes its 2nd of three EXACT TRINES to SATURN in SCORPIO- the 1st was on OCt 10 2012, and the last is on July 19 at 5 degrees.
and of course this NEW MOON features a WATER GRAND TRINE as described.

CHIRON the NORTH NODE and Mercury conjuncts Vesta in another GRAND TRINE
FOCUS ON WHERE THE PAIN IS and see it as the light that points the way out.

THE NEW MOON conjuncts the brightest STAR in the constellation of ORION, RIGEL.
a blue supergiant, 18 times more massive than our sun. Rigel is a navigation star and helps integrate spirit with in matter, like the myth of the GEMINI twins, -or Cain and Abel the fighting twins is a myth in every culture of the world.
GEMINI is the LOVERS in the TAROT.

MERCURY SQUARES URANUS later in day to offer more inventive ideas abotu how to stop seeing women as mothers or whores.

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For all you TWIHARDS-
DON’T DREAM IT”S OVER by CROWDED HOUSE http://youtu.be/XjBwAYIxUsoDont dream it's over by Crowded House

Inspirational Daily Card June 1 The Grass is greener

JUNE 1 inspirational Card of the DAY

COURT/Personality CARD

King of Pentacles/Knight of Disks

THE SACRED INDIA TAROT 

THE KNIGHT of Disks rules the physical world. He is associated with the last decan of LEO-20-29.59 degrees and the first two decans of VIRGO- 1-20 degrees Virgo. Aug 13th- Sept 11th.

The Knight of DISKS is wise, he loves being in the physical world. He is a custodian.

He represents, youth great potential. He is  stable, of service, a perfectionist, nit-picky, with a good memory. Sees practical material solutions and results.

In the Sacred India Tarot it depicts the Buddha who, the moment he gained enlightenment placed his finger on Gaia on Mother Earth to witness and make real his enlightenment. Ground with the earth, the telluric realm has the planet’s cellular memory with in. Rocks especially that is why it is so important to work with crystals.

This card also references the GREEN MAN, the vegetative GOD< very very ancient in India and all Pagan customs. The card depicts this being known as KIRTHIMUKHA  one of the earliest and oldest representations of the DIVINE in NAture in INdia. He is a protector, he is a YAKSHA. Buddha belongs to this clan. HInduism Buddhism and Jainism had to assimilate the Yakshas and the NAGAS the other deities  before they could gain wide acceptance.

This ancient deity like the symbol on the card is also called John Barleycorn, or Khwaja Khidur to the SUFI mystics.

The Pagans call him Pan, he was also known as DIONYSIS , God of the Vine and divine intoxification, who became twisted into the DEVIL by the Christian church.

His spiritual meaning is that of forgiveness opposite sign PISCES. He is benevolent fruitful, intoxicating, rich, wealthy, the MASCULINE aspect of NATURE. Her fertilizing consort.

MEANING 

Center in earth energy. Stay grounded as the tides  of change continue to swell. Get out in nature barefoot, walk on the beach, feel your awesome gift to be alive and be creative. Plant your garden for the future harvest. Summer is soon here. Plan for the Harvest in the Fall.

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JOHN BARLEYCORN – TRAFFIC 1970

John Barleycorn John Barleycorn

 

art, art critics, Venus in Taurus

Venus enters TAURUS April 15- May 9

She rules the arts. She is the MUSE or divine Goddess of inspiration. That’s why Neptune is her “higher octave.” Venus is earthly fleshy real sex, art, money, luxury, relationships.

 I started out as an artist. At age nine I told my surprised mother that I had decided to be an artist when I grow up, that was that. I had figured out that being an artist was a lisence for escaping the rat race, the normal expected, boring, unconscious way of life.  I saw ART  as FREEEDOM, ANARCHY. I went to OCAD which wasn’t a design school then. My first husband was an artist, my present husband is an artist, our daughter is presently at a performing arts high school.  

I was born with a natal VENUS NEPTUNE EXACT conjunction in Libra the Sign VENUS rules. Yes art is a religion, very spiritual to me.

I happened upon this article in BLOUIN ART INFO -Canadian version. I will excerpt it and provide a link.

FINALLY someone with weight in the art world has spoken the unspoken!  American ART Critic DAVID HICKEY 

what do you think about contemporary art?

There are only a few great critics holding forth in today’s waning critical climate who maintain an element of danger in their invocations. These voices of authority and interrogation bend and veer away from our understood rails of art appreciation into rogue states of wicked qualification, correction, dissent – even revolution. It takes great bravery, in this moment, to call a thing a thing, and something even greater to be compelling and convincing in this effort. These critics tend to say things loosely, ham-fistedly, but with a pulpiteer’s command. They tend to interrupt the academic scaffolding of distance with oratory tempos that are stark and seemingly stupid in their abrupt profundity; they speak with adamancy, and they ring bells that feel assailing.

Among these writers are Peter Schjeldahl, Ben Davis, and Dave Hickey, the infamous and revered American critic who has carved out a voice in the Western art world akin to that of journalism’s Hunter S. Thompson. He has achieved storied laurels – seemingly despite but also because of himself – and has recently and very publically retired from the racket entirely. He has not done this from exhaustion nor age (he is 73) but because his subject has grown too insipid, too “stupid,” he says. It’s easy to believe him.

Dave Hickey did something to Canada, which should not have been unexpected; all the same, it was reviled. Hickey came to Guelph University for the annual Shenkman lecture, and offended everyone.

Importantly, on the eve of Canada financier Jim Flaherty’s federal budget reveal (in which general ‘skills’ were summoned to match the country’s available employment), Hickey produced an argument that had a special relevance for its tender audience, and its economic moment: as he took short aim at his crowd – comprised of provosts, university presidents, deans, professors, students, and former graduates – Hickey commanded we give up our institutions, relinquish our vain pursuit of accreditation, and summoned us to become artists again. “Demand that your students can perform a jump shot,” he said, in one of many references to an idealized world in which the art school was run like an athletic department. “Give up your three cars and pool, and the 4 o’clock meetings, and become an artist again.” But, he amended, if we are to continue in our endeavoring of an arts degree, or in our pursuit of a tenure-track professorship, demand of ourselves and our students skills, results, ambition, and that we kick the 90% that is shit, to the curb.

There are very few of us working from the art world’s bleachers, perhaps even fewer of us trading in its court, who would argue against Hickey’s main thesis: that the academe is destroying contemporary art. However the critic-cum-orator quickly established an antagonism towards his audience that was only further embossed by his seeming casualness.

Clad in a black sweat suit and runners, Hickey approached the podium – after no fewer than three introductions (a performance that would only serve Hickey’s later point on the academe’s overwrought hierarchy) – and very quickly descended into an 80 minute lecture that, while seemingly rudderless (he had no notes, and repeated himself frequently while veering off into anecdote and recurring metaphor) was in its sum a strident call for change. He was appealing to civilization.

“In America, and in Canada in particular, the balkanization of our universities has pretty much destroyed civilization as we know it. I think we’ve done it under the guise of control – as Michel Foucault would say, ‘care is control’ – and I’m here to argue for less of it,” he said. ”I’m here to argue for a little more benign neglect.”

The critic flitted between personal anecdote (quoting his friends Richard Serra, John Baldessari, and his nemeses, Clement Greenberg and Thomas Jefferson), near constant swipes at the academe, a few bigoted slags, and consistent, impassioned invocations for systemic change, though he maintained that “there is no deficit of quality work, it’s just that the world around it has changed.”

While figureheads like John Kissick, Dasha Shenkman, and Matthew Teitelbaum dropped their heads and rubbed their foreheads (with some gesturing wildly for moderator Robert Enright to close the lecture), others held hopeful expressions in a transparent commitment to the critic’s overarching thesis. The exquisite and painful moment of Hickey’s truth and brutalism brought to mind Peter Schjeldahl’s call to arms, of a few years ago, first issued at the New School, and then transcribed for Frieze (March 2011), wherein he spoke of the “irreligious gravitating towards art,” and how its “want tends to be lonesome and blind.”

Schejldahl goes on, “An educated common sense of the last three decades holds that all art is rhetorical and thus a game of pretenses and/or of exposing pretenses. This view is basic to the gaming of art. In fact, all art can be seen that way, but not usefully, if anyone’s experience matters. It ignores the fact that good art happens to us in ways that knock us out or our educations.” Complaining about contemporary art rhetoric and the ubiquity of the term “practice” in relation to an artist’s work, Schjeldahl demands, “When do you stop practising something and do it?”

Hickey would, over the course of his freestyle lecture, emboss this very point (“go pro,” he kept repeating), while damning every academic and art school attendee in the room in myriad ways – some clever (“theory is really easy: it’s like playing poker with no spots on the cards”) and some lazy (“if you are manic depressive, dyslectic, morbidly obese, have down’s syndrome, you end up in the art department”).

At the end of his talk, Hickey was, unsurprisingly, met with a question from an audience member, who began tremulously, “well I’m not afraid,” but went on, gaining confidence, to demand of Hickey just how “serious” he was, because “it’s a huge insult to us who devote our life to the academe; not everybody has the ability to become a basketball player in the NBA.” Hickey responded, “if I was being insulting it’s because I meant to be. There is nothing that I’ve said that I haven’t done. But we’re not talking about your benefits. We’re talking about Western civilization.”

Dave Hickey, a letch, a rogue, a dissenter, an exile, had effectively performed his point. With the very subject of his seeming disdain positioned firmly beyond his pulpit, he exhibited a tremendous affection for its cause and well-being by demanding of it something greater. The Canadian art world and its academe suffered the point, one all too rarely made in this sector, and one never issued at its establishment: be better. As Hickey refrained, “how do you be brave? How do you be brave?” Likely those most angered by Hickey’s lecture will be the ones answering him in spite, and to good effect, in the years to come.

see what I consider to be art form a true artist- not academic -http://www.napob.com