Full Moon in Leo - A Wolf in Snow Moon Clothing

Th Holocaust Remembrance Day 28th January, 2013.
The world remembers the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp at the same time as over 65 bodies so far, of young men and teenagers, hands tied behind their backs, gunshot wounds to the head, all summarily executed, were being dragged out of a ditch in Aleppo, northern Syria.

Known as the North Moon, the Ice Moon, the Cold Moon and the Snow Moon, on the 26th/27th January 2012 the Full Moon was in the fixed fire sign of Leo right opposite the cool, scientific and freedom loving Sun in Aquarius. How was it for you? Full Moons are traditionally a time of fulfilment and harvest, a London time of scooping up in our arms all the ripe fruits and bounty fallen at our feet as a result of the seeds sown under the previous New Moon. (New Moon in Capricorn - Serious Changes Germinating). This Full Moon is also known by Native Americans as the Wolf Moon when in the past packs of wolves, during this cold, lean winter time were hungry and howling at the moon. Wolves are predators that inhabit the night time and appear to function well under the moonlight. The image of the 'Big Bad Wolf' is dangerous, deceptive and destructive in folklore. It has also shape-shifted and mutated under the moon into the 'Werwolf', both a supernatural power and a curse. The Leo Full Moon no doubt would have been comfortable taking centre stage with the potential for this kind of drama.

Pioneering Film Director D. W. Griffiths has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
Best known for the The Birth of a Nation but also causing controversy over his positive portrayal of slavery and the Ku Klux Klan and negative presentation of African Americans.

All sounds well and good but what if the seeds that were sown were from a duff batch, or just good seeds, planted with the best of intentions but left untended, neglected and deprived of vital nutrients. If so, then we would have been staring at an empty and rather disappointing basket of goodies right now and scratching our heads in dulled bemusement, at best and frustrated anger, at worst. For about 5 days on and around this Full Moon time we should be able to gauge whether the ideas, projects or situations we instigated or experimented with at the last New Moon, a few weeks earlier, are worth pursuing or simply releasing. This is one of the Moon's gifts, if we watch her and take note, she could point towards and subtly illuminate our future path. Over these few days check the signs, stare at your basket, make sure that you appreciate the plump, juicy fruits of your labour and be ready to discard those that became dry and withered on the vine and not to your design.

Hollywood Costume Designer Helen Rose has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
Also famous for designing wedding dresses namely for Grace Kelly and Liz Taylor.
'I..... saw in huge headlines that an atrocious, senseless murder had been committed. I almost fainted when I saw the picture of Babe and of a fellow he had introduced me to as 'his best friend.'They had been accused of murdering a young boy. I was sure that some mistake.... To connect my friend with such a crime was just ridiculous, he was the last person in the world we would suspect capable of such a thing. Though we called him 'Babe' his full name was Nathan Leopold, Jr. and his friend was Richard Loeb'
(students Leopold & Loeb tried to commit 'the perfect crime' depicted in Hitchcock's Rope

The ‘Great Mirror In The Sky', the astrological map, reflects an image and sometimes what is reflected back at us may be difficult to accept in the full glare of the light of day. Yet avoiding looking at the mirror reflections of us will definitely not make anything go away. These shadows and ghosts come out to haunt us at night, anyway. They will not leave us in peace if we ignore them so we may as well accept them as parts of ourselves that need attention and use their whispers and hunches - come the daylight we can often be pleasantly surprised by what we find, hmm, not so bad after all. There may even be days where we say ‘Looking good’ and for all you Leo Moon's you can double that number. The few days that lead up to the Full Moon is the Gibbous period, a time to forage for information and learn by getting our facts stockpiled and being better informed in order to be able to move forward. Moonshine is just another way of looking at sunshine after all and a chance of learning to see things differently.

Actress Nora Gregor has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
Her most famous role was in Jean Renoir's  La Regle de jeu (The Rules of the Game) and its use of
 'deep focus', where the background action is as important as the foreground, maybe more so sometimes.

Full Moons are an astronomical opposition between the Sun and Moon. For astrologers, oppositions bring the potential for both hyper-awareness and a contradictions that need resolution. A balance must be found. Well the attention-grabbing and passionate Leo Moon faced a wake-up call from the dispassionate and fair-minded Aquarian Sun, 'look at me' hollered Luna Leo, 'no, check yourself, before you wreck yourself, reign it in and be aware of others' , finger wags the Solar Aquarian. 

Superstar Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
The most expensive player in football history

The monthly board meeting of the ‘Full Moon Corps’ necessitated and convened by the Sun and Moon assembled with a few other key representatives present. Mercury, Master of Trade and Communications, Jupiter Master of Sales and Marketing, Saturn Master of Working Constraints & Limitations and Uranus Master of Surprise.

Mercury – The IT Geek from the Department of Aquarius, was dressed in a matching colour to the Sun with the addition of flashes of electric blue and aquamarine. A geek maybe but dressed as a hipster and it seems plugged into the mainframe of information. This Geek chic apparently knows everyone and was absolutely everybody's friend, arriving in unisex clothing, of indeterminate age and flying around, rushed off its winged feet. This Mercury had the Sun's ear, in fact they seem in cahoots about something. 

Motto: Be futuristic and be clever.

Artist & Singer for the band Incubus Brandon Boyd has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo & Mercury in Aquarius
'I have always idolised eccentric people'

Saturn – The Senior Accountant up from the bowels of the organisation, the Department of Scorpio was dressed in a traditional suit cut from an expensive cloth. Traditionally known for being dour and craggy but here in Scorpio he had a roguish glint in his eye. He may be holding on to a secret that only he knows and which seems to give him immense pleasure. Saturn is the elder statesman of the company and also it’s longest serving employee. He rose to the top slowly, diligently working his way up but is now a loyal and valued member of the firm. He knows the ‘nuts and bolts’ of the company and is often called in when things get too out of hand or when the company has over-reached or becomes over-stretched. Saturn is called in to reset the boundaries and to impose the necessary limits. When Saturn enters the room everyone expects to hear the dreaded words ‘austerity’ ‘restrict’ and ‘necessary’. Every one is slightly twitchy and trawling back through their minds to check whether they may well be hauled over the coals or called to account. This month, Saturn is called in again, this time to serve a restraining order on the collective-minded Sun and Mercury, who are both in accordance saying ‘let everyone benefit from the spoils, be even handed and let us share the profits equally’. ‘Now, now’ chastens Saturn, we all love the sentiment but very soon the coffers will dry up and we could have a mutiny on hands’. Saturn also scowls at the drama queen La Luna Leo, whose does not seem to be concentrating on the job at all. In fact, she is acting like it is her divine right to submit expenses for her extra holidays, money for pampering and for various extravagant social events. Saturn is obliged to step in and cut the budget completely and had his eye on the door waiting for La Luna's more restrained, trimmer replacement to appear. Motto: Be responsible and be cautious.

Actor Jack Lemmon has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo & Saturn in Scorpio
'It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.'

Uranus – Head of Research & Development up from the Aries research facility was dressed in a bright red boiler suit. Always surprising, outlandish and odd, he was unmistakably even more brash, youthful and pioneering and appeared to be on the brink of a breakthrough and quite unable to contain his excitement. He appeared frustrated to be called in to such a meeting when there is so much excitement going on elsewhere. His job was to provide back up and bring in further new ideas. He was expected to interject flashes of innovation and bright, exciting news of the latest developments. 'Let's think of a new way around this old problems’, lets think outside the box, go where we have never previously dared. Motto: Be brave and be edgy.

Singer James Brown has Uranus in Aries/Leo Moon
'The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing'

Jupiter – Head of Sales and Marketing, from Gemini/Gemini, is dressed in a ‘bang on trend’ clothes and ready to be very direct. Usually one for wild gesticulations and big gestures but for a while seemed distracted by a torrent of emails, texts and phone calls. His attention is scattered and hardly focused on the job in hand which looks like a bit of a clean-up operation. None the less, much like his buddy of the moment, Uranus, he had been called in to provide support by bringing tales of new and exciting horizons within touching distance. Motto: Be sharp and be informed.

The Simpsons creator, Matt Groening has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo & Jupiter in Gemini
'I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time..I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get and that later, when they grow up, read a few books, go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level'

The Ego orientated Leo Full Moon and the Everyman Sun in Aquarius does point towards issues of flagrant self interest versus universal charity that we could be faced with in spades in the coming days. 

General Douglas MacArthur has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo

'The American Caesar' ,his son Arthur MacArthur changed his name and 'went missing in action' 

to avoid his father's 'relentless love' and of course the expected West Point military route.

We could also feel an inrush of faith and hope as a result of the Jupiter effect, or experience a sizzling sense of breakthrough with the Uranus effect, and obviously the balancing, doubting, cautious voice, warning us against over reaching will come with the Saturn effect. A mixture of boundless ideas and hope with the tinge of cautious realism well actually that may be a great cocktail, let's have a double. There does appear to be quite a bit more emphasis on the expansive, illuminating and experimental right now, so lets go with our ideas, give them room and air to breathe, lets dare to dream and try the what ifs and why nots and embrace the novel and the new. Have little fear because Saturn will restrain our more 'pie in the sky ideas' whilst providing practical support for the more workable ones. Looks like a 'win/win' put that way. However, it is also true that many people will either unconsciously or wittingly pass through this week with little or no noticeable change in their day to day lives. Daily life and it’s rituals will ebb and flow as per usual, both inner and outer events could seamlessly blur into our usual repetitive routines. Hopefully, a significant number of us will register the alterations and will be affected by, the shifting currents of change mirrored in the skies. Maybe we can capitalize on the changes, tack favourably with the trade winds, surf on that jet streams, if only in our minds and introduce the changes or at least the costume changes.

Forerunner of burlesque Gypsy Rose Lee has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
'I wasn't naked I was completely covered by a blue spotlight'

This Full Moon was also at 7 degrees of Leo, in the middle of the constellation of the Crab. Here lies the nest of Praecipe, known as The Beehive, or Crib, this is a cluster of stars that brings to mind the industrious bee and draws on this adventurous energy. Tapping into and relating to this energy can feed our spirits and nurture our nascent dreams. It also has a repution for reckless adventure and a driven nature so we may feel that we must press on and go about our 'busy-bee-ness’ but it can get a little carried away and invite overindulgence, a love of stimulants and narcotics.

Actor Oliver Reed has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
Known for his 'excessive binge bouts, macho image and bellicose demeanour he went for a combination, drinking 106 pints of beer on a two-day bender, during an arm-wrestling competition in Guernsey.

The choice is always ours. Calm down our mawing egos and yet find ways in which to show-off our unique individuality. Cater for our own needs whilst not impinging on others. Respecting the call of our inner natures as well as allowing for the variety of different calls of others.  Drive ahead with our vision, be brave, pioneering and risk taking whilst also heeding due care and caution. Be informed, clever, smart, objective and experimental. Yet, don’t lose focus or get too scattered and find ways to stay connected to other things besides simple facts, such as emotions, the unknowable, the irrational and the intuitive. Phew! time for those those stimulants.

We will have gathered more energy to forge ahead but then again so will everyone else around us. The need to respect and listen to what others have to say may just save us and those around us, an exhausting, draining and needless confrontation.

Full Moons are a time of high tides and surging seas as we have seen quite literally.(Taurus full Moon - Shelter From Hurricane Sandy). They can also be a time of dazzling insights, brave ideas and optimism. We want to surge forward with our dreams and visions. Now we also want to be brave, informed, clever and a tad cautious. We really needed that Leo Full Moon to have cast light to some darker corners of our life and like a follow-spot shine the blessings of the universe on our path. Maybe we all will not have the idea of taking centre stage. Ok, so some of us can all also feel a bit like we are stumbling around in the dark, a little on the lost side for a while, relying only on instinct and yes, just howling at the moon occasionally.

Actor & Singer for Brooklyn's TV on the Radio, Tunde Adebimpe has Sun in Aquarius/Moon in Leo
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Mercury in Aquarius - Postcards from a Fantastic Mind

Diagram of The Prophet's Mosque in Medina. One of the thousands of ancient documents in Timbuktu.

On the 19th January 2013 Mercury moves from the mountainous terrain of Earthy Capricorn into the Air space of Aquarius, where it is exalted. We are all on the exciting flight path of the water carrier as it makes its fly pasts, takes it circuitous routes and leads it's trains and caravans from here to Timbuktu. In the middle of the desert, Timbuktu, a settlement on the caravan routes since the 12th century has always been associated with the concept of somewhere so far away the distance is incomprehensible but we can imagine all sorts of adventures getting there and all mystical, exotic and fantastic. Tuareg folklore suggests the name came from one of their slave women called, Timbuktu who was so trustworthy the Tuareg could leave their precious belongings in her care. 

Astronomy manuscripts, Timbuktu

Sadly, the historic town and World Heritage Site, has been in the grip of radical Islamists who have been destroying monuments and mausoleums and now nothing appears to be in safe hands. The UN Security Council gave its backing for an African-led military operation to help Mali's government retake the north of the country if no peaceful solution could be found.

Interim Mali President Dioncounda Traore has Mercury in Aquarius
He has already survived a mob lynching last year when his 'guards' allowed a murderous mob into his office in Bamako carrying a mock coffin with his name written on it, He was beaten punched and kicked then stripped naked, with members of the crowd carrying away pieces of his clothing some shouted triumphantly that he was dead and he could well have been as he wears a pacemaker and had to be treated and recouped in France for over two months - video posted by Jeune Afrique He has been talking tough by pledging to 'wage a total and relentless war' on the Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali who have declared a state of Azawad but he is still searching for peace on shaky, volatile ground. 

As Mercury moved into Aquarius, negotiations were taking place (a Mercury skill) between the Algerian government and a terrorist Islamist group who had taken over a BP oil refinery in the settlement of In Amenas, in the Sahara desert. This group operated under the banner of the Signed-in Blood Battalion led by Algerian, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, known by his slang nom de guerre 'Belaouer', one-eye 'and the Belaouer' has eyes everywhere'. His al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM)  group who have been consistently kidnapping westerners since 2003 are affiliated with a terrorist organisation, Ansar Dine, already active in Mali, west Africa. Those responsible for the group in In Amenas reportedly confirmed their action of taking foreign hostages was in response to France's recent military intervention and prescence in Mali. 

President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika has Mercury in Aquarius.
Of Berber descent, he has also survived an assassination attempt.

This month Mercury may have to act as a courier of aid, supplies and reinforcements as well as a messenger. Mercury in Aquarius will also 'bring it on' and carry or trade views in complex arguments, objective scientific thinking and some effective, cool rational thinking. Conversely and often, perversely, Aquarius can also herald some willful, stubborn, entrenched, bizarre or even autocratic communications and activities.

The roads in this land may sometimes seem quirky and unconventional and some may even take a sudden unpredictable turn but this can also make the exploration all the more necessary. This is a time that can generate more and more questions and most definitely will take us along the roads less travelled. It may take us to lawless, rebellious, unrestrained, ungovernable outlawed and vast spaces, exiled or at the outer reaches. We may find that it is from these marginalized unfamiliar lands that people are taking centre stage and doing the talking, trading and exchanging. This is their air space we in after all for these few weeks, and it is their language to which we must translate and the roads we must navigate.

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Actor Ray Bolger has Mercury in Aquarius famous forever as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz
who followed the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City in order to get a brain

Whenever Mercury changes sign, we need to learn a whole new language and adapt to completely different customs to the ones we have become used to and seem familiar. Mercury effects the way we process and deal with information, how we talk and chat, or tweet, blog, text, write, read, listen and learn and Aquarius is highly inventive, uniquely convinced, scientific and objective with the facts as well as being highly futuristic. 

The Father of Science Fiction Writer Jules Verne has Mercury in Aquarius
 he wrote the classic, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth
& Around the World in 80 days
'Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them...
the world does not need new continents but new men.'

Combine, blend and mix up a potion or two and sometimes create science-fiction in fact.

When Mercury passes through such an offbeat and 'going its own way regardless' sign such as Aquarius, things can get interesting and quite challenging. There is strangeness here, a curious blending of ancient and sci-fi futuristic thinking sometimes occupying the same time and space. Rather like mixing the Medieval with Star Trek the result will always be surprising and sometimes fantastic.

                                         
Actor Christopher Ecclestone has Mercury in Aquarius plus Sun, Saturn and Mars 
'I left Doctor Who because I could not get along with the senior people. I left because of politics. I did not see eye-to-eye with them. I didn’t agree with the way things were being run. I didn’t like the culture that had grown up around the series. So I left, I felt, over a principle...think it's more important to be your own man than be successful, so I left. But the most important thing is that I did it, not that I left. I really feel that, because it kind of broke the mould and it helped to reinvent it'

Mercury is about travel, trade, exchange, communications and busy activity and here in ‘odd-one-out’ Aquarius it can all get a bit – well, weird. We see the way ahead, the path in our minds eye is clear, we must and will press on along it route, except that other people might just not see it the same way. In fact they could view it in ways that may even be the polar opposite. In fact, if the majority ‘find against you’ then you will automatically find yourself in the minority. This does not deter you probably quite the opposite in fact, it may just serve to propel you further down your unique pathway.

Child Protege Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has Mercury in Aquarius
A study conducted at University of California called 'The Mozart Effect'  linked classical music to memory  improvement. College students listen to 10 minutes of either a Mozart's sonata for two pianos in D major, a relaxation tape, or just silence. Immediately afterward the students took a spatial reasoning test (taken from the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale). Those who listened to the Mozart tape showed improved scores, compared to the other students. This turned out to be a popular phenomenon, even though the effects were temporary, and lasted 10-15 minutes.(Andrea Maria Dusl image)

It is possible that while Mercury was in a lot more traditional and cautious Capricorn, many of us noticed we had to switch our mental tuning in order to getting to grips with practicalities, the nitty gritty and face a hard reality check. (Mercury in Capricorn - Postcards from a Profound Mind). We may have had to rethink previous wild, ambitious and wide ranging plans, schemes or visions and tailor them to the hair-shirt of reality. (Mercury in Sagittarius - Postcards from an Optimistic Mind). With Capricorn we had to learn things by learning the hard way, accepting what others could teach us, listening to authorities or those who ‘knew better’. Journeys and communications could have been largely for business or purely practical reasons, some may have been burdensome or taken out of a sense of duty or responsibility, willingly taken but under some obligation all the same. However, just as we have got halfway used to this style of speaking and thinking we will suddenly find ourselves in what appears to be another foreign country where everyone appears to ask us to speak more conceptually. Here we can explore new regions and use abstractions to go where no one has dared go before. Think outside the box, travel the path less travelled ‘go where no-one has gone before’.

French Film Director Francoise Truffaut has Mercury in Aquarius
 a leading exponent of 'La Nouvelle Vague' (New Wave) radical experiments using social & political themes
'I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job'

When zig-zagging its way through Aquarius, Mercury will want us to employ our hearts and minds in order to get to somewhere different. We will be encouraged to shake up existing paradigms and also to be true to ourselves, even if at times it means being isolated, marginalised or ridiculed. 
                  
Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku has Mercury in Aquarius ' a futurist and communicator of popular science'
We will know our own minds and also tend to stick to our guns. Being adaptable is also easy for Mercury, it will adjust to this new terrain, we will all have to adjust and find interest in the new angles. With Mercury in Aquarius new pathways will inevitably be found, the unusual or rare will come to light and we may well learn from both ancient and modern texts while we are at it.You will notice the difference here soon enough as you understand the difference between earth and sky. 

French Philosopher Simone Weil Mercury and Sun in Aquarius

A precocious student, she learnt ancient Greek by 12 and later, Sanskrit  after reading the Bhagavad Gita. 

Her mentor called 'The Red Virgin' and 'The Martian' because of her radical opinions but she also suggested the elite communist bureaucrats could be just as oppressive as the worst capitalist.

 She was very compassionate to the suffering of others and was involved in both the Spanish Civil War and the French Resistance.

'when we come upon beautiful things they lift us...letting the ground rotate beneath us several inches so that when we land we find we are standing in a different relation to the world than we were a moment before'

We are all feeling Mercury’s shift towards what may seem something more eccentric, much more self willed and maverick. We may yet find a way for us all to express our inner genius in ways that respect social and cultural imperatives. In a world of oddballs, we all are oddballs together we are the same and so we must still ultimately find ways to live together and share the space we inhabit. 

Writer Virginia Woolf has Mercury in Aquarius
Part of the Dreadnaught Hoax of 1910 that drew attention to the newly formed  Bloomsbury Group .
The group dressed as dignitaries from Abyssinia and gained access to the British battleship Dreadnaught.
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman'

If we all believe we know the truth, the best way forward for everyone that is just tyrannical and some people are going to rebel, welcome to Aquarius. During Mercury’s time in Aquarius all of us on this precious planet of ours will be mentally processing with more conviction, vision, and brilliance and lets just mention, we will also have to be alert to a bit more of an obstinate and perverse tendency.

Artist Norman Rockwell has Mercury in Aquarius
His work, dismissed by critics as being twee, sickly sweet, kitsch, sentimentalised versions of American life.
His brilliant technique gained power after he left the constraints of The Saturday Evening Post and resulted in The Problem We All Live With  a real event in the US Civil Rights Movement.
Painted in 1964 it was displayed in The White House in 2011 and shows US marshals escorting a 6 year old Ruby Bridges to an all-white elementary school for the first time.

Mercury in Aquarius takes us along the higgledy-piggeldy path of the ‘unknown and uncertain’. It presses us to processes in ways which are inventive and more experimental. 

Great so everyone will be a little more inventive and scientifically business minded. We will be happy to discuss outrageous ideas, unique agendas, cutting-edge business ideas and developments. Wow! Just remember with this Mercury our communications are also about to get more weird for good or bad. 

 Poet/Writer Founder of Surrealism Andre Breton has Mercury in Aquarius
'It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is everywhere...
beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all'

Well, the sign of Aquarius sits somewhere in your birth chart, even if you do not have any planets in this sign. You always have inventive Aquarian somewhere in your psyche. It is this Aquarius zone which is having Mercury as a house guest. If you know where your ‘Aquarius' is then your full attention will be here because it is here that you may be trying to exercise new and illuminating ideas. Take your time and respect the issues affected by this part of your chart. For instance, Aquarius may be in your 2nd house of ‘Money & Resources’, in which case Mercury will probably prompt you to think about and plan changes that will impact your bank balance. If Aquarius covers your 7th house, or zone, of ‘Partnerships’ your plans could be in for a major overhaul concerning your significant other, making these adjustments now will go smoothly. Maybe Aquarius is pulling at your Venus and if so these few weeks will get you thinking about deepening or severing your commitment to something you have previously valued.

Philosopher Sir Francis Bacon has Mercury in Aquarius
An early proto-science fiction contributor he wrote 'New Atlantis a vision of Utopia. He was also said to be the 'secret Shakespeare's' unable to hold high office if he openly wrote the works.
'It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Make the most of your facility to think outside the box and come up with new original solutions and ideas. Say what you need to say with courage and use your integrity. Don’t be afraid to go against the grain but also hark back to old wisdoms that proved valuable and that have worked before in other contexts. If we try to mix and blend our ways with the ways of others we may all find the new, unique pathways to travel down.

Jazz Guitarist Django Reinhardt has Mercury in Aquarius he was a pioneer, virtuoso musician developing a new guitar technique 
'hot jazz'. He was born into a Romany family and badly burnt in a caravan leaving him only two fingers to use on the guitar fretboard.
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