Just weeks after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association (NRA) president Wayne LaPierre said 'Look, I get it a bunch of kids died, and it’s really fucking sad or whatnot, and blah blah blah, but it’s not the end of the world here, people..the beat goes on..LaPierre wants armed officers in American schools 'the only answer to death by guns is flood the country with more guns and stand ready for the shootout' The media response is that the NRA president appears to blame everyone and everything except the guns. There are also various conspiracy theories as the identified shooter, 20 year old Adam Lanza's father Peter, claimed his son's body from the morgue also receiving death threats along with his other son Ryan also mourning the loss of his mother. Adam Lanza's had Moon in Capricorn and the Moon was also in Capricorn at the time of the shooting. Venus in Sagittarius - Faith in the Future
On 10th January, 2013 the Moon moves out of it’s dark Balsamic phase and starts afresh. In the week or so before this date we may have been appearing to be just going with the flow perhaps allowing things to drift along where they will and hopefully, letting go of what needed to be released and saying a few ‘goodbyes’. We may even have said a couple of hello's to what we thought was lost but now appears re-found or renewed. There has been a general sense of resting, of waiting and anticipating. It could feel like there is something hidden and brewing just out of sight. Something that has been growing, building and gestating. We may not know be able to actually pin down exactly what it is, the time for revelation is a few weeks away yet but we are prompted and primed to prepare for the changes waiting in the wings, ready or not.
Executive Director, Gun Owners of America, Libertarian, Larry Pratt has Moon in Capricorn 'Gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands...laws combined to insure that no teacher, no administrator, no adult had a gun... Of course there are other opinions..the debates continue.
The signal of change is just the merest
glimmer of sharp, silvery moonlight. This merest shift in our awareness is the seeding or
initiating of transformation and occurs with the monthly New Moon. This is the time we can pick up on and tune into the haunting and subtle whispering murmurs of adjustment promised by the powerful Lunar rhythms. We are more sensitive at this time to the tiny filaments of alteration, the gossamer thin shifts in direction and the momentary
realignment of momentum. It is there to be sensed and responded to and is as subtle as the New
Moon's light flickering like candlelight over the surface of the earth.
This month the New Moon seeds at 21 degrees of Capricorn.
Capricorn, the mountain goat or sea goat, Capricorn, the Achiever, Capricorn, the wise Cardinal Earth sign, this is the powerhouse energy being stirred into wakefulness just now. Capricorn
qualities of ambition, grit and determination will emerge as we throw our
intentions behind the practicalities of ‘getting the really important stuff done’. We will feel that
we must now face the new glare of reality and adjust to changing things with a fair chance of some even tougher times
ahead. We will feel an urgency to set something in motion right now that could provide us with more
authority, some tangible signs of security or more control, further down the road. We may not see
the finished results for a while but that lighthouse that we have the architect’s plans for in front of us will show itself to be useful later in our journey when we most need it's full beaming
light. Quite possibly at the time of the Full Moon in a few weeks time.
We may well have
to slug and tough it out as we step into the ring and prepare for a wave or
force of energy coming our way. Depending on what is triggered in our chart by 21
degrees Capricorn we could all use a technique which allows us to withstand and
weather a few hurtful blows, or any accusations or criticism. Those born around 9th/13th January of any year have their Sun shining eternally on this point and can relate
easily to the wisdom of standing firm and toughing it out. They have learnt to construct a
protective shield around their vulnerable inner core. People like boxers George Foreman and Joe Frazier have included this ability in their career choices. Others like Richard Nixon,
Heather Mills, Rod Stewart and David Bowie have learnt to stand firm and endure, some creating personas and alter egos which provide a buffer any swings and blows that may come their way.
David Bowie Sun,Mars and Mercury in Capricorn 'comeback' after a decade his 66th birthday 8th January, 2013 and looks back at life and Berlin 24 years after reunification..ch-ch-ch-changes and face the strain.. We may
all benefit from this ability to protect and shield and to be able to stand firm. We
may have to perfect our block and put on a brave face but we will triumph in
the end in our own unique way. Sometimes, as is the case at the moment in New South Wales, Australia, people are facing the blasts of fiery winds scorching destruction upon the earth - for them abandoning an unwinnable fight may be the greatest
defence. Controlled fire ravaged earth will encourage new growth, as the phoenix rises from the ashes so do new shoots but there are also obvious losses. Survival and adaptation is an unique hallmark of Australian native flora. Their ability to handle fires, however, really sets them apart from the rest of the world because not only do some species adapt, some depend on the fires to exist. Some plants have the capacity to sprout new growth from groups of little dormant buds under the bark that are only broken by the heat of fire others like Acorn Banskia need to bake their seeds and Wooly Bush seeds are just fire resistant, in fact the chemicals contained in the smoke can actually trigger germination. Protective shields and various personaes apparently exist in the plant world as well.
New Moons ignite, they start stuff off, they sow the
seeds and often act in unseen and invisible ways. After all the light from the Moon
is still just a sliver it is hiding more
than it is showing. All New Moons bring times when there is often a spark
of novelty and a freshness as we start again or begin new projects and undertakings. Our hope and optimism will get a surge, we may feel more of a ‘well why not’ attitude
welling up inside us and we may also notice it in other people. The few days around
the New Moon are excellent for trying out new things, experimenting with different styles trying new tastes or generating ideas even if some of them feel radical.
Self-styled Guru Asaram Bapu has Moon in Capricorn. He has created a furore in India by holding the Delhi gang-rape victim, Jyoti Singh responsible for her brutal attack and subsequent death from her injuries suggesting that she could have saved herself by deferring to her attackers with 'Bhaiya' a Hindi word meaning 'big brother'. He then called his critics 'barking dogs'
This is the time for
experimentation and trying things out. Activating the earth sign of Capricorn with this New Moon, much of
this testing out could take place with more practical, structural and
systemic matters. We can use this energy in our favour by taking steps to rebuild,
redesign or strip back something to the bare necessities, reevaluate and start afresh.
Be a bit more responsible now and be the authority, make the tough call because the 'buck stops here'. With Capricorn, somebody is finally responsible and with Capricorn's ruling planet in Scorpio the issues are being brought to light. Saturn in Scorpio - Snake Charmer Karma
'The death of the student who was gang-raped on a Delhi bus has prompted anguished soul-searching about the place of women in Indian society..25-50 million women in India are 'missing'..as well as infanticide and foeticide girls can die of neglect..adult women also die early..Ultrasound for sex determination in India is illegal but remains widespread' A womens place in modern India
Over the next few days of this New Moon time use this re-structuring, re-assuring, wise Capricorn energy to establish your new position or place in the world...Yes, that is how big the plan may be. Think about future projects and apply new energy to any plans and
schemes you may have had on the back-burner. Obviously, think realistically about how you want things to actually manifest.
Don’t expect everyone to gather round and join in with your schemes, they will have their own
stuff to get on with. The time for gathering will come soon enough with the Full Moon. One Billion Rising
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Actor/Icon James Dean has Venus in Capricorn 'I think there is only one form of greatness for man. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death. I mean, if he can live on after he has died, then maybe he was a great man. To me the only success, the only greatness, is immortality.'
After her raucous romp across the vast open spaces of fiery Sagittarius from the 9th January, 2013 Venus artfully picks her
way deftly through the earthy terrain of Cardinal Capricorn. All the while she is alert for new
sources of stimulation and enchantment in this earth sign. She will spend her time assuming an air
of minimal fuss and bother and trying to project an aloof and elegant image while needing high standards of service and having more than a few demands. Venus will be trying to impress whoever she meet and greets here until the 2nd February, 2013 when she will get much more casual and uniquely ‘weird’ over Aquarian air space.
Actress Faye Dunaway has Venus in Capricorn 'I still have a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do'
Venus is indulgent (Venus Come Out
Of Your Shell) she loves to feed the body, she like to anoint it, making it look, smell and feel ‘ohh la la’. That is really what she is all about initially. There are other things she loves of course, such as beauty in all it's
forms. Here in Capricorn she has a ready appreciation of all the finer things of life, art, culture and social connections.
Relationships are also very much a part of her main objectives here. Yet, with Capricorn we are really talking values so money and fairness will come under the highly desirable objectives of this material Venus. A run through the Venus in Capricorn shopping list will give us a real clue of just how fundamental and central Venus is to our lives. Love and Money, get those twin objectives under control and most Venus Capricorns will feel that they
have a good handle on their life and become quite secure in that knowledge. Most of us will not deny the need for either objective and some will not have to even try.
Actor/Director/Racing Driver/Sauce making Entrepreneur Paul Newman has Venus in Capricorn Newman's second law: 'just when things look darkest, they go black'
Venus has been enjoying a laugh recently in front of the warm fires of Sagittarius. Hearty and adventurous she has been using her keen intellect and philosophical mindset to get what she needed for the past month and has really got all of us kind of used to this
way of being. We have been making sure not to leave a stone unturned in our desire to expand
our world and enjoy good times with the ones we love. How
different it will be now Capricorn is running this ‘Love ‘n Money Show’. We need to look like we mean business for a start because Capricorn loves to be kept in the manner to which she is accustomed, quality, elegance, integrity lashed through with a general air of professionalism. Capricorn is very concerned by organisation and acutely distressed by what looks and feels haphazard. Capricorn is also impressed by
fortitude and distressed by flightiness and Capricorn wants loyalty and above all, that old
fashioned charming word, 'class'. With Venus in
Capricorn the understated look that says taste is where she is at but she will also needs to impress. Sloppy, slapdash and
disrespectful will not do and will definitely get Capricorns goat. Wealth, intellectual or material that will do nicely yes that gets the Capricorn juices going so does tangible, practical application of ideas and real, genuine demonstrations of care.
Actress/Activist Darryl Hannah has Venus in Capricorn 'Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills'
Capricorn wants us to apply our attention to our
ambitions, to what is worth all the hard slog and sweat. With Venus the Goddess of Love
here for a while she will urge us to sample the delights gained from striving and
attaining, shouldering our duties and basking in the glow of helping others. She will want us to understand the physical world and equally to understand the psychology and complexity of human interactions.
Actor David Hemmings has Venus in Capricorn 'Look at the film buyers and sellers in Cannes any year and you're basically looking at a lot of shoe salesman working out whether it should be sneakers or lace-ups next year'
Secretly Venus in
Capricorn can be the true psychologist of the zodiac. She will want us to make
something better of ourselves. Even 'fake it to make it' could work, if that gets the right
results. Capricorn is all about the results but it is also in for the long haul and
does not necessarily expect, or even trust, immediacy. Rewards must be earned, things take time after all and they may take a while to show up but will be worth the wait. So Venus in Capricorn will need us to stop all that hilarity, frivolity and
merriment of the festive season during Venus in Sagittarius because now is the time to get serious, get real and well, just bloody-well get on
with it!
Actress Gemma Atherton has Venus in Capricorn 'I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy...I don't know why it's still taboo to be a feminist'
We will all have a month where our relationships may get
a bit more serious, deepen and which requires some level of commitment. It will become that much more important to honour ourselves and those around us, to have integrity and to honour people's inner
authority. It is also important to try and obey man-made laws and traditions as well as natural ones. Before we get too carried away on high-handedness, it may also be the case
that we get much more dour, isolate, quiet and very boundaried. It could also be that we
get so stuck in old rigid patterns that we have automatically relied upon without due thought or challenge, we could find walls of granite around us instead of a more desired open and porous substance which could allow for necessary flexibility and change.
Actor Christian Bale has Venus in Capricorn 'I have this theory that depending on your attitude, your life does not have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living'
Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look
at where in ourselves we have a ‘Capricorn-signature’. We all have degrees in our
birth chart that are receptive to any Capricorn vibration, our personal
Capricorn divining rods. Look at how smoothly the matters
connected to your Capricorn house and planets are running and notice how things function here. Evaluate any room for improvement, make a list of priorities, roll your sleeves up and begin.
If you have Capricorn spanning the 5th zone of Romance and Creativity you may find your ‘fun time’ gets a perk, as does what you do for
the sheer love of it. Things may deepen and even go to another more profound level.
Actor Brad Pitt has Venus in Capricorn has been described as one of the world's most attractive men. He is in a 'perfect' high profile relationship with actress Angelina Jolie also becoming more involved in social issues setting up the Jolie-Pitt foundation. Secret marriage rumours around Christmas, if true, will have deepened his Capricorn need for security and commitment. 'I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within these compounds and its up to me'
If your own Venus is in Capricorn then this is a time to
welcome in the new arrivals in the shape of people or coins. This is your time to really 'work it'.
For a Sun sign Capricorn this stuff is easy but even a ‘seriously, lets get down to
business’ type Capricorn needs a touch of the absurd and to feel more relaxed and unrestrained from time to time. Your
hearts desire to attain your goals and weather any storms with aplomb and your cool
professionalism will get an extra boost this month for good measure.
The late John F Kennedy Junior had Venus in Capricorn Another high profile Kennedy death along with his wife Caroline and her sister Lauren, with its ongoing incumbent theories of cover-ups and conspiracies 'It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or mystique. It's my family'
This period usually finds many of us hitting the gym, attempting to hit our resolution's targets, hitting new targets, hitting the sales or hitting holiday websites hard. It will be noticed that we will have to face our current duties, obligations
and realities with a little bit more grace and determination. Stepping on the scales is sometimes scary enough but it is better to face the reality so that you know exactly what you dealing with and to grasp the true scale of your task so that you may apply the most effective strategy to reach your goal - this is what Capricorn the wise mountain goat instinctively knows and advises. The mountain goat know where the peaks are on the horizon so it follow the troughs diligently because the troughs precede the peaks and they lead to the foothills. Then it is all about scaling the heights and up we climb driving towards the ultimate goal. Worth the effort then.. the only way is onwards and upwards.
Thomas Bangalter has Venus in Capricorn credits: amc & picanese & pintrest & club diogenes & tumblr & owensarchive & posted by pippa ponton & jphibbs
Writer Ayn Rand has Mercury in Capricorn. Her novel 'Atlas Shrugged' according to a book club survey is the 'second most influential book for Americans today after the Bible'. With its theme of government control bad versus individual freedom good, this novel exerts a great influence over contemporary American conservatives and libertarians.
On the 31st December, 2012 Mercury moved country from the vast open ‘everything is possible’ expanse of fiery, mutable Sagittarius and now is carefully renegotiating it path uphill through the mountain ranges and foothills of Capricorn. We are in in
the craggy terrain of the mountain goat with a load to bear and quite a lot of weight on our shoulders.
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 and familiar. Mercury affects the way we process and
deal with information so how we talk, think, chat, how we use twitter, or blog, text, write, read, listen and learn.
Physicist Stephen Hawking has Mercury in Capricorn'If the human race manages to redesign itself, to reduce or eliminate the risk of self-destruction, we will probably reach out to the stars and colonize other planets..'
Capricorn is highly
strategic, ambitious and grittily realistic and likes to deal in facts. Capricorn veritably
sighs with deep acceptance and responsibility of ancient knowledge, it just
knows that it was born for shouldering the burden, it simply is what it has to do, and do it does! When
Mercury passes through such a worldly wise sign as Capricorn, it takes the opportunity to pick up a
package of knowledge to help steer a path through to its ultimate
goal. Whether that goal is Nirvana, a full blown empire, full health, a happy family or an running an entire nation. Listening to Capricorn's wisdom and following it will certainly go a long way to
pushing on through to the end. ‘Endings’ of course contain Capricorn symbolism. Ruled
by Saturn the Cardinal Earth sign of Capricorn is strangely comfortable with the whole concept of age,
finality and mortality. Portrayed in Medium Allison DuBois has Mercury in Capricorn The entrance of Mercury into this wise old sign
occurred at the end of the year, 2012. Traditionally in the West this is a time of
celebration as the New Year is hailed and welcomed in. We all try to raise a glass to
the closing of the old year, whilst welcoming in the next ‘installment’ of our life. During
this time of Epiphany we take our Christmas decorations, begin a de-clutter of our
stuffed cupboards, set up regimes to cleanse our digestive systems and freshen our sights towards the future with plans and resolutions. We probably all determinedly declare to resolve the previous years wrongs. We probably all proclaim to trim
our waistlines, trim our credit and make ourselves more effective, disciplined and competent. How very Capricorn of us all.
Film Director/Painter/Performance Artist David Lynch has Mercury in Capricorn It is possible that whilst Mercury was in searching
and unbound Sagittarius many of us noticed we had to switch our mental tuning
to scoping out the endless possibilities. We would have had a sense of been filled with hope,
faith and optimism about ‘all the things we see, go and do’. We had to learn
things by trusting our intuition, going on blind faith and jumping in with both
feet regardless of consequence, after all it was the hunt for sensation or inspiration
that motivated our path. Journeys and communications could have been pilgrimages
involving far more than we expected, full of complications we did not
anticipate as we pushed on with hope in our eyes and in many cases fingers
crossed. We may have found a little bit more faith than we bargained for
initially. (Mercury in Sagittarius - Postcards from an Optimistic Mind) 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 a foreign country where everyone asks us to speak more realistically,
to face up to what actually is rather than what you actually want to be or may just become. Getting to
grips with reality may bring us right down to earth but after all the earth is
our home.
Artist Henri Matisse has Mercury in Capricorn 'Icare in Jazz' shows the over-ambitious Icarus in death fall after flying too close to the sun on wings of wax
When carefully picking its way through
Capricorn, Mercury will want us to employ our heart and minds to help make
something better of ourselves, to groom our goaty beards and get our teeth
stuck into what is directly in front of us as a priority. Mercury in Capricorn will not let us shy away from digging in to the tasks ahead if us. In fact we may really enjoy the fruits of the earth after the nitty gritty and at the end of all the planning and work. Being adaptable is also Mercury's calling and it will adjust to this new terrain. We will all adjust because Capricorn will insist that we find the new
angle productive. It may well be with Mercury in Capricorn new empires, both large and small, are designed and established and that we accept that some of our efforts will bear fruit later on down
the road. Capricorn is an earth sign and the earth has signs of life and vitality in a myriad forms and often at odd intervals.
Writer J.R.R. Tolkien has Mercury in Capricorn 'Not all that wander are lost'
However, you will notice the difference from Mercury in Sagittarius to Mercury in Capricorn. You
know the change between fire and ashes and night and day. Remember that we are all feeling Mercury’s shift. You and others around you will seem more serious and responsible. We all believe that we know the best way forward and have the tough answers and solutions to the difficult questions facing us. All we really need is a dash of self discipline, some metaphorical steel in our spine and just
the right helping of clear focused ambition and we are all set. Just know,
ahead of time, that during Mercury’s shift in Capricorn all of us on this
precious planet of ours will be mentally processing with more caution and
resolution and we will also be a bit more serious and sober.
Mercury in Capricorn reaches the summit of any of its climbs at
its own steady, deliberate pace and often the winding path can appear
counter productive. However, the twists and turns are merely strategies against
obstacles and barriers and like the game of snakes and ladders we can sometimes
slide back down only to begin again with a better map on a more informed route.
Existential writer & feminist Simone de Beauvoir has Mercury in Capricorn 'Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay'.
Everyone, our children, friends, partners, teachers, bosses, neighbours and heads of state will be a little more
stern and business minded during this period. Wanting to discuss plans, agendas, business
ideas and developments.With this Mercury our communications are
about to get a lot more practical and realistic for good or bad.
The sign of
Capricorn sits somewhere in your birth chart, even if you do not have any
planets in this sign. You always have Capricorn somewhere in your
psyche. It is this Capricorn house zone with Mercury as a house guest.
This is where we will all have to be more accommodating and accept new regimes and adopt new routines who knows we may even enjoy them.
Writer Henry Miller has Mercury in Capricorn
Welcome your mercurial visitor and make
'it' feel at home.If you
know where your ‘Capricorn CEO' is then put your full
attention to what need attention. It is here that you may be trying to exercise self discipline, or show your ambition or authority. Respect the issues affected in that part
of your chart. For instance, Capricorn may be in your 2nd house of ‘Money and Resources’, in which case Mercury will probably prompt you to think
about and plan changes that impact your bank balance. If Capricorn covers your 7th house or zone of ‘Partnerships’ your plans could be in for a
major overhaul that will impact and concern your significant other. Making the adjustments now will probably go smoothly. If Capricorn is pulling on your Venus these few weeks will get you thinking about deepening, or severing, your
commitment to what you have previously valued. Endings and beginnings that sounds like Capricorn again.
Sun sign Astrologer Jonathan Cainer has Mercury in Capricorn 'It is not just a glorious comet that we can look forward to later this year. The global economic outlook should improve faster than most experts expect it to and a new mood of hope will awaken in millions of hearts. The sky's single, simple message for us all is that 2013 is to be a time of great healing. Emotional wounds can be patched up and psychological scars can be soothed in the coming months. Meanwhile, in the world of conventional, physical medicine, we will come to hear about some inspiring new ways to constructively treat infamous ailments.
Make the most of your facility to ‘get
real’ and face up to your responsibilities. Say what you need to say with honesty
and integrity and temper your words with wisdom and respect. Establish your
personal authority and fulfill your duty to others because 'there is no time like the present'….hmm hopefully after our efforts we may all finally benefit from a Cornucopia of well earned rewards and that's a fact.
Singer/Songwriter Leslie Feist has Mercury in Capricorn
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