By Sarah Taylor

Taking a look back over recent readings, there are correlations between this reading and two others that are asking for attention: first, with the reading last week (Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015), and, second, with the reading of Dec. 14, 2014. If we approach these as significant, this means that there is a larger story the cards are telling you about your life, from week to week — sometimes focussing on one theme; sometimes returning to another; sometimes bringing in something new.

The Hermit, Six of Swords, Princess of Swords from the Röhrig Tarot deck, created by Carl-W. Röhrig. Click on the image for a larger version.

Last week, the reading held the following cards, from left to right: Justice, Eight of Disks, Princess of Cups (the Page in Rider-Waite Smith-based decks). This week’s reading, from left to right holds: The Hermit, Six of Swords, Princess of Swords. That’s a major arcana, a minor arcana, and a court card respectively — both courts also being Princesses.

Something feels like it is lining up. Two parallel lines; two parallel, yet interconnected, experiences. Both with their roots in a larger life theme (both major arcana cards being those larger life themes, and in the card associated with the past); both applying those themes in the practicalities of the present (the minor arcana cards in the centre position); and both heralding the emergence of a new way of being (the Princesses in the future positions).

I write “a new way of being” because Princesses are the nascent, personality-based expressions of their suit. They are relatively young and inexperienced, yet they are also bold, fearless, and unadulterated (un-adult-erated). They have not yet learned to self-censor in the way that older people do — and more respect to them for being this way. They are the way-showers, the liberators, the renegades and rebels. Their rebellion can be quiet and personal, or loud and provocative. It can be destructive, constructive, or both. One way or another, though, an aspect of self is birthed and makes its presence known — either in you, or through a reflecting back to you from someone else.

Many of us will be trying out our new wings right now, that’s for sure.

So, in the cards this week, we have a time of introspection in the past, which may or may not have been accompanied by feelings and tangible experiences of solitude. This is The Hermit, which is the card that comes after the extroversion of Strength, and indicates moving within. This is a vital aspect of the soul journey, moving within. Without this time, we cannot integrate what we have discovered on the way.

It is often not an easy time. It is often not easy to contend quite as fully with ourselves as The Hermit asks of us. We fight tending the inner fire. We will do much in order not to look into its flames, let alone nurture it. But something has come of this time. Work has been done. The wood has been chopped, the water has been carried.

And now there is a period that you are currently moving into, which was coming up on the horizon in mid-December last year:

“The words on the Six of Swords:

“Differentiation,” “Cognitions,” “ability to analyse.”

Three swords stand, point down, on each side of the card. Balance, yet “differentiation.” Analysis, yet synthesis. This is one of the ‘lightest’ of the Swords cards, and speaks of a transition from the confusion of the Five to a coming together and moving into a new form. It will also frequently speak of a trip across water in the real world. There is a shift to a new state of relating, and relatedness. This is likely to have its origins in you, although it may also play out through the mirror of another, or others, in your life.”

The outcome: freedom. Freedom from a belief that has held you back, freedom from an inability to express yourself, freedom to stand for something that releases you and others, freedom to have your own mind. Again, this is the start of something: the Princess needs time to mature and take her place at the head of court — to integrate and live out her promise fully. But she is there, and she will be heard.

What will come from that assertion is a sense of being unashamedly yourself in how you see and relate to a part of life. Your life.

Astrology/Elemental correspondences: The Hermit (Virgo), Six of Swords (Mercury in Aquarius), Princess of Swords (the earthy aspect of air)

If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free tarot spread generator using the Celtic Wings spread, which is based on the traditional Celtic Cross spread. This article explains how to use the spread.

By Judith Gayle | Political Waves

“I didn’t come here to do favors for TransCanada. Republican leaders may disagree but I’ll be voting no.”
–Elizabeth Warren

This first week of the new year has been quirky, improbable and distressing, wrapped in weather that, at least here in the Pea Patch, brings everything to a slow, frigid crawl. And it would be impossible to write about the news of the day without mentioning the deliberate attack on journalistic freedom of speech perpetrated against political cartoonists in France.

It’s not my topic this week, but the larger context of this story — the free exchange of ideas and concepts, the ability to speak candidly and without fear of censure — is always of primary concern at Planet Waves..

Two things became evident to me as I watched the world respond. First, the vast majority of humanity finds this kind of behavior barbaric and shocking, and the reaction from people of all races and religions has been a unified rejection of murder in the name of religious jihad. If the skewed tenets of radical Islam were, in fact, behind this strike, it did its cause no good.

The other thing that I find so twisted about these things is the insistence that they occur in defense of God. It should be obvious enough to true believers that if God is the supreme deity, then God requires no assistance from mere mortals. In fact, if God is that touchy about his reputation, logic dictates that he would do his own killing, which should prove easy enough with things like sink holes, tornadoes, and Ebola at his fingertips. Once again, mankind has created God in his own image and confused his own darkest impulse with righteousness.

Gratefully, that truth is glaringly evident to the majority of us witnessing the wreckage in France this week. Unfortunately, we’re still somewhat blindsided by how that breaks down within the Kabuki theatre we call Congress. This was the week that Joe Biden swore in dozens of newbie legislators to the 114th Congress, almost all Republicans. This was the week that House Leader John Boehner barely survived an attack against his speakership by hostile Baggers who think he’s too eager to work across the aisle (which history will show hasn’t happened in six years, and will likely not occur for at least two more).

And this was the week that Mitch McConnell lit on news, that 2014 was the best year for hiring since the turn of the century, like a duck on a bug. With unemployment fallen to 5.6 percent, Mitch declared that the United States was finally showing encouraging signs of fiscal growth and stability — here’s where improbable comes in — now that the Republicans have taken control. Twenty-four hours before that, of course, the country stood on the edge of fiscal oblivion, and here’s Jon Stewart’s spit-take as illustration. Paul Krugman has called this creative bookkeeping, and right-wing delusion, “the voodoo time machine.”

I’m not sure what level of perfidy it takes to ignore facts, make shit up and try to sell it to the world, but I’ll give it to Mitch, he schleps this particular brand of snake oil with a straight face and the party faithful lap it up. Much as he constructed a plan to obstruct anything ‘Obama,’ this time around he’s vowing to prove the Republican ability to govern because “I don’t want the American people to think that if they add a Republican president to a Republican Congress, that’s going to be a scary outcome. I want the American people to be comfortable with the fact that the Republican House and Senate is a responsible, right-of-center, governing majority.” I suppose that’s because Pubs have been so responsible and ethical these last six years, don’cha know, and if you don’t believe that just ask the short list of one percenters, who are doing better than ever — read that EVER — before.

As an aside, we should note that the odds of success on this front are frightfully slim. Republicans have no interest in the public good, only in privatization and corporate dominance, and their disdain for the rising populist movement makes them even more susceptible to self-delusion. Since the American people are decidedly progressive in their outlook, the full weight of Republican responsibility for national leadership should produce buyer’s remorse fairly quickly. Within their ranks, the Baggers are as contentious as ever, pitting themselves not just against ‘establishment’ leadership, but against doing ANYTHING with Dems to move the nation forward. Meanwhile, on the left, the Progressive caucus is picking up credibility, supported by Speaker Pelosi in most instances, and more energized than it has been in years.

There is no longer a sense of camaraderie in the nation’s capitol, providing opportunity to develop the personal relationships that made governance do-able in years past. There’s no longer any pretense of developing such a mutual space. 2015 finds our least moderate politicians nose to nose, although a streak of Libertarian distaste for plutocracy runs through both parties, and might provide alignment in the odd moment.

Still, there seems little chance for Republican leadership to show its “well-meaning” side, since it doesn’t actually have one, and it may have difficulty doing damage so long as Obama uses his veto pen (and the Dems don’t cave). So far, the Prez seems more than happy to wave that pen like a sword, willing — some even say eager — to slice and dice repressive legislation. The pen may well prove mightier than the sword in the coming months.

The first thing our new Pub Congress did this week was to create a few rules, propose a few bills to destabilize the very fiscal improvements they claim as their own, declaring them progress “for the American people.” (This is one of my pet peeves, as some of you know. Every time a Republican tells me s/he’s representing my best interests, Pinocchio’s nose gets longer and an angel plummets to earth).

Besides changing the way “math” works, with a process known as “dynamic scoring” in order to mask the financial consequences of legislation (think fiscal truthiness, as practiced by the Dubby’s White House), the Pubs went after the Volker Rule — a key reform in the endangered Dodd-Frank bill passed in 2010 — that was put in place to regulate banksters gambling with taxpayer money, known as proprietary trading. Essentially, when the ‘bet’ wins big, it’s reflected in an enormous bonus, so Wall Street has railed against Volker since its inception. Even though the Volker Rule has never been fully implemented, the Pub proposal would delay that implementation for another two years. This is only one of eleven deregulation changes proposed on Wednesday, but one that Elizabeth Warren thundered against as a “big bank giveaway that makes our economy and middle class families less safe.”

And although the Pub meme of moment is to further reduce the deficit — which they themselves ran sky high in Bushwar(s) II — Boehner’s kids quickly passed yet ANOTHER hit on Obamacare (that makes fifty-something, I’ll let you know when we reach sixty) which the Congressional Budget Office tells us could add as much as $53 billion to the debt. The argument on the right is that since companies are required to provide health benefits to anyone working over 30 hours, this cuts away at the established norm of the 40-hour work week by providing employers an incentive to hire for less than 30. The proposal raises the imposed fine threshold to 40 hours, although the CBO warns that this increases the risk of a million workers losing their employer-provided coverage, a substantial increase in Medicaid, more subsidized exchanges and CHIP service to kids, costing the taxpayer 21.4 billion bucks over the next decade.

The Pubs argue that they have anecdotal evidence from their own little ponds that none of this is true — and the “new math” is how they roll, anyway, so the CBO can go pound salt! Not to mention their sincere belief that the John Roberts court will deliver a blow to ACA this year, leaving upwards of ten million people without health insurance. And, yes, given the conservative activism made evident by prior decisions, it could happen.

In yet another strike against the most vulnerable, the new congress wasted no time in creating a pseudo-crisis regarding the viability of Social Security, putting 11 million disability recipients on line to lose 20% of their benefits. There is no SS funding crunch at hand, and won’t be for a couple of decades. And although the disability insurance trust fund requires a cash infusion from time to time, this has been done almost a dozen times in the last years with no beads of sweat dotting the national brow. But no longer, now we must twist in angst at the “takers” on disability running the fund dry. This requires immediate cuts to a defunct, limping “entitlement program.” (The Pub mantra on this issue, done in subliminal whisper? “Privatize, privatize, privatize!”)

When it’s plain that the vast majority of Americans not only want robust SS but depend on it, how do the Pubs rationalize constant attacks on a fund that is flush for at least two decades, and much longer with only slight tweaks? They lie, just as Reagan lied about the welfare queen who raked in multi-thousands under many different names. If we go over to the Crime page at Huffy, we’ll find reports of career criminals making attempts at this kind of fraud, but to assume that entire groups of people do this as a matter of course is sheer nonsense. This is the same meme that fuels the culture wars, that exaggerates racism and sexism and paints it all with the same black/white, us/them brush until it explodes.

Thus began the first week of the 114th Congress of the United States of America. And, as if that wasn’t enough — and as was announced by Mitch McConnell early in December — their very first matter of business was the Keystone XL Pipeline, pledging to override Obama’s decision-making process. Flexing his go-ahead-and-try muscles, Obama made it clear that he would veto any bill passing XL through, explaining once again that he has been waiting for further information regarding this controversy, especially a decision by the Nebraska Supreme Court on the legality of the former governor granting TransCanada permission to access private property.

Today that body issued a decision granting permission for the pipeline to go forward, although ” …the court ruling was split with four of the court’s seven judges agreeing with a lower court that the 2012 law used to grant TransCanada that permission was unconstitutional. However, Nebraska requires a supermajority of at least five judges to strike down a law.” There is now a two-week period in which federal agencies are invited to comment on the proposed route, which gives Obama some wiggle room.

The White House issued an immediate statement, warning that “The State Department is examining the court’s decision as part of its process to evaluate whether the Keystone LX Pipeline project serves the national interest.” Confirming the continuance of the proposed veto, the statement included language making it clear that Obama objects to the challenge to his Executive authority, which would prevent “the thorough consideration of complex issues that could bear on U.S. national interests.” Obama’s position on the pipeline has seemingly taken twists and turns over the years, but his own thoughts on the venture — if that’s what we’re seeing now — seem to consider it, on the whole, problematic for the nation and environment without producing adequate national benefit. And it probably sweetens the pot just a tad that our newly assertive president knows how badly the Pubs want that win, after six years of Obama-bashing.

Amazingly, the economy is working in the liberals’ favor on this issue. The plunge of global oil prices and the upswing in U.S. production make expensive tar sand recovery less attractive to investors, and TransCanada has already shifted its process of product movement toward (the dangerous practice of) transport by rail. “Clearly, the economics are threatening the project,” said Robert Bryce, a senior energy fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute research center. “There’s no doubt the Republicans in Congress are going to pass a bill that intends to force approval. But they can’t make the pipeline get built.”

Perhaps Obama was listening when Elizabeth Warren had her say on the Congress floor, to be found here. Don’t miss it. It’s short but sweet, as are most of Ms. Warren’s objections to those who punish the average citizen. And the Pubs pretended not to hear either the Senator or the President as the proposed legislation passed out of the newly convened Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee with a vote of 13-9. There will be a floor vote next week in the House. The fight may or may not be won on the left, but there’s no question that it has created a shift in environmental activism, and that’s not a baby step — that’s a leap.

If you haven’t made your own wishes known on this topic, you might want to add your name to the one of the petitions floating around the blogosphere. I signed one again today at Earthjustice, a not-for-profit legal assistance organization focused on environmental law that began as a small community project. Surprisingly intimate, Earthjustice is now global in its reach, but continues to focus on the needs of individual communities in their struggle to determine their own environmental future.

I particularly like the Earthjustice motto: ” … because the world needs a good lawyer.” In this day and age, that’s the most expedient way to address these critical issues, and this organization has an excellent record. In July of last year, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that a couple of little towns could use local zoning laws to ban heavy industry, including oil and gas production, within their borders. That case was argued by an Earthjustice lawyer and set a precedent that, one can easily imagine, led to the recent state ban of fracking entirely. Do visit and read about the diverse causes Earthjustice supports. This organization is well-rated, with 82% of funding going to projects and 72% raised through individual contributions.

So there’s our flagship congressional week, giving us a heads-up on what the future holds. So much for the quirky, improbable and distressing. Oh, and quirky, yes: it’s true, Mitt Romney is considering a third run (because ‘destiny’) so add that bit of quirk to your own examples of weird, perhaps as strange and unexpected as mine, to flesh out the picture.

And do lighten up, as you can, in the coming week. While all this seems pretty serious and difficult, especially with news full of downed planes, disgruntled cops and assassinated journalists, be mindful of how you’re feeling about things from moment to moment. Taking care to give our emotions a harmless expression will keep them from festering, unexplored and turned toxic. We must not turn our backs on what is happening around us, but we do not have to ‘enter in’ to it, either. It’s ours to mend, not to wallow in.

As always, there are ethical considerations and human consequences to everything we do, what we choose to support, how we wish to create our world. The more kindness, compassion and care we can bring to the issues, the higher the vibratory rate that lifts us all. Remember, we can’t go wrong if we come from heart, extending the best of our humanity to one another and the world. These are the years when we set a new foundation for the future: color it with love.

Mars enters Pisces at 5:20 am EST (10:20 UTC) Monday to emphasize awareness in general, but especially self-awareness. Everybody has Pisces somewhere in their personal astrology. It’s probably a pretty deep place for you. With the energetic implications of Mars transiting such depth will come some exciting potentials — if you can master them.

Mars, like fire, is an empowering servant but not such a trustworthy master. Hence, working with Mars as it manifests for you requires self-mastery, which logically begins with self-awareness.

Also analogous to working with fire, it’s important not to fear the red planet. As Robert Hand has noted of Mars, “… there is nothing to fear from its transits, and in fact its energies are a vital part of life.”

Indeed, if all you do with Mars traversing Pisces until Feb. 19 is to keep fear from running the show, you will have made a good show of yourself. Yet, you should also be aware of how a more intriguing potential is implied.

Adding intrigue to Martian vitality in Pisces will be Neptune, which has been continuously occupying Pisces for about three years now with about 11 years to go. Neptune co-rules Pisces along with Jupiter.

As Eric averred in 2012, even though Neptune is a relative newcomer (having been discovered in 1846), it is well-suited to rule Pisces and powerfully placed there. As Eric has also noted more than once, Neptune aspects can be far from exact and still be functional.

Neptune’s wide “orb” of aspect combined with the predilection of Mars to express its own aspects well in advance of their being exact indicates the next thing (after no need for fear) you should be aware of. Namely, the red planet’s ingress to Pisces on Monday will implicitly entail an immediate, long-lasting conjunction (or merger of energies) with Neptune.

Part of Neptune’s nature is that its expressions can be right in front of you, indeed surrounding you, and yet remain hidden in plain sight. In other words, Neptune rarely functions to enhance immediate awareness. That’s how it will be up to you to make up the difference, beginning with yourself.

In the weeks to come, it will be useful to pay attention to what’s going on inside you. If you endeavor to look for inner patterns and strive to understand them, self-awareness will inevitably result.

Along that same line, listen to words coming out of your mouth. Read e-mails and texts carefully before you send them. Ask yourself, “Is this really me?” Such a simple precaution may help you avoid having to say “Sorry, I wasn’t myself” or “That’s not the person I want to be” after the fact.

Once you grasp getting a hold of yourself before the fact, you can realize the powerful and positive potential of Mars in Pisces conjoined with Neptune at the same time. Among those potentials are service and preparation. Self-awareness enhances both.

If you choose to serve somehow during the next few weeks, try not to do so impulsively. Making an effort to get straight and clear about what you are serving and the spirit in which your service is rendered will be worth your while.

Preparation, of course, can easily become procrastination — especially with foggy Neptune ruling the roost for Mars. Be clear what you are preparing for and be aware of your your energy level. If you are focused and stoked, you probably have made a good balance of Mars and Neptune. If you feel either frustrated or lost, look to make an adjustment.

There is one other positive potential to be aware of when Mars enters Pisces, as indicated by Monday’s astrology. About six hours after the Martian ingress, a little asteroid with a big name — 433 Eros — will also enter Neptune’s watery and mutable realm.

Besides being an alternative name for Cupid, Eros represents what many learned people consider to be the most powerful, dominant and seminal human motivation: the urge to merge.

Even though it is ‘only’ an asteroid, the symbolism of Eros coalescing with Mars and Neptune in Pisces is something you should be aware of. When you consider that the merger will take place over the course of one day, yet implicitly last for weeks, the potential is clearly more than just a good time.

Indicated when Mars enters Pisces on Monday is nothing less than a chance to achieve your highest potential ever as a human being.

Imagine yourself overcoming fear, but not being content to stop there. Imagine you channeling the indomitable vitality of Mars with conscious intent. Then, conceive of such courage and desire in service to the unbridled creativity of Neptune. Finally, be aware of how fearless, energetic and creative purpose could further the highest cause — the cause of love itself, through you.

That may seem like a tall order, but please, give yourself a chance. Begin by simply practicing a little self-awareness. After all, if not you, who? If not now, when? Why not be at least some of the good things you would like to see happen in the world?

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What have you devoted your creative flame, your inner erotic essence (however that may express) to building? On the flip side, to what archaic systems and traditions have you sacrificed your life force?

Photo by Hal J. Cohen

As you look at the two sides of this coin consciously this weekend, notice specifically where you feel driven to stop the proverbial buck on the subtly insidious peer pressure that has, perhaps, turned you against your own desire and erotic energy.

Especially think in terms of patterns with multi-generational roots, whether in your family group or some other community you belong to.

The astrology at play involves a couple of aspects that form an interesting interplay of themes. The first is the Sun conjunct Vesta in Capricorn (exact Sunday 1:29 am EST/6:29 UT).

In the sign next door, Mars and the asteroid Eros are conjunct centaur planet Nessus in late Aquarius (exact Saturday, 7:43 am EST/00:43 UT for Mars).

For some people, seemingly calcified social and familial pressures can feel impossible to transcend, re-shape, shatter or dissolve — particularly when they have been internalized. This is especially true for teenagers and young adults: everything is felt so intensely, but without the context acquired after a few more years (or decades) to individuate and heal. It takes time to grow beyond the social and familial restrictions of youth.

Take, for example, the suicide death of transgender teen Leelah Alcorn last week, for whom Change.org has collected nearly 300,000 signatures as of Tuesday on a petition to ban so-called conversion therapy for transgender people. Forced conversion therapy by her parents was one of the reasons Alcorn gave in her suicide note for taking her life.

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Dwarf planet Ceres, otherwise known as “1 Ceres,” enters Capricorn at 10:23 am EST (15:23 UT) on Thursday so you can flex, and feel it. Since Capricorn is where elementary earth meets cardinal qualities, realization is appropriate. For example, when the Sun entered Capricorn (where it remains today) back on Dec. 21, a new season was made perceptibly real.

Now, you are about to enter a suitable season to begin making Ceres real in your life, and not just because it’s entering Capricorn, either. In addition, Ceres is finally ready for its close-up.

That’s because of the spacecraft called Dawn. The same spacecraft that brought you close-up photos of asteroid 4 Vesta just over two years ago is now on approach to rendezvous with, orbit, and survey Ceres in about two months.

Also, we are just a few days past the anniversary of Ceres’ discovery on Jan. 1, 1801 — the first day of an entire century of astronomical discoveries that would change how we perceive ourselves.

While it’s almost certain that NASA did not schedule Dawn’s final approach to Ceres in order to coincide with either Ceres’ discovery date or its ingress to the slice of zodiac pie where manifestation initiates, you have to admit the synchronicity is probably indicative.

What’s probably being indicated is that this is a fitting time to get a feel for how Ceres manifests for you. Having just been through a Cancer Full Moon the night before last, your sensitivity should be acute.

You’ve just experienced Venus and then Mercury entering Aquarius over the weekend, followed by the Moon entering Leo last night (or this morning, depending on your time zone). So you should have a fresh feel for how a major object changing signs correlates with your reality.

While many astrologers would not consider Ceres to be a major object in the same league with the Moon, Mercury or Venus, there are good reasons to at least explore what weight Ceres carries for you as it enters Capricorn.

First, Ceres is now classified by astronomers as a dwarf planet on par with Pluto. Among astrologers who employ Pluto in their work, very few would deny its potency. So why deny Ceres without a closer look?

After all, Ceres is in fact closer. It orbits the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. All the other objects so far officially designated dwarf planets by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), including Pluto, are orbiting the Sun out past Neptune and take far longer than the longest human life to move through all the signs.

Ceres, on the other hand, takes only about 5 years to move through all 12 signs, giving it both a personal frequency like Mars and an interpersonal correspondence like Jupiter.

With its ingress to Capricorn, and at least to begin with, you may want to tune in to how the myth behind Ceres’ name has both personal resonance and interpersonal correlations for you.

What a myth it is! A story showing how the divine feminine is every bit the equal of the divine masculine no matter how push comes to shove; a reminder to respect mothers and sisters as every bit the equal of fathers and brothers here on Earth.

As with every planet discovered by telescope, however, you might not want to lean too hard on nominal serendipity. You might also want to keep the date, circumstances and orbital characteristics of Ceres in mind as you endeavor to suss out how its astrology works for you.

At the beginning of the 19th Century, the world felt smaller and human consciousness bigger than a century before, bringing us all closer together under the sky — like it or not. That’s part of Ceres.

Any object discovered by telescope represents your mind’s potential to exceed the limits imposed by your body and senses. That’s a pretty darned amazing statement, and that’s part of Ceres too.

Finally, as the largest object (by far) in the main asteroid belt, Ceres neatly emulates the spherical form of a major planet while co-existing as an integral part of a greater collection of smaller and less regularly shaped objects.

In other words, Ceres invokes both the humility and aspirations necessary to contribute more than your share to society while retaining your connections with the universe.

As both representative of a stalwart individual, and also merely being part of something greater, Ceres is worth feeling and flexing over the next several months as it cruses Capricorn, before entering Aquarius on April 3.

As an added bonus, retrograde motion will bring Ceres back to Capricorn for comparison and review from Aug. 3 to Oct. 27, before Aquarius claims it again for the rest of the year. All the more reason to make this the year you get a feeling for and flex your Ceres while the good old boys (Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) do their thing.

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.