Posted by Gabby Turner on Tuesday, August 23, 2011,
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Then you say go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds
I urge you not to expect much from this entry, were you to expect anything at all. I really just want to ruminate on the fact that my progressed Venus will enter Capricorn next year. I look forward to this transit in the same way I looked forward to my Saturn Return, which I realize is not the usual way to feel about Saturn Returns, but I'm a pretty Saturnine lady and I was so ready to be responsible for myself and my life. My... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Monday, August 22, 2011,
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"[Vesta] is an elemental force that must be tended, within and without, and
tending that flame becomes one of the closest things to an organic
religion in existence." --Eric Francis
When our Vesta nature is bruised from love (which may happen when she is activated by synastry contacts with a lover or potential lover or by transits or progressions) we can find ourselves turning away from romantic love toward some inner devotion to real spiritual love. Vesta makes us learn about how to l... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Tuesday, August 16, 2011,
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Astrology
When we want to feel aligned with the Divine, the easiet way to achieve that from an astrological standpoint would be to concentrate on expressing your divinity through the energies of your Sun sign. Aspects and house positions of the Sun are also important, but you might want to concentrate first on the sign that your Sun is in. What is the divine Capricorn? Or the divine Libra? What does it feel like to truly express the warmth and heart-centered intensity of the Sun in your sign? Training... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Friday, June 3, 2011,
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Astrology
Some astrologers don't consider minor aspects, but the energy of Venus today is very much wrapped up with them. The planet is making a sesquiquadrate (or 135 degree) aspect to both Saturn and Pluto, which are meanwhile in square to each other. This forms an aspect pattern that looks pretty similar to a Yod or "Finger of God," in which two planets in sextile both form quincunx aspects to a third planet. In a Yod, astrologer Eric Meyers writes, "the two planets in sextile are in harmonious ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Tuesday, May 31, 2011,
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Although it didn't seem it at the time, in retrospect a dreamy, romantic fog hangs over my memories of the 1990's. It was a time of the emergence of cyber-space, of the rise of "alternative" music, and a fascination with teen culture a'la MTV's The Real World, the teenage drama My So-Called Life, and Saturday morning's relentless showings and re-showings of the high-school sitcom favorite Saved By the Bell. It also saw a resurgence of mournful, emotive, romantic (in the sense of John ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Tuesday, May 17, 2011,
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Astrology
When I was growing up I would spend hours with books and music in my bedroom, alone with my thoughts and my feelings. These days it seems we live not for ourselves but for our Facebook or Twitter newsfeeds. I find it difficult to feel authentic in this Jupiterian Magic Kingdom of social media technology. Neptune underlies any kind of magical interaction, but sometimes I want my magic for myself.
Posted by Gabby Turner on Monday, April 18, 2011,
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One of the great things about paying attention to moon cycles is that it allows you to connect with your own cyclical changes. I remember that at the last full moon I was experiencing a lot of strong emotions about my family (especially my sister and niece). At this full moon I'm missing them both very much and looking forward to spending Easter weekend with them.
The Tarot Garden, "Justice"
At the last new moon, I planted jonquil bulbs and re-potted a lilac bush, and so it's interestin... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Sunday, April 10, 2011,
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Astrology
Walking up to my house this morning after having been at a series of spiritual workshops, I noticed two mockingbirds playfully flying at each other in the parking lot next to my house. They would fly up, bump chests, then flutter back down. When I stopped to watch them, they noticed me and one took off flying with the other chasing after it, then one circled around to my car, settled on top of it, and looked directly at me. I gave it a cheery, "Hello birdie!" and s/he flitted off again, e... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Sunday, April 3, 2011,
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Astrology
This morning I woke up earlier than usual for a lazy weekend day, planted some jonquil bulbs, re-potted a lilac bush I purchased last night, watered these and the other plants, and cleaned up the debris and mess than the landlord's maintenance workers have left around the house lately, and cleaned my computer. Other plans for the day include riding my bike back from downtown (where I left it Friday night after attending Knoxville's "First Friday" art gallery event), taking the recycling, ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Sunday, March 27, 2011,
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Astrology
I remember so many times as a child in school having the teacher chastise our class, saying, "You guys always want to make things harder than they have to be!" This is sort of the impetus of Mars in Capricorn. The planet Mars is our drive, our ambition, our body, how we assert ourselves, how we pursue our dreams and talents, our manner of expressing passion. Capricorn is self-reliant, slow-moving, interested in long-term stability, interested in conservation, old-fashioned, ambitious, and... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Thursday, March 24, 2011,
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Astrology
I spotted the infamous recent "Supermoon" last Saturday night while riding home in my sister's car with my niece asleep in the backseat. My sister had been visiting me from out-of-state for the past four days... this was to have been the night she left, but her misplaced phone charger was keeping her around a little longer. She couldn't find her car-charger after she had packed up and was ready to pull out, and with a 2 year old along she didn't want to be making a 4-hour drive at night w... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Friday, March 18, 2011,
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Astrology
Every so often I just know, without checking my transits, that I'm having a transit to my natal Chiron. Today was one of those days. I logged on to Facebook and I swear three posts in a row had to do either explicitly or not with weight/obesity. Last night someone I'm connected with through Facebook for purely political reasons posted the random comment, "On the plus side, fat people." I have no idea what that's even supposed to mean, though perhaps a pun on the word "plus" often associat... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Monday, March 14, 2011,
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Astrology
There's
some great writing out right now about Uranus in Aries. Here are some
personal favorite highlights with synopses and quotes! Enjoy and awaken.
:)
This is Part TWO, if you want to read Part ONE, it's right over HERE. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lara Owen, The Uranus Pluto Square 2011-2016
I always love astrological writing that takes into account the ongoing cycles the outer planets have with each other. In this one, Lara touches on ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Monday, March 14, 2011,
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Astrology
Well if there's anything Uranus has taught us best over the last few days, its that predictive astrology (especially when it comes to Uranus!) is very limited. The earthquake in Japan with its correlating tsunamis and nuclear crisis took the whole world by surprise. I felt like saying, "Well I'm not surprised that Uranus was...surprising."
So it's impossible to say really how this nuclear crisis will play out. We really just have to empty ourselves of any feeling that we can control t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Sunday, March 13, 2011,
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Astrology
I've just recently started doing Sun-sign horoscopes. The premise here is that the 0 degree of the sign in which your sun is in (Sagittarius for me) begins the first house of the Sun-sign horoscope chart and each sign gets a whole house. This means that when slow-moving planets like Uranus change signs, they're also CHANGING HOUSES! If you set your natal chart to whole-houses, the same will be true. So for Sag suns and Sag ascendant folks out there, we've just had Uranus enter our 5th Hou... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Sunday, March 13, 2011,
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Astrology
There's some great writing out right now about Uranus in Aries. Here are some personal favorite highlights with synopses and quotes! Enjoy and awaken. :)
Along with a succinct explanation of the significance of this transit
worldwide, Kathy gives you a Sun-sign horoscope for the Uranus Ingress.
Sagittarians like myself, prepare for some unexpected fun and
romance! I'm al... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Sunday, March 13, 2011,
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Astrology
I was talking to a friend of mine earlier about the recent crisis in Japan and she was saying that it must be especially difficult for Japan to recover from this partly because they're still recovering from the collective psychological wound of the atom bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which in the big scheme of things did not happen so long ago. And psychological woundedness is a strong influence on the very nature of Japan, as can be seen by Pluto's prominence there on the ascendan... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Thursday, March 10, 2011,
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Astrology
A few weeks ago I had a client come to me for a reading who was buzzing with Uranian energy. Her natal Sun in Aries was getting a charge from Uranus, the "Great Awakener," which had entered her sign in 2010 and is now about to re-enter. She had made major life changes, willingly, brazenly. She was drunk with Uranus! Not everyone feels quite as comfortable with the electric energy that Uranus brings, but she was willing to be at a place in her life where she could say, "Hell, I don't know ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Thursday, February 24, 2011,
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Astrology
I was driving home from work tonight admiring the peaceful landscape of the rural outskirts of Knoxville and I decided to use that moment to make a prayer for someone who called me recently looking for assistance--this person was having trouble (like so many of us) moving on from a life situation that was no longer good for him. So I said, "please help this young man move forward in his journey," and as I said those words "move forward," I suddenly backtracked. What if he needs at some po... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Sunday, January 30, 2011,
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Astrology
EDIT: Since writing this post I've re-thought my interpretation of this horary chart. I'm leaving this post up, but please read my (hopefully) better and (definitely) more thorough interpretation of this horary chart HERE.
Political unrest is a constant, but a revolution is not, and we've been seeing a lot of the latter lately. I've been involved in social and economic justice activism for some time now, so I empathize with the Egyptian movement to oust dictator Mubarak in favor of a more... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Friday, January 28, 2011,
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Astrology
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It
can be frustrating for the person learning astrology to understand how the
individual parts of their birth chart work together to make one unified whole. One way to put it all together is to create
sentences for how plan...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Thursday, December 23, 2010,
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One afternoon at the age of 11, I awoke from unconsciousness in the backseat of my mother's wrecked car. I remember the waking up itself feeling like being hit with a baseball bat, like being jarred awake. My glasses had been knocked from my face and so the contents of the car were just a blur of their real selves. I could hear my sister in the front passenger seat moaning (she had broken ribs) and could vaguely make out the form of my mother in the driver's seat, her still hand presse... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Friday, December 17, 2010,
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Welcome Back!
As we discussed in Part 1 of this series on Solar Returns, interpreting your Solar Return chart is a good way to prepare for the year following each of your birthdays. The point is not to be fearful or complacent about the year to come, but to prepare for and take advantage of the energy that will be availabl... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Tuesday, December 14, 2010,
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Julian Assange and Wikileaks have been all over the news lately due to the massive leaks of U.S. Intelligence information by his organization as well as his court case involving his alleged rape of two women. Although Assange has been diligently hacking since the 90's, why is it now (astrologically speaking) that he c... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Thursday, December 9, 2010,
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I prefer to think of the Solar Return Chart in the same way I do the Natal Chart, which is that it does not determine outcomes or destinies in an inflexible way, but instead serves to highlight the ENERGIES available to you in the form of opportunities and/or frustrations that we can choose to take advantage of and navigate t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Thursday, November 4, 2010,
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Understanding Lunation Cycles
The New Moon marks the beginning of each lunation cycle. It is the moment when the moon lines up with the sun in the same degree of the same sign of the zodia). From the perspective of Earth, the moon is not visible at the "new moon" phase because it cannot reflect the sun's light in our direction. Though seemingly cloaked in darkness, the moon does still receive and reflect the sun's light back towards the sun--an exchange of energy that vitalizes and ener... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabby Turner on Saturday, September 25, 2010,
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What is a Full Moon?
If you think of the Sun
and the Moon as the minute and the second-hand on the zodiac chart,
like hands on a clock, then the Full Moon is the moment when the tips of the
second and minute hands (the Moon and Sun) are at their most opposite points in
the sky.This happens about every 29
days, roughly once per month.
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Charts of New & Full Moons
I've compiled a
collection of charts cast for the moment of each New Moon and Full
Moon. These charts are cast for EST. You can examine the
planetary/luminary placements at the time of each New Moon or Full Moon
to better understand the implications of that moon cycle. Note where
the Sun and Moon fall in aspect to your natal chart. Is there a New
Moon in tight conjunction to your natal Sun, Moon, or personal planet? If so, expect this lunation cycle
to be particularly relevant for you! :) Includes eclipse dates and Dakota Sioux Full Moon Names.
One afternoon at the age of 11, I awoke from unconsciousness in the backseat of my mother's wrecked car. I remember the waking up itself feeling like being hit with a baseball bat, like being jarred awake. My glasses had been knocked from my face and so the contents of the car were just a blur of their real selves. I could hear my sister in the front passenger seat moaning (she had broken ribs) and could vaguely make out the form of my mother in the driver's seat, her still hand presse... 
