Venus And Neptune

Modes in Astrology

Cardinal (Aries ♈, Cancer ♋, Libra ♎, Capricorn ♑) - Cardinal signs all have initiative, strength and power. The characteristics of Cardinal signs are bossy, competitive, ambitious, active, enthusiastic and energetic. Aries (fire) inspires others. Cancer (water) leads by their heart and instincts. Libra (air) initiates through new ideas and innovation. Capricorn (earth) has natural authority and leadership abilities. 

Fixed (Taurus ♉, Leo ♌, Scorpio ♏, Aquarius ♒) - Fixed signs all have stability, perseverance, security and fixity. The characteristics of Fixed signs are steady, determined, stubborn, reliable, persistent and purposeful. Taurus (earth) is home and financial stability. Leo (fire) is career stability. Scorpio (water) is emotional and spiritual stability. Aquarius (air) is mental and innovation stability.

Mutable (Gemini ♊, Virgo ♍, Sagittarius ♐, Pisces ♓) - Mutable signs all have the ability to adapt, have good communication and are versatile. The characteristics of Mutable signs are adaptable, flexible, changeable, resourceful, inconsistent and versatile. Gemini (air) is intellectual adaptability. Virgo (earth) is organizational adaptability. Sagittarius (fire) is intuition and travel adaptability. Pisces (water) is emotional and spiritual adaptability.

mercury’s intelligence

Logical intelligence

Recognizing relationships and patterns, demonstrating sequential reasoning skills, generating and using abstract thoughts Mercury in Virgo & Mercury in Capricorn

Existential intelligence

Exploring the why’s and how’s of life, mulling over deep thoughts, also called “moral intelligence” - Mercury in Sagittarius & Mercury in Aquarius

Interpersonal intelligence

“People smart”, understanding others on a deep level, sensing other’s moods, temperaments, intentions and feelings - Mercury in Libra & Mercury in Pisces

Intrapersonal intelligence

Understanding the self, one’s own thoughts and feelings, enormous amount of self-awareness and self-motivation - Mercury in Cancer & Mercury in Leo

Spatial intelligence

Mental imagery, vivid imagination, spatial reasoning. Daydreaming, engaging in creative endeavors, solving puzzles - Mercury in Gemini & Mercury in Scorpio

Bodily intelligence

Great control over one’s body, perfect sense of timing, coordination, people who are skilled in uniting mind&body - Mercury in Aries & Mercury in Taurus

Solar System 10 Things to Know: Planetary Atmospheres

Every time you take a breath of fresh air, it’s easy to forget you can safely do so because of Earth’s atmosphere. Life on Earth could not exist without that protective cover that keeps us warm, allows us to breathe and protects us from harmful radiation—among other things.

What makes Earth’s atmosphere special, and how do other planets’ atmospheres compare? Here are 10 tidbits:

1. On Earth, we live in the troposphere, the closest atmospheric layer to Earth’s surface. “Tropos” means “change,” and the name reflects our constantly changing weather and mixture of gases. 

It’s 5 to 9 miles (8 to 14 kilometers) thick, depending on where you are on Earth, and it’s the densest layer of atmosphere. When we breathe, we’re taking in an air mixture of about 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen and 1 percent argon, water vapor and carbon dioxide. More on Earth’s atmosphere›

2. Mars has a very thin atmosphere, nearly all carbon dioxide. Because of the Red Planet’s low atmospheric pressure, and with little methane or water vapor to reinforce the weak greenhouse effect (warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from the planet toward space), Mars’ surface remains quite cold, the average surface temperature being about -82 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 63 degrees Celsius). More on the greenhouse effect›

3. Venus’ atmosphere, like Mars’, is nearly all carbon dioxide. However, Venus has about 154,000 times more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than Earth (and about 19,000 times more than Mars does), producing a runaway greenhouse effect and a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead. A runaway greenhouse effect is when a planet’s atmosphere and surface temperature keep increasing until the surface gets so hot that its oceans boil away. More on the greenhouse effect›

4. Jupiter likely has three distinct cloud layers (composed of ammonia, ammonium hydrosulfide and water) in its “skies” that, taken together, span an altitude range of about 44 miles (71 kilometers). The planet’s fast rotation—spinning once every 10 hours—creates strong jet streams, separating its clouds into dark belts and bright zones wrapping around the circumference of the planet. More on Jupiter›

5. Saturn’s atmosphere—where our Cassini spacecraft ended its 13 extraordinary years of exploration of the planet—has a few unusual features. Its winds are among the fastest in the solar system, reaching speeds of 1,118 miles (1,800 kilometers) per hour. Saturn may be the only planet in our solar system with a warm polar vortex (a mass of swirling atmospheric gas around the pole) at both the North and South poles. Also, the vortices have “eye-wall clouds,” making them hurricane-like systems like those on Earth.

Another uniquely striking feature is a hexagon-shaped jet streamencircling the North Pole. In addition, about every 20 to 30 Earth years, Saturn hosts a megastorm (a great storm that can last many months). More on Saturn›

6. Uranus gets its signature blue-green color from the cold methane gas in its atmosphere and a lack of high clouds. The planet’s minimum troposphere temperature is 49 Kelvin (minus 224.2 degrees Celsius), making it even colder than Neptune in some places. Its winds move backward at the equator, blowing against the planet’s rotation. Closer to the poles, winds shift forward and flow with the planet’s rotation. More on Uranus›

7. Neptune is the windiest planet in our solar system. Despite its great distance and low energy input from the Sun, wind speeds at Neptune surpass 1,200 miles per hour (2,000 kilometers per hour), making them three times stronger than Jupiter’s and nine times stronger than Earth’s. Even Earth’s most powerful winds hit only about 250 miles per hour (400 kilometers per hour). Also, Neptune’s atmosphere is blue for the very same reasons as Uranus’ atmosphere. More on Neptune›

8. WASP-39b, a hot, bloated, Saturn-like exoplanet (planet outside of our solar system) some 700 light-years away, apparently has a lot of water in its atmosphere. In fact, scientists estimate that it has about three times as much water as Saturn does. More on this exoplanet›

9. A weather forecast on “hot Jupiters”—blistering, Jupiter-like exoplanets that orbit very close to their stars—might mention cloudy nights and sunny days, with highs of 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1,300 degrees Celsius, or 1,600 Kelvin). Their cloud composition depends on their temperature, and studies suggest that the clouds are unevenly distributed. More on these exoplanets›

10. 55 Cancri e, a “super Earth” exoplanet (a planet outside of our solar system with a diameter between Earth’s and Neptune’s) that may be covered in lava, likely has an atmosphere containing nitrogen, water and even oxygen–molecules found in our atmosphere–but with much higher temperatures throughout. Orbiting so close to its host star, the planet could not maintain liquid water and likely would not be able to support life. More on this exoplanet›

Read the full version of this week’s Solar System 10 Things to Know HERE.

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Atlantis - The Birth of Mermaids by Selina Fenech.

The heart chakra - the wellspring of love, warmth, compassion, and joy is located in the center of the chest at the heart level.

Anahata moves love through your life.

It is the center of your deep bonds with other beings, your sense of caring and compassion, your feelings of self-love, altruism, generosity, kindness, and respect.

Anahata is an integrating and unifying chakra - bringing to wholeness - as such, it is your healing center. Indeed, most spiritual traditions recognize love as the ultimate healing force.

The energy of anahata allows us to recognize that we are part of something larger, that we are interconnected within an intricate web of relationships extending through life and the universe.

Anahata allows us to recognize and get in touch with the sacred and fundamental truth that runs through all of life and connects everything together.

The “way of the heart” or the “path of the heart” is living your life from this energy center of love.

It means living your life with loving kindness and compassion towards others. It means that your heart is open to others and you inspire kindness and compassion in others. You create safe and supportive environment.

Others can feel your love and warmth. They feel loved and accepted unconditionally. People feel at peace around you, as there is no judgment coming from you.

When anahata is open and energy is flowing freely, you are not only loving to others, you are also loving to your self. You know when you need to say no and when you need care and self-nurturing.

All of the seven chakras are important and while I cannot say that the heart chakra is the most important, I do want to say that it is very important.

Most of the world’s spiritual traditions recognize love as the unifying force, the energy that is the most fundamental part of the universe, and of ourselves.

To open to  love is to reach to the deepest places and connect with our true essence, our spirit, and our soul.

Heart Chakra at a glance:

             Sanskrit name: Anahata - unstruck              Element: Air              Color: Green              Shape: Crescent moon              Petals of the lotus: Twelve              Seed sound: Lam              Vowel sound: Ay              Rights: To love              Endocrine gland: Thymus              Physical association: Heart, lungs, circulatory system, arms, hands              Psychological function: Love              Identity: Social identity              Developmental stage: 3.5 to 7 years              Challenge: Grief              Plane: The plane of balance              Planets: Venus (lunar, feminine), Sun              Deity: Vishnu, Lakshmi, Krishna              Mythological Animal: Antelope, dove, birds              Sense organ: Skin              Predominant sense: Touch              Incense: Jasmin, lavender, rose              Herb: Yarrow, meadowsweet, oris root              Sephira: Tiphareth              Tarot suite: Swords

Heart Chakra Affirmations

I am open to love.

All love resides within my heart.                

I deeply and completely love and accept myself.                

I nurture my inner child.  I am wanted and loved.                

I live in balance, in a state of gracefulness and gratitude.                

I love the beauty of nature and the animal world.   I forgive myself.                

I am open to love and kindness.                

I am grateful for all the challenges that helped me to transform and open up to love.

I am connected with other human beings.                

I feel a sense of unity with nature and animals.                

I accept things as they are.                

I am peaceful.

Here is a brief list of recommended common healing gems and stones for heart chakra healing. Listed is the name, color, type of stone, and crystal meaning/purpose of each:

Rose quartz — Pink — Semi-precious — Used to open and heal. The seemingly universal rose quartz meaning calls it the stone of the heart. It’s good for aiding sleep and alleviating the physical ills associated with heart chakra imbalance. It’s also used to calm emotions, dispel negativity, and promote peace.

Jade — Green to white — Semi-precious — Used to balance. Jade promotes emotional and physical healing of the heart’s ills.

Green calcite — Semi-precious — Used to balance and stimulate. Recommended to absorb negativity and boost your physical immunity, calcite is used to promote healing and transformation.

Green tourmaline — Semi-precious — Used to open and stimulate. Considered a stone of rejuvenation, tourmaline promotes emotional stability and healing.

Green aventurine — Semi-precious — Used to activate. A stone of vitality aventurine increases focus and soothes emotions.

Feed your chakra

Anahata    Rightfully called the heart chakra, it’s represented in the colour pink and green. Emotional abuse and heartbreak can be wounding to the seat of love. Ensure that this chakra is always in the right emotional frame      Feed it with:  Aid the healing process by feeding the chakra leafy vegetables like spinach, kale, dandelion greens, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery. Green teas also keep the heart chakra in healthy condition, and spice it up with basil, thyme, cilantro.

Signs your fourth chakra may be out of balance

The heart chakra can become imbalanced as a result of life experiences that have a strong emotional charge, physical illments, or significant changes in your environment. It may manifests as a blockage in the energy flow or, on the contrary, a tendency to become overactive or have an excess of energy.

You can see the following signs of imbalance in the heart chakra :

Being overly defensive

Feeling closed down

Jealousy; fear of intimacy

Codependency, relying on other’s approval and attention, trying to please at all cost

Always putting oneself in the role of the savior or the rescuer; or on the contrary, falling into victimization

Excessive isolation, being recluse, antisocial

Holding grudges, not being to forgive

At the physical level, it can manifest as:

Respiratory ailments, such as lung infection, bronchitis

Circulatory and heart-related issues

Simple ideas to balance the heart chakra

To get started, try out these few simple practices:

Work with the breath to balance your energy; observe it, play with it with breathing exercises

Cultivate your appreciation for beauty, whether it’s in nature, people or in the arts

Practice self-care and love your body up,

Cultivate self-compassion and acceptance, especially with regards to your emotions and body

Engage in activities that feed your heart

Focus on receiving if you are naturally inclined to be a giver; and on giving if you’re more inclined to receive all the time

Reflect on old wounds inherited from family relationships and come to terms with them compassionately; practice forgiveness deep within your heart

Express your gratitude, even if it’s in silence; you can be grateful for the presence of other people in your life or simply for good things that make your life easier and happier.

A fairy trail 💙

I Seek My Self through What I Think

💜 Aries

Positive natural tendency courageous bold inspirational to others intuitive perceptive

Misuse or exaggeration of trait foolhardy zealot egotistic show of bravado

💜 Taurus

Positive natural tendency steadfast and loyal intensely sensitive and understanding composed and calm affectionate and generous practical and firm productive and fertile

Misuse or exaggeration of trait stubborn without just reason overly emotional aloof, dry, and hard overindulges sensual appetites stingy and rigid seeks only material rewards for all efforts

💜 Gemini 

Positive natural tendency  lighthearted and cheerful extremely intelligent versatile and adaptable sensitive to others clear and objective in thinking precise

Misuse or exaggeration of trait silly and inane superintellectual, all words dissipates self through lack of unifying purpose nervous and excitable cold, aloof, and unemotional indiscriminate

💜 Cancer

Positive natural tendency sensitive to all feelings cares for others’ needs and wants psychic and impressionable holds the family together understands all human conditions

Misuse or exaggeration of trait can become hysterical and/or irritable can be extremely selfish can have elusions and unfounded fears can be too clannish and snobby is oblivious to all desires but own

💜 Leo

Positive natural tendency

self-assured and progressive warm and sincere affectionate in love protective cultivated and refined artistic and expressive inspired by universal love 

Misuse or exaggeration of trait  vain and self-seeking falsely modest lustful and hedonistic dictatorial extravagant and opulent braggart and show-off purely egotistical

💜 Virgo

Positive natural tendency helpful and unassuming clear and sharp-eyed dependable and unselfish precise and meticulous born researcher and scientist calm and self-reliant

Misuse or exaggeration of trait  manipulative and underhanded fault-finding indecisive and a hoarder forgets where things are superficial and secretive nervous and utterly dependent

💜 Libra

Positive natural tendency completely impartial and balanced mind refined, artistic nature perfect in marriage and partnerships sociable and gregarious graceful and charming inspires talent of others

Misuse or exaggeration of trait incapable of decision pleasure seeker and hedonist manipulates and dominates others completely dependent on others superficial and deceitful seeks relationships for personal gain

💜 Scorpio

Positive natural tendency creative through rebuilding healer strong and loyal friend giver of strength inspires faith seeks merger with Spirit

Misuse or exaggeration of trait totally destructive seducer uses friends for personal gain psychic vampire total egotist wants others to merge with him

💜 Sagittarius

Positive natural tendency vast and inspirational mind sees the larger issue at hand magnanimous and generous teacher and judge straightforward and bold

Misuse or exaggeration of trait inability to regulate mind with matter tends to false exaggerations gluttonous, never satisfied dictator and propagandist loud-mouthed and coarse

💜 Capricorn

Positive natural tendency pudent and sel-sacrificing trustworthy and loyal dependable and unselfish oranizer and executive industrious deep spiritual understanding very aware of other people’s needs

Misuse or exaggeration of trait miserly and demanding unsympathetic and secretive dictatorial insatiably ambitious worships only position and prestige opportunistic

💜 Aquarius

Positive natural tendency gregarious and social loyalty to a cause or idea strives for brotherhood intuitive and alert mind can love all equally

Misuse or exaggeration of trait overly talkative and flighty a zealot and fanatic tries to impose own ideas on others has zany schemes and is impractical cold, aloof, litle human sympathy

💜 Pisces

Positive natural tendency unselfish in all matters vast imagination creative and innovative universal in scope of expression strong spiritual aspirations

Misuse or exaggeration of trait seeks to control through giving hostage to elusion  potentially locked within poor sense of individuality a sensualist in all things

Written by Alan Oken

The Signs: Dark Rulerships

Dark and unusual things over which each sign rules.

Aries: accidents, barren places and burned ground, cuts, doorways, insomnia, nosebleeds, skulls, surgery, thistles, trances, wolves

Taurus: coins, dogma, strangulation, gluttony, psychometry, suspect and unsafe places

Gemini: breath, pupils, rumors, chests, crystals, hounds, ribs, forgetting, pillars

Cancer: blood serum, graves, onyx, cellars, cradles, marshes, night flowers, glass, wells

Leo: fortresses and lairs, arrogance, chamomilla, ballrooms, circuses and playgrounds, vomiting

Virgo: black cats, fractured bones, libraries, intestines, conceit and inferiority, sick rooms, parasites

Libra: vines and lilies, marble, trials, alcoves and closets, vertebrae, forests, manipulation, attics

Scorpio: cesspools, bile, funerals and embalmers, magic, foul odors and stagnant water, blood red, vermin and mobs

Sagittarius: the spine, altars, visions and prophecy, incense, holy books, arteries

Capricorn: decay, abandoned places, thorns and nightshade, bones, coffins and mortuaries, gates, acid and ashes

Aquarius: ether and blood, radio static, teeth, rebellions, black pearls, nuclear weapons

Pisces: abbeys, enemies, hospitals and anesthetics, veils, outcasts and charlatans, clairvoyance, gasoline, mazes, falsity, self-undoing

The Signs as Types of Fairies pt. 4 (Water)

Cancer - Dryad Dryads are female nature fairies who live in forests and trees, preferably oak trees. They are very shy and afraid of getting too far away from their inhabited tree. Every tree is connected to the Dryad’s spirit  which is why some trees appear creepy while others look peaceful. When the tree dies, the fairy will die with it. Dryads are very playful and non-violent which is why you will never see them hurting animals or humans.

Scorpio - Adhene (Manx Fairy, Cloanny Moyrn Fairy) In many folklore or legends, Adhenes are fallen angels, banned from heaven but too good for hell. They are very shy, usually female fairies who love to play in waterfalls or dance on mountain tops. They look beautiful, even angelic but behave very mischievous when it comes to humans, stealing women and children when they wish. But they could never truly hurt someone because it is believed that their truest intentions are purely good.

Pisces - Asrai Asrais are aquatic fairies that can either look like beautiful young maidens or children. In fact, they are hundreds of years old but only few humans will ever see them because they are very shy and constantly afraid of being captured. If an Asrai is caught or touches the sunlight, it will die, melting off into a pool of water. It seldom happens that people cross paths with this creatures but if they are touched by Asrais, they will forever have a body part colder than the rest of their bodies.