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It's Mercury Retrograde time again...yes, again!
When: August 9 to September 2
Mercury Retrograde occurs when its orbit carries Mercury past the Earth, but it looks like it's going backwards in the sky. The effect is something like when you're waiting in traffic and the cars on either side of you start moving...you feel like you're moving backwards!
One of the easiest ways to prove that astrology works is to follow Mercury retrograde cycles during the current calendar year. This three-week period of time occurs about three times each year.
Mercury represents ideas, logic, transportation, and communications. Mental clarity and improved communications is often required during Mercury retrograde. Tend to car repairs, back up your computer, or do behind-the-scenes planning during Mercury retrograde.
People who take life too seriously tend to go into high-anxiety during
this cycle. Mercury retrograde periods are a great time to go inside yourself,
since nothing outside you will be working.
The main thing to remember about retrograde planets is that they are helping
you to express their energy in a better way.
When you try to exert heavy-handed control of their energy, they often challenge you what can lovingly be called a "growth opportunity." Relax and practice allowing the energy of natal or transiting retrograde planets to flow in a natural way.
What else is happening in the stars this month?
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Muise's August astro report. |
Leo, July 22 to August 22
- Symbol: Lion
- Element: Fire
- Quality: Fixed
- House: 5th, Pleasure
- Planet: Sun
- Color: Gold, Orange
- Body Part: Heart, Chest, Spine
- Semi-precious stone: Diamond, Tiger's Eye, Quartz
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Learn
Astrology:
The 5th House,
Pleasure
"Houses" are the 12 pie slices in an astrology chart that astrologers use to interpret horoscopes. They're the realms of life within which your personality traits play out. They're calculated based on the sun's highest position on any given day.
The Fifth House, governed by Leo, represents children, romance, creativity, vacations, and pleasure. It includes the love you instinctively show the world.
With the fifth house, it is time to have fun. The zodiac sign on the fifth house cusp can give you hints about the way you like to have fun:
A practical sign like Capricorn may turn a fun hobby into a business. It may also indicate a person who does not have children, or holds off on children until they are a bit older in life. Capricorn fifth house people may not be big gamblers, instead preferring conservative risks.
As another example, Cancer on the fifth house cusp may take great enjoyment in playing with children. They also may have difficulty letting go when it is time to end a relationship.
A strong 5th house represents a person who loves to play and doesn't let the little things get them down. A challenged 5th house may indicate self-indulgence and "loose" behavior.
This house is one of the places in the astrology chart that calls you to take a risk on yourself. Whether it is showing the world your creative talents, opening your heart to the possibility of romance, or hitting the blackjack tables in Las Vegas, it's up to you to to open to your passionate nature.
Click here to read more about Houses!
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"Hi Alicia, I got David's
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After reading mine and his, they are both so very different from each
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As for the Yearly
Transit, I have read through some of that and here's something that
is just plain funny - one of the things my horoscope said for me to
do in January is to keep up on the maintenance of all of my appliances
so that I would not have to buy any new ones. Well, I felt rather
smug and I laughed at that because I live in an apartment and don't
have to worry about that, but a week after I read it, my Mom's washing
machine broke and she could not afford to buy a new one, so I bought
her one....Ha! Ha! So much for feeling smug." Angela,
St. Louis MO
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And for those of you who have read this far:
Teacher Kept Twinkie for About 30 Years
BLUE HILL, Maine - A Twinkie standing the test of time on the edge of a blackboard may be a retiring science teacher's lasting legacy.
Roger Bennatti developed a reputation as an innovative teacher during his 31-year career at George Stevens Academy, using new methods to introduce students to subjects he loved. But the legend of the Twinkie looms over all.
Speckled with bits of mold, the bright yellow cake still adorns his lab, but Bennatti only vaguely remembers why he kept the Twinkie so long.
"We wanted to see what the shelf life of a Twinkie was," said Bennatti. "The idea was to see how long it would take to go bad."
The Twinkie stayed on top of the board through his career — joined in later years by a Fig Newton — and occasionally inspired new food experiments. Bennatti estimates the ever-yellow Twinkie is about 30-years-old.
"It's rather brittle, but if you dusted it off, it's probably still edible," Bennatti said. "It never spoiled."
The fascination with the Twinkie lasted until Bennatti's retirement in June, said Libby Rosemeier, a former Bennatti student and teacher at the school.
"We had to spirit it away at the end of the year," said Rosemeier, who has volunteered to become the Twinkie's new caretaker. "The kids all wanted it."
Rosemeier said her father, a carpenter, plans to make a case for the snack, and she hopes to hang it in her new classroom next year.