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Esoteric Astrology

Mercury Retrograde 2011

by Michael Beard on March 31, 2011

in Esoteric Astrology

The ret­ro­grade motion of a planet occurs when, due to the move­ment of the earth in its orbit, a planet appears to be mov­ing in reverse of its nor­mal orbital move­ment around the Sun. From a psy­cho­log­i­cal stand­point that reverse move­ment tends to turn that plan­e­tary effect inward. The most pop­u­lar ret­ro­grade planet is Mer­cury. This […]

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When I think of the Super­moon, I think of the pow­er­ful dynam­ics of its sym­bol­ogy. The moon rep­re­sents our lim­i­ta­tions brought over from the past. A Super­moon is when the moon is at the clos­est point to the Earth (its perigee). When it’s at that point at the time of a full moon, you have what’s […]

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E. Alexan­der­son, a sci­en­tist for Gen­eral Elec­tric, sent a sig­nal to a 3-inch square screen located in a few liv­ing rooms in Sch­enec­tady, New York. The first tele­vi­sion image was trans­mit­ted into people’s homes. A woman, Nel­lie Zabel Will­hite, took a solo flight in an air­plane. She was the first deaf woman to earn a […]

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More on New Moons

by Michael Beard on March 6, 2011

in Esoteric Astrology

At this Pisces new moon, the moon has briefly joined the stel­lium of plan­ets in Pisces. This brings in strong Pisces energy focused through Chi­ron, Mars, the Sun, Mer­cury, The Moon and Uranus. This means that one can build a bridge to the Higher Self through striv­ing. This is the Soul fish in Pisces. In […]