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Mercury Retrograde

2008-09-27T08:11:28Z

Here is a classic Mercury Retrograde scenario...

I buy a pack of bright-colored high lighter pens. I have the pack on my desk. Two days go by. I purchase a small gift at a store that has nothing to do with stationary. They give me a deluxe yellow hi-liter as a free gift for making a $10 purchase at their store.

Like: Rendering purchases useless when they are not replacements.

Jupiter in Sagittarius

2006-11-27T07:30:12Z

Jupiter is now in Sagittarius, the twelve year cycle from rulership to rulership. Also, the Jupiter square to Saturn kicks up the June 2000 conjunction of those two - what were YOU doing back then and how does that affect things now?

I have seen a few people I was hanging out with in 2000 recently. Kinda cool, actually.

Sagittarius = Sign of the immigrant

2006-05-26T00:44:57Z

Where Pluto is now conjuncts the position of Uranus when the Simpson Mazolli Immigration bill was passed into law in the late 1980s.

Astrological Anger

2006-03-29T02:26:45Z

Fuck, I never update here anymore, but I gotta put this somewhere...

I'm reading a fabulous essay by Robert Hand on astro.com, I mean, this thing so succinctly summarizes astrological knowledge and processes, is lucid, comprehensible and states an absolute that describes where we have been and where we are as astrologers.

And then he killed me by suggesting where we must go.

He said astrology must go to academia.

I almost vomited, I almost cried, I got angry and started to take a walk when the phone rang, it was a bill collector and I screamed at him that I would come to his home town and kill him in front of his family, and threw the phone to the ground - I have a concrete floor - and now I have a busted cordless phone.

That angry.

I loathe the academy. On my frickin' own again, just when I was about to submit to the will of a perfect philosophy. Damn.

Art World Horoscope

2005-11-02T08:03:25Z

Time to read your >November Artist Astrology Forecast.
I get paid to write it, you can read it for FREE!

askmat @ 2005-10-26T01:34:00

2005-10-26T08:35:43Z

Jupiter is now in Scorpio.

What does this men for everyone?

I already made one incorrect prediction during the World Series game tonight, so I will hold off.

askmat @ 2005-09-13T01:22:00

2005-09-13T08:25:02Z

So, it looks like it is time to take on an intermediate student.
If you live in L.A. and want to know more about astrology beyond the basics - especially if you ant to become a professional astrologer - I've developed a structured teaching method, let me know.

Artist Horocopes

2005-07-01T23:51:18Z

This is the link to July's astrological forecast for artists.

askmat @ 2005-06-06T15:13:00

2005-06-06T22:14:44Z

Spent the morning at the DMV, got my car registered before the New Moon.
Now to start something ...

askmat @ 2005-06-03T01:44:00

2005-06-03T08:46:45Z

Just writing scopes for the rest of June and i notice that on June 27 Mercury and Venus conjunct at 29 Cancer and move into Leo together just after midnight.
I picture a bride being carried across a threshold into a dramatic boudoir...

of note

2005-06-01T06:44:33Z

A friend had a work related injury when the solar clipse occured in April.
He is just on his feet today telling me this.
Of course, the injury was in his 6th (health/work).

Art and Stars

2005-05-02T08:51:38Z

I wrote another column for Cirrus Gallery's website... Art World Astrology Forecast. I think the next New Moon is going to be quite powerful, things begun NEXT Monday and Tuesday could be epicenter-like beginnings.

After the previous cycles of eclipses turned shit all upside down, look for the new soliditiy and direction to start cresting.

.........................

2005-04-27T09:50:40Z

Moon in Sagittarius trined Mecury in Aries this afternoon - I had set up a business phone meeting - then they cancelled.
FUCK!. Oh yeah, and it grand-trined my Leo Mars in my 10th house, double fuck.

heartburn too....

2005-04-14T08:29:33Z

Mars conjuncted Neptune today - made me kind of aggravated...
thinking of all the things that I SHOULD be doing.
An attack of the shoulds (illusions, aka Neptune)
and very aggravating, tense, grinding (Mars).

Who said conjunctions were fun?

What a mess.

askmat @ 2005-03-17T16:54:00

2005-03-18T00:56:08Z

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
not enough time to get everything done
that needs to get done before mercury
goes retrograde
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

All About The Barter

2005-03-10T07:34:13Z

Make me an offer I can't refuse...
(Click Here)

askmat @ 2005-02-25T21:56:00

2005-02-26T05:56:47Z

I would call that a productive Full Moon. How about YOU?

Chuh Chuh Chuh Changes

2005-02-08T08:41:04Z

A story about trimming the dreadlocks.

same ol' same old

2005-02-04T11:27:26Z

For ten seconds there, i thought there was a useful feature on astrology dot com. Than I realized, oh, Astrodienst does this better, faster, in a less patronizing manner and I don't have to watch a goddman commercial before navigating to it.

askmat @ 2005-01-24T02:40:00

2005-01-24T10:41:17Z

My personal tribute to Johnny Carson.

askmat @ 2005-01-22T14:07:00

2005-01-22T22:08:32Z

A universal cursing of astrologers...

WHERE DID I PUT THAT DAMN EPHEMERIS...

askmat @ 2005-01-21T03:11:00

2005-01-21T11:12:52Z

I wrote horoscope forecasts for Valentine's day today - wow - Venus Neptune conjunction in Aquarius while the Moon is in Taurus = delusional sensuality. Everyone is going to get laid, or at least think they are ...

askmat @ 2005-01-13T13:07:00

2005-01-13T21:07:13Z

Here is a great article to help you win a debate about whether or not astrology is true.

If the human body is 70 - 80 % water, the planets must have an effect on it as they do the oceans that cover 70 - 80 % of the Earth's surface.

askmat @ 2005-01-10T00:24:00

2005-01-10T08:28:34Z

Moon went into Capricorn Saturday, and both Mercury and Venus went into it today. I wonder if that is the reason LIBRA Quarterback Brett Favre had such a poor game on Sunday?

I'm paying attention to all of this activity in early Capricorn as it is an indicator (albeit ever so subtly) of what will happen when Pluto goes there in a few years.

askmat @ 2005-01-02T22:42:00

2005-01-03T06:44:04Z

Mars squaring Uranus has led to quite a few earthquakes over the past few years.

If I had extra time I would do the research, but you can all look up the biggies - the 1994 northridge quake, the 1995 KOBE quake, the iran quake last year, the sumatra debacle this year.