Anne Massey’s astrology blog

Venus in Gemini Story 2012

Friday, April 6th, 2012 | Venus stories, astrologer's diary | Write Comment

“The innate rhythm of the planetary cycles sets the natural beat of life; there is a perfect time for everything. The incredible symmetry, the simplicity and the precise, predictable timing of the Venus cycles are truly a work of art.”

There are several stories built into this incredible cycle. Over time in five 584-day increments (eight years), Venus paints a pattern of a five-petalled rose in its travels around the Sun. The tips of those petals, from the New Venus perspective, are currently in Aries, Gemini, Leo, Scorpio and Capricorn. There are three other perspectives. The New Venus represents a new cycle. This cycle begins June 5, 2012. The image shown here is the Venus cycle plotted around the Earth from an old astronomy text book (1), the original rose with only five petals is an addition I made to the image.

At eight year intervals, Venus repeats her long visit to a 16-degree stretch of the Zodiac, travelling through it three times. This year as in 1996 and 2004 the Venus graces fall upon the sign of Gemini. When we recall that Venus typically graces each sign for about 24 days, and will now spend 120+ days in Gemini, we can bring its significance into focus. Simply put, when something lasts a long time, we have time to work it, contemplate it, learn to accept it, etc. › Continue reading

How we see beyond

Friday, April 6th, 2012 | Starlight, astrologer's diary | 1 Comment

We all have premonitions, mostly about big events in life. Kids seem to see and recall more than us grown-ups. I remember how my daughter met her grandfather in her dreams within days of losing her grandmother. She was so excited, exclaiming that now she knows who the character she called ‘Santa Claus’ was actually Ukki, one of the Finnish words for grandpa. Completely taken aback I wanted to know how she knew, and she matter-of-factly told me that her grandmother had told her. She was four years old at the time, and began talking about what the future would bring. About two years before we moved to Canada, she talked about how she was going to be a Canadian school girl… › Continue reading

Neptune Story

Saturday, March 24th, 2012 | Astrology for You, Current Planetary trends, astrologer's diary | Write Comment

Neptune in Aquarius, what was it about?

Neptune in Aquarius blurred reality and made it surreal. Where the surrealists such as Dali, distorted real object the media now distorts reality. Our interactions with others have become electronic, our use of language acronyms and abbreviations rather than actual face to face chats in complete sentences. We became attached to our gadgets, we connect with others via Facebook, we follow tweets and read headlines—the full story is heard by very few. We don’t have time…

A couple of years ago, I thought that the word Kardashian referred to a character in the sci-fi show—Star Trek. Now whether I like it or not, I have become aware these are people who thrive on having their lives play out live on a ‘reality’ show. It has nothing to do with reality from my perspective. It is a cheap way to produce something to fill airtime and with it voyeurism is alive and well, I have to suspect. Neptune represents the surreal, illusion and yes also spirituality; Neptune represents our dreams, otherworldly insights… by extension also movies, which are the visions of someone with creative energy and insights. Neptune spent the past fourteen years in Aquarius, the sign associated with reality, intellect and mass production. What did the producers create? We saw or became aware of reality TV with a tenuous hold on any kind of truth. Everyone could become famous for being on one of these shows or rekindle their fame by having one created around them. Obviously people watch because these keep being produced—a new one every day. Read on for Neptune in Pisces until 2025 › Continue reading

Tweet @AstrologerAnne

Friday, March 23rd, 2012 | astrologer's diary | Write Comment

I have acquired a tweet account and managed to embed a link to it in the sidebar on the right. This is what it looks like
Follow @AstrologerAnne

I will try to remember to update that account when I post something on my blog… more lateer

Updates to www.astrologicallyspeaking.com

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 | Astrology for You, Current Planetary trends, astrologer's diary | 1 Comment

I posted the Mars 2011-12 story on my website www.astrologicallyspeaking.com/Mars2011-12.htm. I had begun to write it in November last year, but that was before my world changed. With the Spring and the Aries energy, I am now beginning to pick up the pieces of my new life. I had many emails about the void of course listings I have been posting for years, we’ll those are up now as well—in pacific time zone and in the GMT www.astrologicallyspeaking.com/voc.htm › Continue reading

We are starlight

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 | Starlight, astrologer's diary | 1 Comment

“Once in every life, there comes a time, when we walk all alone into the light…”

I have been fascinated with the other worldly as long as I can remember. Things that we cannot see but all tend to believe in… On occasion I have seen, heard or smelled something that is not visible to the naked eye—something that was not seen, heard or sensed by another. No, I don’t consider myself psychic, I am an astrologer whose intuitive faculties are fairly sharp. › Continue reading

Tags: afterlife, death, grief

On leave

Friday, January 27th, 2012 | astrologer's diary | Write Comment

I am away from my office for another two months or so. I will be back to teaching, consulting and blogging after the Spring Equinox. I will respond to emails, return calls, etc. at that time. My world changed on November 22 and I am unable to work at this time. I will be launching a new column “We are starlight…” at the Equinox; it will be non-astrological, in the meantime I have loads of reading material at www.astrologicallyspeaking.com

Virgo and Libra

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 | Ask Anne, Astrology Students, Astrology for You, astrologer's diary, astrology basics | Write Comment

Reader question: I have a question for you – I have had my chart done a few times. I have heard different opinions on my rising sign, 29 degrees Virgo – 1st house. Some astrologers say, it is essentially the same as Libra rising. Others saying no, Virgo…antithetic

Anne’s response: There is a big difference between the last degree of Virgo rising to the first degree of Libra rising. We cannot change your Ascendant to be a Libra or imply that it almost is.

If the final degree of Virgo is rising, we tend to find a person, who is very driven to accomplish something in life and has worked diligently toward the perfect presentation of self—always putting the best foot forward, or knowing your most flattering side. (Ready for my close up…)

Antithetic means diametrically opposed, which is the complete or exact opposite. So that cannot be true. Libra is opposite Aries, and Virgo is opposite Pisces. Virgo and Libra are adjacent signs, their connection or lack of one, was called an aversion by classical astrology. Aversion is a polite way of describing we truly don’t like something, and have little or nothing in common. The energy between the two signs is actually mitigated by the fact that they are of equal ascension, meaning they rise for the same length of time each day—so the two actually work together, maybe somewhat reluctantly. › Continue reading

My interview with Rob Hand

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 | Astrology Students, astrologer's diary | 1 Comment

Over the course of the summer, I had the priviledge to interview Rob Hand. I first posted this piece on the www.astrologyguild.com website. Rob will be at the Guild in October for two talks and a workshop, if you are in the area, I highly recommend the events.

“Astrology is a discipline which is rooted in a pre-modern, in fact pre-medieval concept of the world. It very strongly implies, that we consider the universe an aspect of a living, conscious, and sentient being. “—Rob Hand

It is interesting to think of a historian, computer software writer, author, lecturer, professor, philosopher, translator and a scholar with the Sagittarian bent for the truth—realize how complex that sounds—and then identify the person as Robert Hand. At a recent conference Rob was introduced as the Stephen Spielberg of astrology, and I asked him how he felt about that. “I don’t like being regarded as the Spielberg of astrology, I am just a human being who has a deep interest and understanding of astrology”, was Rob’s comment during. In fact he might prefer be likened to Johann Sebastian Bach, ‘whose work was revered for its intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty’ (comment about Bach sourced from Wikipedia—AM). On second thought just a human being, who happens to be a well-versed and learned. › Continue reading

Gemini, butterflies and Mars in Gemini

Monday, June 20th, 2011 | Astrology for You, astrologer's diary, astrology basics | Write Comment

I just posted a column about Gemini and Mars in Gemini at www.astrologicallyspeaking.com/Gemini2011.htm — it is a rerun of a column I wrote in 2003. The horoscopes in it are updated. “Geminis are like butterflies fluttering from flower to flower, always looking for new tastes and new experiences; breezy and blithe not allowing life to stagnate as that fosters boredom. Read more by following the link above.