Star of inspiration
Night Vision Astrology News
November 2006

Accessible astrology for a magical life

Visit our website at http://www.nightvisionastrology.com
Subscribe/unsubscribe below

IN THIS ISSUE:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SPECIAL OFFER:
BOOK YOUR 2007 READING NOW
AT 2006 PRICES

This special could save megabucks for those of you who have been meaning to schedule a full-length consultation with me! I'm completely restructuring my rates for 2007, and the price for an initial session will rise substantially. BUT... if you book now, you could save as much as 36%! E-mail me for details!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOVEMBER ALMANAC
All times EST
11/5
  7:59am
Full Moon
11/8
  4:31pm
Mercury occults Sun
11/17
  2:00pm
Mars square Neptune
11/17
  7:23pm
Mercury turns direct
11/19
  10:56pm
Uranus turns direct
11/20
  5:19pm
New Moon
11/23
  11:44pm
Jupiter enters Sagittarius
11/28
  10:01pm
Mars square Saturn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SAGITTARIUS QUOTES
Walt Whitman's "Song of the Open Road" is teeming with words that express the spirit of Sagittarius. I had no need to look further.

Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune—I myself am good fortune...

You road I enter upon and look around! I believe you are not all that is here;
I believe that much unseen is also here.

I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all great poems also;
I think I could stop here myself, and do miracles...
I think whatever I shall meet on the road I shall like, and whoever beholds me shall like me;
I think whoever I see must be happy.

From this hour, freedom!
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines,
Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute,
Listening to others, and considering well what they say,
Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

I inhale great draughts of space;
The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.

I am larger, better than I thought;
I did not know I held so much goodness.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Now I reëxamine philosophies and religions,
They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds,
and along the landscape and flowing currents.

Allons! whoever you are, come travel with me!...
We will sail pathless and wild seas...

You shall not heap up what is call'd riches,
You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,
You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd—you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction, before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart...

Allons! to that which is endless, as it was beginningless...
To know the universe itself as a road—as many roads—as roads for traveling souls.
Astrologer Miriam Klamkin

CELESTIAL NAVIGATION:
DWARF PLANETS, ASTEROIDS,
COMETS AND CENTAURS

Though she be but little,
she is fierce.
     - Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream

You'll be wondering, no doubt, about the astrological implications of the new category of "dwarf planet". What does it mean that, while Pluto has been "demoted" to "dwarf planet" status, Ceres and Eris have been "promoted" into the same category, and other solar system objects are in line for the same dubious honor? Perhaps you've never even heard of Ceres or Eris. Are they more important now?

Well, if you read the September issue, you already know my stance on that last question. Astrologers rate the importance of a celestial body by how strongly its wanderings correlate with events Down Here. We've been tracking Pluto since its discovery in 1930, and Ceres since its discovery in 1801, and Eris (aka "2003 UB313", briefly known as "Xena") since its discovery in 2003. Meanwhile, we're watching a slew of other bodies, variously designated as asteroids, comets, minor planets, centaurs, and random chunks of ice and rock.

Meanwhile, the astronomers' classification saga continues: for example, Vesta and Pallas Athene, currently thought of as asteroids, are being considered for dwarf planet status. This sort of thing, BTW, is not at all uncommon: at first we called the asteroids planets, until it became clear just how many of them there were (tens of thousands that we know of). Chiron was discovered in 1977, and for a long time we didn't really know what it was. Was it a planet? an asteroid? a comet that had been captured by our solar system? Then we started to perceive other, similar objects in the vicinity, and eventually they all got classed together as "Centaurs". Yet it's Chiron which has captured the attention of astrologers, and Chiron whose movements we've been following ever since.

Now our ever-more-powerful equipment has revealed to us yet more objects orbiting the Sun out beyond Pluto, and we're cataloguing them as fast as we can: Quaoar, Sedna, Ixion, Varuna, Eris -- the list goes on and on. Which ones will make it into the astrologers' canon of Bodies To Watch? Only time -- and observation -- will tell. Maybe all of them. As if my job isn't tough enough.

If there's a lesson to be taken away from this, it's one we already knew: the Universe is stranger and more multifaceted than we can imagine. Just as the notions of electricity and personal freedom came to the forefront when Uranus was discovered, and mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs swam featured in our consciousness when Neptune was discovered, now seems to be the time for us to acknowledge that diversity and make room in our starry pantheon for many small powers.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

WHAT'S GOING AROUND
November transits

Since I last wrote to you, much of that Scorpio traffic has moved on down the road into Sagittarius. Considering that the whole motley crew has to pass through there, and Pluto has already been lingering in this wedge of the Zodiac since 1995, this stellium could make even more waves than the Scorpio one that just ended.

In a sense, the road is Sag's natural home, this being the sign of travel and adventure. Sagittarius is ruled by expansive Jupiter, and is always seeking to heighten, broaden and deepen your experience and your understanding. This month's Sag stellium offers a sense of openness, freedom, adventure, opportunity, and possibility. With Jupiter as the ruler, an openhearted, good-humored attitude attracts success in all endeavors. Note especially where Sag falls in your birth chart. That's a place where a little extra confidence, an open heart and an open mind could take you a long, long way in the year to come.

It's no coincidence that the month that the Sun is in Sag every year is the post-harvest holiday season, when a celebratory atmosphere prevails, along with the generosity that comes with the bounty of the season. At least, we'd like those things to prevail. Where there isn't at least tolerance, what's lacking is perspective, a sense of humor, an attitude of charity toward others and gratitude for what we have -- the highest and best of Sagittarius. At its worst, Sag can be dogmatic, insisting on being right while everyone else is wrong, wrong, wrong and must be converted at all costs to the One Right Way. It must've been a Sag who invented the holy war. Even the most well-meaning Sag can be a little careless of your feelings sometimes, in his zeal to get his point across. If you find yourself embroiled in more ideological crossfire than usual in the coming year, chalk it up to Jupiter and Pluto in Sag and try to just let it roll over you.

Speaking of gratitude... again, no accident that a holiday called "Thanksgiving" kicks off the season. Jupiter is the planet of abundance, and an abundance of blessings is directly linked to gratitude. Despite its reputation as one of the stuffier Victorian virtues, "gratitude" has roots in the Latin word for "pleasure", and can be viewed as a state of being pleased or gratified. When we're in that zone, we relax, open up, our perceptions expand, and many things become possible. So treat yourself to as many pleasures as it takes to attain that exalted condition. I wish you gratitude this holiday season and throughout 2007.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OK, one more Sag quote...

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
           -R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SAG STELLIUM DATES

  • Moon: 11/20-23; 12/18-20
  • Sun: 11/22-12/21
  • Mercury: 12/8-12/27
  • Venus: 11/17-12/11
  • Mars: 12/5/06-1/16/07
  • Jupiter: 11/23/06-12/18/07
  • Pluto: 1995-2008
Night Vision Astrology Newsletter vol. 3, no. 7 (November 2006) ©2006 Miriam Klamkin. All rights reserved. Feel free to forward this issue in its entirety only, including all copyright and contact information.

Subscribe here or send an e-mail to info@nightvisionastrology.com with "Subscribe" in the subject line.
Unsubscribe here or e-mail info@nightvisionastrology.com with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line.

Night Vision Astrology
5 Dodge St. #122
Beverly, MA 01915

Please let me know if you enjoyed this issue. The newsletter is here to serve you, so I welcome your suggestions, questions, stories and observations! Send any comments to me at miriam@nightvisionastrology.com, or telephone me at 978-376-9164.

Wishing you magic, beauty and joy,
Miriam

Viewable With Any Browser