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New Moon September 18
Friday
there is a New Moon (18.45 pm GMT time) right on the dot
conjunct Saturn and opposition Uranus. In other words, the new
month will be emphasizing another phase in the current series of
Saturn-Uranus oppositions. Saturn-Uranus has to do with all
kinds of things, but it does NOT have to do with flu-epidemics,
historically the latter is a Saturn-Neptune thing. For
Western-Europe the New Moon falls in the 6th house, but in your
own chart the house where 25 Virgo is will be emphasized as it
has been for a while anyway (with Saturn transitting it).
The
symbolism (Mandala, Rudhyar) of this degree is truly beautiful,
it speaks of doing your work as if you are in the presence of
God. Work gets a transcendental meaning of you make it
sacred, whether you are a plumber, an IT-er , an astrologer, or
God forbid, a banker. So rather than feeding the collective fear
of negative change or the collective charity for the
pharmaceutical industry with their flu prevention scheme, maybe
use this New Moon to change (Uranus) the way you work on a daily
basis (Saturn) and make it a sacred work, acting as if in the
Presence of God. That is the highest possibility of the upcoming
New Moon!
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the work of W.D. Gann (which mysteries the book will not
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cycle. I read the book in one breath as it is a wholly
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HERBS
AND ASTROLOGY
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Bog
HEATHER & Common HEATHER:
Jupiter/Neptune in Capricorn
Heather disappears a little over
here. Heather is fond of solitude,
and the hermit loves the moors full
of heather. And with all these
people on the world.. no wonder:-)
Bog Heather flowers before common
heather and is on the red list in
Belgium, category 2, meaning, it is
okay to pick the flowers but never
the roots. Fortunately only
the flowers are medicinal. In
America bog heather is considered an
invasive species especially on the
east coast, whilst in New Zealand
common heather is considered as such.
Actually, New Zealand to me sounds
like the ultimate place for the
nature loving hermit, not a soul in
sight:-) Over here the grasses
or pinetrees invade the heather and
outsiders are not accepted in our
social culture either, there is less
and less tolerance for them, so no
wonder nature shares a similar fate.
I. BOG HEATHER (Yin) - Latin:
Erica Tetralix
As a flower remedy
bog heather helps hermits and
outsiders, it reduces the feeling of
being deserted.
A "beer"brewing recipe: boil the
flowers and stems for 1,5 hours:
http://www.gruitale.com/bot_bell_heather.htm
2. COMMON HEATHER (Yang) - Latin: Calluna vulgaris
Collecting: for medicinal purposes only the wild heather and not the cultivated kind
in the gardens. When flowering cut off the flowering stalks, and dry in thin layers in the
dark and at roomtemperature. At a higher temperature the medicinal properties will
also evaporate! Dried heather can be kept for a very long time in sealed pots, truly
a Capricorn plant!
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Heather is
antisceptic, diuretic
and promotes
digestion. It is
used most commonly for
infections of the
bladder and the
kidney, and also
in the case of stones.
It detoxifies the
kidneys. Also
useful for arthritis
and
prostateproblems.
The medicinal ingredient
of heather is Arbutin.
Tea: put 10-15 gr
of dried herb to the
boil and let it simmer
in 1 liter of boiling
water. Drink 4 times
divided over the day. It
tastes quite bitter,
combine it with sage or
equisetum to upgrade the
taste a little.
Taken in high doses
heather is mildly
sedative. It can
then help against
gout, rheumatic
pains,
sleeplessness and
some nervous ailments.
Muscle-tension
and being worried
can be relieved drinking
this tea.
Especially the lower
side of the leaves is
hallucinatory. For
pains in the joints
you can also add heather
to your bathwater.
Baby's not growing very
well also used to be
given heather in their
baths.
In the Middle-Ages
heather was used against
rachitis in children, a
condition caused by a
lack of vitamin D and
calcium, which hardly
occurs today anymore.
Bog Heather is somewhat
more Venusian, Common
Heather more Martian in
appearance. Purple is
the colour of Neptune,
and hallucinations and
being sedative also is a
Neptune factor of course.
The hermit loving
solitude is Jupiter in
Capricorn.
©
Joyce Hoen DF Astrol S, 2009, e-mail chta @
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