There's a Full Moon tonight which will show off the planet Jupiter in lovely fashion.
Occurring within the sign of Sagittarius, the Archer, said in astrology to be ruled by Jupiter, their hook-up should be a magical sight if you get a chance to view the two of them together.
Now some well-meaning folk are referring to this second Full Moon of the month (and on May 31--it just squeaked by, didn't it?) as a Blue Moon, but if you caught NPR's outing today of the misnomer you know that that's incorrect.
Seems it's not the fact that it's a second Full Moon in a month for a Blue Moon is actually the occurrence of four Full Moons in a season which ordinarily has three; so therefore, a true Blue Moon is more unusual than simply a second Full Moon in a month.
Astrologically the Moon-Jupiter combo signifies happiness, kindness, popularity, benevolence, and religiosity. It brings a desire for social meetings and for social improvements. There are negative connotations with the pairing as well--for Jupiter is also the culprit behind "too much of a good thing"--but since the world could use a tremendous helping of social improvements of all sorts these days, I'd rather focus on the positive tonight, wouldn't you?
Although I've attempted to upload a Full Moon/Jupiter inspired cosmic-style drawing to illustrate this article, Gather is having none of it, so I must point you toward http://secretmoonart.blogspot.com to view what is a meager representation of the celestial show we'll see tonight if clouds and city lights cooperate...so don't forget to look up after dark!
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Good show!
ty.
Sounds like a fun weekend!
Have you seen this (I forwarded the article to a couple of my online groups):
The astro-blogosphere hasn't gotten quite this marvelously complex, but it's getting there…
by John and Susan Townley
One of the more perplexing things about looking for good astrology on the Web is that most sites tend to have a product to sell, an axe to grind, or some sort of spiritual or political bill of goods. There are, of course, a handful of gems maintained by some of the more accomplished and historically insightful practitioners, but most are mainly looking to sell you a product or a personal point of view. These can range from neo-Jungian astro-analysis to keys to the Spiritual Path Of Wisdom to contact with aliens from Andromeda-3 -- and they often have little to do with real astrological information.
Refreshingly, lately a new world has opened up -- and that is the astro-blogosphere, where a decidedly different set of minds are daily at work, providing fresh insight, skepticism, humor, and intellectual flexibility that really put new light on the subject.
We first ran into the beginnings of it a little over a year ago on our usual hunt for fun daily international stories about astrology and astrologers in the news. For reasons that only search engines understand, two columnists kept popping up along with the usual newspaper and wire service results: North Carolina astrologer Lynn Hayes (whose newspaper outlet at Arizona's National Ledger logically should have been tagged by the engines) doing basic analysis of political and other newsworthy charts, and a certain mysterious "Elsa-Elsa," who was giving out marvelously insightful astrological agony-aunt advice on her blog. What was most gratifying was that both were thoughtful, articulate writers with a lot of steady astrological insight and an eyes-open, journalistic approach to life.
Since then, we've seen a whole set of similar minds come to the blogosphere to look at astrology as a reasonable and sensible part of daily life, in and out of the news. They vary from those who specialize in American politics (like Jude Cowell's Stars Over Washington)
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Stars Over Washington – excellent political commentary by Jude Cowell
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Yay Jude!
Peace,
libramoon
Thanks for the shout-out libramoon--I had seen that because I subscribe to John and Susan's excellent Newsletter and it was certainly kind of them them to include my blog--actually I was surprised and happy as a puppy with two tails--make that three tails! ;D