Dena DeCastro & I talk about Saturn and Saturn Transits and do a reading based on these themes.

Saturn Notes by Dena DeCastro

Saturn

Ruler of Capricorn

Ancient Ruler of Aquarius

Your Natal Saturn:

Saturn in the natal chart is the function within us that makes it possible for us to develop discipline and maturity.  Saturn’s house and sign placement indicate where and in what way you are to enact your earthly responsibilities, and where a sense of duty lies.

Saturn Transits:

Saturn times are times in which we are invited to step into a role of authority and maturity in our lives.  We must learn to choose decisively and act upon our decisions.  We are asked often to shoulder more responsibility, and perhaps “toughen up” in the area being touched by the transit.  There are no magical solutions available, nor any “get out of jail free” cards during this season.  A Saturn transit offers the lesson of facing reality head on.  The gift of this time is in learning that you actually can do it.  A successful integration of Saturnian medicine shows you that you are more mature, wise, and capable than you thought possible.  This leads to a sense of accomplishment, and the strength to move forward.

Spread

Invoking Saturn Spread

1. Combat Inertia
2. Conquer Fear
3. Seek a Solution
4. Set Goals
5. Get Organized

Resources:

• Astrology for the Light Side of the Brain
• Astrology, Magic and Alchemy in Art
• Astrology for Dummies
• THE MINCHIATE TAROT The 97–Card Tarot of the Renaissance, Complete with the 12 Astrological Signs and the 4 Elements
• Saturn in the Signs from Always Astrology

Dena DeCastro

A professional astrologer in the Portland area for several years, Dena has appeared on local radio shows, taught workshops, and given lectures on topics in Evolutionary Astrology. The evolutionary perspective is that our souls progress from lifetime to lifetime. The focus of Dena’s readings is upon your chart as the dynamic representation of your highest potential, and the guide toward achieving it. Dena hosts the podcast Evolutions of Astrology featuring interviews with astrologers and other readers, as well as discussing various topics of astrology and chart interpretation.

To subscribe to “Evolutions of Astrology” via iTunes, click here.

Music Credits

• Opening Music: The Oracle Speaks by William Wilde Zeitler from Elegy for Atlantis
• Closing Music: Transition Music: Saturn, the Prime Mover of the Spheres by William Wilde Zeitler from Music of the Spheres

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How does one prepare a progressive chart in an astrological reading? I’m real intrigued by how this is done, so if there are any professional astrologers who can help me with this, that would be awesome!

(I was a guest on the Storm Cestavani Show)

Original Air Date: 10/22/2009 10:00 AM
All The News That’s Fit to Predict!

Radio has Ryan Seacrest, Television has Oprah, and Tarot has Leisa ReFalo. Leisa is the owner/operator of The Tarot Connection and has the most successful Tarot Podcast on the Internet. She will join Storm and Robin to discuss The Tarot Connection’s latest release “All Hallowed Tarot,”. Also, we will be giving away decks throughout the show! You can listen to Leisa’s wonderful podcasts by going to http://www.tarotconnection.net.

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i just had a reading from someone, she was pretty much right about the thing she said about my life…. she said that i love someone (which is true) and said that someone loves me too… what are the chances she is right?

Barbara Oliver

I was born and raised on the Jersey shore, where I enjoyed a life of sun and surf.  I was always aware of the fact that I was a “tad different” then most of the kids that I hung around with, when I would challenge them on their thoughts or tell them what they were thinking.  I was promptly labeled “freak.”  LOL.  At 16, I began watching the soap opera Dark Shadows and was fascinated with the character Magda the Gypsy and her skills as a card reader.  Of course, I knew these were fake readings for the script, but I became intrigued with the cards that were being used.  Once I got enough money together (in those days, a tarot deck cost about $10.00), I bought two decks; a Swiss IJJ and a Rider-Waite Smith.  I quickly put aside the Swiss and concentrated on the Rider-Waite-Smith and started a notebook with my thoughts on the cards because trying to read the Little White Book, you needed a magnifying glass.  Once I started, I never looked back.  That was 40 years ago.

You can contact Barbara on Facebook. This picture is of her beloved cat (RIP) Ginger, aka Mushie-mushie, aka Poochie-poo, aka Booga.

Reading One: How will this go?

Subject, Verb and Direct Object

Reading Two: Should I Offer Assistance to a Friend?

Music Credits

• Opening Music & Transition Music: Narcissus by Queenie from Dream of Flight
• Closing Music: Under the Boardwalk by  by Bob Rowe from The Podsafe Music Network

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have u ever had ur fate or future read?

Just curious maybe if I knew i would understand things better.

I mostly have an issue with my own astrological details. I was 6 weeks overdue, spanning three sun signs, and was birthed Cesarean on Dec. 23rd 1982. My Original Due Date was Nov. 11th, 1982.

My question is mostly about the interpretation, I’m just not sure how much would change due to the lateness of my birth. Any thoughts?

You can find my birth charts below.
23rd:
http://interactive.0800-horoscope.com/cgi-bin/astro/natal0800?name=Ri&sex=t&d1day=23&d1month=12&d1year=1982&d1hour=9&d1min=49&citylist=Grand+Rapids%2C+MI+%2826%29%2C+United+States&lang=en

11th:
http://interactive.0800-horoscope.com/cgi-bin/astro/natal0800?name=Ri&sex=t&d1day=11&d1month=11&d1year=1982&d1hour=9&d1min=49&citylist=Grand+Rapids%2C+MI+%2826%29%2C+United+States&lang=en

I’m not sure how much of a combination I am, due to the nature of our minds to see the things we’re looking for. I wind up reading all three horoscopes, and just taking it all evenly.

Am I Scorpio or Capricorn? More Sagittarius?

Please everyone, feel free to weigh your thoughts. They are worth more than two pennies to me.

Thanks,
Ri
Thanks for the insight jupiter.

Have you read the details I posted?

I’m asking how much the 6 weeks overdue part affects my reading.

Also I should add that the Capricorn horoscope is usually the least accurate of the three, for me.
Thanks lala. That is reassuring.

What I am mostly interested in is theory and opinion regarding whether the extra gestation would be affect the astrology.

Though astrology is usually considered at time of birth, couldn’t the early awareness and integration into the life stream affect the accuracy of the reading?

If the theory of astrology is that the energy fields of the planets interact with our own energy in particular ways, that lead to personality differences, then it makes sense that the extra time within the mother, and their combined energy, would play off the energy differently.

A month and a half is pretty significant in baby time.

It seems to me that with the timing so far off, and the great differences in the alignment of the planets energies during that time, that it would be probable to affect the child.

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O-M-G by Ginny Hunt

I know you know at least one. I know you’ve probably even been one at some point, though it may be embarrassing to admit. At least once and probably many more times you have made that proverbial mountain out of a molehill. You Drama King/Queen! It’s ok, really. I have a side that inclines toward the dramatic. Ok, maybe more than a side. A whole flank of my being perhaps. Enough that a friend of mine, who also relishes the fair amount of drama sprinkled through out her life, will call me out, “O! M! G! You’re being so drama!” At least we recognize it in ourselves and can laugh at it when it rears its entertaining head. This fact makes us decidedly not Drama Queens. The true Drama King or Queen does not accept the fact that he or she is being ridiculously melodramatic nor do they seem aware that they are consistently creating situations that result in exhausting drama for themselves and others. So my friend and I were talking last night when she wondered aloud, “Which tarot card would represent drama?” We had been discussing the Moon card and the dramatic side to that card and the question made us both stop, mid-convo, and mentally rifle through the deck. At first we were rather nonplussed. I said the Fool and Moon combination would make me think “drama” but I wasn’t satisfied with my answer. We continued our conversation and somehow the Ten of Swords was mentioned and she interjected, “There is the drama card!” I laughed, “Oh yeah! For sure!” Talk about over the top, that card screams “Woe is meeeeeee!”(read the full post)

Ginny Hunt

Ginny Hunt is a Professional Tarot Reader from Maryland. Her interest in the spiritual and metaphysical has been a lifelong passion. She has been a practicing counselor, both professionally with adolescents and para-professionally as a volunteer with abused women. She offers professional reading services through 78 Notes to Self.

Music Credits

• 78 Notes Music: Winter Moon by Rhonda Lorence from Winter Moon (Magnatune)

What is the relationship between nadi readings off palm leaves and Nadi Vedic astology. Do these palm leaves give only the predictions or the astrological combinations or reasons for the readings. Is Nadi astrology based solely on the Nadi Amsa.

Explore Art and Tarot with professional artists Robert Place & Ciro Marchetti, including what is Beauty, Symbolist Art, and Meaning. The share a few of their favorite decks as well.

Please be warned there were some difficulties with recording. The worst part is on my end with voice distortion. But the episode is mostly a conversation between Robert & Ciro.

Robert M. Place

Robert M. Place is an internationally known visionary artist and illustrator, whose award winning works, in painting, sculpture, and jewelry, have been displayed in galleries and museums in America, Europe, and Japan and graced the covers and pages of numerous books and publications. He is the designer, illustrator, and co-author, with Rosemary Ellen Guiley, of: “The Alchemical Tarot” and “The Angels Tarot“, which are both published by HarperCollins and have received international acclaim particularly for their skillful and illuminating graphics. He is the designer, illustrator, and author of “The Tarot of the Saints” and “The Buddha Tarot“. And, he is the author of “The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination“, which Booklist has said, “may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the tarot.” He is currently working on the “Vampire Tarot“, which will be published by St. Martins Press in 2008.

Robert is recognized as an expert on Western Mysticism, the history of the Tarot, and as a gifted teacher of divination. He has taught and lectured at the New York Open Center, Omega Institute, The New York Tarot School, and the World Tarot Congress. He and his work have appeared on Discovery, The Learning Channel, and A&E. He has been a guest on numerous radio shows including The Woodstock Roundtable on WDST-FM, People are Talking on WKZE-FM , and Mystic Musings on KKUP FM.

Together with his wife Rose Ann, he has been creating hand crafted jewelry for over twenty-five years. Their work has been exhibited in the White House, in the American Craft Museum, The New York State Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Delaware Art Museum, The Montclair Art Museum, The Irish American Heritage Museum, the International Wilhelm Muller Competition, (which toured Museums in Germany), Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, England, and in numerous galleries in the United States, Ireland, Britain, and Japan.

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To receive The Restored Temple of Hermes, the free newsletter of the Alchemical Egg, with articles, a question and answer section, and news about up-coming lectures and workshops, e-mailed every other month, send an e-mail to Robert with The Restored Temple of Hermes in the subject line. Also, please let include know what state or country you live in.

Ciro Marchetti

Ciro Marchetti (Florida) is an award-winning artist from the United Kingdom. He studied art in London, followed by a career working in Europe and South America before settling in the United States where he opened a design agency in Miami. In addition to managing his company, Ciro also gives workshops and lectures on digital digital imagery and illustration at the Fort Lauderdale Art Institute, and continues to create his own visionary art.

His new companion site for Legacy of the Divine Tarot is launching this month.

• Website: http://www.ciromarchetti.com
• Companion Site: www.legacyofthedivinetarot.com.
• Empress Card: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoSTPd–Nik
• Wands IV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX-cFCxPu2U

Available Decks

Music Credits

• Opening Music & Transition Music: Narcissus by Queenie from Dream of Flight

• Closing Music: Fortune Laisse (Attaingnant) by Edward Martin from Art of the Lute in Renaissance (Magnatune)

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Last week, I went shopping in Downtown,( somebody or maybe she’s a psychic) She came to talk to me and told me.." You are strength good and you are so positive to everyone. You face look happy but your heart is not happy. Many people think nagative about you and somebody is trying to reach you. He wants to talk to you..but something block you. I can help.." Then she gave me her number. If you were me, would you call her or just let it go????
I met her 2 times but she did not remember me. She told me the same thing such as " You are in a bad environment…..bra..bra..bra..and you do what you heart tell you to do….bra bra..bra."..and everything she told me that it ’s the same. I am now curious about it. How did she know???

After a very long hiatus, I am finishing editing the next episode. In the meantime, please be informed of these new tarots:

All Hallows Tarot

The All Hallows Tarot is a modern, Halloween-themed art tarot featuring goths, ghosts, punks, mediums and more. The images evoke all things mysterious…the idea that on All Hallows eve, strange people come out of the dark, and the veils between worlds and realities tend to melt away…

Drawn on blank playing cards, The All Hallow’s Tarot was originally meant to be a one of a kind thing…sold to some anonymous higher bidder on E-Bay to raise money for the artists mothers medical bills. Now in print due to popular demand.

Pre-Order from the Tarot Connection Shop – $40

Legacy of the Divine Tarot

Exquisitely rich and magical, this new Rider-Waite-Smith-based tarot deck by digital artist Ciro Marchetti takes you into the heart of fantasy. You can use this legacy from ages past to discover what you need for your own life as it guides you toward hope, wisdom, and inspiration.

The companion guidebook, Gateway to the Divine Tarot, presents the author’s interpretation of each card’s significance, along with additional perspectives from experts in the tarot community, including Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone, James Ricklef, and Leisa ReFalo.

I would like to thank Sean Tierseron and Debi Scott for their help as contributing editors. My part of the book would not have been possible under the very tight 4 week deadline without their tireless effort and support.

The Annotated Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery: a Renaissance Magical Tradition

The deck started with Robert Place’s  love of the paintings of the 19th century painter Burne-Jones. Like all magical works, this deck falls in the cracks between common definitions. It can be used as a deck of cards for divination but it is also a book of unbound pages that explains the philosophy and allegory of the Tarot. The written message on each card explains the symbolism and the theme of the card but not necessarily its divinatory meaning. The text is open ended and invites us to contemplate the image on a deeper level.

This deck is also a work of art that is larger than an average Tarot, 8½” by 5½”, and printed on archival rag paper. Each card is suitable for framing. Lastly, it is a deck for meditation or contemplation and each card can be displayed on an easel for this purpose. The Fool and all 21 trumps are represented. There is also a title card, three cards containing introductory text, a glossary of unusual terms, and a card with a chart of the seven ancient planets and their correspondences: 28 cards in all.

Available from the Tarot Connection Shop – $50