Sun: 29'Cancer
Moon: 18'Capricorn
1 Day to Full Moon
So. A friend of mine emailed a group we are both part of on Wednesday (good day for mass emailings, being that that's Mercury's day) regarding a major astrological configuration coming exact this past Thursday. Specifically, Mars + Jupiter in Cancer, Saturn in Scorpio and Neptune in Pisces, all coming to trine one another for the Grand Water Trine pattern.
Now, the Grand Trine happens fairly often - I have one in my own natal chart, across the Air signs. But usually when it happens it involves the fast-moving Moon and only lasts for a few hours, or it'll split elements (one planet sitting in a different element than the other two when it occurs close to a cusp). It's a lot rarer to get the much-slower social and generational planets involved across the same element: Jupiter, as the fastest of those three, still takes about a year to transit the 30 degrees of just one sign, and they stay together for a bit when it happens both prior to and after the most exact point.
I find it interesting to hear how the same aspect patterns can spark totally different takes on it.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Mercury Retrograde - right and wrong
I find people cringing over Mercury Retrogrades more than any other planet, and really, it's not that bad. In fact, we spend less time in a Mercury Retrograde per year than we do with any other planet. (Pluto spends just shy of half a year at a time, grinding away in reverse...) It's just that you can't fight the flow here: this time is meant for REVIEW, and for catching your balance again before you move forward again, if you leaped-before-you-looked. It's all in how you look at it. And so, at the risk of another shameless self-plug for GreenCorvid.com, here's my example of a Mercury Retrograde put to GOOD use:
Thursday, July 4, 2013
GreenCorvid.com
Sun: 13'Cancer
Moon: 09' Gemini
Dark of the Moon
A shameless self-plug here, but I have spoken often about Monsanto and the other biotech giants, and their roles in promoting unsafe GMO products and deadly pesticides that are endangering entire ecosystems. These are things that can and should interest Pagans, Wiccans, and anyone who claims to follow a nature-based religion. I speak out often. I Marched Against Monsanto.
Now I am putting my money, my reputation, and my honor where my mouth is in permanent business opposition to the companies that are killing the Earth and the creatures who live upon Her. I am pleased to announce that my new online storefront has opened for business at www.GreenCorvid.com.
www.GreenCorvid.com will eventually carry the full line of Herbal Choice Mari health and personal care products: the entire line is certified cruelty-free and USDA Organic. HCM is in the process of re-designing their labels to reflect the USDA Organic and Leaping Bunny logos, so I cannot openly list it on the website until Nature's Brands (Herbal Choice Mari's parent company) gives me the go-ahead, but the certification has been approved.
I am very glad to see it happening, myself: the USDA certification is an automatic guarantee that no part of the product was produced with sewage, radiation, pesticides or genetically-modified ingredients. It means that there are no synthetic ingredients of any kind, including chemical preservatives (they keep themselves fresh based on their own natural properties). Pthalates? Hell no. Parabens? Absolutely not. It is the highest standard of organic purity in the country, and the Green Corvid is proud to carry products that carry that seal.
Also, the development of these products was done and continues without involving innocent animals, either directly through testing or indirectly through parts and by-products. Therefore, an Herbal Choice Mari moisturizer is based in purified water (meaning that it meets the Universal Standard of Purity), certified organic olive oil, certified organic jojoba oil and wildcrafted candelilla wax, all derived from plants, instead of lanolin (which comes from sheep's wool). They are vegan-friendly and certified Cruelty-Free by the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (CCIC).
(As an affiliate, the rules of the CCIC prohibit me from displaying their Leaping Bunny seal of cruelty-free certification even though the company I am marketing for has already earned it for their product, but the company's direct website does display it proudly and the link above verifies that they do have the right to do so).
Not all ingredients can be certified as purely organic, because they are wildcrafted. The only safe way to wildcraft involves a deep and unshakeable commitment to environmental stewardship, which is a business ethic in short supply these days and which I am very happy to support with my business, both as a customer and a marketer.
Finally, the full line of Herbal Choice Mari is created with the idea of not using any of the ingredients that are common allergens. There are no nuts or nut products (no almond oil, for those allergic to tree nuts) in the Herbal Choice Mari line. There are no glutens to worry about, no dairy byproducts, no soy (95% of global soy production is GMO, which would invalidate the USDA Organic certification).
I believe I have found a quality product line: I am removing the product testimonials that the parent company's website lists because I believe the ingredients' lists on every product speaks for itself. I also support and hold the same commitment to non-GMO, organic, wildcrafting, and animal-free ethics shown by Herbal Choice Mari. I truly believe that this is a line of products worth using, worth promoting and worth the price, and I am willing to work to ensure that the ethics driving Herbal Choice Mari and similar companies become more visible and more popular throughout the cosmetics industry: if it happens to be a way through which I can help provide for my family, even better. This is something I can be passionate about.
To put it another way: 8 months pregnant with a baby girl, I am switching my house over to Herbal Choice Mari health and personal care products, because they are safer for my family than anything else I have found on the market and I wish I had done it sooner. I am willing to use their organic products on my baby's delicate skin, because she won't pick up the toxic ingredients from them that she would otherwise from commercially-produced "baby products" like Johnson&Johnson.)
My Pagan side has brought me a good deal of knowledge of what different herbs and essential oils may be used for, both magickally and medicinally. I find their product line offerings to be absolutely sound in this regard.
If you don't think organic is worth the cost, you might like to know what's in the products you're using now. Check out the Environmental Working Group and their (very extensive) cosmetics database at www.ewg.org/skindeep. Even some of the department-store "natural" and "organic" brands might surprise you. (What are dimethicone, polyquaternium-7 and the ubiquitous, nebulous and ultimately undefined "fragrance" doing in JASON Brand Natural Cosmetics? They're owned by the Hain Celestial Group - the same people who brought you Celestial Seasonings tea - which is known to carry dangerously high levels of pesticide contamination. Same with Tom's of Maine, owned by Colgate-Palmolive. How about Nature's Gate Organics? Surprise, surprise... if there's anything in that ingredients list that a five-year-old can't pronouce, it's not natural, let alone organic: each of the companies I just linked make products that are commonly found at the grocery store in the "organic" section - and every one of them has an EWG score over 7, which is high-risk. Compare to Herbal Choice Mari, where nothing - not the brand, not a single ingredient, ranks higher than a 2: safe.)
Now, come find me at www.greencorvid.com and start kicking the toxins out of your body and out of your life.
Moon: 09' Gemini
Dark of the Moon
A shameless self-plug here, but I have spoken often about Monsanto and the other biotech giants, and their roles in promoting unsafe GMO products and deadly pesticides that are endangering entire ecosystems. These are things that can and should interest Pagans, Wiccans, and anyone who claims to follow a nature-based religion. I speak out often. I Marched Against Monsanto.
Now I am putting my money, my reputation, and my honor where my mouth is in permanent business opposition to the companies that are killing the Earth and the creatures who live upon Her. I am pleased to announce that my new online storefront has opened for business at www.GreenCorvid.com.
www.GreenCorvid.com will eventually carry the full line of Herbal Choice Mari health and personal care products: the entire line is certified cruelty-free and USDA Organic. HCM is in the process of re-designing their labels to reflect the USDA Organic and Leaping Bunny logos, so I cannot openly list it on the website until Nature's Brands (Herbal Choice Mari's parent company) gives me the go-ahead, but the certification has been approved.
I am very glad to see it happening, myself: the USDA certification is an automatic guarantee that no part of the product was produced with sewage, radiation, pesticides or genetically-modified ingredients. It means that there are no synthetic ingredients of any kind, including chemical preservatives (they keep themselves fresh based on their own natural properties). Pthalates? Hell no. Parabens? Absolutely not. It is the highest standard of organic purity in the country, and the Green Corvid is proud to carry products that carry that seal.
Also, the development of these products was done and continues without involving innocent animals, either directly through testing or indirectly through parts and by-products. Therefore, an Herbal Choice Mari moisturizer is based in purified water (meaning that it meets the Universal Standard of Purity), certified organic olive oil, certified organic jojoba oil and wildcrafted candelilla wax, all derived from plants, instead of lanolin (which comes from sheep's wool). They are vegan-friendly and certified Cruelty-Free by the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (CCIC).
(As an affiliate, the rules of the CCIC prohibit me from displaying their Leaping Bunny seal of cruelty-free certification even though the company I am marketing for has already earned it for their product, but the company's direct website does display it proudly and the link above verifies that they do have the right to do so).
Not all ingredients can be certified as purely organic, because they are wildcrafted. The only safe way to wildcraft involves a deep and unshakeable commitment to environmental stewardship, which is a business ethic in short supply these days and which I am very happy to support with my business, both as a customer and a marketer.
Finally, the full line of Herbal Choice Mari is created with the idea of not using any of the ingredients that are common allergens. There are no nuts or nut products (no almond oil, for those allergic to tree nuts) in the Herbal Choice Mari line. There are no glutens to worry about, no dairy byproducts, no soy (95% of global soy production is GMO, which would invalidate the USDA Organic certification).
I believe I have found a quality product line: I am removing the product testimonials that the parent company's website lists because I believe the ingredients' lists on every product speaks for itself. I also support and hold the same commitment to non-GMO, organic, wildcrafting, and animal-free ethics shown by Herbal Choice Mari. I truly believe that this is a line of products worth using, worth promoting and worth the price, and I am willing to work to ensure that the ethics driving Herbal Choice Mari and similar companies become more visible and more popular throughout the cosmetics industry: if it happens to be a way through which I can help provide for my family, even better. This is something I can be passionate about.
To put it another way: 8 months pregnant with a baby girl, I am switching my house over to Herbal Choice Mari health and personal care products, because they are safer for my family than anything else I have found on the market and I wish I had done it sooner. I am willing to use their organic products on my baby's delicate skin, because she won't pick up the toxic ingredients from them that she would otherwise from commercially-produced "baby products" like Johnson&Johnson.)
My Pagan side has brought me a good deal of knowledge of what different herbs and essential oils may be used for, both magickally and medicinally. I find their product line offerings to be absolutely sound in this regard.
If you don't think organic is worth the cost, you might like to know what's in the products you're using now. Check out the Environmental Working Group and their (very extensive) cosmetics database at www.ewg.org/skindeep. Even some of the department-store "natural" and "organic" brands might surprise you. (What are dimethicone, polyquaternium-7 and the ubiquitous, nebulous and ultimately undefined "fragrance" doing in JASON Brand Natural Cosmetics? They're owned by the Hain Celestial Group - the same people who brought you Celestial Seasonings tea - which is known to carry dangerously high levels of pesticide contamination. Same with Tom's of Maine, owned by Colgate-Palmolive. How about Nature's Gate Organics? Surprise, surprise... if there's anything in that ingredients list that a five-year-old can't pronouce, it's not natural, let alone organic: each of the companies I just linked make products that are commonly found at the grocery store in the "organic" section - and every one of them has an EWG score over 7, which is high-risk. Compare to Herbal Choice Mari, where nothing - not the brand, not a single ingredient, ranks higher than a 2: safe.)
Now, come find me at www.greencorvid.com and start kicking the toxins out of your body and out of your life.
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