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Sun in Leo, Rosy Star, Venus and Uranus Retrograde

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Three major celestial events occur this week. Wednesday, the Sun enters Leo, highlighting the heart center of everyone. Leo is a sign of deep sensitivity (along with Cancer). Wednesday is also the feast day of St. Mary Magdalene, one of the most misunderstood women in the Bible.

Saturday, July 25, Venus turns stationary retrograde at 0 Virgo (progressed Regulus, the Law, Hall of Records). Venus retrogrades for 44 days and nights, forming one petal of a five-pointed rosy star (pentagram) in the sky (five retrogrades over eight years = star). Venus retrograde turns values upside down. Our usual sense of beauty, values, the real price of things, relationships—all turn into a bundle of confusion. We don’t seem to know anything. Luxury goods are mispriced, values are jumbled, we wonder who that person is we’re in relationship with. We don’t know where our money is or where it’s gone.

Venus, in daily life, represents values (resources, money, possessions and quality of relationships). Venus retrograde asks, “What do I value?” Venus retrograde puts us in touch with what has changed and what is truly of value in our lives. Venus retrogrades from 0 Virgo to 14 degrees Leo (July 25-Sept. 6). Leo is about the self and our creativity, which is how we come to know and value ourselves. We “know ourselves through what we create.” In Venus (values) retrograde (inner focus) we will ask, “What are values (not just money and finances)? What are my values? What do I create? How do I value my creations? Do I value myself?”

Sunday, Uranus—planet of all things new, revelatory and revolutionary—also retrogrades (from 20 to 16 degrees Aries) until the full moon of Christmas Day. Five months of Uranus retrograde. In July and continuing on through the following months we have many planets retrograding. Things therefore slow down. Everyone’s focus becomes subjective, hidden by veils and curtains. A time when inner reserves of strength are available. A time of protection.

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Hannah Lash on composing orchestral piece ‘Eating Flowers’ for Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Hannah Lash started composing music at the age of 4, and in less than 30 years she has hit full stride. Lash will complete several dozen commissioned works during this year, perform her own harp concerto at Carnegie Hall, and bring the...

Boldly Going

As New Horizons reaches the end of the solar system, a Santa Cruz scientist says its findings are full of surprises Francis Nimmo is the spaciest guy in Santa Cruz, at least for the past few weeks. As one of an elite group of researchers working on the first satellite to visit Pluto and the solar...

In Too Deep

Even rising floodwaters can’t keep Pokey LaFarge from tunneling into the history of early American roots music Pokey LaFarge is in his office in St. Louis, Missouri, dealing with an unexpected mess. The singer-songwriter has just walked in and found the place flooded. “It’s been raining like hell for about a week,” he tells me over...

Fair B and B

Do vacation rentals hurt the housing market? Like many stories, it started with a question. When I asked my landlord what he thought about Airbnb.com—the DIY vacation rental website—his response was more informed and impassioned than I could have imagined. In his eyes, the town’s growing slew of vacation rentals takes away valuable housing from the...

The Binding of Edmund McMillen

How a Santa Cruz designer created one of the most unlikely hits in video game history Edmund McMillen still sports the same calm blue eyes, unassuming smile and Melvins T-shirt as the struggling, unknown game developer he once was, trying to get by with his friend Tommy Refenes in their bedroom studio. But the 35-year-old McMillen,...

From The Editor

Plus Letters To the Editor In the last year, we’ve written several pieces about Santa Cruz’s current crop of tech visionaries. Thanks to Santa Cruz Works, we’ve even seen a movement arise aimed at keeping these cutting-edge thinkers working locally, rather than losing them to the never-ending “brain drain” of the Silicon Valley tech titans. We...

Sun in Leo, Rosy Star, Venus and Uranus Retrograde

Three major celestial events occur this week. Wednesday, the Sun enters Leo, highlighting the heart center of everyone. Leo is a sign of deep sensitivity (along with Cancer). Wednesday is also the feast day of St. Mary Magdalene, one of the most misunderstood women in the Bible. Saturday, July 25, Venus turns stationary retrograde at 0 Virgo (progressed...

CRUISIN’ FOR A JOB

  CRUISIN’ FOR A JOB It’s probably the most expensive help-wanted sign around. Santa Cruz’s Fullpower Technologies is spending $25,000 a month to rent the county’s only billboard, which was grandfathered in years back after other unsightly billboards were torn down. Some 61,000 people a day pass the sign, which faces southbound traffic just past the...

THE D’OH BROTHERS

Considering their name is taken from one of the show’s most famous catchphrases, it should come as no surprise that the Do’h Brothers are major fans of The Simpsons. “I used to have a whole room in my house with a bunch of Simpsons stuff—it’s become my daughter’s room at this point,” says guitarist/vocalist Dave Muldawer....

BE OUR GUEST: YELLOW EARTH

Win tickets to The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music's, 'Yellow Earth,' at SantaCruz.com The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music is a world-renowned showcase of new music. One of this year’s festival offerings is Yellow Earth, an exciting program featuring four works: Sebastian Currier’s U.S. premiere of “Quanta,” exploring the nature of Chinese written characters; Huang Ruos...
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