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Mars Retrograde-seething red

Seeing Red. Mars is retrograding. This morning I woke up to find my mailbox overflowing with 50 plus emails from the New Moon Journal with posts going back to the year 2000. Oh my!

I am in the process of finding out exactly what happened. To those of you affected by this unwelcome email blast I offer my sincerest apology. I have support tickets in, but this doesn’t excuse the way your mailbox got trashed this morning.

In August I noticed sporadic double postings and complained to TypePad that something wasn’t right with the RSS feed on The New Moon Journal. Tech support gave me a short term fix, advising the tech team was working on it; they’d get back to me. This week I complained once again because I never got an answer whether it was fixed or not. At the same time Tech support added RSS feed to my comment area *yeah*.

I republished the Journal and suspect the faulty RSS feed problem got fixed or triggered at the same time, thus the massive email broadcast of old posts. Who exactly knows what happened on the technical side, but I did not consciously go out and deliberately send massive emails to you, that’s not my style.

Astrologically speaking Mars went retrograde in the sign Cancer yesterday. I expected things to get a bit feisty because Mars’s task is to secure, protect and defend our borders- the home front and your mailbox. Mars is an action energy in the sign Aries, it transforms in Scorpio (remember we are still operating in a New Moon in Scorpio); Mars feels impeded (like a wet blanket) in the sign Cancer. This Mars in Cancer retrograde energy can bring up negative emotions like people being snappy and grouchy, angry and agressive. Seething red.

Needless to say I not only got zapped by the 50 plus emails sent by myself to myself *ha ha* but also the sting of frustrated readers unsubscribing and letting me know "why the hell why I am unsubscribing!!" It’s been an interesting morning. I feel a SoulCollage® coming on!!

So be aware.

The Holidays are fast approaching with Mars in retrograde motion in the sign Cancer (home and heart). Restless Cancer is ruled by the Moon- emotions, mothering. You may either evade by going into your shell or outright attack. Either way you are seething.

Know too all forms of communication are being challenged, since Mars plan of action is to move into the sign Gemini a few days after Christmas. Gemini ruled by Mercury relates to speaking, communication, siblings, computers, networking and neighbors. In light of this you may enjoy reading this post about leadership before you are inspired to send out an angry email while Mars is retrograding-Stop: Don’t Send That Angry E-mail!

I appreciate your patience and **deep breath** I am sure that this is a one time event and truly hope this won’t happen again.

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Changed the subscription service from Bloglet to Feedblitz.

  Today I changed the subscription service from Bloglet to Feedblitz. I was not going to do this until after Mercury retrograde, but when I checked out Bloglet, the subscriptions had been suspended due to a glitch in the system.

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There is a dance between the Sun/Moon through the birth chart that naturally connects you to your 'bio-rhythm'. When you begin to consciously work with these energies in your life it creates magic. As above, so below, sky shamanism known as astrology is an ancient language of cycles through the planetary movements (archetypal forces). These Helping Allies are the time keepers for your life's journey. When we dance in partnership with this sacred rythym we become in-sync with those energies and our vibration rises; we consciously transmute the shadow and our Light shines more brightly within and out into the world.

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 revised 3/2006. I changed to Feedblitz. Today I fine-tuned and added some more features. For those of you who have signed up with Feedblitz. Thank you!! It became apparent the old way of delivering emails was not working. Those emails got bounced and/or didn’t go through even though I was paying $$ for the service. Worse still was hearing friends and clients complain “I didn’t get the journal this month!” due an array of filters which puts the emails in the trash folder or the server doesn’t let them go through at all– known as a bounce.

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