Did you see article on May’s “Super Moon”?

Please go and see what Space.com says about the upcoming Super Moon on May 5. What does “super moon” mean? It just means that the moon will be VERY close to earth and appear larger than usual. Remember the movie “Moonstruck” that Cher won an Oscar for? And the BIG full moon pictured in that film? That is probably what the moon will look like.

Cannot promise that you will get to dress like Cher or go to the opera with Nick Cage or fall in love with a baker or any of that.

Tides may be higher of course, and it is unknown whether it could trigger more earthquakes than usual. But enjoy the moon, and if you have a telescope or camera, please do yourself a favor and pull them out.

http://www.space.com/15474-supermoon-full-moon-2012.html
‘Supermoon’ Alert: Biggest Full Moon of 2012 Occurs This Week

Venus to Cross Sun During 2012, Too

by Milky Way Maid

The year 2012 is not only the culmination of the Mayan calendar’s Long Count, it is not only marked by the Neptune-Pluto square (discussed in a previous entry on this column), it is also the year that Venus makes another trip across the Sun. AND we will also see a solar eclipse within weeks of that Venus transit, one that aligns with the Pleiades star cluster in the sign Taurus.

The ancient Mayans (not to mention astrologer Barbara Hand Clow) believe that the Pleiades was a gateway for the ancients to come to earth or conversely, for shamans of several cultures to expand their minds.

Venus does not cross the Sun but rarely. She makes her visits in pairs, spaced eight years apart. But these paired visits may occur 105-130 years apart. So we are rather privileged to be able to view her transits in this decade with all the high-power telescopes trained on her progress across the Sun.

Venus made a transit of the Sun in June 8, 2004, at 17 degrees Gemini. Venus will make her return trip on June 6, 2012 at 15 degrees Gemini. Astrologer Susan Custer interprets the Gemini transits as presaging advances in communications and shrinking the ‘global village.’

For example, the 1631 and 1639 transit was the year that mail service was first instituted, in Denmark and Sweden. In 1874, the Atlantic telegraph cable was completed. Magellan sailed around the globe during the Venus transits in the 1600s. You may read her article on the topic on her website, The Astrology Page dot com, at http://www.theastrologypage.com/Archives/transit_of_venus.htm

The Mayans revered Venus, some might say they feared her even more. But they built temples and other observatories aligned to key phases in her cycle. Kukulkan was deemed a manifestation of Venus. Kukulkan, according to some, symbolized the return of the Christ energy, a time to rebalance the spiritual and material values we hold.