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Author: Madame Ximon

Madame Ximon is an astrologer, Tarot reader, and visionary artist living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

The Burning Heart of Vesta

In keeping with Neil Gaiman’s directive to “Make Good Art” being reinforced in my life by multiple astrological configurations, I’ve been endeavoring to finish more of my growing quantity of “works in progress,” one of which is this drawing based on the action of the asteroid Vesta on my natal chart through transits and synastry over the past year.Vesta is one of the larger asteroids in our solar system, smaller than Ceres, but comparable...

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Layering Lessons from Multiple Astrological Events

The past couple of weeks have been a bit intense astrologically, with the April 15th Lunar Eclipse, April 23rd Cardinal Grand Cross, and April 29th Solar Eclipse all making waves, especially for people with prominent Cardinal sign placements in their natal charts. Reverberations from such events continue in our lives for some time after the initial event, with eclipses in particular setting the tone for the next six months in whatever areas of...

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The Perfect Goth Refrigerator

…filled with bottles of my last batch of mead, prior to labeling. Yes, the bottles are red. 🙂 This mead batch is a black morat rhodomel, meaning that it is made with black currant juice, mulberry juice, and roses. Like all of my meads it is a metheglin, meaning that it is made with herbs (in addition to the roses), and was brewed with magical intent as part of a 15-month cycle, with the steps in its process corresponding to lunar cycles and...

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Cardinal Grand Cross 2014

Today is the day of a long-anticipated Grand Cross in Cardinal signs, with Pluto in Capricorn opposing Jupiter in Cancer, both squared to Uranus in Aries opposing Mars retrograde in Libra. This configuration is highlighting where we have been stuck in our lives, what is in need of changing, and what can no longer remain if we are to move forward. With my natal Uranus in Libra, Sun/Mercury/Venus in Capricorn, Black Moon Lilith/Part of Fortune in...

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