Author: Matthew Stelzner

I've been an intuitive guide based in San Francisco and Sarasota using tarot and astrology for over 25 years.
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Heart Chakra Portal Right Ahead!

Time to get on board the love boat! I made this video to honor the very special Moon-Mercury-Venus-Neptune Conjunction Portal, which is supercharged and coming up in a few days: April 1-4. There are several factors that make this portal special, that it is in Pisces, that it is overlapping with our current Jupiter square Neptune alignment, and that it is part of the super-rare 61 day Mercury-Neptune conjunction, all make for an extremely rare and special alignment filled with many possibilities. There won't be another portal quite like this one until 2179, so I hope you will find the time to honor and align with it to set intentions for a more love-filled life. 

I decided to start my upcoming class, "Tarot and Flow: Integrating Astrology with Tarot," under this alignment because it is the ultimate alignment for studying tarot and astrology, which is exactly what we will be doing starting April Fools Day 2019.  Blessings!

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Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna”

Correlation of the Day.

I was watching “Democracy Now” and saw they used Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” (from his Carmina Burana) to illustrate a montage which featured Donald Trump trying to hold up a bald eagle on his arm (the eagle nearly knocked off his comb over). I had never looked up the astrology for this piece of music and its dramatic energy. I expected a strong Pluto in the relevant charts, with the Jupiter-Pluto archetype my first candidate.
Rick Tarnas describes the Jupiter-Pluto archetype as having an energy of triumph, with its music often featuring a powerful crescendo (for example Beethoven is born with the conjunction).

I looked up Orff’s chart and was struck by his natal Venus square Pluto and his exact Sun-Jupiter conjunction (Fortuna), but it is the chart for the premiere of this piece of music that is most striking.
It was composed by Orff in 1936 and 1937 towards the end of that era’s Uranus square Pluto alignment, and it really fits the “rise of fascism” potential of that archetype (and thus its resonance with our own current square alignment).

The premiere happened on June 8th, 1937 in Frankfurt Germany right as Nazi Germany was coming into its full potency, and the chart for that evening features an exact Jupiter-Pluto opposition in a T-square with Venus. Carmina Burana is part of a trilogy of works called “Trionfi,” “Triumphs” and it premieres under the astrological alignment of triumph.

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