This is something a really like about Sasha Graham’s Tarot Diva. She advocates immersing oneself into the cards in a very real way and blending the cards into one’s life in every way possible. One way she does this is…you guessed it…fashion.

She associates some of the Majors with different fashion styles, providing a description of the style, wardrobe staples, style icons, stores/designers to look for, and secret style weapons. After reading through them, I was not surprised that my style is a combination of cards because when forced to describe my style it is a rather eclectic thing: urban gypsy steampunk cowgirl yet practical.

Here are some highlights from my cards: The Tower, The Moon, and The World:

Tower Style: Risk-Taker

“The Tower card breaks down barriers in an explosive, surprising way, and so do you with your daring, outrageous style sense. You mix and match synthetic fibers, embrace color, love a hat, and happily adopt any style of clothing that fits your mood du jour. ”

I loved the Tower Style Icons, which include: Drag queens, Madonna, and Lady Gaga. I’ve always said that my alter ego is a drag queen.

Moon Style: Dreamy Diva

Vintage is an aesthetic you adore, and you rock a serious Victorian look. Your mystical attitude translates beautifully into your clothing sensibility; your often look the part of a beguiling gypsy witch, a steampunk princess.

One of the style icons is Stevie Nicks. Besides vintage stores and boutiques, one of the the designers suggested is Free People. I adore those clothes and even bought something once but returned it. It was just a little bit out of my price range. But totally swoon-worthy.

World Style: Worldly Woman

The World card is about success, euphoria, movement, and travel. Your passport is always ready to be stamped; you are a globetrotter. A reflection of your travels, your wardrobe is filled with clothing purchased abroad. (This is true for me…sometimes I realize that almost everything I have on was purchased on a trip; when complimented, I love saying “oh, I got this in Paris” or “oh, I found this at the Camdon Market in London.)

One of the concerns when shopping on a trip is the inability to return something, so Sasha provides some guidelines for the world shopper:

Ask yourself the following five questions:

1. Do I love it?

2. Do I feel great in it?

3. Does it fit me well?

4. Does it flatter me?

5. Do I have at least two things I can wear it with?

As all true Divas know, the exterior is fun, but the real beauty lies within:

“It matters more what’s in a woman’s face than what’s on it.”  Claudette Colbert

“Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it’s an open mind.” Gail Rubin Bereny

What cards mark your style? Do you think including an element that resonates with a card is a good way to channel that card’s energy?

So I went online to find out what is really happening. NASA is not actually bombing the moon; first they crash landed a “rocket stage,” and then, four minutes later, they crash landed a separate spacecraft that had been carried by the rocket but detached before the impact. The whole point was to first send up a large plume of debris from the larger rocket crash, which would then be analyzed for water content by the array of instruments on the second, smaller craft to follow it.

Both of these missions were accomplished this morning, and you can see a graphic representation and some NASA video about in on the BBC website.

Well, I have to admit – when I first heard they were deliberately crashing things on the moon, I got worried. I love the moon! It is a huge part of my life as a Pagan, and life on Earth is indebted to it for its help in regulating our tides and stabilizing the Earth’s rotation on its axis. But the NASA website about the LCROSS program (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) reassured me that no lasting or major damage was done to the moon, which is actually hit all the time by the same kind of debris that hits the Earth’s atmosphere and causes “shooting stars” – only the moon has no atmosphere to slow down such projectiles, and thus we have its familiar pockmarked and cratered appearance.

Yet there are points in their FAQ page that make me uneasy. For example, the whole point of the mission is to look for water (in the form of ice, ice-coated dust grains, or vapor) in the deep craters of the moon where the sun never shines. They argue that a source of water on the moon would be a great help for space missions in the distant future taking off from the moon – with their own source, they wouldn’t need to transport as much water up there. So far, so good.

However, then they go on to say that while the moon has plenty of oxygen tied up in its surface, “hydrogen is the other key element that could make rocket fuel production practical on the moon.” Rocket fuel production on the moon. Think about that for a minute. They want to make rocket fuel on the moon? (Now I’m imagining all kinds of buildings, infrastructure, guys in hard hats, and so on.)

Also I found out that this is not the first time a spacecraft has crashed on the moon – there have been at least 20 impacts of terrestrial spacecraft into the moon. To me, that means 20 pieces of terrestrial junk that no one will ever remove or dispose of. For some of these impacts, they haven’t even been able to locate the impact crater, so they reason these kinds of spacecraft wrecks up there will be “very hard to notice.” And, since the moon is already inhospitable to begin with, “bathed in cosmic rays and solar particle radiation,” it shouldn’t matter if we make it even less livable, so to speak. So I guess that is their case for polluting the moon.

I’m sorry, but as a Pagan I see the moon as something beautiful and sacred, and it pains me to think that after trashing our own planet, we have developed the resources to go up and trash the moon. Does this make me an anti-science, anti-progress religious fanatic, just like the ones I have so little respect for? Maybe in my own way, but I can’t help it.

What do you think? Is it OK to leave debris and possibly set the stage for rocket fuel production on the moon in the name of science? Do you think that this is a Pagan issue at all? Is it even an environmental issue, since it’s not our environment nor one any of us can possibly conceive of living in?

As an astrologer, I know that the moon can signify a lot about the mother, as well. So I begin to contemplate my experience with my own mother based on my moon’s position, and how I may be as a mother myself. My moon is in Virgo in the ninth house, very close to the midheaven and I have a few pretty hard aspects and one really nice one. I could interpret so many things just based on these few facts in my chart…my childhood, my future child’s childhood…

When looking at the moon in your chart, you can remember a few things to help guide you. The moon describes the feminine, how you view your mother or how you nurture others.  The moon is your intuitive feeling nature. What sign and house your moon is in will give you clues to how you can find comfort in the world. The house your moon is in will show your sensitivity and how you are influenced by others, and will be the most fluctuating area in your chart. Finally, the moon shows something of your domestic life, and for a woman, how she relates to her body.

Looking at the moon, it is at once magical and frightening, fragile and wild. It represents constant change, but in such a defined way. It is a dark magnet, and a bright companion. Emily Dickinson had it right. For each of us, the moon has indeed carved her own road and travels it well.