Secret Moon Art

In Georgia today it's cloudy and rainy and I'm in a Celestial View from Turquoise Arch kind of mood...you? Thursday November 4, 2010 brings us Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Libra since we're just before a New Moon @13Sco40, the position of Venus' retrograde station degree of October 8, 2010. This gives us a rather lovely midpoint picture and flavor of the day to consider for the New Moon: Sun/Moon = Venus: artistic interests; harmony; friendship; love awareness. (Tyl; Ebertin.) A few famous folk who share the Sun Sco-Moon Lib blend in their natal charts are: Jayne Mansfield, Billie Jean King, Sylvia Plath, Ted Turner, Francois Mitterrand, and Marie Antoinette. And the New Moon's Sun Sco-Moon Sco? Ah, that blend is shared natally by the likes of: Georgia O'Keefe, Leif Garrett, Dracula's daddy Bram Stoker, politician and global operator Howard Baker, and The View 's Whoopi Goldberg.

Comet Skies , a drawing by Jude Cowell (c) 2010 and beyond... If you've ever noticed within yourself an interest in comets and their timely arrivals (and who hasn't?) then mid-June 2010 is the perfect time to look up to catch a cameo appearance by none other than Comet McNaught , a recently noticed green fuzzball now approaching Earth's little patch of the solar system! ~:~ Art-Browsing? why not try Jude Cowell Art at Zazzle , an Art Shop that is always open for a drop-in!

Pleiades Sisters, a drawing by jude cowell (c) 2008. Yes, it's true that Secret Moon Art is not usually where I publish figure studies unless they have starry connections. So here's a photo of the Pleiades , the most auspicious and identifiable Taurean star cluster of all, the mythology of which appears in many cultures as a hen with chicks, a flock of doves, and for my drawing purposes, The Seven Sisters. Which is which? You decide: it's Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygete, Celaeno, and Alcyone, the daughters of Atlas and Pleione, as represented in whimsical human form by your artist of the evening, Jude Cowell. And tonight is Earth Hour from 8:00 to 9:00 pm, if it hasn't come to your time zone already...it will be a good chance to view the stars without the usual light polution and save some wattage simultaneously!