Satori’s post got me thinking about the question of “good value” and how it flows both ways.

Up until recently I held a job in the medical field. I was prompt, efficient, and had a good attitude every day from the first day I started to the last day I worked there. I once described the work as “I’m an ox in harness from 9:30 to 6″ (Taurus on the MC). I worked hard, I enjoyed it, I dealt with the crap that goes along with any job, and the perks and pay were good value for what I gave. Equal input for equal outflow.

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Today, a silly, light-hearted post from me to balance out my serious ones. Saturn in Libra says, “Bring on the balance!”

Have you ever noticed that each member of the zodiac has something special or remarkable about the eyes? I’ve compiled a partial list of what I have observed about each sign. This applies to suns and risings especially, but you can often guess other placements by the expression of the eyes, depending on what an individual is doing, feeling or thinking. Try it!

Aries: These guys have an electric quality to their gaze that seems more characteristic of Aquarius. Check the edges of their eyes– they’re usually dagger-sharp (think Victoria Beckham or Robert Downey, Jr.). A predominance of brown eyes in this sign; perhaps because they’re on fire inside and burned away the other colors!

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Since Pluto transits produce a long-haul, from-the-roots-up type of effect, we might not necessarily connect their results to every day life the same way we would with, for example, Mercury retrogrades.

However, we currently have access into an amazing, if tragic, glimpse into Pluto’s function. The Deepwater Horizon well explosion on April 20th of this year was extremely Plutonic in nature (oil, uncontrollable explosion, subterranean depths). And in a few short months, it has completely transformed BP, a very Saturnian entity (large, British corporation). It is up to us to imagine just how this will change the United States, a country whose entire infrastructure is intimately entwined with the oil industry.

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The study of Chiron is one of the most interesting developments in modern astrology. Did you know that just in the same way some people can be Saturnine or Venusian personalities, there are Chirotic types as well?

The way I see it is that once we discover a planet or an asteroid, it is accessible for us to work with by integrating its energy into our conscious personalities. Chiron was discovered in the 1970′s, so it was a fairly recent development, and its definition is not set in stone like other planets. If you Google an explanation of its function, you’ll get hundreds of different types of explanations. This is not like the Sun, where we can clearly point to its mechanism as self-ego. Chiron, its meaning, and the way it works are all still up for debate. Due to its position between Saturn and Uranus it has been proposed as a “link” of sorts.

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I’m watching Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro” music video at the moment. Its stark black-white-and-red imagery saturated with sex, war, and Catholicism is so very Scorpio, in direct square to the video’s Aquarian themes of platonic love, gay brotherhood, and the singer’s own self-confessed inability to connect with one person. (See what she had to say about the video here.

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