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I have seen U. For our US readers I might ask as to what sort of advice from the stars that you may have as we settle in for a long resistance against this current administration—but I suppose we must extrapolate from that any advice you have for any of our readers, anywhere, who are longing to feel energized and empowered in time of darkness and oppression?

I have never had more depth conversations with people about ideals, feminism and values than since the last American election. I know that there are more dramatic predictions than this going around some of them wishful thinking but I actually think he is going to walk off the job in a snit, citing inability to follow through on his grand vision due to political correctness, legal crap, witches, bitches, whatever.

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It doesn't appear too often because people are always terribly serious about this stuff. Mystic Medusa: I know. I love humour, I think it just works so well, and everything is much easier if you can laugh at it.

Even the worst relationship. I mean none of my, well I'm married now, but none of my boyfriends have ever, ever not had been a square Saturn, which for a man is meant to be the big problematical, they can't love, they're stingy with love, they're a walking nightmare. And I've never been out with a man who hasn't had that. And so now I can laugh about it, and even men I like have it.

Rachael Kohn: So have you psychoanalysed why this has always been the case? Why you always go for these guys? Mars and Venus are like the male and female principle, you can watch them, quite easy for basic ideas on who you're attracted to and why. And it's a great shortcut, it's funny as well, but it's nice to have a look.

You've got Mars and Virgo, you like these kind of finicky, nitpicky details of just men, if you're into men, but you've got Venus and Pisces say, so you want unconditional, doting love, and this is a problem with this person. You've got to somehow reconcile who you're choosing and find one person who can a have that Virgo thing for neatness you like, but also b love you, even with your split ends and PMT, you know. That's fun.

Rachael Kohn: I guess, but really most people don't have this kind of inside information that you have, and they manage to get along with the people they're with. Rachael Kohn: Do people need this stuff, or can it become something like an addiction? I mean getting deeper and deeper and finding more and more about what's going to happen or what is it about this guy or this girl.

Mystic Medusa: I think that's the case of the inner thing. People get onto the psychic hotlines which don't even have any basis in astrology or what they had someone sitting there, because when I'm sensing that you're really sad because it's going 'Yes, that's right, I am sad', and I'll be thinking obviously if you're drunk when you have phoneline at midnight, you probably are sad. Mystic Medusa: Yes, I think these things, that you're absolutely right, you can get neurology, astrology, but also gambling, I mean anything can be used as a crutch.

I think to use astrology or feng shui or anything, even quite frankly just the Christian religion or Buddhism, not to go over the top, just to let it inform your life and enhance your life, you know, and be a good perspective. Rachael Kohn: So this raises the whole criticism of astrology that it takes away free will. How do you view the matter? Mystic Medusa: I think free will's the most important thing. And astrology's like knowing about the weather.

Just because you think it might rain today, take an umbrella, it doesn't mean you're taking away free will, it means you're prepared for it. Like if I'm having say a Saturn transit, I think, Wow, I'm going to have an extra kind of maturity vibe which will be great, and also I'm going to feel paranoid about ageing for a while. I'm going to be lying on my bed with a hand mirror looking for grey hairs, and thinking when you have Saturn transit you become really aware of who's young and who's not, and you become really aware of people around you who are younger, and suddenly whether you're vibeing older, and it's strange, it's not permanent.

And it's quite good to work with that as a positive thing. I had one happening a few weeks ago, it was Saturn square Venus, and that's quite awful because it hits you as a woman, and suddenly you start to think, Am I too old to wear this? Am I too old to have sex? And I'm not even that old. Everyone gets it, year-olds who have it, year-olds who have it feel the same way.

And so to use it positively you think, 'I'm going to mentor someone young. I'm going to be mentoring and I'm going to be nicer to those year-olds. Mystic Medusa: Yes, because often they feel as insecure around you as you do around them because I think you always forget what it's like to be that young and thinking Wow, she's got it all together, she's got this, she's got that. You know? And I'm sitting thinking, Wow she's got an amazingly good liver and great tone, how do you do it?

And you've just got to sort of talk a bit more, so that's a good way to use a transit. Or a Mars transit you often tend to invite angry guys into your life. So rather than getting really angry back at everybody, use it to kind of, I don't know, let your man run free and rave onto you about whatever for a while, be a bit more loose.

It's just should inform you. Rachael Kohn: The World According to Mystic Medusa, whose talents are many, including interpreting the work of artists according to their sun sign. A contemporary art exhibition in Sydney, curated by John McDonald, formerly of the National Gallery of Australia, will feature Mystic's analysis of the work of 12 painters, each representing a different sign of the zodiac. Rachael Kohn: How many Leos does it take to change a light bulb?

One to hold it, while the world revolves around them. Astrological jokes are everywhere, but some people think astrology's a joke. I decided to hit the streets and find out what people think about astrology. Louise: A little bit, like when I read things about my birthday and Scorpio and I meet other people with the same star sign, stubborn, and I think they can be a bit bitchy, and I think there's also a lot of sexually orientated Rachael Kohn: Oh, that's good, very hard-working.

What are the characteristics that you think are really Sagittarian? Samantha: A little bit, I do. It's good when you meet someone for the first time and you can't really tell what they're like, but if you find out what their star sign is, you can certainly get a little hit more insight.

Frank: : I think so, yes. My parents say it describes me anyway. But yes, apparently very motivated, determined, that type of thing. But other than that I don't really know all that much about it, that type of thing.

Frank: No, I used to when I was younger, but not so much any more, I just find it's too vague. But I do have a book at home about like your birthday and then that goes by your astrology sign, which I do read. Frank: Yes, I must say I do. I always look up the love section that type of thing, and see if it's true or not.

Frank: Well I've been in a relationship for three years. It said that I'm in and out, but yes, I'm still together. Sally: I don't know much about the Chinese astrology, I think it's more about which other star signs you're compatible with than your character traits.

Rachael Kohn: What do you think of astrology? Do you think it's sort of make-believe stuff? Or is it serious? Cindy: Cancer tends to have like a shell around them all the time, like a barrier kind of thing. Rachael Kohn: There are a lot of Scorpios today. Do you know what sort of characteristics a Scorpio has?

John: Scorpios are supposed to be very honest, very solid, dependable sort of individuals, but with a little sting in the tail. John: Her star sign is Pisces. So far as the theory goes, Scorpio and Pisces make a terrible match. Tamsin: Yes. I don't feel like a typical Scorpio though.

We're supposed to be very high sex drive and that sort of thing, but maybe I'm channelling that energy somewhere else. Tamsin: No, but I do look occasionally at the horoscopes. It's only when I'm feeling a bit down and I'm looking for some inspiration on why I should keep going. Tamsin: I believe it does. Swamis from India will tell you about auspicious days for doing things, and if someone's born on an auspicious day then it's considered that they'll probably become a very spiritual person.

I haven't looked into it yet, but I'd like to. Rachael Kohn: Well if you were to choose a particular astrological system, which one would you choose between the Chinese, the Indian and the Western, the Greek I suppose.

Tamsin: Probably the Indian because that's where my yoga practice comes from, and also I follow Swamiji so I would look at it from his point of view. Take advice from him from that point of view, yes. Even though I'm not Indian. Mystic, it sounds eminently practical, but also something that does require a lot of attention if you're going to really anticipate all these changes that are happening around you with people and indeed with yourself.

I was wondering whether astrology does more than that for people, or can it provide something more than kind of practical assistance? Can it provide a kind of spiritual depth to one's life, or is that asking too much? Mystic Medusa: No, I think it does, but in a funny way. What happens is essentially you start to realise it works, and you start to find your own level you want to get involved in.

You know, what's comfortable for you. The same with any kind of religion or witchcraft or anything, you find when you're comfortable. As with people who grow herbs, and they just have herb tea, others go massively into herb healing, do you know what I mean? Essentially what you realise is OK, my god it works. And the spiritual point comes, you think Well this works, what else works?

You know the world is a much weirder place than we know if this works, and I think it does. So you become more open to other sorts of things, there's a pattern there, and things do happen, like planets move and flowers bloom and you're part of that pattern as well. And things should unfold especially if you help it along by feng shui, maybe a few spells. Mystic Medusa: Yes.

But just essentially that if astrology works and the world is definitely a weirder places than we suspect. Rachael Kohn: So it's not necessarily providing that illusion of total control over one's life. Mystic Medusa: Oh God no. That's what I mean, like for example in , astrologers were kind of thinking vaguely just expecting something difficult with the Middle East situation, but no-one was able to say, 'OK, get in there and fence off New York.

But I don't sort of sit there expecting it and plotting it in my diary. Rachael Kohn: But it's also in that sense, retrospective. Something's happened and you look back into the stars to see what's caused it.

Mystic Medusa: Not what's caused it, but just thinking 'Wow, something must have been happening', you know. I mean it's good and it's practical in some ways, like for example when you have parties and you know some parties you have and they just go, they're quite tedious and flat and you don't know why, and it's pretty sad and you can get drunk but you're not drunk, and you can drink enough and damage your liver, but not enough to get really intoxicated, it's because you're bored.

And that's because you've chosen usually an old moon. You have to choose the new moon, the time for the new moon and the full moon makes sparkling parties, and people are really expansive and ready to be up there and give of themselves you know, and be at their best. You choose a party on the old moon, choose that date, things are flatter. Mystic Medusa: I like all levels, the really sort of deeper ones and the really shallow ones.

Rachael Kohn: Mystic I was just at a rather important event with all kinds of glitterati -. Rachael Kohn: No, no, perhaps not. Glitterati probably isn't the right word. But a lot of movers and shakers, professionals, important people, and I was interested that immediately two people started talking about their star signs, and very seriously about it. But then dismissed it by saying 'Of course I don't read the stuff, you know, weekly.

Why are they afraid of owning up to following astrology, being astrophiles? Mystic Medusa: Because it's the way I do that you're a complete fake if you do it. I mean astrology's been around for thousands of years, and the odd thing is people always try and stamp it out in various ways. I was reading today that Hitler even had astrologers imprisoned. I didn't know that before. And people do try and dismiss it, and the fact that it often appears in tabloids with the kind of tone, speaking to the readers as if they're quite disempowered.

It really is, like, 'Your luck is about to look up', you know, and it just makes you sad and dreary to even read it. Rachael Kohn: But is it also possibly in the case of Hitler, and certainly in the case of some popes that astrologers are seen as quite powerful, especially if they predict nasty things that are going to happen at the eclipse of the sun or eclipse of the moon.