after a grueling 3 weeks i’m finished with my trunk show at henri bendel. but JP will be there until jan 1. so stop by and say cheers to jp… he’s located on the stairs underneath the lalique astrology windows between the 2nd and 3rd floor. these zodiac-themed windows are stunning and so apropos for IZ… need a gift for your gracious host or hostess this new years eve? these cocktail candles are perfect!

personally, i don’t know how those sales people do it everyday… standing on their feet all day long, while smiling wonderfully the whole time. suffice it to say i have a whole new respect for the boys and girls in that profession. JP and I sold lots and lots of candles to lots and lots of interesting people, celebs included… i even had one adorable customer ask me to sign the boxes of his candles. he made my life by asking me to do him that favor. funnily, we shared a birthday–january 6.

so let’s see… kate moss said hi to me and katie holmes was on the verge of buying a candle when her bodyguards whisked her off. kathleen turner and beyonce flitted through the store as well. but our favorite celeb by far was the uber sweet and so down to earth Stephanie Pratt of The Hills. she even posed for a pic with JP and I. thank you Stephanie! i hope you are enjoying your aries candle!

in honor of our new president and vice president elect, i present you with the OBAMATINI. this recipe is based off of LAMB MARTINI’S now famous libation, the BARACKTAIL. phil went to the great trouble of creating a drink that called for “native obama ingredients,” such as, pineapple. pineapple comes from hawaii where barack spent much of his childhood. the cardomom-infused vodka is a tip to indonesia, another one of barack’s global stomping grounds, of which we really no so little. i added orange as a salut to leo, barack’s sun sign.

all though barack’s sun is in leo, libra is the president-elect’s rising sign. due to libra’s ascending influence in barack’s natal chart, he portrays himself as a pleasant looking, diplomatic, refined, and cocky (yes i did say this) individual. this libran placement only heightens his innate leoan star power.

however, as i tasted this cocktail, the cardomom flavor far outweighed any other. for that reason, i have listed this particular libation under the rulership of scorpio. the spicy flavor of indonesia’s cardomom makes it an herb of mars, ancient ruler of SCORPIO. ruler of death and rebirth, scorpio will assist in the killing our antiquated ways and help birth a new america. scorpio is the great healer, and the great destroyer… So which traits of scorpio has obama adopted for his own?

in his victory speech, barack stressed that he can’t create change alone. he asked that we prepare to chip in and help rebuild the united states. barack is not a magician, but he has instilled within us magical hopes. thoughts are things, and these should manifest into reality. i think the very first thing we can do to help is to sip this intriguing tipple. cheers to change…

there are a few more obama-inspired cocktails out there… FELICIA’S SPEAK EASY and SACKBEE.

THE OBAMATINI

* 1 oz rye
* 3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
* 1 oz pineapple juice (fresh is best) or 2 oz pineapple puree
* 1 oz cardamom vodka
* 1 oz fresh orange juice
* 1 oz homemade grenadine

Shake in a iced cocktail shaker, strain, serve in a cocktail glass. garnish with pomegranate seeds, pineapple wedge or orange twist.

cardomom vodka: add 1c cardomom pods to 750 ml vodka and infuse for about a week. strain and store.

grenadine: add the seeds from 1 pomegranate to 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar in sauce pot. Bring to boil, stir and allow to simmer for 30 minutes. Strain into final storage container, adding 1 oz vodka as a preservative. Store in fridge.

for cool halloween parties only… uber leo, martha stewart, has graciously posted free clip art to paste on your bottles. the downloadable art is HERE. OR, VIEW GWEN’S NEW CREEPY LABELS HERE.

prince charles has become one of the world’s leading celebrity environmentalists, and the most wealthy too i might add. his natural foods company and distillery are both doing quite well.

charles (scorpio) instructed his mechanics to outfit his aston martin, a 21st birthday present from queen elizabeth (taurus), with a bioethanol engine which he’s taken to running on surplus wine. waste not, want not… even for the royal family, whose royal train runs on biodiesel. this is a great video to watch… especially the ending, where the reporter suggests a jet that runs on leftover champagne.

WATCH CHARLES’ VIDEO HERE.

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i know, i know, i blogged pammy pie for her birthday last year. the big one, where she proclaimed 40 to be the 20… but i can’t help but blog her again. she’s the bomb! this year she got one helluvah b’day gift… a meatless tommy lee. tommy—a typically attractive libra who just wants to go with the flow—had been rebuffed one too many times by pam. it was when lee’s thoughts flowed to vegetarianism, that he finally won her back. what better way to melt cancer’s heart than to make her personal crusade your own? she’s his. lock, stock and barrel.

ECORAZZI sums it up well, “Listen up chicks and dudes — if you wanna bag yourself a veggie you can try the typical flowers, candy and mushy love note route, but trust me, nothing says I want to jump your bones more than putting down the drumstick. ” so, now where’s my vegetarian prince? i’m waaaiting….

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oops… we’re in the constellation of cancer now but happy belated birthday to gemini! who is more gemini than angelini jolie? and now, her gemini twins? angelina apparently went about her business promoting two films during the last weeks of pregnancy as if she wasn’t preggars at all. typical gemini… more energy than god. impossible to tie down… just ask brad. i think she’s rejected his proposal for marriage at least twice now. she’s out there angie… the duplicity of her sun sign, the twins, was apparent long before she got pregnant with twins. one day she would be filming a blockbuster hollywood movie, and the next she’d be feeding starving babies in africa. what a dichotomous life. rags in africa to riches hollywood and back again in fast footed, lightning speed, geminian style. happy belated birthday to the ultimate gemini, angie

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my favorite celebrity taurus is Shirley MacLaine. some think she’s a nut. i think she’s both brilliant and courageous. if you haven’t read her best selling book EL CAMINO, it’s both interesting, informative and inspirational. a real good read… like shirley herself, a real good taurus. but a real unusual taurus, or so i thought. for this earthiest of signs, her head surprisingly up in the clouds.

but… apparently, “because we live in a predominantly confused, wounded, and materialistic world that we think Taurus is mainly about money, possessions, and sensual indulgences. But Taurus is also a powerful symbol for enlightenment, and as we begin to wake up, it becomes more important to see Taurus and the 2nd House as referring to the potential for the truest inner peace, and therefore as well as to the obstacles to this real freedom.” VIA ASTROLOGYFORTHESOUL

Whoever said Taureans were predictable didn’t know Shirley MacLaine. But this atypical award winning Terms of Endearment actress, author, dancer, and spiritual seeker is typically Taurean in her quest for inner peace – a journey she’s taken to task. Material bound Taurus Shirley is famous for her earthy stability. Yet look deeper into her easy way in the world of natural things and see a supernatural connection. Shirley talks of past lives, like having been Charlemagne’s lover, or being guided by angels. Like most actresses early in their career, Shirley’s body image was closely tied to her self-worth, so self-love became a lifetime pursuit for Shirley. The body’s imperfections are raw material for Taurus; in appreciating her natural flaws with love and reverence, Taurus connects to her own unshakeable confidence, a security that cannot be bought or sold. Confidence indeed, this head-in-the-stars star is no shrinking violet. Wisdom, maturity, and celebrity have given Shirley her formidable diva reputation, something she proudly claims. “I’m a diva. If someone isn’t doing something right, I tell them and they do it my way. I’ve earned the right”. Can you say no bull? VIA MSN

shirley’s all-important rising sign is virgo, angel of truth and guardian of purity. her taurus/virgo combo really makes sense!

you know how they say opposites attract? well i believe that holds especially true in astrology. opposite signs attract. being the cold blooded, hard-assed, cynical old goat that i am… warm, passionate, fiery, optimistic signs enliven me. i’ve mentioned this before, but almost every single ex of mine is an aries. old patterns die hard, no? take a look at the peeps in your life. bet they’re mostly made up of the same bunch of signs… excluding family of course. that’s a no-holds barred area! but back to the birthday baby, aries. when you see an aries, you’ll often know it. they are energetic, fun, positive, ardent and probably playing some cheesy drinking game i wouldn’t be caught dead in.

heath ledger was no exception. a wild party animal (enough to keep up with mary kate). he aptly fit the aries profile. but as we all see now, he had a much more serious side, thanks to the heavy influence of water signs in his chart… moon in cancer and venus in pisces, to name but a few. while fire signs indicate a passionate nature, water signs indicate a sensitive one. remember peeps, we’re much more than our sun sign… happy birthday heath.
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i love obama, and i’m not overly concerned about him losing the election. i am worried, however, about him making it through his first term alive. let’s hope he doesn’t go the way of jfk…

this is a most interesting study, done by none other than intoxicated zodiac’s kindred spirit, ZODIAC VODKA:

based on non-partisan research of the fifty-five United States Presidential elections to date and the astrological signs of each winning candidate through the years, ZODIAC Vodka, a luxury potato vodka handcrafted and distilled in Idaho, USA, has concluded that the Leo, Barack Obama, will defeat the Scorpio, Hillary Clinton for the democratic nomination, as well as, the Virgo, John McCain in the general election. These findings are based on a comparative analysis of win percentages for candidates with a given sign. Each of the twelve signs has specific election trends which ZODIAC Vodka has analyzed to predict the next President of the United States of America.

ZODIAC researched every major presidential contestant since Washington and Adams in 1789. Statistics were compiled for each of the twelve zodiac signs. The Leo/Scorpio match up in the Democratic Party heavily favors Obama. Leo’s have a 12 point advantage in the win percentage category with Scorpio at 24 percent and Leo at 36 percent. Leo has never lost to a Scorpio. Scorpio however, has lost to eleven of the twelve signs and has the greatest number of election losses, sixteen.

McCain/Obama or Virgo/Leo has never before competed in a presidential election, though the two have a strong cosmic connection. Leo’s first win was in 1888 followed twenty years later in 1908 by Virgo’s first win. Both defeated Pisces in their first victory. Twenty years later Leo won again, this time defeating Capricorn. Virgo won again 36 years later, also defeating Capricorn. Leo continued with two more wins, this was President Bill Clinton.

Virgo has a win average of 33 percent, three points below Leo. With such a small difference between them, the element factor has been taken into account: Fire, Earth, Air, and Water. Fire (Obama) has been a historical tie breaker when the numbers are too close to call.

ZODIAC’s methodology accurately concluded in January that John McCain would be the Republican nominee. Mitt Romney is a Pisces. This sign has not won a presidential election in 116 years, and within that time Ralph Nader was the only major contender.
Though it may be said, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves,” some answers remain in the sky: Most recently this can be seen in the victory of George W. Bush in 2000. Though Gore won the popular vote, astrologically it was impossible to win the office. He is an Aries with only a 13 percent win average and has never before beaten a Cancer, Bush’s sign.

Though politics may be divisive, Zodiac Vodka remains an independent taste; a true neutral spirit enjoyed by the left and right alike.

With its clean, naturally smooth taste, ZODIAC has revolutionized the vodka community both in name and quality. Each of the twelve zodiac signs are encompassed on their own bottle with a unique astrological description.

For more information on Zodiac Vodka please visit www.zodiacspirits.com. For more information on the Presidential election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or John McCain, read a paper already.

VIA NEWSWIRE VIA MOONKISSD

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