Found over here:
Those of us with our Sun in the 2nd or in Taurus (or our ASC in Taurus
) have a good thing going. The asto community has set the bar pretty low for us.
We're evolved as long as we don't spend ALL of our free time engaging in threesomes with a hottie and hot fried chicken, atop a cash-filled mattress.
Well, this is cheering, for what it is:
Oh it's such fun how Venus squares BOTH Saturn and Uranus on Monday, sort of helping to personalise the whole Saturn Vs Uranus opposition via our own relationships...
In case it helps to imagine these inner archetypes facing off - Saturn is the Sage & Uranus is the Sacred Clown. Saturn is the Status Quo and Uranus is "the status wot?" iconoclast, genuinely amazed that anyone would even give a f**k. Saturn is your sometimes quite helpful inhibitions. Uranus is audaciously creative. Saturn is the quiet satisfaction of having gotten your taxes done. Uranus is the joy of a sudden hare-brained bolt of brilliance from out of nowhere.
Saturnine relationships are often duos who do well at work together, quiet and stable, getting off on the mutual reliance, sense of safety and shared opinions. Uranian relationships cause lots of w.t.f? moments from friends, if not actual tut-tutting. They're unconventional, growth stimulating & ludicrously good fun.
Saturn is society standards and expectations. Uranus is individuation & following one's own instincts. Obviously, either principle taken to extremes is awful: The juice-less, dry old voice of outmoded judgements. The total whack-job gibbering in the street. Uranian brilliance built on a foundation of homage paid to Saturn is amazing.
While Joan does not go into every single tedious detail, nor does she share in great detail too many horoscopes (she talks about aspects of "Ronnie" and Gorbachev the most, Nancy forbid her from sharing details of hers), she does talk a good deal about how she constantly was working on charts to diminish/eliminate bad events and maximize the good ones. She claims to have a super-tedious way of doing so, though she doesn't share it. (With good reason, it does sound hard.) Though even she admits that towards the end, the stars were just plain unfriendly to Reagan and she couldn't do much about it. But it certainly does explain the "Teflon"-ness of the presidency and how she avoided assassination. The sheer amount of work is amazing.
She does give a useful primer at the back of the book on astrology for noobs as well.
If you can get ahold of this book, it's a good read for astrologer-types.
"No one will really breathe before November 5, so don't be surprised if you find yourself gasping for air during the next seven days or feeling as if you are moving through molasses at the speed of light. We are in a hugely liminal state that for some is overwhelmingly intense. No matter who wins (and it's impossible to predict the outcome despite Obama's many point lead), the next seven days are going to be among the most passionate and purposeful days you have ever experienced. Just about everyone recognizes or has a sense of how significant the consequences of this election will be. It carries a multidimensional time signature that merges past, present, and future, for as individual choices coalesce into collective intention through the fulcrum of the voting booth, we not only choose the next president, we also set the course for Planet Earth.
Yes, I know I sound dramatic — I mean to. Because November 4, in addition to being Election Day in the United States, is also the first of five Saturn/Uranus oppositions over the coming two years — five contacts that will change the world. Saturn represents existing cultural structures, Uranus signifies the principle of revolution, oppositions symbolize tension, and the ensuing confrontation between these forces results in the failure of the status quo. A failure because, as necessary and stabilizing as Saturn may be, change is inexorable. It is the nature of things. And no matter how well-prepared for it we think we are, the one thing about this particular shift-signature is that it will surprise and challenge even the most fluid and flexible among us. Maybe not all of us on the same day, but sometime in the coming two years, most if not all of us will be humbled by waves of unstoppable transformation. Of course, we don't need astrology to tell us something's got to give. But astrology is a succinct way of talking about the complex forces at work in our culture, as well as our psyche, personal and collective.
For the last several weeks, this column has looked at the historical implications of Saturn/Uranus and also tried to point out groups of individuals who may be experiencing this first opposition quite keenly. For those of us who didn't feel the immediate shock or have yet to feel the aftershocks of the financial tumult or who aren't having this opposition triggering other volatile personal circumstances, the opposition will still have a dynamic impact. Whatever the particulars — a new friendship, a new romance, a divorce, or a decision to change your career — what will be at work in all our lives is an unstoppable creative urge to break free from any situation that enslaves, confines, or restricts. Use this power wisely. And when possible, respect the needs of others to be as absolutely free as thee."
Eeeeek. Man, I'm already tired of being scared.
Taurus: "Friends who share a common history have the potential to offer the guidance you are searching for. I'm not suggesting you follow another's advice. I'm simply advising you to listen closely to those who know you and love you."
So I'm reading this interview with Kevin Smith and...
I hear ya, bud. I am jealous of those people who are all easy come (har), easy go, easy come again.
"So I started thinking about that and friends doing it -- and one of my favorite topics of discussion with friends is the difference between f**king and making love. Like the people who can just f*ck and move on, and the people like me who, like, once you f*ck somebody, you want to marry them. I've never had a one night stand in my life. First time I came to it, I wound up marrying the chick so it doesn't count. [Jason] Mewes, on the other hand, has f**ked more people than I will ever meet in my entire life. And whenever I talk to him about it, I don't get it -- he's like a one-timer; he hits it and quits it. I don't get it -- if you find a woman goodly enough to f*ck you, why wouldn't you call her the next day and try to do that again? And his view is, 'In your world, there's always someone goodly enough to f*ck. In my world, there's always someone else waiting to get plugged.' And I'm like, wow, what must that be like."
Anyway, this sounded like you-know-what, so I checked. And Kevin has a Venus-Pluto conjunction trine Saturn.
He assures me that squandering talent is a very serious offense.
Basically if you are given gifts or other advantages and you waste them you are going to come back around with far less talent (or other perks) and not only that, you will still be expected to do exactly what you refused to do the time before. I can’t tell you how adamant he is about this. “If people had any idea how bad it can be, they wouldn’t even consider wasting their talent…”
Last night: three Scorpios and two Tauruses (with the same birthday!) were having a conversation. I am just amused as all hell how these signs go together sometimes.
In other news, I WANT ONE OF THESE.
Whee, this is a RAGING NARCISSISM POST! Be forewarned! Heavy navel gazing ahoy!
On the one hand, I have the following aspects:
- Libra NN (in eleventh, technically speaking)
- Sun in 7th on descendant
- Chiron in 7th on descendant
- Venus in 7th
- Ruler of 10th (Sun) in the 7th
- Juno in 4th house, on IC
- Aries SN (in fifth, technically speaking)
- Sagittarius moon
- Moon opposition Venus
- Venus square Saturn
- Moon square Saturn
- Juno in Aquarius
Or to put that into more graphic terms, half of me wants to cling like a psychotic barnacle and the other half is all, "Let my people gooooooooooooo already!!!!111!!!"
This does not work. And only one side at a time can be satisfied, really.
At the moment, the universe is currently rubbing the FAMILY concept into my face like dirt. It's getting to be that damn time of the year again...man, I hate the holidays approaching. Once the Santa Claus thing gets out, it's all downhill from there, isn't it?
It all boils down to:
- How dare I want to not spend the holidays with relatives! Note: last year's NOT spending Thanksgiving with relatives was a lot more fun than sitting on their couch watching the dog show on TV while the other kids were running off to the gym or whatever they do. I would have liked to have done that again this year, but no dice. (To be fair, the agreement with my mother was to have ONE holiday season alone and then go back to the family afterwards, so I am stuck.)
- Mom claiming I think the relatives hate me. I don't think they nearly feel that strongly about me. I think they would if say, they found out I had "weird" interests (like uh, this site), but right now I'm either another body in the room or someone to throw peanuts at periodically, depending on the relative. I just don't get why I am supposed to think that's so wonderful.
- My shrink has offered to referee. A date has been set for referee-ing. Gulp.
- My shrink also said that I "visibly choke on the word family." And I do. It pretty much makes me want to spit. I apparently need to look for a word that doesn't make me spit but means about the same thing. I am also to talk to my ah, spiritual counselor/mentor chick about this, but I haven't uh, brought that up yet.
- I am supposed to consider my friends as family. Said friends (which is to say, the local contingent) also say this. This is not a bad idea, but I wonder how well that is going to go in a year or two when people start moving. And how well do nakamas work when someone leaves, anyway?
- Reading this on Salon.
- This week's Pushing Daisies.
And not exactly family, but there's this:
"When a person invites love into their life, very rarely will their horizons not expand. When a person finds an animal to love and who also loves them back, they become a different person from who they once were in a way I cannot find adequate words to explain."
Sadly, I haven't really been in the mood for that. Well, I've pondered getting a pet for that reason, but since I'm hardly ever home, that's probably not a good idea.
Either way, I find the whole thing to be a real bitch.
Previously mentioned here: I just finished the book.
It's good, I recommend it if you can get ahold of it. Basically she talks about her life, her work schedule, various clients she's had and examples from their lives, and how she's worked on situations for clients. It's somewhat specific astrology-wise, but not terribly so.
Topics covered:
- how she got into astrology- she was from stuffy Boston and worked with a doctor who used it. She apparently liked to hang around in insane asylums- "And naturally, to my family's great disgust, I spent many happy hours in the insane asylum!" Naturally, she has an Aquarius stellium and thinks most people are quite sane except for on one or two points...
- things she's forecasted, including life and death. "I seldom need to urge my clients to 'change.' What I usually have to do is plead with them to 'hang on.'"
- working with financial folks
- having a bunch of hookers as clients- she definitely did not approve of this
- gambling- who should and who shouldn't
- love and marriage- she married a guy whose horoscope she spotted and it looked good to her....
- when to time conception to have kids who are better off in life
- twins and how different rising signs changes everything
