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Astrology and Control Freaks in Nature - The Dental Hygienist and The Cardinal Signs: Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn
Astrology In Real Life…
Back when I was pregnant, I had this gal cleaning my teeth. She was about my age, maybe a little older and she chatted as she worked.
Having finished the horrible scraping part of the procedure, it was time to polish. She said she had several flavors of polish and since pregnant women are sometimes queasy, she was going to allow me to choose the flavor.
“You can have pina colada, cherry or mint,” she said.
I thanked her and I picked cherry, feeling kind of puffed up because of my special (pregnant) status.
“You don’t let people pick unless they’re pregnant?” I asked.
“Right. I pick. I get to pick.”
I smiled, because I thought she sounded like a four-year old. “Okay,” I said.
She finished my teeth. I left with my mouth full of cherry.
The next time I was in, I was no longer pregnant. She finished scraping and was ready to polish.
“I am not pregnant, so you are going to pick the flavor?”
“That’s right.” she said.
“Pick something I like, okay?” I said with a chuckle. “Can you do that?” I felt a little flustered. Like I lost my privileges, or something. 
“I may,” she said, making sure I knew who in control.
“Well I hope you do,” I said. I could hardly believing this was happening.
“If you’re lucky.”
Well I am lucky. I am not that sensitive and don’t really care what flavor is in my mouth, but I did think this was bizarre. Your mouth becomes infused with the taste and it seems if there is a choice, the owner of the mouth should make it! But only if you’re pregnant!
So if you’re a man, you’d be wholly screwed apparently. Always! But anyway I didn’t protest because I didn’t care which flavor and this was interesting for me to observe. People and their quirks.
But eventually it did bother me I switched dentists over this. I just didn’t want this matronly-looking dominatrix dental hygienist making these life decisions for me. But what would you have done in this circumstance?
And what about the astrology?
I figure this gal was a Cancer. She was worried about a pregnant woman… dressed like a “Mom” and wanted control.
Having a Capricorn rising, I like to run my own body so there you go. Conflict arises. A
So what about you? If this would trouble you, are you strongly Cardinal (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn)?
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it would bother me a lot… but then the whole dental experience bothers me for control reasons. yep, some cardinal. I have to have gas to even let them in my mouth without crying.
screw that, it’s crazy! I’d tell her and leave. I mean, she could just pick without letting you know she picks. But she tried to rub it in. Crazy!
I’m primarily mutable, hardly any cardinal at all, only one planet!
She had an ineffectual Saturn…otherwise she woulda been the dentist. And had control over more important stuff if control was so important.
I would’ve tried out other hygienists and then specifically requested them (all the offices here are big enough to have more than one).
Wonder why I can’t have enough memory to remember stories like this, even during retrograde…!
I am equally split between Cardinal and Fixed, with Mutables picking up the slack.
I would insist on picking, but I’d make up some story to go with it.
For example:
” What flavors do you have? Oooh…last time I had Pina Colada I threw up on the hygenist, and I am allergic to mint, yes, even artifical mint…guess it’s gonna be cherry, eh?”
Then I laugh inside as she squirmed!
The only cardinal thing in my chart is my Cancer Venus. I would never let someone have that kind of control over what goes in my mouth.
Five planets in Libra, one planet plus ascendant in Capricorn. I think that would annoy me, and I’d never go back to that dentist.
This wouldn’t bother me at all. I have a similar issue: a hairdresser who cuts my hair the way he sees fit. And it changes too - he’s an Artist. Haha. There’s a trade-off here between the entertainment by eccentrics and control over my hair. I choose entertainment.
Shrugging about this because I haven’t been to the dentist in so long. But the way I know I’m Cardinal is that even if I am going out with friends, I always have to choose the restaurant or manipulate them into going to the one I want. Sometimes if they want to do something else, I have no problem striking it out on my own and just leaving!
I’m pretty mutable at the same time, on thinking about it, or maybe just indecisive. I wouldn’t mind her choosing even if she chose something mildly gross, probably. I would just sit there shrugging. At the same time, when people ask me what I want and I don’t know, I do know very well what I don’t want!
I chose, “Insist she let me pick.” And, if she would not relent, I would tell her boss about it and let him/her know that was the reason I was switching dentists!
More cardinal than anything else, but only by a thin margin (4 planets + ASC in cardinal).
“I would insist on picking, but I’d make up some story to go with it.”
Oooooo, Christine that is too wicked funny!lol
Love it! As for me I have only a Cardinal Ascendant. Last year I overheard the dental hygenist say to another employee, “She’s ALWAYS late for her aapointments!” It was obvious that she was talking about me as I was the only person in the waiting room….and I was perpetually late.
I canned my poor dentist over that incident…but not without first letting that woman know about it! Maybe that’s my Mars square Moon?
I wouldn’t really care although I also find the pregnancy stipulation a little bizarre! (I have 5 cardinal planets.)
Maybe she also had a Pluto thing going?
A little while ago something happened that made me think of this. I went to buy a sub sandwich and asked the man who made it for me to warm it. He said, “No. You don’t want me to warm it. It’s hot already.” And I thought, “okay then, I guess I don’t want you to warm it, amazing how you know what I want.”
I’m pretty damn cardinal, but because in a way I’m hyper aware of this in regards to othe people, I’d feel superior and ALLOW her to have her power trip. So the incident would all be ‘rationalized’ in my head and I’d be doing her a favor that she didn’t know about.
Maybe I just need to THINK LESS. Suddenly I’m exhausted. I’ll give you some cardinal signs for some mutables, OK?
She’d better damned well let me choose the flavor! It’s not HER mouth that’s gonna be tasting that crap all day, after all. She can go be a control freak with someone else, thank you very much.
And um… Aries Sun, Cap Moon. Lots of other cardinal stuff going on. So yeah, I’m a control freak too, but I do impose limits on the things I’ll allow myself to be a freak about. I would never dream of telling someone what flavor stuff they have to have, though I might make a suggestion or two.
Oh yeah, and Cancer Mars.
i would have done just what you did–it’s not worth picking a fight over to me, but somebody who is getting off even a little bit over the power trip and/or the possibility of making me uncomfortable i don’t need. especially if they are putting sharp shiny things in my mouth. i prefer to be around people who are considerate of others whenever they can be…my chart is highly mutable.
I have lots of cardinal, but I would never dream of doing what the hygienist did. There are much more positive ways to express that energy.
If someone did that to me, I would tell her which flavor I wanted. If she had a problem with that, I’d ask the dentist to give me another hygienist. I’d rather do that than pretend I’m fine with it and then be passive-aggressive about it later.
Well, I probably wouldn’t have got into a discussion about how she decided when to the let the patient pick or not so I wouldn’t have found out how psycho she is.
However, had she managed to “let me know” somehow that this was her practice, I don’t think it would bother me.
At most, I may subtly let her know I was indulging her behaviour and that I saw her as a bit childish and psycho but that I didn’t want to bring one of her tantrums on, haha. In fact, I’d probably see it as a game of surprise over what flavour I’d get this time!
But I don’t think I’d give her the satisfaction of feeling like I cared how she livened up her work day. Assuming she was a good hygienist in other ways.
I am not strongly Cardinal.
I would probably leave without confrontation, but call the dentist later to tell him/her why I left.
In the past, I would’ve done what you did. But I’m trying to own my Leo sun and now I would tell her that since it’s my mouth, I get to pick the flavor. It’s only fair. This story really pissed me off.
She’s not Cancer, she’s PSYCHO.
I’m a triple Cancer (sun merc venus conj), and I always want other people to feel comfortable.. I always ask “what do you want to do?” or “what do you like?”
Seriously.. that lady is just insane