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Jupiter As Antidote For Saturn Depression: Storytelling and Change of Perspective
Astrology In Real Life…
Regarding my coffee date, that first time we met, we discussed some of the regulars in the gym. I wouldn’t call it gossip, since neither of us are the type. It was more a sharing and comparing of our impressions of people which was really enjoyable to me because he’s observant but very different from me.
Like our writing. I write (true) stories and this blog. He writes lyrical poetry. He writes some other things but primarily he writes songs that record his emotions (Pisces Moon). I do the same, but in my own way.
So we discussed the Neighborhood Sagittarian and I told him how I’d written about her and felt she was a very important cog in the whole system there.
“We’re all connected by her as she travels from person to person sharing our stories, all over the place.”
The next time we met, he told me he’d started to see things the way I do in the gym. He started to see all the stories, that is.
“Yeah, there are all kinds of stories in there. For example, there is this gal, and every time she gets on a machine… wherever she goes there is this one guy who always gets right next to her.”
“As if she’s not going to notice that,” I said.
“Well he’s trying to muscle in, I’m sure. But she’s not showing him any love at all,” he said with a chuckle.
And I got the idea this change of perspective (a Jupiter thing) had benefited him (also a Jupiter thing). It will help his art. And stories are Jupiter ruled of course and last night as I was talking to a depressed friend, it occurred to me I should write this. Because she’s going through this dark time and I wound up telling her to try to see the stories around her.
For example, all the problems you might have at work, or with your family, or whatever. If all those people are characters in a big story, then the more outrageously they act the better! They make a much better story.
And if you pay mind to other people’s stories, you get to get out of your own for a minute which can be an enormous relief when you’re depressed.
Do stories cheer you?
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Elsa, I have always made up stories to explain life. Whenever someone is mean or careless, I’m the one who says “well, maybe….” surprisingly,once I you people into stories, their actions no longer bother me.
Yes, yes yes! I have begun, thanks to you, to use stories to process my pains and hurts of the past. Before I often wrote my stories in the third person, observation and humor only. And I have the best childhood stories of most USians of my generation - rural farm life being a rarity for most my age.
Many thanks to you Elsa and your wonderful example!!!
Stories cheer me up like nothing else. True stories or fiction. I read all the time for this very reason.
My great thought of consolation has always been “well, it’ll make a great story when it’s over.”
stories are the most valuable thing we have…
if you get a chance, you should read Thomas King’s “The Truth About Stories” - the way he writes is very similar to you, and he’s getting at a lot of these same ideas.
Yours do, ever since the first time I read them. And even better that they are true!
Are you sure you don’t mean “antidote” in that headline?
Not coincidentally, I stopped telling stories around the same time I got really depressed. I’m less depressed now, but it’s harder for me to tell stories than it used to be….
Beque - yup! I am creating not thinking. This is my excuse!!
But then, anecdotes ARE the antidote!
yeah, well I am not upset I made the mistake, but appreciate the heads up, Beque. I write very fast and the have so many ideas… things working in my head, I just get careless. Thing is it makes me look like an idiot! However, Michael Lutin is even worse than me on his site and it doesn’t stop me from going there every day!! We’re human!!
If not stories, then what else?? There is no alternative.