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Christmas Lights Still Up In May: What Do You Make Of That? And Witch Hunts? What Do You Make Of Those?
Astrology in real life
I’m back with a story related to the Lights Out Pluto Moon blog. Some years ago I was driving around with a man, it was about this time of year and we were parked on a neighborhood street to drop my daughter at a friend’s house and he noticed a house that still had Christmas lights up.
“Look at that,” he said. “Talk about lazy. They’ve got Christmas lights up and it’s almost May.
I looked at the house I just didn’t see what he did.
“Lazy? You see lights up and think that? How do you know they are lazy? Someone may be sick. Someone may have died. People tend to do that all the time at Christmas. Die at Christmas? It’s common and that’s what might have happened to that family. Or maybe not. Maybe they just like Christmas! In whatever case I can’t believe you look at that and figure someone’s lazy. Can’t be too lazy, they put the lights up didn’t they?”
You see Christmas lights on a house in May. Are you apt to judge the people or make excuses for them?
Now considering my current circumstances I am very glad I reacted how I did or I would feel like a putz today. But for the record, I think that guy was normal. Matter of fact, (with my Pluto Moon transit) I can trace exactly where my reaction came from.
My mother (Moon) was an artist and a double Aquarius. We lived in the desert but apparently there was a man living in town, an artist and his yard was a mess. The city was on him, the neighbors were harassing him and so forth and my mother wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper in his defense.
She wrote that the man was one of the most talented artists in the city and she suggested the people mind their own business and let him do his work. She thought they might have better things to do (like go to art gallery and see this guys work) rather than complain about the car in his yard and the weeds growing tall. The letter was printed and my whole family was proud. It made a big impression on me (I don’t like witch hunts) but I will ask again:
You see Christmas lights on a house in May. Are you apt to judge the people or make excuses for them? Can you see your tendency in your chart?
23 Responses to “Christmas Lights Still Up In May: What Do You Make Of That? And Witch Hunts? What Do You Make Of Those?”
If they were turned on I’d think it was weird. If they were off, I’d just think, to each his own, I really don’t care. But in general I don’t care what choices people make, because they are the ones to live with the consequences.
I generally assume they’re like me and just think it’s depressing to take the Christmas lights down. There’s a house in my town that has them up and I think it’s cool.
There are, however, some people in my complex who hung candy canes off their balcony and they are still there in April. THAT looks a little silly since it’s more specifically Christmas to me. I suspect they are just not able to get them off, though, they look like they’d be hard to get to where they are currently dangling.
Well, yeah. I’m Sun/Uranus and I’ve felt weird my whole life so mostly I feel like they might be one of my kind. I feel like something sad might be happening for them, but that happens. Might as well have Christmas lights on your house just so everyone knows to stay away.
Given that Christmas starts somewhere right after Halloween nowadays, I think the lights and decorations should come down before April. My deadline is mid-January, Feb. 1 at the latest.
Maybe it depends on the neighborhood. I live in kind of a bohemian area and am pretty tolerant of ‘weird’ or unusual things on lawns, in yards, etc. And I have no interest in policing people or complaining/writing letters to the editor, etc. But I think it’s depressing to walk around in April and see a huge plastic snowman or ‘Season’s Greetings’ signs. It’s possible that one of those houses might have had a family tragedy but when I see 10 of them, sorry — get out there and clean that crap up!
It makes me smile and I know exactly where they’re coming from. Bless ‘em for it. Oh, blame that old Aqua rising.
I’m apt to get a kick out of it.
I once had Christmas lights up on my apartment porch for most a summer (I didn’t turn them on so they weren’t very noticeable.) But most of the time when I would notice them every now and then I would laugh at myself.
If I were with someone else who I would feel was critical and “seeing things through their eyes” I might at first judge and think oh, they (whoever the owners are) are not taking care of themselves. But if I thought about it much, I would have a lot of questions like you. Maybe the lights took a long time to put up and they don’t feel like undoing all that hard work. Maybe they think the lights are pretty and it makes them happy. Maybe they are just really busy and have more important things to do.
But if I were looking from my true self, I would get a kick out of it. Because it’s something I would do. And it would be kind of cool in that way that someone who wears clothes that are out of style, but almost (though not quite) so far out they’re almost back in. It takes true quirk to do that. I like quirk.
I’m not good enough with my chart to know what parts these could tie to - but I think Aquarius moon likes the quirk, I think the Virgo Venus thinks it’s funny, and the Libra Pluto / Mercury / Sun are doing all the judging, questioning, and waffling:)
Neither. I analyze and move on.
If it’s not just Christmas lights… if it’s someone whose house and property really look like a dump… then what I’m going to think is exactly the same thing I would think if I saw someone whose body looks like a compost heap. “Something is wrong.”
My great grandmother lived in… just about utter filth, up until she was finally moved into assisted living. We could not GET her out of that horrible place — she was very stubborn. She wasn’t a very pleasant person, and it was easy to judge her… but it was even easier to pity her. There was something in all that trash and clutter and falling-down-stairs that she desperately needed, somehow.
But it kept us away because my mom couldn’t stand to watch her live like that, and I wish great grandmother could have let go of whatever it was.
As far as witch hunts go… sounds like some noble patron of the arts needed to hire some poor artist a lawnboy. *shrug* I don’t much see the point of standing up for the right to live like a pig, but you can’t help people by hating them, either.
I find it extremely wasteful (and still very pretty), but I was raised by militant ‘turn out the lights people.’ I can’t see the purpose. Incidentally my favorite aunt died on Christmas Day, so I can attest it is common.
to each their own. the more unique/unusual in the world, the better, i think. too much of the same makes feel really confined for some reason.
i think lawns are stupid. eh. like a lego world. i like green growing things and wildness. i really don’t understand our front yard standards. i mean, cleaning up trash is a good idea, but why throw a fit if the grass grows? i mean, that’s what it’s for, right?
Well, putting Christmas lights up and taking them down can be a lot of work. Maybe someone got really ambitious and just couldn’t keep up. Has that not happened to everyone at one time or another?
There is a house I see a lot with a faded NOEL sign in the window made out of pipe cleaners. It must have been there for a long time because it was faded five or so years ago when I first saw it there. It never gets taken down. Maybe a person’s kid made it and they like it there, but it doesn’t look very good. Honestly though, I’ve seen a lot worse decorations in people’s yards who are obviously trying really hard to make things look nice. Which is worse? Trying really hard to look nice for other people and failing miserably, or doing your own thing because you want to and not caring? lol
…i’m think more about lights being on (not just being put up). i couldn’t care less what people have in their yards.
And no. I wouldn’t want to see someone work work work to take them down–it is hard to get them up there in the first place.
I am empathetic and forgiving in most situations (Aquarius ascendant, Jupiter square Neptunium.) I do have strong options regarding inefficiency and wast, but I tend to hold myself to my standards not other people. I understand why Christmas lights are important to some people, and I understand that most people don’t think about environmental degradation, global warming, resource wars, conservation, efficiency, sustainability etc… when they use energy inefficiently.
The idealist in me would tell everyone that uses Christmas lights to switch to led Christmas lights and power them with a bicycle generator. That way you can pray/meditate and think about Jesus or god or whatever as you burn your energy/calories to produce the energy to light up the lights. The light can be a symbol of you sacrifice and dedication…. mercury trine Jupiter? - Mercury conjunct Uranus?
I like your suggestion copperweave…it’s very practical and innovative at the same time. I wonder if your Jupiter and Neptune like to shadowbox each other, it seems the creativeness comes from somewhere very lively.
Oh, Mercury. LOL.
Copperweave, that is the coolest idea ever. And you are SO Aquarian. ^_^
My family had the lights up all year. We didn’t turn them on all year, we just left them up. Why bother taking them down?
When I was growing up, our front lawn was a concession to the neighbors, but the back yard was our laboratory. We grew weird stuff and had patches we let run to seed to see what would come up. We had a bocce court, a compost pile, a cow skull for the squirrels to chew, and a pet cemetery with marble headstones and stone cairns. We let dead trees stand for the woodpeckers. On thanksgiving we’d throw the turkey carcass outside and wait for the vultures to come pick at it. Oh, and there was the time someone asked my mom about some clean clothes and my mom threw all the laundry into the yard, yelling “the laundry doesn’t exist!”
I would probably make excuses. I mean everyone is entitled to live there life as they chose and we dont know whats happened. When I see people who have decorations still up past a certain period it makes me smile because obviously the people have someone reason and are not worried about what others think. Plus we had our christmas tree up til April once. Our tree was inside the house so only people who knew us and visted us knew it was still up, we just like the tree that year and I dont know it was pretty.
Pisces rising, Uranus conjunct MC, Neptune in the 10th conjunct Mars
I have to admit, I probably would think they were lazy…but being lazy as all get out myself, I would be amused by that, not critical. Another one of my tribe!
Copperweaver, I am so getting a bicycle generator next Christmas.
lol…no judging or excusing needed. I would probably think it was pretty cool…their house is different! I get a kick out of it when people buck tradition and do their own thing. More power to them! Uranus trine sun/venus/mars in Aries.
I like using x-mas lights for decoration inside my house sometimes. They don’t have to just be for Christmas you know 
i’ve left christmas lights around a tree in front of my house for about 3 years once…had a spayed on snowflake on the window for about five. we did very little with the yard most of the time we were there, too. i know there neighbors were scandalized and sometimes complained.
never liked the neighbors much.
it just wasn’t important to me. i was busy. i had life to live and kids to raise and other thigns going on. lazy? maybe.
our neighbors now have xmas lights sometimes on their front porch they run off season. it always makes me smile. it’s so pretty, and i like it that they do what they like. it makes me happy to see.
first house uranus…
me too! have my xmas lights on my balcony all year round. Don’t have them turned on 24/7 though. Am planning on eventually getting solar powered sets of glowing leds -white or purple. 
They feel festive and comforting.
Uranus-moon trine…
Ironically, a thick web of blinking red and green ones would probably annoy me outside of Xmas.
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