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1 Minute Astrology - Help For People Struggling In 2008 And Beyond
1 Minute Astrology
Seeing legions of people very unhappy with their circumstance - Here’s some reassurance and some simple, elegant and effective tips.
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Great optimistic video, made me smile
So timely once again. I took the day off and for the first time this year had the urge to actually write my goals down for the next two years. It felt great to make some simple steps towards solid reality.
Yeah, good stuff.
I am so in this reality-changing space with everyone else.
Simple, elegant, and effective.
Fantastic. I needed to hear you say that today.
Thank you for saying that. People these days do have really unrealistic expectations. I’m 28, and I feel like I’ve acomplished a few things that a lot of people never will, and I keep getting this attitude from certain people that I’m not successful because I don’t have A, B, and C. Not only that but there must be something wrong with me if I can be happy without those things. If I had any brain at all, I’d obviously be putting A on a credit card, begging for B, and working my ass off for C no matter what the cost.
Off Topic Alert: I am amazed though that you are older than 40. Are you one of those people who has always looked young for your age?
outstanding information!
That was so helpful I had to send it to a friend who seemed to need to hear it, too. And I’ve been thinking the same as Amethyst. I keep trying to figure out roughly how old you are, and it’s just not adding up right. There’s just no way!
As a 35-year old woman, I can totally agree with what you’re saying — somewhere along the line, people forgot that “the American dream” includes the pursuit of happiness, but doesn’t necessarily include the attainment, so we wanted it all right now, instead of realizing the happiness comes in the journey, not necessarily the destination. Man, I need to hush and let you get back to the talking, I’m full of cliche today!
On the flip side, I’m happy that we’re in a “reality manifesting” kind of time. On a personal note, I’ve been saying for YEARS that I needed to get some uterine tumors removed, but the docs have been pushing back with, “Let’s just wait and see, they’re not cancerous, no big deal, they’re just annoying.” Well, I have a doctor who finally looked at the test results and bloodwork long enough to realize I’m in danger of needing to be transfused on a regular basis because of these things. Reality time! They have to go! I never thought I’d be happy to have to go in for surgery.
Thanks Elsa, this explains a lot about why I have been feeling so like shit. It is very very rare for me to feel this way, I always have goals and projects, and right now I am feeling stuck.
Like someone said, outstanding information, this deserves a little hit on the tip jar, which I will do. Wish it could be more!
yup. still getting over the sense that my path was supposed to steamroll straight ahead like a locomotive when really it’s been rather winding. and i saw a lot more scenery and had a lot more useful information about what the terrain actually looks like this way, so i’m fine with that.
i can definitely use the reminder to let go of the need for perfection (particularly when it’s someone else’s idea of perfection….)
thanks for taking the time to give us all a little boost, Elsa! I have been really struggling these last few years, and thought that this year was going to be better. Can’t say that it won’t be, but so far, it’s not off to the start i was hoping for (is life ever NOT a struggle?)(maybe when you’re dead?!! LOL). Oh well, could have it a lot worse, I know. I’ll just have to be thankful for what I have.
P.S. Lots of great comments :o)
I like this. If I could just come up with some goals…of late I’ve been discovering that I am just not that interested in what I should be having as goals and don’t seem to have any strong interests to chase after instead. Ugh.
Jennifer, what you describe, that is exactly what I am going through. My typical projects and interests have lost their appeal, and nothing has taken their place. That is not remotely me, and the shock of it has been like…wow, this is what clinical Depression feels like.
I am so blessed and lucky that it is apparently not in my natal promise to feel this way in general and all the time. It is all new to me and I am of the older generation, (forty something, OK, I’m lying, I’m a baby boomer in her early fifties) so we are affected by this also!
Goals….just tonight I got a very nice e-mail from my mother saying “go ahead move if you want to move, I know you hate it here, and I am doing OK.” So there’s a goal, yeah!
Fantastic video - really spot on
This year has been mostly awful for me, so far…
I’m an Aries, with Scorpio Rising. Pluto and Saturn have been good to my Scorpio placements, but awful to others: Saturn is squaring my Moon, Venus and Nodes, as well as opposing my Mars (all are at the beginning of Gemini and Pisces); Pluto is sextile Mars, but inconjunct my Gemini placements.
I’ve recently made big mistakes, and one relationship is probably in the toilet thanks to me (although they had a hand in it). I can’t seem to maintain a good feeling for very long, but I’ll keep trying.
Thinking again, I guess it could have been Pluto giving me a little too much gumption…
I handled had several heavy Pluto transits with much more grace, when I was a child - those oppositions to my Aries placements, crossing Uranus/ascendant, etc.
Thank you for this wonderful message of hope Elsa! And I’m with everyone else: you do not look your age! I’m 52, I DO look my age, but I don’t FEEL it, so that’s something right? But I have felt stuck for a number of years too. The only real goals I had were to raise my sons, grow old with their father, complete a number of professional goals (which I mostly have done, and I’m thankful for that)and now I’m feeling sort of unmoored, and stuck at the same time - weird. My ex decided he wanted to grow old with someone else, my boys are all grown and giving me grandchildren that I seldom get to see, and I’m wondering “what’s next?” Maybe it’s time to make my dream of becoming a published author a goal, and your message is hitting the nail right on the head because I’ve put off this dream for years because I’m afraid I won’t be PERFECT at it! Wow thanks for the eye-opener, Elsa!
Loonsounds- well, for me it’s more like, I am a creative person, and I miss working in a creative field. But I got laid off from that in the last recession, and those jobs are scarce anyway, and I’d rather not be the first one laid off because nobody “needs” creative people. Which means I should start my own business, right? You can do that on your own while working the dull day job! Easy! Totally the right solution for a creative person in this day and age, right?
Yeah, turns out that I’ve been lying to myself for years that I LIKE selling. I don’t. I hate working a craft booth (did it at an event for 3 years and finally quit this year), I’m not fond of selling online (quit that last year). I have zero desire to do freelance writing and have to constantly chase down jobs and paychecks. Selling my work just leaves me very tired and takes the fun out of making things. But what do I do if I don’t start my own business? There’s no other option out there other than “do it for fun,” is there? So I’m stuck.
Elsa,
Great video- an aspiring astrologer myself, I can relate- we have to not let all the earth bring us down- the happiest people I know are well balanced: air, fire, earth, & water.
I understand about achieving goals & expecting too much- ambition comes from within but also those who tend to be “go getters” look too much on the outside- what others think of them so they miss out on love. So much pressure on them to keep up with the competition business-wise. In many ways, their career is their “baby” or “marriage”. These types of people are loaded with earth particularly
capricorn- executive types.
But lets not forget Cappies are not only mountain climbers but also water-goats, they have a tail attached to them so all caps have soft hearts no matter how tough they seem- once you break through that stern exterior is the warmest heart.
It takes a lot of water emotion- emotional resilience & libra’s romantic influence to push the earthy types to love. When it happens, its fertile & beautiful.
The video was excellent. Crystal.
Jennifer, I feel for ya. I could never sell stuff. Never. I’d be like “you want it, buy it, you don’t want it, don’t buy it, either way is fine with me.”
It’s probably because I don’t like people trying to sell me something I am not interested in, soooo annoying. For one thing, I have encountered some AWFUL real estate people, just plain mean if you don’t buy from them! EW!
I have had similar thoughts to what you shared, peppermint…it’s time to write, no more excuses…and for me, it’s to heck with the consequences, because there WILL be conseqences. But it’s either that, or remain depressed.
If I am not creating something it’s like I loose a will to live. I can make things, but your’re right Jennifer, that is mostly just fun. My chart suggests, with sun in the 2nd conjunct merc and merc almost exactly opp Saturn, and all of that in a T square with a 5th house Leo Moon that I must create or be misearable, and the best medium is probably through writing.
Even though it never come easily, with that merc opp saturn I have to re-write every thing multiple times (and I think merc opp saturn in scorp in the 8th also shows the reality which is that my writing engenders all kinds of controversy and OH, has caused me to be fired (speech and writing, all truth) and has lead to censorship and tends to bring all kind of consequences down on me.
So be it; I’ve gotta do something!
Jennifer, maybe if you explore more creative money postion options, the right thing will fall into place. I don’t know what kind of creative work you do but I’ll tell you this.
My mother is extremely creative and a very talented artist, and in mid-life she fell into a creative career that she just loved, and that brought in a paycheck. I never really thought of it as creative, but for her it was, and the field was ‘advertising’ (in the fashion industry). So that is one example. Maybe other people have more.
There are alot of ways I can think of to try to start a business involving creating and creativity, for example, there is a market going wild having to do with “scrapbooking/” but I don’t know anything about getting money to start a business. Hopefully other people might know and share more.