Chronic pain, financial stress and a bit of depression. The financial stuff really puts me into famine mode and I eat more than I need calorie wise. I’ve never been great at dieting. Dieting always makes me gain weight. I would like to shift this pattern though because it does become a bit of a vicious cycle.

I think being angry costs me the opportunity to showcase to people how emotionally sophisticated I can be.
Everyone is so bloody scared of an angry woman that they refuse to listen to anything else I have to say when I’m in that way.

Immediately after my friend Matt died I had a friend tell me that I was angry and I had to face it and I was really angry for her even saying that. I was like: I’m more than angry, I am more that angry.

Now I can say confidently that I was: devastated. That event has kicked off the most intense period of self-clearing I have ever experienced. I knew that I was entering something so deep to have it JUST be anger was, in a word, demoralizing.

So I’m getting creative about this…finding a more creative way to get angry and thus be able to include the people who love me in my processes, because I don’t think they want me to be alienated any more than I do!!

And lastly thanks for asking, because writing about it is therapeutic.

I am not convinced that there is all this complicated reasoning behind gaining weight/being fat. What if you just really like to eat and celebrate life and are into the joys of the physical world? True, it can affect your health and you can get to the point where it’s a strain and you feel sluggish. But honestly, mostly it’s innocent overindulgence that adds up.

And as far as motivation to lose weight, I would suggest that people uncritically examine why they want to lose weight. I don’t think any reason is inherently wrong. Even if it’s superficial, so what? One thing about astrology I love is that you are who you are, and it really gives you the tools to figure out how to get what you want with what you have. If you’re a Virgo, you’re not sick because you want a perfect, pulled-together appearance. It’s what you need to feel good, so diet away (and make it healthy!). If you’re a Cancer who is overfeeding her family and you all are starting to pack on the pounds, go volunteer at a homeless shelter and indulge that instinct by feeding the masses instead.

So play to your dieting strengths and don’t overthink it! Am very fired up to start tomorrow!!!!!!

Good luck Elsa! Go for it.

I can weigh in (Ha! I made a pun!) on both issues.

Astrologically, one can say I’m fat because Jupiter in Cancer is conjunct my ascendant. Ookaay, but also (1) I didn’t know what healthy looked like until fairly recently, (2) I have a syndrome that makes gaining weight easy and losing it hard, (3) I have abysmally low self-esteem at times and (4) myriad food issues, and (5) I’m poor and it costs more money than I have to eat well in my area.
Capice?

I’m also a pretty angry person. Not on a day-to-day, underlying, continual basis, but in small spurts throughout the day. I rant. I rave. I get worked up and then just as quickly get over it. Small things irritate me, I point it out to others, then I decide it’s not worth my time. Big things simmer under the surface and I give warnings, and if they aren’t heeded I explode the cosmos and rain it down on the offender. I’ve learned throughout the years that if I don’t do these things I am one miserable, unfeeling bitch with acne, acid reflux, and probably some other medical suspects I can’t remember who tends to unconsciously run into objects so hard I bleed. Astrologically, Mars is conjunct Venus and Pluto in Libra and that conjunction hits everything in my chart.