Pluto In Capricorn: “The Culmination Of My Parenting”
Astrology in real life
Today the soldier had me pull up a music file, it is a recording of a duet he played with his son. The soldier’s son (besides being a soldier) is a concert violinist and the soldier plays the guitar. The song they recorded together is, Ashokan Farewell. Well played the song is deeply moving, its haunting and listening to it left us both in tears.
“Did you ever think back when we were kids, I’d have a son and he’d play the violin with me? Can you believe it, P? This is the culmination of my parenting.”
Pluto in Capricorn is a powerful father… for good or ill. In this case… well I am sure you can guess my opinion.
Do you feed your kids from the root to empower them? Now is the time.
15 Responses to “Pluto In Capricorn: “The Culmination Of My Parenting””
well, I don’t know. I hope so. seriously. I know they love me and I think they feel loved. I guess that will have to be enough for now.
That was a beautiful duet. Hmmm.
Today my husband and I drove my son and his girlfriend to the airport. Time with my only child is precious and as we age — he now 36 and I 61 the time counts even more.
I watched him over the years grow into a gracious and loving man with the skills that were passed along, as if by osmosis. He is a writer, cultural healer, musician and water man with a sense of humor that is uncapped only if you stick around long enough to be the lucky recipient.
He had two parents, we are long divorced, and yet this weekend I see how we fed him well and he make those gifts his own.
Akasally what you wrote brought tears to my eyes. I am often overwhelmed with emotions when it comes to my children. I also think about the future a lot what will be and look back to the past and how fast it all goes by. I try to absorb every drop of the present that I can, and I also try to help them grow up to be good humans. When I was younger I would have never seen myself as the person I am today. My daughter who was born 10 years ago grew me up and I felt a love I have never felt before sometimes it is overwhelming. I now have a 5 month old son and I feel that they and all children are blessings and I totally appreciate the gift of motherhood.
melissa
just beautiful
I just heard this song in another video the other day and was trying to remember the name of it. As soon as I saw “Ashokan Farewell” I knew that was it.
It’s gorgeous and haunting and I love it.
In hindsight, I see all the many mistakes I made. In particular, being more concerned about “stop tracking dirt in the house!” than in what they were thinking/feeling/going through.
I was telling this to my oldest son during his last visit home (he’s 20 and has been on his own for about 16 months) and he goes “You were a GREAT mom!” I can’t tell you how wonderful it was to hear that, but I still think I fell extremely short of being “great” as a mom. Bless his Cancer moon heart. I’m fairly certain if I’d had kids later in life, I’d have done a much better job…but it doesn’t do any good to dwell on that, does it?!
I don’t know reality, my partner’s stepmom has been in his life for 35 years and she can say she’s seen results. the fact that the kids call her ‘mom’ is a biggie.
I bought the soundtrack to Ken Burns’ The Civil War on cassette tape in 1990 because it had Ashokan Farewell on it. I love that song.
Kashmir…You don’t get to call them at there birth mothers house and ask them how there day was when they go back home…Trust me the real mom makes a telephone call to the ex and they put a stop to that very quick..
The children can be pulled away from you at anytime..
You are just a babysitter in everyones eyes. They are more than happy to send them to you too take care of for the whole summer but thats where it ends..
when you get divorced you never get to see the step kids again…
Sure can feel the pride he has in his son from here.
Wow thanks for sharing this Elsa!
Beautiful music - and the image of your man and his son playing this together, and the way the soldier summer it up - just beautiful.
All my boys are grown now, I hope I’ve given them what they needed, I generally tend to focus on mistakes I made, but have been blessed by my sons telling me I am a great mom, too, and man there’s no medicine in the world like hearing that from your children - and now that they’re grown they still need me and being of some small assistance to them is one of the joys of my life . . .
And all but one of them has made me a grandma (9 times) and I just revel in this role - I get to love them up and spoil them and teach them things and when they start acting up or if they smell funky I just get to hand them back to their parents - it’s great! “There’s something that stinks very much bad in his/her diaper, here you go, Mom/Dad!”
I’m a mom to be and hope and pray that I help them to be the best person they can be. Thanks for sharing!
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Very nice irishy violin.
I have been a step mom and helped out a few boyfriends when mom was absent for a long time from kids..
The thing about being a step mom or just in a childs life for a little while, You don’t get too see any results.
When you run across kids who are being passed around from person to person YOU MAKE THE TIME COUNT !