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The Tipping Point vs My Personal Guidance System As It Relates To Astrology Blogging
Astrology in real life
I have been dialoguing with althera re: all the projection / negativity stuff on the blog this week - you can read her comments and my responses and explanations here: Projection and Bewilderment. But I wanted to address a portion of this on a new blog because the idea of a person’s natural rhythms come up in consultations a lot and these are ideas that deserve wide audience.
althera writes (in part)
“And now I wonder if it started as one thing, and has grown so big - it’s kind of “tipped”. There is an idea in that book The Tipping Point where something like that happens to companies. They reach a certain size and the nature changes, bigger stuff to manage mean new strategies are needed to keep all of the stuff that’s grown bigger flowing as well as it did…”
I have read that book and don’t think it applies. What is happening on this blog right now, is more of the same. It is my usual rhythms. I think about or talk about things behind the scenes and they eventually wind up on this blog a week later or in some cases 3 or 4 years later. It’s been going like this for almost a decade and I just perceive no change in my internal process.
I do think that (AS ALWAYS) this blog reflects societal changes (ie Pluto going into Capricorn) and I very satisfied with this. Let’s just put it this way:
I feel I am on track even if you (whoever) thinks otherwise. It’s possible I am wrong but this is the case, I am the one who will pay. I am the one who assumes the risks and responsibility for what I do and if I allow someone to hijack my self or my soul… well I think I’d be letting the universe down and I think there are consequences for that.
I do like to please people, I have Libra! But there are other forces at work and they have to be respected or else. Not “or else” for you, but for me! I think I command a good deal of energy and if I do not use it properly I am sure to be hit by a truck. I know this because I have hit by a few.
I written before, the soldier feels we are given certain gifts and certain things we are supposed to do in this life. If we shy away, or do not perform… if we squander our talent, he is convinced we are sent right back with the same tasks but with greater challenge because some of the gifts we squandered with be withheld.
I don’t know what you think when you read that but if you were privy to some of our discussions and knew the people we do you might agree. I mean, I know some WILDLY talented people who do nothing but run amok.
Personally I have had a very strange life and I can tell you for sure that I intend to live it to the best of my ability because I would like to graduate it and this is not a new thing for me. I came to these conclusions when I was about 8 years old so that’s a pretty serious root. I have to feel my way. I have to deal with and respect my inner processes and regardless of how it appears to the public (Neptune / midheaven) I am telling you what goes on behind the curtain is this:
I have ideas. I have MILLIONS of them. I have endless things to say and I wake up most days with guidance from wherever… guidance from the ether as to what should be plucked from the sea of things and put out here.
People frequently want to interfere with this but I have come to the conclusion that allowing them to do so is an affront to the universe. I simply must make this stand, ‘less I want to come back around and go through all this again which I absolutely do not want to do.
This was a lot of talk! What I am trying to say is I am not being affected due popularity or something. I am the same river, flowing the same way and further, I think it is my job to keep this up regardless of my popularity (or lack of it).
Let’s say I run off everyone who reads this blog? That would be like the river running dry and if that’s meant to happen it will and I find it hard to care one way or the other. My goal is to live in a way that is organic and visceral and you might say, if you try to stop me…. well I have one hell of a knife.
But you should not be stopping me anyway. Don’t you have your own things to do? Your own person-hood to fix? If not, why not? I am sure of one thing. You (whoever may be reading) are not here to fix, Elsa P!
12 Responses to “The Tipping Point vs My Personal Guidance System As It Relates To Astrology Blogging”
I just had a thought related to this. Someone spoke of the information that i left out.
I have no choice but to leave information out because there is just too much information. It is just not humanly possible (for this human) to do any better than I do and to be precisely candid, I am AMAZED I do as well as I do and if you understood my history and my current circumstance I am pretty sure you’d share the sentiment.
It’s none of our damn business what sign your moon is in anyway! It’s not like we actually know you. I would probably walk past you in the grocery store without a second thought.
It’s just a blog people!
Would you go to Deepak Chorpa blog and demand to know what sign his moon is in?! Who cares?!
“I have no choice but to leave information out because there is just too much information”
NO KIDDING. Not only that, but it isn’t your (your, Elsa, OR your, euphemistically) responsibility to ensure some random people you can’t see have allllllll the information they need to make ‘an informed choice.’ (Ie. pass judgement on you!)
Ok, I have to address this, as I was the one who wanted to know Elsa’s sign. (well, me and the one who confused her with a Sagittarius Moon, liz). I was not putting up a challenge, I think I expressed my curiosity and lack of understanding for the reasons for which someone would hide this in an astrology conversation very respectfully.
I was not trying to “fix” you, Elsa, I merely wanted to know that so I could understand. I don’t want to become one of the “undesirables” here. ***I see that this info is sensible and is to be kept secret *** but I just pointed that stuff like this leads to confusions like that with the Sag Moon-Pluto tr. before you said anything.
liz said what she was going through with that transit and how it linked to some things you were writing about. Not precisely you ! It wasn’t a “I hate your guts”/”Put my shit at your doorstep”/”You make me sick” kind of repulsed. She was using Pluto symbolism and she stated that what she read here was meaningful to her.
@ Tam - Again, I was asking this in an astrology community. I don’t think asking for sign placements is alien around here.
Since you all want to protect Elsa (heck, check my older posts, I did that too), please try to understand where I was coming from - I wanted to see the reasons for which someone would hide something like this. Maybe *I* should be more careful with my information.
This post is getting long enough. Please, reread the post from which it started, I don’t want to leave this in the air. I am not oppressing anyone, not stopping anyone from doing anything, I am working on my “person-hood”. That’s why I’m asking in the first place - I want to know if someone has a better way to do things. Again, I’m not crucifying you for whatever reasons you have to not reveal those 2 placements. I just found it peculiar ! This is not an attack on you, there’s no need to become defensive. Where on the web should I have put my inquiry about you ?
If *I* have to fix something - well, I have - I only asked *once* (not posted all over your blog), from your first reply I understood that you were not going to tell us your Sun & Moon sign, so I didn’t write more, in your second posting you mentioned me for considering you responsible for the confusion - which I did - one person got confused and another asked for a clarification (me) but I didn’t think that you would find this so offensive as to dedicate an entire post on you blog to it. You give people advice so I thought you would welcome a little exchange - I pointed that confusions can be easily avoided. Have you walked past some dogs with something in a bag ? They think that it’s food and they’re going to follow you a little, then they go away. Mystery attracts curiosity. I thought that if someone shows interest, you will tell us those 2 placements. I never thought that you would consider it harassment. It was just one post and I didn’t think it was off-limits to even ask. Whatever it is about them, please remember that I had no idea that it would harm you to even mention something like this.
Please, everyone who gave an opinion, read the actual post from where it started. I didn’t brake the door down, so to say, demanding that Elsa tell me anything. Don’t make this confusion even bigger. Sheesh you’re projecting your “bad guy” on me … It was an innocent inquiry …
mn - you are in no way “undesirable”. It is a hall of mirrors here and I know it.
I really think people either have to hang with this blog and see how it comes out or bail. It is a test of faith in some ways. Faith in me or faith in your own ability to navigate when things get tricky. Maybe both?
It could be there are various obstacle courses out there and this is one of the more challenging? I know it is challenging to me, that’s for sure.
Navigate ? Sure ! But I just have to make sure no one take me for a pirate and starts pointing their canons at me. Have a good day !
‘Navigate’, interesting idea! A challenge is always good for someone like myself, someone with a T square in the natal chart!
Yea, it can be a challenge for those of us who are really into astrology to not have access to your birth data, but there is another way to look at it. You could look at it as a compliment! We are curious about the chart of a successful person as yourself and a fine astrologer as your- self, and hardcore astrologers love to look at charts of successful people.
Actually, I think all astrologers are interested in the charts of other great astrologers … Elsa, that we are just curious about your chart. However, I most definitely understand why you don’t post the data.
I made a mistake of thinking ‘pluto on your moon’ which have been blog entries ever since I’ve been on the blog meant pluto transiting your moon by conjunction. As that cannot possibly be the case now, I have learned that I made an assumption in astrology that wasn’t true, and it kinda bugs me about myself as an astrologer. It could be your own progressed pluto conjuncting your moon, it could be pluto hitting your moon in some different kind of major transit. I feel kinda dumbass for assuming, but I learned something.
Very few astrologers lay out their own chart at the beginning of books they write. I am sure there is some reason for that. The main reason might be … who wants their chart examined, really? Not unless we pay someone to do it, because otherwise people with all kinds of dodgy motives and not much exp. in astrology might draw some ridiculous, inappropriate, or just plain mean or malicious conclusions.
Sounds like you are getting a lot of crap right now Elsa, that must be such a drag. I can see how you might just want to throw up your hands in exasperation.
Oh! And for the record there has recently (in the last year) only been ONE “undesirable” who is now gone.
The one person had about 10 screen names over the last few years so it may look like I am some kind of crazy tyrant but this is way overblown. As I told someone recently - you have to REALLY, REALLY be a jack ass to get thrown out of here.
I like a large diverse group (this ought to be apparent from the story) and think people’s hijinks are entertaining. You’ve got allll kinds of rope around here, regardless of the thoughts otherwise.
There is a tipping point where you become more trouble then you are worth, but by then you’ve got 10 ids and have been running amok for years.
I am telling you people’s concerns of getting “thrown off this blog” are greatly imagined and then exaggerated on top of that.
In 5 years, there have probably been 3 or 4 people but I can only think of 2 at the moment and one of them was never part of the community here.
As for people who leave voluntarily… I have no idea.
I don’t like it when people are always changing their screen names. I have never published under any other screen name than Loonsounds. It kind of irks me to think that I might be interacting with someone else other than who I think it is, but with several exceptions of people who have admitted what their former screen name was. I just don’t like it! I wonder if that means I don’t have enough Gemini because God knows I do have enough Pisces to do something like that, but I won’t.
I just think it’s very brave to put your stories and yourself out there - I guess it leaves you with a certain vulnerability -
I read your blog because I feel its truth -
The fact that you live “through” stuff with reflection is a massive accomplishment.
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