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The History Of The Elsa Blog And It’s Links…
Astrology in real life
Loonsounds writes:
“Now, as far as your talking about the soldier, you have been talking about him ever since I’ve been on the blog which goes back to Springish 08 I think. It doesn’t seem like you just suddenly started talking about him more than before, so I have to wonder … why do they choose now to go? But I guess maybe you are wondering the exact same thing.”
Loon, I peaked in 2005…maybe 2006. I started losing links slowly at first and it just sort of continued… the number of links went down rather than up as expected. This prompted the conversations with friends who did the speculating I referenced in the first post.
Then the soldier showed up and it was alarming. Prior to him I dated an artist… a painter. This whole blog was designed around one of his painting, actually. And people liked him. They knew him from my other blog and they were invested.
So here comes the soldier and people who like art and artists and were sort of shell-shocked. Special Forces!?! WTF, Elsa? I persevered.
I really had no choice. I started blogging in 2001 and my life has taken all kinds of turns and my blog(s) along with it. Really, you either like me or you don’t. You trust me to entertain you or to teach you or whatever it is I do for you… or you don’t.
So anyway, as I said, when I started writing about the soldier the links started disappearing at a faster rate. It didn’t feel very good and I’m not stupid. I knew what I was writing was jarring however I feel everything on this blog has merit - should be said for some reason or I’d not say it so I persevered.
The loss of support eventually leveled out. It was very interesting from my vantage point. You can either handle Mars or you can’t. You either understand that this energy is ROUGH, it is supposed to be abrasive. You either know it exists in nature and you can have it in your life or you are one of those people who repress it… think you live in the land of doilies I guess. Somewhere where nobody ever cuts their wife’s head off. In whatever case, the election did me in.
There were John McCain ads on my blog (placed there by Google) for more than a month and that combined with the word, “soldier”… well I guess people did not want to risk having one of their people click over and see this kind of display. The country was polarized and if you’re flying the wrong flag…. well then..
This is why I thought it appropriate to thank the people who maintained their links to me through this period. I really appreciate it… I appreciate the gesture but I also appreciate their character. But here is the bottom line:
Soldiers are not in vogue at the moment. They will be very much in vogue as the people who beheading girls and having sex with their corpses in Mexico start to cross the border in greater numbers. You will very much want a soldier to “go in harm’s way” as they say at that point because if he does not, the harm will come to you. But right now, the word “soldier” is repulsive. People think they can afford to shun and ignore them.
Now my soldier was one of the people who risked his life to try so that people starving in Somalia could eat. He has been involved with the defense of this country, and fought to liberate the oppressed since he was teenager and if people want to call him repulsive, well come on. How do you even talk to someone like that?
My life is going to progress and I have every intention of doing everything I can to maintain this blog. I am adding features not taking them away but what I am trying to tell you is the support that is REAL but unseen is eroding (Saturn Neptune) and there if the trend continues there is a definite risk of collapse.
Obviously if this is not meant to happen it won’t and if it is meant to happen… well nothing is going to stop it but it won’t be because I didn’t try.
Has this blog changed since 2005? Yes. And people like it better but support it less which is the social phenomena that I think is so interesting.
11 Responses to “The History Of The Elsa Blog And It’s Links…”
Yeah, the AMF was pretty cool… But I ‘get’ the Soldier better, and I like guys who are little rough around the edges in general. 
How long have you been doing this, Elsa? I followed you over from Xanga. I’ve taken long breaks from reading, but mostly because of things going on in my own life. And my ID has changed from time to time. It’s that privacy thing… My favorite screen names pop up too easily when Googled, and my busy 8th house doesn’t like anyone to know TOO much. 
Oh duh… Nevermind the question, you already answered it. 2005, duh. lol
The blog certainly has changed. It’s more Marsy. But I don’t think it’s necessarily that people judge or dislike the soldier, it’s more a question of what you feel comfortable and happy with reading on a day to day basis.
For example, if you don’t like flowery blogs, because it’s not your cup of tea, fine, you stop reading them once the blog turns syrupy. That doesn’t necessarily mean you judge the flowery people.(if they’re happy bless them)
I know some people have openly disapproved of the soldier, but in my mind the phenomenon is more subtle.
For myself I can say that sometimes all the Mars is too much for me right now. I am ill and having a very hard time, and for this reason I do not always watch the news anymore (too much bad news), and I don’t watch violent movies. I just can’t handle it. When I pick a movie now it needs to be light and entertaining. Something uplifting. Same goes for blogs. That is not a reflection on the soldier, or of his worth, but a reflection of what I need to get through the day without sinking. Some days I read the soldier blogs, some days I don’t. Some days when I am fired up I really enjoy them, some days I really cannot stomach a gun on the blog without feeling a blow.
It’s not about the soldier, it’s about the people reading.
M - No. I started in 2001 on another blog. By the time I moved to this blog, I had already been writing about the AMF for close to 3 years and before that I was writing.., all kinds of stuff - stories and astrology.
I am well on my way to 10 years of posting 3-10 blogs a day… I’ve had to have written 10,000 posts by now, each of them… every single one of them with pure heart.
It’s like my daughter. Very few know what I went through and the lengths I went to. Theses points in space are so far out as to be inaccessible to most people and it really doesn’t matter.
I am telling you, you can do your best, Best, BEST and if God wants you somewhere else, doing something else, that is where you’ll wind up and it makes no difference at all if you want it that way.
There is that and then there are laws of nature such as if you quit supplying a plant with water, it shrivels up and dies. If you value the plant, you water it, if not you don’t and in either case, nature takes it course.
It is also possible something or someone (like Dora) struggles to survive for a time and then finds support that takes her to the end of her life. So we really don’t know. I mean, I really don’t know what is going to happen…what I do know is nature is bigger than I am by far.
What Dee said; absolutely!:)
I’m an outer planet person with an above average apetite for tidbits relating to the human condition, and I approve of this blog;D I’ve been a regular reader and sometimes poster for about 3(?) years… You might say I come here to feed:)
And about Mars! Camille Paglia (a genius! a feminist!) has said something to the effect that without [Mars], we’d still be living in grass huts. So there;)
“You will very much want a soldier to “go in harm’s way” as they say at that point because if he does not, the harm will come to you.” I agree, in the sense that it’s difficult to detach when cultures clash and yours is under threat. Us humans are funny that way. (Mercury has arrived in Aqua, I notice;).
I appreciate the Mars stories very much - my dad has Mars in Aries and is a soldier as well. A former fighter pilot, to be exact. That tree stood on a steep hill and the apple rolled, lol:)
Another major change is dropping the advice columns. I think ppl really liked the specific advice based on a person’s astrological signatures. Personally, I miss them!
p.s. I think your spam filter keeps eating my comments.
One of the zillion things I love about this blog is that people cite people like Camille Paglia! By and large, a pretty sophisticated group of participants who live here at happy hour and pretty much all around the clock (must be five o clock somewhere!)
What I can not stomach is HYPOCRACY and with that I am referring to the people who are addicted to the blog, and they really can’t quit, it’s just too hard for them to quit right now or any time in their forseeable future, BUT, at the same time, they are too cowardly or … Whatever! … to leave your name proudly and prominantly displayed and linked on whatever web stuff they are weaving their own lives around at any given point in time.
I never change my screen name because I don’t give a shit what anyone thinks about my association with this blog or, mastter of fact, about anything that I might say on it. I never change my screen name because I am who I am, and no matter how much what I say might piss anyone off, they are never going to be able to say that I am two-faced.
That is also why I NEver go behind full blog participation to whine to Elsa behind everybodies back about something I don’t like or about some feeling of being picked on or whatever. Not only do I think it’s rude to expect Elsa to take time out of her busy life to micromanage my little melodramas, but, moreover, if I have something to say, or if I have a complaint about something or whatever, I post it right out there for all the blog and (for that matter) all the world to see.
Primary Point: I think it is a mortal SIN to enjoy this blog on one side, and then to secretly refuse to link it on the otherside. Bunch a two faced hypocrites, suck it up and do the right thing people.
I like your blog with or without talk of the soldier. I have an uncle who is a retired miliary career man. He helped my cousin join right out of high school who was able to go into avionics. So he learned a career and has now decided he wants to be an engineer. I know of at least 3 other high schoolers who are considering entering the military as what will likely be the best means of employment over the next few years. It is a realistic job and educational opportunity for today’s youth.
I was living abroad when the soldier was in Somalia. I remember people complaining about the Americans who were there and I was like “Where the f%$& are you then if we’re doing such a bad job???” I still get angry and pissed off when I think about what they had to go through to try to help.
I’m kind of baffled as to why Elsa’s SO’s would drive people off the blog.
I am about as NON-soldier-military a person as you can get*, but come on, it’s not like y’all still haven’t seen interesting insights that were based on him/his experiences/chart, etc. Does it really matter? I’m not a Mars-type, but they’ve certainly got their uses even if I don’t have that natal aggression going on that needs a purpose in myself. It’s not like I find that offensive. (Well, as long as it’s not physically beating up people they’re not in battle with/relationship abuse. Not the case here.)
* ironic, ’cause I have the impression that our charts might be similar.
M - I’ve been reading Elsa somewhere since late 2000 or early 2001
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