Vintage Astrology Blogging: At the Mall With Mowgli
Astrology in real life
I wrote this in 2002. My sister is well known to have taste. I am well known to have brains.
She actually has brains (and I taste) but we have this Saturn / Neptune problem.
If it is not obvious, she is the BIG sister here and I am going to leave this unedited for the most part.
In this first bit, I am Saturn Return age (about 27).
Enjoy!
(swearing below the break)
Well you know I would never go to a mall without my sister’s escort so whenever she comes around, I am taken for emergency fixing. Ten years ago we left a mall and she was brooding as we walked to the car…
“They really piss me off,” she said.
“Who?”
“The bitches at the makeup counter.”
“Which bitches?”
“Can’t you tell they were laughing at you?”
“No. What do you mean?”
“They were laughing because you don’t know anything about makeup.”
“So? They don’t know anything about what I know,” I said, wondering just what her fucking point was.
“Yeah, well that’s true but you really should know about makeup by now.”
“Why? I don’t care about make up.”
“Well you should. You should learn at least some basics so people don’t laugh at you.”
“You really think they were laughing?” I was a little hurt.
“Fuck yes they were laughing at you. I told you they were bitches and it pisses me off.”
“Well I think something is wrong with them if they are worried about me and makeup. I‘m not worried about them.”
“I think something is wrong with them and you.”
I laughed. “Okay. Duly noted. I will think about learning makeup 101.”
“I hope you do.”
“I probably won’t.”
“I know. Why not? Why don’t you want to learn about makeup?” she asked, sincerely.
“It’s hard to be interested in something you’re not interested in.”
“But you look better with makeup. Why don’t you want to look good?”
“I look good enough. Who thinks I don’t look good?”
“Those bitches for one. You look better than they ever will but you do look better when you put makeup on.”
“I believe you. I just don’t care if I look better. I look good enough. When is the last time I had trouble getting a date?”
“That’s true. But why don’t you want to look at good as you can?”
“I don’t know. I’m not having any problem looking the way I do.”
“Never mind Elsa. If you don’t care if people are laughing at you then I am not going to worry about it.”
“Well I’m not worried,” I said. “I must be missing that lobe of my brain.”
“If we found that out, I wouldn’t be surprised.”
9 Responses to “Vintage Astrology Blogging: At the Mall With Mowgli”
The posts with you and your sister are my favorites of all. I don’t know why that is. but I’m glad that there has begun to be more of them!
Crackers, thanks. It is interesting for me to pull this stuff up. it is so old, I’d forgotten I’d written it and then when I do pull it up, she always has more information, like I’d never been to a makeup counter before. See, that was not in there because it is not an important thing to me but to her it is epic, LOL.
In whatever case, thanks for the compliment and encouragement.
This reminds me of My sister and I. I’m not the fashionable one but my younger sister is.
love the sisters post too!
i have multiple sisters, but one in particular i am very close too…pluto conjunct Libra Rising, yowza she’s very stylish and beautiful…
I’ve got my own thing going on, but she takes after my mum, they wouldn’t be caught dead out of the house without being put together.
i like being feral, because when you finally dress up you shock the hell out of everybody, Uranus conjunct MC likes that, ha ha
My sister - the fashion shopper.
I could absolutely care less. I do dress up when I go to see my Mom, but only because I love her muchly & she cares about it so. Otherwise, ehhh, why bother?
I envy your relationship with your sister….I love to read the stories too….I can envision two little girls giggling with each other and so protective of each other.
My sister is a Libra with a Leo Moon and late-degree Virgo rising, while I am a Pisces with a Gemini Moon-conjunct-Ascendant, and Venus on the MC. So it does not surprise me that I am way more of a make-up whore than she is. I think we’re both pretty stylish, though, even though we have remarkably different styles. She right now dresses like kind of a cross between 80’s hip-hop and flamenco, so you can only imagine what she pleads with me to try on when we go shopping together. It doesn’t quite work for me, since I dress kind of like, as I said on a recent blog post, a cross between Strawberry Shortcake and an 18th-century German philosopher.
(Since we’re both pre-Saturn returnees, maybe we’ll both mellow out a little before then.)
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I sent this to my sister, asked if she remembered…
“LOL. You at your first make up counter, who could forget?
I just got these emails. They went to my junk filter as some of yours do for some Neptunian reason. I always check there for your mail because of this.
You soon learned very well how to apply your lipstick better than those little bitches did it!
I remember.”
What this means is I was almost 30 before it occurred to me to go buy makeup and even then it did not occur to me, it occurred to her.
But I did have that big white spaceship makeup case that so enthralled the soldier when we were teens.
I have no explanation for that other than I, like Dora, was trying to be a girl.