In honor of all the planets in Pisces - here’s a (Neptune) tick to cure addiction…

While I love it, if I eat sugar I become desperately depressed. It puts in a state of despair. Over these last few days I have been talking about baking cookies for the soldier and some emailed me to ask how I was managing to make all these cookies but not eat them.

It was an excellent question because I love cookie dough, specifically and I had a quick answer that represented what I think is one of the smartest ideas I have ever had in my life.
Continue reading Curing Addiction Via Astrology: Might Be The Smartest Thing You Have Ever Read On This Blog…


Surviving crisis - life, death and alcoholism - NC-17 content.

This was filmed Dec 22, 2007 during one of the peaks of Pluto’s transit to my Moon. To update, sadly this friendship did not survive. I’d known the gal and her family for 9 years…

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For The Addicted From The Addicted: The No-No Song - Ringo Starr

March 12th, 2009 @ 8:33 am by Elsa

Astrology in real life

Saturn is in Virgo and I learned recently I have to avoid sugar. I am off it a few weeks now and want to stay that way.
This song came to mind this morning and amused me so here it is for all you people out there who are trying to quit… anything.

What are you trying to quit?


Pregnant 20 Year Old - Her Fiance Is Addicted To Porn: Astrology-Based Advice

February 27th, 2008 @ 4:44 am by Elsa

Dear Elsa,

My fiance and I have been together for about 2 and a half years now. I am also pregnant with our first child. We have had our ups and downs but we finally got an apartment together and were starting to make it a home for our son who is due in less than two months. I am very concerned for my son and myself because of my fiance’s addiction to porn. I do not want my son to grow up in an environment where his daddy sits up and tries to sneak looking at the garbage.

As for myself, I have always had weight issues, but before I found out I was pregnant I was almost (about 2 sizes away) from being exactly what size I wanted to be. Now that my stomach is getting bigger I am really starting to become depressed because of the porn. I understand that what is inside of me is beautiful and special, a brand new life that God has created for me to be a part of, but he really seems lately to not want anything to do with me or the baby. I go to doctors appointments by myself or with my mom, I have to literally beg him to come put his hand on my stomach to feel the baby kick, and on top of that, he does not find me attractive anymore. He does not hold me at night like he used to, or kiss me just to kiss me, hug me to hug me, he just doesn’t touch me. All he does is wait until I fall asleep then comes back into the dining room, turns on the computer and looks at porn.

I’m tired of feeling like I am never good enough for him because those tanned, skinny girls are so much better. It has gotten to the point to where he has caught me crying about it, but still continues to try and be sneaky the same night, knowing almost every time he does look at it he gets caught because I either wake up to it or obviously have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night… I’m pregnant!

When I try to have sex with him he tells me that he is too tired from work that day. I am also concerned because he has been very snappy lately. I read somewhere that when a person has an addiction they tend to lie, snap back, start fights, and have a tendency to cheat. I have no clue what to do. I pray to God every night that He can help him realize that this addiction is hurting our relationship and will ultimately end up hurting our son.

20 Year Old Gemini
United States

gemini medalDear Gemini,

You sound like an inordinately mature 20 year old to me. Your ability to see and articulate your very painful situation without becoming hysterical is impressive so keep you cool head it will serve you. I also like that you have (obviously) educated yourself about addiction, that you know that there is a person inside your body and you have sophisticated awareness as to how this is effecting you emotionally. Since you are already so competent I am just going to add what I know and trust you to parse it.

As to getting your fiance to see what you see, I don’t think you are going to be able to do that. It would be like getting an alcoholic to see their drinking has a negative affect on other people. They are not going to see that because they do not want to see that. What they want to do is get at the bottle and what your fiance wants to do is get at the skinny tanned girl which is no reflection on you.
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Libra Woman Asks About ADHD, Alcoholic Scorpio Man: Astrology-Based Advice

January 23rd, 2008 @ 4:20 am by Elsa

Dear Elsa,

I have been seeing a Scorpio man for five weeks. When I first met him, he was very intense. Apparently, he travels a lot for his work. I like him a lot and feel like there is potential for a wonderful relationship.

The only thing he is hot and cold all the time. He began to pursue me intensely, bought me two expensive perfumes and a $600 spa treatment for Christmas. We have had a couple of communication bumps and I realized that he was sensitive. We have not had sexual relations until recently, this past weekend.

He has mentioned me to his family but when he does not like what I say, he criticizes my way of expressing myself or at least makes note of it. It seems like I am under a microscope.

He mentions that he thinks he would like me to meet his friends in Wisconsin, since he is here on business for four months but then he gets cold and I do not hear from him for 4 days or I do not know if we have plans for the upcoming weekend.

He has three female friends that call him regularly. One is a coworker, another a girl from this hometown who is unhappily married and another in Wisconsin. When I make a comment about them, he said, they call him, he doesn’t call them.

He has been open with me about his life. He is presently taking medications for various problems, an antidepressant, a anti psychotic medication and a patch for ADHD.

He was drinking a lot in his life and his job sent him to a program to get help. He has confided in me that the programs never worked in the past and that he has a biological problem and would drink because it made him feel better. At one point he was drinking from 10am to 4pm. To his credit, he has been honest and in fact has shared just about everything with me. He seems to want to be successful in this program.

I guess, I am a bit confused. I decided to stop calling him. He was calling me, then we had a bump and now I call and he doesn’t. Last weekend we were together, he cooked for me, took me out to movies and spent the entire weekend inside with me but he has not called me since.

Double Libra
United States

libra enamelDear Libra,

This sounds like a clear case of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) to me. This man has a full life. His life is full of people, a job, an addiction and mental illness and it seems to me he is living it.

You on the other hand are trying to make decisions about your life based on this other person’s comings and goings and progress and/or lack of progress and it is not hard to see this is going to lead you to nothing and nowhere.

Rather than focusing on what he is doing, it would be far more productive to focus on what you are doing - which as a double Libra may be a challenge so I will try to help.

You are doing what comes natural to Libra: you are trying to partner, though you are going about it all wrong. You are trying to decide (Libra) if you might be able to take this other person and see if you can’t fashion them (read control them) into something that will be suitable as a partner, which is never going to work.

This is particularly true of a psychotic, depressed, ADHD, disappearing, alcoholic Scorpio who has a bunch of women hanging around so yeah. If you want a partner which I think you do, I would look elsewhere.

Good luck.

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pluto in a quadrigaThis morning I am processing the events of yesterday and last night and I realize my daughter could have died. She was an inch away actually but I wasn’t thinking this in the moment. I was thinking I had just better take care of the situation… get her to the hospital as fast as I could.

But today, with the Pluto transit to my Moon nearly exact, I seem to have no choice but to look at this. Basically I have to (re)calculate the odds of her survival. And the thing is I thought I was out of the woods with this. Continue reading Pluto Transit To The Moon - Mine: The Last Exact Aspect


Cancer Woman Frets Over Alcoholic Pisces Man In Denial

July 13th, 2007 @ 3:59 am by Elsa

Dear Elsa,
I’ve been dating a 31 year old Pisces man for six years now. We undeniably have a strong and inseparable emotional attachment to each other. We’re best friends and there is a mutual love between us but there are a few problems.

Even though he’s very affectionate, he’s very secretive and is an alcoholic. After he left the clink, for the past two years he has lived with his parents and I’ve lived in an apartment in this tiny retirement town in the middle of nowhere. Even before all of this, he never could pay his rent on time. His mother and I are both Cancers. Since he’s moved to his parent’s house, even though he’s still sweet to me, he doesn’t spend very much time with me anymore.

I’ve explained to him that I do not want to constantly visit him at his parent’s house and pretty much stay alone at my apartment. He is also in denial about his alcoholism. I’ve read books on the subject and am trying my best to handle it appropriately. He’s a “live for the moment” kind of guy. We love spending time with each other but he does not want to face reality about how to be self-reliant.

A few weeks ago I caught him drunk, and making out with a girl from his job. After tons of tears between us both, we can’t stand the thought of splitting up. I explained to him that I can’t trust him yet. He thinks that since it’s been a few weeks, I should already be forgetting about it and never bring it up. I can’t, not yet. I asked him if I could check his cell phone but he hates giving up his privacy. He says I’m too jealous of other girls. I then tell him I wasn’t before, but now I just want to trust him again.

He is a great guy and I want him to have other friends, guys or girls (me too)! But I also want to trust him. Then he changes the subject. When we used to work together, he never left my side but I didn’t make him. I believe he’s sorry but he can’t seem to face reality about how trust is earned. What should I do? I feel I’ve found true love but not a real relationship. Thanks in advance, from one watery mess.

Cancer Woman
United States

old moon cookie jar vintageDear Woman,

I hate to throw dirt on your watery mess because it’s going to ruin it completely. But I guess you’re writing for a reality check, so here it comes.

You have an infant on your hands. You have a 31 year old man dependent on his biological mother, his other mother (you), and apparently looking for a third mom in the form of another woman.

When he gets busted and pisses off Mommy, he cries a few tears and you go right back to sacrificing your life, sitting in your apartment waiting for this baby to grow up when it is never going to happen. I am sorry but I don’t think you have a viable relationship here in any way shape or form. I appreciate how devastating it will be to read this because you are obviously deeply invested. However, someone has to say something because it is your life and it is going by.

As for what is going to happen here, it does not sound as if this guy has the least interest in getting sober, nor does he actually care about you. You tell me how he cares about you. Does he care by leaving you alone in an apartment while he sucks on his bottle at his mom’s? Does he care for you by cheating on you? And what are you up to anyway?

Why do you want to play mommy to an adult man? Never mind that he won’t let you check his phone. Why are you even willing to do something like that?

Let me ask you this: do you really think this is what you are supposed to do with your life? Were you born to baby-sit an alcoholic? I have a hard time with that. I don’t think that’s right. I think you have Venus opposite Neptune and the bottom line is, you are addicted to the addict. And I say forget about him and save yourself. Hit an Al-Anon meeting. Go in person, or go online… but go. Because this relationship is going nowhere and I can’t believe it ever will - so forget his sobriety and fight for your own.

Good luck.

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Good Luck Romanticizing Addiction With Saturn Opposing Neptune

April 29th, 2007 @ 5:44 pm by Elsa

Astrology in Real Life

saturnGerald G. May writes in "Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions":

“Addiction exists wherever persons are internally compelled to give energy to things that are not their true desires.”

Sobering, huh?

Do you give energy to your true desires?


Painful Love: Taurus Man, Scorpio Woman

March 4th, 2007 @ 3:32 am by Elsa

Dear Elsa,

I fell for a Scorpio female a few years ago. We quickly felt a connection between us. The whole “opposites attract” thing. It escalated quickly and she has taken me deeper and deeper into her life.

Being passionate people, it was not long before our relationship took a physical turn. This has been going on and off. I helped her save her house from foreclosure. I have spent thousands keeping her head above water financially yet she is still in over her head. These days she has no use for me physically. All of a sudden she says she doesn’t know why it has stopped but she cannot give me what I need.

Now I am starting to believe that I have just been a useful resource all along. She says she loves me and I am everything to her and she cannot see her life without me. But I do not know what to believe. She is such a damn enigma that I do not know what to do. I want to make love to her so badly but at the same time I want to strangle her for using me.

How can I get out of this tangled web? I have loved her like no other in my life. Given her everything but my soul and I am fed up.

Stellium in Taurus
United Kingdom

taur dollDear Taurus,

It’s very simple. You’re and addict and she is your drug of choice. Check this:

Dear Elsa,

I decided to snort some cocaine. It made me feel good. I felt things I have never felt before.

I felt so good, I spent twice then three times what I ever intended, so I could get some more of that shit up my nose, but it just didn’t deliver the thrill it once did.

I tried to walk away, but felt bereft with no thrill, so I went back and spent some more energy and money, trying to recapture that old feeling, which was now so elusive. Jeez! That cocaine is such an enigma. Do you think I should continue to try to figure it out?

Cokehead

Dear Cokehead,

Cold turkey, babe. Leave and don’t look back.

Good luck,

Elsa

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