This is from August 2008. A year later, the community here is better than ever and I totally committed to keeping it that way. I know I look like hell in this video, but you know. I was up to my neck at the time…
2008 is not 2007 or 2006 or 2005 or… the evolution of Elsa P and her blog.

With Mercury conjunct Saturn in Virgo, time seems very limited.  While I like them both, it’s occurring to me I don’t have time for twitter and/or facebook.

It’s very difficult to maintain a blog these days due Saturn’s influence on Mercury-ruled writing. It is further complicated by the Uranus opposition because whatever you do manage to write is going to protested by roughly half the people out there and here is the surprising thing:

Continue reading Twitter, Facebook, And The Elsa Blog: Time Is Scarce, Whiplash Is Out There, Saturn Is Going Into Libra And There Will Be Discourse!

From email:

I feel like I write a million words and if you read them eventually you will come across one that offends you.

What kills me is I am supposed to decide what might potentially provoke one of thousands of people rather than the other person maybe cutting me some slack or giving me the benefit of the doubt?

I have no idea where the piles of crap I can step in might be because I don’t know the triggers of thousands of people but I do think the onus is on the reader at least as much as it is on me to try to think before they move to react to control or squash.

I mean, if I am really a harsh bitch (and I am sure some think I am) - they are reading the wrong blog.

If I am not a harsh bitch and prove it day in and day out then maybe it is the reader who ought to get a grip.

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Continue reading Saturn In Virgo: The Responsibility Of The Blog Writer vs The Blog Reader

(From Sept, 2008) “Make me think I’m crazy when I know I’m not…”
(ask the collective question below)

gaslighting - wikipedia
Other elsa blogs on gaslighting / manipulation in relationship
Also on the topic of venus neptune / pisces types in relationships
UPDATE - follow up to this video is here: Why Do People Undermine Someone’s Happy Relationship?
Are you susceptible to gaslighting techniques? Can you see the tendency (or lack of) in your chart?

“This book says it takes 10,000 hours of practice to get good at something,” I told the soldier regarding the book, Outliers: The Story of Success.

“It said the same thing in, Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else.

“Oh. That must be the new factoid. It made me wonder if I have 10,000 hours of blogging in.”
Continue reading Practice, Practice, Practice

Recorded February, 2008.

This is for Jessica in response to her comment regarding Mercury on the Different Speeds of Planets Beginner Post.

I wrote this in 2003. I am going to leave it completely as was. I liked my writing from back then… before Saturn got hold of me…

So I posted to this new board last night… Two posts and someone assumed that I was a man. It reminded me of this story from awhile back…
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Continue reading Mars Aspects, Mailing Lists, Mack Trucks and Stuff (Vintage Astrology Blogging)

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.”
Continue reading The History Of The Elsa Blog And It’s Links…

This is the kind of thing that is a horror to a blogger who aspires to build some kind of following or audience. You work hard and beg, beg, beg people to link you and when you first start out many people oblige.

Based on this you imagine the growth will continue. It seems logical. You continue write quality content… the readers are there but what happens, or at least what happened to me, is I hit some kind of peak and then the people started taking the links down. (Saturn / Neptune, support eroding)
Continue reading Elsa Blog Trivia: Links To This Blog Dropped In Half And… Astrology And Pandering Again

I just noticed, I have published 4992 posts on this blog. I am too distracted to pay attention and wait for 5000 so you know. WHOOPEE!

I am pretty sure I published 3-4000 posts on my original blog as well and I don’t know why I’m telling you this or what it means outside of it must mean something.

I think my writing is better in a lot of ways but worse in others. I guess that Mercury in Libra for ya, eh?

I miss telling stories, that’s for sure. But I can only do so much in a day and they tend to make me mad.

Mars Mercury in the 9th (storytelling) and I get all pissed off when I tell a story. How funny is that?

How long have you read my blog?