“I saw her interviewed,” I told a pal. “She was nauseating,” I said. “Jeez, she’s like 50 something and still going on about her affair (with a fellow star) when she was 20. I bet that guy is sorry he ever got near that woman. Who know she’d still be going on TV, 30 years after the fact lamenting the loss of her love and her broken heart. It was sickening.”

She laughed.

“But men like her that’s for sure. The man I was with said I was just jealous when I complained about her. Yeah, she is tall and blond and skinny and he thinks every woman wants to be tall and blond and skinny. I thought it was ridiculous.”
Continue reading Your Moon, Your Roots, Your Culture: Boasting Italian

I’ve spent most of the day contemplating patterns and rules of relating that are deeply rooted. The subject is too vast for me to contain and communicate but I’m going to try to get something (coherent) up here. I wound up thinking of this in terms of different cultures and I started with my own…

When Italy was hit with their earthquake, the US government donated $50,000. I could barely believe my eyes when I read the story - such an insult!
Continue reading The Roots and Rules Of Your Culture

The Moon is in Cancer opposing Pluto in Capricorn - This calls for comfort food which is another concept that has an undeserved bad connotation. For some reason our culture vilifies various things…. quite stupidly I think. I address this stuff now and and then. The idea that “power” is bad or “ambition” is bad and more recently, my remark in that story, a keen mind is just a keen mind and we can’t judge it good or bad until we see how it is applied.
Continue reading Astrology Right Now.. January 9th, 10th, 11th: Comfort Food Is Not A Dirty Word(s) aka Channeling Your Ancestors

This is for the very social stellium in Gemini trine Neptune in Aquarius. Regarding the people at the soldier’s new job…

“Yeah, they want us to go places with them, P.  They keep asking me - This time it’s some drumming thing they want us to go to.”

“Drumming?”

“Yeah, drumming. I don’t know what the hell it is.  Apparently some people get together and bang on drums.  Congo drums…  I don’t know. He said lots of Puerto Rican people go there.”

I just stared at him and he held out his arm.

“Let me see your arm,” he said.

I could tell he wanted to compare color so I put my arm alongside his. “I’m darker than you,” I said.

Continue reading The Soldier And P Contemplate Socializing - Drumming?

“Cold, cold, cold
Cold, cold, cold
Freezing, it was freezing in that hotel
I had no money, my special friend was gone
The TV set was busted so she went along
I called room, room service,
I’m down here on my knees
A peach or a pear, or a coconut please,
But they was cold…”

Lowell George (Aries… hot, hot, hot)

Continue reading The Way Of The Culture - You’re Down? Great, Let’s Kick You!

This is for fellow Italian astrologer, Maddalena at continued from the Italy / Italians blog...

“That’s the spirit, P,” the soldier said. “Give Italians someone to hate or be pissed off at and you’re doing them a favor.”

“Italians hate people, you think? Yeah, I guess that’s right.”

“Yeah, hell yeah it’s right. Italians love to hate and feud. Italians will hate you into the next century. Just add your name to the list son of bitch! The very long list that every Italian has.”

I laughed. “Yeah, it’s true. I have a list but then I forget who is on it.” (Saturn Neptune)

“I know you do but I don’t. I don’t forget shit. (Taurus) I know every bastard on my list by first last and middle name plus every other thing that I know about them that I will never forget. You get on my list, you stay on it and as for your list; don’t worry about it, P. I will keep track of your list and my list.”

“You will remember who I hate and remind me?”

“Uh huh.”

“Okay then.”

Do you have a list?

The soldier (Jupiter in Sagittarius) talks to me (Jupiter rising) about going to Italy and fact is, it does not take much for one to talk the other into an adventure….

“When we go to Italy…”

“We’re not going to Italy,” I said. “Why are we going to Italy?”

“Yes we are going to Italy. We’ll be in Italy some day I’m sure. Why don’t you want to go to Italy?”

“Well I have just never wanted to go. I am already Italian and they don’t want to see us over there. We’re Americans! Italian people don’t think Italians who are American are Italians. They hate us!”

Continue reading Astrology Short And Sweet: Italy, Italians, And Jupiter’s Sense Of Adventure

Awhile back, HQ outlined the difference between the way Asian people make deals and the way the Western word negotiates. Basically, the Asians come up with what they thinks is fair to both sides… they come up with their best offer and they go to the other party and make it.

In contrast Westerners come in with a low offer, the other party makes a high counter-offer and the two settle somewhere in the middle. I think this is interesting. Either system seems to work fine as long as everyone understands what it is.

So I was thinking about Italians (as I would with Pluto uprooting my Moon / roots) and we have our ways too. They are Mafia-like, let’s face it. Continue reading Jupiter In Sagittarius: Cultural Differences Between Asians, Westerners and Italians

I frequently masquerade as the soldier. He is in a situation where he can’t make the calls that keep his life running smoothly. I am in the situation where I can, so I am forever calling people up and letting them assume I am him.

I can rattle off his birthday and his phone number. I can rattle off the last four digits of his social security number and on the fact, he has a man’s name?

Well it’s the funniest thing. These days when you call the cell phone company or whatever, you are generally talking to someone in India and his name is unusual enough, they don’t recognize it as male or female. In other cases, I think people do recognize I am giving a man’s name, but they are too PC to say anything. You know. I could be having a sex change!

But today, the gal in the pharmacy was our color and she knew for sure something was up with the name. At first she tried to change the spelling to the feminine version aka Claude and Claudia but when I nixed that, well next thing I knew, I was signing some stuff about privacy. And I just thought this a Jupiter in Sagittarius phenomenon. With all of us from various cultures in closer contact then we have ever been before, things like this happen.

I also think this is the main reason astrology is gaining popularity in the West. We can thank the Indians…

Are you aware of any effects of the big world getting smaller?

Mars (fight) is in Cancer (home, roots). It’s in aspect to the soldier’s Mercury (communication) in Aries (fight) which is in aspect to Mars in his chart. I swear you can set a clock by this stuff.

“Ran into two guys speaking Portuguese today, P.”

“Yeah?” Continue reading Mars In Cancer: My Home Is Bigger Than Your Home!