I was running through my gabillion drafts and realized I had this other point to make on the whole subject of squandering talent.

Now the soldier and I know someone who is very talented. This gal was born blessed with little deficit and profound opportunity. She also enjoyed supreme support from a variety of high quality sources, way beyond the norm.

Not only was every single shred of this squandered, the resources were employed to do damage. This gal wreaked as much havoc as possible, motivated by pure greed and without remorse.

To witness this was galling. It’s like it would turn your hair a new color or something… things like this are just not supposed to happen, sort of like toes falling right off your feet but it did.
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“What about doing bad things to yourself? e.g. someone who tries to control everyone else just makes themselves mostly miserable. And people can really beat themselves up for no reason sometimes…”

dolce, that’s a great question. We know people like this and the soldier has very strong opinions on the subject. He assures me that squandering talent is a very serious offense.
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My sister, Pisces and a bonafide psychic had a lot to say about past lives. While her psychic ability has been proven to me countless times, her past life stories were never credible (the way the soldier’s are), however the theories she developed over the years were very interesting to me and in fact have impacted me profoundly. For example if I don’t like someone or if someone burns me, I always try to just walk away.

I am almost always successful with this but that is not to say that you could or would or should be because you are of course a different person with a different plot. But my sister’s idea was very simple. She assured me if I cut someone I didn’t like to ribbons, I could count on meeting that person in another life and as my family is into leaving (Jupiter) and escape (Neptune) - well who would want that?
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“I’ve wondered in general about the individual challenging aspects that one is supposed to be able to work with somehow, and whether they can equally be ‘worked with’ positively in a composite.”

I think everything can be worked with positively but many people don’t like to work! Consequently like make little of their gifts never mind their hardship and the consequences for this increase exponentially. This is as true for the individual as it is for the collective and I’d offer the current state of the US economy as proof. But aside from that, this comment made me take a look at the composite chart of the soldier and I which believe it or not, I’ve not bothered to do since getting proper birth data for him.
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I was talking to the soldier…

“No, I don’t think people change hardly at all. Think about it. You tell me someone whose basic nature has changed in a way that is significant. Outside of a woman who has a baby because that is a change. There is a hormonal thing there, I do not deny it.”

“Yes there is. A woman who has a baby becomes a different woman.”

“Agreed. There is a shift but even then the basic nature remains in tact. Have you ever really seen anyone significantly change their basic nature? Can you think of even one person?”
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Speaking of hearing your calling, the soldier told me this weekend that he was called to soldiering similarly to how priests are called to the priesthood.  He described how he tried to avoid it to appease other people but every time he tried to get away he was thrown back to it. Eventually he quit resisting and his relationship with me has followed the same arc. (swearing below the break)

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Dear Elsa,

Caretaker

Caretaker, that’s a good question and I don’t think there is a single “right” answer. The old adage says we are chosen for the path because we can handle it however my personal belief is that we choose our lives as much as we are chosen for them. For example you are able to derive a benefit from what many would view as an oppressive situation so perhaps you chose this path because you wanted this benefit?

The fact I grew up hard is inarguable however I would not change a thing about my childhood because I also like the hand it’s left me with so you get the idea. I take this whole concept beyond being “chosen” by a force outside the self to another scenario where the individual is both responsible for and empowered by their life.

Anyone else?

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Reading over the post about the path I didn’t take and it seems I wrote it in more code than I intended.  I was talking to a pal an hour later and made it a lot plainer to her.

I told her the soldier told me some outrageous tales when we were kids.  They were outrageous but somehow they were (possibly) credible.   They were possibly incredible too but in whatever case there was no way to completely discount him. It was just not possible to say,  oh that will never happen. I couldn’t say, oh he’ll never do that because he was just too serious of mind plus he knew too much and had too many details.

This meant to sign on with him was to commit to a destiny that was daunting and went way beyond Special Forces. Special Forces was just something he felt he had to do but as this story comes together in my mind, I recall he never said he would or wanted to make a career of it. Perhaps he just needed the skills he would pick up there so he could apply them to achieving his real ambition? It is beginning to look this way to me as all the threads are beginning to weave themselves into something recognizable.

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“You yelled at me on our first date,” the soldier said. “I should have known you were a mean girl then.”

“I yelled at you on our second date too.”

“Yeah you did.”

“So I yell at you on our first date, you get up in the morning and ask me if I want to be your girlfriend. I say yes and then I yell at you on our 2nd date. You must have been thinking why did I ask this girl to be my girlfriend.”

“No I wasn’t thinkin’ that but I should have been!”

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Tam writes regarding my destiny:

“Elsa if you didn’t have the experiences that you have maybe you wouldn’t be able to help people the way that you do. Just a thought.”

Tam - I agree but there is more than that going on. This “helping people” is actually…. well, I guess you could say it’s my day job.

This is like my bartending job when I was a kid. I was 15 when I started and I would do that job. I would work my shift and I was good at it. Mostly I told jokes the whole time (Jupiter rising) but it had very little (almost nothing) to do with the reality that was my life. It is sort of like keeping a plate spinning while you do the rest of your life.

This blog is a plate I spin for reasons I barely understand and what I do understand may be fraught with errors even though I try my best.

I chock this up to Saturn/Neptune. You can’t draw lines around this stuff because as soon as you do, they are gone.

For example am I here to help people or merely to bother them?

Don’t ask me, I have no idea.