sasha writes on His Scorpio Moon - My 8th House Energy

to elsa : your enegry is radiant, but dark. not centripetal, but expansive. not bad, just dark.

sasha - thanks. I have to tell you it is so confusing. People see me in various ways and the ways are so varied.

One person is scared to death of me, the other person thinks I am going to be crippled by their hate mail.

The person that loves me or thinks I am great often decides I am the bane of their existence at some point. The person who thinks I am lousy very often decides I am not.

Continue reading Neptune Conjunct The Midheaven - My Public Image

I know an inordinate number of people who don’t want to talk to anyone. They don’t mind getting their message out or their voice heard via me but they have no desire whatsoever to surface and interact in person.
Continue reading People Who Employ A Conduit To Express Their Energy…

Yesterday I was talking to astrologer and columnist, Shelley Ackerman about the problems with the Astro Dispatch. I explained how there were sites I had linked 50 or a 100 times over these last years who had never made a gesture in return. Being a Libra, she was appalled.

Reciprocity comes naturally to her but she mentioned something else that stuck with me. James Redfield, author of The Celestine Prophecy, once told her that biggest violation on Earth, the greatest crime of all, is “theft of energy”.
Continue reading Energy Theft, Pluto In Capricorn And The Astro Dispatch

I told someone today that I felt like dice thrown. The dice land some kind of way and that’s that. Your natal chart. “You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.”

Last month I was talking that group of administrators at my daughter’s school and I learned something new. I found out that children with normal IQ’s were wholly capable of outperforming their peers with higher IQ’s simply by applying themselves. I got the idea this not only happened, it was usual and it’s not hard to imagine why.
Continue reading 2 Years Ago On The Elsa Blog - Astrology And Aptitude: Using Your Energy Effectively

Dear Unsure,

I think I can make this very simple for you, so I’m going to do that first and then I’m going to make this hard. Here is the simple solution: Leave him! Could you do it? I’m guessin’ you’d be cryin’ for this guy within a week and crying even harder six months down the road.

Continue reading Love and Money: Venus in the 8th House - Astrology-Based Advice

maureen wrote on Attention Seeking Behavior:

“I don’t know how you do it Elsa, but I’m grateful the universal tides bring you back to shore again and again.”

I don’t do it by any special effort, it’s a rhythm that is somehow innate, in or around me. I have made a (successful) effort in getting a thicker skin but it took years. I have also learned to defend this blog as if it were my home (or my bar) and this has helped too.
Continue reading Quality Of Energy - Mine

“That was a nice compliment you gave me,” I told the soldier. “You said you liked my energy, I thought that was nice.”

“Well, P, I love you.”

“I know but that’s against your will. You’d not love me if you had the choice. This was you saying you actually enjoy me.”

“You twist my words…”

“Whatever. That was a nice compliment, I liked it.”

Do you think in terms of energy, or a person’s aura and the like? What do you think your energy is like?

Speaking of hair, here’s an old story…

I was dating a guy once, a Sagittarius with a Scorpio Moon. He was a very good example of both Sadge and Scorpio. He was well traveled and he read everything, particularly psych and self help up to and including Dr. Laura which pretty much floored me.

A Dr. Laura book in someone’s bedroom might normally indicate a conservative bent but in his case it was expansive. You don’t have to agree with someone. It can just be interesting to read their views. That right there is textbook Jupiter. It’s how you stay out of a vacuum which is the job of all Sagittarians but anyway he also has this Scorpio Moon all twisted up and bent. Continue reading Hair! That Damned Hair Of Mine! Astrology, Obsession, Scorpio (Moon) and Hair!

There is a great debate around the soldier’s bitching me out because he does not do very many (household) chores. I was writing yet another response when I decided it warranted it’s own blog because some people don’t read the comments. So to elaborate..

The soldier says he hates chores. He also hates to go to work but he does both without fail once he knows what is expected. And while he does like to lie around, he is extraordinarily good to my son… he is changing his life, enhancing it beyond all measure (and mine too) so these things have to be weighed.
Continue reading What You Value (And Contribute) In A Relationship… And Props To Scorpio In Particular

Snapdragon asks on The Day The Police Came To Get Me regarding how bad things happen to me…

“Well, you do have the odd good thing happen to you… (sounds like you in particular would really need to focus on whatever good things have happened)…”

Snapdragon, I’ve said this before but I’ve not said it lately. I don’t care what happens to me. What I value is experience and  it makes no difference if the experience is good or bad.

I think this is a function of my 8th house.  I make efficient use of energy and it makes no difference what generates the energy (something positive or something negative).  What I care is that there is energy available which I can make neutral and direct in whatever way I design.

Like most, I would not trade my life for someone else’s so like I always say, ‘No complaints.”

When it comes to the happenings in your life - are they more good than bad or about even?