So HQ was tossing me cards, I was playing them and eventually others started to show up. I got some new friends and I started to build relationships with them. The friendships I already had got stronger and people in the gym started talking to me. All of this was slow. It was so incredibly slow.

For example, I went to the gym 4-5 times a week for almost 2 years before I lost a single pound! This is true. But once I got the weight to come off… well I was looking damned good underneath it, so big shock! I was still in the bad relationship though. I just couldn’t get out and no one could believe this.
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Your progressed Moon changes signs about ever 2 1/2 years and in my case there is always a shift that stuns me. My Moon recently changed signs and what happened is I stopped going to the gym.

I am a gym rat and I have been for YEARS. I have gone to the gym 4-6 week (prefer to go every day) for the last 6 or 7 years. Prior to that, my kids were young but before I had kids, I was also at the gym most days.

Before I joined a gym, I was a very physical job with Frito Lay and you get the idea - I have always worked out in one form or the other but my progressed Moon changed signs and I am now making it to the gym about twice a month which is the same as not going at all.
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First thing to say is this is not my idea. I got it our of Caroline Casey’s book, Making the Gods Work for You: The Astrological Language of the Psyche which is an excellent book for inspired, ethereal or Jupiter types. While the title of the book implies “control”, her premise is not like this. She offers very good (and innovative) ideas around aligning with the various energies. It’s a book full of stuff you’ll not find anywhere else.

In the case of Saturn or Saturn transits, she suggests anyone feeling oppressed consider lifting weights. The idea is to push back against what is weighing you down. She points quite correctly the worst that can happen if you lift weights during a Saturn transit is you’ll wind up stronger but fact is if you actually do this you are apt to wind up with a variety of benefits… for example, your body looks and feels grand and exercise wards off depression that is characteristic of Saturn transits.
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“Yeah, I went in the steam room today and the whole thing was full. There was just wall to wall mf’ers and there was some guy lying down in there.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah, he was just stretched out, no place for me to sit.”

“What did you do?”

“I went over to him, stood over his like this,” he said with his feet apart and his hands on his hips. “You comfortable?”

I roared. “What did he do?”

“Oh, he got his ass up like this, all looking round like who me?” He looked around as if he were bewildered. “Dumb ass. What the hell is wrong with these people, guy lays down in there and other men come in and go stand in the corner because there is nowhere to sit. I don’t get it, P. I just don’t get what people are thinking. Get your ass up, son of a bitch! That’s what I’m thinking.”

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“Yeah, I’ve got plans for those people who think they’re going to have social hour in the pool, stand around and lollygag right there in the lane when I’m trying to swim.  You’d think they’d be able to figure it out. Look at that fat bastard, the old Koreans ladies should be saying. We better get out of here to so that jerk can burn some calories because if there were ever someone who needed to get some fat off their ass, it’s me!”
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“More gym problems , P.”

“Oh no!  What happened this time?”

“Well I was going to weigh my fat ass and there was another guy with a fat ass on the scale in front of me. I was standing there in a towel waiting to see just how fat my fat ass was and this other bastard wouldn’t get off the scale!”

“No? Well what was he doing there?” (swearing below the break)

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And then there was the guy in the sauna who expected the soldier to get up and pour water on the sensor to trigger the steam. The two of them were sitting in the sauna, sweating.

“Do you want some steam?” the guy asked the soldier in passive aggressive style. aggressively.

“Yeah,” the soldier said, not looking up.

The guy sat quietly, no doubt wondering, what the hell.  A few minutes later he asked again. “So do you want some steam?”

“Yeah,” the soldier said. “Yeah, I’d like some steam. Uh huh, some steam would be good, I said just sitting there on my ass.” (swearing  below the break)

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Most of the soldier’s encounters take place in the gym which is pretty much the only place he goes. He has never been to a city gym and it’s a bit of a shock to him.  His first complaints centered around the pool (his mud hole, what else?)…

If you are standing (not swimming) in the pool… if you a “be-deedlin’” as he says… if you are “dick-dancing around” and “not doing a damned thing”, then chances are he is going to at least think about mowing you down. (non PC swearing below the break)

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The soldier and I getting ready for the gym this morning, or rather I’d been ready for 3 hours and him? Well…

“Okay, P,” he said as he was putting on his shoes. “After this I have to go out to the truck and get my gym bag, what do you think of that?”

“I try not to think about it. You are a slow ass Taurus and we go when you’re ready if you ever get ready… just tell me when we can go, I don’t want to think about it.”

“Well good. Because no one needs a bouncy ass gazelle when they’re trying to get out of the mud hole do they? You don’t even get in the mud so what do you know?”

“Don’t know, don’t want to know, just grunt when you’re ready.”

(This is what it’s like when you have Uranus tied up with Venus. You wind up with an alien one way or the other)

I agree I am strange unless you understand astrology in which case it can be made apparent I am merely a grand example of a packed 8th house. I am someone who consciously uses the energy of others and offers energy so others can do same.  It is in this vein that I post so much about the soldier who is a rich source of energy of various types.

Now he’s got a Cardinal T-square involving Mars, Mercury, and Saturn which he puts to good use. He is phenomenally studied and disciplined and if you’ve need to focus your energy; your skills can only improve via exposure to him. (swearing below break)

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