From 2007 - Can astrology help you be happier?

Sonja Lyubomirsky Ph.D. Professor at Stanford University and happiness guru

“P, people are going to do that,” the soldier said. “They see we’re happy so they’re going to try to get between us and mess us up. They did it to us when we were kids, it’s just the way people are.”

“Why? Why are they like that?”

“Because they want you to be as miserable as they are. Miserable people want other people to be miserable. Oh he’s doing that. Oh she’s doing this.”

I laughed.

Someone called the soldier once trying to get me in trouble. Told him I put his picture on my blog. The picture was of Boom Boom Mancini, the soldier was flattered.

“They know me so well, they don’t even know what I look like,” he said.
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I was talking to Ben about how I’ve changed in the last couple years due what I have gone through with my daughter and my association with the soldier. Ben is life long friend… 10th house Scorpio Sun with an Aquarius rising.

“But I’m happy,” I said. “I am happy.”

“You’re either happy or you’re in a snit,” he said.

I thought a second. “That’s pretty much it, isn’t it?”

“Yep. If I’m not happy it’s because I’m in a snit. Got my panties in a wad. Got to get those panties unhinged, they’re riding right up my crack…”

Could it be this simple?

Are you happy… or in a snit?

Dear Elsa,

I liked your happiness posts. I would love to see more astrology on this. What do you look at as a happiness base?  Jupiter? Moon?  Difficult or easy Saturn, Mars, Venus?  Probably everything but do you have a standard procedure for a basic  happy-meter?

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Today I got 3 tips. I got a tip in my tip jar for doing nothing different then I did yesterday, people suggested I sell t-shirts that say, “I have Libra and I can’t decide” and satori told me I should write a book on how to keep a man happy.

I have to say, I feel pretty damned good and weren’t we going to have a happy blog once a week or so?  Something light fare?  Well this is it.

Jupiter is opposing the Sun and Venus in Cancer so tell us something happy.  Maybe even boast a little… while it’s still legal, ha ha ha.

Tell us something happy before they come tell us that laughing makes you fat, it causes cancer, it makes you smoke and further, it creates problems for the depressed so stop it already you lousy not PC bastard!!!

What good thing happened to you today?

Now the soldier works the gratitude angle quite a bit. Having seen all kinds of horror in his life, regardless of what is happening; he knows it could always be worse. This is a Jupiter (perspective) method.

I have seen way more than my share of horror to but never use this method or have this train of thought. When there are things I don’t like I just refocus and find something I do like.  Take a lesson from this classic song:

Accentuate the Positive

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There are some less obvious ways happy people stay happy. Many of us use denial. Denial has a bad rap which I see as ridiculous. People could not survive without this mechanism and denial takes many forms.

Now the soldier and I have difficult lives and always have. You’re just going to have to take my word for that but regardless of that we are both very happy people. As been reported on this blog before, he can be completely content in a foxhole in the middle of a war, or sleeping on a rock.  As for myself, back when I was a homeless teenager, I had distinct awareness I was happier than most and by far.

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“There are a lot of happy people on this blog, it’s just the general theme and mood of the comments and entries, which just confirms that like attracts like…”

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So how are these happy people, happy anyway? I would say across the board you are going to see Jupiter strongly placed. It is very hard to take Jupiter down. Matter of fact it is damned near impossible.

If you do take them down, they will be right back up the next day which is why Sagittarius beats the hell out of Scorpio.

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It was my ex and mega-Scorpio, the AMF who made me aware of “happy people” in the world. He is quite astute and pointed out that I was a happy person as were various people we’d run across. A waitress with a wide grin for example. Just random people we’d see - He’d always notice the happy ones because he just couldn’t figure them out.

With his Venus in Scorpio conjunct Saturn in the 8th, he’d wonder, “Now why in the world is that guy happy? What’s he got to be happy about..?”

It was very queer for us because we spent a lot of time together, one of us always grinning the other one wondering why.

The AMF vacillated between envying “happy people” and thinking us something akin to brain-damaged but in whatever case we were both amused and talked about this a lot.

Now obviously people have a predisposition towards happiness that is shown vividly in a chart but here’s the question:

Can a (basically) unhappy person learn to be happy?

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