Regarding his meeting with Henry, the soldier said, “Yeah, he was from West Virginia and I’m from Virginia (not originally),” the soldier said. “West Virginia betrayed Virginia in the civil war,” he said, bristling.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah,” he said, pausing to mourn.  “So there was that between us but he knew a lot about Virginia and the whole area.” He mentioned his oldest friend. “Yeah, he knew where he was from and it was a little town. He also knew the old name for Roanoke… he knew what it used to be called.”

Continue reading The Soldier And Henry: Jupiter In Sagittarius Across The Generations… Knowledge And A Sense Of Humor

A few days ago someone wrote me with a question about Jupiter in synastry. I couldn’t quite coax it into a post but I’ve come up with this… the story (Jupiter) of the unlikely connection between two men with Jupiter in Sagittarius.

My grandfather, Henry was extraordinary by anyone’s standards and as a double Capricorn with 4 planets in Sagittarius (including Jupiter and Saturn), I’d have to say he was born that way. The soldier is also extraordinary however I’d say he was born with his work cut out for him.
Continue reading The Soldier And Henry: Jupiter In Sagittarius Across The Generations

Yesterday I wrote about Christopher Reeve, a man so buoyant that even when he’s dead, he’s still - UP. I mean, it’s just impossible to think of the guy and end on a down note.

Lupa came on and said that like me, she could access happiness via focusing on the feeling of the sun on her skin and credited her natal Saturn in Pisces (A Saturn Neptune exchange).

Well my daughter has Saturn in Pisces. She also has Jupiter in Sagittarius trine a 9th house Moon and I am telling you that girl is not going down. Anyway you turn it, she is a streak across the sky and it occurs to me with Pluto retrograde applying in aspect to my Moon that my daughter is one of those people (like Christopher Reeve) who never really die. Oh, maybe in a 100 years but you get the idea. My daughter is UP.

She is up and even when she is down she is actually up, I think she gets it from her Mom.

(Her Mom gets it from Henry.)

Does he look dead in that picture? Of course not.

Up! Up, Up, Up!

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The soldier has Jupiter in Sagittarius. Last night we were talking and he said he did not think you could have any joy in your life if you did not take risks.

“You can get a little security that way. You might be able to get some money together and live a more comfortable life because of of it but I don’t think you can have any real joys in your life unless you take risks…”

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Loonsounds writes on We Fight Because I Am Stupid:

“For one thing, I didn’t realize or remember The Soldier was from a foreign country with a foreign language as a first language, and yet something in your writing drew out that example about India and language glitches. This poor guy, there I am intimating that he is smokin’ you a little bit, maybe not the case at all! It might really be a language thing. that’s wild.”
Continue reading The Ability To Communicate All Over The World… Superficially

Do people get what they deserve? This question came up in the comments on the video Why Do People Try To Block Other People’s Happiness? We discussed this last year…

Jupiter in Sagittarius… comparing perspectives. This is the soldier and I talking last night:

“Yeah, I wrote about justice on my blog. Our different views. Or our different experience is more like it. You see justice delivered and I frequently see the opposite.”
Continue reading Karma, Justice, and Kenneth Lay - Do People Get What They Deserve? A Poll

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

I was thinking today about the Iran hostage story and Avery’s question regarding who gets to tell what story and it occurred to me that one story could be told by two (or more) people and it would be a completely different story. For example I told the story of the attempted rescue of the Iranian hostage and so did the guy who planned the whole operation in his book, James H. Colonel Kyle, The Guts To Try Our stories of the same story are very different.

Now the soldier was on that plane that went to rescue the hostages and if he told this story it would also be different so there is no stepping on anyone’s toes here. I mean, I know Avery was talking about something else. She was talking about invading a person’s privacy but I am trying to make this other point which I have promised the soldier I’d do several times now so this is my segue.

Continue reading Who Has The Rights To A Powerful Story Redux - Jupiter In Sagittarius And Different Perspectives

“I don’t think you could survive without wandering,” I told the soldier. “I think this is part of you the same way a person’s hair grows in a certain direction.”

“Well you’re still going to love me, aren’t you, P?”

“Of course. Yes of course. In fact it occurred to me this is why you want to get that burrito. You know the burro you talk about riding around? I think you want that burro so he can wander you. You think you’re going to go blind and you know for sure you are going to get old if you don’t die so you’re going to set yourself up. Have a burro that can wander you around.” Continue reading What About The Wandering Gene? Do You Have One?

In synastry, when you compare charts and one person has their Saturn on the other person’s Mars, you will read that the Saturn person restricts the Mars person. This is seen as deal-breaker by many astrologers and can be very frustrating depending mostly on how flexible the Saturn person can be with their rules.

The soldier has his Saturn on my Mars and you can see the glaring evidence of this here. We get manage to get around this, but as the Mars person I can feel the crushing down on the natural physical fervor and exuberance that I feel when I see him… as I am encouraged to grow up by Saturn.

I am posting this so people can see an aspect like this is not the end of the world, particularly if the Saturn person is a “good parent”. If otherwise, Mars who gets blocked rushing in can become mad as spit and wish to kill Saturn, with a motorcycle helmet or whatever else may be on hand. Saturn of course, eats children but we do get around this all the time as this conversation illustrates. I wrote the conversation post the conflict because it is also an excellent example astrologically… Continue reading Saturn Square Mars In Synastry, Turns Out I Am Too Old To Leap!