Speaking of coming home in the evening and having something to say, last night the soldier and Vid and I sat down to dinner. It wasn’t actually dinner because the soldier went to the gym after work so got home late. But I feed him when he gets home and usually eat with him unless I get myself starving earlier.

I also feed Vidroid earlier, a normal dinner tome but with his Sun, Moon and rising in Venus signs, Vid loves love and he loves the soldier. He wants to be the soldier in at least this capacity: He wants to be able to get a woman to love him.

Knowing his mother loves the soldier (and probably feeling at this age that she is the ultimate woman) he is keen to learn the soldier’s love tricks and he studies him closely.
Continue reading Stellium In Libra… Teaching Boys About Love

I have a friend who is involved or rather she is associated with a man who finds women everywhere he goes. He finds mother substitutes, specifically and it’s just uncanny. He finds these women (or they find him) and they pretty much form a line waiting to meet this man’s needs.

There is nothing you can do about something like this outside of observe it and people do. The women don’t compete. Instead they remark to each other… “Look at how many mothers he has…” This man is in his 40’s and in whatever case I told her this story… Continue reading Astrology And Deprivation - It Has It’s Upside: Making a Case For Saturn / Capricorn

Regarding the soldier and his opportunity to speak freely, I’m here with the back story.  Some months ago a friend of the soldier’s called him. A couple he was close to had a son who had decided he wanted to be a ranger and the request was that the soldier talk him out of it.

Now this put the soldier in a quandary.  Turns out this young man’s parents were precisely, exactly the type that would not want their son anywhere near the military. He was a kid with options… education and so forth.  He definitely need not choose to join the armed services and the parents knowing little about the military and being anti-war in general were flipped out to put it mildly.

Continue reading Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner: The Quintessential Soldier Meets The Anti-War Crowd

Introduction to the introduction of my idea that parenting is in crisis, to be exposed by Pluto’s transit through Capricorn.

Last night, Vid, the soldier and I were messing around. I took a stand against the soldier and Vid took his side. I looked at him mockingly. “Siding against your old mom now, are you? You’re on his side?”

“Yeah I’m with him,” he said.

“Great! My own son sides against me…”

He stared and held firm.

“Nah… it’s okay, Vid. I am glad you are on his side.”

“Well, Mom, we’re boys. We are both boys so I am on his side. I was the only boy around here for a long time but now it’s your turn to be the only girl. Your turn to suffer and feel the pain.”

I stared at him completely flabbergasted. “Suffer and feel the pain? Suffer? Did you say, suffer and feel pain?”

“Yep. Yep, that’s right.”

I walked off muttering and shaking my head. There has apparently been a revolution and P is just finding out about it. Boys rule, did ya hear?

But the main thing I am getting loud and clear is there are things boys want and needs the moms just can’t deliver and I am pretty sure Pluto’s transit through Capricorn is going to make this painfully apparent.

I have strong feelings about single parenthood and they are getting stronger every day.  There has been an enormous influx of male energy since the soldier arrived and the arrived full time and the benefits to my son are absolutely stunning.

As a woman, I have little knowledge of the secret lives of boys. I am finding out that it does not matter how sophisticated I may (or may not) be… I am not a man means I am not a man means I am not a man.

So now when the soldier shuttles my son and his friend between the houses he is privy to the fact their art teacher has a tattoo on her chest and the boys wonder if it goes all the way to her “thingies”. Think my son would ever mention such a thing to me?  ::smiles::

Continue reading Astrology And Parenting: Pluto In Capricorn Has Me Both Humbled And Empowered

Like my son, some of my friends, my clients and the people who write me for advice are benefiting from my association with the soldier. I have taken to straight out asking for his opinion in certain circumstances.

I specifically consult with him when a man’s behavior is involved and the situation is not clear to me because invariably he can tell me what the man is up to in about 4 seconds and this is enormously helpful and valuable.

Continue reading Astrology And Parenting: Pluto In Capricorn Breaking Down The Barrier Between Men And Women

This is for Mercury in Scorpio and today’s Moon in Capricorn. Regarding the young man from the soldier’s church who committed suicide last week.

“I went in there and his mother is devastated. His girlfriend… they were going to get married and she is devastated. I mean, devastated. Why does someone do that, P? What is so bad you have to go and kill yourself?”

I didn’t answer. Continue reading Homosexuality and Suicide: A Cautionary Tale

Today in the car with my (suspended from school) daughter.

“See how I am driving on the right side of the road?” I asked. ‘Do you notice that?”

“Yeah.”

“Well what do you think would happen if I got up every day and decided to drive on the left?” I asked, pointing. “What if I were driving this way, but over there?”

“A wreck?”

“Yeah. I’d cause a problem for sure. And what if I got up every day and did that. Every day, I drove on the wrong side of the road because I just damned wanted to?” Continue reading Astrology and Children: Pity If You Have A Saturn Transit and a Capricorn Parent Because This Is What Happens…

Saturn is coming to conjunct my daughter’s Mars at an early degree of Virgo and she was slammed to the ground last week when she smart-mouthed the principal of her school who promptly suspended her for 3 days.

“Well there is your clue,” I said. “No one is going to put up with crap this year and I don’t blame them. I guarantee you if you mess with that principal again, the next time it’s going to be 2 weeks and you won’t get any sympathy from me…” Continue reading Astrology and Children: My Daughter Has Been Suspended From School - Saturn Transit To Mars in Virgo