From 2008 - What is the relationship between free will and pathology? Can a person opt away from what is stereotypical?

Something along these lines came up today and made me think of this old blog from 2007, so here it is.

The soldier’s Scorpio Moon talking to my 8th house, circa 2007:

“Yeah, well she must have thought I was going to die,” he said talking about his wife when he was in Special Forces. “Everyone else was dying. I think she was banking on it. Get the insurance money, you know? But I just kept coming back, still alive.”

I didn’t answer.
Continue reading Rooting For Someone To Die? Gambling On Life Insurance…

This is from 2007 when Pluto was turning direct in Sagittarius. It’s a Pluto-themed story (Sagittarius) and on topic for the current discussion on this blog which I intend to wrap up today.

Everyone in this story (including the motel guy) was a criminal. It was just that kind of day where you throw the dice and they land how they land…

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.
Continue reading The Power Of Love and Friendship - Part 5: Liberation

The soldier has been stopped for a day and a half. He is getting his truck serviced.

He happened to run into a fellow ex-missileer. I was aware of this because he has a framed poem, Missileer by Capt. Robert A. Wyckoff. He had me read it to him over the phone, as he repeated the lines for the other man who was standing by.

There are not that many missileers out there so I thought it pretty grand they ran into each other. Understanding that, maybe you can imagine my surprise at this:
Continue reading Voice Of Mars: Missileer (Especially relevant with North Korea threatening a missile attack)

(from 2008) Virgo and Pisces often spar but are inexplicably linked. Does everything matter or does nothing matter? What if your life is at stake?

Coach John Wooden has a opinion… A Critical Detail, The Feet
Wooden : A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

Running with a divergent crowd the way I do, there are times you find you have friends you respect with opinions at opposite ends of the spectrum. For example, take Scott and genius, Arie (a pseudonym). They are both derangedly intelligent men, who are fully actualized. By that, I mean they,ve both developed into distinct people. Neither of them is going to get blown around all that much.

Scott believes that redemption is possible for all human beings. He believes in miracles, he has seen them occur. He has seen people come from the depths and turn their lives around.
Continue reading 3 Years Ago On The Elsa Blog: Scott vs Arie On People Changing Their Natures

I have a stable of friends. An array, you could say and every friend I have is very good at being who they are. They are each very fine specimens of whatever it is they happen to be and I realized the other day that I milk this to no end.

When something happens in my life, I generally make the rounds. I call everyone who is currently tracking with whatever news I have and ask them what they think. What does a Scorpio think? What does an Asian think? What does the most emotionally sensitive person I have ever met think about this?
Continue reading 3 Years Ago On The Elsa Blog: Who Are Your Friends? Are You Interested Other People’s Perspectives?

“I saw something very disturbing on my way home,” the soldier said. “Very disturbing, it was disturbing.”

“What?”

“Well, I was in Wyoming and I went in this truck stop. There was another guy going in, couldn’t have been more than 22 and he was wearing a SF patch and he had a SF combat patch.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah, he couldn’t have been more than 22 and he’d been in combat, I could see it in his eyes but he was…”
Continue reading One More For The Scorpio Moon: Cracked Foundation… Termites

“Yeah, we’ve been talking about manipulation on my blog today. I’d know all about it being with you,” I told the soldier. “You Special Forces guys, you manipulate the hell out of women, just look at me with my brain removed.”

“Oh, P. P, P, P.”

“Yeah, get anywhere near any of you, and you’re toast! Why do you trick me so?” I asked with a snort. “I look at you and my brain spins into mush. It just fries to a crisp and I think you should just stop exploiting me like this… victim that I am.”
Continue reading Venus Pluto: Manipulation (Sung To The Tune Of “Anticipation”)