I was lying on the bed last night wearing a gauzy skirt with a wide (about 5″) band of elastic across my lower stomach. The skirt is meant to be worn high, low whatever and, “See this?” I asked the soldier, patting my stomach through the elastic band.  “I have a little bit of cramps from my period.”

He smiled.

“Yeah and this band of elastic, it feels crushing.” The elastic is actually comfortably body hugging but it did seem this way at the time.  “This skirt is pushing down right on the place that is uncomfortable.  Come to think of it, I am oppressed by this skirt,” I said with a chuckle.  “Hey!  That means you have to help me.  Aren’t you Special Forces guys supposed to liberate the oppressed?”

“Well yeah,” he said.

I roared.  “Well then I guess you’ve no choice but to get this skirt off me - You swore an oath.”

He stared.

“It’s a pretty good line; I am surprised I never thought of it before. Anyone ever tell you that before?  Hey soldier! I am oppressed by my jeans, can you help me?”

“No.”

“Well my God, I am clever.”

Shaina asks on Attraction Theory:

“Do you think that you and the soldier were separated for a whole Saturn cycle in order to make room for the other people you had to learn from?

Just wondering.”

Shaina, that’s a good question on too large for my mind to comprehend though the soldier did comment on this once. Not sure if he still feels this way but some time ago he said he felt we had every chance to be together.

He said he felt perhaps God put us together, gave us each other, gave us real love and gave us every chance to do something about it but we just couldn’t catch on. We were just too young - We took everything for granted, including each other. And we were volatile as hell which he also thought might have been a factor.

Continue reading The Soldier And P: Separted An Entire Saturn Cycle - Why?

Here’s another for the current and jarring Venus (Women) in Aries (detriment) in aspect to debilitated Mars (Men) in Cancer. It continues this conversation re: the girl trucker… Venus Tempts Mars

(graphic language below the break - Appropriate for today’s sky as far as I am concerned)

Continue reading Astrology, Men And Women: Does The Chase Thrill You? How About Competing?

The soldier was going through his mail and handed me his Social Security Statement. “Look at this, P,” he said. “This is all the money I have ever made in my life.”

I looked at the figures trying to think what I was supposed to say or glean from them.

“Look there,” he said pointing to the first year he reported income. “I was 15 when I started working. I made $414 working on a farm,’ he said with a snort. “And look at what I made when I met you. I made $5500 that year, almost $5600.”

“This is unbelievable,” I said as the figures on the page started to mean something.

Continue reading Astrology, Money And Integrity: Another Angle On Venus In Aspect To Saturn

“You yelled at me on our first date,” the soldier said. “I should have known you were a mean girl then.”

“I yelled at you on our second date too.”

“Yeah you did.”

“So I yell at you on our first date, you get up in the morning and ask me if I want to be your girlfriend. I say yes and then I yell at you on our 2nd date. You must have been thinking why did I ask this girl to be my girlfriend.”

“No I wasn’t thinkin’ that but I should have been!”

Continue reading Venus And Mars, Love And War

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.
Wooden : A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

Earlier the soldier and I had talked about the trucker’s strike. We both agree the effort is unfocused. There is no agreed upon agenda, etc.

Later it came up again…

“So is it interesting today at least? People talking (on the cb) about protest?”

(all swearing below the break.)

Continue reading Probably Not Best To Launch A Transportation (Truck) Strike With Saturn Retrograde In Virgo

Three years later we discussed this again.

“You said you weren’t afraid of me and I want to keep it that way,” he said. “I don’t want you to ever feel afraid of me.”

I considered what he said but had no idea how to respond. I knew he was serious but the idea I would be afraid of him was foreign. It just seemed remote and unreal to which can be explained by the Saturn (fear) interaction with Neptune (ethereal) with Neptune in my chart. Logically I could understand but how are you supposed to make yourself feel terror you don’t feel any terror?

Continue reading Fear And Family Patterns: Lacking The Sense To Be Afraid?

If you get the soldier drunk he will tell you all about his past lives…

“Rome!” he said. “Now that is a city.”

I stared. “Rome, huh? And you had no love ever in any of your lives until you met me?”

That’s right.”

“Well tell me this,” I asked, drinking myself and hoping to trip him up. “How do you live in a city like Rome and have no love?”

“Oh, P, get off the space shuttle!” he said shaking his head and snorting. “You’re a gladiator! You be a warrior! No one wants to be with one of those guys.”

“They don’t?”

“Hell no. I’m joining Special Forces, that’s what I said. Oh really you said? Bye then! He had a grin covering his entire face.

“I didn’t say that,” I said.

“Yes you did. That is the condensed version anyway.”

I didn’t say anything because come on. I had some wine to sip.

I know people who have read me for awhile, 3 or 5 years or something, and they have a real feel for the pieces I throw up here which seem random at first eventually morph into belonging to the whole. In fact Avery seems to have caught on to this in 4 months judging from her response to my question, What Do You Like About This Blog?

Avery wrote:

“The humor, unpretentiousness, richness and depth of applied astrology, the community of personalities who gravitate here, the continuity and cohesiveness. I’ve only been reading your blog for about four months…”

But sometimes I like to lay it out.

Continue reading Fear And Family Patterns